3D Christmas Tree

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card featuring some punch art. I choose to go simple and create a Christmas tree out of one of my punches. After digging through, I settled on the Christmas bulb punch to create the “leaves.” From there, I stamped some leaf detail using a retired stamp and got to punching. After assembling my tree, I added a few ornaments with a hole punch and a tree topper with a star punch. For a final touch, I added some Wink of Stella “snow” to my card face.

• Stamps: Cookie Cutter Christmas; Merry Mistletoe (retired)

• Inks: Real Red; Old Olive

• Cardstock: Merry Merlot Glimmer Paper; Copper Glimmer Paper; Pool Party; Old Olive; Read Red; Whisper White; Early Espresso

• Accessories: Wink of Stella

• Tools: Christmas Bulb Punch; Star Punch (retired); Hole Punch

Quilted Thank You

Today’s card is one of those card designs that I’ve been meaning to try out for some time now. I love the look of these quilted cards, but they looked like so much work. Thankfully they aren’t that complicated at all. Cut 8 pieces of DSP 1 1/4” square and two pieces of DSP or solid yardstick 2 5/8” square. From there, all you have to do is glue the pieces on. I used liquid glue so I could play with the placement and tuck pieces in before they got stuck. Easy peasy!

• Stamps: Four You (retired)

• Inks: Blackberry Bliss

• Cardstock: Country Lane DSP; Early Espresso

• Accessories: Gold Faceted Gems

• Tools:

Thankful for You!

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a gratitude card. I had to showoff the gorgeous Frosted Floral DSP in some way, but wanted to stay with the autumn colors. So I paired this with the Many Blessings stamp set and the leaves from Making Everyday Bright stamp set. Perfect pairing!

• Stamps: Many Blessings; Making Everyday Bright

• Inks: Soft Suede; Blackberry Bliss; Pear Pizzaz; Crushed Curry; Old Olive; Rich Razzleberry

• Cardstock: Frosted Floral DSP; Soft Suede; Very Vanilla

• Accessories:

• Tools: Christmas Bulb Punch

Sunday Haul #22

A few week’s back I won a grab bag of mini kits from Nerd’s the Word Sticker Co. and they finally arrived! Just take a look at these beauties!

I ordered a few Christmas kits, a year long sticker pack (for my Memory Planner), some expander rings, some adhesive, and a Mambi sticker. book from Amazon over the past two weeks or so.

All is Bright Suite

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card featuring one of the Holiday Catalog Suites. As soon as I got my catalog, I knew I needed to have the All is Bright Suite! I love the color combinations, the paper, accessories, and all the coordinating stamp sets! This card is all about using the various elements from that suite.  I had fun layering various elements to create a full card. My favorite part is the addition of the paper clip.

• Stamps: Making Christmas Bright; Making Everyday Bright

• Inks: Real Red; Call Me Clover; Crumb Cake

• Cardstock: All is Bright DSP; Call Me Clover; Whisper White

• Accessories: All is Bright Paperclips; Real Red Satin Ribbon

• Tools: Layering Circles Framelits

Christmas Cat

Today’s card is another fun and layered Christmas card for this season. I incorporated some fun little elements (cat punch, paper clips) with the great patterns of the Festive Farmhouse DSP pack. I might have to make a few more of these with different patterns from the pack.

• Stamps: Merry Mistletoe (retired)

• Inks: Cherry Cobbler; Garden Green

• Cardstock: Festive Farmhouse DSP; Cherry Cobbler; Very Vanilla

• Accessories: All is Bright Paper Clips

• Tools: Cat Punch

SSINKTC54: Copper Starburst

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the starburst technique. I love making starburst cards even if they take a bit of planning and construction. I was drawn to the beautiful shine in the Joyous Noel DSP. To amp up the sparkle, I added some of the Copper Glimmer paper from the accompanying Joyous Noel Glimmer Paper pack. I added a coordinating strip of DSP and a simple sentiment to complete my card.  

• Stamps: Snowflake Sentiments

• Inks: Merry Merlot; Tranquil Tide

• Cardstock: Joyous Noel DSP; Joyous Noel Glimmer Paper; Very Vanilla; Kraft

• Accessories:

• Tools:

Sunday Haul #21

For this year’s December Daily, I decided against the Ali Edwards kit and went instead for the Document December kit from Elle’s Studio. I really really loved the imagery and the colors in this year’s kit. In addition to the kit itself, I grabbed some extra tags and accessories plus a cute coffee kit.

Trio of Ladies

Today’s cards have been sitting half done for months now. I had a whole stack of these unfinished cards and took a Saturday to knock them out. I had the Regal Rose card bases and smaller pieces cut for a previous card, but had sold the stamp set that I used for those cards. SO I improvised with a different stamp set. I stamped three different images from the Hand Delivered Stamp Set and had some fun coloring them.

• Stamps: Hand Delivered

• Inks: Basic Black; lots of colors

• Cardstock: Regal Rose; Daffodil Delight; Whisper White

• Accessories: Candy Dots (retired)

• Tools: Lucky Stars Embossing Folder; Polka Dot Basics Embossing Folder; Stripes Embossing Folder

October 2018 Memory Planner

Lots of journaling and photos, not quite so many decorations. Love how this month’s pages turned out. On to November!