Merry Christmas!

IT'S HERE!!!! Christmas is here. It's a day most children will say is their most favorite day of the year. If you're Buddy the Elf, it's always your favorite and you can take it to the extremes. I like smiling. Smiling's my favorite!

I created this little Christmas card that reminds me of looking outside on Christmas Eve and seeing dark houses, snow falling (the ONLY time I want the snow), and knowing inside lay families asleep waiting to see what fun the next day brings.

 
The acetate is amazing. I love how it creates the snowy sky against my watercolored panel of a night sky. And the little houses, so so cute. I mean, some of the windows are hearts!!!

 

I hope you and yours have a wonderful, memory filled holiday season. I wish you all the best! Thank you for looking at my projects and commenting. I appreciate every one of them. Merry Christmas.

SUPPLIES USED:

Signature Collection Traditional Christmas Luxury Mirror Card
Signature Collection Contemporary Christmas Luxury Snowfall Acetate
Signature Collection Contemporary Christmas Scenic Borders
Signature Collection Contemporary Christmas 6x6 Paper Pad
Distress Ink, Tumbled Glass
Memento, Nautical Blue
Spectrum Noir Watercolor Cardstock
Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock

Vintage Holiday Greetings

I've got a more vintage looking card up today for you to enjoy. I like the subdued colors of a vintage Christmas at times, so I thought this was perfectly so!

 

I colored the rhinestones with a red Spectrum Noir Marker to make them look like holly berries. These markers are so versatile. Check them out over at Crafter's Companion and make a wish list for the items you want under your tree this year! 

SUPPLIES USED:

Signature Collection Traditional Christmas, Entwined Holly Metal Die
Signature Collection Peace & Joy Stamp Set
Shimmering Cardstock 6x6 Green Envy
Signature Colleciton Traditional Christmas 6x6 Paper Pad
Spectrum Noir Marker, DR2, DR7
Memento, Tuxedo Black
Distress Ink, Scattered Straw

Warmest Thoughts & Best Wishes

Good morning! I've got another very clean and simple holiday card up today to share. I love how you can create a completely simple card but that's made with love!

That's what larger stamp sets are great for - these clean and simple layouts especially if you have a lot of cards you're planning on making. This can work well with making card sets to gift give as well.

 I used a simple color palette for this one to coordinate with the patterned paper. You can always add some sparkle to the snow or the stars, too for added depth.

I hope you enjoyed my card today. Be sure to visit Crafter's Companion for more ideas.

SUPPLIES USED:

Stamp-It Australia Twinkle-Christmas Happiness
Signature Collection Contemporary Christmas 6x6 Paper Pad
Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock
Spectrum Sparkle Pens, Moonstone
Memento, Tuxedo Black
Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers: BG1, BGR2, BGR4, BGR5, PP1, IG4, GB4, LY1, DG3, GB8, GB10

Just For Men Birthday Card

Who else has a harder time with cards for the men or boys in their lives?! *raises hand* Crafter's Companion has THE perfect line of products to help those in need! Check it out...

 

I used a bright color palette with some neutrals mixed in. I had a lot of fun experimenting with the Spectrum Sparkle Pens with the stamps. I wish you could see the sparkle on this card! 

 

The stars are added on with some dimensional foam adhesive to pop it off the busy background. 

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting! 

SUPPLIES USED:

Just For Men, Rock Star
Just For Men, Street Wise
Just For Men, Urban Graffiti
Just For Men, 6x6 Brights and Urban
Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock
Memento Luxe, Grey Flannel & Rich Cocoa
Distress Ink, Festive Berries
Dew Drop Brilliance, Galaxy Gold
Memento, Summer Sky
Versamagic, Thatched Straw
Spectrum Sparkle Pens: Moonlight, Starry Sky, Red Berries, Blue Topaz, Harvest Moon, Smoked Quartz

Festive Wonder Snow Flurry

I can't rave enough about this line of products that are the Signature Collection by Sara Davies, Festive Wonder. Seriously, amazing stuff right here. From metal dies, embossing folders to patterned paper and a great stamp set, they're must haves for winter/holiday crafting.

I made this card using another non-traditional color palette. I chose green, purple and white. And I love the way it came out! Very simple design, so this is definitely one you can recreate in a jiffy.

The embossing folder is probably my absolute favorite. I have a thing for them anyway, but this one is just awesome. Look at the detail in the snowflakes!!

Check out the other holiday themed 

products offered by Crafter's Companion. 

Stock up for yourself, or get a little holiday shopping done for the crafty folks on your list this year!

PRODUCTS USED:

• Signature Collection by Sara Davies - Festive Wonder 5" X 7" Embossing Folder - Snow Flurry
• Signature Collection by Sara Davies - Festive Wonder Stamp Set - Christmas Wishes
• Signature Collection by Sara Davies - Festive Wonder 6" x 6" Paper Pad
• Spectrum Noir Watercolor Cardstock 
• Spectrum Aqua Markers: Bud Green, Sea Green, Evergreen, Wildflower

Lawnscaping Challenge #104: Sketch

Good morning! Lawnscaping has a new challenge up today. See the image below for the sketch we are following. Lots of ways to go about this one :)

The sponsor for this challenge is Lawn Fawn! I hope you participate because they have SO many things to choose from to order...

And now for my project I created using this sketch:

For this card, I used a variety of different Lawn Fawn stamp sets to create this card. I wanted the sentiment and feathers to really pop, so I chose to use a black/chalkboard looking paper to use for my blocks behind the main focal point.

I trimmed them all down and grabbed my Memento Luxe ink in Wedding Dress and started having fun. 

The upper left block, I used the bow and ties of the bow from the Lawn Fawn Winter in the Park set, as well as the small star which I stamped in Radiant Neon, Electric Yellow. It's very subtle on there which is just what I wanted. 

For the upper right block, I used the three hearts that come in the Lawn Fawn, Love You a Latte set. I grouped them on my stamping block and started stamping, rotating the block to create the background.

The large block at the bottom of the card was fun. I used the dotted line from the Lawn Fawn Deck the Halls set and swirled it on my stamping block in the shape you see here. I then stamped the three berries in the open spaces from the same set. 

For my fun little cluster, I picked a large dark wood flower from my stash and adhered that to the card. I pulled the SMILE sentiment from the Lawn Fawn Into the Woods set and stamped it onto a piece of pattered paper from the Snow Day 6x6 Petite Paper Pack. I used my Versafine in Onyx Black to really make it pop! It's a juicy ink pad. Love it. 

I simply cut around that and used foam adhesive to glue to the card, right in the center of the flower. 

I took the two feathers from the Lawn Fawn, Dream set and stamped them with Versafine, Onyx Black onto some watercolor paper. I diecut them out using the coordinating Lawn Cuts set. 

To color them in, I used my water brush pen with Distress Ink in Scattered Straw, Radiant Neon in Electric Yellow, Electric Blue, and Memento in Nautical Blue and Tangelo. I painted the colors on so they blended nicely. I snuck in a piece of cording on the flower using my Lawn Trimmings Triple Pack Cord and used foam adhesive to stick on the feathers. I found a cool arrow chipboard piece in my stash that I snuck in there as well. It brought a little movement and color to the entire card! 

I hope you enjoyed my project and that you play along with the Lawnscaping Challenge this time. Check out the BLOG for full instructions and to link up your project. Happy crafting!