Celebrate 2015

Happy New Year's Eve, friends! I hope your holidays have been peaceful and filled with joy. I took a nice, long blog break, but I'm back today and excited about what the new year holds! Today, I'm over on the Reverse Confetti blog with a festive confetti card for Wednesday in the Works. Hope you'll join me over there!

Peace, Love & Joy

The curtain is still up on Curtain Call's Candy Cane challenge! You have until Christmas morning, 8 am CST to play along.

photo source: atthepicketfence.com

Current challenge details and link-up are here.

The LEAD of this challenge will be invited to be a guest designer in an upcoming challenge!

 A randomly selected participant in the Candy Cane challenge will receive a $20 gift certificate to Avery Elle.

My card was super quick and easy to make, thanks to the bold images and sentiments in Avery Elle's NOEL set. I first stamped some snowflakes for the background, then stamped the sentiment in bold red. The length of aqua twine is secured in a few places with some matte multi medium, and then two birds are popped up on top as if they are carrying the twine in their beaks.

For a little extra something, I colored over the sentiment with a clear Wink of Stella pen.

And did the same for the two birds.

Last, I added some sequins.

Thanks for visiting today!

STAMPS: NOEL by Avery Elle

INK: Stampin' Up Soft Sky, Hero Arts Tide Pool

PAPER: Neenah white card stock

OTHER: Copic markers, The Twinery twine, 

Pretty Pink Posh clear sequins, clear Wink of Stella pen

Snow Globe Photo Ornament Tutorial

I'm excited to be making my debut on the Taylored Expressions blog today with a snow globe photo ornament project and tutorial. I hope you'll join me over there for another look at my project and a bit about my inspiration. From there, you can sign up for the Taylored Expressions e-Newsletter where you'll find full step-by-step instructions for making your own snow globe photo ornament!

Thanks for visiting!

Jingle All the Way - SFYTT

I've been so inspired lately by mixed media and watercolor projects on Pinterest and YouTube, so when I sat down to play along with Reverse Confetti's December Sketch For You To Try, I knew I wanted to incorporate at least a tiny bit of an artsy look.

First, here's the December sketch:

Isn't that a fun one? For challenge guidelines, prize details, and the link list, visit the Reverse Confetti blog. You have until December 29 at noon CST to enter.

My snowflakes are die-cut with Reverse Confetti's LET IT SNOW Confetti Cuts out of a panel that I watercolored in different shades of blue, then splattered with dark blue pigment.

The horizontal piece is made of layers of card stock, patterned paper, a doily piece, and some torn linen vellum topped with a pop of black diagonal stripe washi tape. More splattering in the same colors that I used for the snowflakes.

The sentiment, from TINSEL 'N TRIM, is stamped in Memento Luxe Teal Zeal onto a light gray card stock background panel. The background panel is also splattered with metallic silver and white watercolor.

Last, I added a sparkly twine bow with jingle bells tied to the ends, rounded the corners of the background panel, and mounted it to a white top-fold card base.

Hope you've enjoyed my loose sketch interpretation!

For more SFYTT inspiration, be sure to visit the Reverse Confetti blog.

Thanks for visiting!

REVERSE CONFETTI STAMPS: TINSEL 'N TRIM

REVERSE CONFETTI DIES: LET IT SNOW, CIRCLES 'N SCALLOPS Confetti Cuts

PAPER: white, stone, navy, and aqua card stock, linen vellum, 

designer paper scraps, Tim Holtz watercolor paper

INK: Memento Luxe Teal Zeal

OTHER: Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors, round brush, Pretty Pink Posh silver sequins, 

silver bells, metallic silver twine, washi tape, corner rounder, paper doily

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Candy Cane

It's time for a new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge!

photo source: atthepicketfence.com

We have a new sponsor, Avery Elle, for the Curtain Call Inspiration: Candy Cane!  A randomly selected participant in the Candy Cane challenge will receive a $20 Avery Elle gift certificate, while the LEAD will be invited as a Guest Designer in a future challenge!

For today's card, I took inspiration from the red and white striped candy canes and the aqua ribbon. I was also inspired by the overall clean, crisp look of the inspiration photo. 

First I stamped a background of snowflakes from Avery Elle's Noel stamp set. I used the rock 'n roll technique to get the two shades of blue. Then I spritzed on a little silver mist and added a candy cane stripe and some sparkly twine. 

The sentiment is stamped in a bold red ink, trimmed to a rectangle, backed with a doily fragment and popped up on foam tape.

Make sure you visit each of the designers' blogs for more inspiration!

Candy Cane Designers

Guest Designer:
Amy Kolling
Amy Sheffer
Amy Tsuruta
Gayatri Murali
Kim Singdahlsen
Laurie Willison
Lisa Henke
Marisa Ritzen
Maureen Plut
Monika Davis
Sarah Gough
Sheri Gilson
Stacey Schafer
Tenia Nelson
Tracey McNeely

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Stop by the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge for the challenge details and to play along with us!

Thanks for stopping by!

Reverse Confetti December Blog Hop

The Reverse Confetti Crew is blog hopping today, and our theme is Pretty Packaging. If you've come here from Kathy Martin's blog, you're in the right place. If not, grab a cup of something warm and head over to the Reverse Confetti blog, where the fun begins!

It wouldn't be a hop without prizes. Be sure to check out the prize details on the Reverse Confetti blog!

For todays project I've created a little gift bag featuring the TREAT TOTE Confetti Cuts die and the ENVIE WRAP Confetti Cuts die. I cut out the middle of the circle on the ENVIE WRAP die using the circle die from DONUT YOU KNOW Confetti Cuts, and turned it into a snowy scene by adding a snowy hill, a tree from BRANCH OUT, and a layered vellum snowflake from LET IT SNOW. 

I folded the ENVIE WRAP die-cut over the top of the TREAT TOTE (I trimmed off the zig-zag edge first), and clipped it on with a binder clip.

The tree is stamped with stripes from SO STRIPEY and the ENVIE WRAP is stamped with circles from WHOLE LOTTA DOTS. The sentiment is a mixture of BRING ON THE MERRY and SEASONAL SENTIMENTS.

On the back, I added a small GIVE THANKS Confetti Cuts label, topped with a LABEL ME Confetti Cuts label, which was stamped with a sentiment from TINSEL 'N TRIM, and topped with a bit of holly from the NORTH POLE WISHES Confetti Cuts.

The TREAT TOTE is the perfect size for a gift card, chocolate treats, or even a hot cocoa packet.

 

 

That's it for me today! The next stop on the hop is LEIGH PENNER! Enjoy!