CCC8 Gold and Silver

Happy Friday, peeps, and Happy St Pat's!  I hope you have something fun planned to do this weekend!  I haven't made a Christmas card for a while, and the photo challenge at Christmas Card Challenges inspired me to get out my gold and silver foil cardstock!  The photo is hard to see, but there are prancing deer and Christmas trees featured on some gift wrap.

My first attempt had been a shaker card for Tuesday's post...epic fail.  So I opted for something a little bit simpler, still not quite as I expected it to turn out, but at least it's another for my stash.  So here we go:

I started with a base of thick white cardstock on which to adhere my silver foil Evergreen Hillside diecut; I cut out a piece of Smoky Slate and printed vellum as well to layer and fit into the tree line on the top.  I then diecut two deer from gold foil, as well as a punched star, to adhere with dimensionals.  Pretty simple, all in all!  I love how pretty these diecuts are!

But I do have an issue with adhering vellum; it bugs me that I can see my little bigs of glue!  What do you use to adhere vellum?  I am sure there must be some good products out there on the market!  And I am still on the fence about adding a sentiment somewhere on the front.  For now, I'l leaving it as it is!  I did add a sentiment from Papertrey, stamped in Gold Encore, on the inside:

And here are a few snow photos...even though technically we didn't get that much, when it's all plowed up in a pile, it seems like a lot!  Here is my little "queen of the hill".....her scarf is blowin' in the wind, I think it must have been about 40 mph! You can see a portion of my little garden flag in the lower right hand corner....it is straight out!

Enjoy your day! 

Project Details--All Supplies Stampin Up Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	O Holy Night (Papertrey Ink)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Gold Foil, Silver Foil, Botanical Gardens Vellum Stack (ret)
Ink	Gold Encore
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Evergreen Hillside Die (Poppystamps), Playful Fawns Die (Poppystamps), Star Punch (ret), Dimensionals

Christmas Cardinal

Hi peeps!  A Christmas card for you today, for four challenges!  I loosely used the Paper Craft Crew's sketch for this week, and the theme from Merry Monday is to use a bird:

Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration's challenge is to use washi tape, and the Christmas Card Challenge has an  "Anything Goes" challenge!  So here we go:

This cardinal image is an Itty Bitty stamp from Unity.  It was stamped in Real Red on the same paper as the background DSP, which is from Kaisercraft's Silver Bells 6x6 pad.   I added some washi from my stash (very old!), some Tim Holtz holly leaves diecut from silver glimmer paper and a sentiment from Sweet & Sassy stamped in Smoky Slate:

Another card for my stash!

And another batch of goodies from the giant Halloween box...some REALLY COOL shaker stickers (Grammy might have to confiscate these for herself!):

A fun little glow-in-the-dark ghost hand sanitizer:

and sour patch pumpkins, which she shared with all her Sunday School class!

Thanks for popping in today!

CASCSC190 MM212 and CCC39 Golden Christmas

Happy Friday, peeps!  I was happy to see Merry Monday was back from its summer vacation, so I jumped right in with their Black, Gold and White challenge, and the CAS Colours & Sketches sketch was an interesting one as well:

Actually, I cheated a little and used Very Vanilla, because my musical DSP was vanilla-based!  So here we go:

I used a Simon Says Stamp die called Holiday Frames, cut from Gold Foil and backed it with some Basic Black cardstock to make it stand out.  I mounted it on some retired SU music paper and used a plate to trace a big scallop along the bottom edge, turning the sketch on its side.

I added a few diecuts from Swirly Scribbles, and it was done....and hey, no stamping at all!  This also qualifies for the musical Christmas Card Challenge #39:

Thanks for popping in!

Cassidy gave me some buttons for my birthday...at least she said they were for me, but I knew she wanted to use them herself!  A little boy in her room is having a birthday today, and she wanted to make him a card with the buttons! What could I say, of course I let her use them:

She stamped the sentiment and his name, then we punched holes in the card so that the shanks of the buttons could go through, and she anchored them with glue dots.  Let me tell you, this child knows what to do with glue dots!  Then, she added some stickers to the envelope, courtesy of Doris!

