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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Peace On Earth

Good morning friends ~ I'm popping in with another card I made for WCMD for last weeks festivities over at A Cherry On Top. 

 

The challenge was to use faux stitching so I created the background using faux stitched dies, crossing them over in the center of a cream colored card stock.

 

I added greenery and pine cones from The Greetery and a chickadee from Honeybee Stamps.  You can see that I added some clear glitter to the pine cones to give them a frosted look.  They shine much better in real life.  The sentiment is pre-printed from Memory Box.

  

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

Krafty Chicks Challenge ~ Christmas

A Cut Above ~ October 

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Sunflower Card ~ World Card Making Day

Good morning friends ~ Did you participate in any of the festivities for World Card Making Day?  I played along over at A Cherry On Top and was able to add quite a few cards to my stash.  

The fall card challenge gave me the perfect opportunity to use up some of this design paper from Graphic 45.  It's been in my stash for much too long.

 

This fabulous sunflower die is also an oldie from Cheery Lynn Designs, and to this day is still one of my favorite sunflowers dies.  

 

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

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

A Cut Above ~ October Challenge 

Sunday Stamps ~ Autumn Whispers

 

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