Season's Tweetings

 I've had this Lawn Fawn stamp set for a while and don't use it nearly enough, so today I'm sharing a Christmas card I made with it. I colored the little birds with Copics and stenciled some clouds behind them with some tumbled glass distress ink. I die cut both the image panel and blue panel as well as the card base with Lil Inker stitched rectangle dies. This one has already gone out in the mail and I'm glad to have put this cute stamp set to use once again.

I will share this card with the following challenges:

The December 2024 Stencil Fun Challenge - Winter/Christmas

the Triple B December 2024 Challenge - Blooms, Birds, Butterflies 

(use 1,2 or all 3)

the Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #78 - A/G Christmas

the Allsorts Challenge Week #812/13 - Use Your Dies

Thanks for stopping by and as always, I wish you the best day ever!

Carol

Christmas Poinsettia

I used an older Spellbinders Poinsettia die to create this card. While the pieces were still in the die, I took a gold paint pen and drew through the lines on the petals which gave the poinsettia a more festive look. Unfortunately the paint pen malfunctioned on one of those leaves and leaked all over it, but I managed to hide most of the blotch of gold ink under another petal. I decided to use it instead of creating another one. I curled each petal around a pencil to shape them and then popped the flower up on dimensionals, along with the leaf. The embossing folder is a poinsettia design by Taylored Expressions. The sentiment is a pre-printed one by Simon Says Stamp. I added a ancient gemstone to the center of the flower and called this one done.

I'll enter this card into the following challenges:

The Peace on Earth Challenge #78 - A/G Christmas

Can You Handle the Pressure? Dec 14, 2024 - A/G with a twist of Poinsettias

(must use an embossing folder)

The Triple B December 2024 Challenge - Birds, blooms, or Butterflies

(or use all 3)

the Christmas Kickstart Challenge #93 - A/G Christmas

the Allsorts Challenge Week #811 - Lots of White or A/G

Thanks for stopping by and have a great Monday.

Carol

 

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

I've had this Simon Says Stamp Stylized Holy Star die for a while and decided to use it to make a Christmas card.  I cut it from gold mirror paper and white, and placed it on a stenciled background done with Pink Fresh Layered Sunburst stencils and some assorted yellow inks. I die cut some tiny angels from snippets of a thick, shiny white cardstock I've been hanging onto for eons. A friend sent me a few sheets probably ten years ago and I decided it was high time to use those little bits of pretty white festive cardstock to create the angels (done with I.O. dies) and used a gold paint pen to color their halos and wing tips. The sentiment is by Creative Expressions and was cut from mirror gold cardstock. Since I cut the large star with 2 colors, that left enough pieces to create another card with the 2nd star in alternating colors.

 I kept the stenciling lighter on this card but it was made much like the first one. That's two Christmas cards I have finished for my stash.

Sharing with the following challenges:

The December Stencil Fun Challenge - Winter or Christmas

The Peace on Earth Challenge #77 - A/G Christmas

                the Snippets Playground #495 - Must Use Snippets

I have no idea what in the world is going on with blogger, but it's not cooperating at all today. I always center my posts but today nothing will center when I click that link until I click it 4 or 5 times. Also my comment section is completely filled with older posts (6,7,8, and 9 years old) and it's annoying because I'm unable to get to any new posts because of all the old ones clogging up my blog reader list. Maybe if I take a moment to click my heels together 3 times things will magically return to normal again?? LOL 

😆😝😡 

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you all the best possible day. .

 Carol

 

Merry Christmas

 I've had this Tim Holtz embossing folder for quite some time and never really knew what to do with it, so I finally sat down and made a card that I'm happy with. After embossing, I swiped it with a platinum ink pad which made the really large greeting stand out from the white. I adorned it with tiny dots of platinum stickles to indicate snow, placed it on a green card base and called it done!

I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:

the Christmas Kickstart challenge #93 - if it's Christmassy, link it up!

The Peace on Earth challenge #77 - A/G Christmas

Can You Handle the Pressure? - A/G embossing with a twist of winter fun

the Allsorts Challenge #809 - Winter Flowers & Fauna or A/G

Thanks for stopping by and as always, make it a great day!

Carol

Joyous Christmas

 I used a CTMH embossing folder and a pre-printed Simon Says Stamp sentiment to put this card together. After embossing, I lightly sponged color on the trees, deer and house in the background. I added tiny gold die-cut stars to the tops of a couple trees, and added a few more to the sky. This was quick and easy to make and even though the photo doesn't pick up the colors, it looks pretty IRL.

