Santa Joy

December 2, 2008

So for today, I am killing 3 birds with 1 stone and combining 3 challenges. First of all today's color challenge to use Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla and Basic Black, the Tuesday Crafty Secret Forum challenge to add buttons to you hearts delight, and the Christmas Spirit Challenge over at Noel Mignon with Michele Kovaks sketch.

The Santa image from the Vintage Christmas stamp set of Crafty Secrets Clear Art stamps was stamped on Very Vanilla cs with Onyx Black Versafine. Then cut with a scalloped circle Nestability and embossed. The edges of the scallop circle was distressed by sponging Sahara Sand all around the edges. This was matted onto black, Sahara Sand then black cs. Background very vanilla cs was stamped randomly with the star from the Chirstmas Joy stamp set of Crafty Secrets with Sahara Sand then mounted onto the black cs base. Another piece of very vanilla cs was stamped again with the star and distressed on the edges with Sahara Sand. Underneath this layer is a black layer that was punch with a Martha Stewart lace border punch. Added black ribbon on the center, circle metal pieces (JOY) and 2 buttons to the top corners.

Stamps: Christmas Joy and Vintage Christmas Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps

Ink: Onyx Black Versafine and Sahara Sand

Paper: Very Vanilla, Sahara Sand and Black cs

Accessories: Circle Scallop Nestability, ribbon, metal letters, button and lace border punch

Season's Greetings

November 20, 2008

Here is a card for today's Ways to Use it challenge over at Splitcoast Stampersto, use pearls.

Image (A Snowman's Best Friend - Whipper Snapper Designs, Inc) was stmped on white cs with Tuxedo Black Memento ink. It was then colored with various copic markers. cs was cut with the Cricut Machine using the Storybook cartridge. Aqua mat was also cut using the Cricut machine. Layers were mounted onto the DP background from the Snowy Days Snowflakes paper of pebblesinc the onto to the aqua base of the card. Outlined the borders with dashes using a Signo pen. Punched some snoflakes and trimed it a bit to fit on the four corners of the aqua mat layer. Then topped it of with pearls that were colored with an Aqua copic marker. Sentiment was stamped with Tuxedo Black and is from creative cafe.

Stamp: A Sowman's Best Friend - Whipper Snapper Desings, Inc

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Aqua and Copic markers

Paper: Snowy Days Snowflakes - Pebblesinc

Accessories: Half pearls, Storybook - Cricut and snowflake punch

naughty or nice

November 19, 2008

Here is a card for today's sketch challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.

Image is from the Christmas Critters stamp set of Penny Black. It was stamped on white cs with Tuxedo Black Memento and colored with Copic markers. Did a little stippling with Lime Pastel to blend in with the background paper. Images was matted on to red then green cs. Outlined the edges of the layers with Gold Mettalic Gel pens. Dp is from the Falala collection of makingmemorries. On each of the 4 corner squares I punch part of the design from the BG paper with a circle punch and then coated it with Glossy Accents. Sentiment is a rub-on from Cosmo Cricket and final touch to the card are 2 red crystals on each side of the sentiment.

Stamp: Christmas Critters

Paper: Falala, green, red and white cs

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento, copic markers, Gold Mettalic Gel pen and Lime Pastel

Accessories: red bling, Glossy accents, and circle punch

Merry Christmas Medallion

November 17, 2008

Today's Technique Lover's Challenge over at Splitcoast Gallery was to make something using a triangle fold medallion.

So for this challenge, I once more used a stamp from the Christmas Joy stamp set of Crafty Secrets Clear Art stamps. The stamps in this set are so adorable and there is so much you can do with them.

First of all, I cut 8 - 2" squares and folded them, following Lynn's instructions in the challenge which you can find here. I assembled the triangle medallion and put it aside for a while. I then stamped the little Christmas bird on DP from the Wassail Paper Pad of Basic Grey (all the paper used for this card is from this paper pad) with Tuxedo Black Memento ink. I heat set the stamped image to prepare it for coloring with Copic markers. Then proceeded to color the image with several copic markers. I added some gold metallic Sakura to the edge of the circle. Then die cut a round scallop with green dp using my small nestability. I used 2 other sizes of scallop circles for the other 2 layers behind the main image. The main image was mounted on to the triangle fold medallion, then onto the other 2 circle scallops. Edges of the circle scallops were again lined with the gold metallic Sakura pen. The whole circle piece was then mounted onto the background DP. Stamped the Merry Christmas and cut the piece out with scissors and mounted it onto to red DP. Cut the 4 corners from a Cuttlebug corner die and placed them on the four corners of the card.

Stamp: Christmas Joy Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps

Paper: Wassail Paper Pad from Basic Grey

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento, Walnut Stain, Copic markers and Gold metallic Sakura pen

Accessories: Cuttlebug corner die

November 15, 2008

This card was made for the Featured Stampers challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers. Congratulation Kendra for being selected for the featured stamper. You have a great gallery. Here is the card I selected from Kendra's gallery for this challenge.

