Holiday Tweets

Hello there!  For those of you who celebrate Christmas, are you ready for the holiday?  I'm actually on schedule this year which is surprising.  I'm excited for Christmas!  I love seeing the faces of my kids as they open their gifts Christmas morning and I enjoy getting together to celebrate with family.
I'm popping in today to share a card that I created a few weeks ago using the sweet Newton's Nook Designs stamp set Holiday Tweets.  I decided to go with non-traditional colors for my card and used different shades of aquas.  I started out with a white card base, then added a matted piece of My Mind's Eye Winter Wonderland designer paper.  Next I added a vertical banner from the same designer paper.  Then I stamped and colored the bird image (using Copic markers) and Merry Christmas sentiment and die cut the image using a square die and matted it with ocean tides cardstock, popping it up with foam tape.  I added some finishing touches like the small snowflake, silver gems, silver metallic twine and used some silver metallic pen on the packages in the nest. I'll be back tomorrow to share some Christmas tags!

Where Creativity Meets C9

Hi there!  I'm up over on the Where Creativity Meets C9 blog today for my solo post for this month sharing a fun Concord & 9th card that I created.  I hope you'll take the time to pop over and say hello! While you're there why not join in and play along in our current Winter challenge?

Make a Wish - (CTD423)

Hello!  It's time for a new Color Throwdown Challenge!

For my card, I decided to make an easel card which I haven't done in quite some time. I used the My Favorite Things stamp set Celebrate with Cake along with the coordinating Celebrate with Cake Die-namics.  I started out by cutting and scoring my card base and then die cutting all of my pieces.  Next I stamped the cake stand in going grey ink and the layers of cake using pure poppy, raspberry fizz and hibiscus burst.  The flowers I stamped using pure poppy and the leaves in limeade ice.  For the stitched die cut square that I used for my background, I did some ombre inking starting out with the pure poppy at the bottom, working in some raspberry fizz and then toward the top some hibiscus burst.  Then I used the flower stamp and stamped on top of the inked background in the coordinating ink colors.  For a little detail, I added some red rhinestones to the centers of the flowers and some yellow Stickles to the candle flames. For more inspiration, check out the design teams' blog links below OR you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and you can see all the sample entries in one location.
Amy Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

Leigh Penner & Kim Singdahlsen - December Guest Designers

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Lawn Fawn Christmas Tags

Happy Saturday!  Today I'm sharing some Christmas tags that I created using the current Lawnscaping Challenge as my inspiration. For my tags, I used the Lawn Fawn stamp set Toboggan Together and stamped out sets of the penguin, Santa hat, sled and pine trees along with stamping four of the Merry Christmas sentiments.  After that I colored my images using Copic markers and used the Toboggan Together Lawn Cuts.  Next I die cut four of the Stitched Circle Tags and blended on some hawaiian shores ink.  I used one of the small snowflake stamps for the Toboggan Together set and randomly stamped that in hawaiian shores ink on top of the blended ink on my tag.  To assemble my tags, I started with adhering my sentiment banner, then tucked in the pine trees and sled then added my penguins with foam tape.  To embellish my tags, I used the Lawn Fawn Mini Snowflakes and added three to each tag with a red rhinestone in the centers.  I also used some iridescent Stickles glitter on the pine trees and stamped snowflakes then tied on some red, green and white bakers twine. These tags were so fun to create!  Below you can see two of the tags attached to some Christmas goodies I'm sending in the mail.