Sweetest Christmas

 Supplies:

Stamps:  Stampin' Up Jar of Joy, Hero Arts Cookies Set, Hero Arts Year Round Messages

Paper:  Gina K White, Stampin' Up Real Red and Pecan Pie, Doodlebug 6x6 Home for the Holidays

Ink:  VersaMark, Stampin' Up Real Red

Accessories: Hero Arts Cookies Set Die, Celebrate It Ribbon (Michaels), Spellbinders circle and fancy circle, Stampin' Up: Stylish Shapes Dies, Dimensionals, Peppermints, Brutus Monroe Alabaster White Embossing Powder

Hello Stampers!!  I'm here to share a card I made for the Featured Stamper Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers!  Here is my inspiration card:  

For my card I started with the gingerbread man.  I heat embossed him, die cut it, and added some peppermints for his buttons.  Then I went through a bunch of dies, to find a fancy circle to go behind the gingerbread man.  I found one in my Spellbinders dies, I'm not sure what the name of the set is.  It is an oldie but goodie.  I popped up my gingerbread man on this circle.  Then I went through my Christmas papers to find a coordinating piece, and found this fun peppermint paper.  I decided to have the patterned paper go down the middle of the card front, and I matted it with some white cardstock.  For the sentiment I stamped it in real red ink, and die cut it with the Stylish Shapes die.  At this point I started to adhere my elements to the red cardstock layer.  I popped up the gingerbread, and before I popped up the sentiment I added some ribbon behind it.  Once everything was adhered I adhered the red layer to the card front.  For the inside I again die cut the fancy circle, but this time in red.  I stamped the sentiment and die cut it out with a circle die cut.  I put a strip of the patterned paper behind this also to complete this card.

That's all for now!!  Thanks for stopping by!!

Terri

Poinsettia Christmas

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin' Up Poinsettia Petals

Paper: Gina K White, Simon Says Stamp Matte Gold Cardstock, Stampin' Up Real Red and Not Quite Navy

Ink: Distress Inks: Barn Door, Lumberjack Plaid, Stormy Sky Speckled Egg, VersaMark

Accessories: Hero Arts: Poinsettia Pattern Stencils, Honey Bee Winter Bouquets Honey Cuts, Park Lane Gold Gems, Birch Press Design: Merry Christmas Sugar Script and Outline, Simon Says Stamp: Ultra Fine Gold Embossing Powder, Pickett Fences Blending Brushes, dimensionals

Hello Stampers!  It is Featured Stamper Sunday!  Here is my inspiration:

I chose the card on the left as my inspiration.  I really liked how she used blues instead of greens on her poinsettia, with the accents of gold.  For my card I blended the image using the layered stencils.  Then I die cut the Merry Christmas in gold and outlined it in white, and popped it up onto the focal panel.  Then I added some gold gems.  I adhered this to the real red card front, and then worked on the inside.  I decided to die cut a poinsettia, and heat embossed the sentiment in gold to go with the front.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Terri

Birthday Wishes Tulips

 

Supplies:

Stamps: SU Peaceful Moments

Paper: Gina K white, SU Delightful Daisy DSP

Ink: Distress Ink: Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Scattered Straw, Mustard Seed

Accessories: SU Labels Aglow Dies, May Arts Twine, Spellbinders It’s Your Day Better Press, Hero Arts Color Layering Tulip Bouquet Stencil, Picket Fence Blending Brushes, Honey Bee gems

Hello Stampers!  Well I am having technical difficulties.  When I went to post a card using my computer Blogger says that it is unable to load my data, and I can’t upload new content…. Ugh!  So I tried it on my iPad and so far so good.  Has this happened to anyone?  Does anyone know how to trouble shoot this?  Any help is appreciated.  

Anywho!  I was able to make a card today using the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches.  

