Sweetest Christmas Card

Good morning friends ~  Today's card was made for the Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge.  I was so afraid I was going to miss the deadline, but phew!  I made it with three days to spare. 

 

This card is a little heavy on the stripes, but that was totally intentional as you'll see why when you see the inspiration tile Darlene and Diane gave for the challenge.

 

Stripey!  Right??

 

I stenciled a sweet candy cane background using stencils from Pretty Pink Posh.  The mug is from Ink N' Splatter.  I won this die last year from ACOT and hadn't even clipped apart the pieces yet.  It's a cute, chunky little mug!

 

It's a little busy to look at in my opinion, but it's kind of growing on me. The candy canes look brighter in real life.  Anyway, I'm happy to add a Christmas card to my stash.  
 

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

Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge

 

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes 

Stencil Fun ~ No Option 

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Stenciled Cosmos

Happy Monday to you!

 

About a month ago I was inspired by my sweet friend Marcia's post using these wonderful cosmos stencils from The Ton.  Like any good enabled friend would do, I went out and bought me some. 

 

The first card I made, I used the colors they suggested in the packaging.  I tried to keep the stenciling light.

 

For the second card, I used a rainbow of color, much like Marcia did. 

 

I used the Pierced Feature Frames from Papertrey Ink to make an eclipse card.

 

The verse is also from PTI.  I'm tickled with these new stencils and can't wait to ink them up in more color combinations.  

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

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Beautiful Blossoms ~ Anything Goes using photo option

 

Stencil Fun ~ No Option

 

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Sunflower Postage

Hi friends ~ I'm bringing you a little sunshine with this bright and cheerful sunflower postage card featuring Sunflower stencils from Waffle Flower.

 

I honestly can't get enough of all these fantastic WF stencils!  For it's first use, I stenciled both the rectangle and the circle images not knowing if I'd use them both on a single card, but as you can see I did.

  

I don't have the coordinating dies for this set, but I found that the Elizabeth Craft Designs postage stamp fit the rectangle image perfectly.  I also rummaged through the circle dies and found this Stitched Pinked Circles from Impression Obsession that fit pretty well.

 

I used the WF postage stamp stencils around the edges of an A2 card base, giving it the look of an air mail envelope and then stamped a couple of the postage stamp images from their postage stamp set.  
 

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

A Cut Above ~ Anything Goes September

Triple B Challenge ~ Yellow

 

I hope this is Clean and Simple enough for the CAS Mix Up Challenge ~ Sunflowers.  If not, I'm sure they'll let me know.

 

Time Out Challenge ~ Seasonal Colors Where You Live

 

 I chose these colors because we've had beautiful blue skies to set off the lovely yellow sunflowers growing in our garden right now. 

 

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Halloween Pup

Hello dearies ~  

 

What started out to be a Christmas card, turned into a Halloween card.  I had seen a Christmas card with this style of background on Pinterest and set out to make one for myself. 

 

 

Using Waffle Flower Postage Stamp stencil and die, I pulled out Crackling Campfire DOX ink but when I put ink to the kraft cardstock it was orange and not red. I had never used this color before and the color on the cover looked red to me.  It was a head slapping moment for me when I realized campfire isn't normally red.  Anyway, I proceeded to turn this into a Halloween card by stamping some postage and Halloween images into the sections of the stamps.  I also added some black ink splatters and set that aside to dry while I perused the Halloween dies.

 

Spellbinders Woof-or-Treat die won out.  I bought this little guy last year and never used it so this is his maiden voyage.

 

The sentiment and spider are both from Poppystamps.  You can see in the close up that I added some Onyx Black Liquid Pearls to their eyes.  Isn't that the life of a crafter, sometimes we just have to switch gears and let the process play out.  I like how the background has a vintage-y look to it.  I will try again to make a Christmas background.

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

Two Old Bats Halloween ~ Anything Goes

Cut It Up ~ Black and Orange

A Cut Above ~ September Anything Goes 

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Out of This World!

Good morning crafty friends ~ 

 

earlier this month my grandson turned 4!  He was right into watching some of the footage of Artemis II earlier this year, and has pretended to be an astronaut ever since.

 

I thought a fun outer space card would be perfect for him.

 

I made a pop-up card using Sue Wilson's Out Of This World dies from Creative Expressions and a pop-up die from Lot's of Pops from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

 

This was such a fun card to make for him, and he enjoyed seeing the fun pop-up when he opened it.

 

 We paired this card with a rocket ship that he could build using a little battery operated child's drill.  Super cute! 

