A cracked cuttle bug plate!

My company left this morning, so after I took down the Christmas decorations-this took all day, I headed up to play with my new toys at 8:30 tonight. I grabbed my new Rachel Anne Miller stamp-isn't she darling? I thought she looked spring-ish, so I pulled out TAC's Angelee SWIC. It's filled with those soft spring colors. I so wanted to see what the new stickles looked like that I grabbed, so I put different stickles on the mushrooms. (The distressed stickles have a big opening, so that caused a few issues at first. Had the stickle blobs happening a few times!)

But yippie! I finally got to use the nesties. I will have to get the nesting rectangles. I really like that look where they're embossed and straight line in the middle. I'm not a double scalloper person, I guess! Ran into a problem with the ribbon on this layout. So, I'm not digging where it's located.

Than I grabbed an IRAK from Tammi to make another card. Man, she's gonna make a big fan of those Hanglar stamps! Freaking cuties! I put her thru a different shaped rectangle nestie, and bam, the darn thing cracked my B plate! And it was my nice one too! I always do my die cutting on this one, so that it's freaky looking, and the other stays clear. I was a little shocked when it stuck into the plastic when I cut the second scallop rectangle out! Wasn't expecting that! Made me chuckle while I was peeling it off. I double checked the directions, and I put it thru right, so I'm not sure why it cracked. Guess I'll grab another one when it's on sale.

Supplies:Rachel Anne Miller, Hanglar, TAC Angelee SWIC, SU card stock, K & Co., stickles, ribbons from Michaels, flowers from TAC, Versamark spots, Nesties, crop-a-dile, water color pencils and lyra water color crayons.

Harvest Bear stays flat

I just got this stamp the other day, and couldn't wait to play with it. I think it's ubber cute! So cute, that I wanted to pop up the tummy, and couldn't cut the other image I stamped. It was killing me! So, here sits one flat bear! Cutie pie! Anyhow, I used sketch challenge 202 from SCS's. Penelope paper line from TAC is the pattern paper used on this year. I used more mustard from SU for the card base, and wild wasabi is the green card stock. Colored the cutie with prima colored pencils, and gamsol. Added some star dust, and pink stickles, ribbon from Joann's and flower is from the assorted bitty blossoms in the TAC catty.

The gem brad came from my friend Kim.

Magical Deer

I had time to sit down and stamp something not related to Gabi's upcoming birthday party. I've got Christmas on the brain lately! I pulled out two of my favorite TAC sets, Holiday Magic and Simply Christmas by Mabelle. I think these two sets go so nicely together. I pulled out TAC's Reece SWIC paper pack, and SU's baja breeze paper. I think they go wonderfully together. I used some wine red 2 DCWV paper to mount everything. I did the cracked glass technique on the deer, which was stamped in SU's Close to Cocoa. I stamped the holiday sentiment in Palette Bordeaux. It's such a pretty color. One of my favorites. Than I used the SU scallop punch, and topped off with crystal stickles. I had a brown ribbon floating around, so I grabbed it. I took Palette Haystack, and SU's Close to Cocoa to the cracked glass to showcase it alittle better. The ends of the deer were run across the bordeaux stamp pad for added color.

TAC's Snowmen Nativity

I think this set is so cute! It's one of my favorite winter ones from TAC. It's called Snowmen Nativity. I wanted to try to make one of those cool skies Michelle Zindorf makes. The other day her snowman card was so soft and pretty. I think she just rocks when she gets a hold of a brayer! I took my speckled background stamped it in Versamark, heat embossed with clear pearl embossing powder. I masked over the wise men. Than I took SU ink pads bordering blue, baja breeze, and blue bayou in layers on the card with the brayer. I kept getting lines, so than I switched to a sponge. I sponged the sand with creamy caramel, and close to cocoa. I used my water color crayons by Lyra to color the image. Took the edge distressor to the edge of a blue bayou layer. Layered TAC's Reece sheet with creamy caramel, and put all of it onto baja blue. I than added the big star with sliver pigment ink, and heat set in silver embossing powder. And of coarse, topped those cute sheep in star dust stickles!