Sprinkle Tree

Today’s card is one of those cards that has been sitting my card stash half-finished for months… I had stamped the tree and bike, but never went any further. This pretty pink tree was the perfect base for another birthday card. So I added a sentiment, pierced some holes (for a more interesting design), and some retired candy dots. Simple yet pretty.

• Stamps: Sheltering Tree; Dragonfly Dreams

• Inks: Lovely Lipstick; Early Espresso; Powder Pink; Basic Black; Wild Wasabi (retired)

• Cardstock: Lovely Lipstick; Powder Pink; Whisper White

• Accessories: Candy Dots (retired)

• Tools: Paper Piercer

Tree of Friendship

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card  featuring trees, leaves, and/or pinecones. I pulled out a few leftover stamped trees from the Sheltering Tree stamp set and found an autumn colored one. Perfect to feature a nice tree image. I did a few cardstock layers, but the card was missing some kind of bling. I added bit of Very Vanilla Lace Trim and a shiny Gold Faceted Gem to complete the card.

• Stamps: Sheltering Tree

• Inks: Real Red; Pumpkin Pie; Early Espresso

• Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie; Early Espresso; Whisper White

• Accessories: Gold Faceted Gems; Very Vanilla Lace Trim

• Tools:

The Four Seasons

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card featuring the theme "Back to Nature." I'm so glad I had a few more stamped images from Sheltering Tree hanging out in my scrap box. I created a four seasons panel by adhering my stamped images to a piece of Crumb Cake. From there, I added it to a piece of DSP. Finally, I added some ribbon and sentiment tag. 

• Stamps: Sheltering Tree
• Inks: Crumb Cake; Wild Wasabi; Basic Black; Soft Sky; Blushing Bride; Real Red; Pumpkin Pie
• Cardstock: Petal Garden DSP; Crumb Cake; Whisper White
• Accessories: Shimmer Ribbon Pack (Bermuda Bay)
• Tools: 

Wintery Tree

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a Winter Blues card. I'm grateful to live in the San Francisco Bay Area where the temperature rarely goes below 50 degrees. That said, I grew up in Indiana and know what it's like to live through winter. For this card, I stamped a common sight in winter, a bare tree, and added some fun color swooshes. I layered my stamped image onto some coordinating cardstock and them embossed a piece of Whisper White. A simple, but nice card for today.

• Stamps: Sheltering Tree
• Inks: Basic Black; Tempting Turquoise; Wild Wasabi
• Cardstock: Pacific Point; Marina Mist; Whisper White
• Accessories: 
• Tools: Softly Falling Embossing Folder

You Make My Day

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a teacher appreciation card. I pulled out this pre-stamped Sheltering Tree scene and started adding to it. I was originally going to place the sentiment in the white space, but then decided that the washi tape was too plain by itself. Adding a few butterflies was the right call. The layering piece of Urban Underground reminds me of a chalkboard so I had to add it.

• Stamps: Paisleys and Posies; Sheltering Tree; Papillon Potpurri
• Inks: Wild Wasabi; Crumb Cake; Rose Red; Daffodil Delight; Soft Sky
• Cardstock: Urban Underground DSP; Watermelon Wonder; Whisper White
• Accessories: Affectionately Yours Washi Tape
• Tools: Bitty Butterfly Punch

SSINKTC40: Green Tree

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the technique below.

For my card, I decided to create my own mask using the Circle Framelits. I simply die cut a medium circle out of a piece of white cardstock. From there, I sponged on three different green inks to create my multi-colored tree. I decided to continue the green theme with some fun apple print DSP. I finished the card with some gold enamel shapes to give the card some bling.

• Stamps: Sheltering Tree
• Inks: Wild Wasabi; Old Olive; Always Artichoke; Early Espresso
• Cardstock: Fruit Stand DSP; Old Olive; Whisper White
• Accessories: Metallic Enamel Shapes
• Tools: Circle Framelits; Daubers

Heart Tree

Here I go with another card featuring the Sheltering Tree stamp set! Today, I kept the stamped snow, but felt the tree was too bare. So I punched out a few red hearts. Finally I added a little shine by coloring the hearts with Wink of Stella. Such a simple cute card.

Closeup of shiny hearts.

• Stamps: Sheltering Tree
• Inks: Early Espresso; Craft White
• Cardstock: Real Red; Crumb Cake
• Accessories: Wink of Stella
• Tools: Heart Punch

Winter Thanks

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using one of our tree stamps. I decided to highlight the very versatile Sheltering Tree stamp.

In fact, I have a few Sheltering Tree cards coming this month. I loved taking the bare tree, stamping some "snow", and then adding texture and shine to the card.

• Stamps: Sheltering Tree; Labeler Alphabet
• Inks: Soft Sky; Night of Navy; Early Espresso
• Cardstock: Soft Sky; Night of Navy; Whisper White
• Accessories: Metallic Foil Doilies; Silver and White Twine (nonSU)
• Tools: Softly Falling Embossing Folder

Halloween Tree

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a tree card. The Sheltering Tree stamp set has so many different uses! For this card, I decided to leave my tree bare and make it a Halloween tree. A bit of washi (with silver foil) adds a bit of fun and dimension to the background. And of course I had to add a pumpkin somewhere. Here the pumpkin becomes my sun.

• Stamps: Sheltering Tree; My Hero; Labeler Alphabet
• Inks: Perfect Plum; Pumpkin Pie; Basic Black
• Cardstock: Basic Black; Basic Gray; Whisper White
• Accessories: Halloween Night Washi Tape
• Tools: 1 3/8" Circle Punch

A Flirty Shaker

Another great sneak peek video for this Friday. 

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a shaker card. Last month I borrowed Sheltering Tree from a friend and ended up stamping some extra trees and images to use later. This simple tree was perfect to build a shaker card from. I added a bit of color directly onto the tree and then repeated the color with some punched confetti stars. The shaker part was missing something so I added some great metallic sequins. Perfect! Some washi tape and a simple sentiment completed the card.

• Stamps:Sheltering Tree, Jar of Love
• Inks: Early Espresso, Flirty Flamingo, Sahara Sand
• Cardstock: Flirty Flamingo, Whisper White
• Accessories: Metallic Sequins, Moroccan Washi Tape
• Tools:Lots of Labels Framelits, Confetti Stars Punch