Holiday Lane

Dear Ones~
Well, we got 8" of heavy, wet snow last night. Needless to say Himself has a sore back tonight. That stuff is heavy.

Today I thought I would share a little ornament that I made this year. It was really fun to do, although very labor intensive and time consuming. I made 8 of them.....and that was enough.

Here's the little gem:

 

It's about 3" high and is square. I used kraft card stock for everything, and stamped with GKD inks. The stamp set is from Papertrey Ink, called Petite Places: Holiday Lane, and has a set of companion dies. The little gazebo style ornament is a die set called Petite Square Ornament, also from PTI. All the little shutters, as well as the door, were die cut separately and glued on, as was the roof. The snow is Liquid Applique.

Here are the Ingredients:

GKD Kraft Card Stock

GKD Pine Green Card Stock

GKD Red Hot Card Stock

Papertrey Ink Holiday Lane Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink Holiday Lane Die Set

Papertrey Ink Petite Square Ornament

GKD Inks~

*Pine Green

*Black Onyx

*Red Hot 

Marvy Liquid Applique

I will be entering this in:

Simon Says Monday Challenge - Winter Wonderland

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you are staying warm and have power....there have been a lot of outages lately. Oh, and I adore your comments!!

Foiling Fun

Dear Ones`
It's the Holiday Lull.....the time between Christmas and New Year's Day when we all step back and take a deep breath. Maybe even feel a little at sixes and sevens because we have been so busy that now we don't know what to do.  Well I have the solution - go create something.

For Christmas Himself gave me a laser printer. I already have a laminator (not a Minc, unfortunately), so I have been foiling my little heart out.

Here is something I came up with:

 Of course it's difficult to photograph foiling. It's never as pretty in a photo as it is in real life, but there you just are. I did an A2 card with a little curvy die cut border. The inside is lined with Blue Raspberry card stock so that it shows along the bottom. I stamped the image and greeting in black ink, photocopied it with my laser printer and then ran it through my laminator with silver foil. Then I stamped the patterned circles in different colors. I have been having a great time playing with my new toy.

Here are the Ingredients:

GKD White Card Stock

GKD Blue Raspberry Card Stock

GKD Pretty Patterns Stamp Set

HOTP 11 Labels and Trims Stamp Set for Greeting

Spellbinders A2 Bracket Borders

GKD Inks In:

*Grass Green

*Turquoise Sea

*Blue Raspberry

Heidi Swapp Silver Foil

I'm entering this in:

The Mod Squad Challenge - Anything Goes 

Simon Says Wednesday - Make it Sparkle

Hope you all are relaxing and enjoying the quiet of the moment. We are expecting a storm, the first bad one we have had. We will see if it happens. Stay warm, dear readers, and thanks for stopping by. I adore your comments!!

Solice

Dear Ones~
I am hosting this week over at The Mod Squad Challenge. Come and join me if you can. The challenge is to create anything but a Christmas card....it's about time. I know we are all tired of creating a Christmas ANYTHING!

This week our sponsor is the wonderful stamp company Kitchen Sink Stamps.

 

  These stamps are amazing. Most have a multi-stamp feature that lets you get great detail in your images using several colors. There is real dimension with a 3-D effect! And one of the best features of this stamp company is that there are color recipes for most of the multi-step stamps, so you don't have to guess what colors to use. There are even alternative colors if you don't have the inks that are suggested. Maria from Kitchen Sink Stamps is a member of our Mod Squad Challenge Facebook Group so feel free to say Hi or ask any questions.

THE PRIZE

$25 GIFT CERTIFICATE to the store. 

You can pick your own goodies and there are lots of choices!

 

Here is the sample I created:

I used the stamp set from Kitchen Sink called Multi-Step Pine Trees. This is just a lovely set, with 3 different size trees. The dimension on the final image is amazing. And here's a tip I learned from Frenchie Martin. Take a dark brown marker and color in the trunk of the tree here and there, as I have done here. It makes the trees so much more real. On this card I stamped the largest image using all 4 stamps on a piece of white card. Then I masked the tree and sponged in the sun using a circle mask. After I was done sponging I took the 2nd step stamp for the medium sized tree and only stamped with that. I love the delicate image you get with just the one stamp. Then I stamped the greeting with the Kitchen Sink 3-Step Baseball Stamp Set on vellum and white heat embossed it.

Here are the Ingredients:

GKD White, Dusty Rose and Wild Dandelion Card Stock

KSS 3-Step Base Ball Stamp for Greeting

GKD Inks In:

*Grass Green

*Fresh Asparagus

*Lemon Drop

*Peach Bellini

*Dusty Rose

*Cranberry Tart

Memento New Sprout Ink

SSS Olive Ink

GKD White Embossing Powder

Stash Vellum

Judy Dots

You have until next Tuesday at noon to enter the challenge. Hope I see some of your lovely creations over there. Thanks for stopping by, I adore your comments!!

Angel Sisters

Dear Ones~
Hope your holiday plans and pleasures are coming along. It's a busy time, but I like to still play and do something for myself. This card reflects that.

Here's my card:

This is a stamp that I bought specifically to make my sister a birthday card. It's called Angel Sisters, and it reminded me so much of her and me. Not that we are anywhere near being angels, but I love how they are embracing each other. I think this is meant to be a Christmas stamp, so I have made a Christmas card here, but the card I made for her was completely different. One of my BFF's, Barb Campbell is hosting the Mod Squad Challenge this week, so this will be entered in her challenge. Barb is super talented, go visit her BLOG and see what I mean.

