Category: cardmaking

Penny Black Deck the Halls

Can you believe it’s less than two weeks from Christmas?! Today, I’m sharing a holiday card created with the Christmas tree stamp from Penny Black’s Season’s Wishes set [30-201]. It’s a versatile clear stamp set with holiday sentiments.

Penny Black Deck the Halls

I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment tree three times  –  on black cardstock, olive cardstock and red cardstock. For the black cardstock panel, I applied white pigment ink with my finger to give the appearance of chalk (this was done after the heat embossing). I cut selected words from the olive and red cardstock and adhered the words to the black panel. I finished the card off on a patterned paper base with accents of baker’s twine and a bell.

Poppystamps Thank You

Today, I’m sharing a Thank You card with a winter scene created with two Poppystamps stamps. It’s nice to have thank you notes on hand to send just after the holidays.

Poppystamps Thank You

To begin, I stamped the trees with pigment ink onto white cardstock and clear embossed them. I then placed a mask, into which I’d cut a circle, over the trees and applied ink to represent a sun lying low on the horizon. Next, I covered the sun with the circle I’d cut out of the first mask and also added a mask below the trees, which was cut in a manner to suggest a snowy bank. I applied blue ink onto the sky area. Finally, I adhered my scene onto kraft cardstock heat-embossed with the “thank you” sentiment.

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Day 9 Tag from 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist

I’m sharing a tag inspired by the tag that Teri Anderson created as part of the 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist series in the CLASSroom at Ellen Hutson’s.

Day 9 Tag - 2013 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist

I cut the skates from three cardstocks – white, black and silver. I pieced the skates together with the silver cardstock as the base. This was decidedly less labor intensive than the way I crafted the skates for this tag. The tag background of two patterned papers is on a craft-a-board base. I covered a different patterned paper with frosted film for the die-cut snowflakes. The effect is subtle, but noticeable! I also applied Wink of Stella to the cut-out sentiment for some extra shimmer.

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Pinspired Challenge #23

For my card, I was inspired by the color scheme of bright blue, red and white in the inspiration image, as well as the holiday theme.

Challenge23

I stamped Penny Black’s Crystal Pattern [40-162] background stamp with Bahama Blue ink for my background, onto which I added the die cuts. Yes, this card does look a lot like the tags I shared last week! (I actually had this card made several weeks ago for this challenge.) I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of those birch die cuts.

Day 7 Tag from 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist

I’m sharing a tag inspired by the tag that Paula Cheney created as part of the 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist series in the CLASSroom at Ellen Hutson’s.

Day 7 Tag - 2013 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist

At first glance, you might think “Huh?, This isn’t like Paula’s!” And it isn’t in terms of dies or stamps. My take-aways from Paula’s tag were  the colors and use of patterned paper. I have loads of patterned paper pads, and I had a fun time die cutting the curtains, window scene, cat  and tag background from various patterns, finally finding a mix that I liked. The Memory Box tree was first cut and then dry embossed. I tried several tree die cuts before settling on this one.

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