Category: Winter

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.

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25 Days of Christmas Tags from the Confetti Crew

Tracey McNeely is hosting a 25 Days of Christmas Tags event on her blog this year for the 4th year! Tracey invited the Confetti Crew members to join in as her guests! We were asked to make a Christmas Tag using some awesome Reverse Confetti products.

There are many fabulous prizes to be won!  Head to Tracey’s blog, In My Creative Opinion, to find out how you can have a chance to win and to see tags from the rest of the Confetti Crew. Also make sure that you leave a comment here for an extra chance to win!

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For the first tag, I heat embossed a sentiment from the Seasonal Sentiments set, adding it to a tag cut with the Tag Me, Too Confetti Cuts die, which I decorated with cuts from the Circle Garland Confetti Cuts die.

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For the second tag, I glued chevrons cut with the Triple Chevies Confetti Cuts die to plain cardstock and then cut the panel with the Tag Me die. I stamped a sentiment from Seasonal Sentiments on a banner, cut with a die in the Tag Me set. I also added some glitter snowflakes cut with one of the dies in the Let It Snow Confetti Cuts set.

Let It Snow

I’ve had these penguins and snow banks on my work table for several months! We’ve had a particularly chilly couple of days, so I thought it was time to put this card together.

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I had been playing around with different backgrounds, and the Taylored Expressions embossing folder gives just the right scale snowfall for the rest of the scene. I dry embossed the cardstock with my Big Shot  extended multipurpose platform on Tab 1. This gave just a bit more depth to the embossing. I cut the penguins twice and adhered them together for extra depth. The front two penguins and front two snowbanks are attached with dimensional adhesive as well.

Supplies: Memory Box Playful Penguins; Papertrey Ink die cut and sentiment


Merry Monday 129 Guest Designer

I’m delighted to be guest designing over at Merry Monday Christmas Challenge today! The challenge? Use Neon Colors on your Christmas card.

For my card, I pulled out a Hero Arts Neon ink sampler and all of my snowflake stamps testing several combinations. I combined stamps from an old Hero Arts set as well as a Paper Smooches set.

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To finish, I dry embossed the card base and added a few snowflake sequins.

Head on over to the Merry Monday Christmas Challenge blog to see the inspiration from the Design Team.

Penny Black: Inlaid Snowflake Die Cuts

Today, I’m sharing a holiday-themed card crafted with newly released Penny Black dies and stamps using a non-traditional Color Combo, which was shared last year on the Penny Black blog. The card design is from Scrapbook & Cards Today CardMaps Today Volume 4. I recently ordered the magazine, and I’ve earmarked quite a few sketches.

InlaySnowflakesI stamped a light blue cardstock panel with the 40-350 Tree-Lined background stamp in a coordinating ink. I die cut the 51-066 Crystal Trio snowflakes nested within circle dies so that I could inlay the snowflakes. I also cut circles in white to put behind the inlaid snowflakes/circles. The sentiment is from the 30-257 Joy Filled set.