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

Happy Thanksgiving

So I can't believe Thanksgiving is here!   I hope everyone enjoys the day with loved ones and takes a minute or two to think of everything and everyone in their life.

Here is a cute little tag to put on top of a holiday dish today..   So quick to make and add so much when bringing a tasty treat to friend or family homes.    So run down to your craft room and make a quick tag to put on your dish today.

Ingredients to make the tag:
Stamp Sets:  Among the Branches
Ink:   Pumpkin Pie
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper, Sweet Lil' Things Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Bright Candy Dots, Linen Thread, Chevron Twill Ribbon, Clothspin
Tools:   Circle Framelits

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

Hello Fall

So how super cute is the fox in the Thankful Forest Friends stamp set.    I was on Pinterest recently and saw a great photo inspiration using  Cajun Craze and Basic Gray color scheme and I just knew I needed to create a card with that color scheme.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   For All Things, Hardwood and Thankful Forest Friends
Ink:   Cajun Craze, Versamark
Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Gray
Accessories:   Whisper White Satin Ribbon, Antique Brads, Frosted Sequins, Rhinestones, Pearls and Whisper White Embossing Powder
Tools:   Heat Gun and Embossing Buddy

So Grateful for You

I am grateful everyday for friends who come in and help me in my time of need.     Here is my gift card holder I made for my friend for helping me out.

This week's Freshly Made Sketch was a perfect fit for the sketch.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Lighthearted Leaves
Ink:   Mossy Meadow, Certainly Celery
Paper:  Whisper White, Mossy Meadow, Crumb Cake, English Garden Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Linen Thread, Regal Buttons
Tools:  2" Circle Bunch, Gift Card Envelope & Trims Thinlits Die

Hello Fall Thankful Forest Friends

Are you tired of the fox and the bear from Thankful Forest Friends?   Not me, I just love creating new and different ways to pair the two of them together.

Here is an older  My Favorite Things sketch that I used for the challenge.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  For All Things, Among the Branches, Thankful Forest Friends
Ink:   Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie
Paper:   Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip,  Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper, Crumb Cake Patterns Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Linen Thread, Pearls, Classy Designer Buttons
Tools:   Project Life Corner Rounder

Thankful for You

Thankful Forest Friends is by far one of my favorite stamp sets from the Holiday Mini!   I just love bear and fox!   Too cute pair them up with some leaves and it is a home run.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Thankful Forest Friends, Among the Branches
Ink:   Sahara Sand, Cajun Craze, Chocolate Chip, Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive
Paper:   Whisper White, Sahara Sand, Neutral Patterns Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Linen Thread, Vintage Brads
Tools:   Woodgrain Textured Embossing Folder, Oval Framelits 

Stampin Royalty Color Challenge

As soon as I saw this week's Stampin' Royalty came out I knew I wanted to use this week's Lighthearted Leaves.   This colors are:   Tip Top Taupe, Delightful Dijon and Lost Lagoon.

I have to say I have been on a sponging circles kick lately!    I forgot how much dimension a little sponging gives us!

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Lighthearted Leaves, Cottage Greetings
Ink:   Basic Black, Tip Top Taupe, Delightful Dijon and Lost Lagoon
Paper:   Whisper White, Tip Top Taupe, Stacked with Love Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Basic Black Baker's Twine, White Perfect Accents colored with Sharpies
Tools:  2" Circle Punch, Stamping Sponge

Lighthearted Leaves

I love, love the Lighthearted Leaves from the Holiday Mini.   It reminds me of all the great coloring pages that have come out recently.   Stampin' Up! needs to come up with more stamp sets like this.   I forgot how much I loved coloring as kid until the trend came back around.

The Stamp a Bag stamp set was perfect fit for all the great elements of this week's As You See it Challenge.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Lighthearted Leaves, Stamp a Bag, Celebrate Today, Crazy About You
Ink:   Early Espresso, Marina Mist, Tip Top Taupe and Mint Macaron
Paper:  Whisper White, Early Espresso, English Garden Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Neutral Buttons and Candy Dots, Linen Thread

Caseing the Catty Into the Woods

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 Into the Woods section of the Holiday Mini.

I love the bear in the Thankful Forest Friends stamp set.   One of my favorite cards that inspired me to purchase the set was the bear card on the top of page 42.     

If you have been following the hop, you just came from Helen Heil and the next stop in the hop is Julia Quinn.

Ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Sets:   Thankful Forest Friends, Hardwood

Ink:   Soft Suede, Old Olive

Paper:   English Garden Designer Series Paper, Whisper White, Crumb Cake

Accessories:  Linen Thread, Home for Christmas Enamel Dots

Tools: Triple Banner Punch

Happy Wicked Halloween

Happy Halloween Everyone!    Hope everyone has a great day filled with treats!    Here are some treat bags I made for a hostess and her guests that I did a workshop for recently.      Super fun and super easy treat holders.

Ingredients to make the tags:
Stamp Sets:    Cheer All Year,  Project Life Seasonal Snapshot 2015
Ink:   Basic Black
Paper:   Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Rhinestones, Basic Black Baker's Twine
Tools:   2 1/2" Circle Punch, Crop-a-dile.

Happy Haunting

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 Happy Haunting section of the catalog.

