Jolly Holiday

Happy New Year, welcome to 2025 and thanks for visiting my blog!!!

Time flies doesn't it. Well looks like it's time for the next challenge over at the Love To Scrap Challenge blog. I know that Christmas is over, however, I know that some of you all enter Christmas challenges throughout the year so I thought I'd make my card with a Christmas theme. And since the challenge mentions the word scrap, I try to use scraps on my project. (And boy do I have a lot of scraps. LOL)

This card came about because I saw a stamp that I really liked but since I couldn't get it in time for Christmas, I decided to make a freehand rendition of the stamped image. 

I used scraps of various DP's from my stash to create the tree. I like to think of it as a paper pieced tree. 

I cut the pieces to look like the stamp that I saw online and mounted the DP pieces onto black CS and trimmed the black CS in the shape of the tree (triangle). 

Next I layered the tree onto gold DP CS and trimmed that as well. 

Next I used a stencil to add some interest on the right side of the white CS layer. 

I attached the tree to the white card layer and then added the white card layer to the red card base. 

I added a stump and the gold star at the top.

I had a few holly leaves sitting on my desk and thought they would look great on the left of the tree. I added 3 flat back red pearls to accent the holly leaves. 

Next, I stamped the sentiment onto white CS, fussy cut  that, and layered that onto the green CS and attached the sentiment to the card top area. 

Well that is it for this card. I love how it turned out. I will be making this card for my 2025 Christmas cards that I send out.

Hope this gives you some inspiration and hope you will try this one out. 

Thanks for stopping by and I will see you soon.

 

Happy Fall

 Hello Everyone

Thanks for stopping in today. 

It's November 1 and WOW!! we are halfway thru fall already and winter will soon be here. And after that its Christmas and......LOL Well you know how that goes!!

And since it's November 1, its time for the next Love To Scrap Challenge. We'd love to see your project submitted. Recently I came across a card design that really caught my eye. And I figured it would look great as a fall card. 

I made a leaf stencil. Actually I made 2. One stencil for the left side of the leaf and a stencil for the right side of the leaf. I used an ink blending tool to apply the colors and decided to show 2 leaves.

Of course I used some green and some orange/yellow colors. I still have green leaves on some of the trees here in my area.

After the leaves were stenciled on to my CS top layer, I stamped the image of a tree with no leaves over the stenciled leaves, perfect for that fall look. I have some Outline Stickers that contained some small leaves in a copper color. And that sheet also had a acorn as well..... perfect for under the tree. 

I added Outline Stickers swirls to the top corners and the sentiment and then mounted to a copper CS layer and then mounted to the card base.

This was a fun card to make and I will have to get my other stencils out to see what else I can come up with.

Products used:

Stamp - B-Line Designs Tree Silhouette (Old and B-Line is gone now- sadly)

Outline Stickers - Stamp On It

Inks - Distress Oxides - Mowed Lawn, Crushed Olive, Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmalade

Cardstock- DP's, white CS

Stencil - Leaf Shape

Thanks for stopping by and I will be back soon

It Mouse Be Your Birthday

 Welcome to November!!!   

Just want to let you know the new Birthstone Challenge has started.  The featured birthstone colors in this challenge are Turquoise and Topaz.

The theme is always anything goes with the featured birthstone colors, and you may use one or both of the colors in your project. The color(s) you choose should be prominent on your project. The optional theme has been added for inspiration and is not required to play. 

For this challenge, Polkadoodles will be sponsoring our Nov/Dec challenge! And who doesn't love Polkadoodles. So how cool is that. 

Let me share my DT inspiration project with you.

Products used:

Mouse  and sentiment - Polkadoodles - Birthday Mouse

Dies - Cheese Background and small mice - Gina Marie Dies

Borders Stickers - Stamp On It

Paper - Turquoise, Topaz, White  CS

Markers - Spectrum Noir

Well, this mouse made the cutest birthday card, didn't it!! I bet you know someone who would love to get this card for their birthday.

Remember to join in the fun and enter your projects in our Birthstone Challenge . We would love to see your creations.

Thanks for stopping in today.

I will be back soon.

Merry Little Christmas Challenge for November

 Welcome to November!!!

I can't believe we are 2 months away from 2025. 

November 1 brings the latest over at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge.

Have you started making your Christmas cards???  Well I have a great idea for a really unique card. (Well it's unique to me, LOL)

Here is a 3 picture collage of my card.  The card is a 5X7 folded so it will fit in a A7 envelope.

The first picture in the collage shows the card closed. 

2nd pic - Card opened

3rd pic -  just a pic of the main piece of the inside of the card with the sentiment

I love cards that have different folds and this really fit the bill. 

Products used:

DP

Navy Blue CS

Image and sentiments - Your Next Stamp (Closed)

Ink - Distress Oxide - Chipped Sapphire

Markers - Various Spectrum Noir alcohol marker colors

I hope my card inspires you for your Christmas Card

Thanks for stopping in and I will be back soon.