CAS Snowflakes

I had a little time before work this morning and was able to play along with this weeks CAS challenge on SCS (splitcoaststampers) which was to make a holiday card.  I have been focusing on my Christmas cards and actually yesterday, I sat and addressed all my envelopes.  I don't have all my cards made yet, but the envelopes are ready, lol!  I find that addressing the envelopes takes longer than writing the cards, so I figure I am ahead of the game so far.  I hope to have all my cards made by this weekend and sent out by the beginning of December.  That will be a first if it happens!!  A girl can dream right?

Anyway, I have been stuck on snowflakes lately, so this was easy as my snowflake punches were sitting on my desk.  I now want to mass produce this and make it my Christmas card for this year.  The only problem is what to do with the other 25 that I have made so far, lol!!! 

I punched 2 large snowflakes and 1 small snowflake out of spring moss cs and popped them up.  I added a little pearl to the center and stamped my sentiment in smokey shadow ink.  Rounded the 2 bottom corners and that was it!  Clean and simple!  I think I will be making this in lots of different colors.

Here is the link to today's challenge:  http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/clean-simple-cards-f239/cas248-get-ready-holidays-11-25-13-a-t581369.html

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great Monday!

TTFN
Dawn

snowflake punch by Marvy, Martha Stewart
cardstock: Papertrey Ink
sentiment: Papertrey Ink (Christmas Poinsettia)
ink: smokey shadow by PTI

Merry Christmas Snowflake

I'm back with another super quick, clean and simple Christmas card.  I just picked up the new trim and score board by We R Memory Keepers today at my local LSS (Scrapdoodles) and couldn't wait to try it out.  Verdict?  I love it!!!  I scored some lines on the diagonal and then stamped my sentiment.  The brad in the center of the snowflake was colored using my alcohol inks.  The snowflakes were popped up.  I love the way it came out!

The score lines are very crisp and I love the cut of the blade too!  I love the fact that it is a trimmer AND a scoreboard!  Brilliant!  I will definitely be using this in my classes.  I have another day off from work tomorrow and I am hoping to get to play with my new e bosser!!!!

TTFN
Dawn

WRMK Christmas Cards

Happy hump day!!!  I was asked to do a guest design team post for Scrapdoodles (where I work and teach classes) and I decided to use the cute North Pole paper by We R Memory Keepers.  I love the colors and the fun patterns.  For the first card I made a poinsettia and kept it really simple.

The next card uses a tag that comes on one of the 12x12 sheets.  Again, keeping it simple and letting the paper do the work for me.  I added a green scalloped border under the sentiment and added a button and twine bow.  That panel is popped up.

The last card that I made uses another tag that comes on the 12x12 paper.  Again, I added some twine and popped the tag up!

Anyway, my craft room looks like the craft fairy threw up in here.  I seriously need to do some cleaning up before I tackle any more projects! 
I'll be back again soon with more Christmas cards to share with you.

TTFN
Dawn

supplies:
paper:  WRMK and bazzill
ink:  versafine
twine and button from my stash

Happy Holidays

Just popping on with a quick Christmas card that I made tonight.  I used my Tim Holtz embossing diffuser and an embossing folder!!  If you haven't tried this yet, you should.  I love the results!  Anyway, super quick, and super clean and simple, but I like how it turned out and I hope you do too!!

Busy, busy week for me and honestly, I don't know when it became almost the middle of November!!  I do want to just say thank you to all the veterans as today is Veterans day.  My hubby has been a Marine for over 30 years and I couldn't be prouder of him or his service to his country!!

TTFN
Dawn

Supplies:  embossing folder by darice
embossing diffuser by sizzix
stamp by PTI think big favorites # 8
silver ink by encore
red sequin
bazzill cs in peppermint and marshmallow

Snowman Christmas

Good morning.  It is a dark drizzly day here in Fredericksburg today, so I decided to play in my crap room.  I recently got some prismacolor pencils and this cute little snowman stamp and decided to practice my coloring skills.  Verdict?  I need some more practice lol!!  Ha, not quite sure about his eyes, lol!!  I also think my shadowing is a little heavy.  Oh well, I will keep practicing.  But I did have fun with this cute little image.  I added a touch of snow-tex under the image for some added texture.  Simple little Christmas card, but one more for my stash :)

Anyway, I am off to run some errands!  Have a great day :)

TTFN
Dawn

 

supplies:

stamps:  winter wishes by Darcie's heart & home

Christmas cheer chowder by jillibean soup

Hawaiian shores by pti

prismacolor pencils, gamsol

snow-tex, sequin

Distressed Christmas Card

Just popping on with a Christmas card that I made today.  I used a new stamp from Penny Black called Jolly Chant.  Isn't that a cool background stamp?  I embossed the image using white embossing powder and then used my distress inks and my ink blending tool over the entire panel.  I added some red rhinestones on the trees at the bottom and adhered it to a kraft card base.  Easy peasy!!  Have a great day!

 

supplies:

marshmallow and kraft c/s by bazzill

Jolly Chant stamp by Penny Black

distress inks: evergreen bough, peacock feathers,

gathered twigs

white embossing powder

red rhinestones

 

TTFN

Dawn