Christmas Cheer

 

I broke out another darling image from Stampotique to create these fairly simple cards.  I again used the Echo Park papers and a little bit of coloring with my Copic markers.

Card details:

Stamps: Snowy Fran 6127

Cardstock: Confetti White, Echo Park

Embellishments: Peapod twine from The Twinery and sentiment strip from CZ Design 

May Peace be your gift

 

Going along with my mojo and continuing to create more Christmas/Holiday cards I pulled out this fun image and sentiment from Stampotique and also combined it with the Fusion Card Challenge for the week.

I always love using patterned paper and always try to incorporate it somehow on my cards...I mean I have enough of it that I need to use it.

To give this image a little more depth I added some dimensional dots behind it and added some gems to my image panel as well.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a wonderful week!

Card details:

Stamps: Tree-O 3070 and May Peace...8933 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Confetti Cream, Echo Park Warm & Cozy,  Michael's Red 

Merry Christmas Snowman

Hi there friends!  I know, it's been ages since I posted on here and I've been saying I'm going to get this back up and going but haven't yet.  

I've been having some fun making some holiday cards for an order, and since I had them out just have kept on making some to send out.

This card I used the Freshly Made Sketches #464 along with one of my most favorite images from Paper Smooches.  I colored him with some winter colors and added a few gems to the paper and his scarf to give him some flare and mounted him on some Echo Park Christmas paper.  The sentiment is from the CZDesign Sentiment Strip.

Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!

 

Joy

This is the last card I've got scheduled for my Christmas sharing...although I possibly could create some more to post-we'll see how inspired I get.

I used the FUSION challenge sketch for this card.  I love how I finally am using up some Rub-ons I bought probably 2 years ago (maybe it was just last year)...but it makes me feel great to finally use stuff I've had sitting around for awhile with a purpose in mind.

I know we are looking for a joyous holiday season with our family this year.

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Card details:

No stamps used

Cardstock: Echo Park Season's Greetings, Crumb Cake, Basic Black

Inks: Old Olive sponging

Embellishments: Circle punches, pearls, Making Memories Rub-ons

Season's Greetings

Are you ready for the holidays yet?  Me neither!!!  I never seem to be prepared for it.

But...I do have some cards made which is a step in the right direction.

Using up some more of my patterned paper I like how this card turned out.  Originally I was going to use the circle as a flower but thought...why not add a base and make it a tree.

Hard to see in my photo my I added some paper piercing above the patterned paper strips.

Hope this helps get you in the holiday spirit!

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Card details:

No stamps used

Cardstock: Echo Park Season's Greetings, Ivory, Crumb Cake

Inks: Old Olive for sponging

Embellishments: Circle punches, pearls 

Baby Fleur-Think Spring

Today over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge Sue has us thinking spring:

"Here in the Northern Hemisphere today is officially the first day of Spring.  It's been a long cold Winter so let's cheer ourselves up with some Spring colours and/or images and chase away the Winter blues."

I've combined my card with the latest color combination over at the Color Throwdown.  At first I was a bit stumped as to how to use the green and red without looking too Christmas'ey, but then I came across this darling little image who made me think Spring.

  

Make sure you join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge with your Spring theme and at Color Throwdown with the color combination above.  To see some more color inspiration, please visit the Color Throwdown girls:

** Barbara ** Broni ** Denise ** Joan **

** Kerri ** Lynn ** Tammy ** Wanda ** Lori **

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Card details:

Stamps: Baby Fleur 1 9143 and Thinking of You 5234 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Garden Green, Echo Park for the Record 2, Gina K. Luxury White

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copics

Embellishments: dimensionals, Dare to be a Diva Red ribbon

Smile...Camera

Just a quick post today with a real quick and simple card.

I love this sentiment and it reminds me that no matter how bad things may get, it could be worse.  I keep a smile as much as I can.

Happy Sunday!