Here are the Ingredients:

Stampin' Up Rich Razzleberry Card Stock

GKD White Card Stock

Bo Bunny Altitude Patterned Paper

Stampendous Angel Sisters Stamp

Technique Tuesday Stamp - Believe

Vellum and White Embossing Powder

Impression Obsession Snowflake Dies

Recollections Glitter Paper

Zig Clean Color Pens

Stickles and Stash Gems

This card will be entered in:
The Mod Squad Challenge - Here are the Ingredients, You Make the Card
Simon Says Wednesday - Let It Snow
Work It Wednesday - Make a Holiday Card

Thanks for stopping by, I adore your comments. Don't get so busy you can't enjoy the season!

Craft Your Kraft

Dear Ones~
Himself just brought the tree home from our storage - guess it's time to decorate for Christmas. Not quite yet, though. I need to finish my Christmas cards first.

This week in Make it Monday over at Papertrey Ink, Dawn showed us how to do some wonderful stamping on kraft paper. Kraft is one of my favorites. Watch Dawn's video HERE

Here is what I came up with:

This was such a fun technique!! I love the effect that comes from stamping on kraft with white first, and then stamping with the color. I also did some white spatters and I think they really stand out on the kraft color. The PTI Rosie Posie stamp set lends itself so well to this.

Here are the Ingredients:

GKD Kraft and White Card Stock

Papertrey Ink Rosie Posie Stamp Set

Hot Off the Press  Christmas Greeting

GKD Inks in:

*White Pigment

*Red Hot

*Cranberry Tart

*Evergreen, Stamped Off Once

*Evergreen

Dylusions White Spray

This will be entered in:

PTI Make it Monday - Layered Stamping on Kraft

Simon Says - Anything Goes 

 

 So that's it for me right now. I adore your comments, thanks for stopping by!!!

Pattern Your Paper

Dear Ones~

 This week I am the host over at the Mod Squad Challenge. Our sponsor is the wonderful stamp company Kitchen Sink Stamps. Kitchen Sink Stamps offers us a discount. CODE: ModSquad.

  

These stamps are amazing. Most have a multi-stamp feature that lets you get great detail in your images using several colors. There is real dimension with a 3-D effect! And one of the best features of this stamp company is that there are color recipes for most of the multi-step stamps, so you don't have to guess what colors to use. There are even alternative colors if you don't have the inks that are suggested. Maria from Kitchen Sink Stamps is a member of our Mod Squad Challenge Facebook Group so feel free to say hi or ask any questions.

THE PRIZE

$25 GIFT CERTIFICATE to the store. 

You can pick your own goodies and there are a lot of choices!

Here are a couple of samples for you~

For this card I used the Kitchen Sink stamp set  

Friends of the Moon. 

I stamped the shooting stars and firework sprays all over the card, heat embossed it with white embossing powder from GKD, then sponged with Dusty Concord and Faded Jeans Distress Ink. 

The card stock is GKD White and Navy, and Stampin' Up Rich Razzleberry. Greeting is from the GKD Mountain Wilderness stamp set. I die cut the star from glitter paper and attached the silver thread to it.

 

This one was done using the Kitchen Sink stamp set  

3-Step Butterflies. 

I stamped the image on GKD Wild Wisteria Card Stock with GKD Wild Wisteria Ink for a tone on tone look, using 2 of the 3 stamps. Then I splattered with gold paint and used my white gel pen to add dots of white. The greeting is from a Mama Elephant stamp set Sunday Sentiments, and it was embossed with GKD Gold Embossing Powder on vellum. 

The butterfly is a Martha Stewart Punch.

Thanks for stopping by, I adore your comments. You still have until noon on Tuesday, November 24th to join in, so run right over there and be a part!! 

Happy Snowman

Dear Ones~
It's raining again here, and our grass is still green. What's up with that????? Thanksgiving is only a week away!!!!
I made this card today for the StampTV challenge. One of my dear online BFFs is hosting this week. Barb Campbell is so talented, she always inspires me. Check out her blog HERE. She asks us to use a snowman on our card.

Here's what I came up with:

 I just love this particular snowman image from Gina K Designs. It's so conducive to paper piecing, which is what I did here. The patterned paper pack is one I just purchased recently. Very Christmas-y, but all purples and blues. I love it. I got out my white gel pen and gave his scarf some texture.

Here are the Ingredients:

GKD White and Edible Eggplant Card Stock

GKD Winter Wishes Stamp Set

GKD Merry and Bright Stamp Set for Greeting

Cheery Lynn Flourishes Die

Bo Bunny Altitude Patterned Paper Paack

Stickles and Wink of Stella

Copic Markers
Stash Gems

This card will be entered in:

Stamp TV Weekly Challenge - use a snowman

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - make a Christmas card 

Great Impressions - bling on the holidays

Power Poppy - embellish this

We are heading to Traverse City in a little while to have our anniversary dinner. Our anniversary is on Thanksgiving this year, so we thought we would celebrate early. 49 years!! I was 9 when we got married....haha. Thanks for stopping by, I adore your comments. Stay warm, my friends.