Merry little Christmas

I've been to busy to try something new but this is a different image and layout with that great paper I used a couple of posts ago. I can't decide which one I like better. I've got another one too which I will try to post later this week.Thanks for looking!

Penny Black Challenge #25 Card- No Patterned Paper

Find Penny Black Challenge#25 Here.

This weeks Penny Black Challenge was to make a card with no Patterned Paper. Quite the challenge with so much cute Christmas and winter paper out there.Here's the card I came up with.

The Background paper is Glossy Card stock I ran through the Cuddle Bug with the Snowflake embossing folder. It's coloured with SU Bayou Blue Ink first by sponging and the by rubbing the ink pad across the the entire piece which really brought out the snowflakes. I then sponged a narrow strip of glossy card stock with Bayou Blue ink and stamped Penny Black sentiment stamp along the edges and layered it onto a piece of Bayou Blue card stock and attached to the card front.

The Mouse is is stamped on a seperate piece of cardstock, watercolored, cut out and mounted with pop dots. The snowflakes are punched with a Martha Stewart craft punch. I added the dots with a teal pen and a dab of stickles in the center each except the one the mouse is holding which I thought needed a little extra something. So I added glitter to the whole snowflake and a gem to the center. Thanks for looking.

Awww, Winter!

Just a quick post for Carol and the rest of the gang before we leave for our Crazy Croppers retreat on Friday!This is another card made from the same sheet of paper as the Cozy carolers card below. I think I will end up getting about 4 or 5 cards per sheet. Its such a nice paper for creating winter scene cards. Well have lots of packing and organizing to do. Its going to be so fun!

Cozy Caroling

I've seen a lot of acetate cards lately but unfortunately the acetate that I have is to thin to stand on its own. So I decided to attach it to the card as an overlay.

The background paper is from Best Creation Inc. and comes with the sparkles already on the paper. I stamped the Penny Black image on card stock water coloured it and popped it up with foam dots. The sentiment is stamped directly onto the background paper. I didn't have white Staz On to stamp the white snowflakes onto the acetate so I used white pigment ink and embossed it with white embossing powder (careful not to melt the acetate). I punched holes through the card front and acetate and attached it altogether with ribbon.

You can't really tell from the picture but because the mice were popped up and the snowflakes are on the acetate layer the card has a real depth to it.

Thanks for looking! Have a great Sunday!

Just a quick post to show you what I worked on this weekend. I used sketch #25 from Friday Sketchers . I used some new paper I purchased at Scrapbook Swede Its by Kaiserscrapbook. Its really out of my usual color range but I'm happy with the result. Sometimes its good to step out of your comfort zone.

I used a Penny Black image and added bling for the lights. The JOY stamp was a dollar store find and the sentiment is a Penny Black clear stamp. Thanks for looking!

Also would like to thank everyone who left comments, I've enjoyed looking at all of your blogs!

Celebrate!

I adapted a sketch from the Sketch Saturday site you can find it here. It was done as a square card but I changed it to fit a 4.25 in. by 5.5 in. card. I used Daisy bucket paper, Penny Black stamp from the Bubbly clear set, SU Celebrate stamp, Prima Flower, Happy Birthday stamp is from Penny Black Critter Party Clear set, and I used clear plastic beads for the Bubbles.

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween! Thanks for looking!

Believe in The Magic of Christmas

I've been playing around with this card for a week and finally managed to get it put together.

The paper is Minds Eye, main image is Penny Black, Believe stamp is a Snag 'Em stamp from Imaginince.

I popped up the scarf and little bird and added popped up punched snowflakes and added bling to the mistletoe twig and snowflake centers.

You know me and glitter, just had to add some to the snowflakes, scarf, and the ground around the hedgies feet.

Thanks for looking!

PATCHWORK THANK-YOU

Found a neat card on Splitcoast Stampers that used a quilted effect for the background and thought that I would give it a try.

Mine is not nearly as detailed it was more about trying something new. The original can be found here. Snap_ scrap_stamp's gallery has a lot of neat cards, click the link to check it out!

I used Daisy Bucket paper, Penny Black stamp, Prima Flowers, and SU Old Olive cardstock.

Thanks for looking, have a great Friday!

Winter Bliss

I can almost feel the cold flakes of snow hitting my face when I look at this scene.

This was done on a piece of glossy white card stock.

- (1) lightly sponge on SU Sahara Sand onto the top half of the glossy CS.

-(2) Stamp the background trees using SU Sahara Sand so the bases of the trees are on the line where the sky meets the snow.

-(3)Stamp the the trees in the forground and the tiny snowflakes using white pigment ink and heat emboss with white embossing powder.

-(4)Create pond using a sponge to smudge on an oval shape.

-(5)To add shimmer to card go over white trees, snowflakes, grasses, edges of pond, and skate trails with quickie glue pen and a dazzling diamonds or glitter of choice.

-(6)Punch corners of glossy white with ticket corner punch.Mount on black paper. Put Brads through corners and attach to white card base.

-(7)Stamp image and sentiment on white. Color hedgie, cutout, and attach on pond using pop dots. Mount sentiment on black paper and attach to card.

-(8) Hand punch small snowflakes add glitter and attach them to the card with pop dots.

Stamps used: -Tree from Stampin' Up Lovely as a tree set

- Skating Hedgie and sentiment from Penny Black

Thanks for looking hope you give it a try!

A bouquet of Thanks!

Sorry for no posts lately I've been feeling under the weather for the last couple of days.

Here's a little thank-you card we did at Carol's crop night the week before last.

-Paper is from Basic Grey

- Prima flowers

-Penny Black Stamp

Thanks for looking!