Daily Archives: October 17, 2012

Evergreen – A Sketch Challenge

There is such a wonderful sketch on Create with Connie and Mary this week!  I like when we try ‘something new’ and diagonals are definitely not something we have in our sketches very often!

Didn’t this turn out pretty?  I thought so too!  The base of the card is Lucky Limeade.  I would LOVE to tell you the name of the dsp I used on this but I am writing this while I am away from home, I do not have my catalog or mini and I am tooooooo tired to look up the information.  However, it is NOT Snow Festival or the Festive paper pack.  It’s the one with the Red Flocked paper in there.  I’m SURE you can find it from THAT description!  LOL!!!  I layered an Early Espresso Ribbon Lace Strip under it and a champagne glitter strip about it.  I made a ‘bow’ (click here for my tutorial) using Very Vanilla Seam Binding and a Very Vanilla brad, added it to the diagonal panel then added this to the card front. I stamped the tree in Lucky Limeade (with a little Early Espresso for the trunk) on Very Vanilla cardstock, that gold embossed the loopy Christmas tree on top of it.  This is layered onto Early Espresso then onto the card front using dimensionals to finish it off.  The greeting is from Petite Pairs and was stamped in Early Espresso.  The star was punched from the Champagne Glimmer paper using the little start punch from the Merry Mini punch set.

Set(s): Evergreen, Petite Pairs
Paper: Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade, Champagne Glimmer & the dsp from Holiday Mini that is NOT Snow Festival or Festive
Ink: Lucky Limeade, Early Espresso, Versamark
Other: Gold Embossing Powder, Ribbon Lace Punch, Very Vanilla Seam Binding, Neutral Brads, Merry Mini Punch Pack, Dimensionals.

 

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* October 28 thru November 17
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* Perfect for classes or personal cards!
* Designers Elizabeth Price, Debbie Henderson and Deb Currier are joining us!

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Merry Minis

On Monday I posted a card from my Create with Connie and Mary Card “Create”tions set which used the Merry Minis set.  You all LOVE it so I thought I’d share another of the three here today.

Here is one of the other cards I made for my Merry Minis card set.  This is pretty basic just using the fun tree image from the Merry Mini set and I just LOVE the cute tree dsp from the Snow Festival set.  Once I finished this card and was looking at my finished card I thought to myself how CUTE this would have also been if I had used the ornament stamp image (and matching punch of course) and that cute ornament paper in the Snow Festival paper pack.  Now wouldn’t that be CUTE?  Well if you would like to do that and would like to know all the supplies and measurements for this card ( so you can recreate it), check out my post on Create with Connie and Mary.  There I have a downloadable file with all the information for this card including the measurements!  Yep…it’s all there.

Oh…while you are there…check out Connie and my new adventure…Create with Connie and Mary Card “Create”tions!  Three fun filled weeks filled with cards, cards and even more cards!

JOIN US for a BRAND NEW venture with creative card ideas
using holiday and winter stamp sets from the Main and Holiday Mini catalogs!

* Over 45 EXCLUSIVE cards with 15 stamp sets featured!
* October 28 thru November 17
* Printable supply lists & measurements
* 24/7 access
* Perfect for classes or personal cards!
* Designers Elizabeth Price, Debbie Henderson and Deb Currier are joining us!

Create with Connie and Mary
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We now use Fastwagon for our processing, you should immediately receive a Digital Order email with a link to a downloadable Welcome letter with your passwords! Thank you!

Until next time…HAPPY STAMPIN’!

 

Frosty Friends

Oh…it’s been awhile since I was able to do Mary Jo’s sketch challenge.  When I saw this sketch my first reaction was ‘oh my’ but I tweaked it a little and it really worked!

The base of the card is Cherry Cobbler.  I took the blue/red print from the Festive Paper pack and added to the card front.  Next I took the chevron print (which is the backside of that paper), cut into a banner and added to the card base.  I added a little strip of Silver Glimmer.  I stamped the image using StazOn Jet Black on Watercolor paper, cut with the Label Framelit, colored with Cherry Cobbler and Bashful Blue (and a little Pink Pirouette) markers, sponged using Cherry Cobbler, added some Dazzling Details and Basic Rhinestones and added to the card front using dimensionals.  I stamped the greeting using Basic Black on Bashful Blue, cut into a banner, sponged in Bashful Blue and added to the card front using dimensionals and glue dots.

Set(s): Frosty Friends, Sweet Essentials
Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Festive dsp paper pack, Silver Glimmer, Watercolor
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Cherry Cobbler, Bashful Blue, Pink Pirouette
Other: Dazzling Details, Label Framelits, Basic Rhinestones, Dimensionals

 

Until next time…HAPPY STAMPIN’!