Tidings of Comfort & Joy

Over the weekend, I made many card fronts with PinkFresh Studio's Holiday Botanical Background Layered Stencils in traditional Christmas colors. When I saw the badge for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown Color Challenge, I was inspired to use all blues and see how I liked it. Well, I loved it. I used Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Uncharted Mariner and Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide Inks. I decided to use Waffle Flower's Oversized Joy stamp and die set for my sentiment using SU Brocade Blue card stock for the shadow, and a blue-hued glitter paper from Memory Box's Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad. I love the way it turned out.

52CCT - December Colour Challenge

I am also playing at:

Stencil Fun - Stenciling with an OPTIONL theme of ANY holiday

Peace On Earth Challenge #29 - Anything Christmas Goes

Bake Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

I bought The Greetery's Bake It Merry stamps & dies last year, but did not pull them out until yesterday. I bought it with a particular dear friend in mind. She is a Christmas cookie baker extraordinaire. I had to have it to make a card for her. December 17th is cookie baking day at her house, so I popped this baby in the mail today so it gets there beforehand. I LOVE this set of stamps and dies. I paired with with a Cuttlebug EF that has been in my stash forever... I think the circles and trees look like stamped tree cookies. The sentiment is stamped, heat embossed and die cut with a sentiment strip die from Pink & Main. So fun.

I'm playing at:

NBUS #45

The Greetery Bake It Merry stamps & dies

Christmast Kickstart #69

SSS Monday Challenge - Holiday Cheer

Krafty Chicks #641 - Christmas

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Anything Christmas or Winter

Happy Christmas

 

A new challenge starts today at Can You Handle The Pressure? where the theme is always Anything Goes with an Embossing Folder and an optional twist. Heat embossing is welcome, but not required. An Embossing Folder must be used. For this challenge, the twist is "Christmas".

I just love my mini slimline Christmas card. All supplies listed below.

Please head over to the Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge? blog to check out the Design Team inspiration projects. You are sure to be impressed (pun intended)! Then dive into your embossing folder collection and join us with or without the twist! Just be sure to use an embossing folder on your creation!

Supplies used:

Paper: Neenah Solar white 80# and 110# card stock, SU Real Red, Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Card Stock.

Ink: Lumberjack Plaid, Candied Apple and Fired Brick Distress Oxides

Stamps: None

Other: Glimmer Hot Foil System; Spellbinders Glitter Wishes hot foil plates; Pinkfresh Studio Mini Slimline Essentials Bundle; Spellbinders Scenic Poinsettias 3D Embossing Folder; Waffleflower Layered Poinsettia Die, Honeybee  Stamps Warm Pearl Stickers.

Im also playing at:

The Flower Challenge #75 - Christmas

CAS On Friday #256 - Embossing (heat or dry)

Most Magical Time Of The Year #3 - Florals

Krafty Chicks #641 - Christmas 

Merry Christmas Bauble

The other day I was leaving some love for Lisa Elton of My Paper Tales and found this fabulous card (below) looking back at me. Isn't it beautiful?? I knew I had to CASE it... well, I pretty much copied it.

 

My Drop Ornament Memory Box die is so similar, so I pulled it out along with a BasicGrey 6x6 Christmas themed paper pad from 2009 that I have used a lot but still have a lot to go, and I went to town cutting strips, piecing them together and die cutting. I popped the ornament up on fun foam. I heat embossed, die cut and popped up the two pieces of the sentiment (The Greetery) and placed them on the ornament. I then glued the finished ornament on a panel that I dry embossed with Spellbinders Scenic Poinsettias EF and adhered that panel to a white card base. I love the way this turned out. Thank you, Lisa, for the inspiration!

I am playing at:

As You See It #289 - Breakneck Baubles

9 minutes, 58 seconds

Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge #29

Most Magical Time Of The Year #3 - Florals

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #69

Christmas Peace

 

The other day I played with embossing folders and made many beautiful backgrounds. Today I began to make cards with them. I love the way this one came out. I know several people who are really suffering physically and emotionally during this time, and I wanted to find a way to send holiday greetings that would soothe the soul. It is not a very merry and jolly time for everyone. I though this was such a perfect way to convey a loving message of comfort.

The glitter paper is copper colored, and the enamel dots are red. It is hard to see the true colors in this picture. It is a very gray day where I am and photos are not easy.

Supplies:

Stamps~None

Ink~SU Almost Artichoke

Paper~Gina K. Designs

Other~SSS Forest Border Embossing Folder;  - SSS CZ Design Peace Wafer Die; 

Im playing at:

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #69

Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge #29 - Anything Christmas

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

NBUS December Challenge #45

CZ Design Peace Die Cut

Allsorts Challenge - Christmas

Simon Says IG Challenge: Die Cutting

Merry & Bright

 

Time Out Challenge #228 begins today. This time we have a theme - Winter Holiday. 

Our sponsor for this challenge is Newton's Nook Designs. Challenge winner will receive a $25.00 voucher to use at the Newton's Nook Store.

We welcome Sue Symens of Sentimentally Sue as our Guest Designer. Sue is a very talented card maker with a (most often) CAS style. Her blog and Instagram are chock full of wonderful inspiration. Treat yourself to a look and your creativity is sure to be sparked!

