TTTC90 Gnome Tissue Holder

Hello again, stampers!  It's time for a new Tic Tac Toe challenge with Team X as on deck!  This board just happened to coincide with one of the projects that my stamp clubs made earlier in the week, so I thought I'd share it.  Here's the board; I chose Blue, Holiday and Sparkle/Shine, but I also have Plaid in there too!

And here we go:

This is an easy little tissue holder to keep in your purse or desk; it can be decorated for any season, but of course with this little gnome, he's for Christmas!!!  I will give the measurements below, it's as easy as pie!  The box itself is Seaside Spray and the gnome is from Gnome for the Holidays.  He's stamped in Memento ink and colored with Blends:

You can't see it here, but his beard and hat have been glittered up with some Wink of Stella!!  The sentiment on the front is from Itty Bitty Greetings, diecut with a little die from Smooth Sailing.  And if the girls wanted to give their little tissue holders away, they could add this to the back from Little Treats:

Such a cute little project!  Here are the measurements and quick directions:

1. Cut cardstock to 6 ¾” x 5 ¼”
2. Score on the longest side at 1”, 3 1/8”, 4 1/8” and 6 ¼”.
3. Score on the shortest side at 1”.
4. Fold and burnish all score lines.
5. Cut out the smallest rectangle at the bottom corner.
6. Cut v-shaped slits along the bottom, straddling the score lines, up to the horizontal score line.
7. Decorate your box whatever way you want.  (Easier to do before adhering and assembling the box!)
8. Apply Tear 'n Tape to the narrowest side piece and adhere box together.
9. Fold in bottom pieces and adhere, making sure box is straight and even.
10. Punch out a half-circle with circle punch at the front and slide in your tissues.

I hope you'll play along with our Tic Tac Toe board this week....LOTS of fun possibilities!  Share your creation with us at the TTT blog and check out the other amazing samples by the DT while you're there!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Ridiculously Awesome (star), Gnome for the Holidays, Itty Bitty Greetings, Little Treats
Card stock & Papers	Seaside Spray, Whisper White, Real Red DSP, Red Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Seaside Spray, Real Red, Memento Black
Accessories	Tear 'n Tape
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Smooth Sailing Dies, 1" Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Blends, Wink of Stella Pen, Small Star Punch (ret)

IB150 Vintage Santa Cheater Card

 Hello peeps, and happy Thursday!  Oh boy, do I LOVE today's Inspired By challenge!  Check out this sweet prompt:

As some of my stamping friends know, this is right up my vintage-Santa-lovin' alley!  These images just remind me of Christmas from when I was a wee one!  But I have to admit that I "cheated" a wee little bit in making my card today!  I happened to be hoarding some scrapbook papers from Authentique and I decided to break them out!  So the only stamping I did were the sentiments on the front and inside!  Here ya go:

Isn't he a jolly fellow?  And that reindeer is just too cute!  SO....here's the stamped sentiment on the front, from Pink Fresh's December Days:

And I did add some sparkle to Santa's beard and hat with some Martha Stewart and Dazzling Diamonds glitter:

 

And I found a simple sentiment from Close to My Heart for the inside; the card base is Mossy Meadow, so that's the ink I used, stamped on a Naturals White mat:

I love this guy, he's going to be difficult to mail away!  But hopefully he'll make someone smile this Christmas too!  Now, what will you create with our inspiration photo this week?  Can't wait to see what you make....share it over at the IB blog!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

"Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.  The Lord works out everything for his own ends--even the wicked for a day of disaster." Proverbs 16:3-4 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Merry Christmas (Close to My Heart), December Days (Pink Fresh)
Card stock & Papers	Mossy Meadow, Naturals White (ret), Nostalgia Nine (Authentique SB page)
Ink	Real Red, Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Dazzling Diamonds Glitter (ret), Martha Stewart Vintage Silver Glitter
Tools

TMS580 Masculine Birthday

 Hi stampers, happy Wednesday!  I have a masculine birthday card today for our BIL; when I checked my card stash, there are hardly ANY masculine cards!  Yikes, I need to work on that!  So I quick went to my patterned paper supply and came up with this:

The papers from from Echo Park's This and That 6x6 pad, mounted on a Bumblebee card; the truck is from Unity's Consider Yourself Vintage.  It was stamped on the reverse side of the numeric paper in Early Espresso and fussy cut.  I used another pattern to create a stitched rectangle, with a Just Jade mat:

and I used the cut-out part for my sentiment from Here's a Card:

I am not sure where the Happy Birthday die came from, but it is cut from Early Espresso cardstock and popped up on some foam....although that will probably get squished in the mail when it goes through the postal system!!!  Anyway, I used the Tuesday Morning Sketches sketch for my layout:

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

Sahara Christmas

 Hey peeps! I am hunkering down, making Christmas cards to share with my club girls as well as to mail out!  The Classic Christmas DSP that SU is currently selling really appeals to me...those little prints in traditional colors are so soothing!  I chose the Sahara Sand ones to make a couple of cards over the weekend!  

