Masculine Christmas Cards

I used up just about all the Christmas designer paper I've had in my stash this year, so I recently treated myself to a few new sheets that I found at my local scrapbook store. This Sasparilla/Gold Rush plaid by October Afternoon caught my eye right away and I thought it would make some great masculine  cards. I  had quite a few snippets of sparkly gold and black card stock on my table, so I used a Frantic Stamper Deer Bust die to cut a piece of black and sparkly gold  and placed the black negative into the gold panel and vice/versa. I cut both the image and mat with stitched ovals and added a piece of that gorgeous plaid paper for the background, placing it all on a Soft Stone card base. The sentiment was done with a very old retired SU! stamp, heat-embossed with white ep on a basic gray panel, then die cut with a stitched circle die and a matted with a black punched circle. I wanted the sentiment to be small to let the deer bust take center stage.

I decided to make that 2nd card right away since I already had the deer bust cut and inlaid into the black panel. I wanted a slightly different look, so instead of stitched ovals, I used stitched rectangle dies to cut the image panel, plaid panel, and Hello Honey card base. The sentiment was done with a very old wooden stamp (no name) that I've had since I began stamping years ago. I heat-embossed it with white ep on basic grey card stock, and fishtailed the ends with a hexagon punch. The sparkly gold paper sheds pieces of glitter every now and then, so just ignore those random sparkly dots on both cards! They're like magnets to the card stock :)

I'm going to enter these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp It's Christmas Card Day

Snippets Playground #341 - must use snippets

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper December 2018 Challenge - use patterned paper

Just For Fun December 2018 Challenge - card for any holiday

Tuesday Throwdown #420 - anything goes

The Male Room Challenge #100 - celebrate

Inkspirational Challenge #175 - designer's choice anything Christmas

Happy Little Stampers December 2018 anything goes with dies

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a great week ahead!

Carol

Autumn Birthday

Now that this card has been received, I'm going to share it here. I wove some leftover strips of autumn dsp from Tim Coffey that I've had for years to make the background, then die-cut the panel with a Lil Inker stitched rectangle die. Next I took a snippet of card stock and embossed it with a SU! basketweave ef, sponging some rust ink all over it before hand-cutting it into a banner. The heart is from the SSS Thank you heart die set and I cut it from a piece of corrugated packaging, adding some white ink and gold twine. The sentiment was heat-embossed with white ep on espresso card stock that was die-cut with MFT label dies. Lastly, I added a few tiny amber gemstones for a little sparkle and placed it all on a sage card base. I thought it was perfect for an autumn birthday when I finished it. 

I'd like to share this with the following challenges:

the Snippets Playground #340 - must use snippets

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - anything goes

Little Red Wagon #474 - leftovers

Cute Card Thursday challenge #558 - Recycle something

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper November 2018 challenge - use patterned paper

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day whatever you're doing!

Carol

Christmas Hedgehog

I've had a couple of these Penny Black stamped images in my stash for quite some time now, and decided with Christmas just around the corner I'd better get busy and use them! I colored this with Copics and added some Frosted Stickles to the fur on the stocking along with some gold paint pen accents.

I used dsp from an old Bo Bunny Christmas pack, along with some dark green cardstock that was embossed with a CB Snowglobe ef. The tags were cut with Lawn Fawn tag dies and tied together with some twine. The enamel dots are from Taylored Expressions and the sentiment is from SU!

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

MLCCB #4 - November Anything Christmas goes

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #554 - anything goes

LTCCB #28 - anything goes

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper November 2018 Challenge - use patterned paper

CHNC challenge #410 - a/g as long as it's Christmas - Optional use glitter

Thanks for stopping by and have yourself a great Monday!

Carol

Quilted Snippet Cards

I had half a sheet left of some Gina K Bubble Gum pink cardstock and wanted to use every last possible piece of it, so I thought I'd make a few quilt cards to use it up. I also used some SU! dsp along with left over snippets of grey, white, and black. For this card, I added a Simon Says Stamp Dahlia die that I cut from pink and grey and inlaid all the pink bits (whew, that was hard on the eyes!). I added a few hand-cut leaves, and several die-cut white stems and leaves from my snippet box, along with a silver candi dot in the center of the flower. The quilt die is from MFT and the sentiment was cut with silver mirror card using a Lil Inker die.