I started with the focal image by stenciling the tulips.  Then I found some patterned paper that coordinated with the tulips.  I added some twine to the focal image, and popped this up with dimensionals.  For the sentiment I had some greetings that I had Better Pressed, and popped this up as well.  For the inside I stamped and die cut the sentiment and add some DSP behind it.

That’s all for now.  I’m running updates on my computer hoping this may help Blogger…

Thanks for stopping by!

Terri

Tulip Mother's Day

 Supplies:

Stamps: SU Daffodil Dream

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black and Distress Ink: Scattered Straw, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, and Forest Moss

Paper: Gina K white

Accessories: Honey Bee Stamps: Clear Gem Stickers, My Favorite Things: Blueprints 27 dies, Hero Arts Color Layoring Tulip Bouquet Stencel, Picket Fence blender brushes, and May Arts twine

Hello Stampers!  I'm here to share a card I made for the Free 4 All challenge: Mother's Day Cards over at Splitcoaststampers.  I picked up this tulip stencil yesterday at JoAnns.  Aren't the tulips pretty!!  After I stenciled the tulips, I die cut it using the My Favorite Things Blueprint 27.  Then I went on a quest to find a Mother's Day sentiment stamp.  I found one in the SU Daffodil Dream stamp set, and used my stamp a ma jig to stamp the sentiment.  I didn't finish the inside of this one yet.  When I do I will update this post.

That's all for now!  Hope to share a couple more cards over the weekend.

Terri

Christmas Tree Wishes

 Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts Wishing You Tree Bundle

Paper: SU Tidings of Christmas, Evening Evergreen, and GKD white

Ink: VersaMark and SU Evening Evergreen

Accessories: Brutus Monroe Alabaster White embossing powder, Gina K Master Layouts 3, star brad, Silver gel pen, Waffle Flower A2 layering dies

Hello Stampers!  I am sharing my card for the Featured Stamper Challenge on Splitcoaststampers.  The Featured Stamper is Raye Lynn and this is the card I chose to CASE.

The hardest part of making this card was choosing the patterned paper.  My tree image has bold lines and it was hard to find a pattern that coordinated with that.  So I went with lines and I think it compliments the tree.  Also in the picture it looks like my card is black, it is actually a dark evergreen color.  

For my card I started by stamping and die cutting the tree out.  Then I die cut the patterned paper, and adhered these two layers together.  Then I added the star brad and colored in some accents on the tree with a silver gel pen.  And then I adhered this to the card base.  For the sentiment I heat embossed it, die cut it with a die from Gina K's master layouts three, and adhered it to the card.  For the inside I just stamped the ornaments and sentiment using my Misti.

Another quick and easy one.  Thanks for stopping by!

Terri

Oh Christmas Tree

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts Wishing You Tree Bundle

Ink: VersaMark, Distress Ink: Rustic Wilderness, Mowed Lawn, and Bundled Sage

Paper: Gina K white, Simon Says Stamp Matte Silver Cardstock

Accessories: Stampin' Up Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies, Spellbinders Hemstitch Rectangles, Honey Bee Clear Gem Stickers, Pickett Fence Blending Brushes, Gina K Master Layouts 3, Star Brad, Dimensionals, Ranger Silver Embossing Powder, Brutus Monroe Alabaster White, Waffle Flowers A2 Layering Dies

Hello Stampers!!  I made this card for two challenges, both from Splitcoaststampers.  The first is the Free 4 All Challenge: use a Christmas Tree, and the next Featured Stamper Challenge. Here is the card I CASED for the Featured Stamper Challenge:

I chose this card because I really liked the blended colors of the Christmas tree, and all of the sparkle!!  For my tree I started by ink blending a background for my tree.  Then I stamped, heat embossed, and die cut the tree.  I added gems to add some sparkle, and I added a star brad at the top.  For the sentiment I stamped, heat embossed, die cut it, and adhered it to the tree with dimensionals.  Then I die cut the layers.   The first was a hemstitch rectangle die, then Waffle Flowers A2 layering dies.  I adhered the tree to the focal panel, and adhered the remaining layers together.  For the inside I heat embossed the sentiment and die cut some rectangles to mat it.

