25 Days of Christmas Tags: Day 3

 

day 3 of 25 Tags, and Altenew is the featured sponsor.

I loved Kim's simple poinsettia tag, and chose it as inspiration.

Kim's tag sings simple elegant Christmas fantasy!

I'm so excited to use my Altenew Festive Poinsettia stamp and die set.

The tag is  Poppystamp's Pinpoint Main Street Tag.

On to Day 4!

25 Days of Christmas Tags: Day 2

 

It's Day 2 for 25 Days of Christmas Tags.

It's Joyce Mehrberg's that inspired mine today. 

And with Simon Says Stamp being focused, I used my SSS Little Critters:

Schnauzer and Present Shaker dies. All mounted on PTI's Quilted Tag.

Meet Ella. She's my new adopted baby. She's a Doodle, part poodle and part

other things, no quite sure what! Ella's just back from the the groomer in this

picture with the Halloween feathers in her fur.

Day 2 under wraps, on to Day 3...

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!

 

12 Kits of Occasions October '20: Fall Splendor

Hey everyone, thanks for visiting today. You're in for a treat! It's time for

the 12 Kits of Occasions October Hop.

Our hostess this month is Birgit Norton (@craftingwhileiwait), and she sent

the most delightful kit full of leaves and pumpkins, and gorgeous papers, called

Fall Splendor. Well just have a look...

These were a trio of stamped pumpkins I fussy cut and colored with copics. Then I 

mounted them onto a PTI leafy die cut I had in my stash. In the center is a

sentiment Birgit included in the kit.

The sweet apple basket came die cut and ready for red and green apples (also in the kit).

Don't you love the red truck and apple basket paper? Paired it with the Greetery's

Ship Lap dies, and blessed sentiment.

I wanted Birgit's gorgeous leaf die cut to shine, so paired it with a 

Spellbinders lacy die set. 

the orange background paper was the reverse side of one of the papers included in

the kit. Can you see the tiny dots? 

Love this sweet little pumpkin! The stitched leaves, papers and tag came together 

in a snap!

And finally, this stamped and die cut solo pumpkin was colored with copics,

and added to one of the gorgeous leafy designer papers. 

Thank you, Birgit! My autumn cards grew by 5, and even have some 

adorable die cuts and papers for more!

Be sure and see what the other disigners have done.

They're sure to surprise and delight. Can't wait to

see what they did with Birgit's kit!

Fall Splendor ~ October 2020

Keeping Christmas: October

 

Greetings to all lovers of Christmas! 

It's time for our Keeping Christmas Blog Hop, a group of friends who post

on the 25th of each month (minus December), with inspiration for holiday

projects and cards.

Fortunately my Christmas Greetery order arrived in time to make a set I had in mind

ever since the stamps and dies were sneak peek-ed!

The sprayed panel background was in my stash, sprayed with Lindy's Starburst.

The card is a shaker filled with snow. The Greetery's Destination North Pole was

such fun to work with! 

The tag is another new Greetery set: Wood Slices.

If you've followed me through the year, each and every card I made includes

a matching envelope. So nice to have them ready to send. This one also

has it's own matching seal, a stamp and die Betsy had in the set. LOVE

that she thinks of everything! I have sheets of label paper you can stamp on

and then die cut. The back then peels off and seals the envelope flap.

Glammed things up a bit with Stickles and Nuvo drops

Hope you enjoyed this month's Keeping Christmas. 

Be sure to hop by and see what the other designers have done!

Kelly Lunceford (Creator)

 Claire Broadwater

 Lori Tecler

 Nance Salkeld

 Nina Forsyth

Nancy Guse

 Marybeth Lopez

 Nancy Penir

 Carol Hintermeier 

Supplies:

The Greetery:

Destination Waterfront Map

Destination North Pole

Wood Slices

Envelope Stencil

White Envelope

Lindy's Stamp Gang: Starburst sprays

Nuvo red drops, Stickles, Stampendous Shaved Ice, Lucy's Little Things:

Clear Iridescent Jewel Mix, Glitter Spray, PTI & Altenew Inks, PTI cardstock

2 Halloween Cards

 

Hi folks! I'm on the Poppystamps Blog today with a couple of 'Boo' cards, just

in time for some Halloween inspiration.

Check out the deets here:

2 Halloween Cards by Nancy Penir

Happy Boo Day! Any plans? We do a 'Trunk or Treat' at our church. 

We will be practicing some safe distancing, and other measures to 

keep everyone well, while having fun. It's a strange new world, isn't it?

Did you hear there's going to be a full moon on Halloween night?

The Card Concept: Autumn Blessings

 

Autumn Blessings my friends! Hope you are enjoying cooler weather, and all

the blessings that come with the season. 

Speaking of Autumn Blessing, we're starting a new challenge at the Card Concept

that just happens to be titled, Autumn Blessings. Here's the photo

Rich colors, textured contrasts, and full of inspiration!

Julie Gearinger picks our photos, and she's been hitting it out of the park!

I zoned in on that silver aluminum pail, and all the layers of flora in the

photo.

Style? Mixed media; watercolor, embossing and stencil paste, and lots of layers too!

I used a couple of sets from the Greetery, (supplies at end of post), and used the pitcher 

from Pitcher-esque.

You barely see it, but on the left of the card is a pewter pitcher, that was a gift to my

mom from her great aunt in Boston. We used that pitcher every Thanksgiving, and

it graced our table during the holidays. I loved it so much, my mom gave it to me, 

and it continues bringing beauty to my table on special occasions. 

The pitcher is filled with watercolored autumn leaves, and I brushed on embossing

ink along the edges before adding gold embossing powder. Just couldn't be 

happier with this inspiration photo. There's so much to be inspired by, and I 

can't wait to see what you all create! 

Have a wonderful creative, crafty week! 

Supplies:

The Greetery: Pitcher-esque stamps and die, Bittersweet Bouquet, Botanicuts

Mighty Oak Die, Berry Branch Stencil

Winsor Newton Watercolors, Nuvo Dream Drops: Indigo Eclipse,

Strathmore Watercolor Cardstock

Stampendous: Detail Silver Embossing Powder, Ranger: Gold ep. 

Dreamweaver Embossing Paste

The Card Concept #142 {Autumn Bounty}

Spiders!

 

Hi there Poppy Peeps! Come join me on the Poppystamps blog today to see how I 

created this slightly spooky Halloween card.

Any thing with spiders spooks me... how about you?

Spiders! A Halloween Card by Nancy Penir

The Card Concept: Around the World

 

Hello Card Concept fans! It's time for a new challenge, and we have this photo

as inspiration:

Around the World is our theme, and I focused right in on that

Glorious Globe! Decided to tuck in some of the blooms too.

I love this set from C9, and don't use it enough. The sentiments are

designed to stamp within the globe. Really packs a wow of a thanks!

Lots of 'popping' up with foam for dimension, and silver embossing powder

for a bit of bling.

Hope you play along, I love seeing what you all imagine from the 

inspiration photo. 

See you in the Card Concept line up!

Supplies:

Concord & 9th: Globe Greetings; So Happy For You

The Greetery: Postal Frames dies

Atenew: Inks

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.