Jolly 2

Hoping your Holiday Season has been Merry and Bright!?!  Mine has been wonderful, lots of time spent with family and friends.

I still have quite a few holiday cards to share, so not quite over it from this perspective.  Here is one that I will be entering into Poppy Stamps Challenge. https://poppystamps.typepad.com/poppystamps/challenge/

The main feature of the card are the poinsettias which were stamped on watercolor paper.  I used color burst to add color and then fussy cut hem all out.  The base of the card is plain white card stock.  I used a lined wood mount stamp from I press to make the background with red and green.  The small square is die cur in sparkly white paper with a Lawn Fawn die and mounted.  Next I added the Jolly sentiment which is a Lil Inker die.  Both the sparkly and shiny papers are from Crafters Companion.  Once that was all set I added my poinsettias.  I added little golf pearls in the center and some blue pearls throughout.

That’s all today.  Thanks and Happy Holidays!

Jolly

It is hard to believe tomorrow is Christmas.  Another year flown by!  Time to enjoy family and reflect on how fortunate I feel to have loved ones, friends, employment, stamps and craft supplies (ahem) and so much more!

I sent/gave out roughly 65 holiday cards this year, each one different.  I still have about a dozen (give or take) to share.  Here is one that is just cute as can be.  

This darling girl is from Trinity Stamps.  The cutest set called Seasonal Sweetheart.  She has many different goodies to hold, but this sweet bear is my personal fave.  The die cuts out her arms so they can open up for her to hold things.  I colored her with my Copics.  She is on top of a tag on which I stamped snowflakes and a portion of the sentiment.  The  “jolly” is die cut from Lil’ Inker Designs.  The perfectly matched paper is from Pinkfresh Studio and the card stock from SU!

My friend Laura says this girl reminds her of me.  Not sure why as I am not nearly this cute, but I will take it as a compliment! 

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas Eve if you celebrate!  Regardless of what you do or do not celebrate, wishing you a wonderful day and peaceful December!

Christmas Cookies

Happy Sunday!  Just a few days til Christmas!  Do you bake during the holidays?  We did this year and made a few different treats- chocolate chip (my hubby's version of holiday cookies), sugar cookies (including bigfoot in an ugly sweater), peanut butter chocolate fudge and peanut butter balls (those were my fave). 

This card was for a friend of my who does a whole lot of baking.  She is Novell of Novell's Nom Nom's and here cookies are delicious (way better than mine)!  You can check out her awesome Facebook page here. 

This is about 4.25 X 4.25 if I recall correctly.  I don't recall who make the DPs.  The wreath is from Gina Marie Designs cut in a light blue from SU!  The image is from Gerda Steiner and I colored it with my Copics in these light and fun colors and cut it out using my Scan n' Cut.

Isn't the little mousy cute?!  I stamped something on the inside as well:

OK, enjoy that holiday baking and thanks for your visit!

Candy Cane Wishes

Oh boy, I am ready for some days off.  I am soooo weary by work and all the hustle and bustle of the season.  But it is Saturday!   woohoo!

Wanted to share a fun card featuring some SugarPea Designs.  This stamp set was love at first sight, and I still love it.  

I stamped and colored my image with my Copics.  Then I fussy cut the image out.  I pulled out some Doodlebug Designs DP, bright red with hearts and I added it as the first layer.  On top of that I added this Lawn Fawn Polaroid die cut and stamped  the sentiment, and put my little elf inlside.  I wanted to pull out the greens in the image so I added a couple bight green layers behind the red.  The last touch was adding the holly berry brad. 

I hope you like this card and I appreciate your visit.

Entering this into SugarPea’s Mix it up challenge.

Tropical Holiday

Here in the Pacific North West typically have rain or dry sky for Christmas, occasionally snow, but NEVER hot weather.  Something about the idea of hot weather seems odd to me, but I suppose for many it is perfectly normal.  So when a friend asked me to make her a tropical holiday card, I had to think a little harder then normal.  In addition to the tropical thought, I was also inspired by the MFT color challenge:

Once I new my parameters, I picked out this darling MFT Penguin in Paradise set. I knew I wanted to make it have Christmas patterned shorts and a bright green popsicle.  Here is the card I came up with: 

Squee!  The colors are perfect with those light pink cheeks, the various colors of waves and the layers of patterned papers!  I set the little guys scene by die cutting these palm trees from Gina Marie designs and adding this layer of sand and various layers of waves cut with Mama Elephant dies.  I loved enclosing it in these recessed circles of bright red paper.  Having the palm trees peek out of the circles makes me happy.  I added this string of holiday lights and coated them with glossy accents, just like I had done with the popsicle.  Last I added the sentiment and the layers on which it sits.  

I hope you enjoy this card as much as I do!  Thanks for visiting and happy Thursday! 

Hufflepuff Christmas

Today I am sharing a magical merge of stamps from two fabulous stamp companies. The reason is because a friend of mine asked me to make a non-traditional Christmas card in the colors of the Harry Potter Hufflepuff House.  Soo.... A little research reminded me that the critter associated with this house  is the badger.

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So with this as my inspiration, here is the card I created:

Isn't it cute and perfect for a HP Hufflpuff Christmas?!  The Herringbone paper, the yellow, the sentiments and HP goodies from Trinity Stamps and the Badger from Hello Bluebird.  💛❤💛❤

I made this card by stamping out the Hello Bluebird Badger and his accessories and carefully colored him with my Copics.  I stamped out the stack of books, the chocolate frog and the wand from the Trinity Stamps and colored those as well.  Setting them aside I created my card base.  I don't recall whom makes the herringbone paper, but the yellow cardstock is from SU! and I cut it out using a Lawn Fawn circle die.  I added a layer of acetate with falling snow from Crafter's Companion.  The sentiment is from Trinity's Magical Sentiments set.  It comes with a die cut and I used black foam.  I put it all together and added a little ribbon and wahlah!

Isn't it a magical combination?!

Entering this into:  Dies R Us #111

Thanks for visiting!

Sending Joy

Do you celebrate Christmas?  I obviously do, given all the cards I have shared.  Whatever you celebrate, I hope it is good.

Here is my latest holiday card.

This card features Trinity Stamps Joyeux Noel stamp set. It is such a beautiful image.  I stamped it with Antique Linen distress ink and did a no line coloring with my Copics.  The circle die is from Waffle Flower cut on this shinny red paper from Crafter's Companion.  I mounted it on this amazing bright red paper (I can't remember who makes this).  Lastly, I added ephemera from Pinkfresh Sudio.  I think it is such a pretty combo with the red and gold, I hope you do too.   

Here are a few other shots for you to take a gander at.  

The question is, what do you suppose this deer is looking at?  The stars?  Santa?  Something else? 

Entering this into: Dies R Us Challenge #111

Thanks for visiting today!