A Starry Christmas

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card featuring stars. I decided to make a garland of stars. As an added facet, I embossed the large Old Olive stars. In essence, this is a simple design, but the play of color, pattern, and textures make is a great card!

• Stamps: Six Sayings
• Inks: Mossy Meadow
• Cardstock: Merry Moments DSP; Cherry Cobbler; Old Olive; Whisper White
• Accessories: Home for Christmas Enamel Dots
• Tools: Stripes Embossing Folder; Stars Framelits

30 Days of Christmas Cards Day 19

I don't know what I was thinking. I made the cards yesterday and apparently decided to do something even harder for today. Although, I have to admit that it's a cool effect for a card. I love the sparkles and shine!

The shine is hard to see in the big photo, so here's a another look!

And notice my awesome gold embossed sentiment on the bottom. I think that's my favorite part!

• Stamps: Six Sayings
• Inks:
• Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler; Gold Foil; Silver Glitter Paper; red foil paper; Whisper White
• Accessories: Gold Embossing Powder
• Tools: 1" Circle Punch; Star Punch; Tree Punch; Ornament Punch

30 Days of Christmas Cards Day 18

Today's card looks really cool, but was such a pain to make! I ended up making four of these cards (like I've done with all of the 30 Days cards), but seriously thought about scrapping it about 1/3 of the way through. Each card has 16 punched out shapes! Imagine having to keep track of all those shapes and make sure you get the right numbers of the right shapes and paper patterns. Yeah! It was a chore. But somehow I finished four of these cards. I really do like the look. Veyr cute and inventive. 

• Stamps: Six Sayings
• Inks: Cherry Cobbler
• Cardstock: Trim the Tree DSP (retired); Cherry Cobbler; Garden Green; Whisper White; Gold Foil
• Accessories:
• Tools: Star Punch; Tree Punch; Ornament Punch

30 Days of Christmas Cards Day 14

Want a way to highlight your favorite patterned paper? Punch out some pieces and create a christmas tree! I'm loving this idea. Simple and clean but it makes such a statement.

• Stamps: Six Sayings (inside)
• Inks: Cherry Cobbler (inside)
• Cardstock: Trim the Tree DSP; Old Olive; Kraft
• Accessories:
• Tools: Hexagon Punch; Star Punch

30 Days of Christmas Cards Day 12

A sparkly silver and red card today. I love the glitter paper and foil accented pattern paper. I wanted to let the silver shine, so I kept the accessories at a minimum.

• Stamps: Six Sayings
• Inks: Real Red
• Cardstock: Silver Glitter Paper; Real Red; silver foil paper; Whisper White
• Accessories:
• Tools: Confetti Stars Punch; Squares Framelits

30 Days of Christmas Cards Day 7

A fun tree-filled card for today. (Yeah I'm still using the Festival of Trees stamp set!) I stacked a few trees to one side and a large sentiment on the right side. This really is one of my favorite cards that I've made this month. Country is not a style that I gravitate towards, but I'm loving it for this card!

A couple of variations for the stack.

• Stamps: Six Sayings; Festival of Trees
• Inks: Mossy Meadow; Old Olive; Cherry Cobbler; Pear Pizzaz
• Cardstock: Trim the Tree DSP (retired); Cherry Cobbler; Whisper White
• Accessories: Doilies
• Tools: Tree Punch; Star Punch

30 Days of Christmas Cards Day 4

Two variations of a nice clean design today. I always forget that I own this stars confetti punch. I love the look of having the Old Olive paper peek through. Beyond the stars, I went very clean with a simple palette. I'm a huge fan of these cards.

• Stamps: Six Sayings; Festival of Trees; Christmas BlIss (retired)
• Inks: Mossy Meadow
• Cardstock: Mossy Meadow; Old Olive; Whisper White; Gold Paper
• Accessories:
• Tools: Star Confetti Punch; Tree Punch

A Batty Halloween

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a Halloween card. I don't send many Halloween cards, but I love the stamp sets and images related to the holiday. I resolved to buy only one Halloween stamp set and ended up with three. Okay, that's a bit of a lie. The three Halloween stamps sets that I bought aren't just for Halloween. All three include images or sayings that can be used for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

For this card, I am using two of the stamp sets and some unusually card elements. I love Project Life, so I had to buy the PL Seasonal Snapshot 2015 bundler. While making a Halloween card, I thought some of the PL cards would be perfect as a layering piece. The card came with the gray bats and moon already printed. I took the Seasonal Snapshot stamp set and added more bats to fill out the card. I also cut out a bat from another PL card to add as embellishment. From there, I added the sentiment from the hostess set: Six Sayings. To finish off the card, I added some washi tape from the Happy Hauntings pack. The card ended up being nontraditional, but I love it!

• Stamps: Six Sayings; Seasonal Snapshot 2015
• Inks: Blackberry Bliss
• Cardstock: Basic Black; Seasonal Snapshot
• Accessories: Happy Haunting Washi Tape
• Tools:

FaBOOlous

Today's card was inspired by one that I made for a SSINK challenge featured later this month. I wanted to create a few Halloween cards for our fall social, but didn't want them to use too many new materials. (I seriously need to focus on destashing or just using my old supplies) To that end, I paired my new PL Seasonal Snapshot stamp set, Six Sayings stamp set, and Happy Haunting washi tape with some old DSP. Perfect combination!

• Stamps: Seasonal Snapshot 2015; Six Sayings
• Inks: Blackberry Bliss; Basic Black
• Cardstock: Tangerine Tango; Frightful Sight DSP (retired)
• Accessories: Happy Haunting washi tape
• Tools:

Holiday Hostess

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card featuring a hostess set. I chose my newest stamp set: Six Sayings from the Holiday Catalog. I love big sentiments and this set is perfect! The resulting card is very simple, but I love the mix of pattern paper and large sentiment.

• Stamps: Six Sayings
• Inks: Cherry Cobbler
• Cardstock: Merry Moments DSP; Always Artichoke; Whisper White
• Accessories:
• Tools: