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!

Faux Snow is fun!!

The card just sparkles!! Love it!!

This is the Big on Christmas set from SU. The 'snow' is colored with Stickles. The snowman's hatband, nose, and holly leaf are colored with Copics. The hat is colored with black Stickles with red Stickles berries. The scallops were created with a corner rounder. There is Faux Snow all around the edges. There are dots of Stickles in the scallops and in the upper right corner. The ribbon is a light blue organza. I will be making more of these because this was a fun card to make!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Deb

Supplies: Stampin' Up: Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery cardstock; DCWV Glitter Stack pp; Ribbon; Stickles; Faux Snow; Corner Rounder

Meowy Christmas, Fluffles

This card is made from the clear Fluffles Christmas stamps. The image is actually two different stamps, Fluffles and the stocking. I drew in the lower part of the mantle and the nail and string holding the stocking.

Fluffles is colored with Copics. The stocking is colored with a SU ruby red marker. The stocking is accented with Stickles and white Fun Flock on the top part. The Fluffles panel's edge is inked in Ruby Red and Chocolate Chip. There is faux stitching around the edge with a Choc. Chip marker. The next layer is Ruby Red. The sentiment panel is stamped in Ruby Red with faux stitching around the edge. The oval is up on dimensionals. The dots on the scallop square are made with a white gel pen. The oval and scalloped rectangle are cut with Nestabilities and the Cuttlebug.

The patterned paper is inked in Chocolate Chip at the edges. The bottom layer is Choc. Chip and the card is made from Ruby Red. I used the slot punch to make an opening for the ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by! Feel free to ask any questions!

Deb

Supplies: Stampin' Up: Cardstock; Ruby Red, Chocolate Chip, WW, Mellow Moss: Ink; Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red: Markers; Ruby Red, Chocolate Chip: Basic Grey Figgy Pudding pp: Copic markers: Ribbon: White Gel pen

Fuzzy Slippers

Wow, I don't know where to start because this card took forever to make. I am happy with how it turned out so I hope someone else will appreciate it. :)

These types of images are the hardest for me to color. I chose the chair paper first and almost immediately wished I'd chosen a different pattern, but only because I was limited with colors for the rest of the image.

So...here goes...the chair and rolling paper are paper pieced. The tree and presents are colored with Copic markers. The presents and ornaments are colored with the Copic glitter pens. I went over the ornaments with red Stickles. The garland is a Copic marker with a glitter pen over it. The 'wall' is SU Soft Sky ink, watercolored. First I sponged it, but it didn't look right so I watercolored over it. The floor is hand-drawn and colored with a Copic marker. The edge of the main image is inked in SU Creamy Caramel and the matted green layer is distressed.

FUZZY SLIPPERS!!! I so wanted to use Liquid Applique, but all I have is white and I didn't think that would work. I was pretty much done. I had colored the slippers the same colors as her shirt (with glitter, too) and was ok with it. All of a sudden it dawned on me that I had Fun Flock the same color! Woo hoo! It's the little things that make me happy.

The sentiment is stamped on the same pp as the 'wrapping paper' and horizontal panel. I had done it initially on white paper and inked the edges, but it was too much white. I just found an open area in the pattern and stamped there.

I added the little buttons as an afterthought. I like the one of the present. The ribbon is a ribbed velvet.

Thanks for stopping by!

Deb

Supplies: Cardstock: SU Garden Green; Patterned Paper: DCWV Christmas Glitter Stack; Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black, SU Creamy Caramel; Buttons, Ribbon, Distresser

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