Up on the Rooftops

Meet today's card.

Just a simple one filled with some fun.

I began by masking the side panel with a piece of scrap paper.  I punched a circle as well to represent the moon as I sponged with my Distress inks to fill in the masked area.

Leaving the mask in place, I stamped the trees using black Memento ink.

I removed the mask and stamped this fun flying Santa in his sleigh that I just picked up from The Stampin Place, with more black ink.  Added a simple sentiment and then mounted the whole piece onto navy cardstock.

That's it...pretty simple eh?

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

The Male Room- CHRISTMAS/WINTER WISHES 

Addicted to Stamps and More- ANYTHING GOES

City Crafter- WHERE DID YOU GET THAT HAT?

CAS Mix Up- STAMPING/MASKING/SPONGING

Supplies

Stamps- trees (Northwoods); Santa's Sleigh (The Stampin' Place); Christmas Cheer (TT)

Inks- Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Faded Jeans Distress (TH); Tuxedo Black Memento

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti; inking tool (TH); paper for masking; circle punch (SU)

Brusho Snowflakes

Meet today's card.

It's not a secret, but I love stamping with snowflakes.  I don't know what it is about them, especially since I'm not a big fan of winter.  Maybe it's their intricate design.

I recently picked up Tim Holtz's Weathered Winter set and wanted to play with it.

I got out my MISTI and positioned the corner snowflake first.  I painted it with a little diluted Brushos, sprayed with water and stamped.  I repeated that process until I was happy with the look and went on to stamp the other two snowflakes.

After stamping the sentiment from The Stampin Place, I used some drywall tape to stencil the background.  I cut the piece out using a stitched die.

The finishing touch was the beautiful blue gem for a bit of bling.

 Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday- CHILL OUT

AAA Cards- WINTER CHILL

Weekly Christmas Card- WINTER

My Time to Craft- SOMETHING NEW

  Have a great week and thanks for taking a look.

Supplies:  stamps- Tim Holtz, The Stampin Place/ drywall tape/ Brushos/ Memento ink/ MISTI/ paint brush/ Mini Mister/ gem/ die- Memory Box

Snowflake Patterns

Good Morning.

So sorry to be inundating you with Christmas cards but once I get started, I find it hard to stop!  I have made more this year then ever before.  Guess the holiday spirit gets my creative juices flowing.

So here is today's card.   

 I began by grabbing my MISTI and inked up this wonderful snowflake by painting on Brushos.  Love the blue on blue look it created.  I punched that out and set it aside.

Next, I inked the stamp with Memento Grey ink and stamped the snowflake to either side.  I scored the lines using my ScorPal and my ScorBug and stamped the sentiment.

Adding my card to these challenges:

 CAS-ual Fridays- SNOWFLAKES

Simon Says- LET IT SNOW

Make My Monday- WHITE CHRISTMAS

Addicted to Stamps- HOLIDAY

Just Add Ink- ADD 'C' (cold)

Have a great week.

Supplies:  stamps- The Stampin Place, Recollections/ Memento ink/ ScorBug, ScorPal/ Brushos/ MISTI/ pearl/ pop dots/ Fiskars circle punch

Unique Snowflake

Morning.  

Just a fun card today using leftovers I had sitting on my desk.  

As many of you that visit my blog know, I save my 'DUDS'.  You know, the pieces that haven't worked on a card or just aren't the results you expected.

The blue piece was supposed to be a card front, but I wasn't happy with the way the Brushos dispersed when I sprayed on the water, so I tucked it away.

 So, today's the day I will use my leftovers and here's what I did.  

I inked the inside of a Darice embossing folder called Henna (the raised side) with Versamark ink, ran it through my Cuttlebug and then sprinkled on clear embossing powder and heat set.  

Next, I sprinkled on Brushos and sprayed with water.  The clear embossing powder acts like a resist allowing the pattern to show from under the Brusho powder.

 

Next, I took the negative part of the snowflake (Simon Says) leftover from cutting snowflakes to use on another card that was also sitting on my desk.  I stamped this wonderful sentiment from The Stampin Place and die-cut the stitched edge using a die from MFT.  Love that sentiment.

Last, I place that over the Brusho inked and embossed piece and was very pleased with the results.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says- ANYTHING GOES

Addicted to Stamps- MAKE YOUR MARK

My Time to Craft- LET IT SNOW 

Addicted to CAS- DIMENSION

I hope you get a chance to use up some of your leftover pieces.  So many possibilities.

Thanks so much for the visit to my blog.

Supplies:  stamps- The Stampin Place/ Darice EB folder/ Brushos/ Versamark/ Embossing powder clear/ Cuttlebug/ Heat tool/ Mini Mister/ snowflake die-SSS/ stitched border-MFT/ pop dots/ Memento bl ink

Home for the Holidays

Welcome Home. 
That's the feeling this card portrays to me.

It's week 4 at Crazy4 Challenges where I have been the Guest Designer all month. 

The theme this week is to create a square card or any size card with square elements.

I decided to use the square elements on my card by first embossing a square on my card front using a Spellbinder die.  Next, I stamped one of my favourite scene stamps from Serendipity Stamps with black Memento ink cut it into a square and coloured it using Copic markers.  I sponged the edges with Salty Ocean Distress inks and roughed up the bottom a bit to look like snow.

I just LOVE this sentiment from The Stampin Place.  They have such a great selection of custom designs to choose from.  

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says- ANYTHING GOES

Addicted to Stamps- MAKE YOUR MARK

Serendipity Stamps- HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Simply Create Too- SNOW/USE MOSTLY WHITE


I hope you get to be Home for the Holidays.  Nothing like being with family and close friends.

Supplies:  stamps-Serendipity, The Stampin Place/ Spellbinder die/ Distress and Memento ink/ Copic markers/ pop dots