Playing Cards with Friends

Hello again, peeps! Back for a second post today, and it's a special one!  My sweet friend Michele at I Card Everyone has asked me to play "cards" with her!  (Be sure to check out HER card!) Here are her rules:

• Christmas Decor: baubles, wreathes, florals, trees
• Untraditional colors: anything besides pine green and red, though untraditional shades of greens and reds are allowed
• Background die

So here we go!  I've used some shades of Sweet Sugar Plum and Mint Macaron for my sparkly creation today:

I diecut some ornaments using an Impression Obsession set of dies, and the wreath is from Seasonal Swirls dies.  My bow is from the Pierced Blooms dies, and the sentiment is from a really old SU set called Christmas Classics that I stamped, fussy cut, then backed with a mat of Sweet Sugar Plum:

I backed the ornaments with a piece of Dazzling Diamond glimmer paper to make them stand out even more, and I adhered them to a sheet of Basic White, embossed with Altenew's Dotted Swirls cover die.

I really like using non-traditional colors! Now, do you want to see Michele's card? You can find it HERE!  Thanks for popping in, and thanks, Michele, for asking me to play CARDS with us!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Classics (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Rose, Dazzling Diamonds and Mint Glimmer Papers (ret), Sweet Sugar Plum (ret)
Ink	Sweet Sugar Plum (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Seasonal Swirls Dies, Pierced Blooms Dies, Ornament Dies 220Q (Impression Obsession), Dotted Swirls Cover Die (Altenew)

PP518 Christmas Blues

Hi everyone, happy Sunday!  I am the hostess at the Paper Players this week and I have a fun sketch that will help you use up all those little scraps we all have hanging around our crafty area!  And it can be used for any occasion!  Check it out:

 

I chose some papers from Kaisercraft's Wonderland pad to create my first card (yeah, I have two!); here we go:

I used a Whisper White card base, and I cut the panels to 1 5/16" wide.  Then I added little doodads in Balmy Blue and Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper and Blue Metallic Gems for some pizzazz:

The sentiment is from Papertrey's Beautiful Berries: Winter, stamped in Lost Lagoon ink.  Here's the inside, stamped with an old sentiment from CC Designs:

And since this uses blue hues, I am entering this in the Double D Challenge, Winter Blues!

And I figured I would use the second piece of Whisper White for another Christmas card, this time using papers from 'Tis the Season, and a set I recently got from my friend and her stash:

I actually had a star punch to match this star from the set (Christmas Classics), and I added a green rhinestone to the center:

and a red rhinestone to the Mint Macaron Christmas tree:

And I just love this sentiment for the inside!

Please stop by the Paper Players blog to see what the other designers made with this sketch....they did a fabulous job with it!  Hopefully you'll be inspired to create something too!  I know it is a busy week here in the US, but for some families, Thanksgiving will be a bit subdued, so maybe you'll have some extra stamping time!  We'd love to see what you can create!  Thanks for popping in; enjoy your day and be blessed!

 "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." Ephesians 4:29

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beautiful Berries: Winter (Papertrey Ink), Fanciful Christmas (CC Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer (ret), Balmy Blue Glimmer, Wonderland DSP (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Lost Lagoon
Accessories	Dimensionals, Blue Gems
Tools	Big Shot, Christmas Cardinal Dies, Small Tree Punch (ret), Triple Heart Punch (ret)

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Classics (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, 'Tis the Season DSP, Mint Macaron
Ink	Real Red, Garden Green
Accessories	Holiday Rhinestones
Tools	Star Punch (ret)