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Quick Gift Card Card!

2011-12-15T00:01:00-07:00

I have a quick little gift card holder to share today. This is a version of a pocket card...but seasonally adjusted!

The stamp is by Unity...called Tinsel in a Tangle. It's a mini set that I grabbed as soon as I saw it because it makes me smile! I needed a gift card holder for my dd's gymnastics coach and this was an easy way to go.

The designer paper is Echo Park from last year and I cut the snow hill landscape by taking a 4 1/8" x 3" piece of white cardstock and cutting it in half with a wave. I flipped one over and glued it on the card flat, and the second, I only glued around the bottom and sides and it forms the pocket.

The little penguin is stamped in Versafine Onyx black and I coloured his tangly tinsel with Spica Glitter pens. I added a border Martha Stewart's "Drippy Goo" punch...I think it works for snow or icicles too. Stardust Stickles tops the hills and shines each of the coloured dots. I finished with some American Crafts ribbon and that was that!

So quick and easy...just a bit of drying time for the stickles but I'm done my Christmas cards now! Are you?

Thanks for dropping by! I hope you are off to a wonderful day!

Weekend Sketch Set: 25Days!

2011-12-12T00:01:00-07:00

You know it's been over two years since I did a weekend sketch set. They were one of my favorite stamping challenges...4 sketches and one stamp set. I loved the feeling of actually using my stamps and creating four cards with any set is an accomplishment! I would guess that 1/4 of the stamp sets I own have never seen ink, and half have only been used once. I keep thinking I shouldn't buy any more stamps until I have done a sketch set with all of them, but I doubt I could go 3 or 4 years without any new stamps!!

I needed a few more Christmas cards so I scouted out the sketches and decided to pull my colours from the Colour Throwdown Challenge. They are a perfect match to Memory Works "25 Days" designer papers which are so fun to work with...you don't even need stamps! But, alas, Unity designed a coordinating stamp set to go with them, so I had to pull the two together and here's what I came up with!

First up is Splitcoast Stampers Sketch #362. I can hardly believe it's #362! I used the sentiment from the Unity set and the little Christmas Wish List is one of the little squares in the Memory Works papers. So fun and easy to put cards together with their papers!

Next up was the Waltzing Mouse Sketch #77. I knew it would be posted on Friday, so it was perfect for my sketch set. It was nice and easy to work with and my card ended up something like this! No stamps on this one! I used the little images from the paper and coated them with Rock Candy Crackle Paint and tied some twine off with a button to finish!

My next sketch was another Friday sketch and a favorite of mine to "Fall to" when I am looking for a sketch, and that is the Clean and Simple Fall to Layout #170. My card doesn't seem as Clean and Simple as it should be, but I like it just fine! I picked up these flowers by Prima last year, and I thought they looked like Poinsettas, although they weren't from their Christmas line. The seemed to fit perfectly with the sketch and the papers!

And to finish, I used Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch #147. I loved this sketch and it was so easy to work with...probably the fasted card of the four! The bingo card is another from the Memory Works papers and I added some snowflake buttons and Bravo Burgundy ribbon!

Here's a look of the four of them together...such a nice little set don't ya think?

How fun is that! I hope that I can find time to do these sketch sets in the New Year. I know I won't have much time from here on it, but I have a few projects that I never found time to blog, so I hope to have a few more posts before Christmas.

Hope you are having a wonderful day! See you soon!

Bring Back Beautiful with Winter Wonderland!

2011-12-05T00:01:00-07:00

It is that time again. Time for Flourishes Bring Back Beautiful. This month the challenge is The Beauty Of Winter. Think holiday or winter themed creations!

The Beauty of Winter. This month the challenge is to create a winter/holiday creation. Link up your Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge creations here to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB17. You have until December 31th to enter! As we unveil our challenge for next month, we'll share our True Beauties, those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog!

Here's my take on the Winter Challenge!

I started with my newest Flourishes Stamp set; A Season of Celebrations! I love the gorgeous silhouettes in this set! They are fabulous for techniques and work perfect for simple cards. Mine ended up somewhere in between LOL! I used Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch for my layout, and I kept my colours monochromatic so I could also play the Playing in Paradise Challenge at Scrapbooker's Paradise!

The sledding silhouette from A Season of Celebrations was stamped on text designer paper by Authentique in Versamark then embossed with navy embossing powder. I cut it into a circle and layered it on a navy Lacey Circle. The Sahara Sand card base was embossed with snowflakes and the designer paper is from Bo Bunny's Midnight Frost designer paper from last year. I added a felt snowflake secured with a snowflake brad, then I picked up my White Opal liquid pearls and probably should have put them down sooner than I did! I added a pearl to the centre of every snowflake and then I created a "snowfall" of pearls in the sledding scene. I think it's kind of fun!

OK, are you ready to Bring Back Beautiful in a Wintery way? Here's a little inspiration to get you going:

Cindy
Heather
Kathy
Iwona

and welcoming back Beate!!

