A {Happy Retirement} Card...

Hello!  I was in the mood to color today, so that's how this card came to fruition.  I colored the house with a mix of regular markers and copic markers.  I colored the house and then picked out my patterned paper.  There was no planning ahead of time to make sure it all matched, luckily it did.  This is the first time I outlined my colored image with a light gray copic marker.  It's supposed to make it look like the image is popping off the page.  It really does work, it's just hard to see since the sun was shining right on my card.

I usually make cards and take photos in the morning.  But today it worked out to be the afternoon and that sun (that FINALLY made an appearance) was right over my card.  Totally not going to complain, just picture my card without those darn shadows.  

That ribbon has been in my stash for ages.  I finally used the last bit of it on this card.  I love this patterned paper.  I'm sure you can tell by all the cards I've used it on lately.  It's double sided, which I love.  

I hope the sun is out wherever you are today!  Enjoy your day!!!

PS. This is also another card that uses this week's CPS Sketch.

{Happy Retirement}

Stamps: Holiday Home (Stampendous), A Guy Thing (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, On the Catwalk Cream (CSS)

Patterned Paper: Gertie (My Mind's Eye)

Ink: Dish All the Dirt Brown (CSS)

Accessories: Circle Cutting Tool (Coluzzle), Edge Distresser, Oval Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Stamping Sponge, Ribbon (Michaels), Blossom Punch (EK Success), Rhinestone, Glue Dots

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Paper Maniac Thursday - Christmas Greetings!

Hello!  It's Paper Maniac Thursday and I have a happy little Christmas card to share with you.  The finished size of this card is a 4.25" square.  All of the papers and center die cut come from the Kaiser Craft paper pad called 'Tis the Season.  I used a Labels 9 Spellbinder Die to cut the red shape.  The sentiment I used is from a clear stamp set from Stampendous called Holiday Home. 

There are foam dimensionals between each layer and the sheer cream bow is attached with a glue dot.  The rhinestones were added as a finishing touch and to draw your eye to the sentiment. 
Have a great day!

{Christmas Greetings}

Stamps: Holiday Home (Stampendous)

Card Stock: Chocolate Chip (SU)

Patterned Paper: 'Tis the Season (Kaiser Craft)

Ink: Warm Red (Colorbox)

Accessories: Labels 9 Nesties (Spellbinders), Red Rhinestones (Kaiser Craft), Foam Dimensionals, Sheer Cream Ribbon (Offray), Glue Dots

 

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A {Christmas Greetings} Card...

Oh my, I feel so behind.  I have such a busy week and just didn't feel like doing anything yesterday.  Do you ever have those days?  I did get a lot done already today, so that's good.


My card for today uses this week's CPS Sketch.  Their sketches are always so clean and simple and that's why I gravitate to them every week.  I used some specialty paper on my card.  I hope you can see that in the photos.  The cream paper that is embossed with snowflakes is pearl-y and smooth.  

The sentiment panel is a thin strip of card stock that I slid into a circle punch to get the rounded edges.  Love that trick!


Have a great day!

{Christmas Greetings}

Stamps: Holiday Home (Stampendous)

Card Stock: Pure Poppy, Kraft (Papertrey Ink), Pearl MetallicCardstock

Ink: Vintage Cream (Papertrey Ink), Warm Red (Colorbox)

Accessories: Snowflake Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Circle Punch, Edge Distresser, Foam Dimensionals

 

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OCC Challenge - 3D Holiday Item

Hello!  I'm here to share a super fun Our Creative Corner challenge.  This week that challenge is to create a 3D holiday item.  It can be anything from a hostess gift to home décor.  Anything goes!  I decided to jazz up this canister of chocolate covered raisins that I bought from my daughter who is a girl scout.  I bought a few of these to give out around the holidays to the mailman, and such.  

The papers I used did come from a pack of holiday paper, even though they look pretty neutral.  The hardest part was coming up with colors that worked with the color of the canister lid.  I think it all worked pretty good in the end.  

You'll definitely want to see all the cool things the design team came up with.  Head over to Our Creative Corner and check them all out and get some ideas for yourself.  Have a great weekend!!!

{From Our Home To Your Home}

Stamps: Holiday Home (Stampendous)

Patterned Paper: 'Tis the Season (Kaiser Craft)

Ink: Dark Brown (Colorbox)

Accessories: Labels 9 & Oval Nesties (Spellbinders), Twill Tape (SU), Sheer Ribbon (Offray), Coluzzle

 

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A {From Our Home to Your Home} Card...

