Snowy Snowmen!

We were supposed to get our first snow today, but the sun is shining and once again, the weather forecast was incorrect.  I don't mind, but I have been playing with snow in my craft room!

 

*Snowmen* that is!  Once again putting these darling postage stamps to work.  I just can't help myself!  The postage theme seems to slip into my creative process in the tiniest of ways lately.  I ink blended the background and stamped a vintage postcard image as well as some script, distressing the panel once again all around the edges to give it a vintage look.  

 

Pulling out this old snowman die from Impression Obsession.  He didn't have a winter hat to keep him warm so I improvised with another hat die that had to be altered to fit his big head. He's all frosted up with some Tim Holtz chunky Rock Candy.

 

The greens and poinsettia are from various die sets found in my stash from Spellbinders.

 

I have a "twofer" for you today, featuring this darling snowman from Tim Holtz.  This is actually a box that I made to fit some homemade Christmas tags to give to a friend.  It's a CASE from the incredibly talented Emma Williams from That's Life.  I adore her work!

 

I created the box using wood grain cardstock, running Lost Shadow Distress Ink along the box itself and Speckled Egg Distress Ink on the top panel, running the wood grain in the opposite direction.  To that, I used texture paste through a snowy stencil to create raised snowflakes.  Once it was dry, I brushed on some golden stickles.

 

The snowflake is included in the same set as the snowman while the "wish" sentiment is from another Tim Holtz set.  The "wish" is cut from gold mirror card stock, which I pounced black soot paint over the top until almost dry.  Then I rubbed the rest of the paint off and went over it again with Walnut Stain Distress Ink and let it dry to a nice tarnished finish.  

 

More of that beautiful Rock Candy Glitter spread selectively over the whole scene to complete the box.  The taped corners are intentional.  I distressed some washi tape to make it look like old masking tape.

 I'll be adding one of these cards to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

A Cut Above ~ November

Krafty Chicks Challenge ~ Christmas

 

Cut It Up ~ I've Got The Blues

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Vintage Candy Cane Postage

Hello friends ~ A while back, way back in September, I posted a card that was originally intended to be a Christmas card.  You may recall it here.  I had used Crackling Campfire to add ink to the center of the Waffle Flower Postage Stamp die and it looked more orange than red.  I promised then, to share the Christmas card I finally made on my second attempt and then promptly forgot to share it.  

 

As I was looking through the challenges, I realized this fits perfectly for the Color Hues challenge, so I'm entering card #3 into their challenge.  

 

I inked the background with Fired Brick Distress Ink on Kraft card stock and stamped text randomly over the top using the same color ink.  Then I proceeded to stamp some Christmas images and snowflakes in black while the stencils were still on the die cut, leaving me with nice crisp edges on each postage stamp.

 

The candy cane dies are from Dee's Distinctively, and the holly leaves are from Elizabeth Craft Designs.  Both die sets are a throwback to my days with Dies R Us, and I'm sure are well retired by now.

 

I'll be entering this card into the following challenges:

Color Hues ~ Red & Green

 

The Card Concept ~ Red, Green, Brown & White

 

Krafty Chicks Challenge ~ Christmas

 

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Christmas Cosmos

Good morning friends ~ 

 

Now that I'm in full on Christmas card making mode, I pulled out the Cosmos stencils from The Ton and made a card using the colors from Color Hues, Red & Green.  I cut the stenciled panel out using the largest postage stamp die in my collection.

 

I'm hoping the folks at Color Hues consider gold a neutral color, as I've added gold bells and a shadowed sentiment, both from the Christmas Joy die set from Scrapbook.com

 

I'm not sure if you can see the sugared petals, where I added some of Tim Holt's Rock Candy glitter to make them glisten.
 

I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:

Color Hues ~ Red & Green

 

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

 

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Kitchy Christmas Reindeer

Hello friends ~

 

Today's card features this darling Lovely Layers Vintage Reindeer from Honeybee Stamps.  I can't think of a cuter die set to use this time of year.

 

After layering this cutie together, I mounted her onto a pine embossed background.  To add color and dimension, I rubbed Pine Needles Distress Ink over the embossed surface and backed it with a postage stamp die.

