The Christmas Season!

It is here. I love this time of year. It is a wonderful time of celebration because Jesus came. Our Lord Emmanuel.

I was asked to make a card to accompany a food shower. This is what I made.

Stamp set: Christ is Born

Ink: Ruby Red, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive

CS: Old Olive, Ruby Red, Chocolate Chip, Holiday Treasures DSP, Shimmery White

Accessories: Tool Kit, Wide Oval and Scallop Edge punches, oval non SU punch, Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon.

Have a wonderful season! I will try and post again soon.

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Embossing and a Punchy Turkey!

For November's class we started out making a turkey out of punches and then moved on to a couple of embossed Christmas cards.


There are many different punchy turkey's and it was a fun project that I thought I would never make. The punches I used are all © Stampin' Up! They are listed as follows: Scallop circle, Boho Blossoms, 3/4 circle and 1 inch circle. The scallop circles are each cut in half. The one closest to the Body is also cut in half again in the opposite direction. The beak is one petal from a boho flower and the waddle and feet are from another boho flower. DSP is Haiku, the body is So Saffron, the Beak is More Mustard and waddle and feet are Tangerine Tango.



This technique is Markers on Vellum. We stamped with versamark on the vellum and embossed with White EP. When cool you flip your piece over and color on the back with your markers.
Scandinavian Season is my favorite set. We also used the Ski Slope DSP. Rhinestone brads were used for the tree topper and to hold the Baja Breeze ribbon in place. Isn't this just a fun festive card! I love it!





This is Faux Metal Emboss. I took a billion pictures and they are all washed out. I don't know what the deal is. Anyway...
The star and snowflake are also from the Scandinavian Season set. How versatile!! The star is embossed using the Brushed Gold CS and the Gold EP. We then punched it out with the Large Star punch. To make the snowflake piece we used the Brushed Silver CS and the Silver EP. For this technique you have to layer your cs with several layers of ep. To do this: apply versamark directly to your metallic cs, cover with ep and heat. Repeat this process 2 or 3 times so that you have several layers of melted ep. Before the last layer ink your stamp in versamark. As soon as your last layer is melted immediately press your stamp into the melted ep. Press firmly and rock you stamp to get a good impression. Then punch out your image.
The Holiday Treasures DSP was used for this card. We also used the Alpine Ribbon Originals. There is a Brushed Gold piece that we used the Scallop punch on. I hope you can see it. Behind the star is we used the 1-3/4 Circle punch.

This is my last Tech Class for this year. That sounds soooo weird. My head is not even into November yet.

Pearly Bella Beautiful Borders

Bella Toile is a gorgeous background. I paired it with Beautiful Borders for some quick cards to send.

This is the first I've used Beautiful Borders and I love it!!! Now I need to make some cards with it using the actual words that it comes with.

After stamping the border strip on Shimmery White, I sponge daubered the Baja Breeze over it.

Sets: Beautiful Borders, Bella Toile, All Holidays

CS: Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, Shimmery White

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze

Accessories: Sponge Daubers, Tool Kit, Scallop Square Punch, Square Punch, Small Oval Punch, Scallop Edge Punch, Chocolate Chip Taffeta, Pretties Kit

Watercolor Wonder Crayons-October Tech Class

For my October class we worked with the Watercolor Wonder Crayons. These are my favorite way to watercolor and are very easy to work with.

This card was basic watercoloring. Just stamp a lined image and use the crayons to color and then spread that color by using the aquapainter. I also added shadow around the image.

Stamp sets used: Crazy for Cupcakes on the card and Bloomin' Beautiful for the tech card.

Ink: Black StazOn

CS: Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Barely Banana, Close to Cocoa, and Watercolor paper

Accessories: Ribbon, Chunky Sprinkles, Crystal Effects, Aquapainter, WWCrayons

This card was done by coloring with the crayons directly on the rubberstamp. I LOVE the looks of this. Start with coloring your image with the lightest color you are using. Then keep coloring using colors lightest to darkest. Then spritz the image with water and stamp. Beautiful!!!

Stamp set: With Gratitude, Bella Toile

CS: More Mustard, Old Olive, Watercolor paper

Ink: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: WWCrayons, gold brads, Riding Hood Red ribbon

All items © Stampin' Up!

Sooo, if you have the Watercolor Wonder Crayons you need to use them!!! And if you don't have them, you should really get them. *grins*

Christ is born!

The Christ is Born set is just lovely!!! I hope to use this for my cards this year. We will see. I am thinking I might not send cards this year.

When I saw the sketch challenge the result you see is what popped in my head. See the challenge here.

Set: Christ is Born

CS: Old Olive, Baja Breeze, Shimmery White, Holiday Treasures DSP, Vellum CS

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette, Ruby Red, Old Olive

Accessories: Filigree Brads

The markers were used on the poinsettia to give it a softer look and so that the Christ is Born would show. The coluzzle was used to cut the vellum as well as the half circles.

HeartLIFE Missionary Christmas

HeartLIFE is a girls program at our church. They have a missionary that they encourage through the year with cards and such. I was asked to prepare some Christmas cards for one group of girls. They are 15 years old so a nice age group to do this. There were only 3 of them so I let them each make all 3 cards. They were delightful to work with.

This card used:

Snow Swirled

Cs: Certainly Celery, Riding Hood Red, VVanilla

Ink: Certainly Celery, Riding Hood Red

Accessories: Snow Blossom Punch

This card used:

Scandinavian Season (my FAV Christmas set)

Scandinavian wheel

Cs: Real Red, Baja Breeze, Choc. Chip, WWhite,

Ski Slope DSP

Ink: Choc. Chip, Baja Breeze, Real Red

Accessories: Twine, brad, dimensionals

This card used:

Bella Toile, All Holidays

Cs: Always Artichoke, Bravo Burgundy, Kraft,

VVanilla

Ink: Bravo Burgundy, Always Artichoke

Accessories: Bravo Burgundy grosgrain, 1-3/4 circle punch, 5-petal flower punch, non-SU punches, zigpainty

I did not use any glitter or bling and that is a total shocker!!!

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