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

Lots of Baubles

Today’s card inspiration comes from this card from Linda Dalke. I love the shine on this design and had to make my own! This card definitely took the longest to create of any cards this season, but the results are stunning! I first embossed my ornaments in gold (2), silver (2), pewter, and copper. From there I picked a few color combination to color the ornaments with my Stampin’ Blends. I made two more traditional color ornaments and four frosty winter ornaments. For my sentiment, I kept it simple with a heat embossed Deck the Halls.

Detail of the shine:

Variations of colors. I think the blues with the copper embossing might be my favorite!

• Stamps: Beautiful Baubles

• Ink: Lots of Stampin’ Blends

• Cardstock: Highland Heather; Real Red; Night of Navy; Pretty Peacock; Old Olive

• Accessories:

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

August 2019 Memory Planner Pages

Another month, another set of Memory Planner pages. I think I’m going to stick with the vertical layout for next year’s planner.

Currently

Reading: Feed by M.T. Anderson. It’s one of those perpetual list books on my TBR list.

Watching: After spooky movie month, we’ve been watching a few of our currently reading shows and random documentaries. On Sunday, we continued our music documentary kick with Echo in the Canyon about the music from the 1960s coming out of Laurel Canyon. Really good documentary!

Listening: Going back and listening from the beginning of The To Read List podcast. Another book podcast in my queue.

Making: Working on those Christmas cards. I have about 66 done so far with another 50 to make.

Feeling: Everyone in the house is a bit under the weather. I probably feel the best of everyone, but I still don’t feel great.

Planning: Our November calendar is very light right now. I think I need to schedule a few activities.

Loving: I stole all the Almond Joys from the kids’s Halloween bags. And then I pinned a ton of random coconut recipes to my Pinterest boards. And I’m hoping to make Apricot Coconut Scones later this week.