Christmas Wishes with a Wreath

Hello!  I have another Christmas card for my stash that I made with a Wreath and Sentiment stamp from Repeat Impressions.  I stamped the wreath with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copics. I added shine to the ribbon with Sakura Stardust pen.  I cut the image with a Spellbinders round die and attached to a Green Cardstock circle cut with Lawn Fawn stitched die.  I place d this on a background of Polka Dot Patterned Paper and then a white card base. I stamped the sentiment with Versamark ink and heat embossed twice with Gold EP. 

Challenges:

The House That Stamps Built: DCCJL120 Christmas in July

Tuesday Throwdown: #461 Polka Dots

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Alway about using Patterned Paper.

Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog: MLCCB #24 Anything Christmas Goes

Double D Challenges: Stitches Challenge. I used die with stitches. 

Stay safe! Stay Healthy!

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Do You Dance?

Hello! Do you dance when no one is watching?  These three ballerinas love to dance and hope you do too.  I created this card for the challenge at The Library Challenge #54 Ballet Shoes.  I was inspired by the 3 Ballerinas and colors on the cover.  I printed and colored the ballerina digital image 3 times from Dearie Dolls. The original image was colored in pink and I recolored 2 more images in red and blue  through the magic of Photoshop Elements.  I added more shading with Copic markers and some glitter with a Stardust pen. I arranged the images and sentiment and printed using a background frame on white CS. I attached this to a red card base. Just for fun I added a border of red foil to represent the curtain using double sided tape. 

Challenges:
The Library Challenge: #54 Ballet Shoes

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Happy 100th Birthday

Hello!  I made a very special card earlier this month for my Mother who celebrates her 100th Birthday this Sunday....her birthday is Monday January 20.  Family and friends will be gathering in Bruceton, TN to celebrate this milestone. I created this card using the Cameo for printing and cutting the cake and numbers that I attached to colorful patterned paper of falling confetti. The words were cut with Cheery Lynn and Marianne dies. I enhanced the front with pearls, glittery gemstones, stardust pen and glossy accents. Edged the card with yellow EP.  The inside of the card was designed  and printed  with Photoshop Elements. I included 100 candles, each enhanced with sparkly Stickles on the flames and glittery Stardust pen on the stripes.  A personal message was include on one of the panels but not shown here.  The finished size of the card was 8.5" high and 5.5" wide. 

Happy 100th Birthday, Mother!

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Merry and Bright

Welcome!  I created this card using colors from the Creative Confetti challenge shown below.  I stamped the Poinsettia image with Memento Gray Flannel ink and colored with Copics using blues, greens, and gray.  Added some sparkle with Stardust Pen and Pilot Silver Metallic Marker.  Stamped the sentiment with Versamark and heat embossed with WOW Silver EP. Stamps are from Power Poppy Poinsettia set.  Finished with Green card base and a mat of Blue CS. 

Challenges:
Creative Confetti Challenge: Take our Color Cues-use the color palette shown below.

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: #468  Anything Christmas with optional theme - use word Merry. 

Sweet Stampin' Challenge: It's Christmas.

Mod Squad Challenge: Create a Christmas/Winter theme card.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Merry Christmas Cards

 Hello! It is snowing...the ground is white...and it is very COLD.  A good day to spend inside and post some cards.  All three cards were made with patterned papers from a magazine.  I just added embossing, inked edges with Pilot Gold Marker, and card stock from my stash. Glossy Accents used on ornaments in each card to add some texture and depth. Hard to see in photos.
Other supplies: Pink CS, Shimmery Pink CS, Gold Metallic CS, Cuttlebug Swiss Dot EF, Darice Ornaments EF, Sakura Stardust Pen.

 These cards were quick and easy and I used up some of my stash in the making.

Challenges:

Alphabet Challenge: Q is for Quick and Easy

Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog: MLCCB #16 Anything Christmas Goes

Love to Craft Challenge Blog:  LTCCB #40 November Anything Goes

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Three Wisemen

Welcome!  More cards for my Christmas stash.   I used a digital image of Three Wisemen by Debbi Moore that was in a freebie in Paper Crafter magazine to make 2 cards.   I printed the silhouette image on Yellow CS and trimmed to the size needed for the cards.  I simply sponged a bit with Distress Oxide inks and added some shine to the stars with Stardust pen.   Finished with Christmas stamps from Penny Black Wonder Collection and used different card bases for the cards.  This would also make simple one layer cards if I chose to. 

