Monthly Archives: October 2015

Holly Jolly Greetings

Posted on October 31, 2015 | 4 comments

Welcome to the beginning of the Christmas inspiration of the Create with Connie and Mary Design Team Saturday Blog Hop. For quite a few weeks coming up, each Saturday the design team is going to have a different Christmas theme inspiration! Our second challenge – make a Christmas card using non-traditional colors!

So I’m thinking white, grey and black really aren’t traditional colors…right? Connie said it was okay…LOL!!! I love playing with Sleigh Ride edgelits and I think this turned out to be soooo elegant!

Here’s the details…

Whisper White THICK – 4 1/4 x 11 folded
Whisper White – 4 x 5 1/4, run through the Softly Falling Embossing folder, add to card front (I used the ‘back side’ up on this).
Silver Glimmer – 2 3/4 x 4 1/4. NOTE…I cut out some of the Silver Glimmer that is behind where the framelits are. This made it easier to add the black panel.
Basic Black – 2 1/2 x 3 7/8, punch along the top using the Star Border Punch, add to Silver Glimmer panel. Add to card front.
Cut out the house edgelit from Basic Grey, tree edgelit from Smoky Slate, sleigh edgelit from Whisper White. Add each layer using dimensionals.
Basic Black – 1/2 x 2, stamp greeting using Versamark, white emboss, cut into a banner and add to card front.
Add Winter Wonderland Embellishment to finish off.

Set(s):	Holly Jolly Greetings
Paper:	Whisper White Thick, Whisper White, Basic Black, Basic Grey, Smoky Slate, Silver Glimmer
Ink:	Versamark
Other:	Sleigh Ride Edgelits, Softly Falling Embossing Folder, Winter Wonderland Embellishment, Star Border Punch, White Embossing Powder, Dimensionals

Remember to use the badges below to go backward (previous) to the always wonderful ideas Connie Babbert or forward (next) to the very talented Nicole Tugrul.

Until next time…HAPPY STAMPIN’!

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Cheer All Year

Posted on October 29, 2015 | 6 comments

Happy Thursday! Boy we having been have FALL around here this week. We had been enjoying temps in the 60s and 70s…well…this week, 50s and low 6os. Winter is right around the corner…DANG!

Since it is feeling very ‘autumny’ I decided to go with an ‘autumn’ theme for my card. This is one of those sketches that I took a few ‘liberties’ when creating. I used the three different color ‘splotches’ to represent the 3 circles int he sketch! Okay…works for me!

Here’s the details (don’t blink…it’s a quick one!)…

Very Vanilla – 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 folded
Very Vanilla – 3 1/2 x 4 3/4, stamp the ‘splotch’ 3 times – Hello Honey, Tangelo Twist, Old Olive. Stamp greeting using Old Olive, add to card front using dimensionals
Cut leaf form black print (Happy Hauntings dsp – it’s NOT just for Halloween) add to card front.
Add gold button using glue dots
Tie bow form Gold Cording Trim and add to button
Add gold sequins

Yep…that’s all there is to it!

Don’t forget to check out what the rest of the design team!

Set(s):	Cheer All Year, Gorgeous Grunge
Paper:	Very Vanilla, Happy Hauntings dsp
Ink:	Hello Honey, Tangelo Twist, Old Olive
Other:	Leaflets Framelit, Gold Basic Metal Buttons, Gold Cording Trim, Neutral Sequin, Dimensionals

Until next time…HAPPY STAMPIN’!

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Posted in Clean and Simple (CAS), Create with Connie and Mary, Holiday Mini

Tagged Cheer All Year, Gorgeous Grunge

Vintage Leaves

Posted on October 27, 2015 | 1 comment

Can you believe it? It is ALMOST the end of October! WOW…where did the month go? I know That I have been busy with school and trying to get ahead a little on some stamping projects.

It’s time for another SUO challenge and this time our challenge is to make a ‘thank you’ card…easy as can be! I decided to go very clean and simple with mine!

