White Christmas Tag

I made a fun tag today. I really enjoy creating scenes with all kinds of craft products! The Large Madison Window from my die stash hadn't been used for a long time so I decided to make a Christmas window scene. I had a left over piece of Altenew Wood Pallet card stock which made a good backdrop. The Bright Holly Tall Curve Border, colored with Distress Inks, on top of the white Madison Window (both from Poppy Stamps) reveal a winter night with stars from MFT stencil "Starry Night," snowy hills, two evergreen trees and a tiny snowman (from Penny Black.)  I found the perfect plaid in my stash to make a set of curtains to frame my window. The sentiment is from Penny Black, too. Even though my holly sash isn't the right scale for the window, I still think it's cute! Entering this tag in the Poppy Stamps Challenge #75 "Anything but a Card", the Tic Tac Toe Challenge #92 (ink blending, tag, stencil,) SSS Wednesday Challenge "Fun with Dies," and SSS Monday Challenge "Favorite Technique."

 

Winter Birdhouse

Water coloring is a challenge and goal for me. My learning path started with Art Impressions stamps and water color markers, like Marvy or Tombow. I have been playing with these stamps for a couple of years, but I don't use them enough to feel competent. I still rely on the videos from Bonnie Krebs to help me. She has a live face book video every few weeks. I guess that's ok for now, but eventually I want to actually "water color!" This card uses several stamp sets from Art Impression. I am entering this in the current challenge "Pet Project." I have put a colorful mat around it rather than make it into a card. (Christmas presents for my sisters!!) 

Celebrating You

I am starting to move away from Holiday colors and stamps and find myself thinking about flowers again! So this card was inspired by another card I made to cheer up my friend (which had a feminine floral theme.) I found the MFT colors of Limelight and Tropical Teal worked well together so I stuck with those two for this challenge . I also followed the sketch for Wednesday Challenge #518. The images are from "Flower Silhouettes" set and I found some patterned paper to fit. The sentiment is from MFT "Bundles of Balloons" set. This will go into my birthday cards stash. Also entering the SSS Wednesday Challenge "Fun with Dies."Thanks for visiting.

Gnome for the Holidays

DIES! Yes, most of us love them for what they add to our projects. Here are the gnome related dies from Simon Says Stamp made into two cards because I wanted to experiment with patterned paper for the Gnome House and my little Gnome from last holiday season.  Lucky for me, this week's SSS  Wednesday Challenge is "Fun with Dies." I blended Distress Ink around the edges of the Mushroom House for a more dimensional look, and I used copic markers on the gnome's beard and nose. I also added a die cut tree and mushroom from Poppy Stamps and some grass from MFT. The panels have stenciled clouds and grass, but it's hard to see in the pic. The inside of the card uses stamps from my stash and from the SSS December kit from 2019.

Believe (tag)

I am swamped with Holiday images, stamps, dies, etc and having a lot of fun. I bought some new products for this Christmas season ... and have been busy using them. I may not even get to all of them before the end of Dec! But there's always next year, right? 

This holiday tag was inspired by the many winter scenes I see other crafters doing. I used the Poppy Stamps "Evergreen Trio" dies to cut out some white trees and colored them with a Spectrum Noir Glitter Marker several times (hard to see in the pic.) The background was created with Distress Oxide Inks in several shades, and since I had the purple color near the bottom, I just used it for my snow banks, too! The sentiment is from Poppy Stamps. My Molotow masking pen did not work so well for the snow, so I added more white-ness using Dr. Ph. Martin's "White Pen" liquid ink by dipping the top of a pin into the white and dabbing it on the sky.

I added a plaid type of look using a stencil to the top of the tag in repeated colors so I could submit this to the current Tic Tac Toe Challenge #92 (left column.) I am also entering this in the Poppy Stamps Challenge #75 "Anything but a Card" and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Fun with Dies."

Wishing Choo Choo Merry Christmas

Here's a slimline Holiday card using Newton's Nook "All Aboard for Christmas" set which I think is so cute with the sentiment "Wishing Choo Choo a Merry Christmas!" It's copic colored and I drew some tracks with a marker to "ground" the train. I decided to use a stripe stencil o n the card base for a little extra holiday fun, from Echo Park. I added some stripes to the envelope, too. The inside of the card uses Simon Says Stamp stamps for the sentiment and some snowflakes in my stash. This is for the Inky Paws Color Challenge - Red, Green, Lime and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes."

Best of Times Birthday

I am low on masculine cards, so here's one for my stash. This one started with a panel which was done with alcohol inks, inspired by Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge this week. I mixed some white texture paste with the new Distress Ink color - rustic wilderness (green) and applied it through a Tim Holtz stencil with large clocks. Once that was dry, I added the die cut letters to spell our "Best of Times." I also used Distress Blue Lagoon on some card stock so I could stamp and cut the extra clock face ( from Hampton Inn) and tie in the tiny blue splatters which were in the alcohol ink panel. I cut a black rectangle using the Deckle Edge die from Honey Bee Stamps and adhered my panel to it and added both to a white card base. The inside has a birthday greeting from My Favorite Things.