More Toile Christmas

Happy Monday, peeps!  Boy, it was a cold weekend...yesterday, in the space of three hours, we had rain, snow and sunshine!  We are gearing up for Thanksgiving, too...looking forward to it!  I wanted to share a couple of projects made with Toile Tidings DSP, Toile Christmas and Nature's Beauty; they all coordinate so beautifully!  The first one is a buckle card; this is the card my club girls learned to do, and I got the idea from my sweet friend Cindy; you can see her YouTube video here!  She made a fall card, but I changed it up to make a Christmas card.  The cardinal is big, but he is quite easy to watercolor..it works up fast!  

And here is the inside of the card...you can see where the "belt" fits into the slot from the front, underneath the stitched oval on which the cardinal is attached:

I had an extra card packet cut, so I decided to make another, changing the image to the deer from Nature's Beauty because the patterned paper featured the wildlife:

I fussy-cut him out, then adhered him on top of the same image I stamped on the stitched oval, and I added different sentiments from Itty Bitty Christmas:

While I had Nature's Beauty still on my desk, I noticed a little branch stamp....I am bad for ignoring the little images in a stamp set and just focusing on the big ones!  This little branch is a real sleeper!  I lightly traced a circle on a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock and stamped the branch around it in Garden Green five times; I then stamped again, filling in the "gaps" and stamping off once on my scrap paper to get a lighter image.  It created the nicest wreath! 

I diecut it with a Stitched Shape square die and added a piece of (retired) Brushed Gold cardstock behind it.  The gold Metallic Pearls and some retired gold ribbon finished it off perfectly.  My sentiment was from Shine Bright, and it was stamped with the Gold Delicata pad:

I mounted it on some green Toile Tidings DSP and mounted it on a Garden Green card; the inside sentiment was from Shining Brightly as well!  What a gorgeous sentiment!

Thanks for popping in today!

While we were running errands on Saturday morning, Cassidy and I went to our neighbor's farm to get eggs.  She likes to go to the calf barn to see the kittens, but it was all closed up and the farmer wasn't around to open it.  When we got back in the car, we saw this:

Hmmmm...she is supposed to be IN the barn, not outside of the barn.  Someone left the gate open, so I went and got Mrs Farmer (we went to school together!) and by the time she came out to corral it, another one had escaped!  They weren't in any hurry to get anywhere...they were just eating the grass around the barn!  But we thought it was funny!  Escaping cows!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

IB97 Warm Woolen WIshes

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Time for another Inspired By challenge and with the upcoming COLD weather forecast, I think it's very appropriate! So here we go:

And here's Laurel's prompt....check out those warm blankets!  We're going to need them this weekend!

I know my background is more plaid than striped like the blankets in the picture, but while checking some cards out on other blogs, I came across this card by Heather Telford, and I loved the background so much, I just had to re-create it!  I actually had it lying on my desk, waiting to be embellished, when I saw Laurel's inspiration and I thought it might work!  I also used the Global Design Project's sketch for this week:

So to create the background, I stamped the Buffalo Check stamp in Smoky Slate on Smoky Slate cardstock, then added Cajun Craze stripes with a SU marker.  The bunny from Nature's Beauty was stamped on a stitched panel with Memento ink and colored with Blends, and the little stitched sentiment piece is from an old Whippersnapper set, stamped in Cajun Craze.  The Nature's Beauty set happens to have a little "snow" stamp, so I filled in the background with it, then added some Ice Stampin' Glitter snow: 

This pretty little sentiment from Greatest Part of Christmas hostess set was stamped on the inside:

These are unusual colors for a Christmas card, but sometimes it's fun to think outside the box!  I hope you'll play along with us and use the inspiration photo to create something warm and fuzzy!  And check out what the DT created at Inspired By too! Thanks for popping by today!

A little snuggle time:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Buffalo Check, Nature's Beauty, Greatest Part of Christmas, Winter Schminter (Whippersnapper)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Cajun Craze, Smoky Slate
Ink	Smoky Slate, Memento Black
Accessories	White and Silver Baker's Twine (ret), Ice Stampin' Glitter
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Blends

TSOT430 Red Fox

Happy Saturday, peeps!  It's supposed to be a beautiful day today, finally without gale-force winds blowing us around!  I made a few cards yesterday using the beautiful Toile Tidings DSP, it is really gorgeous and easy to work with!  I started with the Try Stamping on Tuesday sketch:

chose a couple of patterns and went to work.  So here we go:

I like that the images in the Nature's Beauty set coordinate nicely with the prints in the DSP; I simply stamped the fox on a piece of Very Vanilla, made a mask with a post-it note, and stamped the trees behind him.  The sentiment is from Cup of Christmas, and just for a bit of contrast, I matted the image in Crumb Cake:

I made a little scallop diecut border of Crumb Cake to accent the red ribbon, add a bit of snowy glitter, and it was done!  I love this layout, and I love these papers!  Thanks for popping in today!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Nature's Beauty, Cup of Christmas
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Toile Tidings DSP
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Real Red Cotton Ribbon
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Be Mine Dies, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter

A Pink Christmas Card

Happy Monday, peeps!  What a lazy day I am having!  I guess the two hours that I couldn't sleep last night caught up with me!  I made one little Christmas card today and the mojo just wasn't there..but I had already invested time in it, so here it goes!  It fulfills three challenges:  Christmas Kickstart (to use a woodland creature); Jingle Belles (to use pink), and CAS Christmas Card challenge (to create a winter scene). 

        

I had just received the Nature's Beauty set with that cute little rabbit, so I did a very simple card, masking the trees from Winter Woods and Rooted in Nature, to create my little scene.  I sponge-brayered my sunset sky in Blushing Bride (another technique I need practice on!), embossed it with Softly Falling, then added a sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas:

Something that I never remember, is that when you run your cardstock through an embossing folder like this, it gets very flimsy, so it is a good idea to use SU's Thick White cardstock....which I didn't do, of course!  It just gives your card some extra body.  NEXT time!  Anyway, the trees as well as my little bun-bun were stamped in Gray Granite and I just watercolored a little pink shadow beneath him:

The sentiment was diecut with a Stitched Rectangle die, and after I sprinkled on some Dazzling Diamonds glitter for "snow", I adhered it with a dimensional:

And here's the inside:

So it was a bit of a trial and error; I might do it again with a separate layer for the snow...we'll see! Thanks for popping in today! 

We had a Harvest Party at church on Saturday evening; the kids weren't there but there was still a lot going on:

Apple cider fresh from the press:

Roasted hot dogs and (burnt) marshmallows:

Pumpkin decorating:

And a sunset hayride:

with a gorgeous sky:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!