Snowman image was stamped on white cs with Tuxedo Black Memento ink. Colored with copic markers and sponged the edges with Aqua Color Box ink. Cut red square scallop with Spellbinders nestability. Aqua strip of cs on the top was embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder and then sanded. Botton DP is Holiday Joy Mini Dots from Paper Adventures. Wrapped ribbon on the edge were the 2 papers met. Sentiment is from Stampin Up which was stamped with Tuxedo Black onto white cs that was sponged on the edges with Aqua Color Box and then mounted on red cs. Added some red brads to both ends of the sentiment strip.

Stamp: Snowman stamp from Great Impressions and Sentiment from Stampn Up

Paper: Holiday Joy Mini Dots from Paper Adventures, white and aqua cs

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento, Aqua Color Box and Copic markers

Accessories: Ribbon and brad

JOY

November 12, 2008

Wow, what a busy weekend. First of all I had my sister come to visit. It's been almost a year since she last came over to visit. We really had a good time together. Saturday, I helped out with the make-n-takes at the Crafty Secret booth in the BC's Creative Expo. This was my first time doing something like this and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Then, I was lucky enough to get a spot in the Copic Certification Class. Learned a lot on how to use these great markers.

With all that behind, I now had time to make a card for 2 challenges. Today's card was made for the Tuesday Challenge over at the Crafty Secret Forum. For this challenge the host Darlene, challenge us to use punches. This card was also made for today's sketch challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.

Christmas Ornament from the Christmas Joy collection of Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps was stamps onto DP from Basic Grey's Wassail paper pad with Pitch Black Adirondack ink. Edges were distressed slightly with Walnut Stain Distress ink and then parts of the ornaments were inked with a Gold Sakura Glitter pen. Bird image was stamped onto white cs with and colored with Copic markers. Both images were cut with scissors. Bird was mounted onto the ornament with doublesided foam tape. Ornament was mounted onto another DP from the Wassail paper pad, which was punched and embossed on the corners with a Fiskars corner punch. Used a snowflake punch to cut the 3 snowflakes which were colore with a Gold Glitter pen and mounted onto the 3 squares. Stamped the sentiment JOY onto DP with Walnut Stain and cut it into squares which were mounted on top of the snowflakes. Rest of the layers are DP from the same Wassail paper pad. Added some dots with a Signo Pen.

Stamp: Christmas Joy Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps

Ink: Pitch Black Adirondack, Walnut Stain Distress Ink and various Copic markers

Paper: Wassail paper pad from Basic Grey, white cs

Accessories: Fiskars corner punch and Snowflake punch

A Very Happy Christmas

November 7, 2008

Here is a card for today's Ways to Use It Challenge to use a corner punch in your creation.

This card was made using stamps for the recent release of Crafty Secrets - Christmas Joy.The wreath was made using the single Holly Leaf stamp and stamped around a circle with Onyx Black Versafine and colored with red and 2 shades of green Tombow markers. Then stamped the ribbon from the same set, colored it with red Tombow marker and cut the shape out. This was added to the bottom of the wreath. Cut the cs into a circle and matted it on to a red scallop circle. This was then matted to the three square layers. Two of with were punched at the corner with a ticket punch. Used DP from Heidi Grace for the background and added ribbon and sentiment to the bottom of the card.

Stamp: Christmas Joy Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps

Paper: Jolly and Bright, white, red and green cs

Ink: Onyx Black Versafine and Tombow markers

Accessories: ribbon, brad, chipboard and circle scallop nestability

Seasons Greetings

October 15, 2008

This card was made for today's sketch challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers. Stamped the poinsettias 2x with Onyx Black Versafine on white cs. Colored the image with Red Tombow marker and cut the flowers with scissors. Added some liquid embossing and set aside to dry completely. Back ground paper is from the Falala Holiday collection of makingmemories. Background DP is from Geometric Falala which was cut 4-1/8 x 5-3/8". Red matting behind this was the reverse of Poinsettia Stripe Falala DP. Used Poinsettia Stripe Falala for the bottom strip of DP across the card. Scalloped circle just in fromt of the background paper was cut with a round scallop nestabilities. Center circle is a cream cs that was cut with a circle cutter then sprayed with Meadow Green Glimmer Mist. Sentiment from the Vintage Christmas stamp set of Crafty Secrets was stamped on the cream circle by bending the clear stamp to form an arch using the circle cs as a guide. S was stamped on a separate piece of cream cs then cut and mounted with double sided foam tape. Once the liquid embossing on the poinsettia dried it was mounted on the cream center circle and added some poisettia leaves (from Holly Beery House) underneath the flowers. Center circle was then glued to the green scalloped circle. Assembled the different layers as seen.

