Warm Cocoa

Happy Saturday, peeps! I've got another Christmas card for you and it just happens to fulfill the Jingle Belles' Christmas Feast challenge!  I recently got this fun Christmas Cookies embossing folder and just had to pair it up with a mug of hot cocoa!  Here we go:

I embossed a piece of Crumb Cake with the folder, then sponged on some white craft ink to look like icing!  The little mug from the retired Scentsational Season was perfect stamped in Real Red, and I added some "steam", heat embossed on vellum (CTMH):

The sentiment is from TPC called Sweet Christmas, and I don't remember where the inside sentiment came from, sorry!

Thanks for popping in today! It's chili cook-off tonight, so I will be in the kitchen for the rest of the day!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Scentsational Season (ret), Sweet Christmas (TPC), Just Treats (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Vellum (ret)
Ink	Real Red, Crumb Cake, White Craft
Accessories	Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Holiday Collection Dies (ret), Christmas Cookies Embossing Folder (Simon Says Stamp), Early Espresso Marker, Heat Tool

A Sweet Christmas Thank You

Happy Friday, everyone!  Before I get to my chores, I thought I'd share a sweet thank you card I created; it's for both the Inspired By and TGIF challenges:

Heaven knows I have enough Christmas scraps laying around, and I pulled out an older candy cane stamp from Scentsational Seasons and here's what I came up with:

I used some scraps from last year's Celebrate Everything hostess packet, and I mounted the candy cane on a Tailor Made tag, stamped with a thank you from Timeless Arrangements:

And you may just be able to see the embossing I did at the bottom of the card; it's from the Wintery EF:

This little thank you will be out in the mail real soon!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Here's a wee little video of some of the ornaments on one of Longwood's trees; I was fascinated by the bubbler candle!  It's short but sweet!  Enjoy! (The noise in the background is water from the fountains!)

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Timeless Arrangements, Scentsational Seasons (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Celebrate Everything DSP (ret)
Ink	Granny Apple Green
Accessories	Lemon Lime Twist Ribbon (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Wintery Embossing Folder, Tailor Made Tags Dies

FMS604 Warm Wishes

Hi there, everyone!  Well, it is rainy and windy here on the east coast today; a perfect day to stay inside and.....CLEAN!  Well, and stamp too!  A wee bit of both! I really wanted to play with the FMS sketch this week:

There were lots of pretty leafy cards in the gallery, but I wanted to do something else, so I opted for a warm cup of cocoa and a Christmas card!

I started with a panel of Crumb Cake on which I used a Knit stencil from The Greetery, which fulfills the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge:

then added some snowflakes and a cup of cocoa and peppermint stick stirrers:

All the images were from some retired sets I haven't used in a while, so it was fun to get them inky!  The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp; I added a white border and mounted everything on a Emerald Envy square card measuring 4 1/4".  I added a Merry Christmas to the inside and added it to my Christmas card stash!  Thanks for visiting today!

We went to the Solanco (Southern Lancaster County) fair last night to see the exhibits, look at the craft and veggie submissions and check to see if my Christmas Advent Calendar cross stitch won anything!  Check! A blue ribbon!  The picture is hard to see because they cover all the projects with plastic but hopefully you can get the general idea:

Here's the jumbo pumpkin:

This little wagon of gourds won Best of Show:

And it was hard to choose a favorite flower but I thought this yellow rose was pretty:

So much to look at, but I only got a few pictures!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Snow Place (ret), Scentsational Season (ret), Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Emerald Envy (ret), Crumb Cake
Ink	Real Red, Emerald Envy, Berry Burst, Craft White
Accessories	Dimsnionals, Rhinestone
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Blending Brushes, Sponge Daubers, Holiday Collection Framelits (ret), Christmas Blessings Dies, Knit Stencil (The Greetery)

TCC146 Warmth of the Season

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  How is your week going?!  I hope okay!  We are back at The Card Concept where you tell us what "style" your card-making is!  Here's our beautiful, warm, cozy prompt for this week:

Mmmm, that looks delicious!  Makes me want to go have a latte, or cappuccino, or hot chocolate, or something!  And I had so many ideas!  Here's what I ended up with:

For my Clean and Layered card, I chose to use the Nordic theme, red tones and that pretty mug as my inspiration!  I stamped the mug from the retired Scentsational Season set in Riding Hood Red and after die-cutting it out, mounted it on an oval panel that was embossed with a Tim Holtz EF.  The sentiment is from the retired Hearts Come Home set, backed with some burlap ribbon and embellished with some wee little brown sequins:

The papers are from Simple Stories, and I did emboss two little rows of snowflakes to accent the vertical piece.  My sketch is from 52 Christmas Card Throwdown:

I hope you'll start the new year off with us and share something inspired by our photo!  Just be sure to tell us what "style" you used...you can find all the styles listed on the Card Concept blog!  See you there!  And thanks for stopping in today!

