Season of Sweetness

Good Saturday Morning Peeps!

So sorry for the long silence this week, just taking a bit of a break here. I am back with a fun little card to share with you today tho! This card is made with a new stamp set I just got, it is called Merry Crittermas and it is loaded with a bunch of fun little Christmas critters. My fave when first looking at it was this cute fun little rabbit, he looks like he is having a good time riding down a snow packed hillside on his new Christmas sled, well that is what I think anyway!! LOL!

I stamped him with black stazon onto some watercolor paper that i had first cut out with my top note die. The sentiment is from the same set and is also stamped with black stazon. I colored the rabbit with my aqua painter and ink from my ink pads. I used crumb cake, soft suede, baja breeze, real red and pink pirouette. I sponged the edges with baja breeze. The base of the card is real red and then baja breeze. The DSP is from the Candy Cane pack.

I used some silver tinsel across the middle. I punched out a snowflake with baja and added a big red button to the center of the snowflake. I put a bit of tinsel through the button. I added some silver pearls to the bottom.

Well, that is all from me today, I will be back in the AM with my Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge Sample. See you then, and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

MTSC Grateful Greetings

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!!

Today's card is made with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge.

I made my card a bit bigger to accommodate the pumpkins and sentiment I wanted to use. The finish size is 5 x 5-1/2 inches. I dug out some of last years fall DS paper, Autumn Vines.

The base of the card is chocolate chip and then layered with really rust and the DS paper. I cut out a top not with really rust and another pattern of the DS paper. Trimmed the DS paper and layered it over the really rust. I cut it flat on one side.

i stamped the pumpkins and greeting onto watercolor paper with black stazon. I colored in the pumpkins with my aqua painter and used more mustard, pumpkin pie, really rust and ruby red ink. The stems and ground was colored in with chocolate chip, altho the sentiment covers most of the ground.

I used 5/8 inch chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon. I added some pretty leaves brad from my stash. the circle and scallop is cut with my nesties and cuttlebug. The pumpkin image and sentiment are mounted with dimensionals.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

You Made my Day

TGIF Peeps! Are you ready for the weekend! I am super excited, I have stamp camp tonight with my fabulous SU demo and her awesome group. She has a sneak peek on her BLOG of the fun projects we will be making!

On today's card I was greatly inspired by the one seen in this post on Jan Tink's Blog. I changed up a few things from her original design. I used the top note die and I used different colors. The placement of my ribbon and brads are different and I also cut out and layered up the blue flowers and added a half pearl to the center. I also added some leaves in always artichoke.

I do have to tell you how I struggled getting those solid flowers to stamp out nicely, well just the riding hood red one. I swear I cut and used at least 6 top note pieces, front and back. I was so frustrated, I almost chucked the whole thing!

Anyway I finally finished it.....but by this point I am not loving it! The base is riding hood red, followed with a piece of so saffron and then some Washington Apple DS paper. The main image is up on dimensionals. The sentiment is from the SU set "Stem Sayings."

That is all for today, THANKS so much for stopping by and Happy Stamping!!!

Vicki

Monochromatic color combos!

Good Thursday Morning Peeps! Hope you all are staying warm, it is like a sub-zero deep freeze here and will be for a couple of days according to the weather man! BRRRRRR!!!!! But could be worse, at least no ice is in the forecast!

Today's cards are made with another new SU stamp and some more of that fabulous level 1 Hostess print pack! I just love the colors and papers in that pack! I looked at today's
Ways to Use it Challenge on Splitcoast and came up with these. I sure hope monochromatic counts!

I used this site to choose my colors, and went with the
conjure color family. I just used the blues and white to make my card. A really simple and quick card to put together. I used the SU top note die, dimensionals and white taffeta ribbon. The one stamp set is called Elegant Thank you, and I do think it is very elegant.

The inside of my card:



And since this was just such a fun and quick card I did another in Kraft and white and more of that awesome designer paper!




Well, that's all for today, Hope you all are safe and warm. Thanks so much for stopping by and Happy Stamping!!!

Vicki

Another Desktop Calendar

Good Morning Peeps. Hope you are all having a great Saturday so far!

Today I have another desk top calendar to show you. You can find my first one here. That post will give you all the links to the original and where you can download a free calendar, if you want to make some of these fun little projects.

I am making a few to give to some friends, well, I will mail them, for New Years Cards. I hope they like them.

I used the Washington Apple DS paper from SU and pulled my colors for the card stock from it. I used Riding Hood Red for the base and layered it with either so saffron or bashful blue. I also used the top note die to cute the BG for each page.



I used a snowflake from the SU set Season of Joy for the January through March page. Punched it out with 1 1/4 inch punch, layered onto a piece of punched cardstock with the 1 3/8 inch punch, and layered that onto another punched piece with the scallop circle punch.

I did the same on each page with different stamps, the April through June page has a bird from the SU Spring Solitude set.



The other two pages both have flowers from the SU set Eastern Blooms.






These are so much fun to make and are really quick and easy once you get have your colors and stamps picked. You really need to give it a try!

Well, that's all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and Happy Stamping!!!

Vicki

Happy Heart

Happy Saturday!!! Hope you are all ready for the big day, I am still running behind!


Today's card is made with the SU set "A Happy Heart", it is such a great set, I hope it makes it into the new cattie, it is so versatile, can be elegant and also it can be fun and whimsical. I bought this set solely because I loved this one stamp, but the more I play with the set, the more things I love about it.

I started with a base of riding hood red, and then followed that with a piece of so saffron cardstock that is on dimensionals. The DS paper is from SU and is from the Washington Apple Pack. I used the top note die to, love it, and you know you need it so quit waiting, just order it already!!! :)

I couldn't fit any ribbon on here, tho I tried, but it just didn't work for me. Which is OK I guess, because the card is more mailable this way. I used some bashful blue brads in the corners. The middle image/sentiment panel is up on dimensionals too. I think now that I should have used riding hood red ink for the flower and sentiment panel. What do you think?

Well, that's all for today, Thanks so much for stopping by and Happy Stamping!!!

Vicki