Stamp Simply Celebrates Day 5

Posted: December 5, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Designer Paper, Home for Christmas, Lovely as a Tree | 15 Comments

The party continues at Sharon’s blog today so drop in and see her own Stamp Simply Challenge  then pop over to see

Barb Schram – Explore. Dream. Discover. – Barb has an offering of BLOG CANDY today!

Cathy Tidwell – Cat’s Creations – CAT, too, has BLOG CANDY to offer today, but she has more!!!  She has created a Sketch Challenge for you as well.  You can see the sketch over at Cat’s Creations, so be sure to stop!!!  (NOTE:  Cat’s Challenge and Ssharon’s challenge  can tie in together well and you can get two challenges done on one card!!!)

Here is my card for CAT”S challenge:

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I think I qualify for Sharon’s challenge also, using a non-traditional Christmas stamp and non-traditional Christmas designer paper.  I used Cerise Designer paper for this card, cutting out the little squares and placing brads in them for the detail down the side.  I used Creative Memories oval cutters for the central image.

Please check out these fabulous blogs to see samples of CAT’s Sketch Challenge:  Darlene, AJ, Leslie, Julie, Susan.  And please bear with us all as we are uploading throughout the night — all will be posted by morning.

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!

Supplies:

Stamps: Home for Christmas, Lovely as a Tree
Inks: Riding Hood Red
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla, Cerise Designer paper
Also: Red hemp twine, red brads

Christmas card event

Posted: November 18, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Home for Christmas, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

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I haven’t had anything new to post over the last few days as my time was taken up getting ready for a Christmas card making evening at my church.  This is the second year I have organized the event, ably assisted by my girls and a friend on the night.  Everyone made four cards including the one above that my daughter A12 designed and demonstrated.  The others are already on the blog here, here and here.

I also set up a tag making table where people could go whenever they had a few minutes between cards.

Supplies:

Stamps: Home for Christmas
Inks: Really Rust
Cardstock: Really Rust, Whisper White, Vintage Violet
Also: Gold cord

Baroque Christmas

Posted: October 11, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Baroque Motifs, Home for Christmas, Snow Swirled | 6 Comments

As I played with the Snow Swirled set this weekend I noticed how well it co-ordinated with the flourish from Baroque motifs.  So I created a little snow storm!  This card actually took me quite a while because I couldn’t settle on the colour combination.  Perfect Plum and Pale Plum work together but neither Bravo Burgandy nor Eggplant Envy work as a darker colour with them.  I ended up using just a little Bravo Burgandy and a bit of Black in the darkest areas of sponging.

Perhaps next time I do one like this I should take pictures as I go.  First I stamped the tree and the snowflakes in versamark on separate pieces of Whisper White cardstock and embossed with clear e.p.  I cut a piece of paper into the shape of a gently rolling hill and laid it across the bottom to mask my snowy ground before sponging all the sky.  I sponged first in Pale Plum and then worked in Perfect plum to create the middle colour and the darkest colour at the top.  I used a Plum coloured Marvy Brush marker to draw along the swirls of the flourish and the tree and then wiped the excess off the embossing.  I sponged the tree in Pale Plum and stamped three tree tops in Pale Plum also.

Although it is hard to see in the photo the ribbon is tied in a bow and the two tails are twirled and then held under the matte with sticky strip.  The matte is made from Bravo Burgandy but I coloured the edge with the same Marvy marker to make it a darker burgandy.  I popped the tree up on Stampin’ dimensionals. The finished size of the card is 4 1/8″ by 7 1/8″ a non-standard size for which I have no envelope, but as I don’t want to crush the ribbon twirls anyway, I think I will keep this one for friends close by.

Supplies:

Stamps: Snow Swirled, Home for Christmas, Baroque Motifs
Inks: Versamark, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, Bravo Burgandy, Basic Black
Cardstock: Pale Plum, Whisper White, Bravo Burgandy
Also: Wine organza ribbon, clear e.p. Stampin’ dimensionals, Marvy brush marker no.64

Snowy doorstep

Posted: October 4, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Home for Christmas | Leave a comment

This set really appealed to me when I saw it because of the sleds and skis by the door.  There are skis and sleds by our door and a wreath hanging for as long as the snow stays.  My door is not as rustic as this one but otherwise it’s a good match.  And of course those of you who know me know that I have roamed far from my home, Australia, where Christmas is hot and sunny, to live here where we hope every year that Christmas will be white, like this doorstep.

I stamped the picture with Basic Black and then used watercolour pencils for the colouring.  It is hard to colour well on such a detailed picture.  Then I picked out the colour of the skis for my mattes, one is Not quite Navy and the other is a co-ordinating piece of designer paper from way back when.

Supplies:

Stamps: Home for Christmas
Inks: Basic Black, Not quite Navy
Cardstock: Basic Black, Not quite Navy, Naturals White, a piece of Slab designer paper
Also: black grosgrain ribbon, ticket corner punch

I also tried a monochrome design with this stamp, which I will probably try to improve, I’m not totally happy with it, perhaps a different colour might be better. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Home for Christmas
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Versamark
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Bella Rose designer paper
Also: White embossing powder