12 Kits of Occasions: September Lighthouses

Hi and welcome to 12 Kits of Occasions, September post. Between us, I 

couldn't be happier to see September pass on. Living with fires and smoke

has been the worst. Hoping for a cooler wet October!

Our hostess this month is Kim Higgings, from Cupcakes, Cards and Kim. She

has titled her kit, 'Lighthouses', and with a sea theme, many of the cutest cut

outs I've ever seen. Plenty of designer papers too! Want to see?

Above is a cute sentiment I couldn't pass up adding to my gull card.

The darling pirate in a barrel came in the kit. I set him a-sailing on SSS's Scallop Borders,

which I used on 3 of my 5 cards.

These 2 little critters are sailing on PTI's Coverplate: Waves.

Yoho! pirate is in front of MFT's porthole and next to Poppystamps' Whittle Palm.

I turned the porthole into a shaker. The waves inside are more of SSS Scallops.

And last is one of the lighthouses included in the kit. Copic colored, with some

Stickles on the rocks. 

Hope you enjoyed the post today, and don't forget to check out all

the designers for their version of the kit.

Keeping Christmas: September

 

Hello and welcome to Keeping Christmas September, a blog hop of 

holiday cards and projects to inspire you to get going on your

greeting cards!

I have a trio of cards today, so let's take a look.

There's a list of designer friends at the end of this post, so you

can hop along.

It's been a while since I've used Betsy's Make It Market: 

Fairy Tale Christmas.

The year it was released, I must have made a dozen cards. She included 

designer papers with the kit, along with stamps, dies, cutouts, stencils, 

even elements to create fairy tale books and projects that light up! For my cards today, I used the enclosed 

stencils, stamps and die cut outs.

The corner dies are the sweetest! I set up an assembly line and turned up

 the Christmas music (Pandora) on the computer. 

3 cards with the same layout moves along quickly, and is a wonderfully

relaxing way to spend a day in the craft room!

Slight differences like color variation on the holly, and where the 

side sprigs were placed were really the only differences.

And... matching envelopes, something I'm trying to do with all the cards I 

make. Makes it so easy when they're ready to send.

I usually send out Christmas cards on or around the 10th of December. 

How are you doing with your holiday card making? No pressure, but, 

only 2 more months of keeping Christmas inspiration.

Speaking of inspiration, check out what the other designers have for you!

Kelly Lunceford (Creator)

 Claire Broadwater

 Lori Tecler

 Nance Salkeld

 Nina Forsyth

 Nancy Guse

 Marybeth Lopez

 Nancy Penir

 Carol Hintermeier 

Autumn Blessings

 

Hi and welcome to fall! And it's fall at the Card Concept Challenge blog, 

where our inspiration is this photo:

Fanciful Fall! All the colorful patterned leaves were my inspiration. 

The leaves from the Greetery's Botanicuts Mighty Oak, are such 

a fun leaf set to color, and I cut the dies from watercolor card stock

 before inking with Distress Oxide Inks. When you spritz them with water, 

the random droplets appear. They rather reminded me of the

polka dot patterns in the inspiration photo.

Shiplap Die holds the Autumn sentiment from Bittersweet Bouquet, 

another set from the Greetery's Autumn release.

Style? Layered, Elegant and some Mixed Media with the Oxide Inks.

Will you join us for the challenge? I'd love to see what inspires you!

Joy

 

Good Morning!

I'm showcasing a Christmas card on the Poppystamps blog today featuring

some new paper packs in the stores now.

All the details for this card are on the blog here:

Joy by Nancy Penir

Hope you'll drop by and have a peek.

 Enjoy your weekend!

Autumn

 

Another card with the Greetery's new release, this time with the shiplap die. 

The background was covered with the die cuts, turned on a diagonal. 

I just love the 3 step stamping for the pitcher and leaves. Actually the leaves are 

a 4 step. 

Hard to see, but I used a clear Nuvo drop on each of the berries.

Celebrating today with the news we had rain in the Sierras. Much needed and prayed for,

and helping to put out the fires. 

Did you order any of the Greetery's latest release? What a beautiful way to

start the autumn season.

Enjoy your weekend!