I do believe I have neglected showing Eden in her Christmas finery, and since it sort of matches today's card, here she is:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Scentsational Season (ret), Hearts Come Home (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Vellum, Naturals White (ret), Riding Hood Red (ret), Simple Vintage Christmas DSP (Simple Stories)
Ink	Crumb Cake, Riding Hood Red (ret)
Accessories	Sequins from my Stash, Burlap Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Holiday Collection Framlits (ret), Stitching Line Dies (Ellen Hutson), Oval Layering Dies, Scalloped Oval Dies (Nestabilities), Deer Knit Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz)

PP471 Sugar-Sprinkled Season

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Today is our last Paper Players challenge of 2019!!  Wow, this year zipped by!  We'll be taking off the next few weeks so our designers can have a break!!  Today is my turn to host the challenge, and I have a color challenge for you:

I wonder what I had in mind when I chose these colors...I have no idea!  But someone had a gingerbread challenge on their blog and that got my mind going, so here's my take on it:

My little gingerbread, stamped in Crumb Cake is on a silver "cookie sheet"!  I gave him some "sugar" decorations with some Ice Stampin' Glitter, and I also embellished the bottom edge of the embossed Seaside Spray panel with some silver ribbon!  Even though it looks coppery here, his cookie sheet really is silver: 

To add a little more silver to the mix, I heat-embossed a sentiment with Silver embossing powder as well:

I think this is a pretty color combo, and I hope you'll play along with us over at the Paper Players!  Be sure to stop by at least to see what gorgeous creations the DT came up with!  Share yours too!  See you there!

We have a covered dish at church today, so it's going to be busy--I put up my tree yesterday as well as a wreath on my dad's grave...it was one year yesterday he passed away.  The kids got their tree yesterday as well:

Can't wait to see it all decorated!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Christmas, Scentsational Seasons (ret), Perfect Mix, Whimsical Holiday (snowflake, Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Seaside Spray, Silver Foil
Ink	Seaside Spray, Crumb Cake, Silver Encore (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Silver Ribbon (ret), Ice Stampin' Glitter
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Tin Type Embossing Folder, Holiday Collection Framelits (ret), Heat Tool, Crumb Cake Blend, Blender Pen

IB81 Smore Gingerbread Men

Happy Thursday, everyone!  It's time for another Inspired By challenge, and you're gonna laugh when you see what the inspiration photo is today....it is NOT gingerbread men!  So here's my card:

And here's the inspiration photo Laurel chose for us:

Yum, don't they look like fun little treats?!  Just not gingerbread treats!  But I have a confession...I don't like s'mores.  I know, weird.  I like all the components individually, I just don't care for the combination! Way too messy for me!  BUT....I thought I could combine the elements....gingham, graham cracker tan, chocolate brown, marshmallow vanilla and silver---well, silver---together to create a little cookie sheet of gingerbread men:

The cookies from Scensational Season were stamped in Early Espresso on Crumb Cake--they look a little burnt, don't they?--and placed on a Silver Foil cookie sheet on which I embossed lines on the back to make it look like "sides".  I added some elements from the Apron Builder die set, as well as sentiments and stars from the Nothing Sweeter set from last Christmas:

For fun, I even die-cut a felt oven mitt...if I'd had more time, maybe I could have stitched a little design on it!  It was a fun card to put together!  Now, how will you be inspired by our photo?  I hope you'll share your creation with us too!  Can't wait to see what it is!

