TGIF!  :)  Today I have another ornament shaped card to share. 

It’s Review Preview Friday at All That Scraps and today we are reviewing my Country Shelf set and the Otis & Milo Christmas set.  So this time I decided to have Christine’s Heidi image sitting on my shelf. 

You can check out the other DT samples on the ATS blog.

It is also the 20th of the month today which means that it’s time for another Dirty Dozen & Alumni challenge.  This month Kim (blondie090277) set the challenge.  And it fit perfectly with my card for ATS so I combined the two. 

Here’s the challenge details:

Hanging out the Holidays with Ornaments!

The Challenge: Create a project for any holiday of your choice

Required Element: Your ornament must hang from something or have a loop of ribbon so that it can hang (ie: from a christmas tree, door, etc)

Restricted Element: None

You can see all of the DD gals’ submissions for this challenge here. 

I used my ornament pattern again to cut the shape of the card base (the fold is at the top).  Then I stamped and masked Heidi before stamping the shelf.

Here’s the card deets… stamps- Country Shelf by Cookie Crumbs, Swiss Pixie Heidi with Ornament by C.C. Designs; paper- Confetti White, Silver; ink- Memento Black, Artichoke; accessories- Prismacolor pencils, Gamsol, silver cord.

Have a great weekend!

Hello!  Today I have another shaped card to share.  And as promised, you can scroll down for the pattern if you’d like to make one too!

Also, today the ATS design team is reviewing the Swiss Pixies and Amy’s sentiment set from this month’s release.  I chose to use the Heidi With Ornament image since the card template I made was in an ornament shape. 

Once I had my pattern the way I wanted it, I placed it so that the top of the ornament was on the fold.  After it was traced and cut out, I also traced and cut the top piece onto a scrap of silver cardstock.  I thought about embossing the whole front with a Cuttlebug folder but then I changed my mind.  Instead, I heat embossed it with a retired SU! background stamp and some silver embossing powder.  The Swiss Pixie Heidi image was popped up on dimensionals.

Here’s the pattern if you would like to make it…it’s a very simple one.  be sure to post back if you do so I can check it out!

ornament-card.pdf

Oh, and BTW, this will fit in a regular A2 envelope. 

stamps- Swiss Pixie Heidi with Ornament, SU! French Flair; paper- white, Cool Caribbean, Vintage Violet, Silver; ink- Memento Black, Versamark; accessories- Copics, gel pen, silver EP, Flake 1 Shapeabilities, SU! Scallop Edge punch, Liquid Pearls, Stickles, pop dots, SU! Silver cord, EK Success snowflake punch.

Hello my friends!  How are you?  I hope you are having a few days of nice weather like we’ve had here lately!

Despite the beautiful weather though, my mojo kinda left for a bit.  I had a decision to make a few days ago and I felt I made the wrong choice so I was pretty mad at myself to say the least.  But last night I made this card and I really liked how it turned out so hopefully I’m getting a little less upset with myself.  LOL.

This is Swiss Pixie Nora from the ATS November release.  She is actually surrounded by snowflakes in the stamp but I cut her out, omitting the snowflakes, and colored her to fit in an Autumn card.   

The template for this acorn card was created by Kim Hughes and is available through the Paper Crafts magazine.  Her cute card was published in the October 2008 issue.  You can find the pattern here.  I just loved it when I saw it and I can’t believe it took me a whole year to try it!  LOL. 

The acorn cap and leaf were embossed with Cuttlebug embossing folders…Tartan and Herringbone.  The Tartan folder can be found here at HSN.  I never ordered from them before, but I was pleased with their service.  And I purchased the Herringbone from ATS…you can find that one here.  I also used the Cuttlebug Squirrel die.  That might be retired??? …not sure.  But maybe you can do a search…it sure is cute!

I guess I have been in the mood for making shaped cards lately.  If you like them too, then be sure to check back on Friday…I was inspired by this card to create a different shaped card.  I made a quick pattern for it to share with you too. 

stamps- Swiss Pixie Nora, leaves from the Autumn Sugarplum Kit- all by C.C. Designs; paper- white, Caramel, Cocoa, Celery; ink- Memento Black, Cocoa, Celery; accessories- Copic markers, Acorn Template- Paper Crafts October 2008, Cuttlebug Tartan folder (HSN), Herringbone folder and Squirrel die, button, linen thread. 

