Wreath Cards

I am still making these wreath cards and having fun with them. Trying out variations with different stamps. Was happy to find great wreath stamps in the Stampin' Up's Lots of Lavender set!

Thanks to Lynette who loaned me 8 stamps sets for the winter!

Made my own template by drawing two 3-1/2 inch squares on paper. Placed that paper in my Misti.
Cut a 3-1/2 inch square of cardstock for stamping. Used that in the Misti, turning it 4 times. More details about the Misti placement at the end of this post.

Stamps: Stampin' Up! Lots of Lavender, All-Seasons Wreath; Hero Arts.
Ink: distress evergreen bough, worn lipstick, festive berries, oxide worn lipstick.
Colored pencil to color in the bow which was fussy cut and attached with foam tape

Same stamps and inks as above, except for Stampabilities sentiment. Also, added the tiny hearts from SU's Yay You set.
Used Cuttlebug Snowflakes embossing folder.

Stamps: Stampin' Up! What I love, Yay You.
Was happy to find that "cherish" stamp in SU's Baroque Motifs set.

This wreath was made free hand with Stampin' Up!'s wood stamp set, All-Seasons Wreath.
I still love the look of this wreath and love how easy it is to create.
Sentiment is from Hero Arts Everyday Sayings CL342.
Inks: distress frayed burlap, oxide worn lipstick
Colored pencil to fill in flowers and bow.

Here's a new baby card. Used a clear heart stamp in the Misti with oxide worn lipstick ink. I added the green sprigs  by hand using SU's All-Seasons Wreath wood set and distress evergreen bough ink. Used Cuttlebug's Heart Blocks embossing folder.

I took these photos to show how I stamped with the Misti. You can always click on images to see a larger view. I drew a 3-1/2: square (the size of my cardstock). Then drew another one at an angle as shown. Decided on placement using a circle and then added the heart stamp.
I was inspired by Jo-Anne Roger's video tutorial.

Since making these cards,  I treated myself to Gina K's Wreath Builder Bundle which comes with 2 templates and her Wreath Builder stamps. Stay tuned for more wreaths!

Hoping the new year is good to you all!
Peace and all good!

Christmas Cards from 2019

I know it's late for posting Christmas cards, but just wanted to keep a record for myself. I had a blast with an old Stampin' Up! wood set called All-Season Wreath. My friend, Lynette, has loaned this set and several other SU sets to me for the winter.

Used distress evergreen bough ink for the wreath and holly. Used colored pencils to color in the berries and leaves. Added  the little Christmas tree from
Michael Strong's Seasonal Silhouettes 1 which was stamped in distress festive berry ink and fussy cut. Sentiment is from Northwoods and it is stamped in distress festive berries.

Stamped the little flowers from the All-Seasons Wreath and colored them with colored pencils. Used distress worn lipstick on Michal Strong's  little Christmas tree here.

Used a Hero Arts snowflake clear stamp and distress broken china with my Misti to make this snowflake wreath. Attached some Hero Arts plastic sequins with acrylic medium.

Used a clear stamps from Stampin' Up's Yay You set for the wreath and hearts.
The "thank you" is from Stampin' Up's What I Love clear acrylic set.

This Christmas tree is from Michael Strong's Christmas Tree set. The Sentiment is a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous cling rubber stamp from the Mini Holidays 2, CMS096.

Back to Michael Strong's tiny Christmas tree from Michael Strong's Seasonal Silhouettes 1, this time using the entire impression of that stamp in distress worn lipstick. The snowman and pine leaves are a cling rubber stamp given to me by Maggie, a dear friend. The sentiment stamped in distress festive berries is from Stampin' Up's Snow Swirled wood set.
I used my old paper crimper to add texture to the blue layer on these last 2 cards.

Thank you for visiting!
Hope you are having a great day!

Stampfest with Lynette December 18, 2019

Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year 2020!

Two weeks ago in mid-December, Lynette and I had a wonderful time stamping together. Here are our cards. We had fun playing with Lynette's Stampin' Up! All-Season Wreath set again. And we found lots of inspiration online.