When you have a tornado warning, and you've got pizza, you eat it in the bathtub!!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Nothing Sweeter (ret), Scensational Season (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, WHisper White, Silver Foil, Frontier DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Real Red, Early Espresso
Accessories	Felt, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Squares Die, Stitched Shapes Die, Apron Builder Die (ret), Holiday Collection Die (ret), Light Red SU Blend, Radiant Sunflower Die (for stitched circle, Simon Says Stamp)

IB49 Cozy Peppermint

Hi peeps!  Happy Thursday to you all!  Brrr...it's cold here in PA, we even had a few snow flurries yesterday!  My Inspired By card for this week should warm you up:

And here is Laurel's sweet prompt; don't those candy canes look pepperminty-delicious?!

My layout was inspired by Try Stampin' On Tuesday:

I had several candy cane stamps but wanted to do something a little bolder, so I stamped the Buffalo Check stamp with Real Red ink on some white cardstock and used the candy cane die from Scentsational Season to tuck inside the mug from the same set, heat-embossed in silver:

I embossed the circle with a knit embossing folder and added a silver glimmer paper scallop, a Soft Sky tag and some Soft Sky seam binding:

The sentiments on the front are from Papertrey and on the inside, Close to My Heart!  I also embossed the Smoky Slate card base with the Subtle EF, just for fun!  I hope you can find something that inspires you in our latest challenge prompt, and share it with us at Inspired By!  And just for fun, Laurel has encouraged me to add this to the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!!

Santa visited Dana's work....Cassidy got all dressed up in her Christmas finery to tell him what she wanted:

Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Buffalo Check, Scentsational Season (ret), Just Treats-September Stamp of the Month (Close to My Heart ret), Holiday Treats (Papertrey), Christmas Script (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Smoky Slate, Silver Glimmer, Soft Sky (ret)
Ink	Real Red, Encore Silver (ret), Soft Sky (ret)
Accessories	Soft Sky Seam Binding and Baker's Twine (ret), Silver Embossing Powder, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot,  Circle and Scallop Dies (Nestabilties), Cozy Knit EF (Fun Stampers Journey), Tag Die (Papertrey ret), Scentsational Season Dies (ret), Heat Tool, 1 3/8" Circle Punch

MM263 and FMS311 Christmas Cocoa

Happy Thursday, all!  I just couldn't get through the entire week without making another Christmas card, sorry!  The sketch from FMS just called my name, and the inspiration photo from Merry Monday was too fun to pass up:

I pulled out two retired sets called Scentsational Season and Warmth and Wonder to create this cozy little scenario:

I used papers from KaiserCraft for the background, and SU's Wood Textures for the pinecones, as well as Tranquil Tide (greenery) and Vellum (steam) cardstocks:

I love the effect of white embossing on the vellum...I can almost smell that hot cocoa!  Another Christmas card for my stash!

Well, this is the only picture Cassidy would let me take of her Halloween costume:

The elusive JoJo girl!  Oh, she did let me take one of her flashing zip-up sneakers!  Can you see the lights?!  LOL!

Enjoy your day and be sure to come back tomorrow for a new As You See It challenge!  Be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Scentsational Season, Warmth and Wonder (both retired)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Vellum, Naturals White (ret), Tranquil Tide, Wood Textures DSP, Home for Christmas (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Riding Hood Red (ret), Chocolate Chip, White Craft
Accessories	White Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Heat Tool, Chocolate Chip Marker, Pretty Pines Thinlits, Scentsational Seasons Dies (ret), Dimensionals

Cozy Christmas Cup

Happy Saturday, everyone!  Hope your weekend is going well!  I just loved this sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch this week:

and although I was tempted to use a bird on my card, I realized I have been remiss in making Christmas cards, so I thought I would remedy that, and I used the prompt from Merry Monday as a starting point:

And amazingly, this card was a snap to put together!!!  It only took me about 15 minutes!!!  Here we go:

I used the mug from a retired SU set called Scentsational Seasons and heat-embossed it on some black and white DSP from Carta Bella; the plaid is from the same paper pad.  And the sentiment is from Clearly Besotted!  Love that cross-stitch font!

Cassidy got a little jewelry-making kit for Christmas, just basically bracelets and charms, but she was quite serious about the one she made for Mommy!

Thanks for popping in today and be blessed!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for the Paper Players challenge!

Project Details
Stamps	Scentsational Seasons (Ret SU); Christmas In Stitches (Clearly Besotted)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Riding Hood Red, Christmas Delivery DSP (Carta Bella)
Ink	Riding Hood Red, Craft White
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Reverse Confetti Lacy Scallop Frame Die, Mug Die, White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool