PCC223 Paper Craft Crew Sketch Challenge!

Don't kill me.. seriously I know, I know, I know... that I said I was done with my Christmas cards.  I lied!  Sorry.  I forgot to make Jeff a card and you know I had to do that!  I used this week's fun Paper Craft Crew Sketch to create what is I promise... my LAST Christmas card!

I decided to turn the sketch on it's side to come up with my shaker card for Jeff!

I started with an A2 Neenah Crest Solar White card base and used my DCWV  Winter In the Woods Paper Stack to create the card front and shaker sentiment.  After layering up acetate, and circle windows, I filled the shaker with some white and silver sequins and snowflakes.  I finished it off with three silver sequins and a double strand of silver cording tied on the left side.  Super, duper easy and yes, I promise, it is my very LAST Christmas card!  LOL

Thanks for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

SIP #78 Winter Holiday Card!

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Can you believe that it is almost Christmas???  This week's Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge is a Winter Holiday Themed Card and I had just a couple of Christmas cards left to make so that's what I went with.  This means, yes, yes, yes, I am finally done with my Christmas cards!  Woo Hoo!

I decided to have a little fun with the Hero Arts Color Layering Christmas Tree Stamp Set for this week's card.  

This Hero Arts set made layering this one up super easy.   The greens I used for the trees were Stampin' Up! Pear Pizzazz, Garden Green, and Mossy Meadow Inks. I heat embossed the last "snow" layer in white embossing powder.   I think the "puffy" embossing powder will make for some fun snow though, I have some on order and waiting to receive it!  After layering up my trees, I masked them off as well as a snow bank and then sponged in various blues for my sky.  I finished it off with some white gel pin flicks to mimic falling snow and then a few sequins.  It was a super easy card to create and really looks beautiful. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

Paper Craft Crew Sketch Challenge #PCC222

Hello and Happy Hump Day!  Hope your week has been going great!  I'm still working on my Christmas Cards.. ugh!  Why oh why do I wait until the last minute.  Since I have a Design Team Card for Paper Craft Crew today, I killed two birds with one stone and made a Christmas Card for one of my sweet granddaughters!  Check out the fun sketch!!!

And here's what I made using a some awesome products I received from Gina K Designs!

This little santa from Gina K Designs "Christmas Magic" set is so adorable!  I love that it has coordinating dies.  I bought a fabulous Christmas card kit from Gina K Designs that included this stamp set as well as others, cardstock, dies and even this fun DSP.  It was an awesome value and has been well used for my cards this year!  For the adorable Santa, after coloring with copics,  I added some Dazzling Diamonds Glitter with a Quickie Glue Pen on the edge of his coat, hat and gloves.  All of my sweet granddaughters love anything glittery so this will be a winner!   I hope you love it as much as I do!  Now go make a card based on this awesome sketch and link it up!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

SIP Challenge #77 - Sketch Challenge!

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Are you done with your Christmas Cards yet???  Well, I'm not but I'm trying to get there!  This week at Stamp, Ink, Paper we have an awesome sketch challenge that has
helped me make a few more.

A few more, yep.. a few more.  I made 4 cards before I decided which one to use for my Design Team Card.  Here's the one I went with..

I know the circle is a bit bigger than the one in the sketch but I really wanted to use the scallop circle from the Mama Elephant All Prettied Up Creative Cuts Dies since I had use those same dies to cut the stitched scallop card front.   I used some retired Stampin' Up! DSP for my window scene.  My very favorite part of this card is the sentiment.. oh how I adore this sentiment!  It is from the Gina K Designs Home for the Holidays Stamp Set!  I plan on using this one for many of my cards this year.  Yep, I know, I know, I need to get these cards finished!  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

PCC #221 - Color Layering Cardinal and Barnwood!

Hello and Happy Wednesday!  I hope your week has been going well!  I've been sick for a few days but I do believe the meds are kicking in!  Thank goodness!  I'm super excited about this week's Paper Craft Crew Challenge!  It's a color challenge that is perfect for Christmas and you know I still need to finish some of my Christmas cards!  

Why was I so excited about this color challenge??  Because I had purchased a brand new Concord & 9th Stamp called "Barnwood Background" from my friend Justin at the Stamp, Ink, Paper Store!  I don't know what Barns looks like around where you live but here in Middle Tennessee they are Red and usually have "See Rock City" painted on the roof!  

