Merry Christmas!

Good morning!
I hope you are having a happy and peaceful day, whatever you're doing. Thanks for being here and supporting my little business. 

Merry Christmas to you! 

Cute Christmas Kiddos

Today is Christmas Sunday, and that is always a special day in our family. Today should be nice. I hope it is for you too.
I just wish it would snow... my youngest had a picnic in the back yard yesterday because it's been about 52* and sunny every day this week. Totally looks like October out there and not remotely the first day of winter. 

I realized I had this colored bit sitting there, not yet used, so I glued it to a card! Crazy simple, ha. And that's the best kind...

Supplies:
Stamps: Dear Santa

Ink: Memento Black

Paper: Garden Green & Basic White card stocks, A Little Bit Festive DP

Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Adhesive backed Peppermints

Christmas Cookies!

Yesterday was just so busy and got away from me entirely. I had to try to finish wrapping (I think I have three gifts left....) before my kiddo was out of school for the break. I had to bake gingerbread bars and pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. I had to do some cleaning for a kid's party, and I had to make what I hope was my last trip to the store, LOL! I am SO over shopping! 

Today I have made another batch of gingerbread bars, and I had this idea to use my regular chocolate chip cookie recipe, but chop up a Chocolate Orange instead of chips. YUM. I delivered (and had kids deliver...) a bunch of plates to neighbors and friends, and still have more... I am getting laundry done before Christmas (crazy me...) and all the other things! 

So today tonight? I have this cute card for you! I used the TGIF Challenge for cookies, and it was *inspired by the Freshly Made Sketch, lol. I just don't like the long skinny cards so I dropped an ornament for mine. haha.... 

Supplies:

Stamps: Dear Santa, Berry Christmas (long retired)

Ink: Memento Black
Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Cherry Cobbler, Light Granny Apple Green, Bronze, Ivory, Light Flirty Flamingo, Light Balmy Blue, Light Petal Pink

Paper: A Little Bit Festive DP, Real Red & Basic White card stock

Accessories: Circle Dies, big shot

Quickest Card!

Today's card is FAST.
I used a frame from the A Little Bit Festive DP and stamped inside it. Then since I had these retired "pearls" out, I stuck a few on there. Bam, done. ha!
Back to Christmas-ing!

Supplies:

Stamps: Shepherd's Care

Ink: Real Red

Paper: Basic White card stock, A Little Bit Festive DP

Accessories: Red & Green Adhesive Backed Pearls 

Dear Santa...

A quick post today. I need to start getting some wrapping done, and I think I still have to run to a store...
Today's card uses the last of those Christmas kiddos. And the sketch from Inspire.Create.Challenges. And the other side of the candy cane striped DP.

Supplies:

Stamps: Dear Santa

Ink: Memento Black, Real Red

Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Cherry Cobbler, Dark Shaded Spruce, Light Granny Apple Green, Bronze, Light Petal Pink, SU700, Light Balmy Blue 
Paper: Basic White card stock, A Little Bit Festive DP

Accessories: Adhesive Backed Peppermints, Dimensionals

Icy Christmas!

We have only had a couple very small snow storms this year, and boy are we missing it! The only snow in our yard fell just before Thanksgiving, I think, and it's next to the side of the fence that the winter sun doesn't reach. I don't reeally want an icy Christmas, but it would be good to have some snow for my kids to refresh driving in close to home, before they go back to the 45 min freeway commute to college in a few weeks...! Plus the snow makes winter a lot more fun. 21* with dead grass and dead leaves is not super fun to play in...

And, this little guy makes me giggle. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Dear Santa    

Ink: Memento Black, Blueberry Bushel

Stampin' Blends: Bronze, Ivory, Dark & Light Night of Navy, Dark & Light Balmy Blue, Dark & Light Granny Apple Green, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Petal Pink
Paper: Basic White card stock, Bright & Beautiful DP

Accessories: Transparent Adhesive-backed Dots

Sweet!

I finally got a little time to play with the other kiddos in this cute Christmas set!
THIS is the card I envisioned as soon as I saw it, with this exact stripy DP and these super cute candies. But noooo...! the candy embellishments were sold out for AGES and would pop in and out frequently before I got my hands on it! And I was done holding classes for the year by then... rats. 
Well, I got to make the card anyway, even if my customers didn't. And I rather love it.

Supplies:

Stamps: Dear Santa
Ink: Memento Black, Real Red
Stampin' Blends: Dark Basic Black, Light Cherry Cobbler, Dark & Light Granny Apple Green, Bronze, Light Balmy Blue, Ivory, Light Flirty Flamingo

Paper: Granny Apple Green & Basic White card stock, A Little Bit Festive DP 
Accessories: Adhesive-Backed Peppermints

Monochrome Wreaths #2

Today I have some less traditional Christmas color combos with the same wreath! 

