Can You Handle the Pressure - Snow

Dear Ones~

  There's a new challenge over at Can You Handle the Pressure.   For this challenge blog you MUST use an EMBOSSING FOLDER on your project.  Heat embossing (with embossing powder) is permitted but only IN ADDITION to your embossing folder design.  Each new challenge will have a 'TWIST' which is optional ... your choice to use or not.

The OPTIONAL TWIST for today's challenge is:

SNOW

 Here's my card:

There are so many things I love about this card. That beautiful Stampin' Up die cut border, the falling snow embossed background and that fun wax seal. I have recently become obsessed with using wax seals, and with this one I colored the image with a silver paint pen.

The Ingredients:

GKD White Card Stock

Park Lane Paperie Card Stock

SU Swirly Snowflakes Thinlits Border Die

SU Falling Snow Embossing Folder

SU Harvest Die

Paper Studio Snowflake Punch

Teeny Tiny Wishes Stamp

GKE Silver Embossing Powder

Wax Stamp

Hobby Lobby Faceted Gems

 

 

 If you head on over to the Can You Handle the Pressure Blog and play along, you could win this fabulous embossing folder, it's a stunner. Don't forget to check out all the beautiful cards the other designers have created.

 

 

 

Tomorrow is Christmas, I hope you are ready. Have a blessed holiday, and when you get a chance please go take a look at the Can You Handle the Pressure blog. You won't be sorry.

 

Until next time dear reader, aspire to be inspired, and here's celebrating your Creative Muse.

~judy

Double D - Candy Cane

 

 Dear Ones~

The theme this time over at Double D is Candy Canes. How FUN!! Who doesn't love a candy cane?  Here is the Mood Board for our inspiration:

And here's my card:

Candy Canes are not something I use every day on my cards. I had to search for even a die that I could use. I finally found this image in a coffee cup die set. That background is a new Tim Holtz die set and it's simply fabulous. It comes in two pieces and I chose to die cut both with white. 

I love the texture!!

 

The Ingredients:

GKD Red Hot and White Card Stock

Tim Holtz Layered Plaid Die Set

Spellbinders Pinked Circle Die 

SU Layered Circles Die

GKD Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

SU Poinsettia Dies

SU Teeny Tiny Wishes for Greeting

ZPARTY Coffee Mug Die Set

Martha Stewart Pine Bough Punch

 

 

If you head on over to the  Double D Challenge Blog and play along, you could win this fabulous embossing folder by Picket Fence. Don't forget to check out all the beautiful cards the other designers have created.  

 

 

Only 4 days until Christmas, are you ready???  I hope you have a lovely holiday,  and don't forget to check out Double D. 

 Until next time dear readers, aspire to be inspired, and here's celebrating your Creative Muse!!

~judy

 

 

 

Can You Handle the Pressure - Christmas

 

Dear Ones~

  There's a new challenge over at Can You Handle the Pressure.   For this challenge blog you MUST use an EMBOSSING FOLDER on your project.  Heat embossing (with embossing powder) is permitted but only IN ADDITION to your embossing folder design.  Each new challenge will have a 'TWIST' which is optional ... your choice to use or not.

The OPTIONAL TWIST for today's challenge is:

CHRISTMAS

Here's my card:

There's so many possibilities with this challenge, and I decided to do a Christmas rose. This is a stunning foil plate and stencil set by Altenew. I hope you can see that beautiful gold foiling. It's so much fun to create because the stencil does all the coloring for you. That embossed background is a gorgeous folder by Spellbinders called Tufted. I love it.

The Ingredients:

GKD White Card Stock

SU Evening Evergreen & Soft Succulent Card Stock

Tim Holtz Metallic Card Stock

Spellbinder's Tufted Embossing Folder

 Altenew Guilded Rose Foil Plate

Altenew Guilded Rose Stencil

Simon Hurley Inks In:

*Game Over *Love Struck *Bee Sting

Tim Holtz Holiday Greens Mini Dies

GKD Angel Aura Rhinestones

 

 

 If you head on over to the Can You Handle the Pressure Blog and play along, you could win this fabulous embossing folder, it's a stunner. Don't forget to check out all the beautiful cards the other designers have created.

 

 

 Christmas will soon be upon us, enjoy the holidays! Thank you so much for stopping by, your comments always make me smile. Please go take a look at the Can You Handle the Pressure blog, you won't be sorry.

 

Until next time dear reader, aspire to be inspired and here's celebrating your Creative Muse.

~judy

Double D - Christmas Stockings

 

 Dear Ones~

The theme this time over at Double D is Christmas Stockings. Here is the Mood Board for our inspiration:

 

 And here's what I came up with:

This one was tough for me. I looked and looked, and the ONLY Christmas Stocking image I had of any sort was this tiny one from a stamp set I got along with a cardmaking magazine. I love the embossing folder I used for the background. I inked it up with Versamark and then ran it through my die cutting machine with some kraft card stock. Then I liberally sprinkled it with white embossing powder and heated it up. Doesn't it look FABULOUS? The stockings and greeting were also stamped with Versamark and white heat embossed.

 

 

 

The Ingredients:

GKD Kraft and White Card Stock

SSS Scandinavian Christmas Embossing Folder

Versamark Ink

GKD White Fine Detail Embossing Powder

Cardmaking Scandi Christmas Stamp

SU Rectangle Stitched Framelits

Trinity Stamps Satin Gold Baubles

 

 

 

 

If you head on over to the  Double D Challenge Blog and play along, you could win this ADORABLE stamp and die set. Don't forget to check out all the beautiful cards the other designers have created.  

Christmas will soon be upon us! Enjoy the season, and don't forget to check out Double D. I hope you aspire to be inspired!

 Until next time dear readers, here's celebrating your Creative Muse!!

~judy