Gift Tin

Just wanted to hop in here today and share my version of the ever popular gift tin. I made a 3D poinsettia using five petal flower punches, two large and one small. The leaves were made with a small oval punch and all petals and leaves were creased to make them more lifelike. Each individual flower was layered with stampin' dimensionals. Yellow paint was added to the center for stamens. Finished up with a 5/8" real red grosgrain ribbon. Love it!

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Patterned Pines

This is another card for one of my senior classes in November. I used the beautiful trees from the Patterned Pines Level 1 Hostess set. The trees were colored with Always Artichoke and Real Red inks using Stampin' Spots. I love these little one inch cubes when I'm using more than one color on a stamped image. The smaller ink pad allows me more control on where the color goes. They are the happy medium between regular ink pads and the Stampin' Write Markers. I particularly like the Stampin' Spots for when I go to a stamping or scrapbooking event and don't want to take all my ink pads with me. I can carry all 48 spots with me in a very small container so I always have the color I want to use at my fingertips.

Back to the card--I used Always Artichoke for my card base and paired it with a Basic Grey Christmas Tree cardstock which matches beautifully. A little white grosgrain ribbon and some rhinestone stars atop the trees complete the look.

As always, thanks for visiting.

Christmas Snowman

I thought I would share a non Stampin' Up card with you today. Sometimes I just feel the urge to do a little coloring on some detailed images and my share today is a happy little snowman with his forest friends. I used Copic markers and Stickles for a sparkling glow.

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Gifts of Christmas 3

This card was so simple to make. The main image was stamped with Versamark and then gold embossed in the debossed center of the Textured Impressions Petals-a-Plenty background. I first saw this debossing technique on Patty Bennett's blog and finally got around to trying it. So easy to do! I finished off the card with a small piece of Real Red grograin ribbon to match the Real Red cardstock. What do you think?

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Gifts of Christmas 2

I have again used the Gifts of Christmas stamp set and this time chose the dove image. The image was embossed in gold and die cut with Nestabilities. Prior to removing the die I sponged the edges with Soft Suede ink. I really like the way this Nestabilities set looks like an open book, in this case it would be the Bible.

I added a little bling with clear rhinestones in the center of the three flowers.

I really love the way this card turned out, and it was so simple to make.

Gifts of Christmas

I used the flower stamp from the Gifts of Christmas set and colored it with Stampin' Write Markers in Real Red and Handsome Hunter. The image and mat was die cut with Nestabilities and prior to removing the die I sponged in some Handsome Hunter to give the appearance of another mat. The background paper was found in my large stash of miscellaneous supplies. A whole 12 x 12 sheet of this paper really makes your eyes wonky when looking at it, but a small piece really went well with this image and managed to complete the look I wanted. I appreciate you stopping in today.

Berry Christmas

Don't you just love this Stampin' Up flocked designer paper from the Christmas Cocoa Specialty pack? It give your cards such a luxurious look.

On this card I paired the paper with several stamps from the Berry Christmas set to create, what I think, is a beautiful combination of Real Red and Whisper White. Thanks for stopping by to visit.