Christmas Window

Hello, yet again this week!!
I bet you are getting tired of seeing Christmas cards when it is 90 F outside and the humidity is at 99.9% these days. Well, I hate to say it but, I have one more Christmas card to share with you before this week is over. I will try to give you a bit of a break after this one.....maybe, lol. This card turned out very well, in my opinion. I was inspired by a photo that I saw today and I even managed to use some stash I have had for a while but had never opened or inked.
Here is tonight's card:

Full front view

Close-up of flowers & holly

Do you see the glitter?

Inside right

Inside left

View of both sides together

Close-up of embossed tree with rhinestones & brad

Products I used:

Cardstock - Recollections

Patterned Paper - HOTP

Ink - CTMH 'Olive', 'Holiday Red' & Versamark ink pad

Embossing Powder - CTMH 'Topiary"

Rhinestones - Dollarama

Brads - stash

Large Rose - Dollarama

Poinsettias & Holly Leaves - Prima

Ribbon - Offray

Lace - Gaiety

Stamps - CTMH 'Holiday Warmth'

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

365 Cards - Day 147 The Odds Have It (1 image, 3 different papers, 3 brads, 7 flowers, 13 rhinestones, 5 punched ovals and 3 spool trims) 

Rudolph Day/Stamping For Pleasure - make a festive card

Addicted To Stamps - #35 Christmas in July

ABC Challenge - T for Two (2 pieces of lace)

Shopping Our Stash - #61 Use Something New (my new item is the lace on my card)

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Christmas Flowers/Holly -Include Holly or Poinsettias somewhere on your card. This could be in the image, on the paper or embellishment etc.

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - July Embellishment - Brads (use at least 3)

Christmas Card Challenges - Week #34 'Window Cards'

Card Makin' Mamas - Challenge #50 - 1, 2, 3: 1 image, 2 designer papers, 3 embellishments.

Pink By Design/Ink it Pink Challenge -  Merry Christmas … In July!! Ink it Pink PbD08

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - #21 Inspirational Photo This photo inspired me in many ways. First, I saw the tree. Then, I noticed the colours in the picture; various shades of green, followed by yellow & white. I know there isn't any red in the pic but I thought my card needed it to make the poinsettias work.

Always Playing With Paper/Merry Monday - Merry Monday Sketch With a Twist

Thanks so much for checking out ANOTHER Christmas card this week. I hope you all are having a great weekend. See you again soon. Goodnight all.
Hugs xo

Noel Wreath

Good Evening:
I am back to share another card with you and yes, it is another Christmas card, lol. Almost everyone is doing Christmas in July so it has been an awesome month for getting a head start on my cards :) I even used 2 Cricut cartridges to make this one card.....amazing for me. The colours are unorthodox as far as Christmas cards go but I think I like it anyway. This card is pretty Clean and Simple, I think anyway.
Here is my card:

Front View

Close up of irridescent poinsettia & pink pearl

Close up of wreath

Inside of card

Supplies I used:
Card base and solid cardstock - Recollections
Patterned Paper - DCWV
Wreath - I made the wreath using "Joys of the Season" and "Tis the Season" Cricut cartridges
Tag - made with "Joys of the Season" Cricut Cartridge
Ink - CTMH "Ponderosa Pine"
Gold Cord - Elastic Christmas cord from my stash
Poinsettia Bloom - my stash
Pearl - my stash

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - #12 Tags
Stamping For Pleasure - Rudolph Day Challenge - Make a festive card
Cardz TV - Christmas in July challenge
Addicted To Stamps - # 35 Christmas in July
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Winter Wonderland - Pink, Purple, Aqua, Green
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Christmas Wreaths
Pile It On - #30 Tag, You're It
Paper Pretties Monday Challenge - PPMC #49 CAS
365 Cards - Day #145 Overlapped
Lollipop Crafts -  #84 Christmas in July
Cardz TV - Cricut Cardz Challenge #112 Tag, You're It
Christmas Stamping All Year Long - Challenge #20 "Sketch"
make a holiday project using sketch that you like or from one of the sketch web sites. I chose a sketch from Merry Monday at Always Playing With Paper.

