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Dec 05
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Glad Tidings of Great Joy!

By Cards

Hi All,

Who’s ready for winter?! Oh man, I am so pumped for winter and all the holiday festivities it brings. In anticipation for the upcoming holiday season I have started to create Christmas cards. I will likely have a new one to share each day leading up to the week before Christmas. If you are interested in any of the cards please leave a comment and let me know! I’d love to hear feedback on which styles, colors, and themes you like!

On to today’s card.

For this card, I wanted to try out some inking techniques and create a snowbank. I achieved this look with some masking and 2 tone color blending of inks. I loved the results of the technique. It looks like it is watercolor with several layers of color, but truly it is a white base with 2 blues.

snowscape_outside

 

And here’s a shot of the inside

snowscape_inside

Supplies:

Card Base: Neenah Desert Storm Environmental Cardstock

1st Layer: Midnight Muse Cardstock – Stampin’ Up

Inked Layer: Neenah Solar White

Inks: Pool Shadow Ink – Hero Arts & Midnight Muse – Stampin’ Up

Stamps: Summer Camp – TPC Studio

Sentiment: Gnome for the Holidays – Simon Says Stamp

Ink Blending: Tim Holtz Ink Blending Tool

Stamp Markers: American Crafts

Pen: Uniball Signo Broad white gel pen

Embossing: VersaMark Watermark Ink with Inkadinkado Linen White Embossing Powder

Dec 03
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Tags to Treasures

By Cards

Hi All,

I hope you are all doing better than I am with all of your holiday shopping. I can’t believe that we are only a few days away! WOW! I’ve been cranking away in my craft room creating some cards for friends and family. Today I used some fun Christmas tags as a focal point for these cards.

Check ’em out!

Peace on Earth

PeaceOnEarth

SO MUCH DIMENSION!

PeaceOnEarth_Side

Deck The Halls

DeckTheHalls

Joy

Joy

I absolutely love the way these turned out! I think my favorite part is that these cards are gender neutral. They are the type of cards you’re not ashamed to give a coworker/classmate and have to walk away slightly embarrassed that the card might be a little too cutesy. I know you know what i’m talking about! Anyhow, I’m off to tackle my holiday list… I may even sneak a few of these cards into some boxes.

Warm wishes ~ JS

Nov 27
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Ice Skate Ornament

By Cards, Planner Stationary & Accessories, Room Decor

Hi All,

For today’s project I wanted to do an altered project. Altered projects in the craft world mean you take an item that is otherwise ordinary and…well.. alter it. =)

This project involved some large size paperclips that attached to the bottom of these stockings to create ice skates. I then inked the edges and stamped a vintage tree image. For additional dimension I hand stitched some laces with red floss and embossed a ‘noel’ sentiment to the cuff. I think these would look absolutely darling off a christmas tree or attached to  a little wreath.

noel_skates

Nov 20
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Fall Themed Notecards

By Cards, Planner Stationary & Accessories

Hi All,

For today’s project I wanted to create a card that could be used as a name card or place card holder at thanksgiving dinner. I like these because they are small enough to not be entirely ‘in the way’ of everything else that is on a table, but they are definitely bold enough to make an impression. I have 2 different color schemes that I created, and I really can’t choose which one is my favorite. P.S. there’s something about burlap that I love!

 

fall_notecards_brown

Even if these aren’t used during thanksgiving, they make great tags to attach to a gift.

fall_notecards_orange

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