Mashup Challenge 23

One of the perks of being a Mashup Maven at Friday Mashup is that you get to be a guest designer!  Woohoo!  So today, the Mashup Challenge is a sketch:

and since I need a couple more Christmas cards, I chose to make a vintage scene using the snowman from Jolly Old Saint Nick:

with some snowflakes from Northern Hearts as my background images…..all in shades of Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke and Crumb Cake.  I used a blender pen for coloring and shading; a Glimmer brad to attach my sentiment, which was colored using a Chocolate Chip marker, then punched with the Modern Label punch.  The final embellishment is some VV seam binding and Tinsel trim….I just can’t seem to get away from that stuff!

I do hope you’ll stop by the Friday Mashup challenge blog and play along…they’re fairly new, so show them some love!

• Stamps:  Jolly Old Saint Nick, Northern Hearts
• Paper:  VV, Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip, Deck the Halls DP
• Ink:  Stazon, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke
• Acc:  Scallop Trim Border & Corner Punches, Glimmer Brad, Blender Pen, MS glitter, 1” Circle Punch, Dimensionals, VV Seam Binding, Tinsel

And here’s a little something for you to smile at:

CAS Christmas

I am winding down on the Christmas cards….just a few more to do.  The embellishment on this one sort of just happened.  I trimmed a piece of Deck the Halls paper to fit the front of my card, and when I flipped over the small piece that remained, the little flourish and partial holly leaf was what was left.  I thought it looked kind of neat---already centered---so I stamped a sentiment from Come to Bethlehem on another scrap, punched it out with my extra-large oval punch and trimmed off the bottom edge to line up against the line on the DP….it sort of looks as if it’s tucked down in there, doesn’t it? I added a scallop oval of another scrap, sponging everything, and layering it behind.  Oh, do you want to see the card?  Here it is!

I cut out a piece of holly and popped it up; the final embellishment was some pearls that I colored with Copic RV99…a fairly good match for the DP.  Here’s the inside:

Thanks for visiting!

• Stamps:  Come to Bethelem
• Paper:  Sahara Sand, Deck the Halls DP
• Ink:  Soft Suede, Cherry Cobbler
• Acc:  Pearls, Copics, Extra Large Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Dimensionals, Daubers

Christmas wishes

Kathy Martin, who is just the sweetest blogger ever, offered this SWEET little vintage postcard free on her blog!  I snagged it the instant I found it and used it to make a simple card for this week’s Little Red Wagon challenge, which is to use rub-ons:

I cropped part of the image out that had the sentiment and added my own rub-on sentiment from a retired SU set; I scalloped the bottom edge, added some buttons and glittered both the buttons as well as the scallops.  (I read that in a prior post, Kathy did a similar thing with her buttons!  I guess some of her style is rubbing off on me without my even knowing it!).  The whole image is printed on SU’s Shimmery White paper, which makes it all sparkly:

I added some rub-ons to the inside as well (I think I need some rub-on practice; we have a little crookedness going on):

Thanks for visiting again today!

Felt Mittens

The Color Throwdown team is taking a break for the rest of the year, so I decided to participate in a few other challenges.  This cute little treat holder is just like the one I got from Carol; it makes a perfect gift holder for the teens in our family!  She shows one on her blog here, and you can find directions for it here.

Here are the challenges:

• The Kraft Journal – to make something  kraft (they have giveaways---check it out!)
• City Crafter Challenge 35 – also to use kraft in your project
• Friday Mashup 22 – to use snowflakes
• and The Shabby Tea Room Challenge 40– to use felt in your project

and here are the details:

• Stamps:  Winter Schminter, Whippersnapper; Mixed Messages, PTI; Snowy Day, Artistic Outpost
• Paper:  Crumb Cake, Confetti White, Jolly by Golly, CC
• Ink:  Real Red, Crumb Cake
• Acc:  Mittens Nestabilities, Floss, Brights Buttons, Brights Brads, Circle Punch, Word Window Punch, Felt

Thanks for visiting today!!! 

Help! Help!

Did I get your attention?!  LOL!  I received this lovely card from my neighbor:

and I promptly called her to ask her if I could borrow that beautiful collage stamp—love it!  She confessed that she didn’t stamp it, but bought it from an Amish lady who was selling her cards at a hardware store.  I checked at a local Amish stamp store but the owner didn’t recognize the stamp---does ANYONE recognize this stamp?  I think it’s a real beauty and I’d love to have it or get some images stamped…..so help me out, fellow bloggers and stampers!  Let me know if you know who makes it—thanks!

ColourQ63

I had to pull out some retired colors for Arielle’s sweet little challenge today:

You know how you get a card in the mail and realize you haven’t sent that person a card in return?  I am making a couple of these for those occasions!  It’s a clean & simple design using those retired colors and a retired set, Patterned Pines:

It also uses some retired Bride Specialty paper; some blingy-ding-ding and a current set provides the sentiment: Curly & Cute.  I did some creative cutting and piercing:

and added a little embroidery floss bow just for sweetness!  Please visit the ColourQ blog to see what the other designers have created---I am sure you’ll be inspired to create something too!  And thanks so much for visiting today!

• Stamps:  Patterned Pines, Curly & Cute
• Paper:  Bride Specialty Paper, WW
• Ink:  Kiwi Kiss, Ruby Red, Bermuda Bay, Chocolate Chip
• Acc:  Paper Piercer, Rhinestones, Dimensionals, Floss

Getting the Tree

I have had this Mo Manning digital image stamped and colored, sitting on my desk, for one year!!!  Yep!  I just didn’t know what to do with it…..I wanted to do something more than a card, but just wasn’t sure what.  I finally found a yard-sale frame, and thought that it would a nice way to highlight my watercolored image:

Actually the frame is more silver-colored than shows here, and I always have issues photographing red cardstock, but I think you can get the basic idea of my little Christmas picture.  The digital stamp was printed on SU’s watercolor paper, then colored with an Aquapainter and various ink colors.  It is mounted on Basic Black and adhered to Real Red cardstock with some dimensionals.  I computer-generated the sentiment and plopped the whole thing in the frame!  Here’s a closeup of the artwork….I just LOVE her style!

That little boy looking over his shoulder at his footprints in the snow……just priceless!

Thanks for visiting today!!!  Off to do more baking!