JFF January Challenge

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope this will be your best year ever! As I get older each year goes by faster. I do not know where 2017 went! I want to show you a card I made for the Just For Fun challenge. We have a great challenge to start off the New Year. The challenge is to use blue, purple and silver on your card. These are such wonderful winter colors. I hope you will join us in the challenge and you might even win a gift certificate to the store!

I made the background on this card by patting blue and purple Oxide inks on my craft sheet, spritzing with water and dragging the card through the inks. Once dry, I spritzed some water over the background to add some interest. Next I laid a stencil over the background and used white matte embossing paste. I then sprinkled silver embossing powder over the paste and heat set it. I stamped a new Just For Fun stamp called Silhouette Pines. I used Versa Mark ink and added purple embossing powder and heat set it. The saying is from the Sentiments 3 unmounted sheet.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a great start to your new year!

Challenges entered:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes
The House That Stamps Built:  Anything Goes D2717

Peppermint Christmas

Merry Christmas! I hope you have been enjoying this Christmas season. I want to show you a Christmas card I made using some of Just For Fun's new stamps.

I took a blue inked background and added some sticker snowflakes to it and cut a window from brown distressed paper using a Memory Box die. I adhered it over the blue background and added it to the green checkered paper. I stamped the new Canning Jar sm. stamp on acetate and fussy cut it. I stamped the new Peppermint Candies 1 using red ink , fussy cut them and placed them behind the jar. I adhered the jar to the window. A paper doily was placed under the window. The saying is from the Sentiments 1 unmounted sheet.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I wish all of you a Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Challenges entered:

Modsquad Challenge:  Winter Holiday Card

Christmas Fawn

Hi and welcome to my blog. Are you ready for Christmas? I actually have all my Christmas shopping done and I can now do a little creating. I made a Christmas card using this sweet stamp from the Artful Stamper. At Cropstop, their challenge is to use any products they sell at their store. I used the Spellbinders Labels 39 Decorative Accents die for the red frame. The image was colored using Spectrum Noir alcohol markers. It was cut out using Spellbinders Labels 4 die. The die was edged using a silver paint pen. I added flowers, cord, punched ferns and a chipboard snowflake as embellishments. Clear Stickles glitter was added to the sowflakes and snow. Silver pearls were also added for accent.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful Christmas season!

Challenges entered:

Cropstop:  Link Party #35
Inspiration Destination: Anything Goes
Sugar Peas:  Anything Goes
The House That Stamps Built: Tic-Tac-Toe ( Christmas, Red&Green, Glitter )

Reindeer Greetings

Hi and welcome to my blog. Have you gotten in the Christmas spirit yet? We had a surprise snow here in South Carolina over the weekend and it certainly put me in the Christmas spirit! We hardly ever get snow. We got about 3 inches. I want to show you a Christmas card I made. I am trying to do more shabby chic cards and I think this one qualifies.

I made the background by using a snowflake embossing folder and swiping a few colors of Distress inks over the raised areas. I stamped the deer (unknown) using Walnut Stain Oxide ink and cut it out with the Gina Marrie Stitched Circle die. The frame for the deer was made by using a Martha Stewart corner punch. I added some "greenery" at the top made from blue card stock using the Impression Obessesion Greenery die. The snowflake is also a die (unknown) and I added clear stickles glitter to it as you can see in the picture below. I cut a tag using a cuttlebug die and embossed the saying with white embossing powder. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Have a blessed Christmas season!

Challenges entered:

Crafty Cardmakers:  Christmas

Cuttlbug Mania:  Anything Christmas

One Crazy Stamper:  Christmas/Winter

Simon Says Monday Challenge:  Christmas/Winter Holiday

Sugar Peas:  Anything Goes #38

Tuesday Throwdown:  Anything Goes  TT372

'Tis The Season

Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope you are enjoying this Christmas season. I want to show you a card I made using some Just For Fun stamps. I used part of the new stamp Couple Under The Light Post. I inked up just the light post and stamped it on my blue inked background. I added yellow stickles glitter for the light. I also stamped the Snowy Pine, sm. stamp using green ink onto the inked background. I then applied white Liquid Applique and clear stickles glitter to the tree and ground. This piece was matted to red card stock and adhered to patterned paper. The saying is from the Sentiments 1 unmounted sheet.  The squiggles under the sentiment are mine.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Just for Fun has a new challenge this month and we would love to see you join in. Wishing you a wonderful Christmas season!

Challenges entered:

One Crazy Stamper:  Christmas/Winter

Sugar Peas:  Anything Goes #38

The Paper Girls:  Stamping Fun

Merry Little Christmas

Hi and welcome to my blog. Have you finished your Christmas cards yet? I have finished mine and now I need to get them addressed! Here is a Christmas card I made using a cute penguin stamp from Fiskars.

I made a reverse image of the penguin to show his reflection on the "ice". Different colors of blue Distress inks were sponged around the image. I then added acetate over it and added some glitter for the ice. I stamped the tree stamp from Inkadinkado three times and adhered sequins to them. The stamps were colored using Spectrum Noir alcohol markers. I made "snow" by using white Liquid Applique. The saying is from Sparkle N Sprinkle. 

Thanks so much for stopping by during this busy season! I hope you have a Merry Little Christmas!

Challenges entered:

One Crazy Stamper:  Christmas/Winter

Simon Says Monday Challenge:  Icy Inspiration

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Anything Goes

The Paper Girls Challenge:  Stamping Fun