Leaves

Hello there! I'm super excited to be the Guest Designer over at The Male Room Challenge!!! YAY!!! A GIANT thank you to Helen and the team for this wonderful opportunity!!!

This time around the challenge theme is "leaves."

Autumn is my favorite season. It's also my husband's favorite season---primarily because he's a hunter and a football fan---but also because we love autumn hiking adventures here in the mountains---the crisp air and the colorful leaves covering the trees and trails. So that was my inspiration for my card:

I die-cut all of my pieces for the branch, leaves, and acorns from white cardstock. I added ink to each one with blending brushes and a selection of Catherine Pooler inks. I splattered the leaves and acorns with metallic gold watercolor and then assembled the pieces onto my card popping up one of the acorns for a little dimension.

The sentiment was hot foiled with copper foil and then die-cut with the coordinating die. I love the touch of shine it adds :)

Thank you for visiting!!!

I hope you'll join us over at The Male Room Challenge! I look forward to seeing your creations!!!

Have a fantastic week!!!

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Supplies:

Ink: Sand Castle, Icing On The Cake, Ginger, Terracotta, Whipped Honey, Sauna (Catherine Pooler)

Cardstock: Vintage Cream, Kraft (Papertrey Ink); Basic White (Stampin' Up)

Dies: BotaniCuts - Mighty Oak (The Greetery), Deckled Rectangles (Stampin' Up)

Hot Foil Plates & Dies: Joyful Thanks (Catherine Pooler)

Glimmer Foil: Copper (Spellbinders)

Embossing Folder: Timber (Stampin' Up)

Other: Metallic Gold Watercolor (for splatters)

Adhesive: 1/4" Double-Sided Tape (Scrapbook.com), 1/8" Double-Sided Tape (Lawn Fawn), Stampin' Dimensionals (Stampin' Up), Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue 

Candy Canes

It's snowing here in the mountains, and it's so beautiful and festive!!! Perfect atmosphere for creating some holiday cards!!!

Here are a couple of cards I made using the current sketch over at Global Design Project:

These cards feature some super cute elements from the Candy Cane Lane Cardmaking Kit by Taylored Expressions as well as some fabulous designer series paper from Painted Christmas by Stampin' Up and some gorgeous die-cut pine sprigs from Botanicuts: Pine Bough by The Greetery.

I owe the color choices for the candy canes (Cranberry and Evergreen from Concord and 9th) to my husband who suggested I make them look like the cherry candy canes made by Hammond's Candy Factory here in Colorado :) Yummy!!! Which reminds me...I definitely need to order some of these delicious candies for the holidays soon!!!
 

And here's my second card---same design, just changed up the sentiment---

 

I had so much fun making these cards!!!

Thanks for visiting!

Have a wonderful day!!!

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Supplies:

Stamps: Seasonal Sentiments (Taylored Expressions)

Ink: VersaMark (Tsukineko), Cranberry and Evergreen (Concord and 9th)

Embossing Powder: Queen's Gold (Ranger)

Stencil: Peppermint Kisses Die and Stencil Combo (Taylored Expressions)

Cardstock: Solar White (Neenah), Evening Evergreen and Cherry Cobbler (Stampin' Up)

Specialty Cardstock: Gold (Erin Lee Creative)

Designer Series Paper: Painted Christmas 12x12 (Stampin' Up)

Dies: Peppermint Kisses Die and Stencil Combo (Taylored Expressions), Seasonal Sentiments (Taylored Expressions), Botanicuts: Pine Bough (The Greetery)

Glitter Pen: Clear Wink of Stella (Kuretake)

Adhesive: Double-Sided Tape (Scrapbook.com), Scor-Tape (Scor-Pal), Connect Glue (Gina K)

Every Leaf...

First time playing along with Double D Challenges. Just look at that gorgeous inspiration! The theme is "Things that FALL." 

(THANKS to Michele for posting a card to this challenge and thereby "introducing" me to it.)

Here's my card:

I used the Autumn Bliss Stamp and Cut Combo from the Greetery to create my falling leaves panel. I'm pretty much smitten with all autumn leaf images but I especially LOVE how these leaves were illustrated to look like they're fluttering. So beautiful! I inked them up in one color and then tapped the edges with a second color (using a mini blending brush) and stamped them again.

