FMS566 Peaceful Deer

Happy Friday, peeps!  I really liked the FMS sketch this week (well, don't I always like their sketches, LOL?) and I keep needing just one more card!  So here's the sketch:

I can credit my friend Michele for enabling me to get these PTI deer; I saw her card HERE (scroll all the way down) and raced to get them for myself!  So here we go:

I think I might have overdone it with the embossing in the background but I love that Nordic look!  My deer were stamped in Cinnamon Cider and the plaid is an old SU paper from a couple of Christmases ago!  The Mossy Meadow greenery is from a Tim Holtz die and the sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp, fussy cut out and mounted on a Stylish Shapes die:

Another SSS sentiment on my Mossy Meadow base; although it looks like Old Olive here!

And it's in the mail!  Thanks for popping in today; enjoy it and be blessed! I am off to do my once-yearly trip to the mall! Wish me luck!

The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.  So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.  Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.  For no word from God will ever fail." Luke 1:35-27

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Deer to Me (Papertrey), Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Cherry Cobbler, Plaid Tidings DSP??(Ret)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Cinnamon Cider (ret)
Accessories	Rhinestones (colored with a Cherry Cobbler Blend), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Deer to Me Dies (PTI), Holiday Greenery Dies (Tim Holtz), Reindeer EF (Tim Holtz)

HSS404 Silent Night

Happy wet, soggy, rainy, icy Thursday, peeps!  I know some areas of the US are being bombarded by snow, so I am not complaining!  Our church small group is having our Christmas party tonight at our home, so I am glad the temps are just a wee bit above freezing!

I am still making Christmas cards!  The sketch from Hand Stamped Sentiments sort of fit the bill for the card I wanted to make for my friend from church; I subsituted a rectangle for a circle, so I hope that's okay!  First, here's the sketch:

And here's the card:

My Stamplorations stamp was inked up in Night of Navy, and I used Night of Navy DSP for the background, adding a strip of Silver glimmer paper as well as some glimmer paper stars, just to jazz it up a little.  Some thin blue baker's twine went across the bottom of the image:

Sentiments from Simon Says Stamp's Christmas Blessings went on the inside, along with another star:

I am also squeaking this in to the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, where they're looking for blue and white!

My great-nephews have a tradition of making cookies with their grandmother; I just love the looks on their faces:

I make spritz too, but I never though to extrude them in long strips, then cut them apart!  Ingenious!  I'll have to try that next year!  Here they are with mom too:

Some yummy treats for sure! Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.  But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid.  I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.  Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.  This will be a sign to you:  You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and laying in a manger." Luke 2:8-12

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Silent Night (Stamplorations), Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Night of Navy DSP, Silver Glimmer
Ink	Night of Navy
Accessories	Dimensionals, Fan Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Star Punch (ret)

SS298 Chalkboard Christmas

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  I am still making Christmas cards....just because there still so many fun challenges out there and I have so many stamps!  Today my card uses the sketch from Sunday Stamps:

I wanted to do something a bit different, so I decided to do a chalkboard card...not all the stamping is "chalkboard", mostly the background; well, I pretty much covered that up too, LOL!  But here we go:

I used stamps from Forever Fern, inking them in Craft White ink on some retired chalkboard paper, then giving them a good dusting with some white pastels.  I diecut some greenery from the retired Cardinals dies, and created a sparkly off-white poinsettia with the retired Poinsettia dies and Vanilla Glimmer paper:

I added some red berries and a couple random flowers for a little more interest.  The sentiment was stamped in Real Red on some woodgrain paper and diecut, then matted with Real Red; the inside of the Real Red card has a little scrap of the reverse side of the woodgrain paper and another sentiment from the same set, Christmas Blessings from Simon Says Stamp:

Thanks for popping by today!  

The pups all dressed up to go Christmas tree chopping!

Eden was a naughty girl though; she broke out of her harness and got into someone else's car!!!  I think she didn't like the netting machine, LOL!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Forever Fern, Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Real Red, Chalkboard (ret), Garden Green, Basic White, VV Glimmer, Christmas Delivery DSP (Carta Bella)
Ink	Real Red, Craft White
Accessories	Pastels (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Poinsettia Dies (ret), Cardinal Dies (ret), 1/4" Circle Punch, White Gel Pen

Dollar Store Inspired TGIF398

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I feel like shopping and cookie-baking has taken over my life and my stamping time has been put on the back burner! I did have a few minutes last night to finish a card I started earlier in the week!!  I got this cute little jar last year at the Dollar Store and filled it with a bottlebrush tree, some greenery and a couple of red bells sitting on some cotton batting:

I thought it would be fun to recreate it (except I didn't realize until after I did all my diecutting that the blades were GOLD!) on a card!  So here we go:

I think it would have looked fabulous with gold blades, too...maybe I'll do another!  Here's the sketch from TGIF that I used:

I used an Avery Elle skate stamp and die and a Papertrey gingham stamp.  The AE stamp set also has the greenery and berries, and I used the Wintry embossing folder for the background panel:

I used a Tim Holtz die for the holly in the corners and a Lil'Inker bell, along with a Lawn Fawn sentiment:

Finally, a Kaiser sentiment on the inside! I gave a lot of different products lots of love! (And truthfully, my background paper looks a lot more orange in the photo!)

Thanks for visiting today!

