Merry Christmas 16

Hi! Today I'm sharing another Christmas card which may be the last for this season:

 I inked up several images from the PTI Spruce and Sprigs stamp set. I added a little frosty look to the pink berries:

 For sketch inspiration, I'm joining along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge:

for theme inspiration, I'm joining along with the Curtain Call Inspiration challenge:

and the Merry Monday Christmas Ti-Tac-Toe challenge where I chose the diagonal trio beginning with the upper left hand corner square (Stamping, Twine, Button):

Thanks so much for stopping by! If I don't make another Christmas card, I hope you all have a happy holiday!

Be Sweet ;)

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warm winter wishes 23

Hi there! Still working on a few last minute Christmas cards! Today I'm joining along with the PTI Make It Monday challenge where the challenge is to create a project featuring Faux Stained Glass. Here's my take:

I created a card featuring beautiful berries from the PTI Beautiful Berries: Winter Stamp Set:

For sketch inspiration, I'm joining along with the Global Design Project challenge:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Be Sweet ;)

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Merry Christmas 14

Hi! I hope you had a great weekend! Today I have a few rather clean and simple Christmas cards to share. While I had the supplies out, I made four:

Amongst all the layers of die cut white shapes, my card features berries from the PTI Beautiful Berries: Winter Stamp set:

For sketch inspiration, I'm joining along with Freshly Made Sketches:

and for color inspiration, I'm joining along with the Color Throwdown color challenge:

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Be Sweet ;)

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winter wishes...Guest Designing 10

Hi! Today I have the honor of joining along as a guest designer with the tag You're... it! Guest Designer to be sharing another sample for the current challenge. 

The challenge is to CASE the Featured Artist or use his or her tag design to inspire you to create a design of your own. Shown below is the beautiful tag made by featured artist Leigh Penner:

This time I made a trio of tags featuring pretty snowflakes:

I heat embossed on vellum paper pretty snowflakes from the PTI What The Doodle: Snowflakes Mini Stamp Set then layered them on top of a plain white die cut:

Here's a close up:

You still have to play so please be sure to visit the Tag You're It challenge site and check out all the inspiration!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Be Sweet ;)

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holiday blessings...Exciting News! 13

Hi! Today I have the honor of joining along as a guest designer with the tag You're... it! challenge design team for another challenge. If you have not visited the challenge site, please be sure to stop by to see all the fabulous inspiration and join along with the challenges! 

The challenge is to CASE the Featured Artist or use his or her tag design to inspire you to create a design of your own. Shown below is the beautiful tag made by featured artist Jessica Frost -Balls to be inspired by:

Here's my interpretation:

To create my tag, I layered heat embossed pretty PTI Snowfall Style 1 snowflakes on a dry embossed tag then completed it with a sentiment from the PTI Holiday Wishes Stamp set:

Thanks so much for stopping by ~ please be sure to visit the tag You're... it! and check out all the fabulous inspiration!
Be Sweet ;)

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Peace 24

 Hi! Today I'm joining along with the PTI Make It Monday challenge where Betsy is challenging us all to create a card featuring Easy Fan Brush Trees.

Here's is my interpretation:

After painting the fun fan brush trees, I added a couple of deer from the PTI In The Meadow Stamp set along with the sentiment stamped on a tiny tag:

Many thanks for stopping by!
Be Sweet ;)

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Peace and Joy 22

 Hi! Today I'm joining along with the PTI Make It Monday challenge where the theme is Love of Layers presented by Laurie. Here's my interpretation of the challenge:

I combined a variety of PTI stamp sets to create my layered card including the following: PTI Holiday Greens, PTI Beautiful Berries: Winter Stamp set, PTI Polka Dot Basics 111 stamp set and PTI Mat Stack 5 stamp set.

I'm also joining along with the following challenges: for color: the Christmas Card Throwdown Colour Challenge:

 For sketch inspiration, I'm joining along with the Paper Players Sketch Challenge:

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Be Sweet ;)

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Merry Christmas...Exciting News! 14

Hi! Today I have the honor of joining along as a guest designer with the tag You're... it! challenge design team. If you have not visited the challenge site, please be sure to stop by to see all the fabulous inspiration and join along with the challenges!

The challenge is to CASE the Featured Artist or use his or her tag design to inspire you to create a design of your own. Shown below is the beautiful tag made by featured artist Jessica Frost -Balls to be inspired by:

Here's my interpretation:

My tag features a die cut chipboard female deer (doe) that I embossed with pretty gold embossing powder. The tag was stamped/heat embossed using PTI snowflake stamps then inked using Distress Inks.

I also made another similar tag featuring a male deer (buck):

Love all the shimmer and shine in the gold embossing powder:

Thanks so much for stopping by ~ please be sure to visit the tag You're... it! and check out all the fabulous inspiration!
Be Sweet ;)

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