And again, some close ups! 

Altho if you call this one "gold", its pretty traditional, haha...

Supplies:
Stamps: Oct 2024 Paper Pumpkin, long-retired Paper Pumpkin
Ink: Lemon Lolly, Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry
Paper: Basic White card stock
Accessories: Encircled in Nature Dies, Iridescent Foil Gems

Supplies:

Stamps: Oct 2024 Paper Pumpkin, long-retired Paper Pumpkin
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Flirty Flamingo, Melon Mambo, Berry Burst
Paper: Basic White card stock
Accessories: Encircled in Nature Dies, Regal Foiled Adhesive Backed Dots

Supplies:

Stamps: Oct 2024 Paper Pumpkin, long-retired Paper Pumpkin
Ink: Coastal Cabana, Summer Splash, Lost Lagoon, Pretty Peacock
Paper: Basic White card stock
Accessories: Encircled in Nature Dies, Adhesive Backed Peppermints 

Do you have a favorite one? I loved how they turned out!

Monochrome Wreaths #1

I love that white on white colorful wreath I made in November so much, I decided to try a few variations! This is such a happy look!
I made six cards yesterday, and as I was assembling them into actual cards instead of just fronts, my daughter came to comment and was astounded I stamped each dot of color individually, haha. Thaaat's what I do......

So today we have the more traditional Christmas colors:

and a close up of each: 

Supplies:

Stamps: Oct 2024 Paper Pumpkin, long-retired Paper Pumpkin

Ink: Balmy Blue, Boho Blue, Misty Moonlight, Blueberry Bushel

Paper: Basic White card stock

Accessories: Encircled in Nature Dies, Transparent Adhesive-Backed Dots

Supplies:

Stamps: Oct 2024 Paper Pumpkin, long-retired Paper Pumpkin

Ink: Poppy Parade, Real Red, Cherry Cobbler

Paper: Basic White card stock

Accessories: Encircled in Nature Dies, Earth Tones Shimmer Gems

Supplies:

Stamps: Oct 2024 Paper Pumpkin, long-retired Paper Pumpkin

Ink: Granny Apple Green, Shy Shamrock, Shaded Spruce, Garden Green, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow

Paper: Basic White card stock

Accessories: Encircled in Nature Dies, Adhesive-Backed Peppermints

I didn't erase any of the pencil lines this time, ha. It's fiiiiine.....

Christmas Kids

Good morning! I haven't created anything new with paper since before Thanksgiving, so I was grateful to sneak some time in yesterday. Maybe now that things are slowing down, I can get even more stamping done! haha.......... its nice to dream a little. 

Today I have another card using these cute kids. I really need to use the other kiddos soon...!

This card was for the TGIF Challenge to use Real Red, Gold and White. Done. Plus a little smidge of other shades... 

Supplies:

Stamps: Dear Santa

Ink: Memento Black, Wild Wheat

Stampin' Blends: Light & Dark Cherry Cobbler, Light Granny Apple Green, Light Basic Black, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Petal Pink, Bronze, Ivory, SU700
Paper: Real Red & Basic White card stocks, Season Of Elegance DP

Accessories: Iridescent Foil Gems, Dimensionals 

Paper Pumpkin round #2!

Soo since I had the Paper Pumpkin kit out the other day, and I was chopping it up and doing my own thing anyway, ha, I finished three cards and here they are! 

(this one above? The bird and both pine boughs are all one peice. I fussy cut them apart and rearranged them in a way I liked better. ha!)

Supplies:

October 2024 Paper Pumpkin

More Leftovers!

Here is another card made with pre-cut papers and these favorite pines. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens

Ink: Mossy Meadow, Soft Seafoam, Mint Macaron (retired)

Paper: Basic White, Early Espresso, Mint Macaron (retired) card stocks

White Christmas Wreath

Today I have a fun idea for a card. And it fits the Inspire.Create.Challenge for Christmas, and I think it fits the Paper Players challenge for Its Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas. Altho maybe the white on white makes me think it's more clean and simple than it really is....  

Twice this week I saw a similar idea- one was a suggested ornament card to make with your kids, and one was THIS card from a Stampin' Up! demonstrator. It's been stewing in my brain and I interrupted other things to sit down and make it! ha! I went off memory, and what I have, so it's not quite a copy, but strongly inspired by. 

