Candy Cane Christmas

Growing up, every Christmas morning we each got one of my Dad's hunting socks stuffed with an orange, an apple, a candy cane, and some nuts.  With that memory in mind I decided to revisit a card I made last year that featured this Candy Cane die.  Here's this year's version.

supplies: white, 2 greens, Schoolhouse Red, white and red glitter card, a snowflake patterned paper, Simon's Candy Cane Heart Wafer dies, Tim Holtz Mini Greens and Holiday Words, my own bow die and snowflakes

Those early Christmases were truly magical, as, overnight, a beautiful fragrant tree and the presents underneath it appeared.  My parents must have been exhausted, but they gave us some wonderful memories!  

Do you have a special memory you'd like to share?  I'd love to hear yours!

Warm Holiday Wishes

Today's Christmas card is a mix of The Greetery, Simon Says Stamp, and Penny Black.

supplies: white and Audrey Blue card, The Greetery Winter Sketches stamps and matching dies, Simon Joyful Season sentiment, Penny Black Stitched Stackers die

Another fairly easy card to mass produce!  Thanks for stopping by! 

Beauty is Everywhere

 Happy Friday!  I've got 4 cards today using the supplies in the December Spellbinders Card Kit of the Month.  The Kit is called Beauty is Everywhere, and it lives up to its name!

As I've done before, I used ONLY the supplies inside the kit for all of my cards.

supplies: card base, brick patterned paper, script polaroid frame, butterfly and sentiment embellishments, flower and leaf dies

supplies: card base, script patterned paper, lace embellishment, rose die-cut, pink sequins

supplies: card base, gold foiled, ivory and black cardstock, 2 patterned papers, sentiment embellishment, butterfly and floral lace border dies

supplies: white card base, floral patterned paper, green polaroid frame, floral and sentiment embellishments

This kit will be available all this month through December 24.  It is available only as a subscription, but you can cancel and rejoin at any time, if you like.  All details can be found HERE.

I hope I've inspired you to give this kit a look!  Thanks for stopping by today.

Simon Says........Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas

 

Welcome to our challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog!

Our theme this week is Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas, and the team is featuring Newton's Nook products.  

supplies: white and Surf Blue card, Newton's Nook Festive Fawns clear stamps, Simon's (retired) Birch Circle die, a snowflake embossing folder

Now it's your turn!  We have a $25.00 gift certificate 

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!  I can't wait to see what you all make this week!

It's DieCember!!!

 Simon's annual DieCember event is now live!  There's nothing like a beautifully-detailed die to make your card special, and this release has some gorgeous ones - something for everyone!  There are 50 new items!

Be sure to visit THIS PAGE to see all the wonderful products in this release!  And for ideas on how to use them, I hope you'll visit our Gallery HERE.

As always, we've planned blog hops for Thursday, Dec. 2 and Friday, Dec. 3, a YouTube Livestream at noon EST on Friday, Dec. 2, and an Instagram hop on the following Friday, Dec. 10.

Enjoy!

Favorite November Cards

 Here are my favorite cards that I made this month.

Thanks for stopping by!  

A CAS Card for Christmas

 Here's another Christmas card for today.

supplies: white and dark green card, Simon Pine Needle Wreath die, Pink & Main Holly Jolly sentiment, Altenew Crimson ink, Hero Arts Nesting Rectangle dies

I cut the wreath from a panel of white card, then used a rectangle die to size it.  The green was cut from a size up in the nesting set.  After gluing the two together I stamped my sentiment and red berries, then attached it to a white card base.  The group of 3 dots and the single dot stamps were teensy ones from some retired floral stamp sets.  Look through your sets and you'll often find some tiny motifs that can be very handy!

Maybe one of the fastest cards I've made in a long time!

Thanks for stopping by - enjoy your weekend!

Holiday Botanical Background

 Today I have a bunch of Christmas cards all made from the same set of stencils.  I like this Holiday Botanical Background set because it gives the effect of a wreath, only in rectangle form, with the center left open for whatever you choose to add to it.  

Here's my favorite color combination first.

supplies: white and Schoolhouse Red card, Pink Fresh Studio Holiday Botanical Background stencil set, twisted citron, mowed lawn, rustic wilderness, and festive berries distress inks, Simon blender brushes, Your Next Stamp Merry & Bright die and matching sentiment

Here's more cards using these stencils and adding lots of my own sentiments from Hero Arts and Simon Says Stamp.  I mixed up teals, greens, pinks, and reds.