Thanks to Laurie for letting me borrow this set at a recent crafty get-together! I had so much fun creating these colorful leaves and making this card :)

Have a wonderful evening!

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Supplies:

Stamps: Autumn Bliss Stamp and Cut Combo (The Greetery)

Ink: Crimson, Maple Yellow, Midnight Violet (Altenew), Marmalade (Concord and 9th), Cinnamon Cider and Crumb Cake (Stampin' Up)

Cardstock: White (Neenah), Crushed Curry (Stampin' Up)

Dies: Autumn Bliss Stamp and Cut Combo (The Greetery), Crimped Frames (The Greetery)

Adhesive: 1/4" Double-Sided Tape (X-Press It), 1/8" Double-Sided Tape (Lawn Fawn)

 

Thinking Of You

 

Happy Saturday! Today I'm sharing a card I created for the current Just Add Ink Challenge. This time around it's a "Just Choose Two" theme and I chose "foliage" and "masking"---such a fun combo!

My card features a couple of products from The Greetery including Lovely Silhouettes from the Wild Elegance Collection that was just released in August and an older stamp set called Sentiment Suite: Thinking Of You. The products from The Greetery are always so gorgeous, and I was super lucky to borrow these stamps from my sweet and talented friend, Laurie Willison, at a recent crafty retreat in order to make this card (Thanks so much, Laurie!!!).

I used some torn pieces of Gina K Masking Magic and blended Distress Oxide Inks to create the colorful strip on my focal panel. I've seen Gina K do this technique several times in her videos and I always LOVE the results!!! (You can find her YouTube channel HERE.) I stamped the silhouette foliage over top and then die-cut the panel with A2 Layers dies from Waffle Flower to be slighter smaller than my card base. I stamped the sentiment and then added some black splatters. I adhered the panel to a white card base and then finished it off with some gold glitter enamel dots. Simple and pretty!

Thanks for visiting!

I hope your weekend is off to a great start!!!

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Supplies:

Stamps: Lovely Silhouettes (The Greetery), Sentiment Suite: Thinking Of You (The Greetery)

Cardstock: Solar White (Neenah)

Distress Oxide Inks: Barn Door, Carved Pumpkin, Scattered Straw (Ranger)

Ink: Onyx Black Versafine (Tsukineko)

Other: Masking Magic (Gina K), for creating splatters - Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker (Stampin' Up)

Dies: A2 Layers (Waffle Flower)

Embellishments: Gold Glitter Enamel Dots (Stampin' Up)

Adhesive: Double-Sided Tape (X-Press It)
 

Happy Everything

Hello there! Today I'm playing along with Simon Says: Bit O'Green Challenge. The only green we're seeing here in the mountainhood these days are our fabulous pine trees, so I think this qualifies (*wink*):

 

I fell head-over-heels in love with the Reflections Stamp Set from The Greetery the moment I saw it but just recently got my crafty little hands on it! It's so gorgeous and reminds me of so many of our hiking adventures---a high mountain lake is definitely one of our happy places!

Thanks for visiting!

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Supplies:

Stamps: Reflections (The Greetery), birds from Color Layering Mountains at the Lake (Hero Arts)

Cardstock: White (Neenah)

Ink: Volcano Lake, Frayed Leaf, Grass Field, Hazelnut, Shadow Creek, Mountain Pine (Altenew); Icing On The Cake (Catherine Pooler); Onyx Black Versafine (Tsukineko)

Distress Oxide Ink: Tumbled Glass (Ranger)

Dies: A2 Layers (Waffle Flower), Stitched Rectangles (Lil' Inker)

Adhesive: Double-Side Tape (X-Press It)

Sending S'more Holiday Cheer

 

I've been having lots of fun in my craft studio recently :) Today I'm sharing a couple of cards I made using the S'more Holiday stamps and coordinating dies as well as the Graham Cracker Cuts (all from The Greetery). So cute!!!

 

I purchased these goodies last year and unfortunately never got around to using them. Ugh. Does that happen to anyone else? I get way too excited and wrapped up in ALL of the fabulous holiday releases, and I end up buying WAY MORE than I ever have time to use before the holidays are here and gone. This year I've tried really hard to resist buying new holiday-themed products so I could make use of all the awesome, neglected, NBUS (Never-Before-Used-Schtuff) in my stash. I confess...I have ordered a few things...but not much...hahaha!

