Snowman Thank You card for Make it Monday

It's time for Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday! This week is #194 (wow!): Sympathy Cards & Stamped Borders. My card features a stamped border demonstrated by Melissa.

This was a fun and easy technique - I must try it again!

Thanks for visiting! Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!!!!

Ingredients: PTI Snowflake Medley, Shape  Up Snowman, Wonderful Words; Thank you

Merry Ornament card

Christmas is almost here! I have one last card to share and I am submitting it to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Winter Inspiration.

This card is actually one of my favorites I made this year!

For my little winter scene, I treated the inside of the ornament like a snow globe. The "snow" is stenciled with ink. Here's a detail pic:

Thanks for visiting and MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HANUKKAH, HAPPY BOXING DAY, HAPPY KWANZA AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Ingredients: PTI Shaker Shapes Ornament; Studio Calico Cool Yule; Tim Holtz Dot Fade Stencil

Season's Greeting CAS card

Time for another Christmas card! I am submitting today's card to this week's Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #139 and the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Anything Goes.

My card feature's the epitome of winter - a large gorgeous snowflake!!!!

I colored the deer/wreath image with Prismacolor pencils and the sentiment is gold heat embossed.

Here's a detail shot:

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: MFT Snowflake Doily; PTI Santa's Sleigh, Wet Paint Holiday

Sequined Tree Tag for 12 Tags of Christmas

My tag today is for Day 6 of Ellen Hutson's 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist.

For Day 6, Jean Manis shows us a tag inspired by a holiday image from a children's books - in this case a tree.  What a cool place to find inspiration!

Here is my tag inspired by her adorable winter scene tag:

I only have gold sequins so I toned down the color palate to more earthy tones. I love the night sky idea and stamped snowflakes on my tag in silver. For the tree trunk I dabbed on some Distress stickles.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: PTI Tag Sale Die #5, Merry & Bright (tree die), In the Meadow stamps (snowflakes) and dies (Snow Drifts), Text Style pattern paper-Holiday Flourishes & Swirls; Basic Grey misc pattern paper (tree); misc sequins

Layered Stenciled Tree Gift Tag for 12 Tags of Christmas

It's Day 2 of Ellen Hutson's 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist.

Day 2 is brought to us by Jennifer McGuire! She shows us a layered stenciling technique with a really awesome deer stencil.  Here is the tag I made inspired by her technique:

I don't have any stencils of images, so I made one using my tree die and some transparency leftover from my stamp packaging. I then used my chevron stencil over top to create a design on the tree. I used a non-traditional tag base to accommodate the size of the tree - it's made from a banner die!

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: PTI In the Meadow, Signature Christmas; MFT Jumbo Fishtail Banner Stax; Heidi Swapp Chevron stencil; misc gems; ribbon (Michaels)

Holiday Treat Bags

I love making little treat bags for my co-workers for the holidays. Just a little something to spread some holiday spirit and show my appreciation for their help throughout the year.

Here is a sampling of the bags I made this year:

I knew I wanted to create a window and originally chose a snowman die BUT his arms stretched out the the sides too far so I nixed that and went with this super cute tree die from Reverse Confetti.  I put transparency on the inside behind the die cut and then glued the tree branch to the front.

Here is a shot of what's inside:

I also made a little tag to go along with the bag - I put "from Liz" on the back. Bags are tied with some chenille stems I've had forever!

I am submitting my little treat bags to this weeks' Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christmas/Holidays.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: MFT Paper Bag Treat Box; Reverse Confetti Branch Out, Tag Me; Studio Calico Cool Yule; Pebbles misc pattern papers

Water color Christmas tag for 12 Tags of Christmas…..

It's time for Ellen Hutson's annual 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist!

For Day 1 - the fab Julie Ebersole treated us to an ombre water colored tag with a die cut wreath. Here is my tag inspired by her creation:

Since my wreath was too big for my tag dies, I used Reverse Confetti Sweet Treat Tent die and cut off the top tab, trimmed the bottom flap and rounded the bottom corners to match the top. I've seen this die cut used for a tag before and I loved the idea!

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: Reverse Confetti Sweet Treat Tent; WPlus9 Woodland Wreaths; misc sequins

Snowy Joy Christmas card

Time for another Christmas card! For this card I broke out my new Reverse Confetti dies - I am in love with these!!!! My card is being submitted to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christmas/Holidays.

I went for sparkle and shine in this card!

Here's a detail shot:

And here's the inside - I recycled the negative left from the frame on the front:

Photo isn't that great because of the shine from the card stock, but you get the idea. Since I can't write where the sentiment is, I adhered a piece of pattern paper to the top inside of the card to write on.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: Reverse Confetti Branch Out, Let it Snow; MFT Joy Photo Frame, Grand Holiday Greetings; misc foil card stock (Michaels); Doodlebug pattern papers

It's a "Bumble" Christmas!

I've been wrapping up my Christmas cards and today's card is being submitted to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Holiday Cards.

I made a super cute card for my niece - I was inspired by my fav holiday special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I knew I had a santa, a reindeer and that Yeti makes the perfect Bumble, so I made a little scene featuring my beloved pals:

Here is a close up of my Bumble:

And here is the inside of the card featuring a sentiment stamp from Purple Onion I got ages ago:

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: Lawn Fawn Yeti, Set, Go!; Paper Smooches Santa Paws, Word Bubbles dies; Reverse Confetti Tinsel n' Trim (HoHoHo sentiment); Studio Calico Cool Yule (trees); PTI In the Meadow (Snow drifts); Purple Onion Oh by Golly…. (interior sentiment); Glittered fun foam (snow banks)

Snow Monster Gift Tag

I am a BIG fan of the 1964 claymation classic, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, so when Lawn Fawn came out with Yeti, Set, Go! my brain saw the "Bumble!" I made a tag featuring the "Bumble" and am submitting to the the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge featuring Lawn Fawn stamps. 