 

The Christmas words embossed background add even more texture and a bit of retro color using mint green.  

I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

A Cut Above ~ November

Peace On Earth Christmas ~ inspired by the little deer

 

Double D Challenges ~ Textures 

 

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Bright Blooms for a Special Day

Hello friends ~  

 

 It doesn't happen very often, that I have the right card at the right time.  But that is the case with this card here and the Color Hues Challenge.

 

I made this card earlier this summer and never got around to posting it.  I think I made it for another challenge, but the challenge closed before I got around to posting it.  I do that often.  

 

Anywho, the stencils are Poppy Posy stencils from LDRS Creative.  I stenciled them and cut them out using the coordinating die and popped it over a die cut arch, stamped with script. 

 

The card base is cut from the largest arch die, covered with design paper.  The sentiment is a stamp from Altenew.

 

I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:

Color Hues ~ Red & Green

 

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Stencil Fun ~ November 

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Rustic Christmas Tree Card #2

Following up on my last post found here, I have another rustic Christmas card to share with you today!

 

Since I still had Tim Holtz’s Winter Woodlands stamps and the Honeybee Stamps Lovely Layers: Trees on my desk, I put together another quick card! I even managed to finish off the very last scrap of paper from a 6x6 pad. There is seriously no better feeling than completely using up an entire paper pack!

 

To give the Honeybee Stamps Christmas tree a glistening finish, I pounced white ink over it and added a sprinkle of Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter.".

 

Nothing fancy, just using up some scraps and feeling good about adding another Christmas card to the box for this season.

 I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

A Cut Above ~ November 

 

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Christmas Tree Tickets

The Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is looking for trees, and I have just the ticket!

 

 

I started by cutting the Terrific Tickets die from Whimsy Stamps out of Kraft cardstock and stenciling in the red color while it was still in the die, leaving me with a nice clean border around each ticket. 

 

If you look carefully, you'll see some tone on tone stamping in the background.  I used an old script stamp from my stash. Once that was done, I stamped images from Terrific Ticket Christmas stamps, also from Whimsy Stamps, as well as some images from Tim Holtz Winter Woodlands stamp set.  I heat embossed the sentiment at the top to highlight it.

 

These beautiful trees are cut from Honeybee Stamps Lovely Layers: Trees.  Once I glued them on, I splattered on some white paint for a snowy effect.

 

In keeping with the "North Lumber" theme, I mounted this all onto a panel of woodgrain Kraft cardstock, which was darkened up along the edges using Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  I think this card has a natural, organic look to it which I'm super pleased with.

 I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:

Simon Says Monday ~ Trees

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

A Cut Above ~ October

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Be Still....

Hello friends ~  

Today's card is holding on to the final days of summer. 

I made this card earlier this summer and never got around to posting it.  The stencil challenge at Just Us Girls reminded me to post it and add it to their challenge.

 

The Flower Bunch stencils are from Altenew which I colored using Distress Oxide Inks, and the panel is cut using Rounded and Braided Rectangles from Pink Fresh Studio.  I placed the stenciled panel over a layer of gold mirror cardstock.

I added a bit of Wink of Stella to the center of both flowers and stamped the verse from Psalm 46:10 on the lower left corner.  I don't know the maker of the stamp.  It's an oldie that I no longer have the packaging for.

 

To finish it off, I added a pretty vellum butterfly sticker from Spellbinders.

 I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Just Us Girls ~ Stencil Week

 

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Pumpkin Chai Latte

Hello friends ~ 

It's cold and rainy here today so I've made you a pumpkin chai latte to enjoy.

 

I was mainly playing around with the new to me, Holiday Citrus Layering Stencil from The Ton.  

 

Even though the Holiday Citrus stencil is meant fro Christmas, I decided to repurpose it for a fall card instead.

 

I popped it onto this large coffee mug from Marianne Designs and added a sprinkle of cinnamon to the whipped cream using silk microfine glitter from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

 I'll be entering this card into the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

The Sisterhood of Crafters ~ Fall Challenge

 

Time Out Challenges ~ inspired by the coffee mugs and warm colors

 

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