Supplies:

 The Greetery

Shiplap die set, Bittersweet, Pitcher-esque

All inks Altenew

Blessings

 

It's a gloomy gray Thursday today where I live. The fires to the north of me

are 18%  contained, and we are living with the most toxic air I've ever seen.

What to do with a gloomy gray day...  craft!

Blessed to have my Greetery order, and blessed with a day to play!

The new Botanicuts are a mushroom lover's fantasy. I kept them rather white for

this card, but I'm not done playing with color. 

I'll list all the new stamps and dies at the end of this post. Let me just say, it's way too

hard NOT to push that 'bundle' button!

Hope your day is clear and full of Blessings!

The Greetery

Toadstool Garden, Botanicuts: Mighty Oak, Mimosa Musings, Blessed Blooms.

Altenew and Distress Oxide Inks 

All Blessings Flow

 

Blessings, everyone! 

I had the chance to ink up the new 'All Blessings Flow'

from the latest Greetery release.

I'm in love with the font of the verse and how amazing it

looks surrounded by the flora included in the set.

The die cuts were fitted in my Misti and sponge stamped many times

for a watery multicolored look.

I just had to try the new Square Dance die, so I did a 

second card, this time die cutting the font before adding

it with foam tape.

This time I tucked the sprigs and berries around the verse

I don't have a recipient for either card in mind. It really 

is a blessing I needed, reminding myself to praise God in

all circumstances.

I live in California's Central Valley, very near the fires that 

have ravaged the sierras. As of today, nearly 200,000 acres

have been lost. We have a family cabin near one of the lakes

in the Sierra Nevada Range, and, thank God, our cabin still stands.

But I am aware that many lost homes, and even the road that

leads up to hills is impassable. 

The fires all over California have been horrendous, sending

choking smoke and ash for miles into our valley. At one

point, the valiant firefighters formed a rim around the town

of Shaver, and would not let the fire advance! They saved

all but a few cabins and stores. So profoundly grateful to

them!

Our forests and redwoods are the jewels of our state, and to watch them 

burn breaks my heart!

Thank you for letting me share a bit of my heart today.

Card Creating has been a joy of mine for years. And 

through the stamps and making cards, I remember the blessings 

and rewards being creative brings, in good times and bad.

Lantern Christmas Card

Hi there! I'm up on Poppystamps Blog today, using some of their new Christmas

dies and designer papers. The papers in this new pad have gold threads

running through the plaid, just gorgeous!

Hope you'll pop by the blog today to have a closer look. Thanks for

the visit!

Christmas Lantern by Nancy Penir

The Card Concept: Summer Harvest

Hello! The Card Concept is back folks, although they had a summer edition. We

begin again with fall,

And we have this challenge photo to inspire.

My inspiration came from the sunflowers, and this is my card,

Marybeth Lopez included this embossed sunflower in her recent 12 Kits package, and I

saved it for this post. Magnificent Sunflower by Memory Box was embossed and ready

to paint! I chose to use my Metallic watercolors and call this card, Mixed Media.

The luminance is amazing! Sentiment by a new stampset called Beatitudes 1 by

Stamp Simply.

Background paper: Memory Box.

The Card Concept designer have some gorgeous inspiration for you. Be

sure to read our rules, and come have fun with our fall challenge!

See you in the lineup!

Christmas Tags

Hello friends!

Have you ever started a day making something, and hours later realized you spent

the whole day 'making'????

I was late ordering 'Speed Tag Christmas' from the Greetery, but always

 wanted it. When it came in the mail, I began to stamp, and die cut, and stamp some

more, and die cut more.... well you get the idea.

I think I stopped at 50!

Speed tagging is the genius of Betsy Veldman (the Greetery).

The large 6 x 6" stamp gives you 7 images at once. The die is made to fit perfectly over

the stamped image, producing 7 tags with one die cut! I told you, genius!

The only problem... hard to stop once you get started.

And then there's the sentiment and cute little Christmas images to adorn your

speedy tags. 

I added some of my favorites from other sets Betsy released, that fit perfectly on

the front of the tags

have you made any tags for Christmas? Hope I inspired you a bit

to check out the Speed Tagging Christmas set from the Greetery.

Be warned... you may not be able to stop!