After we made our sea glass Christmas trees, Dana brought her friend Lisa to our house; she had never stamped before, so I set up the Stamparatus (in my very messy craft room), cut some paper and cardstock and they each made a card:

They did a great job!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Peace Joy Love (Lawn Fawn), Holiday Skates (Avery Elle)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Evening Evergreen, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, Home for Christmas (Violet Studio), Brushed Silver (ret)
Ink	Versafine Black, Evening Evergreen, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories	Dimensionals, Floss
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Wintry EF, Bell Die (Lil'Inker), Holiday Greens Dies (Tim Holtz), Holiday Skate Dies (Avery Elle)

PP621 A Tree of Words

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Today is the Paper Players' last challenge of the year and Ann has a lovely color palette for us; check it out:

I just love those rich tones!  I wanted to make a special Christmas card for my neighbor, and I had an idea in mind, and these colors worked perfectly!  Here we go:

I had gotten the Impression Obsession set called Christmas Words at the end of last year and hadn't gotten it inky yet.  I remembered at a stamp weekend many, many years ago that Korin from Sweet & Sassy stamps used a word set to create a Christmas tree, so I worked with the words in the set, lining them up on my Stamparatus, and created my "tree":

I thought lining them up would be a breeze...but it was NOT!  I still didn't get a few of them spaced out exactly as I wanted, but I was ready to say "Good enough"!!  I stamped them in Evening Evergreen on Very Vanilla cardstock, then added an Evening Evergreen mat.  At the bottom, I embossed and diecut a sentiment from the retired Toile Christmas on Brushed Gold cardstock and mounted it on another gold panel:

I embossed the front of the Cherry Cobbler card with the Wrapped in Texture EF, and added a sentiment from the Toile Christmas on the inside:

The sketch is from Freshly Made Sketches:

I hope you'll find time in your busy schedules to play along with us this week!  You don't have to make a Christmas card, either...these colors can be beautiful with florals too!  Check out what the whole DT made over at the Paper Players blog, then share yours with us too!

On Friday night, Cassidy, Dana and her friend Lisa and I went to a crafty neighbor's house to make little seaglass Christmas trees.  It was a lot of fun and we used a lot of hot glue!

For some reason, I missed taking a picture of Dana's and Lisa's, but here are Cassidy's and mine:

She added little bits of glass as "ornaments"; I did a rather poor job of mine, but I am giving it to the girl who owns the apartment that we rent each summer in Lewes, Delaware...her decor is beach-themed and will look much better there than in my house!  A tealight fits underneath the plastic form and really looks cute when it is lit! 

Thanks for visiting today...enjoy it and be blessed!  The Players will see you again in 2023!

"I am the way, the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Toile Christmas (ret), Christmas Words (Impression Obsession)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Evening Evergreen, Cherry Cobbler, Brushed Gold
Ink	Evening Evergreen, Cherry Cobbler, Gold Encore (ret)
Accessories	Gold Metallic Pearls (ret), Mini Dimensionals, Gold Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Wrapped in Texture EF (ret), Christmas Cardinal Dies (ret), Layering Oval Dies (ret), Heat Tool, Stamparatus, Star Punch (ret)

TH Vintage Santa Christmas

Happy Thursday, peeps! I have another Christmas card for you; I have SO many Christmas stamps and I just can't get to them all in one year...but I'm trying!  This one uses a Tim Holtz embossing folder that I didn't even know I HAD!  I paired it with a TH vintage Santa, tree and star, along with some other vintage-y looking doo-dads!  Here we go:

I started by embossing a piece of Cherry Cobbler cardstock and sponging it with some Cinnamon Cider ink, then stamped a Crumb Cake panel with a Cornish Heritage Farms sheet music stamp and the tree from Tim Holtz's Holiday Things set in Evening Evergreen.  I stamped the Santa and star on Basic White in Cherry Cobbler and also sponged them.  In hindsight, I wish I had used Very Vanilla!  I added some gold glimmer paper diecuts in the corners:

and a sentiment from a fun company called Flonzcraft, headquartered in New Zealand!  Isn't that a pretty font?

One of their sentiments for the inside too!  Thanks for popping in today!

I promised some more pictures of Longwood; here you go:

This is the view as you walk into the conservatory, with my favorite tree in the background!

This tree was made of succulents!  Check out the "stars" at the top!

This tree was decorated with all kinds of natural things--pine cones and dried foliage and lots and lots of lights!

John "warming" himself by the fireplace....the swag was probably 6' across!

And this was such a cool display: a whole wall of wreaths and everything you can think of with which to decorate them!  I could have just looked at it all day!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Holiday Things (Tim Holtz), Vintage Christmas Sentiment (Flonzcraft), Aged Sheet Music (Cornish Heritage Farms)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic White, Evening Evergreen, Cherry Cobbler, Gold Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Evening Evergreen, Cinnamon Cider
Accessories	Dimensionals, Sponge Daubers, Blending Brush
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Detailed Deer Dies (ret), Deckle Edge Dies, Christmas Words EF (Tim Holtz)

AHSC502 Christmas Cookies

Happy Wednesday, stamping friends!  I am still making Christmas cards....one can never have enough, LOL!  I pulled out an old set called Nothing Sweeter and its matching dies, Sweetly Stitched, to make a Christmas cookie card!  And these cookies have no calories! I used the Atlantic Hearts sketch:

And here we go:

I embossed the "icing" with Craft white ink and white embossing powder, then added "sprinkles" of Real Red and Garden Green.  The dies not only cut out the cookies, they also give them a fun embossing as well!

I added a little heat-embossed tag and some gumdrop DSP and it's ready to go in the mail!  And here's the inside...the embossed star stamp on top of the tree actually stamps three stars, so I stuck the other two on the inside:

Thanks for popping in today---enjoy it and be blessed!

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own” (Matthew 6:34)

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Nothing Sweeter (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Garden Green, Crumb Cake, Candy Cane Lane DSP (ret)
Ink	Craft White, Real Red, Garden Green
Accessories	White Embossing Powder, Real Red Baker's Twine (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circle Dies, Sweetly Stitched Dies (ret), Tasteful Label Dies (ret), Heat Tool