Hello!  I've had a bit of a crazy week.  I made this card yesterday for the Mojo Monday challenge, but didn't get around to posting it until right now.  My little guy has strep throat.  On top of that, I've been making exercise a priority.  I've been hitting the treadmill before I let myself have any craft time.  So that's why I'm so late.  I took Colin to the doctor, picked up his prescription, popped in a movie for the little guy and hopped on the treadmill.  Yada, yada, yada!

Enough about me, let's talk about my card!  This card uses some snowflake masking tape that I talked about in this post a few weeks ago.  I added some bling to the snowflake centers.  I don't know what is up with my bow.  I tied it so many times, and it still looks wonky.  You probably can't tell in the photo, but there is a skinny strip of brown card stock underneath the ribbon.  

I really love how the these two stamps look layered together.  The rhinestone on the tree ties in with the rhinestones on the snowflakes, making it all cohesive.  


Have a great day!

{From Our Home to Your Home}

Stamps: Holiday Home (Stampendous)

Card Stock: Kraft (Papertrey Ink), Chocolate Chip (SU) 

Ink: Chestnut Roan, Dark Brown (Colorbox)

Accessories: Snowflake Packaging Tape (Michaels), Foam Dimensionals, Rhinestones (Michaels), Gingham Ribbon, Button, Glue Dots, Twine

 

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A "Christmas Greetings" Card...

Hello friends!  I'm back with a card to share today.  I was having dizzy spells yesterday so creating in my studio was the last thing I wanted to be doing.  Now that I've made a card today, all the moving around has made me dizzy again.  It's a good thing I don't have to move around as I type this.

So, this morning I finally went through all of my SU Stampin' Spots and weeded out all the colors that are retired.  I went from 36 colors all the way down to 12!!!  But, I don't want to be using colors that are no longer available if you are wanting to reproduce any of my cards.  Which leads me to my next point.  I'm slowly buying all of the Colorbox Queue Cat's Eyes since they are similar to Stampin' Spots and I love the ink.  Anyway, they are about $9.99 (for a stack of 6 colors) at Michaels.  We don't live that close to a Michaels so I usually try to stop every time my kids have a dentist appointment to pick up something with my 40% off coupon.  So, I bought a new stack the other day and also happened upon something really really cool that I used on my card today.

That center strip is actually Printed Packaging Tape.  It is clear tape with red snowflakes printed on it.  You can see the glossy-ness of the tape in the photo below.  The wheels in my head were spinning thinking about all the possibilities for this tape.  Here is the best part-- it comes on a 32 yard roll (about 2" wide) for $1.  I was so tempted to buy every kind they had.  If you make a bunch of holiday cards (like I do) this would be a super inexpensive product to use.  You could probably make 75 cards and still have tape leftover.  I remember they had tape with garland on it as well and a few other choices that I can't think of right now.

Here's a view of the whole card at a different angle so you can see the dimension of the layers.

Can you tell I'm excited about my Michaels purchase?  I just love sharing new things with you.  Especially if they are affordable to everyone.

Have a great day!

{Christmas Greetings}

Stamps: Holiday Home (Stampendous)

Card Stock: SS White, Pure Poppy, Kraft (Papertrey Ink)

Ink: Lipstick Red (Colorbox)

Accessories: Labels 9 & Oval Nesties (Spellbinders), Printed Packaging Tape (Micheals), White Gel Pen (Sakura), Rhinestones (Michaels), Edge Distresser, Foam Dimensionals 

 

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A "There's No Place Like Home" Card...

I totally feel like Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz with this card.  The funny thing is that the sentiment stamp actually says "There's no place like home for the holidays", but I thought the just "there's no place like home" would go perfectly with these houses from the Life is Good collection from Echo Park.  All of the papers on my card come from that collection as well as the striped sticker that runs beneath each row of houses.  

The layout of this card comes from this week's CPS sketch.  I love this one!!!  I'm still out of kraft card stock.  I though I would be able to buy a pack at Archiver's on my trek over the weekend.  No such luck.  So, once again I used a creamy caramel card base with brown sponged edges to give the same look as kraft.

Have a great day!

{There's no place like home}

Stamps: Holiday Home (Stampendous)

Card Stock: Creamy Caramel (SU)

Patterned Paper: Life is Good (Echo Park)

Ink: Chestnut Roan (Colorbox)

Accessories: Heart Punch, Flower Punch, Pink Rhinestone (Michaels), Foam Dimensionals

 

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