CASology "SILVER" Week 125

This will be my last post for 2014 with this card for CASology and the theme of silver. First I just want to thank all my blog friends for their comments and words of encouragement. Participating in card challenges is my passion, as well as teaching. I have learned so many techniques from other card makers (like Karen Dunbrook) and pass on the information I have acquired to my card making group. I know I have grown as a card maker because of women (men) who share my passion. Any recognition I have received  with my cards are so appreciated.

This particular card took a couple of attempts. I wanted to use both these NBUS materials the embossing folder and the stamp. I chose SU! almost amethyst paper and it is almost the last piece I own, but I love the softness and I think it pairs perfectly with silver. The stamp is from Michael Strong who taught a class to my card making group back in October and we had a great time. This is a SU! embossing folder. I did stamp, heat emboss and fussy cut the tree and manually wrote joy with a Versafine pen and then heat embossed. Lastly I added bling to the tree top.

Stamp - Michael Strong "Cloisonne Christmas Tree"

Embossing Folder - SU! "Filigree Frame"

Ink - Color Box "Silver," Zing! Clear Embossing Powder (tree)

Paper - SU! Almost Ameythst, PTI White Card Stock

VersaMarker Watermark Pen, Stamp A Mania "Silver Satin Pearl" Embossing Powder (joy)

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HANUKKAH

This old laundry basin came from my in-laws home in Iowa and it adorns our front door. At Christmas the poinsettias (two pots) from Costco fill the tub and the flowers last for a couple of months. Grandson Jake (age 5) asked grandpa if the flowers were real.

http://casology.blogspot.com/2014/12/week-125-silver.html

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Today on a very wet and rainy day in Southern California I am submitting a card for my very first blog hop. Honestly I was not going to enter a card but all the blogs I subscribe to the ladies were showing off their cards and I love coffee type stamp sets. So very early this morning before the sun (ha ha), or rain came and while it was still dark outside I decided to make a card and chose again this new set from PTI.

The image was stamped and heat embossed and colored with copics. Next I die cut with a warped die and I do not know how to unwarp it. I chose a lightly printed base card and a snippet of blue paper and assembled the card but no mounting tape. I did use some Glossy Accents and Glitthttp://tsurutadesigns.blogspot.com/2014/12/holiday-coffee-lovers-blog-hop-details.htmler Glaze and a little bling. The photo is not good but without sun I relied on my Ott-lite.

Stamp Set - PTI "Latte Love"

Paper - Neenah, Lasting Impressions, snippet

Ink - Versafine, Copics

Other - Glossy Accents, MFT Glitter Glaze/Sheer Sparkle

Die - Lil Inkers "Stitched Rectangles"

Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes

All my December birthday cards have been made so now I start on the January list. This card will go to a friend who fell off a low stool, collided with a plastic trash can and broke her femur and is in the hospital. When this birthday card arrives I hope it perks her up. My first attempt at this card was to paper piece but it didn't look good so I worked in my comfort zone of copics. It may sound silly but coloring is relaxing and I feel creative deciding which colors to use. My friend is a purple girl so it was easy to choose my color scheme.

Like many of you I keep buying and I am somewhat embarrassed about all the things I have purchased recently. My NBUS box is filling quickly so today I used three new products, two die cuts and the stamp set.

Stamps  PTI Latte Love

Die-Namics  (MFT) Rectangle Frames, Stitched Squares

Paper  Neenah, Lasting Impressions, snippet

Other  Versafine, Copics, Wink of Stella, Glossy Accents

http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2014/12/anything-goes-birthday.html

CASology: Week 124 'OLD'

Old to me is a birthday. Sure old can be antique furniture or cars, and I have both. But honestly as each birthday approaches it means one is getting old. In the month of December I have so many friends and family members with birthdays. My aunt will be 99 on December 27th, which is the same day as my brother and one of my daughters-in-laws. New Year's Eve is another daughter-in-law's birthday and would have been my sister's.  Friends of over fifty years and friends of less than a year and my sister in law and a nephew all have December birthdays. So my take on old is birthday. I really love this image from an old stamp set and the wonky cake tells it all. 

The image was stamped and heat embossed and colored with copics and gold Gellyroll pen on the candle flames, and then die cut. How many times have I said this? The card base was embossed with a cuttlebug folder and I attached baker's twine. In viewing other cards a couple ladies wondered if they should send funny old cards to mother's in law or mother's and I think yes. However as one approaches the 100 mark I think not and a sweet card would be more appropriate.

Stamp - Our Craft Lounge "Granny's Secrets"

Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug "Numbers"

Ink - Versafine, Copics

Die Cut - Lil Inker's StitchedRectangle

Other - Gellyroll pen, embossing powder, baker's twine, mounting tape

http://casology.blogspot.com/2014/12/week-124-old.html

The Card Concept 24 - Snowman (Make a Tag)

First time submitting to The Card Concept and the style I am using is clean and simple. Honestly this morning I just finished my Christmas cards and all that is left is to mail them. But I know as early as it is in the month I will need a few more. This card I put together for my card making group and everyone loved it. The dotted background paper is not a part of the card, the card stops with the white base card.

This is a die cut and embossing folder set from Sizzix and I used PTI white card stock and some copics. On the embossed parts I used Wink of Stella and then his face and heart buttons I used Glossy Accents, and the center of the snowflake is a rhinestone. He was mounted onto a piece of glimmery aqua paper and then attached to the white base.

Die and Embossing Folder - Sizzix "Snowman and Hat"

Paper - PTI, snippet of aqua

Other - Copics, Wink of Stella, Glossy Accents, rhinestone (Michael's), baker's twine (Anthropologie)

http://thecardconcept.blogspot.com/2014/12/challenge-24-snowman-make-tag-theres.html

Paper Smooches SPARKS "anything goes"

This is my first time participating in a Paper Smooches challenge. I have been working on my Christmas cards and I love Jerome who looks like the Travelocity gnome. First I stamped him on white card stock and then using several pieces of paper snippets, including an embossed piece, I stamped the image again and then paper pieced all but his face and shirt which I colored with copics. The image piece was die cut and then attached to the base card which also was die cut. I attached the holly and added bling and then stamped the sentiment.

Stamps - Paper Smooches "Jerome," "Warm Hearts," MFT "Christmas"

Die Cuts - Lil Inkers Rectangle

Paper - Neenah, snippets

Other - Copics, Michael's rhinestones, mounting tape

http://papersmoochessparks.blogspot.com/2014/11/november-30-december-6-anything-goes.html

Merry Monday #137 "Feathered Friends"

Today I am finishing my Christmas cards and addressing envelopes. The mister wrote the Christmas letter again this year and I am ever so grateful as he does a splendid job. This card, maybe the last of the year, is for Merry Monday requesting birds. I have used a Lawn Fawn stamp/die cut set which I inked and heat embossed and colored with copics. The tree branch and leaves are from a MFT die set and so is the sentiment tag. My embossing folder is from a set that coordinates with a Cricut cartridge and I like that it is so unusual.

Stamp & Die Set - Lawn Fawn "Winter Sparrows"

Die Cut - MFT "Branch with Leaves," Die-namics "Sentiment Strips"

Embossing Folder - Cricut "Give a Hoot"

Paper - Neenah (white), SU! Old Olive, Kraft, Chocolate Chip

http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2014/12/merry-monday-137-feathered-friends.html