Snowy New Year
Posted: January 10, 2012 Filed under: Holiday Sampler, Lovely as a Tree 6 Comments
As my Christmas card count was very low this year I have made a few New Year cards for people I still want to send a greeting to. This one features Marina Mist, an SU colour I just purchased and really like. I masked the hill, embossed the trees and snowflakes in clear and then brayered the sky. I’ll definitely use this technique again; I like the crispness of one colour with white.
Have a great day.
Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Teeny Tiny Messages, Holiday Sampler
Inks: Versamark, Marina Mist
Cardstock: MFP White
Also: Clear e.p.
Delighted
Posted: December 16, 2011 Filed under: CAS, Holiday Sampler, Many Merry Messages 5 Comments
Here is another card inspired by a very creative artist. I am always impressed when I visit Sarita’s blog by how elegant her cards are. Her cards often feature gorgeous flourishes, flowers or fireworks but one day I dropped in to find some delightfully whimsical creations featuring coloured lights.
My card is a pretty close copy of Sarita’s clean and simple creation. I coloured the lights with markers and drew the cord after stamping.
Still no sign of snow here but I hope to be back with some snowy Christmas cards soon. Thanks for all your kind comments, I am happy you dropped by.
Supplies:
Stamps: Holdiay Sampler, Many Merry Messages
Inks: Bashful Blue, Only Orange, Rose Red, Gable Green, Yoyo Yellow and Black markers
Cardstock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth Heavy
OWL 41 It’s Christmas…
Posted: February 21, 2011 Filed under: All That Glitters, CAS, Holiday Sampler 9 Comments
Susan threw out a challenge this week to create a one layer Christmas card on white or cream using only green and red. I am certainly not in Christmas card mode, but it doesn’t hurt to start early. This one was finished before I realized I hadn’t checked if natural flecked cardstock was allowed in the challenge. Natural is indeed permitted so here is my masked and slightly sponged panel card. Before stamping and sponging I flicked masking fluid on the panel. Masking fluid is used by painters to mask areas they want to preserve as white while they are painting the rest of the painting. You paint (or flick) it on and when you’re finished you peel it off to reveal white spaces.
Not too much of a stretch from my usual but I did put the sentiment on top of the panel for a change. Thanks for dropping by.
Supplies:
Stamps: All that Glitters(Flourishes), Hugs and Wishes( SU)
Inks: Mellow Moss, Real Red, Always Artichoke (all SU)
Cardstock: SU Natural white cardstock
OLW 28 A Mitten Maze
Posted: November 13, 2010 Filed under: CAS, Holiday Sampler 13 Comments
Some of you may remember when Susan from Simplicity inspired us to try some Andy Warhol style cards. I did a couple with flowers and leaves. I decided to revisit that idea for this week’s OLW challenge from Jennifer. She has challenged us to use five different colours on a one layer card this week. I have only one mitten stamp so it is repeated using the five different colours.
Supplies:
Stamps: Holiday Sampler, Hugs & Wishes
Inks: Real Red, Brilliant Blue, So Saffron, Glorious Green, Lovely Lilac
Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White
Red and white Christmas
Posted: November 14, 2009 Filed under: Holiday Sampler 6 Comments
This is a nice quick card using stamps that I usually pull out for tags. The set is an old SU set which has been used and used by my family and at Christmas workshops every year since I bought it. I stamped the three images, added a bow to the ornament and punched them out with a 1¼” square punch. I popped them up on stampin’ dimensionals then lined them up on the Merry Moments designer paper. It was tricky to get that sentiment positioned correctly so I pulled out the stamp-a-ma-jig.
Even though I did this a while ago I noticed it fits the CAS challenge on Splitcoast this week which is to use one colour with white. Well technically it doesn’t fit, because I used vanilla not white! Anyway there are some great cards in the CAS40 gallery this week that don’t bend the rules.
Supplies:
Stamps: Holiday Sampler, Fundamental Phrases
Inks: Real Red
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Merry Moments Designer paper, Real Red
Also: Stampin’ Dimensionals
Simple tags
Posted: December 10, 2008 Filed under: Holiday Sampler, WInter Post 8 CommentsIt’s Day 11 of Stamp Simply Celebrates! If you are new here, check out Party Central for a full rundown of our 12 day schedule. Feel free to jump in anytime at all!!!
Anyone can play ANY of the challenges by ANY of the hostesses during our 12 days of Stamp Simply Celebrates!!! You DO NOT need to have a Blog to play — uploading your project to SCS (Splitcoaststampers.com) is not only permissible, but HIGHLY ENCOURAGED. When doing so, use the KEYWORD SSC08. Thanks!
AJ Otto – The Willow Garden – Are you wrapping gifts yet? Probably! I’ll bet you need some pretty tags to dress those packages up — well, be sure to check in on AJ’s Featured Project today to see all her Gift Tags. And then play AJ’s Challenge so you, too, can have some nice gift tags on hand!!! Be sure to stop in at AJ’s today!
You can see more tag samples by checking out the Blogs of: Janine, LeAnne, Jerri , Sharon and me!
Jerri Jimenez – A Touch of Grace – Today Jerri will grace us with her Featured Project which is a beautiful 6 x 6 Scrapbook she made, which is certain to be a real treat for the eyes. Jerri also has BLOG CANDY to offer today (think scrapbooking made easy), so be sure to stop in to see Jerri!!!
Other scrapbook samples can be seen by checking out: Barb and Jennifer
Deb Saaranen – Dream in Color – Deb has an offering of BLOG CANDY for us today!
Jerri Jimenez – A Touch of Grace – Jerri also has BLOG CANDY to offer today so be sure to stop in to see Jerri!
To make my easy tags I cut a strip of Old Olive and stuck on a piece of designer paper which was a little narrower so the olive showed at the top and bottom of each tag. I cut vanilla pieces all the same and then punched different corners on a few. All the stamping was done using the very useful little stamps from Holiday Sampler and the To/From out of Winter Post. I drew all my stitching lines on with a fineline pen. When I started these I didn’t even know if I would like them, I don’t usually reach for Old Olive, but I surprised myself and had a lot of fun creating a different design on each one.
Supplies:
Stamps: Holiday Sampler, Winter Post
Inks: Old Olive, Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke
Cardstock: Old Olive, Very Vanilla,Petals and Paisleys d.p.
Also: Hemp twine, slit punch, burgandy fineliner
Heather Telford 