Stamps: Holiday Calligraphies by Paper Inspirations, sentiment from Vintage Christmas by Crafty Secrets and leaves from Holly Berry House

Ink: Onyx Black Versafine and red Tombow marker

Paper: Geometric Falala, Poinsettia Stripe Falala - makingmemories and cream cs

Accessories: Liquid embossing, Meadow Green Glimmer Mist, round scallop nestabilities and circle cutter

Penny Black Christmas Cards

October 14, 2008

Here are 2 more Christmas cards made over the last few days using stamps from Penny Black 'Christmas Critter' stamp set.

Stamped Images were colored in with Copic markers.

Stamps: Christmas Critter - Penny Black

Ink: Black Soot Distress Ink and various Copic markers

Paper: DCWV Christmas Paper pack and Holiday Joy Mini Dots from Paper Heart, red, white and aqua cs

Accessories: button, brad, Cuttlebug Embossin folder, snowflake punch and lace border punch

Christmas Card Countdown

October 14, 2008

Here are a bunch of Christmas Cards I have made over the last few days.

This one was made for the Tuesday Crafty Secret Forum challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers. Today's host is the ever talented Darlene. Darlene has challenged us to make our own Designer Paper using Crafty Secret stamps. Card I made uses the small and medium snowflake stamps from the Vintage Christmas stamp collection of Crafty Secrets Clear Art stamps. This was stamped randomly on a white cs with Certainly Celery, Aqua and Peacock ink. Added some bling to the center of the snowflakes. Background paper was matted onto a blue then green cs. Added some dots on the edges with a white opaque Inkssential pen. Layed 3 rows of ribbon across the card then mounted the image taken from the Christmas Images & Journal Notes pad also from Crafty Secrets. Final touch to this card was a Snowflake embellishment.

Stamp: Vintage Christmas Clear Art Stamps from Crafty Secrets

Paper: white cs and image taken from the Images and Journal Notes

Ink: Certainly Celery, Aqua and Peacock ink

Accessories: bling, ribbon and snowflake embellishment

Here are 2 cards also using images from the Christmas Images & Journal Notes from Crafty Secrets.

Christmas

October 8, 2008

Wow, Christmas is just a few months away and I have not really been concentrating on making all those Christmas Cards I will be needing this year.

For today's sketch challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers I have made a Christmas card. This card was made using stamps from the Holiday Calligraphies stamp set from Clearly Inspired by Paper Inspirations. Stamped the flowers on white cs 2x with Jet Black Impress Ink. Colored the image with Cadmium Red and New Leaf Copic markers. For the first stamped image I cut out just the flowers and glued it on top of the flowers from the second stamped image. I coated it with Clear Liquid Embossing from All Night Media and let it dry thoroughly. After it was dried, I cut all around the whole image. Stamped the sentiment on beige cs with Onyx Black Versafine ink and distressed the edges with Black Soot. Added a ribbon off to the right side and adhered the flower image with double sided foam to pop it up. This was then mounted on to Christmas designer paper, not sure who the manufacturer is. Looks like the paper is from the same place and one of them has a sticker with St. Nick 12x12 Vintage Snowflake. This was then attached to the based of my card.

Stamp: Holiday Calligraphies from Clearly Inspired by Paper Inspirations

Paper: white and black cs and Christmas DP St. Nick 12x12 Vintage Snowflake

Ink: Black Soot, Jet Black Impress ink, Onyx Black Versafine and Copic markers

Accessories: Ribbon and Clear Liquid Embossing

Dashing thro' the Snow & Happy Holidays

September 20, 2008

Here are 2 cards made with the same stamps and paper.

First card is for the Wednesday Sketch challenge over at Splitcoast Gallery. Used a stamp from the Vintage Christmas stamp collection of Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps. Stamped the image of Santa with his sleigh and Reindeers on white cs with Black Soot Distress Ink. Then colored the images with Copic markers. Cut the cs in rectangle shape and distressed the edges by sponging Walnut Stain Distress Ink. Main image was mounted onto a green distressed cs. Used left over Christmas paper from last year to follow the sketch. Used rub-ons from America Crafts miniMARKS for the Sentiment.

The second card was made for Beate's weekned sketch challenge which you can find here. Used the same image and stamping technique as the first card above and used the same left over Christmas paper. For the sentiment I used another stamp also from the Vintage Christmas collection, which I stamped with Black Soot and colored the pinecones and Holly leaves with copic markers. Cut around the music sheet and distressed the edges with Walnut Stain. Used foam tape behind the music sheet to pop it up. Added some red brads to both ends of the center panel.

Stamps: Vintage Christmas Craft Secrets Clear Art Stamps

Paper: Left over Christmas paper (Deja Views - Flurries & frost), white, red and green cs

Ink: Black Soot and Walnut Stain Distress Ink and various Copic markers

Accessories: rub-ons and brads