More holiday cards to share!

Today's pic-heavy post is of cards I haven't shared yet.  Please enjoy! Happy New Year!

Ingredients: Paper Smooches Santa Paws, Christmas Sampler, Swanky Snowdudes; PTI Fabulous Frames

The silver snowflakes are created using a stencil and Faber Castell Texture Luxe. The design was inspired by techniques learned from Online Card Classes' Holiday Style class I recently took.

Ingredients: MFT Grand Greetings; Echo Park Paper Snowflakes #1 Stencil

One of my fav cards!

Ingredients: WPlus9 Woodland Wreaths; MFT Joy Photo Card Frame; Hampton Arts deer stamp; Reverse Confetti Carton Cuties (bow tie)

Ingredients: Studio Calico Cool Yule, Very Merry; MFT Layered Treat Tag

Another fav card - this card was inspired by Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday #234 Embellish with Felt. I didn't get a chance to submit it but still wanted to share this cool card. I bought 2 packs of clear card stock by accident so I decided to make a clear card. The red is foil card stock and "peace" is cut from PTI's hawaiian shores felt. Simple but elegant!

Ingredients: PTI Shaker Shapes Ornament, Wet Paint Holiday

Another fun/fav card! I created a stencil using the deer head die and used Ferro Iron "texture paste". It has a bit of a sparkle to it and a subtle rough texture. Awesome stuff for guy cards!!!! 

Ingredients: MFT Joy Photo Card Frame; Hampton Arts Deer die

Bonus pic -- cute little treat bags I made for co-workers:

These little bags and doilies are from Doodlebug. I added some cute PTI and Reverse Confetti die cuts to finish them off.

Ingredients: Reverse Confetti Branch Out, Winter Words; PTI Wet Paint Holiday, Wet Paint Holiday Tags

Thanks for visiting me in 2015!!!

Another holiday card

I love using metallics for holiday cards and today's card features a silver mirror foil card stock and gold ink.

I'm submitting this card to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog - Make it Sparkle.

Here's my card:

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: PTI Wet Paint Holiday Tags, Wet Paint Holiday, Wonderful Words: Holiday Collection

Masculine Christmas Card

I still have a couple more holiday cards to share and they'll be posted today.

If I hadn't said it before, I love the deer trend! I love it for masculine cards! My card today is being submitted to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog - Make it Sparkle. Sparkle doesn't usually happen with guy cards, but I made it masculine using metallic card stock with a graphic design.

Here it is:

Here's a detailed pic:

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: PTI Wet Paint Holiday Tags, Scribbled Circles; Hampton Arts Deer die

Merry & Bright Stag card

Back again with another card today! I LOVE the stag/deer trend and make quite a few cards using an unnamed stamp/die set by Hampton Arts I found at Michael's. Today's card is a more modern/graphic take on the winter wonderland theme for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog - Winter Wonderland.

The pic doesn't show it but the deer is cut from red textured foil cardstock and the snow and scribbled circle are stamped with silver ink.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: Hampton Arts Deer Stamp/Die set; Studio Calico Cool Yule, Very Merry

Merry Christmas card for SSS Monday Challenge

Belated holiday wishes! I'm getting caught up on some postings of my holiday cards this weekend - my card today is being submitted to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog - Winter Wonderland theme.

Sorry for the crappy pic - we have been having rainy/gray (but warm) weather for weeks, so I haven't had any natural light to get good pics.  With our record-breaking warm weather these days,  the only thing winter-like around here are my cards!

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: Reverse Confetti Brand Out, Winter Words and Winter Words Coordinates; SSS Falling Snow stencil

Holiday Greetings card

OK one more card today! I adore the snow globe look with Mason or Ball jars you see on Pinterest and I've seen some cards recreating this look and that's my inspiration for today's card.  I'm submitting this card to the Simon Say Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Die Crazy.

Here's my card:

I love to mix and match stamps and dies from different companies and this card is no exception!

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: Lawn Fawn Ready, Set, Snow, twine; Paper Smooches Crystal Clear, Christmas Words; PTI Tiny Tags, Tiny Treats Christmas; Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil

Sending Holiday Cheer

Another post, another card! I've been busy! Glitter and the holidays go hand in hand and I love to add a little sparkle to my cards. Today's card is for Virginia's View Challenge #21 - All About Glitter.

Besides the glittery snowflake paper for the ground, I added some Stickles to the roof to create that frosty snow effect. House is colored in with my Bic Mark-It markers.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: Hero Arts Sending Holiday Cheer; PTI In the Meadow (snow drifts); MFT Layered Treat Tags; misc Doodlebug pattern papers

It's an Otter Christmas Card

My sister adores otters and when Lawn Fawn came out with Year Five featuring a super cute otter I knew I had to have it for her cards. I featured this little otter on her birthday card and I knew this little guy would be on her Christmas card too! And when I finally got Lawn Fawn's Ready, Set, Snow, I knew I'd be mixing these sets together for a cute card!

