Vintage Frosty

Happy Monday, peeps! I have a quick card today for two challenges!  The As You See It challenge is a fun little sketch, and the Jingle Belles challenge is to create a card using a Christmas story or movie!

I think it was in first grade, my teacher, Miss Brown, read us the story of Frosty the Snowman and I always loved it!  The thought of a snowman melting in the sun made me a wee bit sad though!  I have a set of vintage Christmas images from an old Artistic Outpost stamp set and Frosty happens to be one of them!  I paired him with some pretty new Snowflake Magic foil and the new Snowflake Sky embossing folder:

I added a sentiment from another retired set called Snow Much Fun and a little glimmer dot and it was done!  And this little guy won't melt!

And a Papertrey sentiment for the inside finished it off!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Snow Much Fun (ret), Frosty and Friends (Artistc Outpost), Signature Christmas (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Snowflake Magic Specialty Paper
Ink	Bermuda Bay (ret)
Accessories	Glitter Sequins, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Snowflake Sky EF, Stylish Shapes Dies, Deckle Edge Dies

JB Snow Much Fun

Happy wet, rainy, damp, dreary Friday, everyone!  Hubby keeps saying, "It could be SNOW" but personally, I wish for some snow--we've have none this winter!  Anyway, to channel my wish for snow, I made a snowy Christmas card for the Jingle Belles challenge this week, which is embossing!  I actually made this card a wee bit ago but never posted it for the intended challenge, so I was happy to use it for the JB girls!  So here we go:

While looking at the gallery of the Christmas cards I've created so far this year, they've all been BLUE!  So I think I'd better give some of my other colors a go soon, LOL!  Anyway, I embossed a piece of Basic White cardstock with a Darice embossing folder and used some Balmy Blue ink and a Blending Brush to give it some color.  I then diecut some Marina Mist glimmer paper snowflakes and adhered them on top of the blending:

I added a mat of Marina Mist cardstock as well as a little sentiment from the retired Snow Much Fun, and it was done!  Easy peasy!

Thanks so much for visiting today!  

Yesterday was Dana's actual birthday so I gave her forty gifts (wee little things) all wrapped up in a big box!  I had to put two of them on top as I couldn't fit everything inside!

Almost to the bottom of the box!

Soda-flavored lip gloss!  Yum!

Then we took her out for lunch!  It's become a tradition, and a fun one I really enjoy!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.  Isaiah 64:4

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Snow Much Fun (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Marina Mist (ret), Marina Mist Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Snowflake Swirl EF (Darice), Snowflake Die (Taylored Expressions) Blending Brush

Five-Minute Christmas Card

Happy Monday, peeps!  Wowza, I have a crazy busy day today so I have a crazy simple card to share...really, it took maybe five minutes!  Well, maybe a wee bit longer, but you'll see why!  I am entering it in the Jingle Belles challenge of Winter Fun as well as the Less Is More challenge of One Layer/Off Center:

So here we go with my uber-simple vintage-style one-layer Christmas notecard:

I actually took my inspiration from Stephanie's second card for the challenge; you can see it here.  I really liked the sepia tones and remembered these (old) CTMH silhouette images and thought they would be cute stamped in a vintage style!!  I stamped the snowman/kids image on a Very Vanilla notecard in Crumb Cake ink, then added an old SU sentiment and some snowflakes from a Paper Pumpkin kit:

I really wanted to add some glitter, but the challenge says NO embellishments, so it's just plain SIP:  stamps, ink and paper!  I added another retired SU sentiment on the inside and it was good to go!  Oh, I did round the corners, I hope that was okay!  Thanks for popping in today!

Is anyone besides me a fan of the British/PBS show Call the Midwife?  WOW....what an ending to last night's episode.  I could barely stand to watch the ending, I just knew there was going to be a big tragedy.  Talk about being on the edge of my seat!  I am hoping for a happy continuation!  I just love that show!  Thanks for indulging me!

I am going to be taking a little bloggy break for a few days, so I'll see you when I return!  Enjoy your day and be blessed! 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Warmth & Wonder (ret), Snow Much Fun (ret), Winter Joy (Close to My Heart, ret), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla
Ink	Crumb Cake, Soft Suede
Accessories
Tools	Corner Rounder Punch (ret)

RRCB150 Warm Mittens

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  The Retro Rubber Challenge took a break but we're back with a fabulous new challenge starting off the new year, giving those older stamps some love!  Here's our prompt:

Ooh, isn't that a beauty of a prompt?!  I love it!  I knew just what I wanted to do, too!  Here we go:

I had this beautiful foiled snowflake paper in my stash, and I simply used an old mitten die to cut out a pair of them, mounted them on a stitched white panel and added some silver twine and sequins:

The sentiment from Warmth and Wonder (2013) was stamped directly on a piece of patterned DSP in Misty Moonlight ink:

While I was at it, I made another card using some fun snow-themed DSP that I had been hoarding, simply because I really didn't know how to use it!  I created a larger card...7 1/4" x 4 1/4"...in order to fit all the cute images on:

I got a little carried away with the bling, glimmer and snowflakes, but I had fun:

The papers are all from Simple Stories' Winter Wonderland, with accents of Blue Glimmer paper diecut snowflakes, sequins, silver glimmer ribbon and a sentiment from Snow Much Fun (2011)!

