Ultimate Mix It Up Monday - Christmas Fun

Hey friends! I'm over on the Doodlebugs blog for our weekly Mix it up Monday but today is seriously the ultimate mix and match with so many companies together and you'd never know. They just work so great!

Isn't this just the cutest!!! So easy too! Any order really, you just need that sweet Sunny Studios penguin colored and die cut. The awesome Lawn Fawn candy canes die cut and assembled. I started with red and white but didn't love it until I added the pink. Be sure to play with this die set! I think I'll try some mint green next.

Now, use liquid glue to adhere your candy canes crisscross and then add the penguin to the top.

Then stamp and heat emboss your sentiment of choice - the Pretty Pink Posh sentiment strips dies and coordinating stamp sets for the win as usual. I'm tell you, you'll get your moneys worth from these. There is always something that works!

Now, add foam squares and strips behind your images and sentiment strip.

Now, we're going to switch to Concord & 9th for an awesome background die. Trim your panel to 3.5x4.75 inches and cut it twice with the Double Stripe Card Front die - once landscape and then again portrait. Then you get this awesome plaid stitching.

I used green cardstock and then ink blended the edges with shabby shutters distress oxide for a little shadow and flicked forest moss ink across the panel for extra interest.

Finally, to assemble it all, I popped the background panel up with foam tape on a white card base and then adhered the images and sentiment strip on that. For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to the penguin's eyes and glossy accents to his beak.

Can you believe it? We mixed 4 companies together today and they created the cutest holiday card!

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

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National Coffee Day Blog Hop - 2024

 

Happy Sunday coffee lovers!!  We're super excited to be participating again in this year's National Coffee Day Blog Hop.  We're sharing a fun, coffee inspired project and a chance to win a $25 gift code.

Here are the details:

The hop starts HERE.  

Links can also be found below (be sure to keep reading for a discount code and a chance to win a $25 gift code):

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

We are giving away a $25 Gift Code prize here, but there are lots of other prize opportunities and inspiration from the additional participants.  Please leave a comment on this blog post to be eligible for our prize.  We will randomly select a winner from the comments on October 4th and they will receive a $25 GIFT CERTIFICATE. (please note: we are sorry, but we cannot ship internationally - the giveaway is only open to US shipping).

Be sure to check our winner's post on October 4th for the winner's name and the details for collecting your prize.

Now for our coffee inspiration.  I've created a coffee themed shaker card.

I'm featuring the following products:

• Lawn Fawn - Treat Cart | Stamp & Lawn Cuts bundle
• Lawn Fawn - Treat Cart | Stamp
• Lawn Fawn - Teat Cart | Coloring Stencil
• Lawn Fawn - Treat Cart Add-On | Coffee | stamp, Coloring Stencil & Die Bundle
• Lawn Fawn - Tiny Sentiments Add-On | Coffee | Stamp
• Lawn Fawn - Tiny Sentiments Add-On | Coffee | Lawn Cut
• Spellbinders - Emerald Cut Labels and Tag | Die
• Pretty Pink Posh - Autumn | Shaker Beads

I was thinking of stamping a sentiment below the shaker window but decided to keep it clean and crisp. If you haven't used the shaker beads, you really should give it a try.  The shaker sound is really fun.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win the $25 Gift Code.

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Stenciled Balloons and Cute Critters

Celebrate any occasion with these cute cards!

My first step in creating these cards was to create several balloon stenciled backgrounds using the Bunch of Balloons stencil set from Concord & 9th.  I taped off the edges of my cardstock panels and stenciled in the center with the balloon stencils.  Once I was finished, I removed the low tac tape. This gave me a wide, white border around my balloons.

I then stamped and colored the images from the Up With Love stamp set from Mama Elephant.  After coloring the images, I die cut them with the coordinating dies.  I cut extra pieces with white cardstock and stacked them behind the colored images.  I love the dimension this gives and I prefer it over using foam tape.

Next, I cut and layered several sentiments.  Then I was ready to assemble the cards. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you were inspired to create something.

-Cathy

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Faboolous!

 I love designing caffeinated projects.  Here's how I was inspired today:

This originally started as a shaped card.  I didn't have it on the A2 card base.  I love shaped cards but for some reason, I felt like this particular design needed to be on a card base.

Today's project features:

• Lawn Fawn - Coffee Cup Gift Card Holder | lawn cuts
• Pretty Pink Posh - Halloween Mug Additions | dies
• Pretty Pink Posh - Ghost Holder | die
• Pretty Pink Posh - Fancy Cake | die
• Lawn Fawn - Tiny Halloween | stamp

The sentiment strip has been heat embossed in white.

The coffee cup lifts up from the bottom to add a note.

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