That's all for now, thanks for stopping by!!

Terri

Christmas Tree

Supplies: Stamps: Hero Arts Wishing You Tree  Ink: VersaMark  Paper: Gina K Kraft, and Layering Weight White, and Stampin' Up Riding Hood Red   Accessories: Spellbinders Hemstitch Rectangles, Waffle Flowers Additional A2 Dies, Recollections Pearl Stickers, Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder

Hello Stampers!  It is Featured Stamper Sunday!  The Featured Stamper on Splitcoaststampers is Sarah.  Here is the card I chose as inspiration for my card:

To make my card I started with a Kraft card base.  Then I worked on the focal panel.  I did this three times before I got it!  I die cut the hem stitch die, then die cut around it with the plain rectangle die.  Next I heat embossed the tree in liquid platinum embossing powder.  I love the color of this embossing powder, it looks silvery and gold at the same time.  So pretty!  Then I added some teeny tiny pearls to the tree.  To finish the card I matted the focal panel on white so you can see the hem stitching, and then adhered this to my card base.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Terri

 

It's Your Birthday!

Supplies: Stamps:  Hero Arts: CardArt Happy Wishes, Gina K Spring Mix  Ink: Versa Fine onyx black, Distress Inks: spun sugar, tumbled glass, shaded lilac  Paper: Gina K heavy base weight white  Accessories: Gina K Large Rectangle Die Set, Tim Holtz butterfly punch, gem, masking paper

Hello Stampers!  I found a couple new CAS challenges to participate in.  The first one is called CAS on Friday.  The challenge on there website is: Use Your Favorite Flower.  This stamp is on oldie but goodie.  I love that you can use it with different techniques.  Gina K had a live Stamp and Chat on blending a background and then stamping an image on top of it, and that is where I got the inspiration for this card.  The second CAS challenge is Addicted to CAS.  The challenge on their website is: Silhouette.  And the third CAS challenge is Perfectly CAS, and their challenge is masking.

This was kinda tricky to figure out how to get the blending in the middle of my embossed frame, without getting any ink on the stitched part of the frame.  So this is what I ended up doing after a couple of glitches along the way.  I cut a piece of masking paper the size of a card front.  Then I placed the die cut in the center of the masking paper and traced the inside of the die cut with a pencil.  Then I cut out the inner rectangle keeping the rectangle in tact.  I placed the rectangle on the center of my card front to make sure it was centered.  Then I took the other piece of masking paper and framed it around the rectangle already in place, and removed the center rectangle.  Then I blended the background of the flowers.  I removed the masking paper, and stamped my flowers using a stamp a ma jig.  Now it was time to emboss the blended background.  I carefully lined up the die cut so there was even spacing around the blended background and taped it in place with purple tape.  I held my breath and hoped for the best!! LOL!  Then I stamped my sentiment and added a butterfly with a gem to complete the card.  I'm happy with how it turned out.  That's all for now!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Terri

Scalloped Hexagons, Oh My!

Supplies: Stamps: Hero Arts  Paper: Papercut Whip Cream, blue cardstock from Hobby Lobby, Basic Grey patterned paper pack 6x6 Hey Girl  Accessories: Silhouette Cameo hexagon cut file, ribbon

 

Hello Stampers!  School is out for summer, and I have a ton of stuff to catch up on.  But I hope to get some stamping time in, in between projects.  Today I snuck in some time.  I was shopping yesterday and saw a neat die cut that cut out hexagons individually and connected.  It was really neat, I thought I could make that on my Silhouette!  So I purchased Scallop Hexagon Nested Shapes, from the Silhouette online store and got to work.  I scaled it down, connected, and welded, and presto I had the concept of the die I saw yesterday with the bonus scalloped hexagon for 99 cents!  I cut out my pieces and threw together a quick card.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Terri