I white heat embossed the outline of the Yeti image and then colored him in with color pencils. 

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: Lawn Fawn Yeti, Set, Go!; PTI Tag Sale #4, Tag-Its #8 (sentiment)

Snowman Tags for The Card Concept

Now that most of the Christmas cards are done, I've moved onto gift tags!!! My tags today feature my fav snowman from Hero Arts' Snow Much Joy stamp set!! I will be submitting my tags to The Card Concept Challenge #24 - Snowman (Make a Tag) and to Tracey McNeeley's 25 Days of Christmas Tags Flickr Group.

My first tag falls under the Clean & Graphic style:

I really like how this turned out! The scarf, nose and hat were colored with my Bic Mark!It markers.

My next tag is Clean & Simple:

For this tag, I heat embossed the snowman in white and then colored him in with Prismacolor pencils.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients:
Tag #1 - Hero Arts Snow Much Joy; Studio Calico Very Merry (sentiment); Reverse Confetti Tag Me die
Tag #2 - Hero Arts Snow Much Joy; PTI Wet Paint Holiday dies, Tag Sale Die #1

Snowflake Gift Tags

I have a set of tags I made to submit to a few challenges:

First up, PTI's November Blog Hop - the theme is SNOW!

Inspiration photo:

Next it's the The Cutting Edge Challenge #15
Inspiration photo:

And last but not least the 25 Days of Christmas Tags by Tracey McNeely.

WHEW! Now onto the tags!

I was inspired by the colors in the Cutting Edge inspiration photo. I'm sad that this is their last challenge - I love the concept they created and I wish I had been able to join in more.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: PTI Snowflake Medley, Tag Sale #1, #3, #5, Wet Paint Holiday

Leafy Wreath Thanksgiving Card

I have one more Thanksgiving card to submit to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Thanks/Thanksgiving Challenge.

I used my new PTI circle scribbles die (the largest one) to create a wreath base and then layered leaves and acorns on top.  Here's a detail pic:

And here is the inside:

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: PTI Circle Scribbles die, Nuts for You; Keep it Simple: Thanksgiving; Reverse Confetti Forever Fall (woodgrain, card inside sentiment); Paper Smooches Spring Groves (squirrel)

Give Thanks card

Today I have a cute squirrel card to submit to 2 challenges -- the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Thanks/Thanksgiving and the AAA Cards: A Game of THANKSgivings challenge.

Here is my card:

The squirrel image is die cut in the popped up panel of pattern paper and then I stamped him on the card base.

And here is the inside:

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: Papertrey Ink Nuts for You, Keep It Simple: Thanksgiving (interior sentiment); Reverse Confetti Forever Fall (card front sentiment); Doodlebug Happy Harvest pattern paper

Thanksgiving card for Card Concept Challenge

Time for the Card Concept: Challenge #22 - Thank "fall". Love the current challenge! My card was inspired by the colors and the variety of fall objects.

My card falls more in the Freestyle Collage style.

My card is inspired by this card. I love the panel/subway text stamp and am always looking for inspiration.

I originally planned on having 3 panels of the text across the card, but my measurements were off so I only was able to fit 2 panels, so I put the tree in so it wouldn't be off balance.

Here is a detail shot. The "leaves" of the tree were created with a blending tool and distress inks.

And here is the inside of the card:

I adore that little squirrel!

Thanks for checking out my blog!

Ingredients: Fresh Squeezed Stamps Subway Series Fall; PTI Nuts for You; Paper Smooches Spring Grooves, Folkal Points; PTI Keep it Simple: Thanksgiving

PTI MIM #187 - Tag #3

Here is my last tag for PTI's Make it Monday #187: Partial Die Cuts for the Holidays.

This one is in more traditional holiday colors.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: PTI Shaker Shapes Holiday Ornament, Wet Paint Holiday dies, In the Meadow (snowflake); Doodlebug pattern papers

PTI MIM #187 - Tag #2

Here is tag #2 for PTI's Make it Monday #187: Partial Die Cuts for the Holidays.

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Ingredients: PTI In the Meadow, Shaker Shapes Holiday Ornament, Wet Paint Holiday dies, Double Ended Banner, Wet Paint Holiday (Stamps), Peace Be Still; misc Basic Grey pattern papers

PTI MIM #187 - Tag #1

I love this week's Make it Monday #187: Partial Die Cuts for the Holidays. I ended up making 3 tags - each being posted separately.
I broke out my new PTI goodies and even used some leftover scraps to make my tags - I love when I use scraps/leftovers from previous creations.

Here is my tag:

The tree die cut is covered with Distress Stickles dry glitter.

This tag could even be repurposed as a tree ornament!

Ingredients: PTI Shaker Shapes: Holiday Ornament, Wet Paint Holiday dies, Snowflake Medley; Misc Basic Grey pattern paper

Christmas cards for MIM & Caring Hearts Card Drive

I love this week's Make it Monday! PTI's Make it Monday #186 is Partial Die Stamping by Laurie. This is a fun technique and I used it to make 2 cards that I will be submitting to the 5th Annual Caring Hearts Card Drive. This is a great cause and I encourage everyone to participate! I didn't get a chance to do it last year but this year I will be submitting about 8 cards.

My cards are inspired by this card by Kreative Kristie. 

Here they are:

Here's a close up detail shot:

And here is the sentiment inside the cards:

Thanks for checking out my cards!

Ingredients: PTI Wet Paint Holiday dies, Snowflake Medley