I traced a "wreath" shape (and size!) using the outer die for the wood wreath in the Encircled by Nature dies. For the dots, I know I have at least one other stamp set that has a small dot but the first one that came to mind was from like the second Paper Pumpkin kit I ever got. I stamped it in four colors a bit randomly around the wreath.

Then I die cut the wreath I have not yet used, in white, to layer on top! I added just a few dot embellishments (including those elusive Peppermint dots!) randomly and stamped a greeting from the October Paper Pumpkin kit! 
And I rather love it! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Oct 2024 Paper Pumpkin, very old Paper Pumpkin

Ink: Lemon Lolly, Shy Shamrock, Garden Green, Poppy Parade, Cherry Cobbler

Paper: Basic White card stock

Accessories: Transparent Adhesive Backed Dots, Adhesive backed Peppermints, Encircled in Nature Dies, big shot

What do you think? 
(oh, I did erase the penciled wreath, but the Cherry Cobbler ink wasn't quite dry and smudged. ....did it need erased? meh... maybe not.)

Mossy Pines!

Today I have the same Pine card as last time, but this one is in Mossy Meadow! Again, taking my color choice from this awesome DP. I might need a second pack.......! 

The photos make the Mossy Meadow card stock and ink look almost black, but it really isn't. And shiny gold is difficult to photograph... 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Oct 2024 Paper Pumpkin

Ink: Mossy Meadow

Paper: Season of Elegance DP, Mossy Meadow & Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Iridescent Foil Gems

Dear Santa

Today's card is cute... but maybe not my favorite... The problem is I was designing for my card class, and the brown and yellow pencils are already being used. That meant I was limited to colors aside from those. It worked, it's cute, just not exactly what I was picturing today, lol. 

Today I used the latest sketch from Just Add Ink. I will definitely play with this some more! (the sketch, and the stamp set!)

Supplies:

Stamps: Dear Santa

Ink: Stazon Black

Paper: Garden Green & Basic White card stock, A Little Bit Festive DP

Accessories: Transparent Adhesive-Backed Dots, Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pens

Pines in Peacock!

Happy Monday! Inching ever closer to the best holidays!
This time I used Pretty Peacock for these gorgeous pine trees. I wanted to make the DP work with it, and that determined my colors. However, I wasn't sure which way I wanted to use the card base and card front, so I tried both! 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Oct 2024 Paper Pumpkin

Ink: Pretty Peacock

Paper: Season of Elegance DP, Pretty Peacock & Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Iridescent Foil Gems

And a close up of each: 

Pretty Paper

Happy Friday! I think we made it...!
Today I have another card for my upcoming class. This is such a quick card, you could crank out dozens with one pack of DP (actually, if you used this exact layout, you could make 8 cards with each sheet of 12x12 DP. That's a lot!) I like this design because it gives a chance to let the DP shine without covering the whole card. Little paper, little embellishment and a greeting and you're set! 

So first, the one we'll make at my class: 

Then another variation because I liked the paper:

Supplies:

Stamps: Oct 2024 Paper Pumpkin

Ink: Poppy Parade

Paper: Sentimental Christmas DP, Poppy Parade & Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Iridescent Striped Trim, Dimensionals

Also, a tip on how I attached the ribbon in the middle like that, ha:

Scotch Tape is my favorite way to add ribbon to anything! 

Green Trees!

Today I have a card that is a remake of THIS one I made in August, but using the latest color challenge from CAS Colours & Sketches. Again, quick and cute- my favorite kind! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Encircled In Nature

Ink: Shy Shamrock, Shaded Spruce, Real Red

Paper: Country Woods DP, Basic White & Real Red card stock

Accessories: 2024-26 In Color Resin Dots 

Pines in Gray!

Today has a fun challenge, and I love the result. I used the Inspire.Create.Challenge to use many shades of gray. I have five that are varying kinds of "gray", plus black, ha.  

Supplies:

Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Shepherd's Care

Ink: Gray Granite, Basic Gray, Pebbled Path, Smoky Slate, Basic Beige

Paper: Basic White, Basic Black card stocks

Accessories: Transparent Adhesive Backed Dots, Peaceful Evergreen Dies, Dimensionals, big shot

Looks like a beautiful wintery day to me!! I can't wait for it! 

Desert Shepherd

Today I have the same shepherd as last time, but this time in autumnal colors that in this case made me think of the desert! I used the TGIF Challenge colors, plus a couple shades that are similar. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Shepherd's Care

Ink: Pecan Pie, Crushed Curry, Cherry Cobbler

Paper: Crushed Curry, Very Vanilla card stocks

Accessories: Earth Tones Shimmer Gems, Watercolor Pencils (Daffodil Delight, Early Espresso), Dimensionals