MTSC Merry Christmas

Happy Hump Day Peeps!! Hope your week is going well so far!

Today I am sharing a card I made with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge. I just love her sketches!!!

I am going to keep this short and not give you all the card info, the base is whisper white and the DS paper is from the retired SU Simply Scrapping Kit, Winter Bright. I can't believe how much I have used this kit lately! I love all the colors in it for winter/Christmas cards. The sentiment comes from Teeny Tiny Wishes. I covered the tree and ground with alot of stardust stickles. Very sparkly IRL!!!

Well, I have alot to do this morning and later today I am meeting up with a friend for some shopping and then stamping at her house.

Thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!!!

Vicki

C4C15 Merry Christmas

Good Monday Morning Peeps! It is a cold gloomy day here in Southwest Missouri. Hope you are warm and toasty where you are.

The card I have to share with you today was made for the challenge on the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog. This weeks theme was to use a snowflake or snowman on your card or creation. So I used both!

I used some retired SU DS paper, Wintergreen, I think it is called. Love the colors in this pack, I used certainly celery and always artichoke. My snowman is from the fun little level 2 hostess set "Snow Buddies". The sentiment comes from the "Delightful Decorations" stamp set. I die cut a big snowflake from the certainly celery card stock with the sizzix snowflake 2, I borrowed it from a friend. I sponged the edges with always artichoke and added some dazzling diamonds. The scarf and the stocking on the snowman are paper pieced and colored with the always artichoke marker.

Well, that is all for today, have some holiday errands to run, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

SSSC48 Happy Christmas

Good Sunday Morning Peeps! It is my favorite time of the week......time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!!

Here is the sketch we are working with this week:



My card is made with the cute "Wandering Words" set. My snowflakes are from the "Serene Snowflake" set.

I started the card with a base of real red and followed that with a layer of soft suede and then the DS paper is from the Christmas Cocoa Speciality pack. I stamped the main image with real red classic ink onto whisper white card stock. I tilted my stamp slightly to straighten out the image just a bit so it would fit my panel better. I matted with soft suede and real red. The snowflakes are stamped with soft suede and punched out with a 1/2 inch circle punch and matted onto a real red 3/4 inch circle. I added a gold brad to the centers.

For the strip behind the main image I turned my DS paper at an angle to get the stripes going that way. I matted this piece with real red. The main image is mounted to the card with dimensionals. Finally I added a gold spiral clip and tied a bit of soft suede ribbon around it.

Come join in on the fun and create a card using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch, then go to Karen's blog and link your card using Mr. Linky so all of us can see your creation!




Be sure to visit each of the Sweet Sunday Stampers below for more samples using this weeks sketch!



Karen-the Sweetest Thing

Jen-JenTapler Designs

Karen-Paper Playhouse

Laura-Scrapnextras

Lynn-The Queen's Scene



Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Mojo Pretty in Teal Snowman

Good Thursday Morning Peeps! Hope you all are having a great week so far!

Today I am sharing a card with you made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.

Boy did I struggle with this one!!! I made the base and layers up fairly quickly, knowing I wanted to use this beautiful "Holiday Lounge" DS paper. The problem came in when deciding what to use as my main element. I tried several different things before finally landing on this one. I have seen people use just the head from the "Simple Seasonal Thanks" around in several places and so I decided to give it a try for this card. I stamped the head onto some whisper white card stock and cut it out. I stamped it again onto some of the DS paper and cut out the hat and scarf and pieced them onto my snowman head. I colored in his nose with my pumpkin pie marker and I also used some liquid applique on the hat.

Well, that is all for today, gotta keep it short, lots to get done today! Thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

MTSC Let it Snow

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card with you made with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge Don't you just love this sketch?

I wanted to make a very non-traditional Christmas card for a very "non" traditional friend. I was inspired to use these colors by this cutie made by Pam Speidel.

I used the stamp set "Big on Christmas" and the "Snow Buddies" stamp set. I stamped the "Let it Snow" onto some whisper white card stock and then stamped it again onto some scrap white and then stamped the large snowman from "Snow Buddies" onto scrap. I colored in the S-N-and W with my sage shadow marker. I then cut out my large snow man and mounted it over the snowman head on the main image panel with some dimensionals. I cut out the hat from the original image and added it to my big snowman. I then stamped the large snowman onto some of the DS paper and cut out the scarf and added it to the snowman. I used my black marker to color in every other square on the scarf and also the hat. I hand cut out holly leaf from some scrap garden green card stock and added it to the hat. I added a couple dots of red stickles for the holly berries on his hat.

The base of the card is basic gray and I followed that with some sage shadow and the DS paper is from the Nouveau Chic pack. I added some sheer white 7/8 inch ribbon and three snowflakes to the top corner. After all was put together I added some stardust stickles to the snow letters.

Detail shot:



Very sparkly IRL!!

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

SSSC47 Thank You

Good Sunday Morning Peeps!!

It is my favorite time of the week, time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

Here is the sketch we are working with this week:



Last week while checking out Jen's Sketch for You to Try I saw this adorable card made by Leigh O'Brien. I loved those scruncy flowers. She had a link in her blog to where she had seen the flowers and a link to a little tutorial on how to make these.

I wanted to make some right away, so I pulled out some of the fabulous Night & Day DS paper and my scallop circle punch and went to work. I used some scraps from that Night & Day DS paper that was in my pack and punched out 9 circles and hooked them together with a brad and started pulling up and scrunching the circles and this fabulous little scruncy flower emerged! So I tried it again and made another, so easy peasy, lemon squeezy. I loved them so much I wanted to put them on a card so I pulled out Karen's Sketch and this is what I came up with.

Not much stamping on this one, just the sentiment from the "Thank You Kindly" stamp set. The leaves are cut from the "little leaves" sizzlits die. The rest is just layering up of basic black card stock and the DS paper.

I sure hope you can find some time to play along with us this week. Come join in on the fun and create a card using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch, then go to Karen's blog and link your card using Mr. Linky so all of us can see your creation!




Be sure to visit each of the Sweet Sunday Stampers below for more samples using this weeks sketch!



Karen-the Sweetest Thing

Jen-JenTapler Designs

Karen-Paper Playhouse

Laura-Scrapnextras

Lynn-The Queen's Scene




Well, that is all for today, Thanks soooo much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

BAH HUMBUG CASE

Good Saturday Morning peeps!

The card I am sharing with you today is not for and challenge, awhile back I saw this adorable card by Carrie Gaskin. I knew right away I had to make one and who I would send it to. I have a friend who always says "Bah Humbug" all through the holiday season. She works retail and really dislikes this time of the year.

My card is pretty much identically to Carrie's card. My base is always artichoke followed by basic black and the DS paper is from the Nouveau Chic pack.

Scrooge is made with punches. The face is made up from the large oval, 1/4″ circle punch. The hat from the small oval punch. Scarf from the small oval, large oval punch. Body is the large tag punch, and the word window punch for the arms, gold brads, and the hair is from the Leaves #2 die.

I used letters from the Naturally Serif Sizzlet strip and cut out the words “BAH HUMBUG” and adhered them along the bottom of the card. The oval sentiment is from the "Christmas Punch" set, and is stamped with black stazon onto whisper white and cut out and mounted onto a punched wide oval of real red.

Well, that is all for today, be sure and come back tomorrow for another Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge card.

HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki