Sweetness!

Tammi is such a dear. She sent me some Polly Packages images a few weeks ago. Oh, my! She's so freaking cute! I went back to the DCWV glitter paper pack I used with the gingerbread card, and thought she'd look darling with the ho ho ho paper. I happen to glance down at my printed copies of SCS's Sketch challenges, and used SC22 for the card. I pulled out some retired SU wasabi paper, and pink pirouette. I used fun flock on her hat brim, shirt, and the bag rim. Added stickles to the berries, and package. Used the SU paper piercer pack for the edge. End result was a darling cute card! Thanks so much for the images, Tammi!

Gingerbread man

This is a retired TAC set. They released it last Christmas as a Vintage stamp, so I grabbed it because it was super cute. It makes me think of the Losties, as a group of them got to go to the Gingerbread Cottage, or Gutterbus Cottage as they liked to call it. I had found this pack of buttons at Michael's, and had to have it. I thought the little gingerbread man button in the bottom right would look so good with that stamp. And I was right. Don't they make a perfect pair? I also saw the snowflake punch at Micheals, and grabbed it because it was 40% off that week. The paper came from last year's DCWV Christmas glitter stack. Added some scrapping floss, wonderful item for cards. I used Cranberry Crisp paper, creamy caramel and Close to cocoa. Had some old heart brads that took the place of the hearts on him. I used color pencils on him with gamsol.

Dashing thru the snow

I started working on this card the other day. I saw this way cute card on Michelle Zindorf's blog with a kid in the snow making a snow angel. I knew I wanted to try to make that type of scene on a card. I pulled out baja blue, bordering blue, night of navy, and ballet blue for the sky, and to try to add depth in the snow. The snow didn't turn out quite how I hoped. Wonder what would be a good color for adding softness for snow drifts? I didn't buy that cool SU tree set years ago when it was on sale, so I pulled out a very fun stamp set from TAC called Spring time. It has two tree bases. I used the straight one for the trees, and stamped twice in close to cocoa to get some depth with them. I wanted the penguin from TAC's Perky Penguin set to be bright, so I used rose red, and orange on him. His hat/gloves are topped off with fun flock. I used frosted lace and platinum stickles. Than a light kiss of pink pirouette on his cheeks and tummy. Add the corner punch embossed with the polka dot CB folder, and a fun snowflake sticker. My papers are rose red, and baja blue.
Michelle's card can be viewed here. http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/11/09/wonderful-snow-day-tutorial-145/

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!

Square Bear

I love when Tammi does her square cards. You can see them on her blog called Tropical Dreams. I have a pack of them, but they always throw me for a loop! So, today, I pulled out a stamp set and used one of those square base cards from DCWV. "Freeze" by Stampendous! was my stamp of choice for this card. It's small, so I knew it would fit in the little square in the center. Than I pulled out one of my favorite retired sets of Christmas paper from TAC, called Merry Wishes. They have a index sheet of the pattern papers in the pack. It's about a 3x3 scaled down version of the 12x12 paper. I trimmed it out of the index sheet to be my base. I love those squares also for making photo corners. I brushed the edge of the card base, and the image base with pixie pink.

I cut out the mittens, and the snowman's hat and propped them up with dots. That took awhile! Than I added stickles to the bear and snow. I put fun flock on the snowman's hat, and mittens. I think I'll leave that small cutting and popping up to Kim! The bear mitten was too small to get the pop up under, so I just put it down with two way glue. Than a quick mirror snowflake gem, and bright green ribbon given to me from Kim in a Lostie Secret sister round, and my square card was completed.

Gabi's birthday invite

I finally came up with the theme for Gabi's 9th birthday party in a few weeks. She's actually a turkey baby this year. Her birthday falls on Thanksgiving. But instead of a turkey, I went with cupcakes! I have some ideas for party treat stuff for the girls using this set too. I pulled out my clear cupcake set from Hero Arts, and Hugs and Wishes from SU for my stamps. I had this old pack of pattern paper called Cheeky Collection Abby by Making Memories, and an Easter kit from DCWV where I grabbed 8x8 cardstock. I used two old items I had on hand already! Than since the cardstock was 8x8, I only had to cut it in half to create a 4x4 card! I think the card came out cute. A touch brighter than I planned, but fun all the same. I thought the pattern paper worked well for a birthday card, since birthdays are all about numbers! I used the trusty SU scallop circle punch, and 1.5 circle punch by Marvy. Coarse, I had to pick a card to scan in that the sentiment was slanted! The joys of hand made stuff! I had already put the rest of the invites in envelopes, so I had to use one I had out still. Finally, the cupcake and heart are adorned with stickles. I used stardust for the cupcake, and fruit punch for the heart.