Hello all! 

I hope you are having a great weekend!  The sun is shining and the air is cool…a perfect fall day!

Over at All That Scraps, Christine has a few bonus images this month!  She has some super cute pilgrims and a bunch of Christmas images that will only be released in digital form. 

You can see the sneak peeks today and tomorrow on the ATS blog and the digis will be released on Monday.

Here I used the Santa image called Cookie Break.  I haven’t seen many Santas that are eating the cookies left for him so I thought this one was kinda unique…besides, you know I love cookies so I just had to print him out!  ;) 

I used the largest Labels 8 Nestabilities die to cut the base of the card.  I loved how others did this and wanted to try it myself.  And it is hard to see in the photo, but I added a bunch of dots made with Stickles along the lines where the papers met.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

digital image- Cookie Break by C.C. Designs; paper- white, black, Olive, dp- Dream Street; accessories- Ovals and Labels 8 Nestabilities, ribbon, Prima, Martha Stewart Branch punch, cell phone bling, Stickles.

Another quickie post again today…

I just wanted to pop in to share a sneak peek of my new set for November…Country Shelf.

This set, along with the others, will be available Monday night at ATS!  Go check out the ATS blog for samples of each and a chance to win them!  And be sure to also check out the new Challenge blog…there’s still time to try for one of the DT spots!

This set includes the shelf, lots of things to sit on it, and some country sayings too.  I hope you like it!

I spotlighted the candle with some oval Nesties to add a little interest.

stamps- Country Shelf and Reason For The Season (holly) by Cookie Crumbs; paper- vanilla, Olive, retired SU! dp; ink- Memento Black; accessories- Copics, Oval and Double Ended Tags Nestabilities, ribbon, brads, Stickles.

Hi all!  Super quickie post today ’cause I’m exhausted!

Today’s challenge at ATS is to make a Halloween item.  Go check out the new ATS Challenge Blog for all the samples! 

This candy jar was part of my gift swap on Saturday.  I had a package of chocolate covered sunflower seeds but I didn’t know what to call them.  The only thing I could come up with was….Witches’ Warts!  LOL.  So I just had to use Griselda! 

I had the jar in my stash…I think it may have had something like marshmallow fluff inside?? 

The words were printed from the computer and then masked before I stamped the witch.

Gotta run…have a great day!

stamps- Ollie and Griselda by Cookie Crumbs; paper- white; ink- Memento Black; accessories- Copics, ribbon, jar, Scor-Tape, Chocolate covered sunflower seeds, computer for words.

Today I have another project to share from the gathering I went to on Saturday.  This is the ATC I created for our ATC swap.  If you aren’t familiar with ATC’S, it stands for Artist Trading Card.  They are 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. 

I decided to make mine a bit 3D this time and since I had fun creating a stair step card recently, I figured out the measurements to make it a miniature ATC size.  Here’s what I came up with, using my Ollie and Griselda set once again.  The shoes were paper pieced and boy was I tired of cutting out those curly shoes!  LOL. 

Below is a side view so you can see the folds a little better.  I had to make 24 of these for the swap so I wanted to figure out the best measurements to avoid a lot of waste in scraps.  I pulled out some 12 x 12 cardstock and cut the base of the cards so that I started with a 3 1/2 x 6 piece of cardstock.  Then I scored the 6″ length @ 1 1/2, 3, 4, 5, and 5 1/2.  The scored lines are folded mountain and valley style to create the base.

And the last photo shows how the die cut bat was attached with a small strip of clear acetate.  I sandwiched the bottom between the cardstock and the punched border. 

Tomorrow I have one more project I made with this set…and it is yummy! 

stamps- Ollie and Griselda by Cookie Crumbs; paper- Navy, White, Celery, Black, Pumpkin, retired SU! dp- Halloween Night; ink- Memento Black, Pumpkin, Saffron, Olive; accessories- Long Rectangle Nestabilities, M.S. Drippy Goo punch, clear acetate, Cuttlebug Halloween die, Scor-Tape, yellow glitter pen, Stickles.

Hello!  :0)

I hope you had a great weekend!  I sure did.  On Saturday I attended another fun day of stamping with some of my NY and PA friends.  Fun, fun!  I have a few projects from this gathering that I will share with you this week.  And the sneak peeks for the new ATS sets for November start this week too, so be sure to check the ATS blog each day! 

This card was my shoebox project on Saturday that I prepared for everyone at my table to make.  I used my Ollie and Griselda set, along with the Retiform Grid technique that I haven’t done in a long time.  It was fun to try it out again.  I don’t remember where I first learned this technique, but I learned to make it two different ways…one by drawing in the lines with a marker and the other by sponging without drawing the lines.  I forgot to take some pictures as I was making it, so hopefully I’ll explain it well enough to understand.

First I started with a square of white cardstock.  Then I made a pattern for my grids by cutting a second square into 3 random pieces.  You do not need to make a pattern but I needed to be able to make several cards exactly alike so a pattern was very helpful.  Then I traced the pattern pieces with a Sharpie marker to get the black lines. 

Next I masked off each section, one at a time and stamped the images with black ink.  Then I masked them each again, sponging them with 3 different colors of ink.  It really doesn’t matter if you stamp first or sponge first by doing it this way but if you stamp first, then you have a little more control over where your lighter, highlighted areas are.

The second way I learned to do this technique is to not draw in any lines.  In this way, you must do your sponging first.  Mask off a section and sponge it.  Then move your mask and sponge another section.  Your sections may overlap if you want.  Continue until you fill the cardstock.  Then come back and mask the sections again, this time stamping various coordinating images in each one.  By doing it this way, it is sometimes best to choose only 2 colors of ink that blend well together to avoid the sections looking “muddied” where they overlap. 

I hope I explained it well enough and you give it a try!  It is really a fun technique which is quick and easy when you don’t have time to do a lot of coloring.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

stamps- Ollie and Griselda by Cookie Crumbs; paper- Elegant Eggplant, Not Quite Navy, Olive, Pumpkin, Black, White; ink- Memento Black, SU! Not Quite Navy, Pumpkin, Olive; accessories- Cuttlebug Halloween die and Spiderweb embossing folder, Sharpie marker, Martha Stewart Spiderweb Edge punch, brad, sponges. 

Wow…I can’t believe how time flies.  Yesterday Riley turned one!

In honor of her birthday, and to play along with the monthly DD/DDA challenge over at Splitcoast, I made this card. 

Well, I should say that I kinda screwed up the card!  The challenge this month was set by Jodi (Kharmagirl).  She asked us to paper piece our card.  check.  I got that part right. 

But last night as I was typing up this blog post I realized that I forgot all about the required element…to use fall or Christmas colors.  Ugh!  Do pink, brown and orange qualify?  LOL.  I guess not.  :0(

Oh well…I’ll share my card here anyway.   

When I first saw Christine’s Birthday Bash set, I knew the puppy with a cupcake would be perfect for this occasion…even though Riley could care less!  LOL.  And when I paper pieced the cupcake and party hat, I decided to paper piece the puppy too.  It had to be a pink puppy…because Riley’s favorite stuffed toy (that she even sleeps with) is a pink dog that we call “Pink Puppy”.  Original name, huh?  Pink Puppy lost her eyesight and can’t hear very well since she only has one ear now but she is still well loved. 

Riley must think that cupcake is mighty yummy. 

card deets:

stamps- Pixie Pets Birthday Bash by C.C. Designs; paper- White, Pink Pirhouette, Choc. Chip, Pumpkin, Regal Rose, dp- SU! Sweet Always; ink- Memento Black; accessories- Copic markers, Stickles, felt flowers, brad, ribbon.

Have you seen anything sweeter?  I love this girl!

This is Christine’s newest Swiss Pixie…Birgitta!  She is so cute with her sunflower.  I pulled out some fall papers from the DCWV Indian Summer pack and used the plaid pattern to also paper piece her dress.  There’s a new challenge blog that my friend Lisa is a member of called “Just Us Girls” and their new challenge is paper piecing…check it out!

This is a long card…not the usual A2 size card.  I started with a  6 1/4 x 7 piece of cardstock and folded it to a 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inch card.  It will fit into a regular letter size envelope. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

stamps- Swiss Pixie Birgitta by C.C. Designs; paper- White, Choc. Chip, DCWV Indian Summer; ink- Memento Black; accessories- EK Success Falling Leaves and Dotted Waves punches, SU! Oval punch, gel pen, pearl stickers.