Tic Tac Toe Challenge

So I super excited, I finally put away last year's photo holiday cards I got in the mail.    They have been sitting in a pile patiently for me to create an album and put them in.    I figured I better get cracking since 2015 holiday photos will be taken down and will need to put away in the next couple of days!

This week's Paper Craft Crew challenge was a perfect timing for me!   I love the Tic Tac Toe challenges they put together.    So I decided to go across from top to bottom.   Deer/Reindeer, Favorite Holiday Color and Christmas Theme.

So I had gotten this album kit last year and finally put it together to create my album, so most of the products are not SU.   I am grateful for the album kit since it helped me get moving on something that has been on my to do pile for some time.

The items that SU are the Project Life Seasonal Snapshot 2015 stamp set, the retired Basic Black Polka Dot Ribbon, the Curvy Trio Punch and the White Perfect Accents colored with a Sharpie.

Let It Snow Snowman

The Holiday season is slowly coming to an end.   Here is this year's holiday card I sent out.   I really tried to create a card with current Stampin' Up! products, but no matter what I made I could not find something that had a wow factor, but was minimal in the embellishment arena.

So after a lot of card making and trial and error, here is this year's card.

The only things that are SU are the Blendabilites, the ink, card stock and the retired designer paper!

Hope everyone has a great new year's eve!   Happy 2016!

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

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

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

Caseing the Catty Favorite Holiday Bundle

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 with one of their Favorite Holiday Bundles from the the Holiday Mini.

So I have to say I had a hard time picking one bundle over another in this holiday mini.   There is so many beautiful bundles in this holiday mini.   I actually have two more on my wish list, but I don't know if I can justify another holiday stamp set!!   

So here is the Poinsettia bundle and the beautiful card on page 31.   After creating the card I almost wish I had the energy to mass produce this card and make it my holiday card for the season.    It is perfect for mailing,  There is no big embellishments requiring additional postage.    The poinsettia along is 4 step process never mind  heat embossing.  

If you have been following the hop, you just came from Rachel Palmieri and the next stop in the hop is Kathryn Mangelsdorf.

Ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Sets:    Reason for the Season, Gorgeous Grunge

Ink:  Versamark, Basic Black, Real Red, Old Olive, Soft Sky

Paper:   Whisper White, Gold Vellum

Accessories:   Gold Embossing Powder, Gold Thread, Doily

Tools:   Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy, 2 1/2" Circle Punch, Decorative Masks Dots & Stripes, Sponge Daubers

Two Sketches In One

I was initially inspired by the Retro Sketch of the week and all the amazing samples made my the sketch.    When I looked at today's My Favorite Things sketch I realized I could do it for both!

I just love the Home for Christmas Designer Series Paper, so many beautiful images that are just perfect to fussy cut and add to your projects. The poinsettias are just beautiful.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Reason for the Season
Ink:  Mossy Meadow
Paper:  Whisper White, Merry Moments Designer Series Paper
Accessories;   Home for Christmas Enamel Dots
Tools:  Project Life Corner Rounder

Season of Peace & Love

So I have to say I love this week's Freshly Made Sketch.    I decided to pull out the retired tree set from last year, the Festival of Trees.    I love the stamp set.   I am so happy it is still available in the catalog and how super easy is it that it has a coordinating punch for the tree.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Holly Jolly Greetings, Festival of Trees
Ink:  Versarmark, Basic Black
Paper:   Soft Sky, Smoky Slate, Winter Frost Specialty Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Whisper White Button, Grey Baker's Twine, White Embossing Powder
Tools:   Christmas Greetings Thinlits, Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy

Project Life CASE

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 Project Life section of the Holiday Mini.

I love the Project Life cards but I have a hard time putting them on a card and not on project or scrapbook page!    The thought the card may make it in the trash breaks my heart.     So I cased the Project Life card on the top of page 38.   

If you have been following the hop, you just came from Caseing the Catty blog and the next stop in the hop is Rebecca Benson

Ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Sets:   Holly Jolly Greetings, Cheer All Year

Ink:   Baked Brown Sugar, Versamark

Paper;   Whisper White, Baked Brown Sugar, Early Espresso, Project Life Seasonal Snapshot 2015, Baked Brown Patterns Designer Paper

Accessories:   Frosted Sequins, Whisper White Embossing Powder, Project Life Seasonal Snapshot Accessory Pack, Rhinestones, Whisper White Baker's Twine, Whisper White Button, Snowflake Elements, Chocolate Chip Twill Tape

Tools:   Crop-a-dile,  Embossing Buddy, Heat Gun