Merry Monday #256 - Favorite Holiday Movie

Hello friends.  Nina is our hostess with this week's challenge at Merry Monday, and she would like you to make a Christmas card based on your favorite Christmas movie.  I love everything Christmas, and that includes Christmas movies too!  So let's see...Home Alone (Merry Christmas ya filthy animal!), Charlie Brown Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, White Christmas, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, and the list goes on and on!  But when it comes right down to it, there's just something about the movie Elf that makes me laugh and smile the whole way through!

I used one of Buddy the elf's favorite sayings and computer generated it and added a elf image from MFT's Santa's Elves and came up with this:

I colored my elf with Copics in colors to match Buddy's elf outfit and then pop dotted him against some green checked DSP (Sorry...it was a scrap and I don't remember the manufacturer) and added a banner that I die cut with a Gina Marie Design die.  A couple enamel dots finished off my simple card.

We can't wait to see what Christmas movies inspire your cards this week, so check out all the inspiration from the DT and Guest Designers, and then play along with us right HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by today...I love it when you do!

CAS Mix Up - September 2017

Hello friends.  Playing along with this month's CAS Mix Up challenge, where they are looking for a Watercolour Wash, which is a semi-transparent layer of color.

Here's what I came up with:

I did a real light wash of orange with my Gansai Tambi water colors and when that was dry I stamped my pumpkin image from Impression Obsession (D19277) in Versafine Onyx Black ink.  To add a little bit of framing I used PTI's Mix & Mat: Flourish Die and then added my embossed sentiment banner from PTI's Sunflower Harvest set.  Definitely CAS and as Darnell would say: QACAS!!  :0)

So for this challenge I watercoloured, stamped, die cut, and embossed.

There is still LOTS of time to play along with this challenge (Sept. 24), so check out all the beautiful inspiration from the DT and all the players in the gallery, and then play along right HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by today...I love it when you do!!

Make It Monday #296 - Small Images On Repeat

Hello friends.  Lexi Daly is up with this week's Make It Monday challenge over at Papertrey Ink and is showing us how to use a small image and repeat it in a CAS format.

I used a small leaf image from the Leaf Prints set and came up with this:

I started by using one of my smallest acrylic blocks and inked it up with Soft Stone ink and then stamped it 3 times on my white card layer.  Next I inked up the small leaf with Ocean Tides ink and then added a little Tropical Teal to the edges on one side before stamping over the small squares I stamped first.  My sentiment is from the Stylized Autumn set and then I layered it with a Soft Stone layer and then a white card base, and then finished with some Rainstones and a piece of linen thread. This is about as CAS as I can get!  :0)

You can check out Lexi's really cute phone card and all the other cards in the gallery and then play along right HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by today...I love it when you do!

 

Merry Monday #255 - JOY

Hello friends and welcome back to Merry Monday!  We hope you all had a wonderful Summer off and are ready to start working on those Christmas cards again!  We have a few new DT members AND some special Guest Designers joining us this Fall, so there will be LOTS of great inspiration each week to help you get those cards done on time!

We'll start you out easy this week and you can choose whether you'd like to use the inspiration photo for your card or a design of your own, with the only stipulation being that you include the word JOY somewhere on your card!

I stuck with the snowflake and JOY theme on my card, but changed up the colors to blue and white.

I started by embossing several snowflakes in white from Casual Friday's Bring On The Snowflakes and then blended over them with DOX inks in Salty Ocean, Broken China, & Faded Jeans.  Also added a little water splattering at this point.  I used SSS Big Joy die for my letters and pop dotted the "O" so I could dangle a little snowflake (Impression Obsession - Tiny Snowflakes) from it.  I also added some sparkle with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen to the tiny snowflakes on the letters and also a couple diamond gemstones.  Here's a closer up view:

Make sure you check out what all the other DT members came up with this week and then dig out those JOY stamps and dies...we can't wait to see what YOU come up with this week!  You can check it all out right HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by today...I love it when you do!

More Stamp-a-faire 2017 - Iron, Wool, & Bronze

Hello friends.  Slowly but surely working my way through as many of the challenges from this past weekend that I can from Papertrey Ink's Stamp-a-faire.  For this post I have 3 Christmas cards to share with you, using Yana Smakula's Iron tutorial, Debbie Olson's Wool tutorial, and Jessica Frost-Ballas's Bronze tutorial.

Yana made an absolutely beautiful Anniversary card using metal, and I just switched mine up to a Christmas card using strips of Limeade Ice, Simply Chartreuse, & Pure Poppy cardstock, and the Rustic Wreath die that was embossed 3 times with silver to create my metal piece.  CAS and I love the way it turned out!

LOVED Debbie Olson's tutorial and all the fun and beautiful wool "cookies" she made...too, too cute!!  I didn't have any Fine Linen or Kraft wool to make my cookies, so I used Fine Linen cardstock and then made the "frosting" from the white wool I had with the dies from Sweet Holiday Wishes.  I even sponged a little kraft ink around the cookies to give them the appearance of being "lightly browned".  The sentiment is also from the same set, and my background is Pure Poppy DSP.

My last card uses Jessica Frost-Ballas's idea's with mixing gold and copper embossing powders to make bronze.  I embossed the background with a script stamp, and then added my die cut snowflakes (Fancy Flakes) and sentiment (Wonderful Words: Holiday Die Collection) that were also embossed.  I used Ocean Tides cardstock for my background and snowflakes and sentiment.  A little hard to see in my photo but I pop dotted the "peace" so it gives a little more dimension to the card since it is all in the same colors basically.  Love the way this turned out and was totally inspired by Jessica's GORGEOUS card!!

You can check out Yana's beautiful card and all the other IRON cards right HERE.

You can check out Debbie's fun and cute WOOL cookies and all the other WOOL cards right HERE.

You can check out Jessica's gorgeous card and all the other BRONZE cards right HERE.

Stamp-a-faire 2017 - 5th Anniversary Tradition: Wood

Still plugging away and now up to the 5th Anniversary Tradition: Wood challenge with Natasha Trupp for Papertrey Ink's Stamp-a-faire.

Absolutely LOVED Natasha's card, so I just changed up the colors and the sentiment and CASE'd her card!

I started with a piece of Honey Nut cardstock and an embossing folder that I inked with Honey Nut and Cocoa Bean inks...reminds me of a real rich golden honey oak.  One of my leafs (the blue one) is from the Leave It Be stamp set, and the other two are from the Leaf Prints set.  My sentiment like Natasha's is from the Wet Paint set.  And now I have another masculine card for my stash...yeah!!

You can see Natasha's beautiful card and all the other "wood" themed cards in the gallery right HERE.

  

Stamp-a-faire 2017 - 3rd Anniversary Tradition: Leather

Hello friends.  Still woefully behind in playing along with all the challenges from this past weekend's Stamp-a-faire over at Papertrey Ink, but plugging along and playing with Ashley's "leather" challenge.  Did not have any glycerin, but tried it anyway, and it came out ok.  The cardstock ended up being very fragile and I think the glycerin would have helped hold it together better, but it is what it is!

I made my card very CAS which is perfect for a masculine card anyway, and came up with this:

After my paper dried, I blended some Cocoa Bean ink lightly over it and then die cut it using the Mix & Mat: Postal die and then used Initial Sentiments: Birthday and Cocoa Bean ink to stamp the sentiment.  I added a layer of Honey Nut cardstock to my card base and the "leather" layer to the top, and then finished with some wooden stars and a piece of twine.

You can check out Ashley's card and all the other "leather" cards in the gallery HERE.