I played in the Featured Stamper Challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com this weekend and fell in love with THIS card done by one of the members (lovinpaper). I love how she made a torn paper mask to make her Christmas card.
For this case, I tore a mask out of some junk mail and sponged on some color. Next, I stamped the Snowy Bird House and then the Triple Tree with Snow image at the bottom. For my sentiment, I used the top line of the Joy of Christmas Greeting (I used the remainder inside). Then I colored up everything, added some Tim Holtz Holiday Greenry, and some Snowtex splatter (with the mask still on).
Hope your week is going well and those Christmas "Need to Dos" are getting done!
Many hugz,
Nancy
Hello friends,
Do you ever see something on Pintrest or a website that totally sticks in your head? THIS fun flower at MacKensie-Childs stuck in mine (it is still there so you may see something like this again lol).
I thought it would be fun to mix patterns and colors on the DRS Designs Giant Poinsettia. I made a fun red sheet of paper with the Ink/Spray/Smash technique followed by some Frantage, and then I stenciled on a scrap paper. I stamped some poinsettias, then stamped the Silent Night Sheet Music on one of the flowers. I then fussy cut the flowers and layered them up. I finished off the flower with some gel medium and gold micro beads. The left over paper served as the background with a fun little gold bow. I know it is kind of busy and a lot is going on, but that is how I like my cards!
Hope your Christmas shopping and preparations are going well. I am about 1/2 done. A few more stocking-stuffers, a few more presents, and sending off the Christmas cards are still to do.
Hugz,
Nancy
I saw THIS great card by Kia Gibson-Clapper and loved it. Then this weekend she was the featured stamper on Splitcoaststampers.com so I decided to case it using the GIANT Poinsettia image at DRS Designs. I did do the poinsettias in the corner like she did, but I added an extra one, changed my card to Christmas Encouragement instead of birthday, and made my poinsettias purple.
I colored the petals, leaf, and background using watered down Brushos. I cut the sentiment out of a scrap, added glue, and sprinkled on some purple glitter. I shimmers much more in real life.
Hope you are having a wonderful week!
Hugz
I have a super fun card to share today.
I made it for a Splitcoaststamper.com challenge last week. The challenge was to add as many items off a list that you could (Santa, green, holly, trees, red, multiple colors, silver, gold, presents, texture, etc.). I got all but 2 - I forgot the holly and the gold.
I started the card with a sponged card based (Pacific Point). Then I die cut the trees (SU!) and sponged them. I added Stickles for the ornaments. Then I colored and fussy cut the Santa and dog from the Santa and Puppy Christmas Scene. I then water distressed the background, layed up everything, and then splattered on some Snowtex. I tucked in the Small Merry Christmas greeting to finish it off.
I smiled the whole time I made this card. I just knew that puppy was going to make the card come out so well. I was right!
I am still running behind on my Christmas cards, but I am ahead of last year I am doing better. I hope you are too.
Hugz,
Nancy
I am making Christmas cards as quickly as I can. This one is easy to do a bunch of at one time.
I started with white paper, sprayed on water, sprinkled Brushos, sprayed with water again. Let dry.
Then I embossed the sentiment (love this Large Script Merry Christmas greeting), cut out the snowflake, and flecked on a bunch of Snoxtex. Super easy.
Hope you have most your Christmas cards done. I have waited late again. I think it is a tradition with me. LOL.
Many hugz,
Nancy
On today's card, I played with a new set of Tim Holtz dies that I received for my birthday (Merry Moose). I have loved every card I have seen with this set, and I am so glad my daughter bought it off my Amazon wish list.
Hello crafty friends.
It was warm in Central Alabama until this past week. We were unprepared and had to start digging out sweaters and coats quickly. To celebrate the quick arrival of cold weather, I did a frosty card this week.
I started this card by stamping the Triple Tree with Snow image in black and green. After I stamped it, I took a water color brush and wet the ink causing it to smear a bit. I think it adds to the frosty feel. Next, I stamped the Christmas Especially to You greeting. For fun, I stamped and fussy cut three Skippy the Penguins to add to the scene. I finished it off with a bit of Stickles on the trees and in the snow bank line.
I saw two fun creations this week that inspired me HERE and HERE. I ordered the Tim Holtz Frightful Things die after seeing that great tag! Since my hubby and I are visiting famous haunted places in Alabama, I knew I could use the ghosts again.
I started the card by sponging the bg panel with red distress ink and then going around the edges with Vintage Photo ink. On the next panel, one of my Grandchildren had sponged around a haunted doily and made a spider web pattern using the Vintage photo ink so I embossed it and sponged the ink around the edges too. Next, I embossed the DRS Designs Silhouette Haunted House image and then sponged different colors around it. I sponged the IO fence die with Black Soot Distress Ink - I looks kind of like metal and added the ghosts. My Grandson loves this card. He thinks it is Spooky Cool.
I am still making Halloween cards - I so love a spooky card!
