Frosty friends

Although I design holiday cards year round, my remaining projects for this month will be non-holiday themed.

I combined the following products today:

• Mama Elephant - Build a snowman | bundle
• Lawn Fawn - Stitched Snowflake Backdrop | Lawn Cut
• Pretty Pink Posh - Eyelet Rectangle | die
• Concord & 9th - Quintessential Scripty Sayings | die

Each of the images has been stamped with Lawn Fawn - Crunchy Leaf.  Since I was coloring them with the softer color palette, the Crunchy Leaf is a better match.

I love the Quintessential Scripty Sayings set.  It's a fun font that fills up the width of an A2 card.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Deck the Halls Scene Card

Hello everyone. I'm on the Doodlebugs blog today for Mix it Up Monday, the last Christmas one of the year. I'm sure most everyone is wrapping up holiday crafting and ready to move on with other things but I really wanted to share this card with you all. It's so sweet and was therapeutic to color the images and pull it all together.

I started off with a bundle of images from the Mama Elephant Little Agenda Sweets set. I stamped and watercolored them, then after they dried I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. I saved the window the die cuts out and glued it to my gingerbread guy for continuity in my scene. Otherwise it's pretty straight forward.

Next I cut the Pretty Pink Posh Eyelet Circle from teal cardstock and a scrap of white for some snowy ground. I used liquid glue to adhere them together and a combo of liquid glue and foam tape to adhere my images to that.

Next I took a piece of white cardstock and embossed it with the Spellbinders Peppermint Stripes embossing folder. To add color, I drug the Lawn Fawn cilantro ink pad lightly across the panel going in the direction with the stripes (at an angle) until it had the coverage I wanted. I used liquid glue to adhere it to a card base and added my circle scene with foam tape to that.

Last, I cut a sentiment banner from the Mama Elephant Winter Banners die set. I inked the top layer with pink, glued the layers together and popped it up with foam strip. For finishing touches I just tied some fun peppermint twine around the left side of the card and tied it in a cute little bow. 

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

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Believe in Magic

 This season I've been really smitten with pink for the holidays.  Here's how I was inspired for today's project:

Here are the products I combined for the card:

• Pretty Pink Posh - Fringe Tree | die
• Pretty Pink Posh - Holiday Wreath Builder | die
• Mama Elephant - Shimmer Lights Cover | creative cuts
• Mama Elephant - Winter Banners | creative cuts

I used the 'berry' die in the Holiday Wreath Builder for the tree ornaments. I really wanted to glue baby poms onto the card but I already have a couple of cards with them and they are so not postal friendly.

Hopefully by the time this card posts, I will have already mailed out this year's holiday cards.  I've learned to do 'catch up' during Galentine's Day!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Holly Jolly Gift Card Holder

 It's Mix it up Monday and we're getting ready for the holidays with a sweet gift card holder today. Welcome everyone, it's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. I feel like we give and get gift cards more often in recent years than ever before and, honestly, I'm not mad about it. It's super fun to open and then you relive it all over again when it's time to go shopping!

To take that a step further, I love giving them when I have a moment to create extra fun holders for them too! This Pretty Pink Posh gift card bag is top on my list to decorate for sure!

Today I created a red gift card bag and then added some fun Lawn Fawn dies to decorate it. Peppy Penguin just couldn't stay out of the hot cocoa. I tried, I really did. Lol.

My hot cocoa mug is the Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Mug with some marshmallows and whipped cream, along with the spoon sticking out. I did some light ink blending a cinnamon dots on the whipped cream. Everything is adhered together with liquid glue.

I added the Pretty Pink Posh Holly Jolly sentiment across the mug with liquid glue and popped the mug and Peppy on the gift card bag with foam tape. For finishing touches I just added some glossy accents to the Christmas lights and tissue paper inside the bag to hide the gift card.

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

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Christmas Cards with Cute Mama Elephant Critters

A few weeks ago I shared some cards using the adorable critters from Mama Elephant's December Duo stamp and die set.  I had quite a few colored images left and used them to create today's cards.  

These cards are quick and easy!  I added some ink to the background with the Winter Words stencil set from Pretty Pink Posh.  Then I stamped the sentiment and added the critters.

Aren't they the cutest?  I thought they'd be cute for Valentine's Day cards too.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you were inspired.

-Cathy

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Eat, Drink and Be Merry

For today's project I wanted to feature the Mama Elephant - Postage Grid Cover.  I pulled a bunch of different sets and this is how I was inspired:

Today I'm featuring:

• Mama Elephant - Postage Grid Cover | Creative Cuts
• Sunny Studio Stamps - Merry Mocha | Stamps + Dies
• Pretty Pink Posh - Ghost Holder | Dies
• Pretty Pink Posh - Holiday Mug Additions | Dies

I decided to go with a red and aqua color palette.  For the peppermint candies, I used vellum for the wrappers.  Do you spy the sprinkles?  They match the aqua panel.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Peppermint Postage

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! This is Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. I had some fun playing with the Lawn Fawn peppermint border dies a while ago. I just made a bunch of them for fun but didn't have a plan. Then I walked past my craft room the other morning and this design hit me. I ran in and sketched it out on a sticky note and came back to create it later on.

