25 Days Of Tags - Days 4, 5, & 6

Hello friends.  Still playing along with Tracey McNealy's 25 Days Of Christmas Tags and today I have tags from Days 4, 5, & 6.

Day 4 is sponsored by Reverse Confetti and I was totally inspired by Tricia Barber and her adorable little Gnomes!

I loved Reverse Confetti's new Stitched Grid Tag die, so I improvised with PTI's Grid stamp and Reverse Confetti's Holiday Gnomes stamp set.  These were so much fun to color up with the red, green, and aqua!!

Day 5 is sponsored by Newton's Nook and I was inspired by Zsofia Molnar's sweet little kitty tags!

I loved Zsofia's red, kraft, & white color theme too, and used an MFT tag die and PTI Bitty Big DSP and a SSS kitty stamp to create my version of Zsofia's tags.

Day 6 is sponsored by Paper Sweeties and I loved both Joyce Mehrberg's and Lindsey M-p's cute little Winter birdhouses!

I used the same MFT tag die as yesterdays tags, and then stamped a Northwoods rubber stamp that I've had forever (yep, on a wooden block!) and colored with my Copics.  The sentiment is from PTI's Rustic Wreath and I also added some tiny red Nuvo Drops for berries on the greenery and Dazzling Diamonds glitter (SU!) on the rooftops of the birdhouses.  The backgrounds were blended with Salty Ocean DOX ink and then splattered with white acrylic paint.

Can you tell I like making Christmas tags?!!  Join in the fun...there's LOTS of prizes to be won!!  Check it all out right HERE.

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25 Days of Tags 2018 - Days 1, 2, & 3

Hello friends.  I love, LOVE making Christmas tags and today I am playing along with Days 1, 2, & 3 of Tracey McNealy's 25 Days of Christmas Tags challenge.

Day 1 was sponsored by Simon Says Stamp and I was inspired by 2 different tags and came up with these:

For the tag on the left, I was inspired by Jo Nevil's tag...I LOVED how she used tiny Poinsettia's (PTI's Pleasing Envelopes) on top of die cut snowflakes (SSS's Marisa Snowflake) and the Faire Isle background (Catherine Pooler's Cozy Border's).  For the tag on the right I was inspired Debbie Yates adorable tag with all the red & white with the pop of green for her wreath and used an AliExpress tag die and PTI's Mini Tag Along kit for the wreath.

Day 2 was sponsored by Altenew :

I loved Enza Gudor's lovely, lovely tag using Altenew's Holiday Bow stamp set.  I stamped and fussy cut everything out and attached to a tag I stamped with a hardwood background stamp in light gray ink.  The sentiment is from Altenew's Blessings stamp set.

Day 3 is being sponsored by Concord & 9th:

I absolutely fell in LOVE with Emily Midgett's beautiful black & white tag with the pop of teal!  I used Concord & 9th's Plaid Background stamp set on top of an MFT tag and then added the die cuts using PTI's Bold Borders: Yuletide, Shaped Sayings: Christmas, & Holly Jolly dies with silver cs (Thanks Darnell!!) and silver glittered cs that I colored with a Copic BG49 marker to get the teal color.  A few white Nuvo drops were added for the berries.

I was hoping to catch a bit of the sparkle from the Copic colored silver glitter cs, but no sunshine or decent light to photograph with today...grrrrrr!!

This is such a FUN challenge to play along with and you can check it all out right HERE.

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CAS Watercolour Nov. 2018 - Christmas Florals & Greenery

Hello friends.  Welcome back to another challenge here at CAS Watercolour, where this month Susan is hosting our challenge and would like to see Christmas Florals & Greenery on your cards. (NO tree's please...we've already done tree's!)

So many options to choose for this challenge as I'm a bit obsessed about making Christmas cards and have LOTS to choose from, but in the end I went with a new Penny Black stamp (well new to me!) called berry speckled.

Now I realize there's no flowers on this card, but at this time of year I think just simple greenery and berries is SO BEAUTIFUL that it qualifies as a flower!!  I put the stamp in my MISTI and used a combination of distress and SU! markers to ink up the stamp and then misted very lightly before stamping on my water color cardstock.  I repeated this process till I had the depth of color I was happy with, and this time actually remembered to do the berries last so that my red didn't run all over the place!

Here's a closer up shot so you can see the detail better.  I also used a stamp from Penny Blacks Yuletide Wishes to stamp my sentiment, and then matted my card with a layer of Old Olive cs and adhered to a white card base.  CAS and I love the way this one turned out!!

There is lot's of BEAUTIFUL inspiration from the DT and our special guest Maura, so check it all out right HERE and then play along with us...we'd LOVE to see you in the gallery!

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Holiday Cheer

Hello friends.  Just a quick post showing a couple cards I made with MFT's Pure Innocence Holiday Cheer stamp set.

I just love her all bundled up in her Winter coat and carrying all her holiday packages!

I love how this card turned out, but I had originally planned on just coloring her totally with Copics and thought I was using a alcohol ink marker friendly ink.  However, when I started coloring her face and boots, I was getting bleeding, so I switched to paper piecing the rest of the image...still turned out cute!  The DSP is from SU!'s Festive Farmhouse paper and the frame is using PTI's Pierced Feature Frames.

For my 2nd card I stamped the girl in Versafine Onyx Black and then heat embossed with clear...made coloring with my Copics so much easier!  I did use more of the Festive Farmhouse DSP for her packages and the trees (Gina Marie Designs die) and frame.

Here's a closer up so you can see that I added a little snow hill and added glitter to it to add some sparkle.  I also WOS'd the little stars on the trees to look like twinkle lights.  Both of these cards were finished off with some simple jute twine.  How is your Christmas card stash coming along??  I think I'm getting close!  Now if I can just get them all signed and addressed and in the mail BEFORE Christmas!!  :0)

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Make It Monday #341 - Painted Brushstroke Backgrounds

Hello friends.  Dawn has a FUN technique called Painted Brushstroke Backgrounds for this week's Make It Monday challenge...you can check it all out right HERE!

I have a couple cards to share today as after I painted my 1st background, I didn't think it was too pretty, so I tried again.  My 2nd one didn't look that much better, but after I decided to just go with it and make them into cards, I loved the look!!

I used Craft Smart's Pink Bliss, Apple Tart, Ocean Breeze, & Red acrylic paints to paint my backgrounds.

For my 1st card I used the Bold Borders: Flurries die on one of my backgrounds and then adhered to a white card base.  Before I die cut either background, I sprayed them with Sheer Shimmer and Sparkle Spritz and I so wish I could capture that in the photo's as both of these cards really SPARKLE!!  I almost didn't buy this die because I thought I had enough snowflake dies, but I really, really liked the font for the JOY die, and I'm so glad now that I purchased it!  I layered 4 more JOY die cuts behind the colored one and adhered it to the center, and at this point I decided it didn't need anything else...between the colors, the sparkle, all the snowflakes, and the dimensional JOY die cut, this card just didn't need anything else!  So really a very quick and easy card that really packs a punch!!

For my 2nd card I used Dawn's idea and just used the negative of the Say It Simply: Merry & Bright die and adhered to a white card base.  I added a few of the smallest Fancy Flakes cut in half and finished with some white baker's twine.  Once again, very simple but all the SPARKLE really takes this card up another notch!  I still have the positive die cut from this card to make a 3rd card with, but didn't want to totally overwhelm ya!!  :0)

The little rectangle center piece that was left over from the Bold Borders: Flurries die was just to pretty to throw away, so I rounded the corners on one end and attached it to a tag die from the Holiday Tag Along Mini Kit.  Easy peasy and again, lots of SPARKLE!!

Check out Dawn's BEAUTIFUL cards and video and then play along right HERE  … it really is a FUN challenge!!

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Make It Monday #340 - Banner-ific!

Hello friends.  Michelle has a FUN and BEAUTIFUL project for this week's Make It Monday challenge...you can check out her lovely, lovely banner and video right HERE.

I would have loved to copy Michelle's banner completely as it is SO pretty...loved every little detail and especially the color combo she used!  I didn't want to be a copy-cat though, so I got out my new Warmer Together set and came up with this:

I wish I had a wide angle lens so you could see what it looks like all stretched out, but...  I started with the Made With Love Tags 2 and cut the bottom piece from the Aqua Mist Bitty Big DSP and the top layer from gray cs.  Next I die cut three of the medium Fancy Flakes snowflakes in Aqua Mist cs and quite liberally doused them diamond glitter! Next came the fun part of adding the penguins from the Warmer Together set.

Aren't they just the sweetest?!  I have to tell you though that I had a heck of a time lining these little guys up until I decided to stamp them in backwards order.  I stamped the black faces first, then the Weathervane gray for the feathers, and lastly the solid body stamps with Soft Stone ink.  I used
Summer Sunrise for the feet and beaks.

I decided to make this banner for my oldest daughter who has 2 children, so I stamped all 4 penguins that come in the set...one is supposed to represent our son in law, one our daughter, and the 2 smallest penguins represent Addy and Landon!  I think they'll get a kick out of this!  I finished the banner with the smallest snowflake die from the Fancy Flakes set in white for between the tags and also glittered them up in a major way...this banner really SPARKLES!!

 This was definitely a FUN challenge this week, so check out Michelle's video and lovely, lovely banner right HERE and then play along!

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Papertrey Ink Blog Hop Oct. 2018

Hello friends.  It's the 25th and that means it's time for Papertrey Ink's monthly BLOG HOP, and Autumn is definitely the season shown by this month's inspiration photo!!

I was inspired obviously by the pumpkins, but also the cart and the chalkboard sign.  I was also inspired by Kelly Lunceford's post HERE using the Make It Market Kit: Market Street which sadly I think I have used only once since it came out and I HAD to have it!  So anyway, I came up with a CAS card and little cart that I filled with candy pumpkins...take a look:

I die cut the cart out of Kraft cs and then stamped it using Cocoa Bean ink stamped off once.  The pumpkins were stamped with Melon Berry and Orange Zest and the leaves with Prairie Grass and then die cut and attached to the cart along with the sign in black stamped with white ink.

I attached my cart to a white card base that I embossed with an older Craft Concepts ef called Stately to add the embossed lines around the edges.  Some bakers twine and iridescent sequins finished off my card.

 

And while I was at it, I made a little matching cart using Kraft cs and the dies from the Make It Market Kit: Market Street.  I used an older SU! background stamp called Hardwood to stamp the sides of the cart with Cocoa Bean ink and then sponged the wheels and body of the cart also with Cocoa Bean ink.  This cart came together SO easily and was the perfect size to add a few of those pumpkins from Brach's Harvest Mix.

So there you have it...a sweet little gift that I think I'll give to my mom for Halloween!  Can't wait to see how everyone else interpreted the inspiration photo...always FUN to hop along and check it all out HERE.

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