Ho Ho Ho

I love the simplicity of this week's Fusion challenge.   Just a simple image and sentiment.   Doesn't get much simpler than that.  I decided to dress it up with a few more embellishments.      The end result love the simplicity.    This may be a contender for a mass Christmas card production!    I am also loving the Paper Players Clean and Simple Christmas challenge.   Looking forward to checking out the entries and getting inspired from both challenge sites.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Artful Impressions
Ink:   Real Red
Paper:   Whisper White, Real Red, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper
Accessories:   Frosted Sequins, Rhinestones and Silver Thread
Tools:  Jolly Hot Builder Punch

Hello My Friend

Paper Craft Crew's sketch of the week has so many fun elements.   I was completely drawn to Tenia Nelson's card and the fact that the sketch was made in portrait layout.    

I saw the gathering of circles and thought immediately of leaves and from their the card started to take form.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Cookie Cutter Halloween, Six Sided Sampler
Ink:   Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Copic Markers and Blendabilites
Paper:   Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze, Delightful Dijon, Petals and Paisleys Specialty Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Linen Thread, Regal Candy Dots, Button from an online vendor
Tools:   Project Life Corner Rounder and Leaf Punches, Greeting Thinlits, Cookie Cutter Builder Punch

Thinking of You

So I love the simplicity of this week's Freshly Made Sketch.   For some reason I can't keep anything simple.   The Time of Year hostess stamp set was perfect for this week's challenge.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Time of Year
Ink:   Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Early Espresso
Paper:  Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Petals & Paisleys Specialty Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Chocolate Chip Brads, Burlap Ribbon
Tools:  Trio Curvy Punch

Glitter Shaker Card

This week at Stampin' Royalty we are challenging everyone to pull out their glitter and have some fun.

I decided to pull out the retired chunky glitter I have had for some time now.   I think I used it on one project and that was it.   I just couldn't find a way to work with it that I absolutely loved and wasn't a big mess.

Now I know what chunky glitter works best for and that is shaker cards!!!    I love love the way this card came out.

Trick to making a shaker card.   When you put foam or dimensionals around the shaker, use your embossing buddy on the inside rim of the shaker.    This will make the side not sticky and the glitter will not adhere to it when shaking the card.

I was completely inspired by this card on Pinterest and used it as inspiration for my card.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Stitched with Cheer
Ink:   Versamark, Basic Black
Paper:   Whisper White, Basic Black, Pop of Color Designer Series Paper, Window Sheet, Bronze Foil
Accessories:  Rhinestones, Chunky Glitter and Rhinestones, Neutral Button, Basic Black Baker's Twine
Tools:   Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy, Santa's Sleigh Thinlits, Banner Punch

Boo Tags

Happy Halloween Everyone!   Hope everyone enjoys the day, dressing up and enjoying Halloween treats.    Here is Halloween tags that I made to put on my nieces and nephews treat bags.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets from  Recollections and Martha Stewart
Ink:   Versamark, Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight
Paper:   Whisper White, Basic Black
Accessories:   Spiderweb Doilies, Basic Black Embossing Powder,  Sequins and Rhinestones from a local craft store
Tools:   Sponge Daubers and Spiderweb Border Punch, Heat Gun and Embossing Buddy

Christmas Cheer

Create with Connie & Mary has a great sketch this week.  So many fun elements.   I decided to cut pieces from the Cookie Cutter Christmas Designer Series Paper to add fun to the card.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Perfect Blend, Cheer All Year, Stitched with Cheer
Ink:   Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Versamark
Paper:   Whisper White, Real Red, Crumb Cake, Cookie Cutter Christmas Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Neutral Candy Dots, Frosted Sequins, Home for Christmas Enamel Dots, Whisper White Embossing Powder
Tools:   Heat Gun, Embossing Powder

Cheers

This week at Stampin' Royalty we are challenge everyone to a Celebration theme challenge.    When I saw this week's Create with Connie & Mary color challenge, I knew I wanted to work with these colors and do something fun to celebrate.    The colors are:  Sweet Sugarplum, Pool Party, Pear Pizzazz.   The Here's to Cheers stamp set is a perfect set for a celebration!      So what is perfect for a celebration, but some wine.

Ingredients to make the wine tag:
Stamp Sets:   Here's to Cheers, Stitched with Cheer
Ink:   Versamark
Paper:   Sweet Sugarplum, Pool Party, Pear Pizzazz, Subtles Patterns Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Frosted Sequins, Rhinestones, Whisper White Baker's Twine, Whisper White Embossing Powder
Tools:   Circle Framelits, Heat Gun, Embossing Powder

Cheers

I love this week's Pals Paper Arts sketch.    Love the stripes.      I love that with a couple pieces of card stock, you get an amazing look.    I just got the Here's to Cheers stamp set.    With the holiday season coming upon us it is never too early to start on making holiday projects.    One of the things my family is always looking for is ways to dress up wine bottles.     That is why I know I needed to get the Here's to Cheers stamp set.  

