MIM 141

It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

Make It Monday and it's time to bring out the glitter!

Heather Nichols shows us how to make it stick!

With Vintage Ornaments stamps and dies,

first inked and then with the heat and stick embossing powder, Heather made it a breeze.

She warned of overcooking (which I have done), but knowing when to stop makes it easy.

Even applied a strip on the bottom.

PTI's Candy Cane Prints, & Crate Paper's Bundled Up

Come and play on Nichole's blog here:

Make It Monday #141: Adding Glitter with Heat and Stick Embossing Powder

Can't wait to do this again, Thank's Heather!

Merry Monday #84

Good Monday Morning!

So excited to say I was selected to be the guest designer for this week's Merry Monday!

The challenge is use a tree and some bling.

Always Playing with Paper is the blog where the Merry Monday challenge can be found.

Love playing with this theme, and love that with their creative challenges, I've done enough Christmas cards to be done!

This is a great group of talented designers who have given me inspiration each and every time I've played along.

My card is a shaker window (bling) with the tree on the inside.

PTI's In the Meadow stamps and dies

Stampendous Winter Wonderland embossing powder.

Here's the inside.

And the window, which houses the shaker fun.

Designer Paper is Webster's Pages, Dear Santa.

PTI Ocean Tides cardstock

The funfetti is a mix of stuff from my stash.

Come join the fun at Merry Monday, runs all week. You just could be the next guest designer!

Just Us Girls Colour Challenge

Good Saturday afternoon!

Don't you want to hug that cute poochie's neck?

Lovin' these rustic colors!

I'm 'guest designer' over at the Just Us Girls Challenge blog all the month of November!

This week, it's a color challenge.

Red, Kraft, and Brown.

The stags head is a woodblock stamp by Rubberstamp Ave.

Oval die: PTI Limitless Layer, Ovals

Ribbon is handdyed seam binding.

Christmas Games paper by Echo Park.

Winterflake Corner die by Memory Box.

Tiny Tags: PTI

Rustic White, Kraft cardstock: PTI

PTI Inks: Dark Chocolate, Chai tea stain

Come join the fun on the JUG'S blog, and get a Christmas card done too!

Just Us Girls #215 - Colour Challenge

MM # 83 Stripes, Red, Chocolate & Stars or Hearts

This week's Merry Monday focuses us on the colors: Red, and Chocolate, with stripes, and either

 stars or hearts.

Chocolate means bring on the gingerbread man from PTI's Holiday Button Bits.

Isn't this the dreamiest cupboard? 

I love all things traditional, seasoned with a bit of kitsch, and always red and white.

Mr. Gingerbread Man is holding a peppermint candy Memory Box die cut. 

Banner includes hearts from PTI's Gingerbread Lane cut from red felt.

PTI tag sale die cut from Pure Poppy card stock.

Background paper is Webster's Pages: Silent Night. I thought the Birch trees look stripish.

There's a brown die cut snowflake from PTI, glittered with coarse glitter, behind the tag.

Layers make me happy. 

Dimension with foam dots, some Baker's twine, and red and white snowflake ribbon.

Play along through Sunday on the Always Playing with Paper website.

MIM #140 Ink Pad Designs

Ashley shows us how to use our ink pads to design our cards

 on this week's Makeit Monday.

Totally fun and colorful way to be creative with the stamp pads.

Needed a few cards for Thanksgiving, so I made 2 cards for the challenge.

Cut a window in my Rustic Cream card stock with Limitless Layers oval, ran it through the Cuddlebug again with the Woodgrain embosser (both PTI), and then came the fun.

Using Canyon Clay inkad, I swiped it over the card stock. Really brought out the grain of the wood.

Spritzed it with water, to tone down just a bit.

Basket of Blessings copper embossed and selectively bleached. (Remember that tutorial?)

Autumn Acorn leaves and PTI twine.

2nd card used Basket of Blessings again (it was handy, and I love that basket!)

This time embossed in gold, and again used bleach.

(It was handy too!)

The sentiment was clear embossed before I applied the ink pad. I also spritzed it with water.

I think it looks like marble!

