Celebrate You

Hi Again!

Am joining the celebration of Di at the Snippets Playground Challenge #471 where she and Sarn have thrilled us with creativity, charm, and humor for years. Di has put in 12 year and Sarn a few less. Thanks you two.

Here's my card made with lots of snippets!

A lot of retired oldie but goodie dies used again to make this card. The celebrate is from PTI Birthday Cheer done with a Gina K Deco Foil Toner card front and lovely striped Deco Foil. First time in ages that I have tried laminating with my Minc.

Snippets of colored foil cardstock from an old Metalics Mat Stack by DCWV were used for the word you and the dots. I took out an old 1/2" punch from SU for the red circle and used two hand punch sizes to make the green and gold ones.

The Fine Tip Glue Pen from SU was essential in gluing down these snippets. 

The base card is A2 top folding and embossed with the old SU/Sizzix Square Lattice embossing folder. The purple cardstock is from my stash. I do like using colored paper instead of just my usual white. 

It is a lovely sunny day here in Minnesota, but freezing temperature near zero with wind chill. A good day to stay in and create.

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A Snowy Night

 Happy Winter!

I've made a card to enter the Color Hues, the Color Challenge that is asking for Light Blue and Navy. I love all hues of blue, so this chalenge is just right up my alley. 

The star of my card is this great owl die cut that was a gift, however I have forgotten who sent it. Thank you, my friend. 

From my stash of card fronts, I pulled out a piece of SU Night of Navy and embossed it with their retired embossing folder called Softly Falling. I tapped white ink on it with Hero Hues white pigment ink carefully to just cover the dots making them snowflakes.

I used another retired die called Fremont Pine Landscape from Poppy Stamps cutting it with a snippet of white cardstock. The card base is my usual PTI. I only used part of the die.

To adhere to the rules of the challenge, I stamped my sentiment from My Favorite Things Greetings Galore in SU Boho Blue to complete the card front. Inside is more of the light blue ready for a note. I placed the rest of the die on it.

We finally have snow here and it looks so pretty. But it is cold! :-)

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CCC December 2023

Happy December Greetings!

I am going across the bottom of the December Tic-Tac-Toe grid challenge for this month. It was hard to chose a row and to used what supplies I have on hand. BUT I found one! All the elements are here in my card: blue, brad, bear, and button! The button found in my stash has 4 holes, and I think it shows our moon's texture. lol

Starting with a piece of water color paper, I blended SU Night of Navy and Boho Blue to make the waves. I free handed a snippet to make the ice floe for my polor bear. Per another blogger's idea,  (sorry I forgot to write down who), next I applied a couple of layers of glue to make the floating ice shiny. Since them I purchased some Glossy Accents that might have worked better.

Anyway, before mounting the ice floe and my bear, I blended  the same two blue colors with a touch of Black Soot Distress Ink to make the cloudy sky, masking off a small punched circle for the moon. That gave me a place to add the button. I am not sure why I have a whole container of buttons, but I remember them being popular back in the day! You too?

I am sure you recognize the wonderful SU bear punch image  that I've used before. Cutting him from more of the water color paper gives him some texture. 

Next, I mounted my card front onto another piece of white cardstock, then both onto a SU Basic Black A2 card base.

For my sentiment I chose to use Peace On Earth from SU's current Regal Reindeer stamp set. I fussy cut around it so it would fit in the corner. 

The bronze brad completes the card and the bottom row of the challenge grid. Done and mailed.

Happy, Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all. Peace in our world would be my wish. 🕊

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A Few Christmas Cards

 Hello Again,

First, I want to wish you all a belated Merry Christmas. Hope it was wonderful!

I only sent out 12 Christmas cards and one New Years card and forgot to take pictures of most of them. Awk! Senior moments taking over too much.

So here are three that I created.

This one is a CASE of one I saw by SU demo, Patty Bennett at Patty Stamps.

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I knew I had the flocked SU paper in my stash and used it on a Real Red top folding card base. For the bottom edge, I used a lovely SU die from the retired Curvy Dies set. The Merry Christmas greeting is from my often used Elizabeth Craft Designs Words 5 collection. 

I finished with a couple of ribbon scraps for a border on the flocked paper and added five rhinestone jewels from my stash for some sparkle. 

Next up is the card I made for one of my daughters and her two kids that are home from college.

They love snowmen, although long past making one AND we had a brown Christmas with no snow this year. A smidge came last night but only coated the roof tops. Sigh.

I embossed the background for some texture, but I don't remember which folder was used. Of course, 

the snow family is by Penny Black. The stamp was inked up with Encore Silver ink and colored with SU Blends alchohol pens. The little snow guy on the right is done with blue, but looks green for some reason in my photo.

My greeting is from a retired SU set called White Christmas with "... and sending every good wish for the coming year" inside. 

You can see some of my messy deak in the background here with some of the other cards I made this year. :-)

This final card for this post today was sent for fun to a friend who lives down South and never gets snow. I again used a gifted die card front from Linda W (StampinBari). This time in red, and I put navy cardstock behind. The card base is a nice weight white cardstock from Papertrey Ink. Again I used a die the above Elizabeth Craft set.

I want to enjoy the snow and even the cold for a while before doing any Valentine's Day cards. I no longer drive, so it is no hassle for me to love winter.

Happy New Year, my friends! 

May 2024 be a happy and healthy and creative year for you.

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All Red and Gold

 Hello!

This morning I finished a card that I made for the Color Hues Color Challenge #76 that is asking for Red and Metallic Gold cards. I like entering challenges and this one had me using supplies that had never been loved before.

My NBUS embossing folder and die set is from Memory Box, found in their Open Studio products. This set is called Marvelous Magnolia 3D Embossing Folder and Cutting Dies. The set is found a couple of places online.

The white card base is from PTI and I used SU Real Red cardstock for the topper. The embossing folder made a really nice deep image after I lightly misted the red paper. I used a hoarded piece of gold metallic paper from an ancient DCWV mat stack called Metallics. The die cut out three of the floral images so I used one to go a top its embosssed counterpart adding demension. I put another one inside. I like to continue something from the front inside. Do you do that too?

The sentiment is from the Elizabeth Carft Designs Words 5 set that I have used recently. I am adding this card to Darnell's NBUS #56, the November challenge for us to use new stuff. 

All done for now.  Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers. It will be seasonally cold here but all the food will be warm. :)

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A Peony For You

 Hello,

Using my Misti, I stamped and heat embossed a lovely peony image from The Ton called Peony Duo. The set is still for sale on their site, actually a Mother's Day set that I used differently.

 I like how large the peony is dominating the card front. I used Brutus Monroe embossing powder in Alabaster White, before coloring. I colored the flower with a Stampin' Up! blender pen in Light Daffodil Delight. I tried to do some shading by adding layers of the ink. My coloring dyed the white lines, but they show a little. My photo makes the yellow look more pale than in real life. 

Thhis card was made for an entry into The Flower Challenge #86. I do love flowers and used to grow yellow roses when living in California. 

I do seem to prefer CAS for my card making, so this card is typical me. The card base is SU Basic Black. The sentiment is from  the above The Ton set stamped in VersaFine Onyx Black. I used an oldie but goodie SU punch to cut it out. The white leaves were cut from the SU Prized Peony die set. I layered a piece of white cardstock inside to finish up.

The card could be used for a birthday, feel better or encouragement, or even as a thank you card depending on what is put inside. I will probably make it into a birthday card as there are several birthdays in my family coming up soon.

It is a really beautiful day here in Minnesota, temperatures in the low 60's for heavons sake. In November? Am loving it! The winter and snow will be here before we know it.

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