Always Playing With Paper - Merry Monday Sketch With a Twist (I used sketch #24 pictured above)

The Shabby Tea Room - Week #124 'Oh So Pretty in Pink'  create a card or project inspired by the colours in the photo and include a flower.  

Don't you just love it when a bunch of challenges come together to make one card? I know I do. Thanks so much for stopping by to visit. Please come back again soon.

Hugs xo

Embossed Christmas

Good Afternoon!
Where is the time going?? This summer is just breezing by with one day blurring into the next. I thought summer was suppose to be relaxing.....apparently not. Hubby and I were away with our daughter and grand-children for a family reunion and I just can't seem to catch up again. We all had an awesome time, seeing family we haven't seen in quite awhile. Our son had to work, :( He wasn't able to get the time off as he used it all up when he got married last month in Michigan, U.S.A. A lot of my dear hubby's family hadn't seen our grand-children and Kasey totally loved meeting all of her cousins and having so many new children to play with. The final day of the Dampier Reunion was spent at the Waterfront and "Dampier's Landing" in Nipigon, Ontario. We had a gorgeous day for it and the kids really tired themselves out being in the fresh air and sunshine all day.
Tuesday was TOPS so that day was totally gone. Our veggie garden took off while we weren't looking, or rather the weeds did. I spent 2 hours in there on Wednesday and you wouldn't even know it. I have neglected the poor area so badly and I don't know if I will get ahead of the weeds again this summer. YIKES!!
Yesterday I had to watch my grand-daughter and grand-son while their mom worked, did her driving road test and got groceries. Today, I finally got to make a card and get back on my blog.

I have a new Christmas card to share with you today. It has a few different techniques on it this time and combines several challenges. There are actually 3 types of embossing on my card (hence the title, lol). Can you figure them out? I have also used ink to distress the edges, added ribbon and glittery scrolls at the bottom. I must admit, when I first saw the colour challenge for this week at 52 CCT, I was very skeptical. I had NO idea how I was going to pull this challenge off, but I think it turned out pretty decent.
Here is my card:

Front of card

Close up of Emboss Resist Technique

Close up of Glittered Scrolls

Front View Again

To make my card, I used the following supplies:
Card base & white cardstock - My Stash
Black cardstock -
Ribbon - Dollarama
Ink - Versa Mark and CTMH "Black", "Sky" & "Moonstruck"
Embossing Powder - CTMH "Clear Detail"
Stamp - Stampin' Up
Embossing Folder - Stampin' Up "Petals A Plenty"
Have you figured out the 3 embossing techniques yet? The white cardstock is dry embossed with an embossing folder, the sentiment is heat embossed onto white cardstock using clear embossing powder. The reason you can see the sentiment is because of the 3rd technique; emboss resist. To do this, you heat emboss your image/stamp with clear embossing powder, then sponge darker colours onto the paper and your image. You wipe the ink off the embossed image to make it show up. The clear embossing powder resists the ink colours. You can find a tutorial on how to do this HERE on the Split Coast Stampers blog.
 I am entering my card into the following challenges:
Addicted To Stamps - #34 Card For Someone Special
Robyn's Fetish/IDIC - Christmas in July
Christmas Card Challenge - Week #33 Emboss Resist
Paper Pretties Monday Challenge - PPMC #48 Embossing
Simon Says Stamp & Show - No Rules
Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Heat Embossing
Lollipop Crafts - Challenge #84 Christmas in July
Christmas Cards All Year Round - Christmas Flowers/Holly
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - July Colour Challenge

Always Playing With Paper / Merry Monday - Sketch With a Twist. This means you are free to make cards using any of their past sketches. Here is the sketch I chose for this card:

Well friends, I am off to try and get another card done today. Take care and thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs xo

Penguin Christmas Card

Wow, I can't believe I just completed another Christmas card for a few challenges. It is so hot and humid here these days that working on a Christmas card almost seems wrong. For this card, I have used one of my favourite Christmas colours, blue. I do own 1 or 2 penguin stamps but decided to use this digi so I could enter my card into a digi challenge. As I don't own any digis ........... yet, I had to search the internet first.
Here is my card:

Card Front

 

Just about everything on here that could be distressed with ink, has been. I even distressed the edges of my paper roses before rolling them up. Talk about a very inky mess!

Yup, the inside of my card is distressed too!

 Recipe:

Patterned Paper - DCWV

Cardstock - Recollections and Copic

Image - "Yikes" digi from Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

Sentiment - My Stamp Box

Ink - "Moonstruck" from CTMH

Ribbon - Stash

Flowers - Handmade by me using matching patterned paper, ink and "Foliage" punches from Paper Shapers for the flat flowers. The roses were made by cutting circles from my paper which I then cut in a spiral pattern using "Cloud" scissors from Fiskar. The paper 'spring' was then distressed with ink and rolled by me. The paper roll was attached to a with CTMH Liquid Glass.

Leaves - "Snowflake" punch from Paper Shapers that I then cut into pieces

Glitter around outside of image - DecoArt Glamour Dust

Copics - B00, B24, C1, C3, C5, C7, R01, R29, YR00 and 0 Colourless Blender

The edge of my card was scalloped with the Large Scallop Edgelets from Stampin' Up and my Cuttlebug

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

 52 Christmas Card Throwdown today - Anything Goes

One Stitch at a Time - challenge #120 - Use a Digi

Christmas Card Challenges - #31 Monochromatic

IDIC/Robyn's Fetish - #114 Distressing

Crafty Cardmakers - #71 Create Your Own Flowers

Dream Valley - #35 Things With Wings

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - PWC 213 Celebrate Any Occasion Card

The Squirrel and The Fox - #21 Christmas in July

The Poodles Parlour - Cute and/or Cuddly

Fashionista Challenge - #4 Winged Things

Lollipop Crafts - #84 Christmas in July

Cardz Tv - Christmas in July Challenge #1

Addicted to Stamps - challenge #33 - Follow the Sketch

Well folks, I think thats it for me today. I hope all of you have a great weekend and stay safe. I really enjoyed our visit today. Come back soon.

Hugs xo

Puttin' On The Glitz

Good Evening! How are you? Things around here are very sparkley these days. In case you haven't noticed, I have been using a lot of glitter on my cards lately. My poor hubby is reminded every time he looks at himself in the bathroom mirror; although he no longer asks why he has a red, green or blue sparkle stuck to some part of his face, lol.
Now that we have all had a bit of a snicker, lets get to tonight's card shall we. It is another Christmas card that I am sharing and it has a TON of glittery goodness on it :) I even managed to make this one without ANY flowers. This card is pretty CAS I think; funny how that style can sometimes be the most difficult to create. At the rate I'm getting the Christmas cards done with all the fabulous Christmas challenges on here, I may acutally get them sent out this year!
Here is my card:

View of Entire Card Front

Close-up of handmade embellishemnt

Close-up of bird I cut from patterned paper

Even though this is a terrible photo of my card, it does give you an idea of just how much glitter is on the card and how well it sparkles.

Supplies List

Cardstock for base of card and Kraft coloured:  Recollections

Patterned Paper and bird image:  K & Company

Red Glittered Cardstock:  DCWV

Ribbon:  Michael's Crafts

Spellbinders Nestabilities:  "Labels 17"

Punches: "Curly Label" Stampin' Up & "Snowflake" Paper Shapers

Bee Creative Tape Sheets

Red Brad:  Stash

Garden Green Ink pad:  CTMH

Burnished Velvet Technique: Jewel Glitter Ritz in Empire Green, Spice Brown & Celadon

For my glittered card base, I covered the base with Bee Creative Tape sheet cut to fit and covered that with Celadon Glitter Ritz. The glittered embellishment in the upper right corner was made by punching the Curly Label from kraft cardstock and Bee Creative tape sheet. After applying the punched tape to the punched cardstock I used a piece of the non-stick peel off portion of the tape sheet to punch out a snowflake shape and placed this on the center of the taped label. I then covered the exposed tape sheet with Spice Brown Glitter Ritz. Next, I peeled the non-stick snowflake shape off and covered that exposed tape with Empire Green. To complete the burnished velvet technique, use your finger to rub all over the glittered areas to make it sparkle like wild. I added a metalic red brad to the center of my snowflake and some ribbon, thus creating a handmade tag. My tag and bird were attached to the card with 3D foam tape squares to add some more dimension and depth to my card.