The first one is for the Jingle Belles challenge "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear"...they want something clear on your card; I also used the CAS(E) This Sketch sketch:

I dusted off my white Stazon ink and went to work, stamping some snowflakes on window sheets for my simple card:

Of course, it's always a challenge to photograph something "clear"....here is a picture of the windows showing the edge of the back of the card peeking through the windows:

I added sentiments from Itty Bitty Christmas on the front as well as the inside, strategically placed so it didn't show through the window!

The second card also uses the Sahara Sand patterns; this is for the JUGS challenge which is triangles:

This card is a wee bit shorter than a standard-sized card; I had a piece of cardstock left over from another project and just decided to use it for a card. I used the Stitched Triangle dies, cutting four from the various patterns, adding Soft Suede "trunks" and gold metallic pearls for an embellishment:

This sentiment is from Wrapped in Christmas...such a pretty one, too!  

Thanks so much for popping in today...enjoy it and be blessed!

"God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them." Hebrews 6:10

Both Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Wrapped in Christmas, Itty Bitty Christmas, Jolly Bingo Bits (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Window Sheets, Classic Christmas DSP, Soft Suede
Ink	Crumb Cake, Stazon White (ret)
Accessories	Metallic Pearls, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Circles Dies, Stitched Triangle Dies

52CCTD41 Joy to the World

 Hi peeps!  Wow, what a fabulous weekend weather-wise we had...temps in the mid-70s!  I think we are having the October weather that passed us by last month!  I am sure we'll pay for it later on, though, LOL!  The Christmas Card Throwdown challenge had a "challenging" sketch for sure, but I gave it a go!  Here's the sketch:

I have my stamp clubs today, so I was trying to make some samples with the Classic Christmas DSP papers...I just love them!  SO here we go, in the color palette of Cherry Cobbler and Shaded Spruce:

I used a die from Ornate Layers and layered on pieces of the little tree pattern in the corresponding colors:

These dies are a bit fussy to use, but they certainly are worth the effort!  In order to not compete with the intricate borders, I just did a very simple sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas.  I did put the panels on a layer of Whisper White diecut with a Stitched Rectangle die and embossed with the Dainty Diamonds EF!  Another Christmas card to add to the stash!  Thanks for popping in today---enjoy it and be blessed!

PP516 Peaceful Colors

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Joanne is our Paper Players hostess this week with a great color challenge that is sure to get your holiday stamping on a roll!  Here we go:

The FMS sketch was a good one this week, so I thought I'd put it to work:

And here we go:

 

 

Feels Like Frost is a beautiful DSP with photographic images on one side and silver foil designs on the other.  I chose this silver striped paper as a background for a tree from Winter Woods, stamped in Shaded Spruce, and a diecut sentiment (ret) in Real Red.  I added some Real Red scallop trim and enamel dots:

This went together pretty quickly, as it's nice, clean and simple!  And while I had that DSP on my desk, I flipped it over and created another card with the same layout; this time I used a sentiment from Poinsettia Petals, stamped in Misty Moonlight and cut with a Stitched Rectangle die.  For some extra sparkle, I added some blue Glimmer paper as a mat:

Not in the PP colors, but still very pretty!  

I hope you'll play along with our colors this week!  We can't wait to see what you create!  Check out what the designers made at our Paper Players blog!  Thanks for popping by!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Winter Woods
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Real Red, Feels Like Frost DSP
Ink	Shaded Spruce
Accessories	Enamel Dots (W+9)
Tools	Big Shot, In The Woods Dies, Christmas Greetings Dies (ret)

Second Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Poinsettia Petals
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Feels Like Frost DSP, Balmy Blue Glimmer Paper
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies

Truly Grateful

Happy Saturday, peeps!  I have a Thanksgiving card for you today, using a retired SU set that I just love!  Here we go:

The set is called Truly Grateful; I stamped the background and wheat sheaf on a piece of Very Vanilla and colored it in with ink and a Blender pen:

The sentiment was stamped on a piece of Gilded Autumn specialty paper, which also is used for all the other layers except for the gold foil.  I used Tear n Tape to adhere it to the front, creating a bit of a curve to it for interest:

If you can believe it, I've only used stamps, ink and paper on this...no embellishments, no diecuts, no embossing!  So here are the challenges in which it will be entered:

The Spot:  Plant Kindness, Harvest Love, Krafty Chicks Challenge-Stamp Act, Just Add Ink -Stamps, Ink, and Paper, and Fab Friday's sketch:

Thanks for popping in today!  I am truly grateful for all of YOU!  And for nature; check out this sunrise photo Dana sent to me:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Truly Grateful
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Gilded Autumn Specialty Paper, Gold Foil
Ink	Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze
Accessories
Tools	Blender Pen