Since my peppermint borders were already created at this point, I glued them to a piece of pink cardstock and used the Mama Elephant Postage Frame dies to cut it out. I discarded the outer frame and kept the inside. Then I cut a white postage frame and used washi tape to adhere the inside to the frame.

I stamped a fun sentiment from the Mama Elephant Everything Nice set and used the coordinating die to cut it out. Then I stamped the bunny in the Mama Elephant Holiday Huggers set and colored it with copic markers. After using the coordinating die to cut it out too I hooked his paws over the sentiment and glued them together.

I didn't want a plain white card base so I drug my cilantro ink pad across a white card base for color and texture at the same time. Then I assembled everything with foam tape and squares. Gotta love that dimension!

For finishing touches today I added black glaze pen on the bunny's eyes and glossy accents on his nose and the while parts of the Santa hat.

How is your holiday card stash coming along? I am definitely getting there quickly. Thank goodness because it's about time to pop these babies in the mail!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

 Happy Thanksgiving!  

I'm so grateful for you and for your continued support of my blog and small  business.  I hope that as you reflect back on this past year you find that you have much to be grateful for.

Wishing you all a beautiful day!

 

Watercolor Christmas Cards

Today I'm sharing an easy watercolor card using the lovely Take Wing stamp set from Penny Black.  I love to watercolor and this image seemed perfect for that medium.

I stamped the image onto watercolor paper using a light grey, water resistant ink.  I then used my watercolors to fill in the image.

I framed the image using the Bella Frame die set from Mama Elephant and then added a die cut greeting.  For the final touch [although it is not visible in the photos] I added some glitter glue to the branches of the trees.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you were inspired.

-Cathy

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Soda - Lighted

Where does your inspiration come from? I'm so excited to share my project for today.  Some of you might recognize my inspiration.

Let me first share the products I combined:

• Concord & 9th Soda-Lighted | Bundle
• Pretty Pink Posh | Citrus | Layered Stencil 3 PK
• Lawn Fawn - Zesty Lemon | Lawn Cuts

I'm a big fan of the Sprindrift waters, specifically grapefruit.  That is what inspired the overall design for today's card.  A friend of mine introduced them to me so this is going out to her.

I have so many ideas swirling around for the soda can!

Can you tell with the stenciling that I hit the Pink Lemonade in the centers?  I fussy cut the To Know You banner.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Presents for All Occasions

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook sharing a little reminder that all the stamps and dies you have that are presents, birthday or other work great for Christmas too. That usually goes for the other way around while we're at it!

I pulled out the new Mama Elephant Surprise Gifts set, which is not holiday at all, at wanted to make a Christmas card with it. So I colored my images accordingly with copic markers, used the coordinating dies to cut them out and some liquid glue to adhere my cute little scene.

Now that we're on our way to holiday, I pulled out the Pretty Pink Posh Layered Christmas Trees stencil set and inked it up on a piece of light green cardstock. For the final layer I skipped inking and got a little messy with texture paste though. OMG do I love this stuff! It's the perfect texture add-on if you ask me.

When that was dry, I trimmed it to fit an A2 card base and glued it on the front. I popped up the piggy and gifts and added a Mama Elephant Winter Banner Greeting. The array of options in these sentiment sets is amazing! Highly recommend!

I digress. Back to the card. For finishing touches today I added black glaze pen to the piggy's eyes and nostrils. Then I added stardust Stickles to the heart he's holding and white gel pen highlights to all the gifts. 

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day! 

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Christmas Cards From the Both of Us

I couldn't resist coloring up these adorable, cozy critters for some Christmas cards from me and the hubby.  Aren't they the cutest?

As usual, when I create multiple cards, I create them in steps.  First I stamped and colored all my images.  I colored four of each image, so I'd have plenty of critters for making cards.

Once I finished the cute critters, I die cut the holly jolly sentiment.  I used some silver glitter cardstock and stacked the sentiment onto several pieces I cut using white cardstock.  I like the dimension this creates.

The final step before assembling was to cut and ink my backgrounds.  To do this, I taped off the right and left side of my cardstock covering approximately 3/4 of an inch from the edges.  I applied some Pink Lemonade ink to the exposed area of the cardstock using a blending brush.  After applying a light layer of ink, I layered the Winter Words stencil over the top and applied a second layer of ink through the stencil.  

Once all these steps were complete, I assembled the card and added a few embellishments.

I love how these turned out and can't wait to mail them off to friends and family.

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you were inspired.

-Cathy
 

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Fa La La

 I love when a project turns out even if it isn't how I originally envisioned it.

Here the products I combined for today's project:

• Concord & 9th - Fa La La Inlay | die
• Pretty Pink Posh - Stitched Snowflakes | die
• Lawn Fawn - Woodland Critters Huggers | lawn cuts

I haven't used the Woodland Critter Huggers in a bit and she's perfect for my project.

Thanks for stopping by!

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