Here’s the details…

Whisper White THICK – 4 1/4 x 8 1/2 folded, stamp greeting using Early Espresso in lower right
Whisper White – 3 x 4 1/4, run front through the Softly Falling Embossing Folder and add to card front
Gold Foil – 3/4 x 5 1/2, cut into a banner and add to card front
Stamp leaf in Early Espresso on So Saffron and Delightful Dijon, cut out, layer and add to card front using dimensionals
Tie White Baker’s Twine into bow into large Gold Basic metal Button, add to leaves using Glue Dots

Yep…you got it…that’s how easy it is and a very cool and classy ‘thank you’.

Don’t forget to check out what the rest of the design team to see their wonderful creations!

Set(s):	Vintage Leaves, Another Thank You
Paper:	Very Vanilla, Delightful Dijon, So Saffron, Gold Foil
Ink:	Early Espresso
Other:	Softly Falling Embossing Folder, Leaflets Framelits, Gold Basic Metal Buttons, Whisper White Baker’s Twine, Dimensionals

Until next time…HAPPY STAMPIN’!

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Tagged Another Thank You, Vintage Leaves

Snow Place

Posted on October 26, 2015 | Leave a comment

You know…I was looking through my posts and realized that I never posted my card from the Control Freak Holiday Mini swap! Can you believe it!

I had decided to use the Snow Place set and matching Framelits for my swap. I love that with the paper stack you can easily do multiples of cards since you have extra of the prints in the pack. That made it REALLY easy for me to do a bunch of these!

Isn’t this little fellow cute? Here’s the details…

Cherry Cobbler – 4 1/4 x 11 folded
Old Olive – 3 5/8 x 4 7/8
Whisper White – 3 1/2 x 4 3/4, run through the Softly Falling Embossing Folder, add to Old Olive piece then add to card front
Olive/White Ornament print – 2 x 4, add to card front
Cherry Cobbler/Crumb Cake print – 2 x 4, add to card front
Silver Glimmer – 1/2 x 3, cut into banner, add to card front
Stamp Penguin/Basic Black Archival, scarf/Cherry Cobbler, earmuffs/Old Olive, cut everything out using matching framelits, color beak and feet using Pumpkin Pie, put everything together and add to card front
Whisper White – 1/2 x 2 1/4, stamp greeting using Old Olive and Cherry Cobbler, cut into banner, add using dimensionals
Add Winter Wonderland Embellishment to finish it off.

Set(s):	Snow Place
Paper:	Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Merry Moments dsp Paper Stack
Ink:	Basic Black Archival, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive
Other:	Snow Friends Framelits, Softly Falling Embossing Folder, Winter Wonderland Embellishment, Dimensionals

Until next time…HAPPY STAMPIN’!

Jingle All the Way

Posted on October 24, 2015 | 4 comments

Welcome to the beginning of the Christmas inspiration of the Create with Connie and Mary Design Team Saturday Blog Hop. For quite a few weeks coming up, each Saturday the design team is going to have a different Christmas theme inspiration! Our first challenge – make a red and white Christmas card!

As with most things I make…there is a bit of a story behind this one. It started as Among the Branches and a card I made for a card class. It was okay but I decided to add some silver (and I REALLY like it) but then I figured adding silver was not what the challenge called for. So I started making a card with Reason for the Season…again started red and white, decided it needed silver (did this for a group I stamp with) liked it MUCH better but again…DANG…I added silver! (Don’t worry…I’ll show these other cards too!) Well I just HAD to have Jingle All the Way and the Sleigh Ride edgelits AS SOON as they came out. Guess what? This is the FIRST TIME I used them…GEEZ!!! So that’s my story (and I’m sticking to it) but I did FINALLY manage a ‘red and white’ card! (and no where did it say only ONE shade of red so…I’m GOOD!)