With a couple strips of card stock and the Here's to Cheers stamp set, I get a totally great modern and fresh holiday wine tag.

Ingredients to make the wine tag:
Stamp Sets:   Here's to Cheers
Ink:    Cherry Cobbler
Paper:   Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Pear Pizzazz
Accessories:   Silver Thread, Rhinestones, Home for Christmas Enamel Dots
Tools:  Circle Framelits, 2" Circle Framelits, Holly Berry Punch

Gingerbread Men

How super easy is this week's Create with Connie & Mary sketch of the week.   The design team created some amazing creations that helped inspire me to create a gingerbread sketch.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Cookie Cutter Christmas, Sweet Season
Ink:  Early Espresso, Real Red
Paper:  Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Home for Christmas Enamel Dots, Red Gingham Ribbon
Tools:  Builder Cookie Cutter Punch

It's Your Day

 I love love circle sketches!   Circles make me happy.   I think it's because in card making most of the time we are dealing with standard card size and it is so nice to see a round image on the card.     Thank you Paper Players for your circle challenge this week.

I wanted to make a card for my brother who is a big fisherman, but I didn't have a fishing pole.    So I asked my friend Colleen to cut a fishing pole out with her Silhouette.

Ingredients to card:
Stamp Sets;  Party with Cake
Ink:   Versamark
Paper:   Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Adventure Bound Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Linen Thread, Copper Button, Neutral Candy Dots, White Embossing Powder,
Accessories:  Circle Framelits, Embossing Buddy, Heat Gun

So Grateful

Here is the beautiful Autumn's Calling from The Project Bin.   I decided to play along with the Taylored Expression challenge of the week.  

It must be the week for Tic Tac Challenges.   I went diagonal again with the Ribbon Red and Scallops.   I almost did the up and down as well with the Circles Red Leaves, but I decided to go with the oval instead of the circle.

I love the rich textures and the way this card came out.  

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Autumn's Calling from The Project Bin
Ink:   Poppy Parade
Paper:   Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake and Designer Series Paper from a local craft store
Accessories:   Linen Thread, Burlap Ribbon ,Regal Candy Dots, Button from a local craft store
Tools:   Oval Framelits, Fiskars and Martha Stewart Leaf Punches, Embossing Folder from a local craft store

Celebrate the Everyday

Today's project started with two inspirations in mind, this week's Unity tag challenge and Paper Players sweet challenge. 

So with those two in mind I started coloring the beautiful cupcake and using my favorite plaid paper from Lawn Fawn.

Before you know it I wanted to give my tag a little more fun elements so thank you Taylored Expressions for sketch to kick up my tag a couple of notches.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets;  stamp set from Unity
Ink:   Basic Black, Pretty in Pink, Daffodil Delight and Soft Sky Markers
Paper:   Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Lawn Fawn Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Subtles Candy Dots and Buttons, Flirty Ribbon, Baker's Twine from a local craft store
Tools:   Scallop Tag Punch, 3/4" Circle Punch, Triple Banner Punch, Project Life Corner Rounder

Christmas Joy

I love this week's Pals Paper Arts sketch challenge.  I was completely inspired by the Candy Cane Lane Designer Series paper and the beautiful designs in the paper.

I decided to make the designs in the paper pack and make it the focal point of the card.

The gingerbread houses are also perfect for this week's Paper Players Something Sweet challenge.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Stitched with Cheer
Ink:   Versamark
Paper:   Early Espresso, Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper

Accessories:   Whisper White Embossing Powder,  Early Espresso Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Enamel Dots from a local craft store
Tools:   Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy, Tasteful Trim Sizzex

I Can Drive A Stick

The Project Bin has come out with fabulous new Halloween and Fall sets.    Here is great sentiments from the Halloween set called, Haunt It!    I decided to pair it up with last years Seasonal Snapshot Project Life cards and one of this month's Sugar Pea Challenge.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Haunt It! by The Project Bin
Ink:   Basic Black
Paper:   Basic Black, Seasonal Snapshot Project Life 2015
Accessories:   Basic Black Baker's Twine, Seasonal Snapshot Project Life Accessory Pack, Enamel Dots from an online store
Tools:   Circle Framelits, Triple Banner Punch

Thinking of You

I found this great new sketch site called Create with Connie & Mary.  What can I say I am sketch junkie.  I love sketches, I love seeing everyone's take on the sketch.   It's amazing how one sketch can inspire so much creativity.

The best part of this sketch is being able to use up my scraps of papers.  This week Paper Craft Crew gives us a great challenge to use up our designer series paper.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Time of Year
Ink:   Basic Black, Melon Mambo, Versamark
Paper:   Whisper White, Basic Black, Melon Mambo, Pop of Pink Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Basic Black Baker's Twine, It's My Party Enamel Dots, White Embossing Powder
Tools:   Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy, Circle Framelits

Picture Inspiration

This week at Stampin' Royalty we challenge everyone to a picture inspiration.   I was immediately pulled to the chevron background and thought of the A Little Foxy designer series paper.    I just got the foxy suite and I have had so much creating and playing with the set.

