Joy

Hello

It's been such a busy time of year but I wanted to get a chance to post this card before the holiday season was over.

I created a very simple design and wanted to use as many of the snowflakes from the First Snow set by Penny Black as I could with this sentiment.

I began by die cutting the Jumbo JOY letters also from Penny Black, onto some scrap paper to use as a mask.  I applied some repositionable adhesive to the back of the letters and stuck them down.

Next, I placed the piece into my Misti and stamped the snowflakes all over the masked area.

When I was happy with the coverage, I rubbed over the center area with some Peacock Feathers DOX ink, then removed the masks.

To help add more interest, I added some blue Nuvo drops to the center of the snowflakes.

I mounted the finished front onto a piece of blue cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- First Snow (PB)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; Peacock Feathers DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Repositionable Glue; Joy die (PB); Nuvo Drops; 

Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Simple Christmas

Hello and Welcome.

I hope you enjoyed a lovely Christmas yesterday.  It comes and goes so quickly.

We celebrated with a big turkey dinner, our 2 boys and friends.  It was really special.

This was a quick and simple card as I needed just a few more to send out.

So here's what I did.

I began by placing my heavy white cardstock into my Misti.  I inked up the Polka Dot Grunge with some Bundled Sage Distress ink and stamped onto my card front.  I have found this stamp to be so useful for creating a quick and simple background.

Next, I stamped the trees, extending them just past the circle for interest.  

I stamped the sentiment, then added the doodled line to pull it all together and the 3 small buttons under the sentiment.

I mounted it onto a piece of co-ordinating green cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.

Here are 2 more card I created using that same bkg stamp.

These Tim Holtz stamps fit perfectly inside the circle.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Sentiment (Right at Home); Forest (Mark's Finest-no longer in business); 

Polka Dot Grunge (Picket Fence); Christmas (TH)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; Distress ink (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); green cs

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black buttons; fine line marker

Merry Christmas

Wishing you and yours a wonderful Merry Christmas.

Hope you enjoy a day filled with many blessings.

Deck the Halls

Good Morning

Well the big day is almost here.

I've been so busy with all the preparations, that I haven't had time to post, so I am taking a moment to get this done now.

This was a super simple one, I like the monochromatic look it has and I think the red is so festive looking.

I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock, placed it into my Misti and stamped the script background.  It is a large stamp that has a variety of scripts on it.  I stamped the Outline Snowflakes right over the script, then using the Oval Hemstitch die, I die-cut it in the center of my card front.

I stamped the sentiment inside the oval cut then added some red pop dots.

I glued it onto a heavy white card base.  

That's it....simple.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Outline Snowflake (SSS); Script (Prima); Sentiment (Right at Home)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; Festive Berries DOX (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Oval Hemstitch die (Spellbinders); 

red buttons

Christmas on Kraft

Hello and Welcome

I am seeing some cards done on kraft, something I seldom use, but love the look.  

So that's how today's card was born.

I dug through my paper cardstock to find a piece that would work, then laid on my stencil called Angular Mandala from A Colorful Life Designs.  I pressed through the stencil with my Versamark ink, then white heat embossed it. To help add interest, I took my piercing tool and went along the edge of the stenciled mandala piercing little holes.

Next, I die-cut the Merry Christmas sentiment from some heavy white cardstock.  It looked lost against the white bkg when I added it, so I took a piece of vellum, traced around the die and fussy cut it out.  I glued the die cut over the vellum and I really liked how it looked and you could see the sentiment so much better.  I also die-cut the snowflake and glued it to the side with a white pearl button.

I simple mounted my card front onto a piece of heavy white cardstock then onto a white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

*For those of you that have messaged me about notifications, not sure what is going on but glad

to hear you are now receiving them once again!  Thanks so much for letting me know.*

Here is the stencil I used:

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Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- ANY WINTER HOLIDAY

Crafty Creations- ANYTHING GOES

Mod Squad- WINTER/CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps-None

Inks- Versamark

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); kraft (Michaels); vellum

Accessories and Tools- Angular Mandala stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); 

white eb powder (Hero Arts); Merry Christmas die (Creative Expressions);

 Kinley Snowflake (SSS); pearl dot; heat tool; piercing tool