Thank You So Much!

I'm playing along with some of the challenges over at the Winnie & Walter blog today!   This challenge is a Color Combo Challenge with Heather.   The challenge is to create a card incorporating white, silver/grey, mint/aqua and blue.  I chose to use one of Winnie & Walter's digital cut files, The Big, the Bold And You.   I blended various shades of blue & green distress ink for my background and then stamped the supporting sentiment words.   I heat embossed the snowflakes from Scenery: Big Bang Flurries with holographic embossing powder.   I wish the picture could capture more of the sparkle...it is beautiful IRL!  I mounted the journal card onto some silver glitter paper with foam adhesive.   To add in more of a true blue color, I blended some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink onto another (slightly larger) journal card and offset the two.   It still needed a little something else, so I used the Limited Edition Scenery: Bigger Bang Flurries set to stamp the burst in Hero Arts Silver ink.   I overstamped with Versamark and heat embossed some more of the holographic embossing powder.  That completes the card!

I have several other cards to link up to the fun challenges Winnie & Walter has going on over at their blog.   I'm hoping to get even more projects completed, as this challenge goes throughout the entire month of January!   Happy first birthday Winnie & Walter....and thank YOU so much for being awesome!

Also entering:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Something New (new embossing powder)
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Inky Background (Distress Inks)
V's Sweet Ideas Blog - "Something New" (new embossing powder) 

Newton's Nook Designs Inky Paws Flash Challenge!

Hello!   Newton's Nook Designs has a fun FLASH Challenge up on the blog today!   But you'd better be quick - you only have until January 10th to play along!    The theme is 'Thank You', and the winner will be chosen randomly.    Don't worry - you don't have to have NND stamps to play along (but there's a super cute new FREE digi up on the NND blog - go check it out)!

I printed the free digi and decided to have a little fun with it!   I traced over the lines with a clear embossing pen and then added some Wow embossing powder for the sentiment and clear embossing powder over the border.    After that was heat set, I used Distress Inks over top to add a colorful background.   I added some accents to the sentiment with a black Memento marker to make it stand out even more.    Some fussy cutting, dimensional adhesive and sequins from Pretty Pink Posh complete the card.

I hope you have time to play along!    I'll be back soon with projects for NND's January reveal, so make sure to stop back next week!

Happy New Year & Some Exciting News!

First off, let me say Happy New Year!  I hope 2015 is the best yet.   It's certainly starting off on a positive note for me.....today I get to (finally!) announce that I'm joining the Newton's Nook Designs design team!!   I can't tell you how thrilled I was when Jennifer asked me to join the team.    NND stamps are some of my favorites!

Here are a couple of Christmas tags I made last week using some of my favorite sets -

And guess what!   There's a New Year's sale going on at NND through January 3! If you have a chance, stop on over to the Newton's Nook shop to check out all of the cute stamp sets!

Tags Galore!

Happy Christmas Eve!   I'm taking a break from wrapping and cooking to stop in and share my homemade gift tags.   It's an undertaking, but it's so much fun to break out a ton of stamp sets and just play!

Some of my favorites are represented.....here are the Lawn Fawn tags:

And here are the Papertrey Ink tags:

Here are some featuring Simon Says Stamp and Winnie & Walter:

My son and daughter got in on the action too!   Unfortunately they wrapped some of their gifts and used up some of the tags before I got the camera out :)   Here are some by my daughter:

I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!   Enjoy this time with family and friends - it truly is the best time of year!

Happy Holidays!

Hi there!   I'm back today with a couple of (relatively) quick Christmas cards.   I decided to enter these into the Lawnscaping Challenge - Merry Christmas.   

Sorry for the iphone photo!   I was in a hurry to get these guys in the mail and didn't pull out my good camera.   The background is debossed snowflakes and the sentiment panels are Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles.   The sentiments are heat embossed in silver and the cute little skating penguins are colored with Copics.   See?   Pretty simple!

I hope everyone is having fun with last minute holiday prep.   I still have a batch of cookies to bake and Christmas tags to make.  I like to make my tags each year - don't ask me why!   It is a bit of an undertaking, that's for sure.  I got about 20 done yesterday and I'm hoping to at least get that many done today.   Maybe then I'll be able to relax and enjoy Christmas Eve tomorrow, lol!   Hopefully I'll be back later today or tomorrow with pictures of tons of tags!

Holiday Coffee Lovers Bloghop!

Hi guys!   I'm back today with a card for the Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.   Today's card uses the Newton's Nook stamp set Frozen Friends - how cute is that snowman?   I wanted the little snowman to have a female friend, so I did a bit of mirror stamping so his "girlfriend" could face him!   I eliminated the lines in the hat so she looked a bit different than her mate :)

Everything was colored with Copics and the snowpeople got a heavy amount of Wink of Stella....they sparkle a ton IRL!   I masked off a hill in the background and added a Distress Ink sky and embossed the tiny snowflakes with white embossing powder.  The stitched frames are by Lawn Fawn and the cardstock and patterned paper are PTI.  They look like a cozy couple sharing some hot cocoa don't they?

Hope you get a chance to hop along - there's a TON to see!   Special thanks to Amy Tsuruta for putting this hop together!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge - Clearly Christmas

Hello there!   I have been a bad blogger - I've been MIA for far too long, but I'm ready to rectify that!  I'm popping in today with a card created with the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge in mind.

The challenge is "Clearly Christmas" - and I felt a shaker card was in order (and voila!   Just like that, the "clear" part is taken care of!).   I was itching to break out the new WPlus9 set Winter Pals and the Winnie & Walter set Big Bang Flurries.   The background is stamped with the LE W&W set Bigger Bang Flurries in Unicorn White pigment ink.   I flicked some white Dylusions spray on there as well to add to the snowy effect!   The shaker element utilizes PTI dies - they make it easy to create a shaker card!    The owl and sled are colored with Copics and the sequins are from Pretty Pink Posh and Simon Says Stamp.   A band of PTI patterned paper finished the card off.

I'm also linking to the Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge and the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.   Hope you get a chance to play along with all of these fun challenges!   Tis' the season to create!