Paper Players....Christmas Blessings

Happy Hump Day peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the challenge this week on The Paper Players.

This week is a sketch challenge:

I got this pretty Stampin Up set called "Christmas Blessings" back in July when the catalog first came out and promptly lost it.....I found it a few weeks back behind my stamping armoire, where it had fallen.....so I had to give it some love, can you imagine the horror??. That stamp must have felt so bad just laying back there gathering dust.

Anyway, I decide to keep it clean and simple, I stamped the pretty poinsettia with versamark onto some cherry cobbler card stock and heat embossed with some white embossing powder. I added some small silver pearls to the centers of the flower. This card is really pretty IRL, the picture seriously does not do it justice.

Can you believe I didn't add any ribbon? LOL!

The sentiment is from the same set, I just left of the "sending".

Well, that is all from me today, thanks for coming by and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

Dynamic Duos...Merry Christmas

Happy Saturday peeps!!

Time for a new challenge on the Dynamic Duos Blog.

Here are colors this week:

Midnight Muse and Silver, these colors are so pretty and they make me think of winter and or course Christmas.

I am again using the pretty silver glimmer paper from Stampin Up, this paper seriously Rocks!!

I used the new Snow Flurry Die for my pretty 3-D snowflake. I die cut one of each of the three snowflakes on the die and also used a 1 inch punch to build the snowflake. I used a dimesional between each layer and topped it all off with a big pearl. It turned out so pretty. Love it!

The rest of the card is fairly simple, base of  Midnight Muse, and then a layer of white with some silver trim along the top and bottom and then another piece of Midnight Muse that I embossed with the Lacy Brocade EF.

The pretty sentiment on here is from the Stampin Up "Greetings of the Season" stamp set and is stamped with midnight muse ink. 

I hope you can find some time to play along with us this week and 

Be sure and hop over to the Dynamic Duos Blog to see what the rest of the design team did with these great colors.

Thanks for stopping by and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

Merry Monday......Peace

Happy Tuesday, Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the Merry Monday  sketch this week.

When I saw the sketch I knew right away what I wanted to do, I pulled out another Papertrey purchase, the Wonderful Words Holiday Die and some of my favorite, at the moment, Stampin Up silver glimmer paper.

I pulled off a bit of the backing of the paper to be able to die cut the "Peace"

I love the look of this glimmer paper with Night of Navy card stock, they are so made to go together.

The base of my card is Night of navy and I followed that with some white card stock that I embossed with the  petals a plenty EF (I think that is the name).

  

The flags are made with the glimmer paper and night of navy and are mounted directly to the embossed white.

The center panel is white and navy and I embossed that piece with a music EF.

I then glued the "Peace" onto the panel and die cut a couple of snowflakes from the retired Northern Flurries die strip. I added them to the corner of the panel and put a silver pearl in the center.

This whole panel was mounted to the base with dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Vicki

Christmas Cheer

Happy Monday Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card made using the challenge this week on The Paper Players Blog.

Silver or Gold? I had to make another Christmas card. I used a base of some of the Stampin Up Cherry Cobbler Core'dinations card stock. For the next layer I used some of the Silver Glimmer paper, I am so loving this paper this year, been using it on a lot of my Christmas cards. I then used another layer of the Cherry Cobbler core'dinations card stock that I embossed with the Lacy Brocade EF. I then sanded the embossed piece to bring out the core color.

I used the Stampin Up Watercolor Winter stamp set for the holly and berry image, I stamped on to some vanilla card stock with black stazon. I then used my aqua painter to color the image. I cut this out with my nestie dies and matted with a scallop of silver glimmer. I added a strip across the middle of more silver glimmer and a strip of champagne glimmer. I mounted the image to the card with some dimensionsal.  I then added a bunch of silver pearls around the scallop and in the corners, this card is so sparkly!!

The sentiment comes from the Sweet Essential stamp set and is stamped with back stazon and cut out, I hand cut the ends.

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Vicki

Sweet sunday.....Warm Winter Wishes

Happy Sunday Peeps!!!

 Time for a new Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. 

Love this sweet sketch Karen has for us this week:

I pulled out my Stampin Up Scentsational Season stamp set and the matching framelit dies.

I stamped my ginger with versamrk and crumb cake ink and embossed with the "Sugar and Spice" embossing powder. Man does that stuff smell good. My ginger smells good enough to eat. I made him a cute little bow tie with the heart that is on the Owl punch and added a pearl to the center.

The base of the card is Crumb Cake card stock and then I used a layer of Cherry Cobbler and then the DSP here is from the Festival of Prints pack.

The sentiment is from the Winter Memories stamp set. I used my postage stamp punch for the cherry cobbler squares and embossed with the Snow Burst EF.

I got a bit carried away with my bow and all of it's elements. I first made a double bow using some cherry cobbler seam binding ribbon and then I added a vintage faceted button with some bakers twine to the bow.

I thought it needed something more so I hand cut a  couple of holly leaves, sponged and scored and added them under the edge of the bow. Kinda of a heavy and a bit bulky card and wouldn't mail very easily but would be great tucked into a gift bag or a tray of Christmas goodies.

Be sure and check out what the rest of the team has made with this sweet sketch:

 Dana White-Dana's House of Cards

Dawn Easton-Treasure Oiler Desingz

Jackie Pedro-The Scalloped Edge-is taking the week off

Karen Giron-The Sweetest Thing

Karen Motz-Paper Playhouse

Lori Telcer-Inking Aloud

Lynn Put-The Queen's Scene

Melissa Hubert-My Paper Obsession

Sarah-Jane Kale-Janeybell

Tracy Clemente-Eat Sleep Stamp 

and this week's Sweet guest stamper

Carole Burrage

Thanks for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

Dynamic Duos.....Snow Much Fun

Happy Saturday peeps!!

Time for a new challenge on the Dynamic Duos Blog.

Love the pretty colors this week:

The dessert option is a snowman theme, I got the snow, just not the snowman. 

I decide to make a fun "ornament card".

 I wanted to use this fun silhouette die that I just got which is a set from PTI. I know, not Stampin Up, but I have been wanting these forever and I finally broke down and got some awhile back.

 Love them!

The base is cut with my scallop circle nestabilties and Marina Mist card stock. I then cut a couple of white circles and a Marina Mist circle. 

I hand cut my snow hills and added some stickles to the top. 

The snowflakes come from the Stampin Up Stylin Snowfolk stamp set. I stamped with versamark  and embossed with white embossing powder. I added some small white dots with my white gel pen and then added a few rhinestones.

The sledder was die cut with basic black card stock and added to the base with some dimensionals.

The ornament top is made with the tab punch and I added a piece of twine for the hanger.

The bow is made with some whisper white satin ribbon and a couple of rusty jingle bells.

The sentiment is from the Snow Much Fun stamp set.

I hope you can find some time to play along with us this week and 

Be sure and hop over to the Dynamic Duos Blog to see what the rest of the design team did with these great colors.

Thanks for stopping by and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

Freshly Made Sketches....Winter Wishes

Hello Peeps!!

I am popping in here quickly to share I card I made using the sketch this week on the Freshly Made Sketches blog.

I have seen a lot of cards made this way lately, monochromatic with the image left plain, and I wanted to give it a try.

I used Island Indigo t stamp my image onto whisper white card stock.

The image is from the Stampin Up's Winter Memories stamp set.

The DSP is from the Festival of Prints pack and I added some silver glimmer paper for some sparkle.

I added a little snowflake that I had in my stash to the end of the sentiment flag. 

Hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by.

Vicki