I love using the Glitter Ritz and can hardly wait to get more colours to play with. If I happen to notice that some of my cards aren't as glittery after awhile, I just have to rub the Glitter Ritz again and voilah, glittering like new again! I also keep all of the protective covering that I peel off of the Bee Creative tape and use it to punch various shapes from for creating different shape patterns in Glitter Ritz later on. These tape sheets are one product you don't ever want to use in your Cricut machine. The adhesive is super strong and difficult to clean off regular punches, never mind a Cricut blade!!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - June Embellishment Challenge

Crafty Hazel Nuts Christmas Challenge - CHNC challenge 78: let's get inky

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Challenge # 11- Lots of Layers

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Cupcake 198... Birds of a Feather

Pile It On - Challenge #26 - Make your own embellishments

Robyn's Fetish/IDIC Challenge -  # 113 - "NO FLOWERS ANYWHERE AT ALL"

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - It's a Bingo Challenge ( I used the top row: Glitter, Brads & Ribbon)

Fashionista Challenge -  #4 "Winged Things"

Always Playing With Paper - Merry Monday #26 Using their sketch

Well friends, thats it for me tonight; I'm pooped! I haven't been sleeping well the past couple of nights. I think Mynnette and I share this insomnia pattern since she has been complaining of the same troubles lately, lol. I am off to try and relax a bit before fighting with the Sandman again tonight.

Thanks so much for popping by to check out my card.

Hugs xo

Sparkling Snowman Card

Good Evening!
Tonight I want to share another Christmas card with you. I have made a snowman card with lots of glitter and sparkle goodness. Its also an easel card. I am in love with this style but am anxious to try a criss-cross card; very soon! But, I digress, lol. Back to tonight's card. I made this card in my favourite Christmas colour combination - blue and silver :). My Christmas ornaments are all in these colours with a few pink ornaments thrown in.
There are 2 challenges running this week that just went hand in hand together so this card is being submitted to:
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - June Theme "Snowman"

The Squirrel and The Fox - Challenge #20 Make It Sparkle
Papertake Weekly - Bingo (ribbon, gems & punches)
The Crazy Challenge - CCH #122 A Recipe: Use atleast 3 of the following items Ribbon/Twine, Gems/Pearls, Dies/Punches
Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog - Challenge #112 Anything Goes
ATC's and Cards With Attitude - CHALLENGE 16 ANYTHING GOES

Sketchy Colors - Challenge #122 Sketch

Here is my card for these challenges:

Fully Open

 Close-up of top section

See how the ribbon sparkles?

 Close-up of bottom section

Here you can see how the snowflakes sparkle

View from the side to show dimension

Card closed up

Supplies I Used:

Cardstock - Recollections

Patterned Paper - DCWV

"Snow Friends" stamp set - CTMH

Punches - Martha Stewart "Aspen Snowflake" PATP and Paper Shapers "Snowflake" punch

Silver Ribbon - Offray

Rhinestones - Michael's

"Moonstruck" (blue) ink - CTMH

For the silver snowflakes, I punched them from Bee Creative 2-sided tape sheets and attached them to snowflakes punched from cardstock. I then covered them with "Silver" Glitter Ritz and added the blue rhinestone.

The falling snowflakes are made with glue and Glamour Dust. I also added Glamour Dust all around the outside edge of my snowman and the outer edge of my sentiment.

The snow on either side of my snowman was made with Flower Soft.

My snowman was coloured with the following Copics: B02, R24, R29 & YR07.