Come on now...this is the one way to enjoy winter. You don't have to drive or shovel. You won't get cold or wet. You'll be able to create a wonderful wintry card in the warm cozy comfort of your studio. And remember to link it up here when you're done, so we can marvel at your fabulous creations...in the comfort of our cozy slippers!

Happy creating!!

Celebrate the Season

2011-11-26T00:01:00-07:00

I love making Christmas cards. I love the bright colours and the season, and I love that these cards might actually get mailed! For my card today I used a sweet mini set by Unity and paired it with Echo Park papers, and I think it turned out so cute!

Ornamental Season stamp set - Unity Memento Tuxedo Black ink - Tsukineko

Copic Markers: B00, B000, R32, R35, YG63, YG67, W1

Gold Spica Glitter pen - Copic

Classic circle/scalloped circle dies - Spellbinders

Holly Jolly Designer paper - Echo Park

Rouge Liquid Pearls - Ranger

Red Gingham ribbon - American Crafts

Jumbo Christmas Brad - Queen & Co

Glossy Accents - Ranger

I made a tent topper card for a change of pace. The card base is 4 1/4" square, and the circle extends beyond the card to 5 1/2", so it fits in a regular A2 envelope! The image and sentiment are stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black and then coloured the ornaments with Copic Markers. I added Glossy Accents to the ornaments for a little shine! Rouge Liquid Pearls were dotted on each of the scallops and I tied red gingham ribbon around the lower portion and fastened a Queen & Co. jumbo brad around the bow.

Are you going to have all your Christmas Cards done in time this year? I have to get a bit of a move on...I've been slacking, but there is so much cool Christmas product arriving daily at Scrapbooker's Paradise, that I will have no shortage of supplies! Stock up now before their sold out...Christmas items are one time purchases and when they're gone...they're gone.

That's it for me! Have a fabulous weekend!

Happy Birthday Julie!

2011-11-19T00:01:00-07:00

Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday to You! Oh, and you are so lucky you don't have to hear me! Happy Birthday Julie! I hope your day is fabulous and the upcoming year is the best yet! I didn't have time to get you a present, but I did whip up a little card for you!

I haven't used the Year of Flowers sets in a while, so I thought it was the perfect occasion to ink up Year of Flowers 3 for Julie's November birthday. The Cylclamen image is stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black on Flourishes Classic Ivory and coloured with the Lenten Rose & New Leaves Copic collections.

The designer paper is Basic Grey's Out of Print, and I paired it with pink and blue cardstocks. The sentiment is from Tag Lines and I added a few pearls to finish it!

Pop in at Julie's place and wish her a happy Birthday, and then hop along with all her Design Team friends and see all the fabulous cards Julie will recieve in the mail over the next few days!

OK...off you go and have a fabulous day along with Julie!

Alcohol Candle and a Happy Accident!

2011-11-12T00:01:00-07:00

November's Showcase Monday's at Scrapbooker's Paradise will feature some amazing Christmas giftables! The design team has gone all out and you'll be ready for Christmas nice and early! I had a really hard time nailing down what I wanted to do. We have some beautiful canvases by Canvas Corp, and Pails and tins are really fun too. In the end, I decided to alter a candle with Alchohol Inks, since they are our Feature Product right now. Here's how it turned out:

Products used:

Terracotta, Expresso & Caramel Alcohol Inks - Ranger
Copper Mixative - Ranger

Alcohol Ink applicator & felts - Ranger

Carnation die - Spellbinders

Sticky Back Canvas - Ranger

Caramel String - American Crafts

Pearls & Rhinestones - Kaiser & Queen & Co.

DP Scraps

Inking the candle up was a cinch. Alchol inks work beautifully on non porous surfaces and the results are so cool. I used Ranger's Sticky Back Canvas for the belly band...it works so much easier than paper since the canvas is plyable and the edge to edge adhesive ensures that it's not going to pop off! I bought the Carnation die set after seeing this card of Kim's. Mine didn't turn out quite as nice,so I'll have to practice a little more. I finished with some random pearls and rhinestones that fit with the colour scheme, and left it at that.

Alcohol Inks are the Featured Product at Scrapbooker's Paradise until November15. Pick up a couple of these fabulous kits while they're on sale and you can combine that with our Remebrance Day Free Shipping on Canadian orders over $25.00. That offer is good until Monday! Quote REMBRANCE in the comments section of your order to take advantage of the low shipping.

Now I have to share my happy accident! I cut the flower shapes from some old pieces of designer paper. I'm always careful to conserve paper just in case I run out of the 70 million sheets I have stock piled in my studio. Well being careful had a fabulous pattern to it, and I couldn't help but think that the negative image created in the scrap of designer paper was card worthy. Here's what I ended up with!

OK, so this is totally random. I just started reaching for the little things that hadn't got put away and were still floating around my desk. You know, flowers that don't actually make it on a project, buttons that weren't a perfect match, brads that I don't know what to do with most of the time anyway. I thought it was so fun, and it reminded me of my dd, 'cus she is so random, and loves quirky. That's why I picked the sentiment...this might end up in her lunch box one day!

Ok...that's all I have. Now off you go and have a fabulous day!