Sharing this with the following challenges:

Rudolph Days Challenge for November - A/G Christmas

Peace on Earth Challenge #76 - A/G Christmas

Can You Handle the Pressure - A/G using an embossing folder
with a twist of winter fun

The Sisterhood of Crafters November 27 Challenge - A/G

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you all a great Thanksgiving day tomorrow if you celebrate.

 I spotted this sign when I was out yesterday and had to share -

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn. 

That might be hazardous to your health! LOL

Carol

Christmas Snowflake

 It's that time of the year to get serious about building the Christmas stash, so quick and easy is how it's going to be this year. I used this retired SU! embossing folder to create the snowflake on white, then added silver Stickles to the tiny outer circles for some sparkle. I used an older Martha Stewart punch to create the smaller red snowflake and added a silver Candi dot to the center. The pre-printed sentiment is from SimonSaysStamp and I fishtailed the ends with a hexagon punch. I placed it on a red card base and called this one done.

Sharing with the following challenges:

The Allsorts Challenge #806 - Christmas or A/G

Can You Handle the Pressure? Nov 9th - A/G using an embossing folder

with an optional twist of coffee-cocoa-warm drinks

the Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge#75 - A/G Christmas

Thanks for stopping by and I wish everyone a great weekend.

Carol

Snippet Christmas Card Set

 I started going through my red and green snippets of designer papers to create this set of cards. Whenever you cut a card front it leaves you with strips of pretty papers that are too good to throw away, so I saved them all and used them to make these cards. The papers are from SU! and Lawn Fawn and I'll describe each image on the individual cards.

This is Lawn Fawn's Season's Tweetings and all the horizontal panels of SU! papers were cut with MFT stitched horizontal dies and a Lil Inker stitched rectangle die for the image panel.

 This is a MFT image, cut on a stitched square die and colored with Copics. DSP by Lawn Fawn and the sentiment is by MFT.

This is a retired SU! image named Dasher, heat embossed in gold with a GMD stitched oval die and several red gemstones with a MFT sentiment and SU! designer papers.

This is also a retired SU! image called Snow Swirled, heat embossed in gold with red gemstones and a small punched gold star done with a SU! mini punch and placed on a Lil Inker die-cut stitched rectangle. The sentiment is unbranded. Papers by SU!

This last card uses some different SU! papers but is the same Snow Swirled image and a different sentiment by MFT.

Sharing this with the Snippets Playground #490 - must use Snippets

the Allsorts challenge week #800 - A/G

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #72

I was going to enter the Rudolph Day September challenge too but it's already closed. I still have over 2 hours before it's October, but I'll have to wait until next month on that one LOL

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you're having a great Autumn week.

Heartfelt thoughts and prayers going out to all of those folks impacted by the wrath of that storm Helene. The videos and photos I've seen are just devastating and heartbreaking for what they're dealing with. May God bless them one and all.

Carol

Christmas Pup

 I decided to use my long-neglected SU! dog punch to make this card and added a little die-cut Santa hat made with some red glitter paper and a bit of white.  I found the 2 snippets of designer paper from the Jingles paper pad in my stash and die-cut them with Lil Inker stitched rectangles and added a red puffy sticker to the top. I have an ancient wooden stick stamp by Judith that I used to stamp the tiny snowflakes on the background piece that matched the designer paper, so I just added lots of them using red ink. The sentiment is a pre-printed one from Simon Says Stamp and I backed it with a piece of dark red cardstock. 

I'll enter this card into the following challenges:

Rudolph Days September challenge - A/G Christmas

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #72 - A/G Christmas

Love Those Pretty Papers ATG September challenge - optional "Fall" theme

the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - A/G

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day whatever you do.

Carol

Snarky Christmas Cat

 I have a friend who is a cat mom, and her cat is a handful sometimes with his finicky behavior and antics, so I made this card for her just for laughs.

The background was embossed with a Crafters Companion 3D Christmas Magic ef, and the cat, Santa hat, and bowtie are all from the the Tim Holtz crazy cat stamp collection. The Bah Humbug sentiment is a die from Die'sire Designs. I used a fine red marker to add red lines to the cat's eyes because this cat is usually awake all night long tormenting her while she tries to sleep. 😫

Entering this card into the following challenges

The Rudolph Days August Challenge - A/G Christmas

The Allsorts Challenge week #795 - delightful animals or A/G

The Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #70 - A/G Christmas

Can You Handle the Pressure?  - A/G using an EF *opt twist of "leaves"

That's a wrap for me, but thanks for stopping by and have yourself a fantastic day today.

