chalky seasons greetings

So today we are doing a 2 fer Tuesday! 

First up is a card we did at one of my Holiday Card Classes.

Greetings of the Season.  Old olive and basic black cardstock.  White craft ink.  White embossing powder, linen thread and Season of Style DSP, big shot, and deco labels framelits.


Super easy card to make.  I wanted so badly to put a button on the linen thread but I didn't have enough for everyone.  I think a little red button would just finish this card off nicely. 

At the same time I was designing this card I needed a thank you card.  So I just used the same design.

Another Thank You photopolymer set.  Crumb cake and basic black cardstock.  Whisper white craft ink. Designer naturals button, linen thread, sweater weather DSP. 


One of the ladies at the card class put the banners a little wonky and I liked it better so I did that on this card.  That is one of the things I love about stamping with people.  They take your idea and make it better. 


Alrighty then, thats it for tonight.  I just finished rereading The Hunger Games and now I want to watch the movie before I reread Catching Fire.  Yep, I'm gearing up to go see it next week.  I'm going to wait for 19 to get home for Thanksgiving so she can go with me.  Gotta love Peeta! 

Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings, b.

snowflake wreath

Happy Veteran's Day!  Let me just say thank you to all the people who put their lives on the line every day to defend our country.  Thank you to their families too.  Its very humbling to really look at all the freedoms we enjoy every day.  Big cyber hugs to all of you!

So, I had my last class of the year on Friday.  We had a great time, but I'm sure the ladies are still cussing my name. I'm kidding.  I'm sure they never cuss ;)

Each card by itself wasn't too hard, but put them all in one class and they really got to feel like they got their monies worth. 

I loved each card we did this time.  Usually I will have a favorite.  But I like them all.  Here is the one we started with. 

Endless Wishes photopolymer and Greetings of the Season sets.  Crumb cake, real red, whisper white and old olive cardstock.  Basic grey, old olive and white craft inks.  Cherry cobbler seam binding, big shot, square lattice embossing folder, bird punch, pearls.


Now I purposely started out with this one because I thought it was the hardest.  Okay, not hardest but most involved.  Putting those berries on was going to take patience.  Grace and I punched them all out ahead of time otherwise my ladies would really be cussing my name.


We used a roll of masking tape to trace a circle on the base.  I LOVE the photopolymer stamps because you can see right through them.  Makes it really easy to stamp along the pencil line. 

We took the medium snowflake from the Endless Wishes set and stamped around the circle.  We then used the small snowflake to stamp around again in the whisper white craft ink. 

You can see the white here.  It just gave it a little more depth. 

We ended up using Early Espresso ink for the words because I thought it looked better than the Basic Grey.  We just attached the bow with a glue dot. 

I colored the pearls with a Sharpie.


See, not very hard just a little involved. 

Alrighty then, I'm on my way to Costco.  Blech!  Thanks so much for stopping by and getting comfy. 

Blessings, b.

Peace on Earth

5 days.  5 days left.  Really though, if you think about it, there are only 4 days left. 

Are you ready?  

Me neither.  Almost though.  I'll finish tomorrow. 

So I finally got the projects from our group meeting photographed.  Nothing like waiting until the last minute.

Greetings of the Season set.  Choc. chip and soft suede inks.  Very vanilla and soft suede cardstock.  Newsprint DSP, big shot, lg. doily die, window frame framelits, 1 3/4" circle punch, glass glitter, blender pen, sticky pearls, paper piercing pack.

It was overcast when I took these pics but I didn't realize how dark they are.  So envision more light, okay? 

This is supposed to be a gift tag but it came out more like an ornament.  It looks more complicated than it is too. 

Heres the order it goes in from the bottom up:

Large circle (I used my Coluzzle), doily, rosette, framelit, 1 3/4" circle. 

One other thing:  for the words, I used a choc. chip marker for the "Peace", cleaned the stamp and used a blender pen in the soft suede for the "on earth".  I don't have a soft suede marker so the blender pen and ink worked just fine. 

I used the Simply Scoring Tool and scored (2), 1 1/2" x 12" pieces of DSP, every 1/4".  See here on how to make a rosette.  The only different thing I did with this one was to use a glue gun instead of the glue. 

Then I put a line of the Tombow Multi Glue around the edges and put the glass glitter on.  Since I made these a few weeks ago I can see that it is already starting to tarnish.  Love it!

I think what I'm going to do is put a family pic on the back and hang it on the tree.......or.....I could actually put it on a package.  Hmmm....what to do, what to do. 

Alrighty then, I will be posting another project tomorrow.  I have to put a little tutorial together for one of them. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Blessings, b.

another goof up

I know, you're surprised I goofed up again. 

Oh, you're not?  

Yeah, me neither. 

So last month when I did a workshop I diecut the wrong size for a project.  We didn't notice it until they were ready to place it on the card. 

Luckily, I had the Big Shot and extra cardstock with me. So we took a little creative liberty.

Here is what it was supposed to look like:

Watercolor Winter and Greetings of the Season.  Crumb cake, very vanilla and riding hood red cardstock.  Riding hood red, crumb cake and Versamark inks.  Crumb cake seam binding, gold embossing powder, big shot, window frame framelits, lacy brocade embossing folder. 

So this was the original idea.  Yes, we could have just restamped the right size die cut but you know, that would have been too easy.

So this is what we came up with:

We diecut the bigger size and layered it.  It also gave us the opportunity to use the paper piercing tool.  I think they came out pretty great. 

I might even like it better.  Happy mistakes.


So I'm going to keep it short and sweet tonight.  It was a really long day.  We had our first stamp club meeting today.  I went a little overboard with the projects and I think I wore the ladies out.  I know I'm worn out.  But I had so much fun with them. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and hanging out. 

Blessings, b.

Christmas pine

Howwwwwwdeee!  (said in my best Minnie Pearl voice) 

How is everyone today?  It was below 90 today.  Fall might be on the way yet........just in time for Christmas ;)

Speaking of Christmas I have another Christmas card to show you.   

Watercolor Winter and Greeting of the Season sets.  Crumb cake and naturals white cardstock.  Garden green, crumb cake, early espresso and black Stazon inks.  Scallop border punch, cherry cobbler seam binding, vintage faceted button, linen thread, 2 way glue pen, dazzling diamonds and sponging and dimensionals.

The family really liked this one.  BUT it would be a bugger to mail.  That button sticks WAY out.   I have an idea to make some "to and from" tags for packages using the same design though. 

I used the 2 way glue to make the glitter stick.  Love that stuff! 

I won't lie....I had to use the Stampamajig to get the greenery lined up right.  Ever since Stampin' Up! took their name off the stickers that go on the blocks, I can't line anything up correctly. 

So, enough of Christmas.  How about some Halloween? 

Fabulous Phrases set.  Sahara sand, choc. chip, whisper white, real red and basic black cardstock.  Black Stazon ink.  Lg. owl punch, early espresso bakers twine, Howlstooth & Scarington DSP, 1x8 cello bags and 1 3/4" circle punch. 


These are the thank you tags I put on the bags from that last workshop.  Cute eh?

They make the perfect size little gifty.  They would be great for a classroom treat.  I'm going to make up a bunch for Grace to give to her friends at school and to the teachers if she is so inclined...........except they won't say thanks.

 Alrighty then, thats it for today.  Oh! I almost forgot to tell you about my most awesome weekend. 

(You thought you were going to get away without having to hear it huh?) 

We went to see 18 at school for Parent Weekend.  I got to hug on her all I wanted.

 I got to hug on her all I wanted.  Why are my eyes closed?

The weather was great! We played lots of disc golf.   LOTS.  In some parts it was more like "hiking disc golf".  I was sore for a few days.

What form..........see that look of determination?  Yeah, even with all the one-on-one coaching, I don't think I get it more than 40 feet at a time.  I have short arms.

This kid had a birthday on Sunday.  He turned 20.  Gosh, he just loves when I pull out the camera.

Okay, now I'm really done.  Thanks so much for stopping by and hanging out.

Blessings, b.

pointsetta

You know its amazing how quickly a week goes by.  It wasn't even a good week.  Good thing its over I guess.  

So today I wanted to show you another project from the workshop. 

Watercolor Winter and Greetings of the Season (Holiday Catalog).  Crumb cake and whisper white cardstock.  Cherry cobbler, riding hood red, garden green and black Stazon inks.  Stampamajig, black journaler, sticky pearls and dimensionals.

I really like this card.  Simple and easy.  Another possibility for my own Christmas card.

Can you tell me why I did a project using the Stampamajig?  Yeah, me neither.  Its super easy to use but lets face it, it has a learning curve. I love my Stampamajig. 

In my defense, the hostess wanted to use a 2 step stamp set.  Anyway, I think everyone liked it.


I also want to show you the hostess gift I made for her.

 Everyday flexible phrases.  Very vanilla crumb cake and more mustard cardstock.  Crumb cake and black Stazon inks.  Newsprint DSP, wooden buttons, big shot, window frames framelits, little leaves die, hemp, woodgrain embossing folder, twill.


Who wouldn't love a big jar of chocolate?  This was/is a Classico spaghetti sauce jar.  I spray painted the lid silver.  I wanted the autumn colored kisses but I couldn't find any.

I'm really digging this woodgrain embossing folder.  I sponged some crumb cake on there to show a little more definition.

Alrighty then, thats it for today.  I'm keeping it short.  Yes, I can hear you thanking me now ;)

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Blessings, b.