Winter Wishes Framed

Good morning, Friends! We made it home safe and sound yesterday! We made good time, too!! It is such a long drive and it felt so good to be at home again! Now we are headed to the mountains to have one last Christmas with Pat's parents! We will be spending the night there and then come home tomorrow. And then I can enjoy being at home again - lol! Nick is looking forward to enjoying time at home with no school! 

I thought I had better post this card before the Winter mini catalog expires. One last card using the Winter Memories. And I do love how this one turned out! I also have quite a few of these bronze buttons to use. However, they all will not get used up before the end of the year. So I do hope they come back in the new catalog come June! I took a piece of Crumb Cake card stock and ran it through the Big Shot with the Tulip Frame embossing folder and then cut around it. I sponged the edges with Crumb Cake ink and then adhered it to a card base of Crumb Cake. Then I stamped the image from Winter Memories in Midnight Muse onto a piece of Crumb Cake and sponged the edges with Crumb Cake. This is adhered to a piece of Midnight Muse card stock and then popped up onto the card. I threaded some linen thread through the holes of a bronze button and tied a bow on the back side. This is tied to a folded piece of Victoria crochet trim and then adhered to the card. I stamped the sentiment onto a strip of Crumb Cake in Midnight Muse and flagged one end. I sponged the edges with Crumb Cake and tucked one end behind the button. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Winter Memories; Paper- Crumb Cake, Midnight Muse; Ink- Crumb Cake, Midnight Muse; Accessories- Victoria crochet trim, Tulip Frame embossing folder, bronze button, linen thread, sponge, dimensionals

Winter Wishes

Good morning everyone! Is it really Monday all over again? Ugh! I am not ready for another Monday!! But this week will be short and "that" I am ready for!! I do have a lot that has to be done before then but if I stay focused, I can do it! 

Today's card was one that did not turn out like I had planned. And then when I tried to to anything else to it, it just got worse. Ever have one of "those" days? So I stopped and just let it be. And then I went - well this looks just a like a card I made a few months ago. Oh well. It is what it is. I apologize and promise you, I will do better. I stamped the image from Winter Memories in Not Quite Navy onto a piece of Crumb Cake. Then I ran it through the Big Shot with the Northern Flurry embossing folder. I sponged the edges with Crumb Cake ink. Then I took a strip of Vellum card stock and stamped the sentiment in Not Quite Navy ink and wrapped it around the panel to adhere it. Then I ran a strip of Not Quite Navy through the Big Shot using the Tasteful Trim die and adhered it to the Vellum. I popped this panel up onto a card base of Crumb Cake. Then I added a few pearls to the snowflakes and called it done as I couldn't make anything else work. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Winter Memories; Paper- Crumb Cake, Not Quite Navy, Vellum; Ink- Not Quite Navy; Accessories- Northern Flurry embossing folder, Tasteful Trim die, pearls, sponge, dimensionals

An Inspiring Day - Winter Memories

Hello everyone! I am participating in something new for the next few months! The stamp group that I am a part of is doing a blog tour featuring a certain stamp set each month! How cool is that!! So you will be able to take a tour of several different blogs that will showcase a certain stamp set and get a TON of ideas! I love it!! This month we are featuring the stamp set, Winter Memories. I loved this set when I first saw it in the Holiday mini catalog! The ice skates in the set is what first caught my eye! But my card today shows another image from the same set. Take a look!

Isn't this image beautiful? I love how elegant it is! I ran a piece of shimmer white card stock through the Big Shot using the Northern Flurry embossing folder. Then I stamped the image in black StazOn and colored it in with various ink colors and a blender pen. Then I adhered this to a piece of Crumb Cake and then popped up this panel onto a card base of Cherry Cobbler. Then I stamped the sentiment in black StazOn onto a strip of Whisper White and flagged one end before adhering it to the card. Finally, I added a pearl to the center of the bow on the image. Very simple!! And very mailable!! 

Now it's time to send you on to the next blog! Tamra Davis will be your next stop! I hope you enjoy the tour and will come back next month to see what we will be featuring! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Winter Memories; Paper- Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, shimmer white, Whisper White; Ink- black StazOn, various inks for water coloring; Accessories- blender pen, Northern Flurry embossing folder, pearls,  dimensionals

Merry Monday #35

Good morning, Friends! I am so glad that today is Wednesday! Nick doesn't have school the rest of the week due to parent/teacher conferences. So we can sleep in the next few mornings!! Yea!!! And there are no schedules to keep so we will really have some "free" time!! His team did really great at their basketball game yesterday! They won and played really great! It really is so much fun to watch!

Today's card was the last of the cards that I did for my stamp club this month. I also did this card for a recent swap I was in. I do love how this one turned out! And it is really super easy! The layout comes from an older sketch at Always Playing with Paper. I ran a piece of Crumb Cake through the Big Shot with the Northern Flurry embossing folder. Then I stamped the image from Winter Memories in Midnight Muse and popped this up onto a card base of Crumb Cake. Then I stamped the sentiment onto a strip of Very Vanilla and flagged one end. This strip is layered onto a strip of Midnight Muse with the end flagged, too. These strips are then adhered to the card. Then I used the Snow Flurry die to cut two snowflakes from the champagne glimmer paper. These are layered together and popped up onto the card. I added a pearl to the center. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Winter Memories; Paper- Crumb Cake, Midnight Muse, Very Vanilla, champagne glimmer paper; Ink- Midnight Muse; Accessories- Northern Flurry embossing folder, Snow Flurry die, pearl, dimensionals

CCMC 219

Good morning everyone! It's time for the Thursday challenge from the Create with Connie and Mary team! This week we are being challenged with a sketch! Take a look!

And my card...

I wasn't sure if I was completely happy with this but I decided to go with it. I had seen some cards done with this set where the image wasn't colored. And I thought that it was a great way to show off this stamp! Cause sometimes you just don't want to have to color it all in, right? :) And because I didn't color in the image, the card came together very quickly! I took a piece of Very Vanilla and ran it through the Big Shot with the Apothecary Accents framelits die. Then I stamped the image from Winter Memories in Always Artichoke to the left. I cut off the other end of the frame and adhered it to a card base of Always Artichoke. Then I added a strip of Cherry Cobbler. For my two accent pieces I cut two snowflakes using the Snow Flurry die from silver glimmer paper. The smaller one is adhered to the card with a rhinestone in the center. And the bigger one is popped up onto the card. I stamped the sentiment in Always Artichoke onto a strip of Very Vanilla and flagged one end. This is adhered to the snowflake. 

Be sure to visit the Create with Connie and Mary website to see what the other fabulous designers have done with this sketch! I hope you get inspired to play along with us this week! Upload your fabulous creation so that we can all take a look, too! And don't forget that you can still sign up to see what all the designers have been creating for the Create Holiday Edition! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!!

Card Recipes: Stamps- Winter Memories; Paper- Always Artichoke, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla; Ink- Always Artichoke; Accessories- Apothecary Accents framelits dies, Snow Flurry die, rhinestone, dimensionals

Winter Ice Skates

Good morning everyone! I hope that your weekend is off to a great start and that you get to do something fun! Nick got to spend the night at a friend's house last night; one of Pat's friend's came into town last night and they are hanging out today; I think that tonight we are all going to a baseball game; I think I get the house to myself most of today so I plan to finish up some projects... Sounds like it will be a full but fun day!! Speaking of getting projects finished up... I have a new blog called My Sewing Notions. Not many projects posted yet but as I finish them I will be posting them. It is not stamping related at all but for those of you who like to sew or quilt, it might be something to check out. I just finished my first quilt! I am so excited about that! And I love how it turned out! Anyway, I just thought I would share. :)

