O Tannebaum

 

I have never used this sweet die before.  After die cutting I used a Sakura Clear Star gelly roll pen to give shine to the ornaments. I had to laugh at the date on my pen.  I wrote on it with a black sharpie.  It is from 2013. Ten years and it still flows out.  The tree is stacked on top of a second die cut for a bit of dimension.  The little stars are the cut outs from the ornaments.  I gave them a touch of pumice stone distress ink with a blending brush so they wouldn't compete with the white in the tree.  A curved snow bank to plant the tree into made a nice anchor point and I thought an embossed sentiment with SU Smokey Slate embossing powder was a good finishing touch. 

Beautiful Day

 It's a beautiful day.  And that is the name of my favorite set that I own from Altenew.  I didin't know they h

Here's the inspiration photo.  I was inspired by the orange y pinks and the silhouette. I added black lines with a Tombow marker on the sides to simulate a black layer.  I found the free layering classes Altenew offers very informative.    You can find the challenge HERE

Color Hues Green and Red

I was perusing the gallery at StampNation with Catherine Pooler when I came across a CAS card I really liked.  I clicked a couple of links and found The Color Hues Challenge Blog.  This week the challenge was for Green and Red.  It looked like fun and I jumped in.  I was glad to find them. I have never used the little Mama Elephant dogs or the Bones from Whimsy.  I'm on a mission to use things from my stash and also to use up old packs of Christmas pattern papers.

Color Hues Challenge #53 

 

HALLOWEEN FUN

 It's fun to make cards for the neighbor kids.  We don't give out candy anymore.  I just give each of the five neighbor kids a cash gift and a card and leave the lights off.  I treated myself to some Halloween stamps from Unity called Little Boos.  The rest of the card is made from scraps and an old Unity stamp i received as a gift.  I used a bit of splatter on this before adhering the little cut out image.  Simon Says Stamp Burnt Orange Card Stock is a MUST for Halloween. 

Challenges: Monday Challenge Simon Says Stamp

SPOOKY

 SPOOKY It's what's up at Simon Says Wednesday Challenge. 

I got my cute Little Boo Stamps from Unity and paired with the stencil and mask set from My Favorite Things this turned into a cute card for my daughter. Using the stencil part I painted the center green with a water brush and crushed olive distress ink for a streaky kind of look.  I repeatedly stamped the skeletons and fussy cut one guy out.  He still looked a bit lost and i decided to highlight him with orange and make him glow.  Then the orange sequins kind of finished out the look.  Thanks for stopping by.  BOO!

T is for Tree

 T is for Tree this month at ABC Christmas Challenge  I needed a Charlie Brown Christmas card and this tree and all stamps from Judith was so fun to make.  I looked at the video cover for this movie and based my card off from that.  I don't have a Snoopy dog stamp and thought this sweet little mouse looked like he happened upon the tree in the woods and just appreciated it.   The blue background is a stencil from My Favorite things.  The set has the watercolor look of a stencil and a mask both together.  Now looking at this picture I think i need to go in and go over that tree a bit with a brown marker.  Yep, I'm gong to do that.  toodles!

S is for Snow

 A few frosty flakes and we have the SNOW challenge covered over at the ABC Christmas Challenge page.  The snowflakes are from some retired company and been in my stash for awhile.  I always love the look of Buffalo plaid and have really gotten my use out of this Buffalo Plaid background stamp from Stampin Up.  I thought this made a nice background for my vintage Frosty to sit on.  He's from Prickley Pear Stamps and may be retired also.  I couple of gems for a bright spot because it's Christmas after all and he was good to go.  Look at Frosty Go!

R is for Reindeer

 R is for Rudolph.  Oh wait, R is for REINDEER in the ABC Christmas Challenge for August.  I made him into Rudolph by adding a gem to his nose.  It was fun to use up several pieces of scrap designer paper.  I really am making a dent in my pile of Christmas scraps. I stamped my deer in green in the spirit of Christmas and fussy cut him.  This is a VERY old Stampin Up image. Way back from the last century.  1999.

Q is for Quarters

 ABC Christmas Challenge really challenged me with this one.  I rather like how it turned out.  I used four die cuts from old patterned paper pack and popped them on top of a panel embossed with a Tim Holtz December calendar embossing folder.  I fussy cut the little Santa head and added it to the last little frame. Some glitzy ribbon and it was a simple card after all.

P is for Pink

 Pink it is! I love this image from Unity Stamp company.  It's so easy to color and just looks so real to me.  I loved it the first time I saw it and have used it quite often.  I'm not even really that big a fan of poinsettias but something about this called my name.  Pink is for the ABC Christmas Challenge that still has 8 days left.  I used a die cut sentiment from Taylored Expressions.

My Favorite Things Color Challenge 194

 

My Favorite Things Color Challenge is always a great source of inspiration.  For this challenge I used all the colors and I know it looks more coral on my photo but IRL it is definitely copic colored with light pink.  I was so glad for this challenge because I never would have thought to put gray in with this and I love the accent it gives.  I used an old MFT stamp set called Fancy Flowers and the dies.  I love how MFT dies cut so close to the image.  I mounted all on the de-bossed side of separate panel that kind of matched these flowers.  Embossing folder from Darice