Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge #14

Using the Peace on Earth Christmas challenge mood board of silver and gold with wreaths and ornaments, I decided to pull out an older mounted red rubber stamp set from Great Impressions. After stamping it in versamark ink I took a pinch of silver and gold embossing powder and heat set my wreath then die cut it using Spellbinders Classic scalloped circle dies. The deer is a Martha Stewart flocked deer sticker, the bow is Poppy Grosgrain Bow die and the patterned paper was from my stash called Holiday Glitz.

My first wreath I die cut using a circle die and also cut the center portion out. You can probably imagine where that was going….yup…it looked just like a donut!!! Not that I don’t love a good donut however not when it’s supposed to be a Christmas wreath hanging on my gatefold card. LOL. The scalloped die worked much better.

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Just Add Ink #600

The challenge with the Just Add Ink blog is an inspiration photo depicting the southern hemisphere who are enjoying the cooler temperatures and the season of Autumn. So for my card I opted on the wonderful warm fall colors highlighting some Gina K Designs Sweet Mango cardstock. I embossed the top portion of Sweet Mango with SimonSaysStamp’s Kaleidoscope embossing folder. My bottom portion was stamped and inked using SSS’s wood planks background stamp and inking it in some brown ink. The card base is a navy blue and I alternated the SSS Chunky Happy die between the sweet mango and navy cardstock. Sentiment is GKD’s Stamp It Big stamp set and leaves are Sizzix’s Sizzlits Little Leaves die.

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Can You Handle The Pressure

Make the Cards Challenge #53

Today’s card will be entered into the Can You Handle The Pressure challenge of Anything Goes Embossing with a pastel twist (must use an embossing folder) and the Make the Cards Challenge #53 technique challenge of an ink blended backround.

I first ink blended my background using SimonSaysStamp’s Cotton Candy and Gina K Designs Peach Bellini, Lemon Drop and Applement inks to create a pastel background. I then used SSS Circle Rings 3D embossing folder and ran it through my BigShot after which I used some sand paper to lightly sand off the raised areas to add interest to the background. My image is from C C Designs Grouchy Pets stamp set and sentiment was from SSS preprinted Birthday sentiments. Using Spellbinders Deckled rectangles dies completed my look today.

OMG! I am loving these grouchy pets!

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The Sisterhood of Crafters

The challenge with the Sisterhood of Crafters is a slimline card. In my case I opted for the mini-slimline card which I like much better than the largerer ones. I always feel like I should put some cash in the larger style slimline. LOL.

For today’s card I decided on Taylored Expressions stamps and Wonky Dots stencil. Cute summertime card that I’ll save for one of my sweet grandkids.

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