 

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

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

AAA Cards ~ Starts With "M" ~ Moon, Martians 

A Cut Above ~ Anything Goes with a Die Cut 

Simon Says Monday Challenge ~ Transport It 

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Vintage Vignette Christmas Altered Art

Good morning friends ~  The Simon Says Wednesday Challenge is asking us to "Add Some Texture" to our project, featuring Tim Holtz products. 

 This is a super fun challenge for me as I enjoy making these little Christmas pieces using Tim Holtz product and found items in my craft closet.

 

 

These Christmas Vignette Boxes are long since retired but I still have a couple packages of them sitting in my stash, along with a pack of Christmas Paper Dolls waiting to be used.  So I started by creating the vignette using a Christmas tree on the inside of a box lined with Tim Holtz printed paper.  I die cut a small star and sprinkled on golden yellow glitter and mounted it to the top of the tree.

 

I used an old childs alphabet block, "B" for boy, and mounted the vignette box to the top using hot glue.  I then mounded on some texture paste and sprinkled it with some white Carrara Marble Course Glitter from Martha Stewart.  It does have a shiny look to it but my phone camera didn't pick up on the shine.

 

 

To finish it off, I added a tiny ornament which I covered with glue and sprinkled vintage silver microfine glitter to make it sparkle.  

 

I'll be adding this to the:

 Simons Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Add Some Texture 

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

  

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Sending You Prayers

Good morning friends ~ 

 As I was rummaging through my card file I came across this card that I made months ago and never posted.  I actually made it for a challenge but it closed before I had a chance to enter.  Do you do that?  I miss challenge deadlines all the time!

 

I started by making a scripty background using a Penny Black background stamp, and distressing around the edges of the background with the same color ink.

 

The beautiful Cosmos Bunch from Pinkfresh Studio was stamped and then stenciled using soft, muted colors.  I usually have a heavy hand when it comes to stenciling, so this took lots of self control.  

 

The "Sending You Prayers" is a stamp and die set from Simon Says Stamp.

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

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Simon Says Monday Challenge ~ Stamp It 

A Cut Above ~  September

 

The leaves have just started to fall here and temperatures are definitely fall like.   I've started cutting things back in the garden getting them ready for winter.  Seems like summer whisked by way to quickly.

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A Shaped Card ~Guest Designer for Cut It Up Challenge #364

Good morning friends~  A while back my card made the Top Cut at the Cut It Up Challenge, so I'm honored to have a guest spot designing for them in today's challenge to make a "Shaped Card".

 

I used Nested Keyplate Etched dies from Say It With Stamps to make the shaped card.  I thought the keyplate design was a little bit unique and the fact that it is a layered set, gave me lots of opportunity to use up some printed paper.  The brown inside frame was actually cut from the same pale yellow cardstock I used for the flowers, but I sponged over it with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  I triple layered the outside frame and the inner frame to give it some dimension.

 

The printed papers are from a set called Floral Whispers from Asuka Studio.  The water colored florals in this set are truly stunning.  I added a couple of flowers made using Layered Colorful Blooms from Spellbinders.  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink, and it is stamped on a banner from Elizabeth Craft Designs.  

 

A Layered Butterfly sticker from Spellbinders has landed herself on the bottom of this pretty card.  I think this card turned out quite nice!

 You can link up your own shaped card at the Cut It Up Challenge.  

Thanks so much to all the designers at Cut It Up Challenge for allowing me to take part in this design challenge with them. 

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

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Triple B Challenge ~ September 

Beautiful Blossoms ~ No Option 

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Time To Shell~ebrate

I'm using the last of the die cuts that my dear friend Marcia sent me.  Goodness, they were all so fun, but this crustacean is a hoot!

 

The Happy Lobster die from Waffle Flower was cut from white cardstock.  I colored him with a coral colored Copic marker and then rubbed on Candied Apple Distress Ink.

 

I added some seaweed from Elizabeth Craft Designs that was colored using DOX inks as well.  I placed this little fella on a piece of design paper from Stampin' Up, and gave the whole thing some white gel pen accents and a healthy dose of white ink splatter from Spellbinders.

 

I am so pleased at how cute this turned out.  He truly looks like a happy lobster would look!

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

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Anything Goes using Waffle Flower

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes 

A Cut Above ~ Anything Goes without the Option 

Krafty Chicks Challenge ~ Masculine 

 

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Buckle Up for 16

Hello friends ~ My great nephew recently turned 16 and is now driving.

 

 

I thought I would make him a birthday card celebrating these two milestones.

This truck die from Spellbinders fit the need perfectly.  I cut the truck out of shiny blue cardstock, though it's kind of hard to tell that it's shiny.

I hope he likes his new wheels.  ;0)

 

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

A Cut Above ~ no option 

Cut It Up ~ Moving Along 

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes 

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