Be Merry

 

Another card for the 'Dear Veteran' project through our church.

What's not to bring a smile looking at this noble deer?

Tim Holtz deer head, the Greetery wood slice and postage die, Poppystamps mistletoe

and Be Merry, Memory Box plaid paper.

Hope your week is well and crafty! (The best kind!)

25 Days of Christmas Tags: Bonus Day

 

My Favorite Things sponsored a bonus day during Tracey's 25 Days of Tags, and

among all those gorgeous sweet tags, I chose Anna Lorenzetto's adorable 

tags as my inspiration. 

I found a little animal with a Christmas scarf, and paired it with Poppystamps' Pinpoint

Ornament Shaker tag set. Santa's Sleigh from PTI is is the stamp.

Anna used an off-white frame with a white background with a strip of greeting.

My two tags complete the bonus day! 

Hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend!

Day 22: 25 Days of Christmas Tags

Day 22, 25 Days of Christmas Tags... how can it possibly be true? Day 22? 

Moving along, and the sponsor today is Erin Lee Creative, a company I wasn't 

familiar with, and no stamps in the stash. Love that Tracey is introducing all

of us to such diversity!

I chose Lindsey's tag for the reindeer head, round tag shape, & overall 

simplicity, and hoped to get close with what I had.

Tags are round, (PTI: Basic Cut Tag), reindeer head (Ellen Hudson), super simple!

Success! Gorgeous foil and glitter papers from Memory Box.

And note, sweet reindeer ribbon is from Target, a couple of years ago. Glad to

finally use it!

Have a great rest of the weekend, and see you tomorrow.

 

25 Days Christmas Tags: Day 1

It's holiday time, and time for 25 Days of Christmas Tags. Tracey McNeely hosts

a jolly blog hop each year, 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020 - Day1, complete with

fabulous inspiration, guest designers and prizes.

I'm posting Day 1 on Day 2 with inspiration from Carol Mayne.

Carol's darling tags used Oxide Inks, and penguins on a scallop tag.

Tracey featured Sunny Studios on her blog for Day 1. 

I used PTI's Tremendous Treats: Christmas for my penguin, reindeer and Santa tags.

Love this time of year and Tracey for hosting a blog hop I look forward to 

every year!

 

Keeping Christmas ~ May

4 Happy Reindeer tags, and a card too ~ It's time for Keeping Christmas, a 

group of friends that are helping to inspire all of us to Keep Christmas in our 

hearts. Making a few cards for our Christmas stash helps to make the season

brighter too!

My card has a family of deer by Stamplorations set against a forest of glittery trees.

Here's a closer look at the glitter paper I used that cuts so beautifully. The snowy background

is a super wide Washi from Poppystamps over a PTI Hawaiian Shores card stock.

4 coordinating tags began their life as Luggage tags from Stamplorations. Lindy's 

Magicals on the tag, and once dry, I copic colored

the reindeer (Christmas Reindeer) and added stickles to the antlers and red Nuvo 

drops to the nose. 

Once upon a Christmas, I purchased the white snowflake sequins from Target,

and gave them love with glitter. 

The sentiments are also from the Christmas Reindeer stamp set.

I made a promise to myself to make matching envelopes for each Christmas card

created. So far so good. This one with Magicals dusting powder.

The other designers have some wonderful creations for you. Be sure to

visit them all!

Kelly Lunceford (Creator)

Vicki Finger

Claire Broadwater

Lori Tecler

Nance Salkeld

Nina Forsyth

Nancy Guse

Marybeth Lopez

Nancy Penir

Carol Hintermeier

Hi and Merriest of Holidays to you!

Thought I'd share a tag I made with Lawn Fawn's

Ho Ho Holidays' stamps and dies.

I love to color and this was perfect to play with my copics.

Hope your enjoying all the season's best! 

25 Days of Christmas Tags: Day 12

Hello everyone! Tag lovers especially!

Tracey McNeely's 25 Days of Christmas Tags is well underway.

 The 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2019 - Day 12

Exciting for me, because today I get to showcase tags made with Stamplorations

stamps and dies!

I love the sweet Christmas Reindeer set, and featured them with

Luggage Tags Nesting Dies.

Added a bit of sparkle to the antlers and eyes and nose.

Festive and fun for these tags!