I decided to pair up the color combo with the Viva La Verve sketch of the month.

I have say I love my little foxy friend.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Party with Cake, Foxy Friends
Ink;   Smoky Slate, Calypso Coral, Basic Black
Paper:   A Little Foxy Designer Series Paper, Pool Party, Calypso Coral
Accessories:   Subtles Candy Dots and Buttons, Calypso Coral Baker's Twine
Tools:   Banner Punch, Project Life Corner Rounder

It's Your Day

This week at Stampin' Royalty we are challenging everyone to a Fancy Fold.  I wasn't sure what I would do, it isn't something I normally do, but it was fun going out of my comfort zone.      Here is a tri fold card that I made using the fun Seaside Shore stamp set and the beautiful By the Shore paper.    Each side is 3 1/4" and the first two folds are cut o a diagonal.     When I was done I decide that the back of the card needed a little more, so I adhered some designer series paper to the back and gave it a little pop of color with the stripe paper and tied some baker's twine.

Love this card and the way it came out.   So join us in this week's challenge and break out of your comfort zone.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Party with Cake, Seaside Shore
Ink;   Night of Navy, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight and Calypso Coral
Paper:   Very Vanilla, By the Shore Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Bermuda Bay Baker's Twine, Rhinestones, Clear Rhinestones from a local craft store
Tools:   Simply Scored Scoring Tool

Red White and Blue

Happy 4th of July!  Here is my red, white and blue cards to celebrate the home of the free because of the brave.    I hope everyone is enjoying the day with family and friends and enjoying the beautiful day with bbq's, sunshine and maybe time relaxing by the water.

Ingredients to make the Summer Smiles card:

Stamp Sets:  Unity stamp set from an online store

Ink:   Versamark,Real Red, Pacific Point

Paper:   Whisper White, Real Red, Pacific Point, Bright Patterns Designer Series Paper, Designer Series Paper from a local craft store

Accessories:   Real Red Gingham Ribbon, Whisper White Embossing Powder, Buttons and Baker's Twine from a local craft store

Tools:   Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy, Tasteful Trim Sizzex

Ingredients to make the Butterfly Card:

Stamp Sets:  Unity stamp sets from an online store

Ink:   Real Red, Pacific Point

Paper:   Whisper White, Real Red

Tools:  1 3/4" Square Punch

Sunshine Sayings and Wishes

Here is a sneak peak into one of the beautiful new stamp sets and coordinating framelits.     It is the Sunshine Sayings stamp set and the the Sunshine Wishes Thinlits.

I love the 4 words that come withe Sunshine Wishes Thinlits, sunshine, congrats, love and hope.   Such a pretty font!

I had a few thank you and thinking of you cards I needed to get and once I started I didn't realize how easy and beautiful the cards would be.

Not only is the word beautiful when you die cut, it is just as wonderful when you use the negative.


Ingredients to make card #1:
Stamp Sets:   Sunshine Sayings
Ink:   Versamark, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive
Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Black,  Daffodil Delight, Notebook Paper, Polka Dot Parade Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Essentials Hardware, Black Gingham Ribbon, White Perfect Accents colored in with a  black Sharpie, White Embossing Powder
Tools:   Sunshine Wishes Framelits, Spiral Binder Punch, Embossing Buddy, Heat Gun

Ingredients to make card #2:
Stamp Sets:   Sunshine Sayings
Ink:   Versamark, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive
Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Black, Daffodil Delight,  Pop of Pink Designer Series Paper
Accessories:    White Perfect Accents colored in with a  black Sharpie, White Embossing Powder
Tools:   Sunshine Wishes Framelits,  Embossing Buddy, Heat Gun


Ingredients to make card #3:
Stamp Sets:   Sunshine Sayings, Cottage Greetings
Ink:   Versamark, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive
Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Black,  Daffodil Delight, Notebook Paper, Polka Dot Parade Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Essentials Hardware, Black Gingham Ribbon, White Perfect Accents colored in with a  black Sharpie, White Embossing Powder
Tools:  Greeting Thinlits, Spiral Binder Punch, Embossing Buddy, Heat Gun

Tough Times

I wasn't sure about this week's Unity challenge.  I didn't know if I could find anything that had rain drops or had a rain theme in my crafty stash.   I was pleasantly surprised when I started looking in my stash.   I even found rain drop designer paper!    

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets from an online store
Ink:   Island Indigo, Crushed Curry, Watermelon Wonder
Paper:   Whisper White, Neutral Patterns designer series paper, Designer Series Paper from a local craft store
Accessories:   Rhinestones, Frosted Sequins, Everyday Occasions Cardmaking Kit
Tools:   Spiral Binder Punch