Penny Black Simplicity – CAS Holiday Card

Using just two elements, a Creative Die and a transparent stamp set, I created a CAS card for the newly launched Penny Black SIMPLICITY at its best site.

Penny Black Simplicity - CAS Holiday Card

Penny Black Products Used: 51-084 Jingle…, 30-255 Most Wonderful

Additional Products: Bazzill Peppermint cardstock, VersaMark ink, Ranger Super Fine Silver embossing powder, Silver Metallic cardstock, Neenah Heavyweight cardstock

    • Cut Silver Metallic cardstock with 51-084 Jingle… die in die cutting machine.
    • Stamp the ornament image from 30-255 Most Wonderful on Peppermint cardstock with VersaMark ink and heat emboss with Ranger Super Fine Silver powder.
    • Trim red cardstock panel to A2 card size.
    • Glue “Jingle…” die cut to top of red panel lining up the letters with the ornaments as shown.
    • Adhere panel to white card base (tent-fold).

Taylored Expressions Holiday Neighborhood

Today I’m sharing a holiday card featuring the Taylored Expressions Neighborhood Border die.

I decided to keep the colors simple, as if the neighborhood had recently been carpeted with snow (and from the looks of the dry embossed background, it’s still snowing!). I backed the neighborhood border die cuts and the evergreen die cuts with a soft yellow cardstock. I almost always include a sentiment on the card front but decided to leave it off this time to preserve the tranquility!

Hope your first week of December has been humming along – I can’t believe how fast this fall is flying by!

I’m linking up to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – the theme this week is Holidays and Christmas.

Supplies: TE Dies: Neighborhood Border, Little Bits-Christmas Tree, Build a Scene – Rolling Hills; TE Stamp: Welcome Home; TE Snowfall embossing folder

Holiday Pocket Scrapbooking with Reverse Confetti

Today, I’m sharing Pocket Scrapbooking (Project Life) pages created with Reverse Confetti stamps and Confetti Cuts. I used Reverse Confetti stamps and die cuts to create 3″ x 4″ cards and to embellish some of the photos.

For memory keeping, my goal is to complete the project. For me, that means limiting embellishments and picking a color scheme that’s easy to mix and match. I’m using Simple Stories SN@P! photo protector inserts, along with patterned papers from Echo Park’s Christmas Cheer and glitter cardstock. I don’t create daily pages for the month of December, but instead I document key events during the holiday season.

Let’s take a look at the pages.

For the top card, I combined a heat-embossed sentiment from Tinsel ‘N Trim, cut with the Tag Me banner, with a Mini Circle Garland cut from glitter cardstock. I added a glitter star cut with Oh My Stars to the Santa photo and a sentiment from Tinsel ‘N Trim, cut with one of the dies in Class Act, to the lower photo.

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For the top card, I combined a heat-embossed sentiment from Tinsel ‘N Trim, cut with one of the dies in Class Act, to a journaling card. The lower-left card includes a heat-embossed sentiment from Seasonal Sentiments, cut with another die in the Class Act set, with Circle Garlands cut from glitter paper. I added a glitter snowflake to the lower-right photo, cut with one of the Let It Snow dies.

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The journaling card includes a sentiment from Tinsel ‘N Trim and a glitter star garland, cut with Oh My Stars. For the large photo, I stamped the date circle from Tinsel ‘N Trim and cut it with a circle die.

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The upper-right card includes a heat-embossed sentiment from Seasonal Sentiments, cut with a die in the Class Act set, with glitter snowflakes cut with one of the Let It Snow dies. The lower-left card combines a heat-embossed sentiment from Sweet Thing, cut with a die in the Class Act set, with glitter stars cut with Oh My Stars.

Penny Black Simplicity Sister

Happy December! I am thrilled to announce that I am one of the new Simplicity Sisters for Penny Black!! There is a new blog dedicated to using Penny Black stamps and creative dies in a clean and simple way.

To celebrate I created a CAS holiday card in one of my favorite color schemes with the 51-062 Leap of Joy die cut taking center stage. I stamped the background with a sentiment from 30-132 Yuletide Greetings.

Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #136

Today I’m playing along with the Merry Monday Challenge #136 – using the colors red, green and white.

MIMMbirds

For my card, I used the Die-namites Fancy Birdhouses die to cut white, green and red cardstock. I used a Taylored Expressions die to cut the bird. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

It’s rainy and dark here in the PNW – this color combination really cheers me up!