To create my card, I used the Holly Botanical Background Layering Stencil Set from Pinkfresh Studio and various SU inks for my border. I added the CZ Designs Merry & Bright die cut in red foil card stock backed with vellum and three SSS snowflakes cut from glitter card stock. This was an easy, quick and very festive card.

SSS Bliss Snowflake Die, SSS CZD Merry & Bright, Pinkfresh Studio Holiday Botanical Background

Please head on over to the Time Out Challenge Blog to see the wonderful creations that the Design Team came up with to inspire you. Come play with us!

I'm also playing at:

Just Us Girls #660 - Photo

Focus on the garland on the mantle

Sunday Stamps #297 - Holiday Greetings

Red, Green & White

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - 52CCT22-44

Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge #28

Merry Warm & Cozy Christmas

 

Today I kept going back and forth between decorating (in a minimalist way) and card making. I was fishing in my Christmas stash and spending way too much time looking at things and putting things away, when I found this awesome snippet - the heat embossed, inked and die cut "merry" above, and the juices started flowing. The simplest card took me forever, but that's OK. I really like the way it turned out. The current Alphabet Challenge is "Q is for Quilt", and that inspired me to take out my NBUS Sparkling Diamonds Cutting Die which is so reminiscent of a quilt pattern. Topped it with my wonderful snippet, foiled a sentiment and popped that up, added some bling and my card was complete.

The Alphabet Challenge - Q is for Quilt

Supplies Used:

Ink - None

Paper - Gina K Pure Luxury Red Velvet Heavy Base Weight card stock;  Hammermill 100# Premium Copy Cover card stock

Other - PinkFresh Studio Sparkling Diamonds Stand Alone Cuts; Concord & 9th Merry Die; Kaiser adhesive backed Rhinestones; Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System; Spellbinders Glitter Wishes Hot Foil Plates and cutting die; Glimmer Red hot foil; foam tape.

I'm also playing at:

Tic Tac Toe #189

Top row across - December Holiday, Use a Die, Embellishment

Krafty Chicks Challenge #639 - All Occasions

Sunday Stamps #297 - Holiday Greetings

NBUS #44 - November

My NBUS is the PinkFresh Studio Sparkling Diamonds Cover Plate

Happy Thanksgiving

A new challenge starts today at Can You Handle The Pressure? where the theme is always Anything Goes with an Embossing Folder and an optional twist. Heat embossing is welcome, but not required. An Embossing Folder must be used. For this challenge, the twist is "Thanks".

For my background, I used Spellbinders Carved Tile Embossing Folder with SU More Mustard card stock. The corn, sentiment and sentiment banner are from Papertrey Ink's Kind Of Corny stamp set and dies. (Thank you, dear friend, for sending the die cuts.)  If anyone has this die set and want to sell it, please let me know!

Please head over to the Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge? blog to check out the Design Team inspiration projects. You are sure to be impressed (pun intended)! Then dive into your embossing folder collection and join us with or without the twist! Just be sure to use an embossing folder on your creation!

Im also playing at:

Krafty Chicks Challenge #639 - All Occasions

The Card Concept #184a - Happy Thanksgiving

Clean & Layered - Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving 2022

Thanksgiving is my most favorite day of the year. When I was a little girl, the day before was for polishing silverware. My mother would prepare pie crusts and put them in the car in the garage, as there was no room in the fridge. Stuffing was made, potatoes were peeled and left in a pot of water on the back porch. It was always cold out, but never freezing, so outside was a second fridge as long as whatever was out there was protected from the squirrels and other critters. My sister, Barbara, would always assemble the cornucopia and we would always make place cards. It was always my parents, my 3 sisters and my Aunt Gina and Uncle Pat at our Thanksgiving table, but there were always place cards. I have carried that tradition of making place cards all of my life. I save them from year to year, and it strikes me lately that it seem that each year, a place card or two from the prior year is for someone who has passed. This is the batch of place cards for this year. Feeling grateful for many things, though this year has been a very tough one. We pause, we gather, we hug and we hope. Wishing you a peaceful Thanksgiving. Take time to smell the turkey. Happy Thanksgiving.

CAS Outdoor Christmas

Less Is More #478 starts today and ends on December 1st. This is the last Less Is More challenge until March 2023. There is also a DT call going on. Please see the Less Is More Blog for details. 

We are challenged to create a Clean & Simple

card with the theme of "outdoors".

 I stenciled part of the Memory Box Garden Birch Trees Stencil with PTI Soft Stone ink on matching card stock. I added 2 stamped, die cut images and a sentiment from Hero Arts Color Layering Snowy Tree stamp set, mounted the Soft Stone panel on a SU Cherry Cobbler card base, and my card was complete.

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog and see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. I hope you'll play along with us to share your creations. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple which we define as designs that include large areas of CLEAR AND CLEAN space with NO PATTERN, NO INK and NO TEXTURE See challenge guidelines on the Less Is More Blog.

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I'm also playing at:

Krafty Chicks Challenge #638 - CAS

Christmas Kickstart #68 - Trees

Die Cut Divas - November Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations November Challenge - Christmas Celebrations