Peter Pan's Flight Ride

Okay, this month ended up crazier than I expected! But now I've got some things scheduled to inspire you! 

Today, I'm back to our Disneyland book(s)...! This page is pretty simple, but I still wanted to share the clean line layout and the fun idea with the star stamps! To get to Neverland, in case you don't know, you "just follow the second star to the right and straight on til morning", so I used two stars together a few times on the page. 
Everything here is long retired except the Pear Pizazz ink, lol! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Making Christmas Bright (tiny star), Joyful Nativity (long star), For Unto Us (outline long star)
Ink: Pear Pizazz, Delicata Gold
Paper: Certainly Celery
Accessories: Seaside Spray Metallic ribbon, Lucky Limeade Everyday Enchantment Organdy ribbon
Journaling Font: Viner Hand ITC

Here's a close up of the three stars, haha. The gold outline is hard to see in the photo, but it is there and adds a tiny touch of shine.

How about you? Are you surviving the end of school? If you're set, haha, what are you making?? 

Red & Gold

This card was tricky. I love that plaid and wanted it to show off, so I cut it to be the whole card front size...but then anything I tried to add made it look way too cluttered... Finally, after a few days of thinking, I just added this greeting and called it good. And, its a good thing I have a few more sheets of this plaid so maybe I can make something a bit more spectacular later, haha!

Supplies:
Stamps: Making Christmas Bright
Ink: Real Red, Delicata Gold (sold out)
Paper: Whisper White, Real Red card stocks, Wrapped in Plaid DP
Accessories: Dimensionals

Lights & Trains!

Still cruising along, trying to catch up on my son's scrapbooks. I got a handful of Christmas themed pages done and held off til now to share them. The stamps are current, altho the DP and a couple of the inks are long retired.

This is one of our favorite traditions- there's a small model train show at a local museum every December and we love to go. This particular year we also walked around the outside to enjoy the light displays.

Supplies:
Stamps: Making Christmas Bright, Whimsical Upper Alphabet (retired!)
Ink: Gray Granite, Real Red, Pear Pizzazz, Hello Honey (retired), Soft Sky (retired)
Paper: Whisper White card stock, Season of Cheer DP (retired!)

Christmas Lights!

Back to cards, hee hee. I've got a Christmas card for you today. I wanted to hold my class this week, but Halloween kept me a bit too busy and I've had a sick toddler ever since sooo I'm still designing my class! sheesh....

I used the latest sketch from the Global Design Project blog. I haven't yet been able to order any of the new Christmas paper so I thought out of the box for this one. I could have used card stock, but I really wanted some kind of print... Perennial Essence had this lovely green sheet that I thought worked just great!

Supplies:
Stamps: Making Christmas Bright
Ink: Real Red, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Mossy Meadow Marker
Paper: Whisper White card stock, Perennial Essence DP
Accessories: Linen Thread, Dimensionals

We Create Christmas Blog Hop

Hooray for December!! I am one who loooves the music, the decorations, the lights, the events, the shopping, the wrapping, the baking.... ALL the Christmas things! I really just love Christmastime! So I am excited about this blog hop!

For my projects, I picked the Making Christmas Bright bundle. It's this fun Christmas lights stamp set, and a punch perfect for punching out the light bulbs. I love it! 

First, I wanted to use a non-traditional color scheme. I needed bright colors for this card, and apparently this is the first time I stamped the light bulbs instead of punching them! I used the latest Freshly Made sketch for the layout, and added some more bright bling with Silver Glimmer paper for the screw part (does it have a name??) and some silver sequins. The Take Your Pick tool definitely helps with the sequins!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Making Christmas Bright

Ink: Lemon Lime Twist, Daffodil Delight, Flirty Flamingo

Paper: Lemon Lime Twist, Flirty Flamingo & Whisper White card stock, Silver Glimmer DP

Accessories: Christmas Bulb Builder Punch, Metallic sequins, Take Your Pick Tool, Glue Dots, Dimensionals

And then, I wanted to use more traditional colors for another idea. I loved the sponged bulbs I saw on THIS Artisan blog hop card and I've been anxious to give it a try! My light bulbs didn't turn out quite like hers, but I'm still very happy with them! For this card I used the latest Fall to Layout, and some of this beautiful bokeh print DP! And of the two, this is definitely my favorite card!  

Supplies:

Stamps: Making Christmas Bright

Ink: Real Red, Shaded Spruce

Paper: Real Red, Shaded Spruce, Whisper White card stocks, All is Bright DP, Gold Glimmer DP

Accessories: Christmas Bulb Builder Punch, Gold Thread, Dimensionals

Now click the "Next" button to hop on over and see what Cheryl has created to inspire your Christmas season! Then hop thru everyone's blogs, and be sure and leave us your thoughts- everyone loves feedback! And Happy December! I hope you have a month filled with happiness and peace!  

Shiny Christmas!

Today I have a card that looks impressive, but is really simple to put together. This card is totally inspired by THIS stunning card, but really not all that much like it, haha.... The whole thing works because of beautiful paper.

Supplies:
Stamps: Making Christmas Bright
Ink: Shaded Spruce
Paper: Whisper White card stock, All is Bright DP, Gold Glimmer DP, Gold Foil DP
Accessories: Christmas Bulb Punches, Gold Thread, Dimensionals

And another angle so you can see the gold foil isn't just blah brown.

Do you love this card as much as I do? Well, you're in luck- it's part of my classes next week! haha!

Christmas Lights

I'm still working on putting together my upcoming classes, so I have all my Christmas-y stamp sets sitting in front of me... When I saw this sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, I thought this would be a fun idea. I don't know if this will be in my classes or not, but I rather like this simple card! What do you think?

Supplies:
Stamps: Making Spirits Bright
Ink: Memento Black, Crushed Curry, Crushed Curry marker, Real Red marker, Coastal Cabana marker
Paper: Coastal Cabana, Real Red & Whisper White card stocks

I need in the neighborhood of 100 Christmas cards to mail out so even tho there's still Halloween and Thanksgiving yet to happen, I need to get going on these too!

Bright Christmas!

Hello again, and happy Monday! I hope you had a minute to be creative over the weekend, whether you were able to participate in World Card Making Day or not. And, I'm happy to say I have something stamped to share with you today!

Check out this very bright and fun Christmas card, using brand new stamps and punch from the Holiday Mini! I really love Christmas lights and I really happen to love the font used in this set, so of course I was going to get this bundle!
And for my first card, I used the color challenge found on the Inky Friends blog! Funny enough, when I was planning out my upcoming card classes, I had written down to maybe stick with a red, green and yellow color scheme for this set, so this challenge was perfect!

Supplies:
Stamps: Making Christmas Bright
Ink: Poppy Parade (marker), Daffodil Delight, Smoky Slate
Paper: Granny Apple Green, Poppy Parade, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight & Smoky Slate card stocks
Accessories: Christmas Bulb Builder punch, Mini Dimensionals

This will also be part of an upcoming class- hopefully I can get that scheduled in the next day or two!