Join the fun @inmycreativeopinion

Peace & Joy

I had some time to play with Papertrey's MIM, and Melissa's 'Deck Your Dies', 

and did a couple of cards for my stash with the new Floral Fantasy set.

I really love the reindeer in red, so festive and bright. I had a few

stamped die cuts left over from the last MIM, and combining them with 

my 'decked out' die cuts showcased that darling deer.

First I cut a window with an oval die, and decked it with 2 more die cut ovals from

silver glitter paper, angling the 2 die cuts a bit.

Scalloped frame provided an addtional dotted die over my stamped BG Basics: Gingham

stamped in black on red card stock.

What to do with the oval cut out? Another card!

Same layout, with my reindeer embossed in white on red, a reverse of the first card.

A little hard to see on this card, but the die cut sentiment is backed with black glitter

card stock.

A close look at the greenery and berries, you can see some double inking and Copic coloring.

Love seeing what everyone does to their die cuts to enhance them, don't you? 

Play along on PTI's blog through the week.

Hope your crafting isn't too stressed this time of year. I know mine is... just hoping

yours isn't! <3 

Floral Fantasy: Christmas Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Floral Fantasy: Christmas Die Collection (set of 2)

Forest Floor: Winter Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Forest Floor: Winter Die

Papertrey Ink - Noted: Scalloped A2 Die Collection (set of 9)

Papertrey Ink - Scallop Stackers: Small Die

PTI's November '18 Blog Hop

PTI November Blog Hop, and what a happy holiday photo!

Lots of extras for more cards!

Play along all day!

Day 4 25 Days of Christmas Tags

Back with Day 4 of 25 Days of Christmas Tags.

Today Tracey's featuring Reverse Confetti, and I was

inspired by Jeanne Jackna's bright and colorful tag,

Jeanne's project are always standouts, lots of clear bright color, and 

unmatched layered design. 

Here's my tag, using Reverse Confetti's layered tag.

Stayed with Jeanne's pink and lilac inked bg, and added Essentials by Ellen's 

Laurel Wreath dies. PTI: Corner Adorner October bow.

 The 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2018 - Day 4 

Sleigh Bells Ring

Laurie Schmidlin from PapertreyInk has the spotlight this week with her MIM 

tutorial: creating layers on our cards.

Loved it from start to finish. Gave me the nod to create all the lovely layers I want!

Beginning with an Ocean Tides and Pinefeather color scheme, I cased Michelle Phillips'

card using Mix & Mat Plaid, where she edge embossed the corners, as though kissed by snow.

Stampendous Shabby Blue Embossing Enamel has flecks of white, gold and aqua.

The Dash Away All stamp and die set haven't left my table since they arrived. 

I love how the deer seems to take flight no matter where I use him!

Peaceful Pinecones and a big red bow with lots of foam,  just as Laurie instructed,

gives the card my Love of Layers.

See Laurie's video on Nichole's blog here:

Make it Monday #305: Love of Layers

Happy crafting!

Very Merry

Merry Monday is featuring a photo and color scheme chosen by 

Marcia Hill, this week.

Kraft and Red! Love the theme, and couldn't wait to join the fun.

It's an all PTI card.

My wreath was created with PTI's Beautiful Berries: Winter.

Stag is from Dash Away All, 

 To The Point: Edgers die

 Plaid Builders, and bow from Merry Kiss-mas.

A bit hard to see, but I scored the bg with my score buddy.

Play along for a few more days here:

Merry Monday #264 {Kraft and Red}

Merry

Found out recently that Marcia Hill, from Marcia's Stampin' Pad,

is one of the new designers at Merry Monday's Christmas Challenge.

So happy for Marcia, love all her inspiration!

Getting in under the wire, but just had to play along with 

Deanne's challenge photo:

Black, Gold & White! Holiday Glam!

I focused on the framed deer.

Not a single stamp used in this card, all die cuts!

Deer head  & laurel from Ellen Hudson: Laurel Wreath Set.

The frame is a combination of Gold Foil & Shimmer card stock from PTI,

cut from PTI's Cover Plate: Pretty Frame.

Merry is a die cut from Poppy Stamps 'Merry Christmas', (just used the merry)

Laurel is double cut, top is black glitter card stock.

Deer head is cut from Recollections gold glitter. (Michaels)

Merry Monday #212 {Welcome Back!!}