Check it out:

I am submitting my card to the Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge Blog - Die Crazy.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: Lawn Fawn Year Five, Ready, Set, Snow, Hats Off to You; Doodlebug pattern paper

Joy Christmas Shaker Card

My Christmas cards are coming along and I finally ventured into making a shaker card!!! I think it turned out ok - maybe a little too much shaker elements but it still works.  My card today is being submitted to WPlus9's Challenge: Throwback Thursdays #9.

I adore this stamp set! Here's the card I made featuring the santa and tree images:

Here's a detailed pic of the shaker:

The shaker has sequins, some mica flakes and these tiny clear beads I've had.  I stamped the images with Versamark ink to give a little definition of the image. For the card base I used SnowTex with a falling snow stencil. I like the chunky rough texture this gives and opacity versus using an embossing paste.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: WPlus9 Iconic Christmas, Seasonal Sentiments; PTI Fabulous Frames; Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil; Doodlebug pattern paper

Merry Christmas card for PTI November Blog Hop

It's been too long since I've made a card for a PTI Blog Hop! Now that I've got my Christmas card supplies out and busy creating I was able to join in this month. I love the inspiration provided for the November hop:

Gorgeous! I will likely use this color scheme again - it's become one of my most favorite non-traditional color schemes for Christmas.
I worked on a few different designs before coming up with my final one - most of my decision was mostly based on the fact that I do not own tropical teal ink - (GASP!) - I only have the card stock. So that changed what I wanted to do.  Here's the final result.

I went for a very simple design. I knew I wanted to use In the Meadow - it is a timeless stamp set in my eyes. I went with a Hawaiian Shores card base, the tree is in Tropical Teal, the carriage is in silver mirror card stock and the sentiment is stamped in Simply Chartreuse.  I did cover the tree with Wink of Stella and then added the sequins. The background is an old piece of patterned vellum I had - it looks like it's snowing - perfect!

Thanks for visiting! Happy Thanksgiving!

Ingredients: PTI In the Meadow, Stylish Sentiments: Holiday

Day 11 of Online Card Classes' Holiday Style Class

Whew I made it to the last day of class!!!! Day 11 was to use 1 Stamp (set), 5 Ways.  I ended up using Reverse Confetti's Merry & Bright set that I just got. Love this set!  I only ended up using my stamp 3-4 ways.  I am also submitting this card to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Christmas.

Here goes:

Card #1 - Clean & Simple:

Card #2 Classic & Elegant combined with Shimmer & Shine:

Card #3 Cute & Whimsical:

All 3 cards together:

I loved all the looks I got with one stamp set!

I love OCC's classes - Holiday Style really gave me the jump start and plenty of techniques and inspiration for my cards this year and beyond!

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients for all cards: Reverse Confetti Merry & Bright
Additional Ingredients - Card #1: PTI Birthday Style (streamers-dies); Card #2: MFT Ornaments (holly), Spellbinder Labels 8; Card #3: Reverse Confetti Winter Words Coordinates, Doodlebug North Pole pattern papers

Day 9 Card for OCC Holiday Style class & Merry Monday

We're on to Day 9 of Online Card Classes' Holiday Style class. Day 9's theme is Soft & Subtle cards - totally opposite of my style but I did like how my card turned out.  I'm also submitting this card to the Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #180: Use a Reindeer on your card.

I love PTI's In the Meadow stamp/die set - a timeless classic! This card features the Soft Tone-on-Tone technique from class.

Detail pic:

I ended up using watercolor paper for the die cuts as well as the background panel. Love that touch of texture from the paper.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: PTI In the Meadow

Card #2 for Day 7 of OCC Holiday Style class

I have another card for Online Card Classes' Holiday Style Day 7 - this one features the Glimmer Die Cut Toppings technique.

My card is heavily inspired/CASEd by this gorgeous creation by Tammy Hershberger. The tree is die cut from glitter craft foam.

Detail pic:

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: Reverse Confetti Branch Out, Winter Words Confetti Cuts, Winter Words Coordinates; PTI Scribbled Circles, Peace Be Still Impression Plate; MFT Sentiment Strips Dienamics

Day 7 OCC Holiday Style class

I finally got all caught up on Online Card Classes' Holiday Style class and will have several posts today - please check them out!  Today my card is for Day 7 - which was all about Shimmer & Shine. I loved all of the techniques but today's card features the Glitter Paste Glam technique. Until this class I had no idea there was glitter embossing paste!!! WHAT!!??? Since I didn't have any I used translucent paste and sprinkled my Tim Holtz Dry Glitter in Rock Candy over the wet paste. Love this!  Check it out!

Here's a detail pic:

The "joy" die cut is coated with some Wink of Stella to add more sparkle.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: Echo Park Paper Snowflakes #1 stencil; Reverse Confetti Winter Words Confetti Cuts, Winter Words Coordinates

Another Give Thanks card

I have another cute Thanksgiving card featuring those Lawn Fawn mice! I'm submitting this one to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Thanks/Thanksgiving.

Detail pic:

Thanks for visiting! Happy Thanksgiving!

Ingredients: Lawn Fawn Thankful Mice; Reverse Confetti Pumpkin Patch; Doodlebug Happy Harvest pattern papers; PTI Mat Stack #4

Give Thanks card

Thanksgiving is days away and I've got another Thanksgiving card to share. This card is being submitted to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Thanks/Thanksgiving.  I also submitting this to STAMPlorations' Neverending Everything Goes Challenge.

I adore these little mice from Lawn Fawn - I colored them with my BIC markers. Such adorable pilgrims! I went with more muted colors and a stenciled background using this super cool leaf stencil from STAMPlorations.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: Lawn Fawn Thankful Mice; STAMPlorations Leaf Prints stencil; PTI Mat Stack #4, Autumn Elegance; Paper Smooches Shadows; MS twine

OCC Holiday Style Day 5 Card

Online Card Classes' Holiday Style is in full swing and I finally caught up on the lessons! Day 5 was all about cute and whimsical - right up my alley! The technique my card features today is a combination of watercolor along with whimsical texture. Love it!

I was inspired by this card.  Here's a detail pic:

Rudolph is made of cork with a stickles red nose, while Santa has some mica flakes enhancing the suit trim along with a mini pompom for his hat.

Thanks for visiting! Can't wait to see what week 2 of Holiday Style brings!

Ingredients: Paper Smooches Santa Paws, Christmas Samples; PTI Tipped Tops; MFT Sentiment Strips; Studio Calico Very Merry

OCC Holiday Style Class Day 3 card

Back again with another card for Online Card Classes' Holiday Style class. For Day 3, the theme was Classic & Elegant Cards. There was a bonus technique - classic shape stamping. I love the look of this technique - it's a lot of work but the result is worth it!

I hit a snag with my card. After I got ALL the images within the snowman stamped, I wanted to add embossed edges to the card. My washi tape had other ideas and tore my card - ack! I was not starting over, so I cut out the snowman and adhered it to another card base. I nixed the embossed edge idea this time and just added a sentiment. The large dots are embossed with liquid platinum (my new fav embossing powder) along with the sentiment.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: PTI Shape Up Snowman, Winter Penguin, Tag Its #8, Stylish Sentiments Holiday, Winter Snow Globe; Studio Calico Very Merry, Cool Yule; Technique Tuesday Twinkle On; Paper Smooches Santa Paws; Winnie & Walter Big Bang Confetti

OCC Holiday Style Day 1 card

I love Online Card Classes! They teachers are so awesome, inspirational and creative! I was so happy to see they were presenting a holiday card class this year (Holiday Style) - it gives me that boost and inspiration to create. Day 1 of class was all about Clean & Simple cards - right up my alley. My card features the Simple Scenes technique Julie taught us. My scene is an ornament in the tree.

Instead of a drawn border around the scene, I used a black frame - love how it turned out. I created texture by using Snow-Tex and a stencil to add some "snow" to the scene.  I used it like embossing paste. Here's a detail pic:

Thanks for visiting! I'll have more posts for Holiday Style today - please check them out!

Ingredients: PTI Peaceful Pinecones, Wet Paint Holiday Tags, Birthday Style ("string"); MFT Joy Photo Card Frame, Christmas Ornaments (ornament topper); SSS Falling Snow stencil

Give Thanks card

Today's card is a sweet Thanksgiving card that I am submitting to CASology's Week 172 challenge: Give. I love to give in whatever way I can - even if it's just with a handmade card. 

I am really loving Lawn Fawn latest releases - these mice are so cute!!!!!

I used liquid platinum embossing powder for the sentiment and heart.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: Lawn Fawn Thankful Mice; Reverse Confetti Forever Fall; PTI Mat Stack #4; Doodlebug Fall Friends pattern paper

Super Cute Thanksgiving Card

Today I have an adorable Thanksgiving card featuring my favorite Papertrey Ink squirrel - who  I affectionately named "Nutty."  This card is being submitted to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Starts with an "N".  So not only does Nutty start with "n" but he's also holding a nut - how appropriate!

Here's a detail pic:

I adore Doodlebug and loved showcasing their super cute papers!

Thanks for visiting!  I have multiple posts today so please check them out!

Ingredients: PTI Nuts for You; Fresh Squeezed Stamps Subway Series: Holidays; Doodlebug Fall Friends pattern paper

Too Cute to Spook! Halloween card

I love Halloween! I also LOVE Reverse Confetti's Too Cute to Spook stamp set! I used the current sketch (#29)  and made the cutest card for my niece.

Here's the sketch:

And here's my card:

Detail shot:

Inside of card:

Thanks for visiting and Happy Halloween!


Ingredients:  Reverse Confetti Too Cute to Spook stamps and dies; PTI Tipped Tops; MFT Little Open Scallop Border die; Doodlebug Halloween Parade pattern papers

45th Anniversary Card

My last card for today is an anniversary card for my parents (45 years - wow!). My parents are big nature lovers so I knew these Trendy Birds would be perfect! I am submitting this card to the STAMPlorations Anything Goes Challenge.

Here's my card:

Since this is a big anniversary - I went with vellum for my card base. I went bold with the color of the birds - I love the pattern of these images!

Detail shot:

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients: STAMPlorations Trendy Birds; MFT Clearly Sentimental About Anniversaries; PTI Songbirds (Banner die); PTI Mat Stack 4; PTI Turning a New Leaf