Carol

Peace on Earth Christmas Card

  I have a CAS Christmas card design to share with you today made with navy and white colors. I used a SU! embossing folder called Winter Wonderland, and used a Die-Versions die-cut sentiment. I added a punched snowflake in the center of the large embossed snowflake, and added a tiny silver star-shaped sequin in the center of that. I think I'll make a few more of this quick and easy design because I like how it turned out.

I will share this card with

the Rudolph Days Challenge for July - A/G Christmas

the Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #68 - A/G Christmas

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!

Carol

Merry Christmas in July

I finally used up the last of this great Kringle paper pad with this Christmas card. It's been one of my all-time favorite Christmas paper pads and I'm sad to see it gone - but on the other hand, it might be one of the only paper pads I've ever used up completely, so that's a good thing!

I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch to put this together. A very thoughtful friend recently sent me that Santa die, so I die-cut it with some red mirror paper as well as white, and then added the last of my liquid applique to the fur sections. I guess I'll have to search for a new place to buy that now since Jo-Anne's stores closed and I always bought the liquid applique there. The die-cut sentiment was also cut from red mirror paper and that die is by Sunny Studios.

 This was one of 2 inserts in the paper pad that I used for the inside of the card.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches#644

the Peace on Earth Christmas challenge #67 - A/G Christmas

the NBUS Challenge #64 - Never Before Used Schtuff (the Santa Hat)

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a great day!

Carol

Christmas in June

 Today I have a Christmas card that I made with traditional colors. I used a Sizzix Snow Globe embossing folder to emboss a piece of white cardstock, and I colored the raised portions with Copic markers. The Kaiser Craft sentiment was die cut with mirror gold and placed on red and green panels cut with Gina Marie Designs Venetian Label dies, and placed on a matching green card base.

Sharing this with the following challenges:

The Rudolph Days June Challenge  - Christmas

https://rudolphdayschallenges.blogspot.com/2024/06/rudolph-days-june-challenge.html

Can You Handle the Pressure?  - A/G using an embossing folder with an optional twist of sports

https://cyhtp.blogspot.com/2024/06/anything-goes-embossing-with-twist-of.html

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #66 - A/G Christmas

https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/2024/06/peace-on-earth-challenge-66.html

That's going to be it for me today, but thanks for stopping by and make it a great day! Keep smiling 😉

Carol

Switching to Christmas

I'm shifting to Christmas for the Rudolph Days March Challenge which runs from March 25th until the end of the month. 

I used a very old SSS Wishing Trees die and some green cardstock along with some Lawn Fawn stitched hillside dies to create the scene. I added a tiny red star to the top of each tree which were negatives from a star border die done in metallic red cardstock. The Merry Christmas die was done with red mirror card and a Kaiser Crafts die, and for the final touch I added a couple playful fawns cut with a Poppystamps die. Sorry for the shadows, cloudy days don't make for good photos.

Also sharing with the Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #60

A/G with an inspirational photo board

it feels like Christmas season outside today because the temperatures are quite cold this morning, so hopefully spring temperatures will get here soon. We had a teaser of them last week, but those warm days didn't last very long.

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great Monday whatever you do.

Carol

Winter Frost Christmas Card

 Today I'm sharing a Christmas card made with some non-traditional colors. I used an unbranded die along with some SU! long-retired designer paper and matching cardstock. I added a few blue sparkly stickers along with the snowflakes because they added just the right amount of sparkle.

I'm sharing this with...

 the Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #58 - A/G Christmas

The Rudolph Days Challenge for February 2024 - A/G Christmas

Maureen has turned the reins over to Helen to keep this challenge going and I wish both of these ladies nothing but the best as changes impact their lives.

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great Monday.

Carol

Warm Christmas Wishes Quilt Cards

I had some square snippets of red, white, and green cardstock so I decided to make some quilt cards since I had this perfect sentiment stamp to match. I used a MFT stitched quilt square to cut all the quilt pieces in each of the 3 colors, and in the first one, I laid the cut pieces into the cut frame but didn't glue the frame down. After all the pieces were glued in place, I removed the frame and added a die-cut gold star made with gold mirror card and decided this one looked fine with nothing else added.

Of course when I cut all of the quilts, that left me with 2 frames which I had to use to make 2 more cards. For this version, I added the white and red negatives along with the negative pieces from the gold star in the first card, then added a gold Candi Dot to the center of the star.

This version has the red quilt frame with green and white pieces along with just a gold Candi Dot in the center. They're all similar but each card is slightly different.

I'm sharing the first card with

 the Snippets Playground #469- must use snippets

the Little Red Wagon Challenge #735 - Merry Christmas

the Sisterhood of Crafters - Christmas

the Peace on Earth Challenge #53 - Christmas

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you're all having a busy but great day!

Carol

 

Silver and Blue Christmas Card

 I will try to get a better photo of this card at some point because those mirror silver medallions look more like gold, but they are bright silver and  hard to photograph. The mirror silver was cut with Spellbinder's circle dies. Each center has a blue glittered snowflake done with a die from the retired SU! Pillow Box die set, and each snowflake has a matching silver brad in the center. The embossed panel was done with a Darice snowflake ef and the designer paper is a snippet I found in my overflowing box of scraps. I cut two narrow strips of the glittered blue paper and edged the embossed panel with them to tie everything together. The sentiment is from SU!'s Teeny Tiny Wishes which was released in 2009-2010.

I'll share with the Sketch Saturday #739

Sharing also with the Retro Rubber Challenge #220 - must use stamps older than 1 year.

I used the middle horizontal line of Die Cut or punch / Pattern Paper / Embossing.

the Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #52 - A/G Christmas

Thanks for stopping by today and have a fabulous crafty day!

Carol

Dasher Christmas

 I'm moving right along after Halloween right into Christmas with my card today. This is a very old SU! image called "Dasher" that I heat-embossed with Versamark and some gold embossing powder. I colored the die-cut stitched circle with a Copic marker and added a few dabs of red stickles to the antlers, adding some diamond stickles to the ground beneath the deer. I die cut the green circle with a Spellbinders scalloped die and embossed the background with a Sizzix Snow Globe embossing folder, adding a strip of red glitter paper. The sentiment was done with a retired SU! Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp, embossed with gold, and placed on a combination of punched layers.

I'll share this with the following challenges:

The Double D Challenge - Oh DEER!

the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Emboss it!

The Peace on Earth Christmas challenge #50 - A/G Christmas

Thanks for stopping by to visit today. Here's wishing you a great day whatever you do!

Carol

Christmas Cards

I recently treated myself to this new Creative Expressions Christmas sentiment die and paired it with some I.O. die-cut angels on a piece of green mirror card. I die-cut the mirror card with a Lil Inker stitched rectangle die and placed it on a white card base. I don't think this card needs anything else.

 I made a second one and used different angels or repositioned the ones I used in the first card, just to make them a little different. Sorry that mirror card picks up the camera reflection but I can't seem to find a way to eliminate that.

I'm entering the October Rudolph Days challenge  - A/G Christmas

 

as well as the Peace on Earth Challenge #50 - A/G Christmas

since the sentiment die is brand new, I'm also entering into

 the NBUS challenge#55 - Never Before Used Schtuff

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your day is a good one.

Carol

Easy Christmas Card

 I won a Christmas card kit from Bella Boulevard quite a few years ago and I've used just about all of it now. This card was put together with a sticker and a die-cut scalloped square along with papers from the kit. The sentiment was a print included in the kit that I just backed with another piece of paper.

This may be the quickest card I've ever made!

I'll share this with these challenges:

The September Rudolph Days challenge - A/G goes Christmas by the end of the month.

the Peace on Earth Christmas challenge #48 - A/G Christmas with this board for inspiration

That's it for me today, but thanks for dropping by to visit!

Carol

Switching to Christmas

I'm still working with snippets and trying to use them up on some cards. I started with a scrap of white and glued on squares of Christmas-themed papers and then die cut the panel with a GMD scalloped rectangle die. I also die-cut a Lawn Fawn stitched snowflake die from mirror red and gold cardstock and placed that over the top and added a pre-printed SSS sentiment.

 After die-cutting the snippet panel, I decided to use the frame to make another card. This one has 3 smaller Lawn Fawn stitched snowflakes and a KaiserCraft die-cut Christmas sentiment. I also stenciled some white snowflakes with a Heidi Swapp stencil. 

I'll enter these cards into the following challenges:

The August Rudolph Days Challenge - A/G Christmas

The Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #46 - A/G Christmas

The Happy Little Stampers August Christmas Challenge - A/G Christmas

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend ahead.

Carol