I love all the little gift boxes on page 46 of the mini.   I decided to make my gift box with a little spin of my own.  I also didn't have the current gift tag set, so I used the tag set from the last catalog called Merry Everything.

If you have been following the hop, you just came from Helen Heil and the next stop in the hop is Rebecca Benson

Ingredients to make the gift bag:

Stamp Sets:   Merry Everything

Ink:   Basic Black

Paper:   Tangerine Tango, Very Vanilla, Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper

Accessories:   Basic Black Baker's Twine, Spiderweb Doilies

Tools:  Gift Bag Punch Board, Note Tag Punch

Birthday Bear

So much fun with this Birthday Bear made with Thankful Forest Friends that I ended up making a second card using a lot of the same elements, the only thing that changed was the sketch that was used.    Here is an older As You See It Sketch.

Hope you enjoy my birthday bear.    Love that the card can be used for the men in our lives!

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Crazy About You, Among the Branches, Thankful Forest Friends, Hooray It's Your Day
Ink:  Versamark, Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive
Paper:   Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Merry Moments Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   White Perfect Accents colored in with a Brown Sharpie, White Embossing Powder
Tools:   Circle Framelits, Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy

Birthday Bear Retro Sketch

So how much are you loving the bear and the fox in Thankful Forest Friends.   This is slowly becoming one of my favorite sets in the Holiday Mini Catalog.

I recently saw these projects on Pinterest and the mind just started overflowing with possibilities for this little bear.

So here is my little bear and fox for this week's Retro Sketch.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Crazy About You, Among the Branches, Thankful Forest Friends, Hooray It's Your Day
Ink:  Versamark, Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive
Paper:   Whisper White,  Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Merry Moments Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   White Perfect Accents colored in with a Brown Sharpie, White Embossing Powder
Tools:   Circle Framelits, Project Life Corner Rounder, Triple Banner Punch, Heat Gun, Embossing Powder

Fusion Halloween Challenge

I was completely drawn this week Fusion Halloween Photo and Sketch Challenge.   One of this week's designers used her project life card on the project and the first thing I did was pull out my project life cards and saw if ther was something I can used to create for this week's challenge.  

Here are last year's Seasonal Snapshot Project Life cards.   I mixed and matched some new products and incorporated them into the project.

Love these little monsters!

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  All Year Cheer
Ink:   Basic Black
Paper;   Tangerine Tango, Whisper White, Basic Black, Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper
Accessories:    Basic Black Baker's Twine, White Perfect Accents colored in with Black Sharpie
Tools:  Circle Framelits, 1 3/8" and 1 3/4" Circle Punches

Stampin Royalty Picture Inspiration

This week at Stampin' Royalty we are challenging everyone to a picture inspiration.     I love the white pumpkins in the challenge.    So beautiful.   I heat embossed the Jack of All Trades pumpkins and I have to say I am lovin' the final result.

The challenge will be open until 3:00 (PST) October 26th!   Hope you can join us!

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Jack of All Trades,  Project Life Holiday Cheer
Ink:   Versamark, Old Olive, Basic Black
Paper:   Mossy Meadow, Crumb Cake, English Garden Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Linen Thread, Crumb Cake Button, White Embossing Powder
Tools:   Paper Piercer, Heat Gun, Embossing Powder, Festive Flower Punch

Give Thanks

Today I decided to create a card using an older Sweet Sunday Sketch.    It was perfect for a card I needed to create for a Stampin' Up! workshop I did.    How can you resist the Thankful Forest Friends stamp set.   I wanted to create a fun card to show the versatility of the stamp set.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Thankful Forest Friends
Ink:   Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Chocolate Chip
Paper:  Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Neutral Patterns Designer Pack
Accessories:  Linen Thread, White Perfect Accents Colored in with a Brown Sharpie
Tools:  Triple Banner Punch, Circle Framelits

Color Challenge

This week at Stampin' Royalty we are challenge everyone to a color challenge!    This week's colors are:  Pear Pizzazz,  Pumpkin Pie and Crushed Curry.   First thought was to make a floral card, but I really wanted to do something for the fall season.    I started seeing some beautiful chalkboard card with beautiful fall leaves!   That inspired me to create this week's creation.   I used the retired Mingle All The Way stamp set from last year's Holiday mini.

The challenge will be open until 3:00 (PST) October 19th!   Hope you can join us!

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Mingle All the Way, Project Life Seasonal Snapshot 2015
Ink:   Versamark, Pear Pizzazz,  Pumpkin Pie and Crushed Curry
Paper:   Whisper White, Basic Black, Go Wild Designer Series Paper, Whisper White Embossing Powder
Accessories:  Bright Candy Dots, Basic Black Button and Basic Black Baker's Twine, Project Life Corner Rounder, Heat Gun, Embossing Powder

Freshly Made Sketch Give Thanks

I love the block sketch from Freshly Made Sketch this week.     I pulled some old and new pieces from my craft collection and viola here is my card created with the retired Color Me Autumn Designer Series Paper and the Thankful Forest Friends.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Thankful Forest Friends
Ink:  ajun Craze, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso
Paper:   Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Color Me Autumn Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Linen Thread, Early Espresso Button
Tools:  Circle Framelits