Here’s the details…

Whisper White Thick – 4 1/4 x 11 folded
Real Red dsp Paper Stack – diagonal striped print – cut two 1/2 x 4 1/4, add to card base.
Real Red – 3 7/8 x 5 1/8, cut out center using Lots of Labels framelit then run through the Softly Falling Embossing Folder. Add to card base using dimensionals.
Whisper White – Cut out smaller Lots of Label framelit.
Cut out Cherry Cobbler Houses Edgelit piece and Real Red Sleigh Ride Edglit piece. Layer together and fun through same framelit as the Whisper White piece. Add Cherry Cobbler piece directly on the label. Stamp ‘merry’ using Versamark on the sleigh one, white emboss then add to label with dimensionals. Add label inside frame using dimensionals.
Tie Bow in Cherry Cobbler Thick Twine, add to top of label.

So…overall pretty simple card. I did REALLY like playing with the edgelits…what FUN! AND…my card is red and white!

Set(s):	Jingle All the Way
Paper:	Whisper White Thick, Whisper White, Real Red, Cherry Cobbler
Ink:	Versamark
Other:	Lots of Labels, Softly Falling Embossing Folder, Cherry Cobbler Thick Twine, White Embossing Powder, Dimensionals

Remember to use the badges below to go backward (previous) to the always wonderful ideas Connie Babbert or forward (next) to the very talented Nicole Tugrul.

Until next time…HAPPY STAMPIN’!

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Tagged Jingle All the Way

Acorny Thank You

Posted on October 22, 2015 | 7 comments

Oh…HAPPY THURSDAY everyone! It’s a wonderful autumn day here and we have a GREAT color challenge for you on Create with Connie and Mary and it just says FALL to me! The colors are Hello Honey, Mossy Meadow and Soft Suede. Yep…it just says autumn to me.

As I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do, I saw the retrosketch challenge and I have to say…it really was PERFECT for the card I wanted to do. The funny thing is that many of the pieces (not all but many) were ‘sitting on top of my desk’ as leftovers from other projects so was easy to finish up!

Here’s the details…

Hello Honey – 4 1/4 x 11 folded
Very Vanilla – 3 3/4 x 11, run through the Woodland embossing folder, add strip of Mossy Meadow – 5/8 x 5 1/2.
Add gold foil doily to panel, trim off side and add panel using dimensionals.
Very Vanilla – 2″ circle, add to gold foil doily
Stamp long Vintage Leave using Early Espresso on Mossy Meadow, cut out and add to card front.
Stamp acorn bases solid and strip using Hello Honey; solid top using Mossy Meadow and grid using Soft Suede, punch everything out, layer and add ot card front using dimensionals.
Stamp greeting using Soft Suede, cut out and add using dimensionals.
Tie Gold Cording Trim into Very Vintage Button, add using glue dots.

Don’t forget to check out what the rest of the design team!

Set(s):	Acorny Thank You, Vintage Leaves
Paper:	Very Vanilla, Mossy Meadow, Hello Honey
Ink:	Mossy Meadow, Hello Honey, Soft Suede, Early Espresso
Other:	Leaflets Framelits, Woodland Embossing Folder, Foil Doilies, 2″ Circle Punch, Acorn Builder Punch, Very Vintage Buttons, Gold Cording Trim, Dimensionals

Until next time…HAPPY STAMPIN’!

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Tagged Acorny Thank You, Vintage Leaves

Tour de Freaks – October

Posted on October 19, 2015 | 6 comments

Welcome to the Tour de Freaks October Blog Hop. Our theme time is Grateful! I’ve been having so much fun playing with the Vintage leaves set in the regular catalog so decided it would be just PERFECT for this theme!

If you are going forward through the hop, you arrived here from Connie Babbert’s Inkspired Treasures. Oh my word…where her project CUTE or what??? DANG…how creative!

Here’s the details –

Kraft – 4 1/4 x 11 folded
Kraft – 4 x 5 1/4, run through the Woodgrain folder
Very Vanilla 1 1/4 Striped Satin Ribbon – add to top of panel at an angle securing on back.
Smoky Slate 5/8″ Chevron Ribbon, add to top of panel over Satin Ribbon securing on back. Add panel to card front.
Stamp long leaf in Basic Black Archival on Kraft and Basic Grey, middle leaf Basic Black Archival/Soft Suede, small leave, Basic Black Archival/Basic Black, layer and add to card front.
Ink greeting using Soft Suede and Basic Grey, stamp on Very Vanilla, punch out using Notetag punch, add uisng dimensionals.
Add Soft Suede Candy Dot to top of tag, tie bow in Silver Cording Trim and add to top of leaves.