These lie flat, so they're easy to mail.  You could go a step further and add some sequins or gems or pearls for the berries, or make the sentiment smaller and use a snowman or a bird or ?????  You could do some fussy-cutting like I did on the outside edges of the top left card here; the sky's the limit!

This stencil set is 4 steps, and is easy to line-up.  I stencilled these 6 cards in 1 block of time, then added my sentiments and finished them into cards in another block.

Hope I've inspired you to give these a try!

Happy Thanksgiving

 Just popping in quickly to wish all my American friends a beautiful Thanksgiving today!  I'm sharing a card from several years ago for the occasion.

Simon Says.......Anything Goes

Happy Wednesday - welcome to our challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

Our theme this week is Anything Goes, and the team is highlighting Mama Elephant products.  Here's my card.

supplies: white, Schoolhouse Red, and green card, Mama Elephant Happy Holly Days clear stamp set, markers to color, a gold metallic pen for letters, red ink for stamped sentiment

Now it's your turn!  We have a $25.00 gift certificate 

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!  I can't wait to see what you all make this week!

 

Garden Roses

 I recently treated myself to some layering stencil sets - here are two cards using the Garden Roses set from Pink Fresh Studio.

supplies: white cardstock, Pink Fresh Studio Garden Roses stencil set, Altenew Red Sunset and Green Valley inks, blending brush, Perfect Sentiments and matching die, Simon Says Stamp Detail Ringlet cover plate, heart sprinkles

This is a 5-piece stencil set, 3 for the flowers and 2 for the leaves.  They line up easily and the details are lovely, I think.  I cut my spray out free-hand and put it against a subtle pierced background. 

Of course I had to do a yellow version.......there is a natural break in this stencil and I used just 3 of the roses as my focal point for this one.

supplies: white card, Sunny Studio Eyelet Lace Frilly Frame dies, PinkFresh Studio Garden Roses layering stencils, Altenew inks, Simon Says Stamp sentiment from Beautiful Butterflies, adhesive foam to lift floral spray

I love these layering stencil sets, as the results are as close as I'll ever get to no-line coloring!  They are so relaxing to play with!

Joyful Christmas

Hello!  Today I have some cards made with Spellbinder's November Card Kit of the Month, entitled Joyful Christmas.

This kit contains everything you'll need to make lots of cards: A2 card blanks and envelopes, a die set, a stamp set, a 6" pad of patterned papers, embellishments to match, even adhesive and foam squares!  I tried to use a little bit of everything.  

Here are my cards.  All of them have touches of gold foiling that I can't get to show up in my pictures, sorry.  But it adds a lovely festive twinkle to everything!

supplies: pink cardstock, pink striped patterned paper, poinsettias, leaves, and star embellishments, stamped sentiment

supplies: plaid patterned paper, pine and stars embellishments, bell jar sticker, stamped sentiment (embossed in gold), my own natural twine 

supplies: white card base, snowfall patterned paper, trees and fawn embellishments, snowflake puffy stickers, sentiment sticker

All details can be found HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today - I hope I've inspired you to give this sweet kit a look.

Simon's December Card Kit!

 This month's Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp is a really unique one!  I love that it includes some decoupage pages, and I couldn't wait to try one of them!

supplies: white and Audrey Blue card, a Craft Consortium 3D Decoupage sheet, sentiment and snowflakes from Santa's Helpers clear stamp set, Darice adhesive foam squares

This decoupage sheet includes 5 different layers of this darling scene.  After layering them together with foam squares between, I added some snow with a glue pen and glitter.  Here's a closer look at the wonderful details.

Next, I chose several images from the Santa's Helpers stamp set and one of the included papers for my 2nd card.

supplies: white card, horizontal town scene from Craft Consortium Made by Elves paper pack, elves and sentiment from Santa's Helpers stamp set, glue pen and glitter

I love the colors in this kit: pastels, along with a bit of red, so I colored the images using those colors.

Here's the kit.

Thanks for visiting me today - enjoy your weekend!

Simon Says........Make Your Own Background

It's Wednesday - welcome to our challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog!

This week we want you to make your own background.  The team is playing with Paper Rose products from down under!  I chose a stencil from them.

supplies: Lipstick Red and white card, vellum, Paper Rose Holly Berries stencil, distress inks and blender brushes, Simon Chunky Merry dies, adhesive foam strips to lift sentiment

Now it's your turn!  We have a $25.00 gift certificate 

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!  I can't wait to see what you all make this week!