I took this same design and made another in green:

I had a blast making these cards! Linking this up at NBUS Challenge 31. Big thanks to Darnell for hosting this challenge and encouraging us creatives to use our "schtuff" ;)

Thanks for visiting! Have a fantastic day!!!

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Supplies:

Stamps: S'more Holiday (The Greetery)

Ink: Vanilla Cream, Hazelnut, Almond Butter, Milk Chocolate (Altenew); Icing On The Cake (Catherine Pooler); Cranberry, Evergreen, Mushroom (Concord and 9th); VersaMark (Tsukineko)

Embossing Powder: White (Hero Arts)

Cardstock: Thick Basic White (Stampin' Up); Kraft (Recollections); True Black (Papertrey Ink)

Patterned Paper: (The Paper Studio - purchased at Hobby Lobby)

Dies: S'more Holiday (The Greetery); Graham Cracker Cuts (The Greetery); Stitched Rectangle Word Windows (MFT); Stitched Rectangles (Lil' Inker)

Adhesive: 1/8" Double-Sided Tape (Lawn Fawn); 1/4" Double-Sided Tape (Scrapbook.com) 

 

25 Days Of Christmas Tags {The Greetery}

Happy Friday! I'm SO EXCITED to be guesting today for the 10th Annual 25 Days of Christmas Tags event!!! Big THANKS to my sweet friend, Tracey, for inviting me to participate!

Today we're featuring one of my favorite companies, The Greetery!!!

I recently saw some wood slice ornaments at Hobby Lobby that had buffalo plaid centers and woodland critter silhouettes on them. I took that inspiration and put my own spin on it by creating some personalized tags for my parents' Christmas gifts :)

I am so in love with these Wood Slice Dies from The Greetery!!! They're so simple yet so perfect!!! I topped them with the Pine Bough BotaniCuts, some jute rope and a couple of jingle bells. I cut the pine boughs from green cardstock and then used an ink dauber to add some Distress Oxide Ink to the edges---this was a great tip that I learned in one of Betsy's videos, and I absolutely love the effect!

I hope you like my creations and feel inspired to join us! You can find all of the details on Tracey's blog HERE.

And remember...if you play along, there are LOTS of fabulous prizes up for grabs!!! Check out all of these amazing sponsors!

Have a fabulous weekend!!!

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Supplies:

Dies: Wood Slices (The Greetery), BotaniCuts Pine Bough (The Greetery), Tall Type Alphabet (Concord and 9th)

Distress Oxide Ink: Mowed Lawn (Ranger)

Cardstock: Kraft, True Black, Green Parakeet (Ink To Paper)

Patterned Paper: Small Buffalo Plaid-White/Black (The Paper Studio)

Specialty Cardstock: Silver Glitter (Concord and 9th)

Adhesive: Double-Sided Tape (X-Press It), Connect Glue (Gina K)

Jute Rope: (Canvas Corp)

Jingle Bells: (purchased at Michaels)

 

CAS Colours and Sketches Challenge 396

Good morning! Popping in today with my second card as the November 2020 Guest Designer at CAS Colours and Sketches. This time around it's a sketch challenge :)

This sketch was just what I needed to get my mojo going for holiday cards :)

Here's what I created:

I absolutely love incorporating plaids and woodland critters/elements into my holiday designs! And I die-cut the Deer Head (Savvy Stamps) from gold glitter cardstock to add a touch of pizzazz!

What do you think? I hope you like my card for today and are inspired to play along!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great week!!!

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Supplies:

Stamps: sentiment from Beautiful Bow (Avery Elle)

Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento (Tsukineko)

Cardstock: Solar White (Neenah), Kraft and Dark Chocolate (Ink To Paper)

Specialty Cardstock: Gold Glitter (Concord and 9th)

Patterned Paper: The Holiday Collection 6x6 Inch Paper Pack (Avery Elle)

Dies: Wood Slices (The Greetery), Deer Head (Savvy Stamps)

Adhesive: Double-Sided Tape (Lawn Fawn), Scor-Tape (Scor-Pal), Mono Multi Liquid Glue (Tombow), Connect Glue (Gina K)