Set(s):	Vintage Leaves, Merry Everything
Paper:	Very Vanilla, Basic Grey, Soft Suede, Kraft
Ink:	Basic Black Archival, Basic Grey, Soft Suede
Other:	Very Vanilla 1 1/4 Striped Satin Ribbon, Smoky Slate 5/8″ Chevron Ribbon, Silver Cording Trim, Notetag Punch, Neutral Candy Dots, Leaflets Framelits, Woodgrain Embossing Folder, Dimensionals

I found this ‘mini’ pie tin at Michael’s the other day and thought it would be cool to make into a little decoration. That was what actually inspired my colors for my card and this. Here’s the details…

Kraft – cut out the large scallop Circle framelit, add to tin using dimensionals.
Very Vanilla – Cut out the largest Circle framelit, run through the Woodgrain Embossing Folder and to tin.
Stamp long leaf in Basic Black Archival on Kraft and Basic Grey, middle leaf Basic Black Archival/Soft Suede, small leave, Basic Black Archival/Basic Black, layer. Add adhesive to back of leaves, add loopies to back then add to tin.
Ink greeting using Soft Suede and Basic Grey, stamp on Kraft, punch out using Notetag punch. Fold piece of Smoky Slate 5/8″ Chevron Ribbon and add to tag with staple, add tag uisng dimensionals.

Set(s):	Vintage Leaves, Merry Everything
Paper:	Very Vanilla, Basic Grey, Soft Suede, Kraft
Ink:	Basic Black Archival, Basic Grey, Soft Suede
Other:	Smoky Slate 5/8″ Chevron Ribbon, Silver Cording Trim, Notetag Punch, Neutral Candy Dots, Leaflets Framelits, Circle Framelits, Woodgrain Embossing Folder, Handheld Stapler, Dimensionals

Here’s the two together…

And now it’s time to head over to Melissa Davies Rubberfunatics blog. I always LOVE her projects!

Until next time…HAPPY STAMPIN’!

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Tagged Merry Everthing, Vintage Leaves

Lighthearted Leaves

Posted on October 17, 2015 | 2 comments

Welcome everyone to the Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Design Team Blog Hop. This week we have another fun Fall challenge…make a simple Fall Favor or Treat Holder! Well…SIMPLE was the operative word for me!

I really like the Square Pillow Box Thinlit makes putting together a treat holder VERY SIMPLE!!! So that was where I started. I also wanted to play with the corrugated paper and found that you can cut things out with framelits and it DOESN’T SQUISH it! WOO HOOO!!!

Here’s the details…

Basic Black – cut out two of the Square Pillow Box pieces and put together.
Neutral 5/8″ Chevron Ribbon – wrap around box
Corrugated paper – cut out larger leaf in the kraft corrugated paper and smaller leaf from the white corrugated paper and layer together. Punch acorn from Basic Black and add to leaves.
Put adhesive on the back of the leaves and add loopies of Silver Cording Trim (LOVE this stuff). Add to pillow box using dimensionals.
Whisper White – 1/2 x 1 3/4, stamp greeting using Soft Suede, add behind Silver Basic Metal Button and add to pillow box.
Tie bow form Silver Cording Trim, add to button to finish off.

And did you know that we JUST released Create with Connie and Mary October Mini Session? We did!

* Includes FIVE step-by-step tutorials for projects…THREE card sets, each with 4 cards and TWO 3D items…perfect for your club or stamp camp!
* All FIVE projects are available once the mini collection opens so you immediately have all projects (and tutorials)
* Plus BONUS cards done by Connie and Mary throughout the month!
*Mini session is available beginning on Oct. 11th

Sets used for this collection:

Holly Jolly Greetings
Vintage Leaves
Your Presents
Happy Scenes
Thankful Forest Friends
BONUS: Reason for the Season

Set(s):	Lighthearted leaves
Paper:	Whisper White, Basic Black, Corrugated Paper
Ink:	Soft Suede
Other:	Square Pillow Box Thinlits, Leaflet Framelits, Acorn Builder Punch, Silver Basic Metal Button, Silver Cording Trim Neutral 5/8″ Chevron Ribbon Dimensionals

Remember to use the badges below to go backward (previous) to the Create with Connie and Mary site or forward (next) to the very talented Nicole Tugrul.