So... what color are Barns in your area?  I thought all barns were painted red but my husband told me that the Rock City folks painted the barns red as payment to paint their advertisement on the roof.  

Ok, so I knew I wanted to use the Barnwood Background Stamp with Red because in my mind, that's the color barns are.  lol  Then I remembered another awesome stamp set that I bought from the Stamp, Ink, Paper store.. Hero Arts Color Layering Cardinal!  So I combined the two and this is what I came up with.  I love it!

Ok, so let's get started with the scoop on this one.  I started with an 11 x 4 1/4" base, scored at 5 1/2" for a side folding card.  For the barnwood background, I stamped first in Versamark, and then in SU Real Red Ink and then stamped it on a piece of 5 x 3 3/4" SU Crumb Cake Cardstock.  I then sprinkled it with clear embossing powder and heat embossed it.  Next I stamped the limbs with SU Chocolate Chip Ink onto more of the Crumb Cake Cardstock.  I also stamped the Pine Sprigs onto Crumb Cake with SU Garden Green Ink.  I then cut all of these pieces out with the coordinating dies by Hero Arts and adhered them with 2-way glue onto the Barnwood layer.  The Cardinal was stamped onto Layering Weight Ivory cardstock by Gina K Designs.  The 1st layer was stamped with a light coat of SU Real Red Ink, the second layer was a heavier layer of SU Real Red Ink, and the third layer was stamped in SU Cherry Cobbler Ink.  The face mask layer was stamped in SU Archival Black Ink as were the feet.  I cut out the cardinal and feet with the coordinating dies.  I then attached the feet to the bird with fast fuse and then attached the Cardinal with foam dimensionals.  The "Peace" die was a freebie that I received from Taylored Expressions and it was cut from Gina K Designs Christmas Pine Cardstock.   I cut it out twice and glued the layers together for a bit more dimension and then added it with 2 way glue to the bottom of the stamped layer.  I then attached that layer to a 5 1/8" x 3 7/8" of Christmas Pine and then mounted that on my Real Red Card Base.  I love how it turned out and I hope you like it half as much as I did.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Blessings, Tina

SIP Challenge #76 - Embossing!

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday if you're from the States.  I had 5 glorious days off!  It was so wonderful and a much needed restful Holiday.   Well back to the matter at hand.... since it is Tuesday, I'm back over at Stamp, Ink, Paper with my take on a new Challenge.  This is all about embossing.. either heat embossing or dry embossing.  I love them both but I chose heat embossing this time.  

Here's my card showcasing a two fabulous stamp sets from Gina K Designs called Festive Foliage and Music Background Stamp. These are truly awesome sets!

I used Gina K Heavy Base Weight Ivory for my A2 cardbase.  My stamped layer was Gina K layering weight Ivory cut to 5 x 3 3/4".  I stamped the Musical background stamp onto the layering weight Ivory with Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake Ink.  After stamping it, I sponged the edges with more Crumb Cake Ink.  I heat embossed the Pine Images and the sentiment from the Festive Foliage Set with Gold Embossing Powder.  After heat embossing, I layered the stamped layer onto a 5 1/8" x 3 7/8" piece of Stampin' Up! Soft Suede Cardstock.  I ran some Natural Twine around the layered pieces a few times and attached a Twine Bow to it.  The layers were attached to the card base with foam tape.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina 

Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch #220 PCC220

Hello and Happy Wednesday!  Are you ready for Thanksgiving?  I hope so because you're running out of time!  Well if you are ready, why not head over to Paper Craft Crew and check out the awesome new sketch challenge??

I decided to play with a stamp set that I haven't been able to spend much time with.  It's a fun Lawn Fawn Set called Dad & Me.  Here's my card...

I knew this would come in handy as my hubby loves anything related to fishing!  

And since this fits the bill, I'm going to enter this card in the Watercooler Wednesday Masculine Theme Challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

Products used were:

Lawn Fawn Dad & Me  Stamp Set & Coordinating Dies

Neenah Crest Solar White 110# Cardstock

Basic Black SU Cardstock

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

SU Soft Suede Ink (mountains and sentiment)

SU Marina Mist Ink (water)

SU Crushed Cucumber Ink (grass blades)

SU Stitched Shapes (squares)

Sponges with residual blue and green ink from previous use to lightly ink sky and ground

Copics

Plaid DSP, Washi Tape, Neutral Twine and Button from my stash