Today's card is one that I did for a recent swap that I participated in. I love this image from the Winter Memories stamp set. I layered a piece of Crumb Cake card stock to a piece of Cherry Cobbler to a card base of Gumball Green. Then I added three strips of Cherry Cobbler that had the ends flagged. I stamped the image from Winter Memories in black StazOn onto watercolor paper that was die cut with the 3" circle die. I used various inks to watercolor the image with an aqua painter. I sponged the edges with Crumb Cake and popped it up onto the card. Then I stamped the greeting in black StazOn onto a strip of Very Vanilla and used the Word Window punch to round each end of the strip. This is adhered to the circle. Then I took silver glimmer paper and ran it through the Big Shot with the Snow Flurry die. I used the two smaller snowflakes and layered them with a silver brad before popping them up onto the card. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Winter Memories; Paper- Gumball Green, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, watercolor paper; Ink- black StazOn, Gumball Green, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Basic Grey; Accessories- 3" circle die, Snow Flurry die, Word Window punch, silver brad, aqua painter, sponge, dimensionals

TSSC 232

Good morning, Friends! I hope your week got off to a great start! It was nice to be home. I got some laundry done and I did a little sewing. I even made a card! I can tell the days are shortening up! It is taking a little longer for the sun to come up in the morning. But it still manages to get pretty hot during the day. I have a massage today and that's a good thing as I have a huge knot in my lower back. It's killing me! And then I will be on the hunt because we have a cricket in our bedroom who is quite noisy at night!

Today's card was inspired by Mary Jo's lunchtime sketch challenge. This sketch was last week's. I didn't get it posted in time to enter but I still wanted to show it. It worked out perfectly for this new stamp set, Winter Memories. I adhered a piece of Crumb Cake to a piece of Cherry Cobbler and then to the card base of Crumb Cake. I stamped the image from Winter Memories in black StazOn onto Very Vanilla and watercolored it with a blender pen and various inks. Then I added two strips of Not Quite Navy that were cut with the Tasteful Trim die. This is popped up onto the card. Then I stamped the sentiment in black StazOn onto a strip of Very Vanilla, flagged both ends and adhered it to the card. I added two rhinestones and called it done! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Winter Memories; Paper- Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla; Ink- black StazOn, various inks for water coloring; Accessories- blender pen, Tasteful Trim die, rhinestones, dimensionals

Winter Ice Skates

Good morning, Friends! I hope your week has started out super! Nick had soccer camp last night and it got rained out. There was lightning in the area so they decided to call it short. He was bummed but it was safer that way. On the way home we could tell that it had dumped buckets in parts of the town but at our house.... NOTHING! UGH! We really need some rain, too!!! I am hoping for some today. We will see. Right now I have a headache and I am hoping I can get rid of that so I can get some things done around here.


Today's card was one I was thinking of doing for a swap. But I decided to go in a different direction so I am posting this one now. This is a sneak peek of what will be in the upcoming Holiday mini catalog! I love this image of the ice skates from the Winter Memories stamp set. The other images are beautiful, too! For my card, I took a piece of Always Artichoke and ran it through the Big Shot with the Fancy Fan embossing folder and then rounded the corners on one end. I adhered this to a piece of River Rock and pierced a scallop border with the help of the Essentials Paper Piercing pack. This is glued to a card base of Always Artichoke. Then I added a strip of Cherry Cobbler and a snowflake that was cut from silver glimmer paper using the new snowflake die. I stamped the sentiment on a strip of Very Vanilla in Always Artichoke and flagged one end. The other end is tucked behind the snowflake. I stamped the skates onto watercolor paper with black StazOn ink and watercolored the image with various inks. Then I cut them out. I added a silver brad and popped them up onto the card. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!


Card Recipe: Stamps- Winter Memories; Paper- Always Artichoke, River Rock, Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, silver glimmer paper, watercolor paper; Ink- black StazOn, Always Artichoke; Accessories- Fancy Fan embossing folder, snowflake die, corner rounder, silver brad, aqua painter, dimensionals