Spring Trees

I LOVE these trees from the Kim Hughes set from Cornish Heritage Farms. They are fun to color and paper piece. Originally, I'd used the flower tree image to cover a box of Girl Scout cookies. I thought I was going to be left with A LOT and I was trying to figure out a way to sell them if I had to buy them all...yikes! I like how it turned out, but my troop ended up being able to sell all they had.

The paper pieced tree card was inspired by a card by Jillian Deiling in the current issue of Cards (April 2009, pg 97). It isn't a complete CASE, but it is where my inspiration came from. The sentiment "Life is Good" is one of my favorite stamps from Amuse. I positioned the ribbon to make it appear as grass...or at least in my opinion it does. :)

I thought I had to work today, but was pleasantly surprised that I didn't. Now, I am spending the day doing what I want (which doesn't happen often)!

Thanks for stopping by!

Deb

Supplies: Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms, Amuse; Ink: Stampin' Up!; Markers: Stampin' Up!; Ribbon ?; Self-Adhesive Rhinestones: Colorbok; Punches: Stampin' Up!

Peppermint Candycanes

Something just drew my to this set by Cornish Heritage Farms. The nostalgia....I'm not sure what it is, but I adore this set.

This paper just seemed like candy canes to me. It is from DCWV Christmas glitter stack. This was a quick and simple card. The image is stamped in SU real red and the 'candycanes' word is overwritten with a clear Copic glitter pen. The edges of the oval are inked and the scallops on the other oval have dots of Stickles on them.

I like how this turned out. :smile:

Thanks for stopping by!

Deb

Supplies: Stampin Up Cardstock: Real Red, Garden Green, WW; DCWV pp; Stampin Up Classic Ink: Real Red; Ribbon??; Copic Spica Glitter Pen, clear; Stickles; Nestabilities; Cuttlebug

Fun Snowman

This was a fun card to make. I really like this snowman and you might find him paper pieced someday. :)

I already had the oval cut and embossed in my scraps. I stamped the snowman and colored him with Copics. I masked him and sponged on Soft Sky ink and then stamped snowflakes over the sponging. There is a bit of Faux Snow under him. He is mounted on a scalloped oval with Stickles in the scallops. The paper is from Basic grey, the Blitzen collection.

The sentiment is stamped with chalk ink and highlighted with Stickles (on the snowflake). It is mounted onto a circle of Soft Sky covered in faux snow then mounted on a Mellow Moss scalloped circle. The yarn is almost the color of Soft Sky, I got lucky there.

The snowman panel and the white sentiment circle are up on Stampin' Up dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by!

Deb

Supplies: Cardstock: SU WW, Mellow Moss, Soft Sky;Basic Grey Blitzen dp; Ink: Palette Noir Black, Colorbox Chalk Charcoal; Stickles; Faux Snow; Sponge; Cuttlebug; Nestabilities; Stamps: CHF Kim Hughes Heart Warmers, SU Snow Angels, Studio g $1 clear stamps

Figgy Pudding Ornaments

I am determined to use up this paper (I love it, but Wassail is on the way!). I am in the mood to paper piece because the Kim Hughes images make it so easy to do that.

These ornaments were stamp on the dp and cut out. Two of the ornaments have the heart paper pieced and middle one I covered the heart with a button. I used my Crop-a-Dile to punch and hole on the top so I could thread the ribbon through. The tops of the ornaments are colored with a gold opaque marker and colored again with the gold Copic glitter pen. The outside ornaments are also accented with the gold glitter pen on the horizontal bands. The top panel's scalloped edge was made with a corner rounder. "Joy" is stamped in SU chocolate chip and then traced over with the gold Copic glitter pen.

This was a fun card to make!

Thanks for stopping by!

Deb

Supplies: Stampin' Up Mellow Moss Cardstock, Chocolate Chip Ink; Basic Grey Figgy Pudding dp; Button??; Ribbon??; Permapaque gold pen; Copic gold Glitter Spica Pen; Crop-a-Dile

Figgy Pudding Trees

First of all, it is SO cold this morning and that is relative because I live in FL. It was 33 degrees! Not the coldest we get, but it was in the 80s two days ago!

These trees were stamped on the Figgy Pudding dp and cut out. The heart was stamped on the pink paper and then cut out and pieced. I colored in the trunks with SU choc. chip marker. I used a corner rounder to make the scalloped edge. The cut out image was mounted on the pink paper then on the white paper. The edge of the white paper is inked in choc. chip. The sentiment was stamped using a Stamp-a-ma-jig (and I still messed it up the first time!). I happened to find the brown and blue polka dot paper AFTER I had already attached the ribbon....not the same brand, just lucky!

I love Basic Grey dp and have just ordered more and can't wait to use it. I am really happy with how this card turned out and will probably do the layout again with different dp. Hmm, that might make a nice gift set. Whatcha think?

Thanks for stopping by!

Deb

Supplies: Cornish Heritage Farms Kim Hughes Heart Warmers; Stampin' Up Warm Words; Stampin' Up Soft Sky, Whisper White paper; SU Chocolate Chip ink, Basic Grey Figgy Pudding and Phoebe dp; Faux Snow; Ribbon ?; Corner Rounder Punch

Gobble til you Wobble

I really should reminded NOT to do this as opposed to encouraging someone to "Gobble til you Wobble". Oh, well, I thought it was a cute turkey and saying. :)

I am still working on coloring with the Copics. The turkey is colored with Copics and the image is lined with the gold Spica glitter pen. Then, I outlined the turkey with the C1 grey Copic. I made a mistake with cut in the upper left corner of my image, so I covered it with the leaf button. Works for me!

The sentiment is also lined with the glitter pen. The edge of the sentiment's oval is inked in brown.

I loved this Basic Grey paper, it just seemed to go. I believe it's from Stella Ruby.

Thanks for stopping by!

Deb

Supplies: Stampin' Up Really Rust, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla paper; Basic Grey pp; Stamps from Cornish Heritage Farms - The Kim Hughes Collection; Buttons/Ribbon - unknown; Nestabilities and Cuttlebug; Stazon Timber Brown Ink