I finished my pages right when the month started and I’m so excited that I these are done. November is my last full month in my memory planner. For December, I’ll be using my pages to do 30 Days of Lists.
Bunch of Balloons
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a celebration card. I decided to put away my Christmas supplies and pull out some items from my regular stash to create a fun and sparkly birthday card.
Stamps: Picture Perfect Birthday
Inks: Blueberry Bushel
Cardstock: 2018-2020 In Color DSP; Copper Grimmer Paper; Call Me Clover; Whisper White
Accessories: White twine
Tools: Balloon Punch
Sunday Haul #23
I got a little envelope from Fabulously Planned full of January themed stickers.
My smaller Stampin’ Up! sale box full of color and tools came this week. Love those markers!
Picked up a cute Christmas themed kit to use for the kiddos spreads.
And finally, I grabbed a ton of sale items from Ali Edwards. I can’t wait to use these items soon!
Candy Canes and Holly
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using your favorite Christmas DSP. I love the colors and patterns in the Santa’s Workshop DSP pack. I wanted to show off the beautiful paper, so I kept the sentiment and additions fairly simple.
Stamps: Making Christmas Bright
Inks: Garden Green; Poppy Parade
Cardstock: Santa’s Workshop DSP; Garden Green; Poppy Parade; Basic Black; Whisper White
Accessories: Santa’s Workshop Enamel Shapes
Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits; Candy Cane Builder Punch
Poinsettias and Plaid
Today’s card is simple yet striking. I CASEd this great design from Sarah Berry with some minor alterations. I love the little bit of plaid peeking through underneath.
Stamps: Pop of Petals; Merry Mistletoe (retired)
Inks: Garden Green; Cherry Cobbler
Cardstock: Farmhouse Christmas DSP; Cherry Cobbler; Garden Green; Whisper White
Accessories: Gold Faceted Gems
Tools: Four-Petal Flower Punch
Santa and Snow
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a with the theme of Winter Wonderland. I stumbled upon this card from Sandra Korten and I just had to CASE it. She uses a great combination of colors and elements to create a very fun winter card. I kept most of her elements while subbing out the colored paper and twine.
Stamps: Better Together
Inks: Real Red
Cardstock: Santa’s Workshop DSP; Twinkle Twinkle DSP; Real Red; Whisper White
Accessories: Silver Sequin Trim
Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits; Softly Falling Embossing Folder
December Crafting Goals
A recap of last month’s goals:
Schedule Christmas card classes and a crop — Success!
Catch up on MP pages — Sorta success. I need to print the next batch, but I got a few weeks finished.
Get back into Project Life — Success! I completed about 8 weeks with another 8 weeks to go or so to get caught up.
Plan out December Daily ideas — Success!
Pull out and organize Christmas supplies — Success!
December Goals:
Finish and Send Christmas Cards — Obviously…
Send December Birthday Cards — Fell off the wagon a bit during our move.
Make Holiday Albums (and calendars) — I make these every year. I can play around with the timing and supplies this year due to changing travel plans.
Start December Daily album — I’ve got my base kit. Now to plan it out a bit more and record something daily.
Finish out Family Project Life album — I really want to push and get this one done before January 1st. (I’ll still be behind on the kids’s albums, but I can work from the family one)
November Memory Planner — I like to stay on top of this one.
30 Days of Lists in my MP — Instead of creating a separate album, I’m going to use the December pages in Memory Planner to record these lists.
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