That is my post for today. Thanks so much for stopping by to look at my card. Leave a comment for me and I will comment back; follow me and I will follow you too! I am off the have a look at some of your cards now :)

Hugs xo

White Christmas

Hi again! I'm back with a second card today .....whoohoo! This time, I want to share a Christmas card with you. It turned out WAY better than I thought and I am super pleased with it. I made this card for the current challenge over at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. This time, Mynnette had a colour challenge for us.
Mynnette's Colour Challenge #6 inspiration photo:

I loved this picture the moment I saw it. Every time I am outside during the winter months, I look for trees laden with snow to photograph, just like the trees in this picture. As I worked on my card for this challenge, I became more and more excited due to the way it was turning out. I love it when the finished product looks exactly the way I imagined it would.

Here is my card:

View of the front

The tree and church are heat embossed

Close up of the dry embossed snowflakes

A better picture of the heat embossed sentiment

See how the heat embossed tree sparkles?

(It was hard to get the right angle to show the sparkle)

Sentiment on the inside is heat embossed

I am so happy with this card that I plan to make a couple more; all in white of course.

Recipe:

White cardstock - from my stash

Silver Embossing Powder - CTMH

Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder - Stampin' Up

'Northern Flurry' Embossing Folder - Stampin' Up

Sentiment - 'Card Chatter - Christmas' stamp set - CTMH

White ribbon - Sheer Creations

Rhinestones - CTMH

Tree & Church image - 'A Wish For Peace' stamp set - Stampin' Up

Martha Stewart PATP 'Aspen Snowflake' set

Well, that is it for me today friends. Two cards and 2 posts in one day; I think I need a computer break, lol. Thanks for popping by to see my card and visit with me. Have a good evening.

Hugs xo

Christmas Card

Christmas in purple is something I have wanted to try for awhile now and today, I did. I used the sketch provided by the very talented Mynnette at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.
 Here is the sketch she drew for this week's challenge:

I had a lot of fun with this challenge and the sketch was so easy to work with so I plan to use it again for sure. Just today, I stumbled upon another challenge blog that looks like a lot of fun called
The Squirrel and the Fox. They are located in Australia so you will have to figure out the time difference to enter their challenges. Their current challenge is "Winter or Summer" which gives you a nice choice on what to make. The blog is run by Linda and Tracey and Tracey spells her name just like I do, lol. Pop over there and have a look around as their DT has some awesome creations to share with you.

Here is my card:

View of the whole card

A view of my card from straight on

Close up of the top and some of the flowers

Close up of the bottom

Card when it is closed

I used an image by Sarah Kay again, ( I really like alot of her stamps), and I stamped it onto Copic paper with Momento Black ink. Naturally, I coloured my image with Copics (boy have I fallen in love with these markers...lol!).
Copic Colours: B00, B02, B06, BG10, BG15, BG18, C3, C5, C7, E000, E23, E29, E31, E33, G02, R000, R46, RV23, V12, V15, V17, Y06, YG63, YG67.
Papers:  lilac cardstock - Co'ordinations; striped paper - Bo Bunny; other patterned paper - Paper Pizzazz.
Spellbinders Labels 17 to cut out image and paper behind it.
Flowers:  white with puple spots, lilac & solid purple - Prima; large white flowers - Dollarama.
Rhinestones & ribbon - from my stash.
Snowflakes - K & Company.
Sentiment Stamp - Stampin' Up 'Snow Swirled' stamp set.
Ink for sentiment and distressing edge of lilac cardstock - CTMH Pansy Purple.
Today was also the first time I have ever used my Cuttlebug. I have used Cuttlebugs that belong to other people before but never mine. I have all kinds of embossing folders and currently own 3 different Spellbinders sets so this tool is going to come out of its box a lot now lol.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - sketch challenge #6
Addicted To Stamps - Challenge #31 - Bingo This time I used the top row of the Bingo card: Lilac, Monochromatic & Bling Bling
Simon Says Stamp - Diamond Jubilee - Use Crowns and/or Gems
Crafty Card Makers - Distress It
Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Challenge #11 - Lots of Layers
The Squirrel and the Fox: Challenge #19 Winter or Summer

Well, thats it for me for today anyway. Thank you so much for stopping by to visit me again. I truly enjoy having all of you come by and leave me little comments; I read each and every one of them.
Hugs xo