Here are Lynette's wreath cards.

...and my cards.

Our inspiration came from Elaina Fuller's wreath card on Splitcoaststampers.

We stamped the wreaths in SU creamy caramel and the flowers in Tim Holtz distress oxide worn lipstick. Then we used colored pencils to color in some of the leaves.  Lynette used Dick Blick's olive green light colored pencil for leaves. I used that on one card and also Jane Davenport's emerald on the other card.

Not sure which brown Lynette used for stamping the vertical Happy Birthday...probably SU's close to cocoa. I used oxide worn lipstick on the Stampabilities Happy Birthday stamp.

Lynette had the wonderful idea to stamp the bow from the All-Seasons Wreath set, color it in with a pink Jane Davenport colored pencil called kiss kiss. Then we fussy cut the bow and applied it to our wreath with dimensional foam tape.

Stampin' Up ink: creamy caramel, close to cocoa?

Tim Holtz distress oxide ink: worn lipstick

Stamps: Stampin' Up! All-Season wreath

Verses Rubber Stamps Happy Birthday Vertical, Stampablities Happy Birthday 01 CR1011

Our snowflake wreath cards were inspired by a Pinterest pin card made by Lyssa Griffin Zwolanek.

We used clear snowflake stamps from Lynette's stash. The larger blue snowflake was stamped with the misti. Then we added the smaller snowflake stamps on our own to fill in the spaces. 

I made my card as a birthday card. 

Lynette decided to wait before adding the sentiment.

 Inks: distress mermaid lagoon

distress oxide peacock feathers & twisted citron

Our winter scene card was inspired by Linda Dahlke's card who used Su's Snow Front set.

We used Lynette's Stampin' Up! Waterfront set.

We stamped with Mermaid Lagoon to give us the top of the snow mounds. 

Then we stamped the  trees with distress mowed lawn.

Our tree is Penny Black's Fantasy Tree, 3880K-we added color to just a portion of the stamp with Zig's Clean Color Real Brush marker, #062 Dark Brown before stamping.

We sponged the sky in distress stormy sky.

I stamped the Savvy Stamps Happy Birthday in distress mermaid lagoon.

Hoping you your year ahead is filled with wonderful time spent with your family and friends!

Wishing you blessings!

Dina's Handwritten Heart Collage Cards

I am on a roll and having fun making my own backgrounds with distress ink.

Smooshed color onto an acrylic block, added a bit of water using my water brush and painted the colors onto white cardstock. It actually works better with watercolor paper because the regular card stock does not hold up well to a lot of brushing. I used distress fossilized amber, worn lipstick and picked raspberry.

Allowed to dry and stamped with Dina Wakley's Handwritten Heart Collage stamp using Versafine Onyx Black ink. After the stamping was dry I fussy cut along the edge of the stamped border. Then dry embossed the layer with Park Lane's Flower Repeat embossing folder 

and sponged distress ink onto the edges and over parts of the top.

 Wrapped twine around the layer and tied with a bow before adhering to a kraft card.

This one became a thank you card--used Stampin' Up! sentiment, fussy cut with a deckle edge scissors.

Thanks for visiting! Hope all is well with you and yours!

Black Card Challenge-Fa La La La La

Here is the card I made for the black card challenge on the Michael Strong Facebook group.

I am seeing these dear penguins shop till they drop before the black Friday sales end! 

Why not make up your card, submit it to the Facebook group and hope for a chance to win a Michael Strong stamp!

I copied the details of the challenge here:

One day challenge: share your black card with us and you have a chance to win a Michael Strong stamp. Of course you can add a little color, but a lot of black and MUST have a MS stamp of course. You have until Cyber Monday - Dec 2 - to add your card!

The penguins are from Michael's Cloisonne Penguin Pals stamp set.

Sheet music from  Cuttlebug Allegro embossing folder, fussy cut and sponged with distress black soot ink. The snow is cardstock, fussy cut and then put through a Fiskars corrugator tool.

Sentiment hand written and fussy cut.

Happy stamping! I'd rather stamp than fight the crowds!