Challenges:
The Merry Christmas Challenge: #2 Always Anything Goes + Christmas Optional: Wisemen

Happy Little Stampers: January Christmas Challenge Anything Goes with Optional Twist CAS

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: #367 Anything Christmas-Option Upcycle or use something old. Papers and stamps are old. 

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Birthday Pop Up Box

Hello!  I created this pop up box card for my Mother who celebrates her 98 birthday this month.  I used a variety of Silhouette files, die cuts, printed images, fussy cuts, clipart, chipboard numbers, and more to fill and decorate the box.  All papers including Yellow CS, Striped Pattern Paper, Glitter Paper, Gold Metallic CS, and White CS were from my stash.  Used Glossy Accents, Nail Heads , Gemstones,  and Stardust Pen to add accents.   This was a fun project to design and create.   The card does fold up and fit into a standard half card size envelope.

Challenges to enter:
Double D Challenges: Anything Birthday/Anniversary goes using mood board.
Inspired by the cake, candles, balloons and colors.

The Paper Girls Challenge:  #143 Glitter. Used glitter paper for die cuts and word and stardust Pen which is hard to see.

Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes for Birthday

Happy Little Stampers: January Anything Goes with Dies.  Lot of dies used including stars, circles, ovals, rectangles, words.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

Welcome to my blog!  I am celebrating the New Year with a sparkly card that I made with some beautiful shiny paper that was in a Hero Arts kit.  I thought it was perfect teamed with some Champagne in glasses stamped with Repeat Impressions Wine Series stamps.  I created the glasses with Silver Vellum, Versamark ink, and Silver EP and then fussy cut.  Added some bubbles with  Stardust pen.  Added a layer of Silver Mirror CS and Black card base.  I hope you see all the texture and shine in the photo.  The New Year stamp is an old one from my stash.
Challenges:
The House That Stamps Built: Challenge D2717 Anything Goes.  Happy New Year to all at THTSB.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Holiday Card

Hello!  The inspiration for this Christmas card was the Sketch Challenge at Retro Rubber Challenges.  I did turn the sketch to make a horizontal design.  The tree image from Let It Snow set by  Creative Clear Stamps (dates back to 2009) was inked 3 times with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copics.   I decorated the trees with Gold and Silver Metallic ornaments simply made with hole punches.  I used a vertical sentiment from Repeat Impressions Stamps heat embossed with Silver EP.  I edged the panel with Silver Metallic marker before attaching to a white card base.

Challenges:

Retro Rubber: Challenge 74 Time to Sketch. Have had Tree Stamp since 2009. The sentiment stamp is over 1 year old or older. 

The House That Stamps Built: Anything Goes Challenge O2517

The Paper Players: PP368 Tic-Tac-Toe challenge.  Used row 1 down -Tree, Christmas, Gold/Silver

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Holiday Cards

Hello!  I am back for a second post.  I have more Christmas cards....these were made for the Release Challenge at Stamp TV.   We are to make the greeting the focal point of a card by framing it with dies, punches or another type of border or panel.  I used Spellbinder dies to create frames for each of my cards using sentiments from GKD Joyful Holiday stamp set.  I stamped the Poinsettia from  A Year of Flowers on GKD Red Velvet CS with Versamark and embossed with Gold EP. The flowers were cut with my new dies from GKD and attached with foam tape.  Other supplies used were: White CS, Gold Metallic CS, Embossing Folder, Pilot Metallic Gold Marker, Stardust Pen, and Red Nail Heads.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

A Trio of Dragonflies

Hello!  Today I have another card using the Sketch Challenge from Tuesday Morning Sketches.  I wanted to make this one with more emphasis on their theme-to use a die cut. Using black ink, I stamped  and cut three dragonflies from Ivory CS.  The stamp and die are from Creative Dies.  I added shine with Sakura Stardust Pen which I think you can see in the photo.  Following the sketch, I assembled the card with an Ivory card base and mat with papers from Graphic 45 Secret Garden paper pad. The center panel was embossed with a Darice EF. The word Thanks was cut with Cheery Lynn die twice, once in ivory and once in blue. 

Challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches: Challenge Sketch #410 below and Theme use a die cut.

Alphabet Challenge: I for Insects.

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Papers Challenge: July Challenge 

Happy Little Stampers: July Anything Goes with Dies

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa