Woodland Fun

| Lisa K

I saw a video that sparked my interest by TX Stampin Sharon. She used a set that I did not own, but could possibly create with items I do own. Here is her blog post: https://txstampin.com/2019/11/3-snow-front-cards-youll-love-to-make-all-winter-long.html

JOY Christmas
Peace on Earth Christmas

Her card has a tree on the focal image with a snowman. I didn’t have a snowman that was small enough for the size of tree, so I began looking at trees and items that fit under the tree. I stamped the fir tree first, then looked for a greeting that worked with the tree. The fir tree came from SU Thoughtful Branches and the greeting from The Stamps of Life, penguins2stamp. The stars came from a Lawn Fawn die. I centered the fir tree and added threads behind it for a bit of glittery feeling.

Then onto card two, the one with the deer. I decided to change the size of the focal image and use the tree from GKD Framescapes Winter Trees. Then I added the deer, a few birds way up high, a bit of grass and several stars. I used a die to cut a piece of scrap for the greeting, then placed it behind the focal image like she did in her card.

This was a fun process to go through. I had so many stamp sets out trying to find images that would work well together. I do often mix several sets.

Stenciled Christmas

| Lisa K

I have been creating quite a few cards these last few days and stenciling made it into my mix. I used stencils gifted from Bonnie for these cards. They are a joy to create with! I followed the design ideas by Gina K Designs in a recent video, using the colors she used to blend into the stenciled areas.

The stamped greeting are from The Stamps of Life, Christmasgreetigs2stamp. The rhinestones are Paper Studios by Hobby Lobby.

Stenciled Christmas One
Stenciled Christmas Two
Stenciled Christmas Three

The images were stenciled on Artist’s Choice paper by Gina K Designs. The black layer is Stampin’Up. The cardbase is My Favorite Things Sweet Tooth.

Xmas Express

| Gayle Chrvala
Mod Squad Challenge – Tis the Season Vehicles

My card today will be entered into the Mod Squad Challenge “Tis the Season” to include a vehicle on our project. My pick up truck delivering a Christmas tree as well as the embossing folder are part of a Recollections (Michael’s) 6 piece stamp set. The sentiment is from an older Inkadinkadoo clear stamp set purchased many years ago on clearance. The main image was stamped in GKD Cherry Red and Christmas Pine then stamped again in VersaMark ink and clear heat embossed with embossing powder. I swiped some fog ink over the plaid embossing folder, used a marker to color in the wreath and added some liquid pearls for the berries finally topping everything off with Nuvo glitter gloss aqua shimmer.

Thanks for looking.

Harvest of Happiness

| Lisa K

Creating with the Retro Rubber Challenge.

https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/my-blog/2019/11/challenge-123-anything-goes.html

I used two stamp sets in this card: GKD Give Thanks (2016) and SU Paper Pumpkin, Bold Botanicals (2016). I colored flowers with alcohol markers, both Spectrum Noir and Copic, blending the colors to look like Autumn leaves. I decided to go back to old school and add dashed lines around the outside of the flowers and the tag.

#rrcb123

No Arguments

| Gayle Chrvala
As You See It Challenge #213

My card today is for the As You See It Challenge “Circular Argument” sketch challenge. My main circle comes from SimonSaysStamp’s Holly & Pine Frame die, the second circle contains a GKD sentiment from Holiday Greetings and was punched with the SU circle and scallop punches, then to add a little extra to the sentiment circle I punched some branches using the Martha Stewart punch, layered it on two different patterned papers from CraftSmart paper pack (from Michael’s), added a few self adhesive gems and finally attached to a GKD Cranberry Tart card base.

I stepped outside with the non- traditional colors and hopefully it works. Thanks for looking.

Congratulations Nurse

| Lisa K

I took a step away from holiday cards to create a special card for a new graduate. My husband’s cousin just graduated with a Master’s in Science in Nursing. This is a huge achievement, especially when you have a family, full-time job, and are not as young as you used to be.

Congratulations!
Congratulations Inside

I used the Sizzix Framelits Drop-ins Horizontal dies for this card. The owl was created with the SU Owl Builder Punch, retired. The cardbase is Early Expresso from SU, along with the background dotted DSP. It is from the Neutral collection, also retired. I purchase a lot of retired cardstock and Designer Series Paper from the clearance rack from SU. The Kraft cardstock is Gina K Designs. The red is from a scrap pile, probably GKD though.

I used one stamp inside, Massive Messages, from Gina K Designs. The ink has a shadow because I began stamping with Early Expresso ink spot and it was getting quite dried out, so I switched to Expresso Truffle from Memento. I guess the paper shifted a bit, in my MISTI, so I got this nice shadow. I like it, so I left it alone.

This card is being entered in the Global Design Project:

http://www.global-design-project.com/2019/11/global-design-project-215-theme.html

Santa’s Sleigh and Reindeer

| Gayle Chrvala
First Attempt
Sleigh #2
Sheet Music#3
DP & Bonnie Stencil #4
Soft and Silver Bonnie Stencil background #5
Forest #6

I had a lot of fun using this Santa Sleigh and Reindeer die set that I ordered from Amazon. The name on the packaging is WYSE. I was quite surprised that the sleigh cut out on my Big Shot using the metal shim nicely. A lot of die cutting as I stacked each image 3 times.

#1 and 2 use GKD patterned papers and embossing folder on #2. I sponged some patterned papers as my background for #3 , 4 and 5 and added my Bonnie snowflake stencils on #4 and #5 with some texture paste. Finally #6 I stamped a tree from SU’s Lovely As A Tree (my all time favorite set from SU) and added the white glitter deer and GKD Sentiment.

Santa’s Coal

| Gayle Chrvala
Treat Boxes

We celebrated a “faux”-Thanksgiving with our daughter and family Saturday. So since they already have their home decorated for Christmas, I figured it wasn’t too early to let B&C know that Santa is watching. Inside their pillow box that was created with the Sizzix thinlits pillow box with poinsettias die they found some “coal” candy. The tag was cut from GKD’s tag set and stamped with an image from the GKD “Wishing You Joy” stamp set. I’m letting it up to them to check the correct box. Lol — they did get a kick out of it and gobbled up some of the coal. Our Brooke immediately asked if I, Gigi, made this. She’s my little stamper!

Holiday Frame MIUM Challenge

| Lisa K

I stamped with Melanie Muenchinger yesterday with her Holiday Frame intro video. This was the first time I created a card with her and this stamp set. I always enjoy stamping along with a video.

https://www.ginakdesigns.com/2019/11/01/november-monthly-mix-challege/
https://addicted-to-stamps-challenge.blogspot.com/

The markers used were a combination of alcohol markers and Tombow markers. I used the colors Melanie used in her video, Red Velvet and Ocean Mist.

I will also be entering this in the Addicted to Stamps challenge: https://addicted-to-stamps-challenge.blogspot.com/ It is an anything goes challenge and looks like a fun on to enter,