Timeless Tuesday #248 ~ Score It! Pierce It! Color It!

It has been a little busy with the Thanksgiving Holiday and cooking for family, but so wonderful to have them here. Today, it was put away the fall decorations and bring out the Christmas. Got one tree up, and the mantel decorated with new things this year. Got some of the outside decorations up and will finish tomorrow, weather permitting. Should be good. Tomorrow the upstairs tree will go up. That's a big job!
So I had time to make a card, as it is relaxing for me to do. This one is for the Timeless Tuesday challenge at Flourishes. I used the stamp set that I won recently. They are so generous at Flourishes that I have won the October and November releases. I chose to work with Grab a cup. I think that I have enough Christmas cards, so I am back to friendship cards.

I stamped the coffee beans and the word coffee on to the background paper from Paper Stash by Tim Holtz. The cup of cappuccino was fussy cut and colored with my Copic markers and the I added crystal effects to make it shine. I used pop dots on the cup and the spellbinder die that it is on, before mounting to the base. The sentiment was stamped in Dark Chocolate and the edges were torn and then sponged, but before mounting, I added some brads on each side. Then, if you look closely, you can see that I pierced the steam that is coming out of the cup and added a little heart to each one.
So, I scored the background, pierced the steam, and colored the cup!

What fun these stamp sets are to work with.

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Lawnscaping Challenge # 70! Just Us Girls #216 - Photo Inspiration, Great Impressions November

Just one more Christmas card that's all! Well, maybe there will be time for more this week, but it is a busy week. Besides, my grandkids are off of school this week, and I want to spend some time with them.
So this is the card I just made this morning. I used images from GKD stamp set called Wishing You Joy. I colored them with Copics and used pop dots to adhere them to the card.

This card will be entered into three challenges with week.
http://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.com/
http://greatimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com/2013/11/november-challenge-and-more.html
http://lawnscaping.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/lawnscaping-challenge-70.html

Thanks for looking and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Timeless Tuesday #247 ~ Winter Scenes

Here is the winter scene that I created by sponging the winter sky over the moon and using the Handmade Snowflake stamp set. I also added a die cut from Memory Box. Lots of glitter embossing here on the snow flakes and the sentiment. Just a quick post today.

I am entering this card in Flourishes #247 challenge. Create a winter scene.

Just Us Girls #215 Colour Challenge

Trying something new for me. I made a tag. Not just any tag, this one is HUGE. I had a stamp that I wanted to use and it was rather big, but that did not stop me. I just used my Cameo to cut this 6 X 4 1/2 tag of Dark Chocolate CS. The stamp is Tim Holtz, Christmas Blueprint. Love'n it! So I thought I should make it vintage. I stamped it on Kraft CS with Dark Brown ink and sponged the whole thing with distressed Vintage Photo ink. I cut out branches of the tree and "pop" each one out with dimensionals to make layers. Each little ornament is also done like that. I added glossy accents and some clear rock candy on the star, and tree, and the ornaments. Now, I bet you are wondering about the red layer! Those are pearlized Mica chips that are adhered with clear embossing powder. Then I added the red ribbon.

I am entering this tag in the JUGS #215 challenge (Red, Kraft and Dark Brown)
The picture does not show thee colors very well, sorry!


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Since this tag is HUGE, it will need to go on a HUGE gift. Maybe Santa will bring me one?

Up, Up and Away Birthday Card

My son is very lucky to have a December birthday. In fact, it is December 28, between Christmas and New Years. You could ask him how lucky that is for him, NOT! He would tell you that everything comes at once and then.... nothing the rest of the year. What can I say! It was not my plan, he came a month early. But, I try to make the day special for him as much as I can. He is married now to a wonderful wife that takes care of that for me. So I make him a special card each year. This is the one for this year. I really need to get some more manily stamps as he loves to hunt and does so every weekend. Just him and his dog, Muddy Paws Boss Hoss, an English Black Lab.

This card will be entered in several challenges this week.

http://thedynamicduoschallenge.blogspot.com/ Black and Silver

http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/ Anything goes, and if you want, the toppings is texture.

http://seizethesketch.blogspot.com/ Seize the sketch #8 Sweet and Sassy

The card is stamped with a Gina K Design stamp set, called Up and Away. On a base of black I layered a panel of silver CS with rounded orders. On that layer, I used a stencil from Simon Says, and put Distressed Stickles, clear rock candy. It looks like the wind. The sentiment is a clear stamp. so I was able to curve it and stamp it in Black embossing powder. The balloon is colored with Copics and glossy accents were added. I added a bakers twine bow that is also blowing in the wind with the help of a little glue. I also dry embossed the black layer with Tim Holtz Gears folder for a more manly, textured look.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week.