Sentiment is also from Basket of Blessings. I used my gold gel pent hilight the T and B.

Rustic Cream cardbase.

If you'd like to join the fun, find Ashley's tutorial here on Nichole's blog:

Make It Monday #140: Ink Pad Designs

Festive Friday #21, Merry Monday #82

Quick Post for a couple of Christmas challenges I love playing

Merry Monday was a color challenge with a twist, circles.

and:

Festive Friday's challenge asked us to use the same colors.

Red, White and Aqua!

Added some new papers and fun tools to my stash (oh what fun!)

Crate Paper: Bundled Up, and Sakura Jelly Role Pen.

PTI: Tremendous Treats: Holiday, Tag Sale die.

Red and White embossing powder

Aqua Mist cardstock: PTI

FFC21 - Colour Challenge…

Jugs 214 Create a bg of words

Hi all!

Hope you're having a great weekend.

I have a card made for the Just Us Girls Challenge blog, 

which asks us to use a word background on our cards.

I'm excited to say I was chosen to be their guest designer for the month of November!

You  could have knocked me over when I got the email from Vicki Dutcher, one of the designers 

of the 'JUGS' blog.

Here's the challenge photo:

So happy I could use PTI's new stamp set, Background Basics: Christmas Joy.

It's just full of Christmas words. Pretty good background for a Christmas card!

Can't seem to get enough of Two Feet Deep, another set from PTI.

The Pinecone swag was created with Peaceful Pinecones.

Tiny Tags die and Lil Inkers bow and stitching dies.

This is a fun challenge blog with some talented designers leading the way.

Check it all out here:

Just Us Girls #214 - Technique Challenge
And be sure to check out my blog each Saturday to catch this 'guest designer's' take on
the week's challenge!

Curtain Call Welcome Home

Good Thursday Morning.

I wanted to play along with the Curtain Call Challenge: Welcome Home

I took the wonderful photo literally and created my impression of this wreath.

such a lovely wreath hanging on a weathered door!

So artistic. 

Using the stamp, A Wreath for all Seasons (PTI), I stamped the stick wreath first in Kraft and then in Brown. Then I selectively stamped the sticks only to increase the width of the wreath. 

Next embossed the wreath stamp in ivory.

Then I applied red and purple dots to look like the berries in the photo.

I took a piece of natural sponge, and stamped tufts of mossy where I liked them,

in several powders, ivory and greens.

I know it seems like a lot of work, but fun it was!

Kind of artsy?

Next I accented in red and purple stickles.

Matted in Royal Velvet card stock, then in Rustic Cream.

I had this unused silver paper that I ran through a wood grained embossing folder, inked it up a bit, 

stamped the Merry in Royal Velvet, and the Christmas in Pine.

Card base is Aqua Mist

Hope you enjoyed my long winded explanation. 

Oh yes, the stitching is Lil Inkers square die.

Catch the challenge that runs through Sunday, here:

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge - Welcome Home

MIM #139 Stamped Square Frames

Dawn McVey shows us how to use our stamps to create frames.

My frame was created using Dawn's Boutique Borders: Thinking of You.

A square layered die cut the window, revealing the Santa from Santa Stationary.

Snowflake Medley

 and Confetti Garland dies

Glittered Merry from Modern Alphabet

Red German Glass Glitter

Santa's face is glittered up bit too, but hard to see in the photo.

PTI cardstocks and inks

Copic pens

So many cool ideas on Nichole's blog!

You can see all the wonderful stamped frames here:

Make It Monday #139: Stamped Square Frames

Cards for Cath

I'm so glad someone suggested making cards for Cath.

After all, it's what we all do, for each other, for all occasions, especially on Tuesdays.

At least we used to.

Cath would play a tune and we would dance.

She certainly has an eye to pick a trigger! 

Her smile, her wit, her kind words, we all will miss the daily inspiration.

Cath, here's another card,  for you.

 I wish you all the best. 

And I know you will be filling your time with many wonderful projects and endeavors.

Please don't be a stranger. 

It was through you we all met and appreciated each other.

Moxie Fab World certainly has some big shoes to fill!