I'm entering this card into the Snippets Playground #338 where all you need to do is use snippets to make your card.

 When you make multi-colored quilt cards, you are left with lots of leftover bits, so I made a 2nd and 3rd card with the leftovers. For this version I finished the center with an IO die-cut button and wove 2 shreds of the pink cardstock through the center to look like thread. The sentiment was done with an Elizabeth Crafts die.

I'm sharing this card with the Happy Little Stampers October Anything Goes with Dies challenge 

Here's the 3rd one with a different sentiment but using the same color bits as the first two.

This card is going over to Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge for October 2018.

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

Carol

Thanksgiving

Years ago I bought an autumn-themed paper pad by Tim Coffey and I liked it so much, I kept all the leftover snippets after cutting into the sheets. I decided to make a background with those strips by weaving them together. I placed it on a sage card base and die-cut a GMD stitched oval for the main panel. The leaf is a die-cut from Spellbinders that was sponged with a lot of autumn-colored distress inks and finished with some versafine ink and an overall clear embossing powder coverage. The Tags 4 You sentiment is by SU! and I added a few gemstones for interest. I shredded a strip of dsp and wrapped it around a pair of tweezers to curl it, then attached it to the leaf along with a neutral twine bow.

I'm entering this into these challenges:

The Shopping Our Stash SOS #375 challenge - give thanks

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #313 - holiday

Craftyhazelnut's October 2018 Patterned Paper challenge - use patterned paper

Crazy 4 Challenges C4C455 - make a card for WCMD a/g

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

Carol

Halloween Matchbook Treats

I have lots of Halloween dsp left over from last year, so I decided to make a few matchbox treats for this year. Here is one of them with a Memory Box die-cut spider and I dotted his eyes with a white gel pen to make him creepier. When you open this up, here's what's inside...

The photo on the left shows the inside with the double-sided paper found at Tuesday Morning years ago. The Trick or Treat sentiment is by Lawn Fawn, and I added a little IO die-cut ghost that was embossed with Lawn Fawn glow-in-the-dark ep. The photo on the right is the inside of another matchbook that was made with SU! dsp, a Unity white-embossed sentiment punched with an EK ticket punch, and what these treats are filled with - a WAWA coffee thin! I wish I'd never discovered these wafer-thin coffee/chocolate bites of deliciousness because they are a bite of heaven!! If I enjoy them this much, I'm sure other coffee/chocolate lovers will too, so those are my treats for this Halloween. I'm grateful they are sold individually and NOT sold in bags, or I'd be in a sugar coma by now!

Here is the assortment I've made using all stamps, dies, stickers and elements from my Halloween stash. These are SO much fun to make and a great way to use up those little bits of dsp and cardstock too! 

If you need any specifics for products used, just email me with your questions. My email address is on the sidebar. I used the Splitcoaststampers tutorial for making these.

I will enter this project into the following challenges:

Just for Fun Rubber Stamps October 2018 Challenge - Halloween

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge October 2018 - use patterned paper

Memory Box Challenge #42 - Halloween or Candy themed

 LTCCB #27 - October Anything Goes

LTSCB #114 - Fall Back *make any fall creation*

Dies R US #106 - A/G using dies by companies carried at the Dies R Us store

Thanks for spending a few moments of your Monday with me, and I wish you a wonderful week ahead! Happy Crafting :)

Carol

Christmas Fawn

I have a Christmas card to share today using a Whimsy digital Stamp called "Fawn." I colored this sweet image with Copics and added some glossy accents to his big red bow. The red dsp is by American Crafts, while the kraft snippet is SU! retired. I added a SU! sentiment along with some tiny red gemstones to finish this one.

This one is going into the September Rudolph Days Challenge which runs until the end of September. All you need to do is make a Christmas card.

Also sharing with the Craftyhazelnut's CHNC 404 - Christmas a/g

Craftyhazelnut's September 2018 Patterned Paper challenge - use dsp

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great Wednesday!

Carol

Wheeee!

My card today was made with a Whimsy Stamps digital image called "skiing penguin" that I recently won. Isn't he the cutest? I colored him with many different markers, glaze pens, and paint pens, and added glossy accents to his goggles along with some liquid applique to the fur on his cap. I die-cut a Lawn Fawn stitched hillside panel and covered it with frosted stickles to create the snowy hill he's skiing down, and added some sparkly snow behind his skis with 3 different colors of stickles. The sentiment was done with an old G Studio $1 stamp I got from Michaels many years ago, and I used circle punches to cut it along with the turquoise mat. I added a big piece of turquoise bling in the center just for fun. The cardbase and mats are turquoise, and the 2 different designer papers are old ones from Memory Box.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

The Tuesday Throwdown #410 - add some texture

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Bling it On

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #174 - add 3+ layers

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #403 - a/g Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge for September 2018 - use dsp

Thanks for stopping by today, and I hope your Thursday is filled with all things good and kind :)

Carol

Twofer #8

The Twofer Challenge #8 is still open for a couple more days and I finally got my geometric cards finished. This is definitely the most difficult challenge for me to do each month, but I enjoy a good challenge, so here goes.

I made a card for kids along with a Christmas card by using 1-5/8" squares. I didn't use a die or a punch, I hand cut the squares to make both a border and a door.

I cut 4 panels of vanilla cardstock to make the door, scoring and curling along the edges to resemble beveled edges. I made a wreath of greens using many different snippets of green cardstock and a Martha Stewart fern punch. I added red and gold drops of stickles to the ferns along with a twine bow. The door handle was made with some SU! hardware I've had for years! It's actually a photo turn and brad, but my mind sees it as a metal door handle :) The sentiment is from Verve, heat-embossed with white ep on black and matted with wild wasabi cardstock.

I'm also sharing this card with the following challenges:

The Snippets Playground #333 - must use snippets

Craftyhazelnuts CHNC #399 - Christmas challenge anything goes/optional no stamped or digital image

Here's the 2nd of my Twofer cards - a little something for the kiddos. I used 3 blocks of dsp from a DCWV paper pad and matted with gray. The little skunk is from Lawn Fawn, done with a MFT stitched circle die, as well as SB circle and scalloped circle dies. The card base is SU! Berry Burst and I inked in 2 of the stamped hearts with a pink glaze pen.

I'm also sharing this card with the following challenges:

Craftyhazelnuts' Patterned Paper August 2018 challenge - use patterned paper

2 Crafty Critter Crazies #17 - must use a critter on your project

Thanks so much for stopping by and I wish you a wonderful Wednesday!

Carol

Dahlia Birthday

 I have a birthday card made with some SU! dsp and cardstock in the colors of Concord Crush and Pear Pizzazz. I saw this sketch over at the Tuesday Throwdown 405 and just had to play along.

The flower in the center was done with 2 dies from Simon Says Stamp called Outline and Delicate Dahlia. The white circle was done with a MFT stitched circle die. The leaves were done with a strip of pear pizzazz cardstock that was scored and folded in the center, and then fussy cut into pointed ovals and run at an angle through a paper crimper while folded. The sentiment is by Taylored Expressions. The enamel dot in the center is also by Taylored Expressions and was darkened just a bit with a Copic to match the rich purple color.

I'm also sharing this with the following:

Craftyhazelnuts August 2018 patterned paper challenge - use dsp

The Happy Little Stampers August Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!

Carol

Merry July!

It's going to be a sweltering day here in PA, so I have another Christmas card to help cool us all off. I used up some favorite snippets of retired DSP from SU! and die-cut them with GMD stitched squares. I die-cut the tree with SU!'s perfect pines framelits from the red and green pieces, and inlaid the tree into the red. Next I added a mirror gold punched star done with a retired SU! mini punch. To dress up the tree, I added gold stickles in a criss-cross pattern. The word Merry was done with mirror gold card and a Sunny Studio word die. It's all been placed on a vanilla card base for a quick and easy Christmas card.

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Jingle Belles Stars and Stripes challenge - make a christmas card using stars and/or stripes (I used both)

Craftyhazelnut's CHNC #392 - a/g as long as it's Christmas with an option of using a snowflake or two or more

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper July 2018 challenge - use any patterned paper

Thanks for stopping by and if you live anywhere in my neck of the woods, stay cool!

Carol

Summertime Birthday

Hello and a happy Thursday to you! Today I have a simple card that was made with snippets of cardstock and designer paper along with a pre-colored digital image I had in my stash. I die-cut the image panel and a red mat with Lil Inker stitched rectangles for a simple design, adding a piece of floral paper along with the paper that looks like worn painted boards. The sentiment is by Northwoods.

I'm sharing this with the Dies R Us challenge #99 - Summertime Fun (and must use dies)

Also sharing with Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge for June 2018 - must use patterned paper

Thanks for stopping by and a very happy first day of summer to those who are experiencing it today!

Carol

For Dad

With Father's Day just around the corner, I made this card from snippets lying on my table. The kaisercraft die-cut stag and shimmery mat beneath it were from a previous card I made that I just wasn't crazy about, so I carefully cut that panel from the card and re-purposed it here. I placed it on a gray Recollections piece of dsp, cutting with a Lil Inker stitched rectangle die set- which was used on the image panel and cardstock base as well. The blue sentiment panel was heat-embossed with white ep using a MFP stamp, and I die-cut that with a Crealies Text Tag die. I attached it with 2 white mini brads. The word "For" was done with a SNSS stamp on white and fussy cut. The card base is heavy royal blue, purchased from a local store.

I will share this with the following challenges:

 Simon Wednesday challenge which is to use more than one stamp.

Craftyhazelnut's May 2018 Patterned Paper challenge - used patterned paper

Repeat Impressions Anything Goes Challenge M2318 

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day!

Carol

Mother's Day Cards

I'm trying to use up my stash of designer papers that just seems to multiply over time, and I was inspired by a card on Pinterest to make some Mother's Day cards. I used snippets of SU! strawberry slush along with a CB swiss dots ef, and 3 different SU! retired punches to make the flower and bitty banners. The sentiment is by Verve and was done with Strawberry Slush ink.

I decided to make a couple more in different colors, so here's the Concord Crush version. I skipped the embossing and used a different sentiment, also from the same Verve stamp set.

And finally, the Crisp Cantaloupe version.

I was happy to be able to use some of these beautiful paper snippets instead of letting them lie in my stash any longer. I wish this was the end of them, but I'll have to live another 50 years to use them all I'm sure! LOL

I'm sharing with these challenges:

 Shopping Our Stash SOS #352 challenge - Mother's Day

Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge for May 2018 - use patterned paper

Pixie's Snippets Playground #325 - use snippets

Thanks for stopping by and do have a fantastic Wednesday!

Carol

Masculine Birthday

I made this birthday card for a friend who is a real outdoors person and he loves cutting firewood, so it has all the elements he can relate to. It's on a Crumb Cake card base, and the patterned paper is Wood Textures by SU!. I split the panels and placed them on a darker wood texture dsp panel and adhered it to the card base. The deer is by I.O. and the vanilla Birthday Wishes die cuts are from Gina Marie Designs. It's simple, just the way guys like cards.

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Shopping our Stash SOS #350 - Yo! Dude! (masculine)

Happy Little Stampers April "anything goes with dies" challenge

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge for April - use patterned paper

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

Carol

A Red, White, and Blue Birthday

I have a friend who was born on July 4th, so I always make her a patriotic birthday card and this is one of those. I began with punched 1" squares of red and blue patterned papers and adhered them to a piece of white cardstock, then die-cut it with a Top Note die. This was placed on a white card base, and I added some balloons done with a MS punch, and pieces of assorted red, white, and blue twine to each one. The word "Happy" is from Simon Says Stamp "Oh Happy Day" dies, and the word "Birthday" was done with a Sweet n Sassy die.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - birthday cards to celebrate their 9th

Double D Challenges - use twine

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper challenge for April 2018 - use patterned paper

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day!