Timeless Tueday #246 - Pick a sketch!

I'm trying to get lots done before I leave the comfort of my craft room this week. Going for a long weekend with the Kids, as we will not see them this Holiday season. This post is all about the Timeless Tuesday challenge at Flourishes. We are to pick a sketch. I am getting more comfortable with these sketch challenges.



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For this card I choose to stay away from the a Christmas theme and do something different. We have been to Florence and I have wonderful memories of a day in Tuscany at a vineyard. We had a tour and dinner and lots of wine. It was so memorable, I will never forget it. So here is my interpretation.
On a base of soft sand CS from GKD, I layered some DP from Festival of Prints by Stampin Up, onto ivory CS. I used my new Majestic Elements Spellbinders die to cut out the image. I actually cut out two of them, one in soft sand and one in ivory. Then I trimmed the ivory down a little. It is stamped with Dreaming of Florence by Flourish, and colored with copics. Next, to complete the sketch, I used lace and ribbon with a small buckle. This was just a nice little trip down memory lane for me. Ciao Bella!

As always, I love to see how many comments I can acquire, as you know, I love and appreciate them. Thanks for stopping by.

I took an online card class yesterday and learned some new things. This is the card that I slaved over. I used my cameo and cut the reindeer three times before I got ones I could use. This is just a quick post today. I will enter this to the gallery on the On Line Class.

Just Us Girls #214 Technique Challenge

I got to use my new single word stamp from Simon Says, on this challenge. As the technique is simple,we were to use words as a background. so I arranged the words from Holiday Hellos stamp set, and then I stamped them onto kraft CS. I sponged it with tea dye and vintage photo distressed inks, and I also sponged the dotted swiss paper that I used on the left. The little guy is a digi, that was free. He is colored with some of the watercolor crayons that I have had, and never used until now. He is sitting on a embossed brick wall. Lastly, I made my own embellishment with a stamped star and then added bakers twine and a rhinestone. The evergreens are a snowflake punch that I separated and pasted on individually. Of course, I added glitter. That little guy looks mischievous. I wonder what he is thinking?

I am entering this card in the JUGS #214 challenge this week.



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Once again, Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a crafty and great week.

Grab a Cup – November Release Challenge

http://flourishes.org/2013/11/grab-a-cup-november-release-challenge/

The weather here has been rather chilly. Mornings are upper 20's and only get to the 50's during the day. So when Flourishes posted the next challenge, Grab a Cup. I thought, this is going to be a "piece of cake." Yeah well, I got nothing! But that is what a challenge is all about, so I couldn't stop thinking about a way I could make a card from this sketch and use the Flourishes stamps that I have. Of course, I wanted it to count twice. So I decided to start with the sentiment. As a good cup of coffee is always better with a friend. The perfect sentiment that I used is from Winter Berries. Then I used embellishments from That's a Wrap stamp set. I gave it some texture with a piece of cardboard and a lot of fussy cutting. I also made an envelope to go with this card.
There it is.

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Timeless Tuesday #245: Negative Energy

Negative energy is the challenge here this Tuesday at Flourishes. I am feeling a little negative after the Packer loss last night. Sure hope Aaron Rogers gets better. What they mean here about negative energy is to use the negative of a die. Well, that I can do! I made the rounds of our craft stores last Friday and got a sale item that I wanted to try out. It is called Pearlized Mica Fragments. They are shimmery little pieces that will stick to CS when used with embossing powder.
That is how I used them.

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I started with a base of Moonlit Fog, then a layer of black, another layer of moonlit fog that had a scalloped oval cut out. ( negative die cut) Behind that there is red CS that has gold embossing powder with the Mica chips heated on it. A very festive look. Then I stamped the Winter Berries onto white CS and colored it with Copics. Next, I fussy cut it out. Yes I did! I was listening to country music and before you know it, it was all cut out. That image was draped across the card and I gold embossed the sentiment on the bottom.

I am entering this card in the Timeless Tuesday Challenge #245 at Flourishes.

Hope you enjoy looking, and hope that you join in the fun. Seriously!

Just Us Girls #213

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The challenge this week is a sketch! It was fun to put this one together and used a ribbon that I recently purchased.

The background of this card is three strips of ribbon and two of red CS adhered to navy CS on a base of white. All from Gina K designs. The focal is an image from Flourishes called Star of Bethlehem. The white panel is dry embossed and then covered with a thin coat of sparkle Mod Podge, as well as the two smaller circles. The image is colored with Copics. This makes a different looking Christmas card. What do you think?