Exploring New Colors

Supplies: Stamps: Hero Arts Today and Always Cling Stamp Ink: Memento Dandelion and London Fog markers Paper: House of 3: Trellis, Bazzill Flintstone and Coconut Swirl, yellow was from scraps Accessories: SU scallop edge punch, pewter pearl gems, Janome sewing machine, Offray pewter ribbon, slot punch, Rectangle Nestabilities

I just love sketch challenges. I don't have a lot of time to stamp, and sketches give me that first stepping stone to get my card started. I am able to find stamps, embellishments, etc. that will work for the sketch and off I go! This is SC323.

So I went a little bit out of my comfort zone for color on this one, but I saw the paper at Archiver's and thought I would give it a try! I really like this color combo! Thankfully the paper was double sided, and that worked out great for this challenge! I also broke out the sewing machine!! I needed to do something to jazz up the seams of this card, and I even had some grey thread! It was meant to be! I did some practice runs, and went for it! I love the look of sewing on a card! If I was able to keep my machine out, and remember how to wind bobbins, and all of the other steps to get ready to use the machine, I would probably use it more often! :) I also wanted to try something different to embellish the focal sentiment. I have been seeing the double layer border punched edges on cards, so I thought that would be fun to try. Glad I did! Sometimes it is hard to step out of my comfort zone, but it is fun to try new things too! Thanks for stopping by!

Featured Stamper 190

The featured stamper was Sallie over at SCS. She has a fantastic gallery! I had a hard time choosing which card to case! I decided to case this card. I kept the layout the same, I changed the border punch, theme, and I added a background to my die cut.
Card Details:
Paper: gkd ivory, basic grey wassail 6x6 paper pad
Ink: jumbo java versamagic dew drop
Tools: martha border punch, oval nestabilities, sizzix tree die cut
Accessories: glitter

Thank You!!

What a fun week it was being the Featured Stamper at SCS! It was so fun checking out all of the wonderful creations everyone made!! You can check them out here. I am almost done leaving comments for everyone! So this card is for everyone who participated, Thank You! I cased one of my cards: Teacher's Pet. I changed the embossing folder, colors, and added a scalloped edge instead of a thick ribbon. I also left off the sentiment because my image was a sentiment.



This card was also inspired by the CAS weekly challenge you can check it out here. I was inspired by the colors of all of the birthday balloons, so when I inked up my thank you stamp I colored it with Memento markers line by line. I also thought the ribbon went well with this image with the lines of color. The embossing folder is by Sizzix and I liked how it offered the same lines as the stamp and ribbon. I chose the border punch to coordinate with the scallops of the embossing folder.



Thanks so much for stopping by!

Clean and Simple Challenge

Over at SCS there is a challenge posted to be a part of the Clean and Simple Design Team. With summer here (Yeah!) I am done with school, so this would be a great time to participate in a Design Team if I were to be considered. So I am going for it! The requirements include: focal image must be a person, character, or group. I chose this little girl from Hero Arts. She is too cute, and I had fun coloring her in with copic markers. The next requirement was to add a bit of flashy ribbon, and for bonus points add some texture. I love the bold colors of this ribbon, it was the inspiration for this card! And I added some texture using an embossing folder by Quickutz.

That's all for now! Thanks for stopping by!

Featured Stamper

It was the last day of Christmas Vacation today, and I realized I didn't spend as much time stamping as I would have liked. So I spent the whole day in my craft room! What a treat! I made a few projects that I will be posting this week. I started with the Featured Stamper Challenge on SCS. This week the Featured Stamper was Ann. I found this card in her gallery and chose to case it. I recently purchased this set of nestabilities and was anxious to use it. My sister also picked up the new Martha heart punch for me, and my card started falling into place. I embossed the background the SU texture plate, and the sentiment is by hero arts.


Thanks for stopping by!