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Supplies Used:

Stamps: We Click from Mama Elephant

Cardstock: Basic Black; Patterned Paper: Echo Park This & That

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black

Embellishments: Washi Tape from Freckled Fawn

Dare to Dream

Just a quick hello on this Monday morning before the busy week gets ahead of me.

I'm one who tells my kids that they can do anything they set their minds to.  Sydney & I were having a conversation the other day about being President and she asked if a girl could be president and I told her ABSOLUTELY!!  She told me that's what she wanted to be.  I hope that her dreams are always that big!

This card is for that person who is struggling or trying to keep up hope.  May you stay positive and always DARE TO DREAM.

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Stamps: Borderline by Verve Stamps

Cardstock: Golden Tiara from Clear & Simple Stamps, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White from Stampin' Up; Patterned Paper: For the Record 2 from Echo Park

Inks: Colorbox by Stephanie Barnard-Chocolate

Embellishments: dimensionals from Stampin' Up!, Want2Scrap Self Adhesive Pearls

Snow Joy

I shared this on SCS yesterday as it was for The Paper Player's Challenge to use Snowmen (or hopefully snow girls).

This card was originally being done for the 10 minute craft dash too, but I went over a little, so I'm not going to enter it in that (use red).

The color combination on this card is one of my favorites, holiday or otherwise.  I opted not to color my snow girl and the little birdie is popped up on her shoulder.

My little girl & I are off tomorrow to Alabama for our first cheerleading competition of the season, we are so excited and hoping that this new team places a bit this year.

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Card details:

Stamps: Snowgirl Roly-Poly from Frog's Whiskers Ink, Trees4Christmas from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Cool Carribean, Real Red, Echo Park Season's Greetings

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic, Color Box for Stephanie Barnard- Strawberry

Embellishments: Basics Pearls-Red, circle punch

Happy Holidays

I adore how this card turned out.  I'm usually a "straight and narrow" stamper, I have a hard time creating cards with cock-eyed pieces but I do like a good challenge.

This is the last Sketch for You to Try.  I've loved Jen's sketches and am sad that this will be the very last one!

I'm excited that this year I completed all 12 of the sketches for this challenge.

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

I'm also including this card for the current challenge over at the Paper Loft travel blog for a holiday challenge.

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Card details:

Stamps: Happy Holly-days from Our Craft Lounge and Icons Sentiments from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Confetti White, Echo Park Season's Greetings

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black

Embellishments: Washi Tape from Freckled Fawn, circle spellbinders die, rhinestones colored with copic

For my next card as I've been creating so many Christmas cards, I used the new Retro Sketches #40 on this card.  I used some more washi tape on this one :-)  I'm seriously thinking I'll be using some of the washi on Christmas gifts this year.

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Card details:

Stamps: Happy Holly-days  and Merry Wishes from Our Craft Lounge 

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Kraft Like a Rockstar Ivory, Echo Park Season's Greetings

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Cherry Cobbler

Embellishments: Washi Tape from Freckled Fawn,  rhinestones

Click Collection

Last night I got on a roll creating some cards using my new sets from Mama Elephant and For the Record 2 papers from Echo Park.  Bear with me as this will be a heavy post full of cards.  Come back tomorrow as I'll share with you how I packaged up this set.

The first one uses a new sketch challenge- CAS(E) this sketch!  The sketch was very clean and simple-loved how quick this card came together although for the life of me I can't find my 1" circle die and my punch is kaput.

Don't you love that little washi tape stamp under the sentiment??

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For this card I stamped two of the balloons on patterned paper and fussy cut them and the polka dot one is a stamp from the Good Times set.  Loving this new Lawn Fawn trimmings twine I got, nice and thick and ties easily as well.

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Getting in right in the knick of time with the current Retro Sketches challenge.  My cameras ended up being a little off kilter on this one, not so much centered...but I'm ok with that (this time anyway).  This was a fun sketch to do.

