Christmas Dreams

I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I had a nice time with extended family. It is very rainy here today, so I have been working on a card that I am entering into two challenges. I saw this fold not long ago and I have really been wanting to try it.  At Basic Grey we are to use a household item on our project. I cut up a key chain and used it as the ornaments on the trees. I used Basic Grey papers from the Life of the Party and the Basics packs. The challenge at Magnolia-licious is a cozy Christmas picture for inspiration. As you can see I honed in on the Christmas tree! I had so much fun making this card. I wanted to show how the card looked when it was folded, so I had to use some removable tape to keep it shut! Here is the template for the folds. I hope you have fun making this too!

Happy Thanksgiving

I have so much to be thankful for and I know you do too! I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving. God bless!

Christmas Card and Technique

I hope you have been having a great weekend. I had a fun day yesterday stamping with friends and I learned a new technique that I did on this card. It is easy and fun. I used the Impression Obsession cover-a-card snowflake stamp (CC066) on the background. I dabbed white acrylic paint on the stamp and stamped it and then used my heat gun to dry the paint. I then used shades of blue Distress inks to sponge over the snowflakes. Then I wiped off the excess ink with a damp cloth. I posted 2 other back grounds I made this way. My focal stamp is part of the Impression Obsession Holy Night Collage stamp (L4191). I used a circle die cut to cut out the center. I colored it with chalks and added glitter to certain areas. I made this card for the Impression Obsession challenge. We are to use only stamps, no patterned paper. 

Christmas Joy

Hi Everyone!

At Joan's Gardens the challenge this week is to make a winter themed card or tag and use some kind of embossing, die cut, and animal. At Just Rite Stampers the theme is Christmas so I combined the two on this card.  It really feels like Christmas outside today so the weather has inspired me to make this card. I am nearly finished with my Christmas cards! Whoooo-hooooo! 

Top Tip Tag

At Top Tip Tuesday the theme is to make a tag and share a tip. I was thinking of Thanksgiving when I made this tag. My tip is this -- to add interest to a background stamp a script stamp over it. Thanks for the fun challenge!

Red, White and Black

I had fun doing another challenge today. And, yes, I made another Christmas card to add to my stash! At Just Magnolia the challenge is to use the colors red, white and black. I also used the sketch from Sketch Saturday. I used some Christmas paper that I bought at the end of the season last year. It is the first time I have used it this year. Hope you are having a good day. It is really nice here again!

Thank You

At House Mouse and Friends the challenge is to make a thank you card. I made a Christmas thank you since it is the season for gift giving and cards are needed for a thank you in return. I used the sketch on the priscillastyles blog. Isn't this the cutest mouse?