With Sympathy

You can never have enough sympathy cards on hand.   I have to say I love gold feathers on a card.   Here are the feathers from the Cheer All Year stamp set.   The feathers were a perfect fit for this week's Freshly Made Sketch of the week.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Cheer All Year, Loving Thoughts, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink:   Versamark,
Paper:  Whisper White
Accessories:  Whisper White and Gold Embossing Powder, Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Washi Tape, Gold Sequins, Rhinestones, Gold Metallic Thread
Tools:  Circle Framelits, Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy

Lighthearted Leaves

I was completely drawn to this week's Fusion sketch.    The color the design, it just spoke to me.

So I decided to pull out my favorite Lighthearted Leaves from the last mini.   I have to say I am enjoying coloring my images.   Who needs coloring pages when you have stamps and can make beautiful cards!

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Lighthearted Leaves, Loving Thoughts
Ink;   Basic Black, Tangerine Tango, Gumball Green, Rich Razzleberry
Paper:   Whisper White, Designer Series Paper from an online store
Accessories:   Black enamel dots from a local craft store

Joy Snowflake

Since Christmas day is here and we know that we don't have time to craft, but we may need a quick and easy tag for a gift to whip up last minute.    Here is my tag to inspire you.    The hardest part is the heat embossing, but wow what a great look when it comes together.

Heat emboss the snowflake with white embossing powder than sponge on some ink and viola wow!

The tag corners were punched out with the  Punch Trio Curvy.

Hope everyone has a great day with their family and friends!   Merry Christmas!

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Holly Jolly Greetings
Ink:   Versamark, Basic Black and Soft Sky
Paper:   Whisper White, Basic Black and Neutral Patterns Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   White Perfect Accents colored in with a Black Sharpie, Basic Black Baker's Twine, Whisper White Embossing Powder
Tools:  Punch Trio Curvy, 3/4" Square Punch, Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy, Crop-a-dile

Merry & Bright Star Wine Tag

So is everyone ready for the holidays!    So are you heading to a party and don't have a way to dress up the wine bottle.    Here is a quick and easy way to dress it up.   Just need some Star Framelits and the Triple Banner punch and you are on your way.

Ingredients to make the wine tag;
Stamp Sets:   Holly Jolly Greetings
Ink:   Real Red
Paper:   Whisper White, Real Red, Old Olive, Merry Moments Designer Series Paper
Accessories;   Home for Christmas Enamel Dots, Real Red Chevron Ribbon
Tools:   Star Framelits, Circle Framelits, Christmas Greetings Thinlits and Triple Banner Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch

Joy Peace Love

I really love the Fusion challenge this month.    The colors, the sketch and all the amazing inspiration from the challenge team.   Amazing job Fusion team, click here to check out their inspiration.

I was inspired by Sandie Munro's card.    Love the holly leaves.   It actually inspired me to use my Layered Letters Alpha.   I love the way this card came together.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Layered Letters Alpha
Ink:  Cherry Cobbler
Paper:  Whisper White, Mossy Meadow, Merry Moments Designer Series Paper, Under the Tree Specialty Designer Series
Accessories:   Enamel Dots from a local craft store, Cherry Cobbler Striped Ribbon
Tools:  Coluzzle Cutting System, Little Leaves Sizzlet, Heart to Heart Punch

Reason for the Season

With all the hustle and bustle of the season we sometimes for forget what the Holiday season is all about.    That is what I love about the Reason for the Season stamp set.  

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Reason for the Season
Ink:   Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive
Paper:   Merry Moments Designer Series Paper, Sahara Sand, Whisper White
Accessories:  Cherry Cobbler Baker's Twine, White Perfect Accents colored in with Sharpies
Tools:  Triple Banner Punch, Project Life Corner Rounder

Happy Winter Fox Tag

So I just love the cute little fox from the Thankful Forest Friends stamp set.    He is just too cute to box him into making just fall cards.   Add a tree and a little flannel and viola he is now a great addition to your winter collection.

Here are two different tags with two different looks.

Ingredients to make the tags:
Stamp Sets:   Happy Scenes, Thankful Forest Friends
Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Cajun Craze, Versamark
Paper:   Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Mossy Meadow, English Garden Designer Series Paper, In Color Patterns Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   White Perfect Accents, White Baker's Twine, Linen Thread
Tools:  Crop-a-dile, Triple Banner Punch, Circle Punch, 3/4" Square Punch

Lots of Holiday Inspiration

So if you are like me Christmas week makes for a busy week of creating for the upcoming holiday.    I am busy making tags for gift bags and then little gifts to give to crafty friends.

I even had some leftover poinsettias that I stamped that I made a sympathy card to add to my card stash.   Thank you As You See It for the sketch challenge to inspire my creativity.

The Holiday stocking gift tag is made mostly with products I had in my crafty stash.    The only things that are Stampin' Up! products are the card stock, the Cheerful Tags stamp set and the Note Tag Punch.

The Ingredients to make the Sympathy card are:
Stamp Sets:   Reason for the Season, Brighter Tomorrow
Ink:   Basic Black, Real Red, Cucumber Crush
Paper:   Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Merry Moments Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Basic Black Baker's Twine, Neutral Buttons, White Perfect colored in with a black Sharpie
Tools:   Trio Curvy Punch, Project Life Corner Rounder

Lastly, I had some paper crafters over for our annual Christmas crop.   As always it was very productive lots of creativity was occurring.   My busy little crafty elves were catching up on last minute projects to mail and to deliver.

I put together a three pack of crafty embellishments to give to my croppers.    I topped the gifts off with a cute little tag.

Ingredients to make the gift tag:
Stamp Sets:  Project Life Seasonal Snapshot 2015
Ink:   Old Olive
Paper:   Whisper White, Old Olive, Merry Moments Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Pearls, Old Olive Striped Ribbon
Tools:   Merry Minis Punch Pack, 1" Circle Punch, Triple Banner Punch, Crop-a-dile

Happy Winter Sled Tag

So here are two tags made with the beautiful Winter Wishes stamp set.   The two tags is a perfect example of how you turn a simple tag and make it a wow!

Ingredients to make the gift tags:
Stamp Sets:   Winter Wishes, Happy Scenes
Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Smoky Slate
Paper:   Crumb Cake, Mossy Meadow,  English Garden Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Linen Thread, Silver Brads, Neutral Candy Dots and Buttons
Tools:   Triple Banner Punch, Circle Framelits, Bow Builder Punch, 3/4" Square Punch

Holiday Tags

You can never have enough gift tags during the holiday season.    Here is two of them one of them a little simpler than the other, but I love the way both of them came out!  

Ingredient to make the Merry & Bright tag:
Stamp Sets:  Holly Jolly Greetings, Stamp Set from a local craft store
Ink:   Real Red, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie
Paper:   Whisper White, Real Red, Merry Moments Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Cherry Cobbler Baker's Twine
Tools:   Crop-a-dile

Ingredients to make the Snowflake Tag:
Stamp Sets:   Six Sayings
Ink:   Cherry Cobbler
Paper:  Whisper White,  Crumb Cake, Merry Moments Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Gold Baker's Twine,  Snowflake Elements
Tools: Crop-a-dile, Triple Banner Punch, Pennants Framelits

Stampin Royalty Color Challenge

This week Stampin' Royalty brings us a color challenge.   The colors are:  Cucumber Crush, Real Red and Smoky Slate.    So this week's card I used the colors, but I added a little black and some Merry Moments Designer Series Paper as well.   The Smoky Slate was sponged on Dots & Stripes Decorative Masks.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Reason for the Season
Ink:   Basic Black, Cucumber Crush, Real Red and Smoky Slate
Accessories:   White Perfect Accents colored in with a black Sharpie
Tools:  Stamping Sponge and Dots & Stripes Decorative Masks

Caseing the Catty Holiday Trees

We are now blog hopping at Caseing the Catty.   So hop with us from one design team member to the next. I hope you can join us in the hop and enjoy all the beautiful creations that we case (copied and steal everything) from the Holiday Mini.   This week's theme is Christmas Trees.   So find a tree in the Holiday Mini and case it!

You can't get any easier than the tree tag on page 8.   Just die cut the beautiful Christmas tree from the Home for the Christmas designer series paper and you are on your way.    I decided to take the design and put it on top of a gift card holder.

If you have been following the hop, you just came from Caseing the Catty Blog and the next stop in the hop is Elizabeth Gross

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Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Happy Scenes
Ink:   Real Red
Paper;   Home for Christmas Designer Series Paper, Very Vanilla, Mossy Meadow, Real Red
Accessories:  Real Red Button, Linen Thread
Tools:   Banner Punch, Gift Card Envelope & Trim Thinlit Dies

As You See It Guest Designer

I am super excited I get to be a guest designer for the As You See It Challenge Blog.    I get to create a project using one of their amazing card sketches!   How great is this week's sketch!   Make sure to check out the blog and see all the other amazing creations made by the talented design team.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Six Sayings
Ink:  Real Red
Paper:   Whisper White, Home for the Holidays Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Snowflake Elements, Neutral Buttons and Candy Dots and Linen Thread
Tools:  Circle Framelits, Project Life Corner Rounder, Northern Flurry Textured Embossing Folder

Merry & Bright Wine Tags

This week's Stampin' Royalty challenges is Gifts.   One of most common of gifts to give is wine during the holiday season.    So here is a wine tag using one of my favorite products from the Holiday Mini is the Christmas Greeting Thinlits.      I love the beautiful words.    They are just the perfect font and size and I love the coordinating stamp set Holly Jolly Greetings.

Here are some non traditional colors holiday colors to make a beautiful wine tag.

