Dashing Through the Snow

 Here are two cards I made with some new products from Studio Light. Snow scenes using stamps and water color highlights. Entering one in Simon Says Stamp Wed Challenge "Cold As Ice."

Aqua Snowflakes!

 A few snowflake cards I made with a small stamp & die set from Altenew, creating my own patterned paper and embellishments to match. Sentiments are from various sets in my stash. This is for Simon Says Stamp Wed Challenge.

Dancing Santa

 A cute Santa card for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, "Santa." This Santa appears through a window on the front of the base created with a round-a-bout stamp from Concord & 9th.

Merry Christmas

 Another holiday card which fits the SSS Wednesday Challenge "Cold As Ice."

Season's Greetings

 More holiday cards! This one is for Simon Says Stamp Wed Challenge "Cold As Ice."

Season's Greetings

 One design I really enjoy is creating a background and then making matching die cuts to give my cards dimension. Today's card is a perfect example. This project uses Mistletoe & Holly by Julie Ebersole for Essentials by Ellen (Ellen Hutson.) It's an older set, but one I really like. I added some ribbon from my stash and a embossed sentiment from Lawn Fawn. There's a pic of the inside of the card, too. I am placing this on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

Best Wishes

 If you are watching craft videos, you have seen Gina Krupnik ink blend and then stamp on top. That's exactly what I did on this Best Wishes card. I am entering this in Gina K Design December Monthly Mix Challenge.  The stamp set is Wild Blossoms from Gina K Design.

Ho Ho Ho

Two holiday cards with Gina K Design stamps colored with copic markers. The background music stamp is from my stash and I changed up the sentiments a bit because I like my cards to have some variety. The little elf is probably from SSS. He's so cute! This is for the SSS Wednesday Challenge.

 

Happy Birthday

 One more card for the My Favorite Things challenges this week - Sketch Challenge and Color Challenge. I created this gender neutral Birthday card with Happy Birthday script die in shiny black card on top of a red panel stamped with the red rubber "Happy Birthday" stamp with white pigment ink and added three balloons to match the colors for this challenge, see below. 

Perk Up Soon

Been busy with  lots of Tim Holtz products, so thought I would try some MFT stamps and dies and enter them in MFT Sketch Challenge and Color Challenge. I needed more FEEL BETTER cards, so I created this 4 bar card with "Steeped in Love" and paper from "Party Patterns." Check out the sketch and colors below.

Greetings

 Using the November Cozy Wishes card kit, here's a creation which I was super happy with. I used some dies in my stash from Tim Holtz for the greenery and little houses from Penny Black. Posting this on SSS Wednesday Challenge and their Instagram Dec Challenge. 

Winter Wishes

Holiday card time! Here's one which was inspired by Tiffany Solorio after watching her video. She used an embossing folder and then added ink to the raised areas. I am entering this in the SSS Instagram Challenge and also on the SSS Wednesday Challenge "Winter Wishes." The embossing folder is from SSS and the patterned paper is from Memory Box. Their plaids have gold stripes, which I love!

Sunflowers & Plaid

 I don't try to make plaid backgrounds very often. I find them tedious. But I wanted to experiment with a plaid for these big flowers so I used some yellows and browns. It's not my favorite plaid, but it works for this card. This is one more card for the Simon Says Stamp Make Your Own Background Challenge.

LOVE

 I made this card for a wedding. The background was created with several layers of distress ink and two different stencils. The sentiment is an old one from Reverse Confetti and the stamp of the couple is from Rubbernecker. Entering this on the SSS Wednesday Challenge, Backgrounds.

Hello

 Another card for the SSS Wednesday Challenge. This background was made with an embossing folder from Cuttlebug and homemade patterned paper using Concord &9th Triangle Turnabout. The Hello is from Pink and Main and the sentiment strip is from SSS. I really like these colors together!

Hello

 The new Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is Make Your Own Background! I do this with almost all my cards nowadays. Here is one which was inspired by Jennifer McGuire who did a double inking technique with stencils to complete two backgrounds. I added a few die cuts (which matched the flowers on the stencil) on top and a sentiment.

Fall

For this month's My Favorite Things Slimline challenge, the idea is to play with mini slimline without worrying about a theme. So here' s a cute card I made for Fall. Might use it for Thanksgiving, but not sure. 

Going to put it on the MFT Mini Slimline Challenge for November.  I am also entering this in the SSS  Wed. Challenge Make Your Own Background. Products used - SSS Leaves Wreath stencil, Altenew Sketched Lines stencil, Pinkfresh Mini Slimline envelope dies, Sentiment is from MFT Autumn Blessing and Harvest Mouse.

  

Thankful

 A simple card for Thanksgiving with a beautiful image colored with copic markers and a fancy rectangle die from Penny Black. Entering this in the Wednesday Simon Says Stamp Challenge.

Dashing Through the Snow

 One more card for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Trees." These are two new stamp sets from Studio Light, stamped with dye ink and enhanced with water color.

A Harvest of Blessings

 Love how this mini slim line card turned out. I am not fond of the large slim line design, but I like the smaller version. This one uses My Favorite Things images, Simon Says Stamp leaves, Altenew stencil "sketched lines." Entering this in the SSS Wednesday Challenge "Thanksgiving."

Keep Reading

 I bought a kit from Hero Arts and finally had a chance to make a few cards. These feature the big tree stamp and images of kids from the kit. The sentiment was an "add on" set called Literary Quotes. This is for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, Trees.

Merry

 Here is a combination of stencil and diecut for the holidays. This is pretty simple, but I like the way it turned out. This tree is a 3 piece layering stencil. I'm posting this on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challege, Trees.

Hip Hip Hooray, Thanksgiving!

 A quick post for both of the Simon Says Stamp challenges this week. Monday is "Trees," and Wednesday is "Thanksgiving." This one is a water colored tree and some copic colored animals!

Thinking of You Watercolor

 A water colored card using several sets from Art Impression - for the Simon Says Stamp Thinking of You Wednesday Challenge

Thinking of You

 One of my favorite sets from SSS Healing Hugs highlighted on this Thinking of You card. For Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

Merry

 A holiday card using Altenew stamps for Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.

happy thanksgiving

 One of the best Thanksgiving cards I ever made. In fact, I liked it so much, I duplicated it with just a few changes this year. For Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.

Anemone Thinking of You

 I always need Thinking of You cards, and when I get a new flower stamp set, it's perfect! This one features Altenew Anemone with some other stamps. This is for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

Thinking of You Today

 Beautiful Thinking of You Sympathy card using Gina K and Hero Arts products. This is for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

Thinking of You as You Rest and Heal

 Thinking of You card with Gina K Petite Flourish through the SSS Stylized Tulips die surrounded by Spellbinders Candlewick Rectangle die on an ink blended background! Sentiment from SSS Healing Hugs. I love this card! Posting on the SSS Wednesday Challenge.

Happy Halloween Gate

 One of the Halloween cards I made with various products ... for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge