"Black Friday" Card

Good Morning!

Thanksgiving is over and it was wonderful!  Enjoyed the time with my family and of course, I ate way too much food.  Black Friday deals are the most talked about thing at this moment.  I thought that since I don't go out and join the excited crowds in their shopping sprees, I would make a easy card instead.  

This card uses the La Vie En Rose Paper Packet and White Daisy Cardstock.  And black ink.

For the flowers I choose  the Someone Special Stamp set. 

 I stamped the sentiment from this stamp set then I took the Quatrefoil Embossing Folder that matches the paper and I just embossed the edges of the strip with the sentiment. 

I cut out the flowers and attached.  I did pop up one with Thin 3D Foam Tape and that is it!  I could add embellishments to make it pop but decided that sometimes simple is best!  Have a great rest of the weekend and hopefully next week I can do some more creations!  Hugs!

November workshop cards #3 and #4

Hello,

I thought I better put the other two cards on my blog today. This is for my customers who get the card kits from the workshops that I do. This will show them how to do create the cards when they get their orders! 

Remember to click on the links to see everything up close and in detail.

 So I will start off with a card that isn't usually thought of as a Christmas color.  When we think of Christmas cards we usually think of red and green and sometimes blue and silver.  This one is none of those colors:

On this card I once again used the Enchantment Fundamental Paper Packet.  I love how I can use both sides to create different effects.  

I started by taking  a two inch scallop punch and punching out the corner of the Eggplant color paper from the paper packet.  Then using the circle as a guide,  I then took out the joy stamp from the Holly Jolly Christmas Stamp set and embossed that in the middle of the circle with 
Gold Embossing Powder.

Then I took out my Eggplant Ink Pad and the Ink Blot Stamp Set.  I picked one of the stamps and inked it up and stamped it directly over the gold embossed Joy stamp.  And because embossing resists inks, I then took a sponge dauber and dragged the color to the edge of the circle.  I also put some extra ink on the dauber to fill in the joy saying.  You can leave it white if you want but I just wanted to make it stand out a bit more. 

I then attached the eggplant paper over the circle and then added a strip of the same fundamentals paper to the front of the card, only I turned it over! Then I added a strip of Eggplant Cardstock that I had sanded to show the white edges underneath it.  
I then added a piece of Gold Shimmer Trim on the top of both strips.  Added a few Gold Sequins and a few Bitty Sparkles to finish it up.  

I also embossed in gold inside the saying "Wishing you great tidings of comfort and joy!" on the inside from the above Holly Jolly Stamp set! 
If you don't like the eggplant color, you can always use a color you love!  Enjoy!

I did not design this card!!  It is from a wonderful Cardmaking kit called  Workshops On The Go White Pines Cardmaking Kit.  It is a kit that includes all the paper, stamp set, card stock, envelopes, twine and sparkles to make 15 cards.  It gives detailed instructions on how to cut and design 5 cards of 3 designs.  

If you purchase this workshop kit you will also need 3 stamp pads:
Fern Stamp Pad
Cashmere Stamp Pad
Cranberry Stamp Pad

I changed it up a little bit by doing the embossing on the card with a
Diamond Embossing Folder and using the Mini Stapler to attach the included twine.  These are not included in the kit but can be purchased to go with the kit if you want. 

Hope you enjoyed my workshop cards.  Check back next week and see what else I have created!  Have a great weekend!  Hugs!

Workshop card #2

Good Morning!  Welcome to a very, windy Colorado day!  I am thankful however that the sun is shining and it is not snowing!  So because of that I am posting a card that has "snow" on the front.

I started out by taking a piece of Crystal Blue card stock and put it through my embossing machine with our Confetti Embossing folder and our awesome Circle Diffuser.

The diffusers are so fun because you can pick where you want your circle to be and have no embossing in that area.

I then took some matching Crystal Blue Ink and stamped the snowflakes in the circle with no embossing in it.  Then because our paper is white core, I then sanded the dots to resemble "snow" falling down.  

I then took the cute penguins from the Seasons Greetings Stamp set and stamped them in black and colored them in with Shinhan Peony Purple Marker and the Shinhan Cerulean Blue Marker and then I cut them out and put them in the little circle.

I stamped the sentiment in black and the took the snowflakes from the above Season's Greetings stamp set and using the crystal blue ink, stamped the snowflakes all over the top.  Attached that to the card and then added some of our adhesive Silver Shimmer trim right underneath it.  Attached the entire card to the front of white cardstock.  

Hope you enjoyed seeing this card.  Have a great day!  Hugs!

November stamp of the month- 1st Workshop item

I am not going to go into much detail and I not going to apologize for not posting in a while.  Sometimes things happen in life that no matter how  hard you try, you just can't control them.  A little over a week ago after getting my father home from rehab after a stroke, he passed away from a sudden heart attack.  With taking care of my sweet mom and other things, I am finally back to posting. I have missed not being able to be creative and I have missed not posting. I am not going to guarantee that I will continue to post frequently but I am going to try to post as often as I can.  I will say thank you to those who have stopped by here and there to check it out and wonder why I quit so suddenly.  So here is the first thing we did this week at my workshop:

As you can see, this is not a card! LOL  This November stamp of the month set has the images seen on this as well as other images.  See them here:   Cheers 2016 stamp of the month

I don't normally send out "Happy New Year" cards and I really stink at keeping New years resolutions! SO I thought it would be fun to have a fun place to write new dreams, new wishes, things to be thankful for or memories to not forget.  The list is endless.  You could even use these stamps in your daytimer and scrapbooking as well.  And if you fill up this card, all you have to do is take out this stamp set and do another one! 

I bordered the list with Sunset Cardstock and Lagoon Cardstock.  The ink colors that I used are:

Lagoon Stamp pad
Pacifica Stamp Pad (for the lines) and Sunset Stamp pad for banners/stars
Gypsy Ink Pad for the top banner/ other bottom banner.  

I also used Enamel and Glitter Duos Purple Hearts Embellishments as well as some Bitty Sparkles to finish it up.

Easy and fun to do!  I have 3 more workshop cards to post, so check back I will be posting them (hopefully) in the next few days.  Have a great evening!  Hugs!