Ingredients to make the wine tag:
Stamp Sets:   Holly Jolly Greetings
Ink;   Basic Black, Versamark
Paper:    Crumb Cake, Real Red, Basic Black, Neutral Patterns Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Basic Black Baker's Twine, White Perfect Accents colored in with Black Sharpies, Whisper White Embossing Powder
Tools:   2" Circle Punch, Christmas Greeting Thinlits, Confetti Stars Punch, Heat Gun, Embossing Powder

Pals Paper Arts Sketch Challenge

One of my favorite stamp sets from the Holiday Mini is the Lighthearted Leaves stamp set.    I love that you can color it a little or a lot and each time you get a completely different look and creation.

I love this week's Pals Paper Arts challenge.   It was a perfect fit to make a sympathy card with the green color palette.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Heartfelt Sympathy, Lighthearted Leaves
Ink:   Versarmark, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive
Paper:   Whisper White, Mossy Meadon, Crumb Cake, English Garden Designer Series Paper, Incolor Patterns Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Whisper White Baker's Twine, Enamel Dots from a local craft store, Whisper White Embossing Powder
Tools:   Punch Trio Curvy, Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy, Project Life Corner Rounder

Caseing the Catty 3D Items

We are now blog hopping at Caseing the Catty.   So hop with us from one design team member to the next. I hope you can join us in the hop and enjoy all the beautiful creations that we case (copied and steal everything) from the Holiday Mini.   This week we are challenge everyone to case a project from the Holiday Mini.   The theme is to take a 3D item from the catalog and case it.

One of my most favorite projects from the catalog is the star made from twigs on page 34!   I was in the park with my niece and nephew and I saw twigs all over the place.    They were just perfect to create with.   So easy to break into the sizes you needed.   The project was being called out to be created. 

   

If you have been following the hop, you just came from Caseing the Catty blog and the next stop in the hop is Alison Barclay.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Holly Jolly Greetings
Ink:   Early Espresso, Versamark
Paper:  Whisper White, Early Espresso, Neutral Patterns Designer Series Paper, Under the Tree Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Netural Brads and Candy Dots, Whisper White Embossing Powder, Hemp Twine, Chevron Ribbon, Snowflake Elements
Tools:  Circle Framelits, Heat Gun and Embossing Buddy

Stampin' Royalty Winter Themed

This week as Stampin' Royalty the theme is Winter.   So pull out all the snowflakes and create a card for this week's challenge.

I decided to pull out the Happy Scenes stamp set for the challenge.   The little cardinals were colored in with my ink refill and blender pens.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Happy Scenes
Ink:  Smoky Slate, Real Red
Paper:   Whisper White, Real Red, Smoky Slate, Merry Moments Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Pearls, Smoky Slate Baker's Twine, Neutral Buttons
Tools:   Blender Pens

Hello My Friend

Can you believe that Thanksgiving is a couple of days away.   Here is a cute card to send to your friends to let them know that you are thinking of them in this season of Thanksgiving.

This card just makes me think of sweater weather!

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets;   Thankful Forest Friends, You're So Sweet
Ink:   Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Cherry Cobbler
Paper:   Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip
Accessories:   Linen Thread, Classy Designer Buttons
Tools:  Woodland Textured Embossing Folder, Greetings Thinlits

Giving Thanks

This week at Paper Craft Crew the theme is giving thanks!   Here is my Happy Scenes stamp set along with the coordinating Heart & Home Framelits for a card to send to send someone you are thankful to have in your life.

I love the brick wall textured embossing folder.   To add dimension to the brick wall,  I took a white pencil and colored in the lines.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Happy Scenes
Ink:   Basic Black, Soft Sky, Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard and Crumb Cake
Paper:   Tangerine Tango, Whisper White, Crumb Cake
Accessories;  Linen Thread, Antique Buttons, Doilies
Tools:   Brick Wall Textured Embossing Folder, Heart & Home Framelits

Caseing the Catty Season of Cheer

We are now blog hopping at Caseing the Catty.   So hop with us from one design team member to the next. I hope you can join us in the hop and enjoy all the beautiful creations that we case (copied and steal everything) from the Holiday Mini.   This week we are challenge everyone to case a project from the Season of Cheer section from the Holiday Mini.

I love the simplicity of the card on page 34.   One of my favorite of the products from the holiday mini is the Christmas Greeting Thinlits.   I changed up the card and ended up with a tag to put on a gift bag or box.

If you have been following the hop, you just came from Caseing the Catty Blog and the next stop in the hop is Kathryn Mangelsdorf

Ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Sets:   Holly Jolly Greetings, Cheer All Year

Ink:   Cucumber Crush, 

Paper:  Whisper White, Pool Party, Cherry on Top Designer Series Paper, Nordic Noel Designer Series Paper

Accessories:   Smoky Slate Baker's Twine, Frosted Sequins, Rhinestones

Tools:  Christmas Greeting Thinlits, Punch Trio Curvy, Project Life Corner Rounder