Enjoy your day!

MTS132 and CCC32

Hi everyone!  I have two cards today for you...both using the Match The Sketch sketch; the first one also is for the Christmas Card challenge, which is "snowman":

    

I loved the set Jingle All The Way when it came out, and I just didn't have a chance to use it enough!  I bought some cute Christmas DSP on ebay but there is no manufacturer's name on it, so I can't tell you who makes it...but I thought the colors were fun to make a cheerful little Christmas card with the little snowman silhouette image:

I stamped the sentiment in Watermelon Wonder and the snowmen in Mint Macaron, then added some retired SU sequins.  This was a really easy card to put together...punch, punch, adhere!

While I was making the Christmas card, I saw these papers that I had been pushing around on my desk for a while; the corrugated paper is from a Paper Pumpkin kit a couple months ago; the Baked Brown Sugar strip and the plaid were just hanging out (because I am too lazy to put them away) and I thought they looked nice together!  What do you think:

The leafy images are from Every Occasion - is it too early to start thinking fall?- stamped in Tangelo Twist, again punched out with a 1" circle punch.  I embossed a little piece of Soft Suede with a leafy embossing folder, then added a scallop of Early Espresso.  I also stamped the sentiment (Watercolor Wishes) in EE as well:

These warm fall colors make me happy!

We are blessed to have lightning bugs (or fireflies) in our area, and Cassidy spent a couple nights in the yard trying to catch them.  My photography skills are basic at best, so if anyone knows how to take photos in the dark, let me know.  See that little thing that looks like a moon above her head?  That's a lightning bug!!!

   

Here, she actually caught one...you can see it in her hand...and we put it in a little jar.....and a few minutes later, we let them all go!

Enjoy your day!

Lost Lagoon Sleigh Bells Ring

Happy Wednesday, peeps! Can you handle another Christmas card?  The Paper Players got me on a roll, LOL!  I've got three challenges here to play with:

The Christmas Card Challenge #31:

and Sandy's Stamp Ink Paper sketch and the Retro Rubber brad challenge

I started out with a retired SU set called Sleigh Bells Ring...it's from 2007!  My whole card is in shades of Lost Lagoon...here we go:

I had a couple of pieces of Vintage Christmas DSP from My Mind's Eye in the perfect shade, so I used them for my background; I stamped the image on Very Vanilla textured cardstock and trimmed it down.  I added a silver glimmer brad, some pretty Lost Lagoon ribbon and some Dazzling Diamonds snow!

The outside sentiment is from a new SU set called Oh What Fun, and although it's tough to see, there are sleigh bells stamped on the right side of the card front; they're from the same set.  The inside sentiment is from Sleigh Bells Ring, but I did add some holly in the corners, and that's also from Oh What Fun:

A fun mix of old and new!  Thanks for popping in today!

Just in case you thought maybe Cassidy grew out of her "lining things up" obsession, here you go:

These little magnastix make a perfect grid!  Enjoy your day!

MTS122 and CCC22

Happy Monday everyone!  I've got a Christmas card for you today!  It uses the Match the Sketch challenge:

As well as the Christmas Card Challenge photo challenge:

I had been thinking that I had not used Christmas Collage for a long time, and when I saw the photo inspiration, I knew I had to use it!  I inked it up in White Craft ink, stamped it on Cherry Cobbler cardstock and embossed it with white embossing powder:

I added some randomly-placed circles of  various colors of glimmer paper, and added a Christmas sentiment from Petite Pairs (gonna miss that sweet little set!):

 

I really love how this turned out!  Thanks for popping by!

Cassidy's friend Dominic had his fifth birthday party yesterday at a trampoline park:

       

 They had LOTS of fun jumping, jumping, jumping!!  Enjoy your day!