Until next time…HAPPY STAMPIN’!

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Tagged Lighthearted Leaves, Square Pillow Box

Lighthearted Leaves

Posted on October 16, 2015 | 3 comments

Yep…it’s ANOTHER Lighthearted Leaves card AGAIN! You know…for a set I did not like AT ALL when I first saw the Holiday Mini and that I just got ‘on a whim’, I’m SOOOO enjoying creating with it!

Anyway…I saw that the CASology challenge this time was YOU, I had this idea right away for a card. Of course it took me until NOW this week to make it but that’s okay…I did get it done and just LOVE the finished look! Oh…and I should mention…SOOOO simple!

Here’s the details…

Hello Honey – 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 folded
Whisper White – 3 x 5 1/2, stamp leaf in Hello Honey, the dots in Basic Black Archival, and So Grateful For in Basic Black Archival.
Basic Black – 5/8 x 5 1/2, add behind Whisper White panel
Silver Glimmer – 1/8 x 5 1/2, add on the top panel, add panel to card base
Basic Grey – cut out ‘you’ four times, layer on top of each other, then add to card front to finish off.

Yep…can you believe it? THAT easy!

Did you know that the Create with Connie and Mary October Mini Session has opened?

Sets used for this collection:

Holly Jolly Greetings
Vintage Leaves
Your Presents
Happy Scenes
Thankful Forest Friends
BONUS: Reason for the Season

Don’t forget to check out what the rest of the design team!

Set(s):	Lighthearted Leaves, Holly Jolly Greetings
Paper:	Whisper White, Basic Black, Basic Grey, Hello Honey, Silver Glimmer
Ink:	Basic Black Archival, Hello Honey
Other:	Hello You Thinlits

Until next time…HAPPY STAMPIN’!

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Tagged Holly Jolly Greetings, Lighthearted Leaves

Holly Jolly Greetings

Posted on October 15, 2015 | 6 comments

Happy Thursday everyone! I just love Thursday…first because it is the Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge and a fun sketch it is!

The other reason I love Thursday? I’m FINALLY caught up on my grading from last week! I always have it as my goal to have everything from the previous week graded by the end of Wednesday and I did it! LOL!!!

So…for this card I ‘flipped’ the sketch and put the strips on the top instead of the bottom so I would have somewhere to ‘hang’ my ornament!

Here’s the details…

Mossy Meadow – 4 1/4 x 8 1/2 folded
Very Vanilla – 3 3/4 x 3 3/4, stamp JOY in the bottom right corner using Mossy Meadow
Strips – Mossy Meadow 3/4 x 4, Gold Glimmer 1/2 x 4 1/8, and Mistletoe print (Home for Christmas) 3/4 x 4, arrange the Mossy Meadow and Gold Glimmer strips on the Very Vanilla and trim end.
Cut out smallest ornament and ornament top from Gold Foil. Put piece of Gold Cording Trim through hole in ornament topper, tape ends to back of Mistletoe print, add strip to card front, then strip end.
Add panel to card front using dimensionals
Add VERY THIN pieces of dimensionals to back of ornament, add to card front lining up so the ornament top can be added to the top using glue dot.

Did you know that we just released the Create with Connie and Mary October Mini Session? Well we did! Here’s the details…

Sets used for this collection:

Holly Jolly Greetings
Vintage Leaves
Your Presents
Happy Scenes
Thankful Forest Friends
BONUS: Reason for the Season

Don’t forget to check out what the rest of the design team!

Set(s):	Holly Jolly Greetings
Paper:	Very Vanilla, Mossy Meadow, Home for Christmas dsp, Gold Glimmer
Ink:	Mossy Meadow
Other:	Delicate Ornament Thinlits, Gold Cording Trim, Dimensionals