Chickadee Birthday

Today's card is just a simple birthday one using a chickadee image that was sent to me in a RAK. I colored the image using the gamsol/prismacolor pencil technique. The card base is Kraft and the mats are True Thyme.

Bronc Buster Birthday

Let's take a little break from Christmas cards and share a birthday card. For this card I started with a stamped image of the cowboy from Bronc Buster that I received in a RAK. It was stamped in brown on white cardstock so I pulled out my Antique Linen Distress Ink and dragged it down the image like when doing the faux linen technique. Next I sponged the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I did the same treatment to the Birtday tag. Both of those pieces were matted with True Thyme. The designer papers are from BasicGrey and the card base is Kraft. The twine wrapped around the front is from PinkHedgehog Paper Crafts.

Supplies:

• Stamps - SU Bronc Buster, Paptertrey Ink
  
• Ink - Distress Ink Antique Linen and Vintage Photo, Archival Black
• Paper - BasicGrey, White, Kraft, True Thyme
  
• Misc - Twine, Circle punches, Pop dots
  

More Christmas Cards

Ok, here are a couple more Christmas cards I made after discovering I didn't have enough to send out. The trees are from the SU retired Sparkling Season set. I embossed them in gold and bronze, cut them out and mounted them with pop dots. A very simple layout but I like the effect of the embossing and the gold cording and ribbon.

I stopped and bought stamps and addressed most of the envelopes so I'm hopeful that I will get them in the mail before Christmas. Yeah! Thanks for stopping.

Not Enough

So I finally sat down to work on updating my address list and get started on addressing our cards only to discover that I hadn't made nearly enough cards for the number of people on the list. Gee, when did our Christmas card list get so long. . .

Anyway, I needed more cards so I pulled out one of the Studio G $1 sets and stamped the stocking several times with Palette Hybrid Black on white cardstock and then colored them in with my copics. I added distress stickles to the stockings too. Here are a couple of the cards I put together rather quickly.

This one uses papers from the K&Company Christmas Cheer pack. I also used the SU scallop border punch. The card bases are wonderful textured natural (cream) colored cardstock I purchased from InStyle Stamps.

For this card I used a variety of BasicGrey papers. Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're able to take some time to relax and enjoy yourself during this busy season.

Supplies:

• Stamps - Studio G, Memory Box
  
• Ink - Palette Hybrid Black
• Paper - Natural textured, BasicGrey, K&Company, White
  
• Misc - Copics, Scallop border punch, Stickles, Pop dots

Fun Announcement: InStyle Stamps

I am so excited to announce that I was invited to be a guest designer for a new stamp company InStyle Stamps! Their first seven images are now available on their site so be sure to check them out. If you make a purchase between now and December 19th, 2008 you will be entered in a drawing for a box full of wonderful eye candy. You can see the details here.

For today's card I chose to work with Marti. I colored her with copics and then I pulled out my glitter and Quickie Glue Pen because I thought she needed a sparkling evening dress. I also added glitter to her necklace. Inside it reads, "40 and fabulous" for my girlfriend who is turning 40 this month.

Don't forget to check out the new InStyle Stamp site and remember, every purchase through December 19th enters you in the drawing for a box of goodies.

It's a cold one here today, -15 currently with a possible high of 0 (zero). I hope you're all staying warm wherever you are. Thanks for stopping by.

Bottle Tag

'Tis the season for bringing wine to the hostess of your holiday party and what better way to present it than with a handmade tag draped around the neck of the bottle.

I used a long scalloped rectangle nestie for my tag. I cut out 1 layer of chipboard and two layers of BasicGrey paper to cover the front and back of the chipboard layer. The front was stamped with SU Lace Snowflakes in Walnut Stain Distress Ink. Then I used my crop-o-dile to add eyelets to the top for threading my wire through. Before attaching the handle to the main tag, I added the cheers tag. The verse is from Papertrey Ink and stamped on white with more Walnut Stain Distress Ink. The edges were sponged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blue border was drawn on with a Stampin Write marker. The cuttlebug snowflakes were made out of chipboard and painted with SnowCap Ranger Paint Dabber. Once they were dry, glitter and a jewel were added.

I think the hostess at your next party would be thrilled to receive this.

Supplies:

• Stamps - Paptertrey Ink
• Ink - Distress Ink Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo
• Paper - Basic Grey, White
• Misc - Nesties, Cuttlebug, Ranger Paint dauber snowcap, Glitter, Crystal effects, Gemstone, Crop-o-dile, Eyelets

Cowboy Christmas

I have these wonderful cowboy diecuts that I bought from Deluxe Designs before they went out of business last year and I thought it would be fun to use one for a Christmas card.

The papers are from BasicGrey and the edges are sponged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. The red snowflake is a punch and the larger kraft snowflake is a cuttlebug die. The cuttlebug snowflake was covered with peeled paint distress stickles and Diamond Dust.


Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a great week!

Gourmet Christmas Darling

I decided to make another holiday card for the Clear & Simple Stamps challenge on Paper Craft Planet. If you would like to join us, the information can be found here.

Again, I used my long scalloped nesties for my card base. Here is a photo of the back so you can see that I left the fold inside the nestie when I ran it through my cuttlebug and then ran a complete piece through and attached it for the front. I made the base out of Kraft but then decided I wanted my front black so the base has a layer of Kraft visible from the back and black visible from the front. I think it gives it a nice finished look. The patterned paper is from K&Company and the ribbon is from May Arts.



Supplies:

• Stamps - Clear and Simple Stamps Gourmet Darling
  
• Ink - Archival Jet Black
  
• Paper - SU Kraft, Black, White, K&Company Christmas Cheer
  
• Misc -Copics, Nestabilities, Ribbon, Pop Dots