Still Thankful!

I am truly thankful for you today! I appreciate you taking time out of your shopping day and food coma to visit! I made a quick card with the inspiring iris stamp set. I had fun coloring this with my stampin blends! I really was not sure what I wanted to do with the design of this card so I kept it pretty simple.  Maybe I ate to much yesterday that my creative juices were all run out.

I did add shimmery crystal effects to the iris's and don't you just love the shine that it gives? I love everything sparkly and shiny!  I think the rest of the card is pretty self explanatory and so if you do have any questions I would love to hear them in the comments below.  Have a great day and go gets some deals and steals! Speaking of deals spoil yourself for all your hard work from Thanksgiving with the fabulous paper pumpkin for next month! Let me know if you have any questions!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Welcome! Thank you for taking time out today to stop by! You might be stuffed with turkey and all the fixings and in a food coma. Or maybe you are getting ready for all the black Friday sale items you are going to be shopping for. Whatever you have planned I am so glad you are here today. I am so grateful for you! Grateful for the support that I have received and all the wonderful comments that you have left on my blog!

I wanted to share a quick little card that I created to send you! I have used a few techniques with this card. On the so saffron card stock I have sponged and used the subtle embossing folder after. For the leaves I stamped with momento ink and colored with stampin blends.

The sentiment I stamped with versamark and white heat embossed and then die cut with the stitch rectangles. 

Happy Thanksgiving! Know that I am so thankful for all of you! My last 20 plus years of being a Stampin' Up demonstrator have been a blessing in my life. That is due to the fact that I have meet wonderful people like you! Have a happy, blessed day! God bless!

Almost Thanksgiving!

Just a quick post today! I am sure you are busy getting ready for Thanksgiving and so I wanted to thank you for stopping by today! I had die cut a bunch of leaves from the gather together dies and wanted to make a card with them. I love the texture in the gather together DSP and the texture on the leaves is also beautiful! 

I added some of the wink of stella pen in the grooves of the leaves. This really made them pop and shine!

For the sentiment I white heat embossed on black card stock. Using the large rectangle stitched die I cut out the dsp. Fun, quick and simple card! Just in time to give to someone for Thanksgiving! Have a great day and thanks again for stopping by!

CAS(E) this Sketch #349

I had a little free time today after tackling the grocery store so I decided to take a break from cleaning and join in on the Case this sketch challenge! I made my own strip of decorative paper with the holly and pine cone images. When I saw this sketch I thought of the winter woods tree. It is a great sketch and you could use so many images with this layout!

I embossed the tree in with white embossing powder and using the rectangle stitched die cut it out. The greeting is from one of the hostess sets in the holiday catalog.  I love everyone of these sentiments. On the tree embossing folder I used wink of stella on the tips of the branched, although it really did not show up on the camera. It is really hard to get a good photo of the wink of stella. If you have an suggestions I would love to hear them.  Thank you so much for stopping by today. Check out and join in the challenge this week! It is a nice break from all the work that is ahead. Have a beautiful day! Enjoy!

Missed it again

Hi and thank you for joining me today! Well I originally made this card for a card challenge but missed the deadline.  I am not sure where time goes. But I thought that I would share the card anyway.  The colors in the gather together designer series paper are colors that I would not usually use, so they are great to encourage me to try something different.

I love pear pizzazz and mint macaron but probably would not have put them together, so this was a really fun card to make. I like that Stampin' Up has stampin' blends that coordinate with the paper. The coordination of all the product is one of the things that I really like about this company. It takes the guess work out when trying to make the card match. I am hoping to make a few more cards this week with the fall theme and then it will be all Christmas cards. How many cards do you make? Thank you again for joining me today! Just a quick reminder that the paper pumpkin for next month will be a winner! 13 different sentiments and everything to make 12 cards! I always love a great sentiment! And I really like to have many options when I am making a card. If you have any questions regarding paper pumpkin let me know in the comments! Have a great day!

Country home flowers

Welcome!  So glad you are here! Sometimes I forget that I can just use the flowers from a stamp set and not use the container that they are intended to go in. So for this card I decided to just use the flowers.

I made this card for a stamp challenge but missed the deadline, sometimes life just gets to crazy! I water colored this flower bundle. After it dried I fussy cut it out and used this adorable hello label to anchor the flowers down.

I love the texture that the pinewood embossing folder give to a card and I thought this card needed just a little bit more of something, What do you think? Thank you for coming by! Have a wonderful day!

Thankful!

So thankful for you coming by today! Welcome! I had so much fun making this card! I started with watercolor paper and white heat embossed the leaf from the gather together stamp set. I used the wet on wet technique with this leaf. I used my aquapainter and put clear water all over inside the leaf. I then dropped in ink picked up with a good deal of water from the aquapainter. I used a few different fall colors and then let it dry. I used old olive the same way (wet on wet) around the leaf.

I used the shimmery crystal effects to make little water-looking drops. I had a hard time getting a picture of this but I love how it turned out. Top upper left corner of the picture. Give it a try! 

I also added a few to the bottom corner. Thank you so much for spending your time checking out my card. I hope you have learned some things to try on your own cards! Have  great day!

Also, it is the last day of the sale!  You will not want to miss out!

Freshly Made Sketches #412

I have been really in a stamping slump lately and so when I find that happens I like to check out all the challenges that I know about. What do you do? So for this sketch I think I really stretched the original sketch. This is such a great sketch and the possibilities are endless with it!

Check out Freshly Made Sketches here

I like to color when I am not feeling very creative and so the country home stamp set is a great set to color. I used my stampin blends for the coloring of this project and used my chalk marker to make a few high lights. I used the sentiment from the painted harvest stamp set and embossed it in gold on black card stock.

I would love to know what stamp challenges you like to visit! Thank you for stopping by today and have a wonderful and blessed day!

Just add ink challenge #482

I know with the Christmas season quickly approaching that I will have to put away my fall colors, so I am taking advantage of every last minute to play with them. For today I played along with the Just Add Ink challenge! I added a lot of elements to this card, but I just couldn't help myself.

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Typically I like to keep my cards pretty simple and clean, yet this card just keep evolving! I stamped the flowers from the floral essence stamp set and used watercolored pencils ( without water) to add a little shading. I love how Kathy Racoosin from the daily marker challenge uses pencils to enhance her stamped images. (Her work is amazing!) Check her out here https://www.thedailymarker.com/  

The greeting is from the free as a bird stamp set and I think it is such a beautiful thing to say to so many people in my life. I used some of the leaves from the gather together bundle and shimmery crystal effects for the center of the flowers, however it really I did not take a good photo to show it. Don't miss out on the sale going on right now with Stampin' Up and if you do not have a demonstrator I would love to help you. Have a great day and thank you for stopping by!

Another thankful box

A quick post to share another pizza box that I created with the gather together stamp set and designer series paper. 

I added the die from the lily pad lake dies to add a little behind the pumpkins. I think I will put some tea packets in this pizza box to give away!

Just a few days till this amazing sale! You will not want to miss 15% off of select items. Let me know if you have any questions.  Thank you for visiting my blog! Have a beautiful day! Enjoy!