January Cards

Hi Everyone,

My first card is a copy of last week's card.  My brother-in-law has a birthday this month, and he's a huge bird fan.  I figured a penguin is a cold weather bird and I'm loving the speech bubbles as of late, so a birthday card was born.

I used the inside of the Birthday Flower Circle for the greeting along with Percy Penguin again, and I hope he likes it even though he's a guy and the card has glitter and gems ;)

Some new stamps have been released at DRS Designs and I couldn't resist pairing up the new Howdy Valentine greeting with the adorable Cowboy Snowman.  Valentine's day may be all sunshine and flowers in some places, but in my part of the world it's definitely cold and snowy!

 

I added some wraphia, simply because it seemed rustic, and added some heart embellishments to keep with the valentine theme. 

Thanks for stopping by the blog!
Karin

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Thinking of You

Hi Everyone,

I have a card to share with you that could be used for Christmas, New Years, or as a valentine.  How's that for versatile?  

I stamped, colored and fussy cut Percy Penguin, adding a punched heart to his belly in anticipation of using the Warms My Heart Greeting, and stamping the sentiment separately let me use two die cuts for it.  I added a large die cut snowflake to balance out the little scene. 

Here is a close up of the snow mound I placed Percy on.  It was simply hand cut with some glitter added for snow.  

I have to say that I've been using these speech bubbles a lot ever since I got them out.  You'll probably see them again next week, so be prepared...lol!

Thanks for stopping by!
Karin

 

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Christmas Tags

Hi Everyone, and Happy Christmas Eve!

I feel ridiculous sharing these tags, but these are the last Christmas items I made.  And I use the term "made" loosely.  I was nearing the end of my wrapping, and needed a few more tags, so I chose to embellish some store bought ones from my stash.  

This tag was an extra in the pack, just plain, with no cute Santa, or snowflake or anything like the others. It had a nice gold edge, so rather than toss it, I stamped it with Percy Penguin and the

 1 Line Merry Christmas.  

And this one came with a glittery tree, so I added the 1 Line Merry Christmas myself. 

Didn't I say they were easy?  Stamps always save the day!

Here's wishing you a wonderful holiday...

Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Karin

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Merry Christmas

Hi Everyone,

Here's a Christmas card that was easy to pull off,  due to using the Wooden Frame Collection stamp!  After stamping and coloring up the frames, it was really fun looking through my stamps and choosing a group to fit inside.  I settled on the following ones:

North Pole Sign

Santa Hat

Percy Penguin

1 Line Merry Christmas

After using my stamp-a-ma-jig to help line things up, I colored in the images and added some glitter glue to the snow/fuzzy parts on them.

I attached it to a snowflake embossed base and added a few mini snowflakes along the bottom to finish it off.

Thanks for visiting the blog today!
Karin

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All Is Calm

Good morning!

I have some more Christmas cards for you today!

This first one uses DRS stamps: Santa with Birds Chrristmas and 1 Line Merry Christmas

I also used a sketch from SCS, Liquid Applique for the fur and Liquid Pearls for the beard.

My next card features DRS stamps: Percy Penguin X 3.  I made a little plaid vest for middle Percy.

They are singing Silent Night to the neighbor penguins, can you tell by the musical notes???

The plaid vest was made with Large Original Plaid.  The sentiment, All Is Calm

the background trees, Triple Tree with Snow and the background snow is Splatter Background

The cute square die is from Penny Black.  I used Liquid Applique for the fur on their hats.

I used to have some music stuff (besides brads) but I have 

no idea what happened to it.

I think it might be with some scrapbooking stuff because I bought most 

of it for doing pages for my grandson who is so musical.

  But everyone is grown up now and off living life.

I hope you like these little guys!!

Have a great crafty weekend!!

Robin

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Frosty Christmas Thoughts

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.

Hope your week is going well!

Hugz,

Nancy

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It Must Still be Christmas!

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well & you had a Happy New Year! This must be the Christmas that never ends! But I'll tell you, I love Christmas cards anytime of the year. In fact I'm on the Splitcoast Fan Club Christmas Challenge (you'll need to be a fan club member to see it) & each month on the 1st, we have a new Christmas card challenge. Great way to have a little fun & get your Christmas cards finished before the Christmas time crunch. One thing I wish would end around here is the RAIN. At least for a while. Turns out 2018 was the 2nd wettest on record here. We had close to 78" of rain last year! That's almost double what Seattle had. And it's still raining as I speak.

For my first card, I kept it a little simple, since it took me awhile to color & fussy cut it. Metals are kind of tough to color but I'm pretty happy w/ this brass door knocker. I stamped the Woodgrain Bg w/ green ink onto the green background & added a red frame. The white was embossed w/ woodgrain folder.

 

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs -  Christmas Door Knocker, Woodgrain Bg (inside: Christmas To You , Christmas From Our House Poinsettia Vine Corner, )

paper:  Staples 110# white, X-Press It, red, green

ink: Memento tuxedo black, cottage ivy

accessories:  Copic markers, Misti, stitched rectangle & stitched rectangle frame dies, woodgrain embossing folder 

My second card was made for the Challenge I told you about. 

On this card, I stamped the igloo & North Pole sign & colored them in. The greeting & some icicles were added then I added a green frame & the fussy cut penguin on the outside. A few glitter snowflakes were added for a little sparkle.

 Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend & a Happy New Year!

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs - Percy Penguin,  Penguin Snowball Blast , Christmas From Our House,  North Pole Sign , Icicles (inside:  Merriest Christmas )

paper:  Staples 110# white, X-Press It, white glitter. green

ink: Memento tuxedo black

accessories:  Copic markers,  Stitched Rectangle, Stitched Oval frame dies, Misti, snowflake punch

Christmas Door Knocker 806L	Christmas To You 618E	Poinsettia Vine Corner 381G	Christmas From Our House 120C	Penguin Snowball Blast 966K
Percy Penguin 122D	North Pole Sign 518E	Merriest Christmas 708G	Icicles 862H	Woodgrain Bg 626P
Copic Sketch Markers	MISTI	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock	X-Press It Blending Card
DCWV Glitter Matstack	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Oval Stitch Frame dies 5123D	RN Rectangle Stitch Frame dies 5122D	Marvy 5/8” Snowflake Punch LV-CP25
Paper Studio Woodgrain embossing folder 489252	AC color card stock

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Happy Valentine's Day

Hi Everyone!

Now that the new year is in full swing, I'm looking forward to another year of stamping.  It really is the only hobby that I've ever been able to stick with for such a long period of time.  There are always new products coming out, so I'm never bored, and my goal is to be more creative in my use of stamps.

So, with that being said, I have a couple of cards to share with you today.  I thought this would be a fun card to make for a crafty friend.  Maybe a stamper or someone who likes to draw :)

This newly released Hand Colored By Pencil stamp is actually one of those signature type stamps for the back of your cards, but I stamped only the bottom portion without the words along the top and colored them in using a rainbow color theme.  I grabbed my watercolor pen and my ink pads to create the squiggle line and punched out a mini heart in the corresponding colors for the ends.

I added the Small Happy Valentine's Day Greeting that I stamped with the Small Silhouette Heart and used my circle punches to add that sentiment.

I have a couple of January birthdays coming up, so here is one of the cards I created for those.  

I colored up and die cut the Penguin Snowball Blast stamp,  adding it onto a panel that was stamped using the snowflake stamp, and edged with a punched snowflake border.  The Snow Doubt Birthday Greeting was used on the front... 

and the second portion of it was added to the inside, along with Percy Penguin.

Here is a peek at that Pencil stamp on the back of my hand colored card:

Here's hoping your dry, warm and have time to get your fingers inky today!

Karin

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Dreaming of Colder Weather

Today's cards are influenced heavily by my wish for cooler weather.  A trip to the mountains would be in my future if I had even one single day of vacation left!

The first card would be great for a winter retirement (or someone wishing for cooler weather like me).  I did an ink smooshing technique for the bg (drug some black ink on some aluminum foil, spritzed with a bunch of water and slapped my paper on it).  Next, I heat embossed the new See You Later Alligator image.  Added a few little Skippy the Penguins to match the 'til then Penguin part of the image.  Fun!

I had to share my next card  too.  It was made for the Featured Stamper Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.  I cased THIS awesome card by AJ Bodine. I was inspired by her colors and swirls.  To make it, I sponged on a bunch of colors for the top panel and covered it all with walnut distress ink over a stencil.  I heat embossed Dream Big Graduation Greeting, Interlocking Snow Background and Small Merry Christmas and layered it all up on top of another stenciled background.

Hugz,

Nancy

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Frosty Birds

Feeling frosty today even if the weather here in Central Alabama is still on the warm side.  Some of the new images are great for frosty cards.  I used the new Snowy Days Frosty Nights Greeting and added some Snowtex and glitter to get a frosty look. 

Added some fun little Skippy the Penguins at the bottom of my new Stitched Dies. 

Fun and super easy card to make.

Hugz

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Warm Hearts

Happy New Years

I hope you had the best night. And I pray this year will be better than the last.

I started my card by stamping the Penguin Snowball Blast covering it with a mask then cutting a mast for the mountains. I used Picked Raspberry Distress Ink.

Copics were used to color the rest of the image. On the Igloo I used some white Wink of Stella to tone down the blue. 

The mountains and snow areas I used a clear Spectrum Noir pen.

I really like the new half circle dies that everyone is using. I don't have one, so I put my own twist on this and created my one look. I used a straight stitch die to cut across the bottom then a circle die to cut the rest. 

I stamped the Snowy Days Frosty Nights Greeting in to parts. And cut out with a circle die. The Winter Wonder Words were stamped with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink. To finish it off I added a little bling to the punched snowflakes.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

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