Thank You Cath for all you've done to make the blog world a fabulous place to be! 

A Moxie Fab place to be!

You will be missed!

Cards for Cath

Merry Monday's Santa Challenge

This week's Merry Monday challenge is use Santa on our cards!

Stamped and copic colored a vintage santa from Oxford Impressions with Memento Northern Pine.

PTI:

 Classic Kraft, Rustic Cream, Ocean Tides cardstock

Background Basics: Christmas Joy

Tag Sale #8

Evergreen Border Die

Peaceful Pinecones Stamp and die

Like the rustic feel to the dear old guy.

Kept it rather CAS (for me anyway!)

Play along here:

Merry Monday #81 {Santa!!!!!}

FF's Element Challenge: Wreath

Every 2 weeks Festive Friday hosts a challenge to help us build our stash of Christmas cards.

This week's challenge: Include a wreath

PTI: Rustic Wreath

Wreath diecut with Ocean Tides and Pinefeather.

Shortened the Pinefeather wreath die cut to slightly enclose the window.

'Lil Inkers bow, and stitching dies.

PTI Pinecones set

Sentiment Rustic Wreath

Find Festive Friday's challenge here:

FFC20 - Element Challenge...

MIM #138 Inlaid Die Cuts

This week's MIM has us inlaying die cuts.

I have seen many others doing this seamlessly well, and I'm so glad 

Betsy Veldman's tutorial showed me how. 

The hardest part is deciding which fabulous die to use!

I wanted to stamp onto a die cut like Betsy did, so I chose 'Snow', and cut it 3 times into 

my white card stock.

She used the ampersand, a set I'm in love with! Used 2 of the sizes. 

Inks: PTI Aqua Mist, Blueberry Sky & (ampersand!) Winter Wisteria.

PTI cardstocks, all matching the inks

Snowflakes from PTI's Snowflake Medley & Winter Cheer.

White embossing powder

Frosted the card a bit with Prisma glitter and done!

Betsy, thank you! 

If you like to learn how, check out the video here:

Make It Monday #138: Inlaid Die-cuts

MFW's TT: Enthralled with Fall and MIM's Dimensional Leaf Wreath & JUG #212

This week's Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab world is this 

Awesome photo! Cath sure know how to inspire!

For me, it was the colors! Fire reds, pinks, oranges and yellows!

OK, then there's the leaves, as only God can create!

I started with a soft stone cardstock base, run through the 'Lil Inkers stitching die.

The wreath is PTI's new Rustic Wreath

Leaves: PTI Leaf Prints, misted with various colors from Lindy's Stamp Gang

Ended up misting the wreath a bit as well.

PTI Twine

Metal leaves

Sentiment: PTI First Fruits embossed on vellum, which was run through a woodgrain folder

Also entering in MIM's Dimensional Wreaths

Tuesday Trigger: Enthralled with Fall
Also entering in:
Make It Monday #137: Dimensional Leaf Wreath
Just Us Girls #212 - Photo Inspiration

PapertreyInk's October Blog Hop: Tags

Happy October Blog Hop, all, and welcome!

It's a tag challenge!

I've done 4 tags for you to see, all on one post, 

makes it an easy visit.

Vintage Ornaments, a bit of fussy cutting of the white decorated middle on a Tag Sale #5

(red Poppy cardstock)

Found these crystal baubles at a thrift shop and knew they'd come in handy somewhere!

Garden Sprig die from Poppystamps.

Next is a card, envelope and tag set done for an auction fund raiser.

Used the Nativity Silhouette set.

The wonderful PTI dies make it so easy to do an assembly line set.

The pointsettia is from Year of the Flowers: Pointsettia

10 cards

10 envelopes

10 matching tags

3rd tag is a chalkboard technique on a tag sale die.

 Boutique Borders: Christmas 

And last a fun tag with the Starry Banners die.

I've wanted to get at the Two Feet Deep set and this is the perfect chance!

It's a wonderful stamp and die set with sweet results.

Kept it simple without a drop of glitter! Unusual for me.

Lots to see on Nichol's blog,

hop along and enjoy all the wonderful tag creations!