FMS717 O Christmas Tree

Hello there, stamping friends! I feel like I haven't been in my craft room for AGES.  I have almost run out of Christmas cards and John keeps asking me, "Did you send one to so-and-so?", and I have to go make a couple more!  I finally made one just for craftiness' sake using Narelle's sketch at FMS:

I still had a couple cards left from the Christmas Greetings Mix & Match Specialty Cards, and I got a couple pre-Christmas gifts to myself, so I put them all to use:

I got a sweet set from Unity called Holly Jolly Holiday--just adorable!  I stamped the tree on Thick Basic White cardstock in Garden Green ink, but before removing it from my Misti, I cleaned my stamp and inked it up again with Versamark and stamped right over top of the image.  I then heat-embossed it with clear embossing powder and watercolored it in with Soft Sea Foam ink:

The embossing really keeps everything neat and tidy with no ink bleeding into the image! I fussy-cut it and mounted it on a Basic White panel that was embossed with a snowflake EF, then added a sentiment from Pine Tree Trimmings, inked and embossed the same way.  A simple gold foil panel matched the gold lines in the plaid!

On the inside, I stamped a sentiment from the retired Peaceful Season stamp set:

Thanks so much for popping in today! Off to make some goodies for a little dinner we've having tomorrow for my TOPS ladies!  Hopefully I won't go too far over my calories--it IS the holidays, after all!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pine Tree Trimmings, Peaceful Season (ret), Holly Jolly Holiday (Unity)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Gold Foil, Soft Sea Foam, Christmas Greetings Mix & Match Specialty Cards
Ink	Garden Green, Versamark, Soft Sea Foam
Accessories	Dimensionals, Clear Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Textured Notes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Aquapainter, Heat Tool, Starry Snowfall Embossing Folder (Spellbinders)

To a Deer Friend

 Happy Thanksgiving eve, everyone!  I have a fun little Christmas card today, a bit "punny", and it is for three challenges:  Color My Heart Color Dare wants shades of brown, plus two other colors; Christmas Kickstart wants to see antlers, and the CAS Colours & Sketches is a sketch:

I had not used the pretty little deer from Papertrey's Deer To Me for a long time, so I got to work:

My shades of brown are Crumb Cake, Basic Beige, Pecan Pie and Early Espresso; I added Real Red and Shaded Spruce as my two additional colors.  I faintly stamped trees from Pine Tree Trimmings in the background, and the punny sentiment is from Poppy Stamps' Whittle Sayings:

A sentiment from Best Year went on the inside:

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pine Tree Trimmings, Best Year (ret), Deer to Me (Papertrey), Whittle Sayings (PoppyStamps)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Sea Foam, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige, Real Red
Ink	Early Espresso, Pecan Pie, Real Red, Shaded Spruce, Craft White
Accessories	Red Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Hillside Dies (Lawn Fawn), Deer to Me Dies (Papertrey), 1/8" Hole Punch

Christmas Wishes Quilted Star

Happy Tuesday, all! No challenges today, but I wanted to share one of the cards we made at stamp club last night, which was a quilted star card.  I originally saw this on Amanda Mertz's blog and she got the idea from Lorraine Tierney. You can see her card, as well as her YouTube video, HERE. It looks complicated, but it's really quite easy and she gives you some neat tricks!  So here are the versions we did, using the Christmas Greetings card pack along with the Christmas Tags & More DSP and ephemera:

We started with strips of the DSP; I confess that I resorted to using Taylored Expressions 1/2" Easy Strips dies to cut them out, because they cut four at a time, which made things quite a bit speedier!  After adhering them according to Lorraine's directions, we then embossed the panel with the Eyelet embossing folder and added an ephemera in the center:

The tag was stamped with a sentiment from Pine Tree Trimmings and diecut with a Stylish Shapes dies; the ribbon is a new Online Exclusive for November, called Chevron!  The club ladies seemed to like this card, and we all liked the pre-made cards in Crumb Cake and Garden Green, with gold accents, which are a little larger and come with matching envelopes!  I can't wait to play some more with the little punchouts from the DSP pack...so cute!

I hope you are staying warm because it's COLD and windy here today!  Thanks for popping in, enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pine Tree Trimmings
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Real Red, Christmas Greetings Specialty  Cards, Christmas Tags & More DSP
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals, Green Chevron Ribbon, String
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Eyelet Embossing Folder, Stylish Shapes Dies, Easy Strips 1/2" Dies (Taylored Expressions)

JUGS800 O Ribbon Tree

Happy Friday! Yay, the weekend is upon us!  The sweet team over at Just Us Girls is celebrating an amazing milestone--800 challenges!  Woohoo! Congratulations, Girls!

Their theme this week is "Anything Goes", so I am sharing a card I made a couple of days ago.  It actually came out the way I envisioned it--amazing! SU has some beautiful silver and blue ribbon right now and I thought it would make a pretty Christmas tree.  Here we go:

I first cut out a panel of thick Basic White with the Textured Notes dies, then cut out a tree using the new Pine Tree Trimmings die.  I backed the opening with the Misty Moonlight Silver-edged ribbon, added a silver diecut star and a sentiment from Pine Tree Trimmings set:

I popped it up on a white card base, added a sentiment from Words for the Season, and it's finished! CAS and cute!

Be sure to stop over at the JUGS blog--some of the designers have giveaways!  That's always fun!  

Just have to brag on Cassidy a wee little bit--check out this report card! Woohoo!!

And thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Words for the Season, Pine Tree Trimmings
Card stock & Papers	Thick Basic White, Silver Foil
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Misty Moonlight Silver-edged Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Textured Notes Dies, Pine Tree Trimmings Dies

AHSC646 Christmas Patchwork

Hello, stamping friends! We have a fun Atlantic Hearts sketch for you this week:

I recently got these stitched strip dies from Taylored Expressions, and they were perfect for this sketch!  I had lots of scraps left from my Echo Park Christmas papers, so I just cut a bunch of them in coordinating colors.  Here's the end result:

To make adhering the strips easier, I put a piece of adhesive sheet on a piece of 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" scrap paper, then placed them down on the adhesive, butting each edge up against the others.  Piece of cake!  I added a tag with a sentiment from the new set Pine Tree Trimmings, and a glimmer "bow" that will make it easy to mail!

I added a sentiment from Words for the Season, along with another stitched strip:

This may look like a challenging sketch, but once you get started, it's not hard at all!  Great to use up all those scrappy strips we all have hanging around!  I hope you'll play with us at Atlantic Hearts this week! And I am going to pop this in over at Inspire.Create as well, as they're looking for Christmas! 

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Words for the Season, Pine Tree Trimmings
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Ruby Glimmer Paper (CTMH), Christmas Salutations & Santa Claus Lane (Echo Park)
Ink	Mossy Meadow
Accessories
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Pierced Blooms Dies (ret), Easy Strips Dies (Taylored Expressions), Rounded Rectangle Layers Dies (Impression Obsession)