I hope you'll find some snowy, winter-wonderland inspiration with our challenge this week!  Just remember, your stamps have to be at least a year old, and you have to tell us the approximate age!  Can't wait to see what you create!  Thanks for popping in for a visit! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Warmth & Wonder (2013)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Silver Bells DSP (Kaisercraft), Wonderland DSP (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Silver Twine (ret), Sequins from my stash
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stamparatus, Mitten Dies (Nestabilties), Sponge Daubers

Merry Monday 76

Happy Monday peeps!  Wow, fall is upon us for sure here in PA!  It was a chilly but beautiful weekend!  I am getting excited for the upcoming holidays!  Here is Lesley’s Merry Monday challenge for us today:

Now, I know that the colors in this challenge are cool hues, but the only criteria is to use a snowman on one’s card!  So I went in a different direction…. here is my take on the challenge:

I haven’t done a card with lots of detail like this for a while, and it was so fun!  I used the  fall sketch from Create with Connie & Mary:

as well as the color challenge 207 from JUGS:

I had a card already embossed with the snowflake embossing, so I used that as my base, adding the layers and my stamped image.  I wheeled the red piece with a retired snowflake wheel, and brayered some Crumb Cake ink on the polka dot paper so it wouldn’t seem so starkly white.  Of course my little snowman was stamped, colored, cut out and popped up for dimension:

I gave him a couple extra snowballs to juggle, and he is even standing on a little snowy hill!  I punched out a sentiment from the same set with my Modern Label punch:

And I added a little stamping on the inside as well:

Snowmen are so much fun for Christmas cards, so I hope you will play along with us at Merry Monday!  Check out Lesley’s blog, Always Playing with Paper, for all the details as well as the lovely designs from the others!

Cassidy knew just what to do with this spatula….even though the gingersnaps were a wee bit too “snappy” for her taste!  Notice the partially-eaten one on the table!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	More Merry Messages, Gingham Wheel, Snowflake Wheel (ret), Snow Much Fun, Itty Bitties (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Real Red, Very Vanilla, Polka Dot Parade
Ink	Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Craft White, Real Red
Accessories	Stitched Ribbon, DD Glitter
Tools	Blender Pen, Big Shot, Delicate Designs EF, Modern Label Punch, Dimensionals

Merry Monday 48

Happy Merry Monday, peeps!  Lesley has a color challenge for our Christmas cards today:

Yikes!  Try as I may, I couldn’t come up with anything for these colors except a snowman….so that’s what I went with:

I stamped this little guy in Basic Gray, then added a little dry embossing; a little watercoloring; and a lot of glitter!   It also uses the sketch #11  from Fab Friday:

I ended up liking it a lot!

I hope you’ll put on your stocking cap and come up with something fabulous with these colors!!  I know you can do it!  Share it with us over at Always Playing with Paper, and check out what the other Merry Monday stampers have created as well!

 

Cassidy tried to put on her headband by “self”!  LOL!

Thank You Snow Much!

I needed a couple of thank you cards…these were simple and cute, and I got a chance to ink up some stamps I hadn’t used for a while:

I tried to use the word “snow” from the Snow Much Fun set to put over top the “so, so” in this phrase from Delightful Dozen, but it just wasn’t working, so I just crossed it out and wrote it with a Calypso Coral marker….a little play on words!  I colored Mr Snowman with a white watercolor crayon and some markers for his scarf & hat:

Oh, and a cute little glittery heart, too!  The second one was more clean and simple, using a little image from Every Little Bit and some red glimmer paper:

The little ornament was colored with markers and iced with glitter, too:

Thanks for visiting—be sure to come back tomorrow for the ColourQ challenge!

Paper Players 56

Hi everyone!  It’s Sunday and that means a challenge from the Paper Players!  Anne Marie is our hostess today and she’s got a fun sketch for us:

To fulfill my once-a-week Christmas card challenge to myself, I made another card using the Snow Much Fun set (again), and I took the liberty of moving the sentiment because it just fit better with my image:

It’s a little smaller than a standard card, so there is room for the sentiment to extend and still fit in a standard envelope.  The base is Island Indigo with a surprise pop of Calypso Coral for a mat.  His little carrot nose and the brad embellishment help pull the colors together.   Mr. Snowman is stamped in Stazon on Crumb Cake and watercolored and markered and glittered and he is just a happy fellow:

I even glittered up the sentiment a little!

I hope that you will play with the Paper Players this week because we’d love to see your take on this fun sketch! 

Wee Details:

• Stamps:  Snow Much Fun, Jolly Old St Nick
• Paper:  Island Indigo, Calypso Coral, Crumb Cake, Island Indigo Patterns DP
• Ink:  Stazon, Craft White, Pool Party
• Acc:  Polka Dot Brad, Modern Label Punch, Northern Frost Die, White & Black Watercolor Crayons, Aquapainter, Pool Party, Calypso Coral & Certainly Celery Markers, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Dauber