My card uses a different set this time from Mama Elephant called We Click. I think I was sold on this set from the sentiment alone.

Ardyth's challenge over at Hope You can Cling to today is to be inspired by one (or more) of the vital signs (heart beat/pulse, temperature, blood pressure or breathing).  My card uses blue for cold (temperature) and hearts in the cameras (for heart beat/pulse)

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The sentiment in this set really cracks me up!  I wanted to keep with the same theme as my other cards so I cut the scallop part  out of the paper itself and think it turned out perfectly.  The Hope You Can Cling to Challenge for yesterday was from Lynn to use a decorative edge on your card.

The sketch is from Skipping Stones Designs and I put to use some of this gorgeous May Arts Crochet White ribbon.

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This was probably the most difficult sketch for me to work with.  It's the current Fall-to-Layout and the while the design was so cool, I had the hardest time figuring out how to make it work.  I think I accomplished it.  I cut two strips of my yellow and cut them at the same angle, then flipped one so they were the opposite of one another on the card.  The little patterned strip was a left over piece of patterned paper. Another sentiment that just cracks me up.  This is the perfect set for teenagers.

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Hope you enjoyed my card parade today, was fun to create some cards using the same papers, size, and stamps.

Card details:

Stamps: We Click and Good Times from Mama Elephant

Cardstock: Georgia Pacific White, textured blue (unknown), So Saffron, Enchanted Evening

Inks: Night of Navy, Bashful Blue

Embellishments: May Arts White Crochet Ribbon, Crown Circles and Circles spellbinders dies, Lawn Fawn trimmings twine, dimensionals

Right on Par

I'm squeezing a challenge in just in the knick of time, I needed a card for my father-in-law's birthday on St. Patrick's Day so whipped this together tonight.

Being that I love sketches and I participated in Retro Sketches first challenge, I couldn't skip not doing the 2nd sketch.  I did turn it on the side but this was an easy sketch to do.

I pulled out a favorite set (or 2 or 3) from Clear & Simple Stamps-Foursome and Golf Gent (both retired).  These are just great masculine sets.  I love to paper piece them with patterned paper.

Hope that you are having a great week!  

I'm hoping to stamp one more card tonight before I call it a night.  

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Card details:

Stamps: Foursome & Golf Gent from Clear & Simple Stamps (both retired)

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Kraft Like a Rockstar Ivory, Dish All the Dirt Brown, Baja Breeze, Echo Park This & That

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, copics

Embellishments: dimensionals

Merry Fish-mas!

This may be my last Christmas card I share...I'm not going to promise that, but I don't anticipate making any more before Sunday.  Things could change though :-)

I was a bit out of my comfort zone when creating this card as I decided to do some watercoloring.  I do not break those out too often as I'm just not as skilled at it as I am at other coloring methods.  Enjoyed doing this and need to break out my aquapainter more often. 

It is a large card as I wanted to create an underwater scene for my creation.  The turtle is covered with crystal effects but it's hard to see in the scene.

Are you all ready for Christmas?  I had every intention of having my cards out by now, but unfortunately they are still sitting on my desk.  I hope today is the day though!

 

Card details:

Stamps: Sea-sons Greetings from Our Craft Lounge

Cardstock: Perfect Little Black Dress, Echo Park Season's Greetings

Inks: Multiple Distress Stains, Basic Black

Embellishments: Aquapainter, Crystal Effects

GGSC94: First Snow

Today over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations is First Snow.  I had a lot of fun with this challenge on my days off last week, I was on a creating frenzy.

I had so much fun, I have 2 cards to share to you, both similar layouts and colors.

This first card is based off a sketch from Skipping Stones Designs and I also used one of the wonderful tutorials from Katie Gehring.  I adore this pleating ribbon and how it turned out although it did take me just a little while to complete.

 

The image I used is a digital image from Torico.  I added some platinum sparkly fluff to the snowman's hat.  This color scheme was based off the Playdate Cafe Challenge #110 but then realized I left one of the colors off so I created a 2nd card with all the correct colors.

I love how this card turned out, I used these awesome new supplies (to me) that I received from Cindy Lyles at StarLit Studio.  I won them from participating in the Hope You can Cling to Challenges over on SCS.  These are the Fancy Tags 2 and Want2Scrap Nestabling.  

I've been working with the Our Craft Lounge images and love this little seahorse from Sea-Sons Greetings and it fit perfectly in the frame of the Fancy Tags.

The papers I seem to be turning to a lot these days for all my holiday cards is from Echo Park Season's Greeting collection which Pumpkin Spice Shop carries and is holding a design team call now.  They carry the 6 x 6 paper packs that I love to work with when making cards.

Want to join us at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations?  Just link up here.

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Card #1 details:

Stamps: Little Snowman Digital Image from Torico

Cardstock: Basic Grey, Cool Carribean, Neenah White, Echo Park Season's Greetings

Inks: Copics

Embellishments: Dare to be a Diva Red from Clear & Simple Stamps, Platinum Sparkly Fluff from Our Craft Lounge

Card #2 details:

Stamps: Sea-sons Greetings from Our Craft Lounge

Cardstock: Brilliant Blue, Real Red, Cool Carribean, Neenah White, Echo Park Season's Greetings

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, copic

Embellishments: Want2Scrap Nestabling, Fancy Tags 2 Spellbinders Nestabilities, Sugar Sparkly Fluff

Frosty & Friends: Blogger's Challenge

 Oh, I have had a fun few days off.  I made about 10 dozen cake balls for hubby's work as well as a Best Chocolate Sheet Cake Ever from Pioneer Woman.  I squeezed in a few cards (like this one) and a few naps as well.  Was enjoyable for me and looking forward to a few weeks from now when I get a few more days off.

Today is Blogger's Challenge and Lisa has given us the theme of "Frosty & Friends".  When I came across this free digital image from Dilly Bean Designs I knew it would be perfect for this week.

I used this fun sketch from My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge #49 this week.

I've been going a little nuts with this Echo Park Season's Greetings patterned paper.  I bought a few packs of Christmas paper this year and I NEVER seem to use it all, so I've been trying to use up a lot more than I have in the past.

 

  

I colored my snowmen with my copics and sponged some color around so they weren't so stark white.  I left the card with no sentiment this week, so I could add one on if I wanted to.  Now that I'm looking at this image, it would be a perfect one for my family of 5 on our Christmas cards :-)

Hope you will join us for some fun over at Blogger's Challenge this week, you can link up over at Lisa's blog here.  Please only current creations, no backlinking to previous work.

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Card details:

Stamps: Snow Family digi from Dilly Bean Designs

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Neenah White, Perfect Little Black Dress, Echo Park Season's Greetings 

Inks: copic markers

Embellishments: dimensionals, Frosted Lace stickles, Kaiser Craft Dec 25th Adhesive jewels

GGSC93: Merry Christmas with Presents

Today at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations we are continuing our celebration of Christmas with 'presents'.  I chose this adorable image from Prairie Fairy Designs with some gifts under the Christmas tree.

What are some of your Christmas traditions?  We generally eat a nice dinner on Christmas Eve, followed by church service and then back home for a few family pictures, change into jammies, and distribution of gifts.  We take turns opening, although the adults usually skip quite a few so that the kiddos can catch up with us.  Last year we left our family gifts at home to open Christmas Day instead of doing them all on Christmas Eve.

This card was created for a card contest Echo Park is doing along with the sketch from Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge #137.

We hope you will join us over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations this week by creating either a present or something with gifts on it.

