DECK THE HALLS

TODAY...A CHRISTMAS CARD CREATION

 

TWO PEAS IN A BUCKET'S

SATURDAY SKETCH WAS A GREAT HELP

FOR WHIPPING OUT A FESTIVE CARD.

 

 

 

DOESN'T A BIG CHUNKY BOW JUST MAKE

EVERYTHING LOOK GREAT?

 

 

SUPPLIES:

 

K&CO DIE SENTIMENT

K&CO PAPER

CLOSE TO MY HEART GREEN CARDSTOCK & BORDER STAMP

 

 

 

 

 

 



many FALL cards

Fall is possible THEE best time of year, so refreshing with great color & cooler temps.  I just love using LEAVES as a card element.  Below are some cards using leaves in some form, small to large...punches & stamps.  Hope it gets your creative juices flowing!

StampIn Up

Ippity sentiment

Ippity sentiment

CTMH stamp

Unity Stamps


 

TELLING SANTA...

...ALL THEIR CHRISTMAS WISHES!

 

 

MY BOYS HAD A HEART TO HEART

WITH SANTA BACK IN 2010.

(I'VE VERY BEHIND IN SCRAPPING!)

 

 

 

 

 

THE COLORS IN THIS LAYOUT

ARE INSPIRED BY AUTHENTIQUE'S CHALLENGE:

 

 

PRODUCTS USED:

 

AUTHENTIQUE'S

FESTIVE YULETIDE

PEACEFUL SOLITUDE

 

HOLTZ'S TISSUE PAPER

 

MARTHA STEWARD HOLLY PUNCH

 

CTMH PEARLS

 

VINTAJ ARTE METAL CORNER

 

CRICUT WINTER FROLIC CARTRIDGE

 

CREATIVE MEMORIES LETTER STICKERS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



BLOCKING

A GREAT VIDEO TUTORIAL SHOWS

HOW TO USE STRIPS OF PAPER

 & MAKE PAPER BLOCKING SO EASY!

 

TWO PEAS IN A BUCKET

FINALLY FRIDAY VIDEO

 

THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN,

ALTHOUGH IT DID TAKE ME TWO TRIES

FOR THE PERFECT CARD.

 

NOTICE HOW MY FIRST ATTEMPT

ISN'T CENTERED.

THERE IS A FULL BLOCK LINE ON THE RIGHT,

BUT A LITTLE SLIVER ON THE LEFT.

 

 

SO ON THE SECOND TRY,

I MEASURED & PUT MY FIRST STRIP

CENTERED DOWN THE MIDDLE.

I ALSO EYE-BALLED THE TOP & BOTTOM

SQUARES SO THEY WERE MORE

EVENLY CENTERED.

 

 

MUCH BETTER!

 

DOESN'T IT LOOK LIKE A VINTAGE QUILT?

VERY FUN TECHNIQUE.

I ENCOURAGE YOU TO TRY THIS.

BUT MAKE SURE YOU HAVE LOTS OF ADHESIVE ON HAND!

 

THIS PRETTY PAPER IS:

AUTHENTIQUE'S WONDER 6X6 BUNDLE

(LAST YEAR'S PAPER)

 

THE STAMP IS:

UNITY'S BOOK IT

 

THE BELL IMAGE IS FROM AN ATC PAD

 

 

 



Little Farmers

TODAY I'M SHARING MY ENTRY FOR 

*AUTHENTIQUE'S*

OCTOBER SKETCH CHALLENGE

 

 

MY MOM TOOK ALL THREE OF HER GRAND KIDS

TO IOWA FOR A WEEK THIS SUMMER. 

MY TWO BOYS & THEIR COUSIN

NEVER HAD SO MUCH FUN!

 

 

Products used:

Blissful Prospertity

Festive Glistening

2 unknown scraps (Blissful?)

petite type circle stickers

Ippity Farm Fresh stamp

Unity Imagine It

yellow glitter Thickers

 

 

 

 

 



Tim Tag~ October

I couldn't resist the tag Tim Holtz made this month. 

 It forced me to get sticky with my modge podge & use my tissue paper! 

With my new bottle of blending liquid & alcohol inks, these grungy tags came to be.

 

 

His example showed a "BOO" and a spider.

 

Tim Holtz

 

I didn't have a BOO, but found a glitter pumpkin & bat in my stash (Martha Stewart).

I ALSO didn't have his stamp.  So I substituted one of his tags with stickers.

 

 

 

I REALLY love how the tissue texture turned out.

I encourage YOU to give the "grunge" a try. 

It's messy, but so worth it.

 

 

 

 

Chick Challenge 46

HI FOLKS.

TODAY I'M SHARING A FEW ANNIVERSARY CARDS,

SINCE THEY'VE BEEN SELLING QUICK AT MY CRAFT BOOTH.

 

I STOLE SOME INSPIRATION FROM IPPITY'S BLOG.

HERE IS THE CHALLENGE SKETCH:

 

 

I PECKED AWAY AT USING UP SOME PAPER SCRAPS.

HERE IS MY CARD CREATION:

 

 

I PUNCHED THE LEAF.

THE STAMPS HERE ARE

IPPITY'S

 AUTHENTIC MAN (DASH BORDER)

&

 JUST WANTED TO SAY (SENTIMENT).

 

NOW HERE ARE A FEW BONUS CARDS

TO MAKE THE POST MORE INTERESTING!

AGAIN, USING PAPER SCRAPS UP!

 

 

STAMP: UNITY'S KIT OF THE MONTH 4-12

 

 

 

STAMPS: UNITY'S KOTM 4-12

&

IPPITY'S YOU DESERVE (CORNERS)



Unity Sketch Challenge

I dug out some fun paper scraps from a friend (Erin).

It worked so well for this simple card.
 

 

 

Here is the Unity Blog sketch:

 

 

This is not something I would have dreamt up!

 

But it turned out pretty cute.

 

A graduation card...using
Imagine It
and
Sweet thoughts of spring

Here is a close up of the border stamp & bling...

Stamp A Border

This one was a bit tricky.

Unity's challenge was to make a border, with a NON border stamp!

Challenge #6

 



So, I dug out possibly the CUTEST stamp I own.

It was stamped 3 times & parts cut out & pieced together.

I also added a small brad to the flag.

 

 

This stamp is called SENDING MY LOVE.

How sweet is it?

 

I stamped & cut all the letters out to form a border.

 

Texture

I forget about my Flower Soft most the time.
It's stashed away in a drawer.

The Unity Challenge of TEXTURE reminded me that I have it!

 

So, using the SO BLESSED & MR. BOY stamps, I made a house scene.

 

 

This is the first time this stamp has been utilized.

These challenges are forcing me to use my stuff!

Hooray to that!

 

 

It's pastor appreciation month, so this card will work perfectly!

 

 

Unity's Color Challenge

Unity's Color Challenge:

 

The rules are simple. 

Use CREAM BROWN OLIVE & PUMPKIN on a card. 
It is a pretty combination. 

 I ended up making two cards.

 

 

The butterfly is from Embrace You.

The sentiments are from With Sympathy.

 

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I punched the pumpkins from some fall paper scraps.

How perfect is the sign?

It's from an Ippity set called FARM FRESH (image that!).

 

That orange paper looks like fabric.

The dot stripe is fabric tape.

 

 

 

 

Unity Challenge~ Fall

Here is a card made for Unity's Fall theme challenge.

 

UNITYWCMD2012E

 

The stamps used are Harvest of Memories (sentiment)
and Home Grown.
I did some sanding on the embossed paper
 & dug out some fun fall brads!

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I also want to share this bonus card creation.

The fall sympathy card uses two Unity stamps sets:

 

Harvest of Memories

&

With Sympathy

 

 



Unity Challenge~ Emboss

I'm posting another Unity challenge here today. 

It's to emboss a stamp. 

 

 The color scheme is very basic & bold. 

 I love how crisp a card with white can be. 

Clean & sharp.

I love combining different stamps & sentiments. 

These two are called Thanks A Bunch & Smile Giggle Laugh.

UNITYWCMD2012C

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog! 

Unity Coloring Challenge

I had such a blast creating a scene & coloring in the Unity dog stamp called Tail Wagger.  I kept all the colors basic & bright for a fun child's card. The clouds are from the Mr. Boy set.  The sentiment is from Ippity's Just Wanted To Say.  Martha Stewart makes the easy grass edge punch.  I used my ink pad to make shade the layers of grass darker!

Unity's Challenge #7~ Coloring

UNITYWCMD2012G

 

Copic markers: dog~ E57 E59  dog tag~Y35 clouds~B05

MM261

MOJO MONDAY CARD SKETCH 261

 

 

 

I haven't done a Mojo sketch in a while. 

This one looked pretty cute.

So below is my card using some old K&Co paper.

 

 

As you can see, I flipped it.

The bird faced left, so it seemed a good idea.

Liquid Pearls made a fun studded circle.

 

 

 

World Card Making Day

Just posting this fun owl card I whipped out on World Card Making Day. 

 

 The theme for the first Unity blog challenge is to make a SHAPED card. 

 So I made one using CTMH's Art Philosphy Cricut cartridge.

UNITYWCMD2012A

 

The swirling background stamp is Embrace You.

That sweet little owl is A Hoot Of A Day.

He was stamped on 4 different papers & cut then pieced together.

 

 



UNITY FRIDAY

Ah yes, it's Unity's Friends With Flair Friday.

  So I'm hitting 2 birds with one stone today &

 submitting my Unity monthly blog challenge as well.  

 The requirement is for the creation to use

 pennants or banners! 
 

The Itty Bitty used here is called Life Documented. 

 I hand cut the ornaments from Authentique

(Glistening Festive) paper & raised them up. 

 The pretty music note paper

is (Yuletide Festive) Authentique.

CARD SKETCH

IT'S A TWO PEAS CHALLENGE AGAIN.... I JUST LOVE THAT WEBSITE.

MY CARD MAKING IS WAY FASTER WITH A SKETCH IN FRONT OF ME!

 

 

 

THIS IS SOME OLD K&CO PAPER & TAGS.

IT LOOKS SORT OF FOLK STYLE.

 

I'VE GIVEN MYSELF THE GOAL OF MAKING 2 CHRISTMAS CARDS

EACH WEEK, SO I CAN HAVE PLENTY TO SELL (&USE)!



FF Video Challenge

I played along with Two Peas In A Bucket for the Finally Friday video challenge.

 It's always good to have a specific technique in mind when starting a card. 

They suggest making a "peek hole". 

 

 

I used the Creative Memories to slice a hole in the middle.

This Echo Park Paper is from last year.

In the window I slipped in a ATC card from my generous stash.

A pretty bow & some Liquid Pearls finished it off!

 

Now, a bonus card that took only about 5 minutes to make:

 

 

For this one I simply slapped on a cute sticker!

Sorry the photo is crooked.  I still wanted to share it with you.

 

Am I crazy or has anyone else started Christmas cards???