Stacked Snowmen

Today’s card came from my love of coloring! This time I wanted to feature this cute stacked present snowman. I colored a few images and then built cards around the snowmen. Easy peasy.

Variation:

• Stamps: Lots of Cheer

• Ink: Basic Black; Night of Navy; Highland Heather; Various Stampin’ Blends

• Cardstock: Wrapped in Plaid DSP; Night of Navy; Real Red; Smoky Slate; Mint Macaron; Highland Heather; Blushing Bride; Whisper White; various DSP scraps

• Accessories: Star Designer Elements; various other embellishments

• Tools: Stitched Shapes Dies; Stitched Rectangles Dies; Softly Falling Embossing Folder; Ovals Dies

Christmas Tree Farm

Today’s card is one of the simple cards that just comes to me. I immediately thought of Santa amongst a bunch of Christmas trees. Perfect for stamping and coloring. I kept the rest of the card simple with some DSP scraps, a simple sentiment, and some fun enamel shapes.

All the variations:

• Stamps: Color Me Christmas; Cookie Cutter Christmas

• Ink: Real Red; Cherry Cobbler; various Stampin’ Blends

• Cardstock: Real Red; Cherry Cobbler; Old Olive; Shaded Spruce; various retired DSP scraps

• Accessories: Toile Tidings Glitter Enamel Shapes; various enamel shapes

• Tools:

Peekaboo Santa and Reindeer

Today’s card came from my need to color all the things!!! I colored a ton of Santas and reindeers and then had to figure out what to do with them. So I made some peekaboo panels to layer on top of these fun characters. Love it! I did a few different variations. Really love these cards.

All the variations:

• Stamps: Color Me Christmas; Christmas Bliss

• Ink: Basic Black; Shaded Spruce; Cherry Cobbler; various Stampin’ Blends

• Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler; Mint Macaron; Shaded Spruce; Old Olive; Real Red

• Accessories: Star Designer Elements; Toile Ridings Glitter Enamel Dots; various enamel shapes

• Tools: Softly Falling Embossing Folder; Diagonal Stripes Embossing Folder; Brick Wall Embossing Folder; Circle Dies; Layering Circle Dies

A Pile of Presents

Today’s card is all about celebrating the pile of presents under the Christmas tree. I love the large sentiment paired with these cute colored presents. I added some fun pattern paper underneath and some simple embellishments.

All the variations:

• Stamps: Color Me Christmas; Everything Festive

• Ink: Night of Navy; Pretty Peacock; Real Red; Old Olive; Shaded Spruce; various Stampin’ Blends

• Cardstock: Christmas Around the World DSP (retired); Night of Navy; Pretty Peacock; Old Olive; Cherry Cobbler; Real Red; Shaded Spruce; Whisper White; random paper scraps

• Accessories: Holiday Rhinestone Jewels; enamel shapes

• Tools:

Currently

Reading: The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal. Finally got this one from the library and I’m really enjoying it!

Watching: All our currently airing shows (It’s Always Sunny, The Good Place, Superstore, Last Week Tonight).

Listening: I started listening to A Beautiful Mess podcast. They only have a few episodes out, but I always love reading their blog, so the podcast is some fun.

Making: Working on catching up with my Memory Planner pages. Just a few weeks left to do.

Feeling: We’re still feeling sick around here. Ugh!

Planning: Working on our holiday activities. I went through a ton of options and added them all to our calendar so I can remember all these.

Loving: I had a hankering for wacky cake and had to make it last night. Definitely hit the spot!

One Big Beautiful Ornament

Today’s card features one big stamped imaged! I grabbed this stamp set from a FB Stampin’ Up! buying and selling group for really cheap. I don’t know why I never bought it. I love the big ornament and the ability to color it however I like. For these cards, I heat embossed the image in gold, copper, silver, and pewter. From there, I created color groups and started coloring. Pairing the image with a coordinating cardstock and DSP scrap completes my card.

All the variations:

• Stamps: Christmas Bauble; Beautiful Baubles

• Ink: Real Red; Old Olive; Mint Macaron; Gorgeous Grape; Various Stampin’ Blends

• Cardstock: 2018-2020 In Color DSP (retired); Gingham Gala DSP (retired); Quilted Christmas DSP (retired); various DSP scraps; Shaded Spruce; Mint Macaron; Highland Heather; Old Olive; Real Red; Whisper White

• Accessories:

• Tools: Gold Embossing Powder; Silver Embossing Powder; Copper Embossing Powder; Pewter Embossing Powder

Sunday Haul #14

I stopped at Joanns to check out the new remodel and ended up with all these goodies. I’m especially excited about the little paper pads.

A Simple Christmas

Today’s card inspiration comes from this card from Christine Blain @ Happy Heart Cards. I loved the simple play of trees, sentiment, and DSP. I changed out the paper, obviously, but kept the basic design.

• Stamps: Merry Mistletoe

• Ink: Merry Merlot; Tranquil Tide; Whisper White

• Cardstock: Joyous Noel DSP; Merry Merlot; Tranquil Tide; Whisper White

• Accessories: Star Designer Elements; washi tape

• Tools:

September 2019 Memory Planner Pages

Finally catching up on my Memory Planner pages. September 16th - 22nd was my WITL so I’ll be documenting that in a separate album.

Hanging Ornaments

Today’s card inspiration comes from this card from Amy Koenders @ Stamp with Amy K. I loved the heat embossed hanging ornaments with the fun colored ornaments. I kept the rest simple with some pops of DSP as background and a coordinating ribbon. I pulled ton from my paper scrap stash and retired ribbon stash. I think that is the theme of this year’s Christmas cards.

Variation of colors and paper.

• Stamps: Beautiful Baubles

• Ink: Various Stampin’ Blends

• Cardstock: Wrapped in Plaid DSP; 2019-2021 In Color DSP; various other DSP scraps; Shaded Spruce; Cherry Cobbler; Pretty Peacock; Pool Party; Night of Navy; Whisper White

• Accessories:

• Tools: Gold Embossing Powder; Silver Embossing Powder; Pewter Embossing Powder; Copper Embossing Powder