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Card details:

Stamps: Digital Image from Prairie Fairy Designs- Decorating the Tree, Month-to-Month Extras from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Perfect Little Black Dress, Neenah White, Echo Park Season's Greetings

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Licorice, copic markers

Embellishments: oval and scalloped oval Spellbinder's Nestabilities, Scattered Straw Distress Stickles, Sparkly Fluff Sugar, A Clean Slate Ribbon

From our Family to Yours

 Today over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations our theme is a Christmas theme.  I pulled out some new stamps for me from Our Craft Lounge, Happy Holly-days and Merry Wishes.

I'm loving this layout from Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge, but I changed it up a bit from the original sketch.  I've created a few cards with this layout though-I love all the layers of it.

I apologize that I have such a small card today, I'm playing with my new MacBook and uploading to iPhoto and it's been challenging for me so if anyone has any tips on how to download pics off the camera at a larger size into iPhoto before I google it that would be great.

Join us over at Going Grey with Scrap-creations, we'd love to see your Christmas creations!
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Card details:

Stamps: Happy Holly-days and Merry Wishes from Our Craft Lounge 

Cardstock: Dare to be a Diva Red, Perfect Little Black Dress, Confetti Cream, Bo Bunny Blitzen

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, copics

Embellishments: card candy unknown, Dare to be a Diva Red ribbon, dimensionals, scalloped oval nestabilities

Stampotique Blog Hop

 If you have arrived here from Jo Capper-Sandon's blog you are the right place.  If you have just come across, you may want to jump over to beginning at Kira's blog.

Announcing new images and new artists are always exciting here at Stampotique Originals and so we are thrilled to announce our newest artist, Kira Nichols.  Kira has designed some very unique monsters and kitties for her first line of stamps and our design team has had the opportunity to play with the stamps before they are released to the public.

For my card I used Kira's new Hug Monster 4007, love his face...looks so innocent.  I think this would make a very cute Christmas card.  I added the Merry Everything sentiment as it just seemed perfect.

Want a chance to win some of Kira's new images?  Hop along with our designers as well as our special guest, leaving comments along the way, for your chance to win some of Kira's new images.  We will randomly draw a winner from one of the blogs and announce the winner with our next challenge.

Make sure to leave comments along the way and a randomly chosen commenter will win some of these new stamps.

  From here you will want to visit our special guest, our newest artist at Stampotique, Kira Nichols.

Below is a complete list in case you go off the beaten path and need some redirection.

Kira Nichols

Kaz Boughton

Jane Wetzel

Gez Butterworth

Valerie Wilson

Maria Sabina Raita

Lisa Somerville

Jo Capper-Sandon

Kim Howard<----you are here

Nellie van Leeuwen

Vicki Garrett

Willy Anderson

Kate Crane

Monique Verbeek

Joanne Wardle

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Card details:
Stamps: Happy Everything 5262 and Hug Monster 4007 from Stampotique Originals
Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Echo Park Season's Greetings, Confetti White
Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, copics
Embellishments: Spellbinder Nestabilities, Kaiser Craft Dec. 25th jewels

Me + You + Coffee=Perfection

Yeah for a weekend where you are able to more stamping than you could have dreamed of!!!  I had so many ideas swirling around so it was great to just do some fun stamping virtually with friends.

This week at Our Craft Lounge was a CASE challenge.  We were to find an OCL card in either the SCS or OCL gallery or somewhere online and CASE it changing the stamp set.

I chose this card by Joy Stagg which is very CAS and looked like a lot of fun to work with.  I changed my color scheme as well so that I could also play in the Really Reasonable Ribbon challenge of pink/brown.

My sewing is a bit off and doesn't look as pretty as Joy's.  I'm a bit rusty and need a little more practice :-)

I used the Fueled by Caffeine set as my focal image stamping the sentiment and coffee beans across the bottom.

Card details:

Stamps: Fueled by Caffeine from Our Craft Lounge

Cardstock: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Mauved by the Paparrazzi, Echo Park Life is Good

Inks: Creamy Caramel, Dish all the Dirt Brown, Copics

Embellishments: candy dots, Paint the town pink ribbon, Janome Sewing, Embossed scallop punch