Winter Portraits

Hello again! Another very busy week, comin right up! 
So here's another wintery page for you. Sure wish we had this much snow now.... that first storm only brought about a week's worth of snow. It's gone now, except on the mountains. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Peaceful Cabin, Peaceful Evergreens

Ink: Shaded Spruce, Evening Evergreen
Paper: Basic White & Cherry Cobbler card stock, Plaid Tidings DP

Accessories: Red & Green Pearls, Alphabet a la Mode dies, Big Shot, Glue Dots

The plaid is a 6x6 page that I cut in half. The lines don't like up! Didn't matter how I turned the strips- it would not line up! So I stuck the date in to hide the seam, haha. And then I told you anyway... It's fiiiine! 
Can you see? I lined up one of the black lines and nothing else worked. ugh. That makes no sense, but here we are. 

And there really are two sets of pine trees stacked, inked in two shades, but it just made the forest look more full. That's not bad. And it all worked out anyway. 

Colorful Christmas Trees!

Today's card was super fun too! Love when an idea works! haha! 

This time I used The Paper Players challenge to use your favorite holiday image. Thaat's hard to decide but I really do love these trees. I combined it with the SUO Challenge and took their inspiration photo literally. And I am SO happy with how it turned out!
There's some Cloud Cover ink blended around the background. I don't know if it's CAS enough but I had a great time putting it together! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Itty Bitty Christmas

Ink: Rococo Rose, Delightful Dijon, Gray Granite, Evening Evergreen, Cloud Cover

Paper: Cloud Cover & Basic White card stocks

Accessories: 2025-27 In Color Flat Pearls, White Baker's Twine, Peaceful Evergreen dies, Blending Brush, Big Shot

Also, btw, haha, when I say "I used scraps", this is what I mean: 

And I only even used two of those white trees, ha! 

Winter Wonderland!

Yesterday hovered at 99* for hours. Then I ran an errand and it was 104*. Of course it was. YUCK. My parents arrived at their destination where it was 116* at dinner time. NOPE. 

So today I played with snowy pictures! So there!! 

Actually, this was for the current SUO Challenge to CASE Christy, and she is a scrapper, so that's what I decided to CASE. I didn't scroll back too far thru her pages, really I was looking for something I had printed the the same direction and quantity as she used. So I picked THIS POST from June. I changed the colors, DP, stamps and added a couple little dots.  

Supplies:
Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Whimsical Alpha Lower
Ink: Basic Gray, Smoky Slate
Paper: Basic White, Soft Sky, Basic Gray card stocks, Peaceful Place DP
Accessories: Neutrals Candy Dots

And actually, this is the second time I scrapped these photos, ha. The above layout is for my older daughter, and the one for my younger daughter was done in April and hasn't yet been shared. I used the same pack of paper, but differently, and I used different stamps. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Roughing It (1998), Berry Christmas (2009), Just Perfect Alphabet (2010)

Ink: Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, 
Paper: Basic White c/s, Peaceful Place DP
Accessories: Metallic Pearls

I always like that you can use the same layout or supplies and make something quite different from the last.

Another Piney Leftovers!

Here's another of those precut leftovers and pines, haha! I really like these pine trees! And this phrase from Shepherds Care! (and it totally works with a piney forest!!)

This card set was cut to make THIS. I flipped some elements and ended up with this: 

Supplies:

Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Shephard's Care

Ink: Coastal Cabana

Paper: Coastal Cabana, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla card stock 

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

Leftovers...!

Sometimes when I do a card class, there are people who don't come, or sometimes I cut too many or just different things happen that cause me to end up with a bunch of pre-cut supplies, that just collect. I really want to clean out my craft room and be able to work IN THERE (silly me...) so I pulled out these stacks of card supplies and threw some together!

So far this one is my favorite. You can see the original design HERE, which was really only September, haha. I did a pink forest this time.

Supplies:

Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Shepherd's Care

Ink: Calypso Coral, Flirty Flamingo, Pretty in Pink, Petal Pink

Paper: Calypso Coral, Basic White card stocks, Country Woods DP
Accessories: White Crinkled Ribbon (retired) 

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

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: 

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! 

Thank you or Christmas?

So, I have a card class this week, and since it's still "only" October, I did more of a thank you theme. I do have one Christmas card and then this one has the option of being whatever they need more of right now! 

This time I used the prompt from The Paper Players to make a tag, but I do not ever use tags so I stuck it on a card, haha! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Oct 2024 Paper Pumpkin / Simply Said

Ink: Old Olive, Real Red/Copper Clay

Paper: Basic White, Old Olive card stocks

Accessories: Iridescent Striped Trim, Exposed Brick embossing folder, Dimensionals, big shot, stapler

The line of trees is a little hard to see behind the tag, but I still think it adds something.

I think it also shows a bit of versatility in these pines- it doesn't just have to be a wintery, Christmas card.

But I'll show you something... I was struggling to decide which color I wanted to use for this class vs next month's class (because of COURSE we will use this stamp set for a Christmas card class!) so I decided to test it out. I "tested" it with all the greens, blues, grays and browns I own, plus some purples! I like a LOT of the results and I might like more if I used the right supplies, haha..... I think I need to play with this tree set more than I usually get to play with a single set! It's gonna be FUN.

Pines at Sunset

I really need more thank you cards, so today I combined the colors from The Paper Players with the sketch from TGIF Challenges. It is also a perfect match for the Just Add Ink challenge since I used trees and ink blending!

I ended up doing the rectangles too tall to fit a standard card, so I made a slimline card- maybe for the first time? I really don't like non-standard size cards because I don't know how to cut the cardstock without wasting too much... But I'd already stamped and blended this bit so thaaat's what I had to do! haha! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Layers of Beauty

Ink: Early Espresso, Peach Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Copper Clay

Paper: Peach Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso & Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Earth Tones Shimmer Gems