I sponge the base, the main panel, and the outside scene with various inks and did the edges in Black Soot Distress Inks. I stamped the Accent Bats and the Magic Potion Shelf in Versafine Black Onyx,
I embossed the brown cardstock with the Tim Holtz Tree Ring embossing folder before cutting it out with an MFT Window die. The Boo was cut out with my Sister's Cricut.
Fun and quick card!
Hugz,
Nancy
I love, love, love October! I love the promise of cooler weather (we grab on that kind of promise in the deep South - lol), the fun of Halloween with its spooky stories and fun movies, and the food - candy apples, pumpkin pie lattes, and candy, candy, candy.
Today, I have a spooky scrapbook page and a card.
For my scrapbook page of our visit to the "Mountain Tom Clark" historical marker, I used some fall colors and stamped the Spooky Tree Limb, the Accent Bats, and the Iron Fence and Gate. I cut out one branch of the spooky tree limb so I could hang the picture of "Mountain Tom." This page was inspired by THIS card done by Kari B. on Splitcoaststampers.com- she was this week's featured stamper.
Hello, friends.
This past weekend we had a family reunion in Elba, Alabama. I googled some interesting places around there so we could add to our collection of fun Alabama discoveries. I found the story of the Dancing Ghost of Grancer Harrison so off we went to visit this famous ghost. He is one of the 13 famous Alabama Ghosts written up by Kathryn Windham-Tucker. You can hear a bit about him along with a great song too if you click HERE. If you like folksy tales, HERE is Dr. Poppy Moon's story telling.
Hello crafty friends!
This weekend my hubby and I went on a quick trip to Northern Alabama. We were visiting historical markers and other fun sites. I love a good scary story so we purposely visited some local haunted places. We were told to eat at Trowbridges Ice Cream and Sandwich Shop because they reportedly have a ghost. We didn't see a ghost, but they had some really good food at some really good prices (under $4 for a chicken salad sandwich and it tasted like my Grandmothers - yum, yum).
I chronicled our visit on an 8.5 by 11 page that I dipped in yellow, orange, and black ink (black for the ghost, and orange and yellow for the orange pineapple ice cream they are famous for). I added a DRS Designs Grim Reaper to signify the spooky part of the restaurant.
Hello crafty friends!
I have been having so much fun making backgrounds the last few weeks. Today's background was made with inspiration from the Splitcoaststampers.com Technique Lovers Challenge. It was made by dipping stencils in inky water and stamping them on the paper. I used a circle stencil, a diamond stencil, and a chicken wire stencil. My ink was a little too wet, but I love how it came out.
After it was dry, I stamped the Trick or Treaters Last Stop image. I stamped it several times with my MISTI and then coated the moon with Stickles. I stamped the Fall Leaf with Acorn and sponged on Vintage Photo ink. Next I coated in brown and orange water colors. To add back definition to the lines, I added some Stickles.
Hello crafty friends.
I started another scrapbook. This one is a journaling scrapbook. I am using pictures of my family and friends, but I am focusing on the journaling rather than the pictures. It is all done with mixed media which I love.
This first page was dipped in an inky mix of Fall colors, then stenciled and doodled. Then I covered up all my hard work with a giant journaling panel and the pictures - you can still see a bit of it peeking through. I sponge the journaling panel and then stamped the Tree Slice Woodgrain image in Vintage Photo Distress ink. For fun, I added some of the flowers from the Polka Dot Flower Trio. My page focuses on some recent answered prayers that I am very grateful for in my life.
Hello crafty friends.
I have a fun scrapbook page to share - it is my last one in the birthday scrapbook I made for my daughter. This one captures her wedding and includes pictures of her Dad and Grandmother who have both passed on to Heaven. I used the You are My Sunshine Greeting. The background was made by scraping white acrylic paint across the kraft paper - looks kind of like icing.
Hello friends,
I have a few more scrapbook pages for my daughter's birthday scrapbook using DRS Design images and greetings.
Hello DRS Design Fans.
I have another scrapbook page to share. I am still working on the scrapbook I am giving to my oldest daughter for her 29th birthday card. It is full of memories and my favorite pictures of her - that is the beauty of doing a scrapbook of your kids - you can pick the pictures. LOL.
I did this page for two Splitcoaststampers.com challenges. One was to include text on your creation so I used the Script Font background stamp on my ink, spray, smash panel (don't you love the colors?). The other challenge was a scrapbook challenge requiring 3 pictures, three groups of three embellishments, three lines of title, and three dsps. I made all my dsps using the ink spray technique. I used one for the leaves, one for the backing on the pictures, and one as my main panel which I stamped. For my main embellishment, I used the Fall Leaf with Acorn and for my title I used the Love You to the Moon Greeting.
Hello friends. I am so ready for Fall! The heat index here in Alabama has been well over a hundred this week and the humidity is running in the 90% range.
Since I can't have Fall weather, I have a Fall card. I apologize for the picture but I had to take in the dark - lol. It is fast, CAS card too.
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