Hello Friends! Are you ready for Christmas? It won't be long now!! We are on our way to Kansas to spend Christmas with my family. We will get there later tonight and then my sister and her family and my brother will be coming this weekend. I am looking forward to a really restful few days! Even though I am on the road for the next several hours, it is still Thursday and time for another great challenge at Create with Connie and Mary. This week they are challenging us with color. Take a look!
This isn't a lot of color but it is still fabulous and I found it quite challenging! The challenge colors are Whisper White and Silver Glimmer. I did make a few different cards but decided I liked this one best. Take a look!
I did decided that I needed to add black for the greeting. My card base is Whisper White. The next layer is also Whisper White that I ran through the Big Shot with the Northern Flurry embossing folder. Then I took a piece of Whisper White organza ribbon and taped one end behind this piece and glued the piece to the card base. I tacked the ribbon to the front of the card and flagged the bottom. I punched a piece of the silver glimmer paper with the scallop circle punch and popped it up over the ribbon. I stamped the greeting from Season of Joy onto Whisper White and punched it out with the 1 3/4" circle punch. I popped this up onto the silver scallop piece. And that's allI did! Very simple but elegant!
While this is a busy time of year, I do hope you can squeeze some time in to play along with the challenge! Need more inspiration? Head on over to the Create with Connie and Mary site to see all the great samples and then upload your project so that we can all see! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Season of Joy; Paper- Whisper White, Silver Glimmer; Ink- black StazOn; Accessories- Whisper White organza ribbon, Norther Flurry embossing folder, scallop circle punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, dimensionals
Good morning, Friends! I was so glad to be able to sleep in a little this morning! It felt soooo good to keep snuggling under the blankets with it being so cold outside! Now I am snuggling up to a hot cup of coffee. Yum!! Not much planned today. I'm just glad it's the weekend! We are going over to a friend's house tonight. I am making dinner and I am trying a new recipe. I am super excited! I'll let you know how it turns out.
Today's card was inspired by an older sketch of Karen Giron's. You can find it 'here'. This is a card that I did for a swap last month. Since I just got my cards back today, I thought it was more than safe to show you all. I really do like the way this one turned out! And it was really pretty easy!! I got my color inspiration from an older challenge at The Paper Players. It was to use Always Artichoke, River Rock and Riding Hood Red. I like how these colors make a more muted, aged Christmas card. My card base is River Rock and then I cut another piece of River Rock and a piece of Riding Hood Red that I ran through the Big Shot with the Snow Burst embossing folder. Then I wrapped some Always Artichoke seam binding ribbon around it and glued it to my card base Then I cut a piece of Always Artichoke with the scallop circles #2 die and a piece of River Rock with the 3" die. I sponged the edges of the River Rock piece with River Rock before adhering it to the scallop piece. This is popped up on the card and one end is cut off. I stamped the tree from Season of Joy in Always Artichoke and Early Espresso onto Very Vanilla and cut it out. This is popped up on the circle. Then I stamped the greeting, from the same set, in Always Artichoke onto Very Vanilla and flagged one end. The other end is glued onto the circle. The last thing I did was to color a rhinestone with a Sharpie marker and put it on my tree! And there you have it! Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day!!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Season of Joy; Paper- River Rock, Riding Hood Red, Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla; Ink- Always Artichoke, Early Espresso, River Rock; Accessories- Always Artichoke seam binding ribbon, rhinestone, Snow Burst embossing folder, scallop circles #2 die, 3" circle die, sponge, dimensionals
Good morning, Friends! I hope you are having a fantastic start to your weekend! I hope to find some time this weekend to get myself caught up on stamping and card making so that I have something to post. I got a new computer last week and am still getting used to using it. I actually went from a PC to a Mac. I love my Mac so far but I am having to learn a few things as I go. Thankfully I learned how to resize pictures and add a watermark (of some sorts). I have been out of the stamping routine for a while now that I feel like I need something to "jump" start me. I couldn't even get my mojo going last night while stamping with Becky. She did let me borrow a stamp set so I will be trying to get something going with it today. We are currently under a Winter Storm Warning but so far nothing is happening. It is just really cloudy. We will see what happens later today.
Today's card was inspired from Mary Jo's Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge. My card base is Always Artichoke with a layer of Crumb Cake that I sent through the Big Shot using the Snow Burst embossing folder on the top part and then wrapped a piece of Always Artichoke seam binding ribbon around it. Then I stamped the Christmas greetings from Season of Joy in Crumb Cake ink on Crumb Cake card stock and layered it onto Early Espresso and popped it up on the card. Then I stamped the tree in Always Artichoke and Early Espresso on Very Vanilla and cut it out and popped it up over the panel with the words. I stamped the snowflake in Early Espresso on Very Vanilla and punched it out with the 1" circle punch and added a silver brad and glued it over the ribbon. Then I stamped the greeting in Early Espresso right under the knotted ribbon. Then I decided it needed a little pop of red so I colored a rhinestone with my red Sharpie pen and put it on the tree. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Season of Joy; Paper- Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso; Ink- Early Espresso, Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake; Accessories- Always Artichoke seam binding ribbon, silver brad, rhinestone, 1" circle punch, dimensionals
Good morning, Friends! I hope you are all having a super week! We are having our 'big' dinner this afternoon because my sister and her family have to leave tomorrow. So the house is starting to smell really yummy right now!! I can't wait!! Then I think that we may work off the meal by doing a little shopping, but we may have to see if we can stay awake - lol!
Today's card is one that I did a while back. I found a similar design in a magazine. I liked the way the bottom of the strip and the decorative label seem like one piece. When actually they are two separate pieces and the ribbon hides the seam. A super simple card! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Season of Joy; Paper- Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Whisper White; Ink- Early Espresso, Garden Green; Accessories- Early Espresso quilted satin ribbon, decorative label punch, mini brad, dimensionals
Hello everyone! Welcome to another fabulous Control Freaks blog tour! You probably have just came from the wonderfully talented, Gretchen Barron. I always love her work! She never disappoints! But, however you got here, welcome! This month the freaks will be showing off some fabulous projects! Some of the freaks went to convention and will be showing off their fabulous swap cards, while others of us (like me) stayed home and will be showing you some Christmas ideas. Can you believe that we are thinking about Christmas already? Where does the time go? Anyway, it will be here before we know it. So it is never too early to start on those Christmas cards and projects. I hope that you get some really fabulous ideas! By the way, if you are seeing this before the 20th, please note that some of the links may not be working. So be sure to stop back by on the 20th to go through the tour without any hiccups!
For my first project, I made some Christmas ornaments! These little paper ornaments are also in the catalog and that's where I got the idea. I haven't tried this before and they looked so cute and easy! And they are!! I can just imagine a little tree decorated with these ornaments in coordinating colors. Or make them all the same! I used the Delightful Decorations stamp set and coordinating punch. I got my color scheme from the designer paper Letters From Santa. I don't have the paper but that's where I got the inspiration. What do you think?
For my next Christmas project I made a Christmas card. What is Christmas without Christmas cards? I used the Season of Joy stamp set for this card. I also used the layout at Clean&Simple. It might just become my Christmas card for this year!! The color scheme for this one comes from the Deck the Halls designer fabric. I love these colors for Christmas!
Well, there you have it! I hope that you are inspired to get started on some great Christmas projects! Be sure to click on the button below to go to the awesome, Mary Brown's blog. She is sure to wow us all! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Ornament Recipe: Stamps- Delightful Decorations; Paper- Whisper White, Marina Mist; Ink- Blushing Bride, Riding Hood Red, Old Olive; Accessories- Whisper White grosgrain, itty bitty shapes punch pack, ornament punch, basic rhinestones
Card Recipe: Stamps- Season of Joy; Paper- Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla; Ink- Early Espresso, Always Artichoke; Accessories- Cherry Cobbler seam binding ribbon, dotted scallop ribbon punch, basic rhinestones, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, dimesionals