Carol

Mosaic Christmas Angel

I recently made this Christmas card with bits of some leftover SU! dsp that were too small to use for anything else. I started with a piece of cardstock run through the Zyron to coat it with adhesive, then placed those bits randomly, leaving spaces between. After all the snippets were placed, I heat-embossed with gold ep and then die cut the panel and card base with Lil Inkers stitched rectangles. I added a cherry cardstock oval done with a GMD stitched oval die, then made the angel. The angel is a GMD die that I cut from foiled gold and vanilla and inlaid the vanilla negatives back into the gold. The sentiment is a portion of the Peace on Earth die done with a Die Versions die.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

the Snippets Playground #321 - must use snippets

Happy Little Stampers March Anything Goes with Dies challenge - use dies

Happy Little Stampers March Christmas Challenge - a/g option reindeer

CHNC #375 - Christmas anything goes - optional vintage or shabby chic

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper challenge for March 2018 - use dsp

Oh, and if you're wondering what I did with the snippets from making this card, I made a 2nd card...

I noticed in the photo that I need to make some adjustments on the gold inlaid pieces on the angel but that's minor. The word Peace was die cut with a MB die and the mosaic frame is the piece leftover from cutting the rectangle on the first card. I used it to frame this card.

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great kick-off to the weekend!

Carol

Mosaic Christmas Tag

I love to use up tiny bits of leftover dsp by cutting them in random shapes and creating mosaic backgrounds. I started with a strip of vanilla cardstock, and ran it through the zyron to coat it with adhesive, then randomly placed the bits of dsp, leaving spaces between them. Once the piece was covered, I sprinkled gold embossing powder all over it and heat-embossed it, adding that touch of gold. I used a SU! scalloped top border punch to cut the tag along with a corner rounder punch to do the bottom corners, then added a die-cut star made from glittered gold cardstock and a Quickutz "cookies" star die, placing it on the top portion of the tag. I added a strip of vanilla diagonally that was stamped with a retired SU! sentiment done in Hunter Green, then added some metallic gold ribbon along with some narrow dark green ribbon tied into a bow on the top of the tag. The star-shaped gemstone has been in my stash for years I tell ya, years!!

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

Dies R Us challenge - TAG! you're it! - make a tag and use a die-cut

Craftyhazelnut's CHNC 374 - a/g Christmas creation - option to use some gold

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper February challenge - a/g with patterned paper

Thanks for stopping by and as always, have yourself a great day!

Carol

Cool Yule

Sorry for the bad photo - I missed the opportunity to photograph this while the sun was shining brightly.

I was recently sent this cute penguin image, so I colored it with Copics and used Lil Inker stitched rectangles to cut it out, along with the purple mat. The dsp is by Echo Park Winter Wishes and I cut a diagonal stitched panel from GinaK Blue Raspberry cardstock to match the scarf. The snowflakes were done with a MS punch, and I added some foiled silver and blue snowflake stickers to the centers. The MFT sentiment was heat-embossed with white on a snippet of more Blue Raspberry cardstock.

I'm sharing with the following challenges:

Little Red Wagon#430 - Bundle Up

Craftyhazelnut's CHNC #370 - always Christmas, optional - no sentiment

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge January 2018 - use patterned paper

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great Monday! We had temps near 60 over the weekend and yet again, more snow is coming this evening into tomorrow??? I guess we'll be bundling back up again :)

Carol

Beary Valentine

I dug into my stash and found this pre-colored, printed image, and I'm sorry I have no idea where I got it or who makes the cute image, but I decided it was high time to make it into a card. I used a piece of neutral patterned paper with a pretty scroll design at the top from the DCWV naturals stack that I've had for eons. I also found a small snippet of pink hearts dsp that seemed to match the colors on this image, so I die-cut all 3 panels with Lil Inker stitched rectangles and layered them up. I split a Valentine sentiment into 3 pieces, heat-embossing with white ep on black and fastened them to the side with mini dimensionals. I used a Copic to scribble on a snippet of white in matching pink, and die-cut some tiny hearts using a SNSS heart border die, then attached the mini hearts to the top of the dsp and one to the sentiment panel. I'm glad to use up some dsp for a change and I think this turned out cute :)

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - used patterned paper

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge for Jan. 2018 - use patterned paper

The Tuesday Throwdown #374 "Layer it up" - use layers

Thanks for checking in today and I wish you a fabulous day!

Carol