Delicate Boughs and Berries

It's time for Christmas cards again at 'Tis the Season Christmas blog challenge.  We have a color combo for you this time around...marina, sky and slate.  Not a bad color combo at all!  

 

Make sure you head over to 'Tis the Season HERE to check out all the other cards made by the talented designers.  Lots of different ideas for this color combo!

I used a couple of new things from the Stampin' Up! holiday catalog that I hadn't had a chance to use yet...Embellished Ornaments stamp set (just the sentiments), Delicate Ornaments thinlits dies and a new embossing folder Boughs & Berries.

 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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Christmas Sleigh Ride

I have a fun Christmas card to show you today that's inspired by the sketch challenge over at 'Tis the Season.  I made this card with some fun new stuff in the Stampin' Up! holiday catalog!  I couldn't wait to play around and see what I could come up with.  First of all I finally went out and bought some liquid frisket!  I've seen so many cards where it's been used and had to try it myself.  I can guarantee I'll be using more of since it will be great for Christmas and winter cards!  Second is the fun little scene you can create using the new edgelits.  I've already seen so many beautiful cards made with them, and I plan to add to what's already out there. :)

Make sure you head over to 'Tis the Season HERE to check out the other fun Christmas cards using this sketch and play along too.  We'd love to see what each of you create. :)

I loved the sketch for this challenge, but I have to say I did NOT love the way I decided to make the little curve at the top of my "rectangle", or that fact that I needed to line up the curves underneath the rectangle to where they are on the rectangle! lol  Why do I always do this to myself?  I have no idea, but when an idea pops into my mind I just have to get it on paper. :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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Liquid Frisket

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Colorful Christmas Bauble

Christmas is right around the corner...are you ready?  Nope, me either! lol  That's true with my Christmas cards too.  I've been working on them slowly and steadily and today's cards are no exception.  This time around 'Tis the Season has a color challenge for us.  I wasn't too sure about these colors, but after I "painted" them into the ornament I was actually really happy with them!

The colors are artichoke, daffodil, strawberry and pool.  Head on over to 'Tis the Season HERE to check out all the different cards using these colors.  Make sure you play along too.  We'd love to see what you create!

Just a couple more pics at different angles.  :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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White Watercolor Paper not available through Stampin' Up!

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Evergreen in Pink

Today I have a fun Christmas card for you that I hope you'll enjoy.  I used Pool Party and Pink Pirouette to create a soft winter scene on this week's card for 'Tis the Season's inspiration challenge.  The first cards I made up just did NOT work.  I pulled the ornaments I made off the cards and used another stamp set to create baby cards.  They turned out really cute, but I forgot to take pics of them.  Maybe I'll post them next week sometime after I get home from this year's Stampin' Up! convention. :)

To create this card I stamped my trees in VersaMark, then Pink Pirouette and poured clear embossing powder on them.  Once I heated them I sponged both on the top and the bottom in Pool Party.  On the top I punched out a circle so I could have a shimmering moon effect.  I sponged lightly around the moon, then worked my way from the outer edges in toward the moon always starting on the edges and moving in so those parts got darker and it stayed a bit lighter the closer I got to the moon.

To create the "hills" on the bottom I used scrap paper and moved it around and sponged in different areas to get the hilly look.

Make sure you head over to 'Tis the Season HERE to check out the other great cards that were inspired by this challenge.  Come play along if you have time.  We'd love to see what you create!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

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Happy Wonderful Christmas

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer so far.  I know I am, but it's flying by way too fast!!  At least I've had time to make a few cards here and there, and this week I have some Christmas cards from 'Tis the Season's Christmas card challenge blog.  We have a great sketch for you this week...

I made all of my cards pretty clean and simple this time around since the berries on the wreath, the bow and some of the words are embossed.  That adds a little shine to each of the cards and the wreaths are popped up with dimensionals too.  On the first card I made I stamped the sentiment all in Garden Green and you can't see the word Christmas very well, so I reinked it with Versa Mark and embossed it in white.  Definitely much better!

Make sure you check out 'Tis the Season HERE to see all the other fun Christmas cards made with this sketch and play along too if you get the chance.  We's love to see what you create!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

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Retired embossing folder:  Petals a Plenty

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Newborn King

Today I have a sparkly card for you!  I was in the mood for lots of shimmer and shine so that's what I did for our next challenge over at 'Tis the Season.  We have a fun color challenge for you and this is what I came up with...

Here are the colors we worked with.  I used Night of Navy, Sahara Sand and Elegant Eggplant.

I have to tell you, it sure is hard to get a good picture when there's a lot of shimmer going on! lol  If you look at this card just right all you see is the shimmer with a little color behind it.  You have to move it around just right to see what's actually stamped.  I used Elegant Eggplant to stamp my scene, inked the whole piece of card stock with VersaMark, poured on heat and stick powder and used my heat gun to melt it.  Then I poured on dazzling diamonds, used my heat gun one more time and it was ready to put on the rest of my card stock.  Make sure you head over to 'Tis the Season to check out all the other great Christmas cards using these colors.  We'd love to have you play along too!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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Holiday Home Happiness

I've been enjoying some warm weather here in Michigan...finally!  So what am I doing making Christmas cards?  Making them for 'Tis the Season's Christmas card challenge blog of course.  This week we have a fun inspiration challenge for you.  I looked at the sketch waaaay back in April and knew what I was going to do.  Then I started working on it and have to admit I did not think it was going to turn out at all.  I started with the red sleigh, brown reindeer and green trees since I embossed them.  I took one look and thought, "That is U G L Y!". lol  Glad I stuck it out because I had fun making this card and seeing it develop into something even better than I imagined it would! :)

This is the inspiration challenge.  Make sure you head over to 'Tis the Season HERE to check out the rest of the design team's cards because they are so fun!  What will this picture inspire you to make?  We'd love to see it and have you play along!

I had to stick this picture in because it shows a bit of the shimmer I spritzed onto the card after my sponging was done. :)

I hope you had as much fun looking at this card as I did creating it...just a lot less time on your part! lol

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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Supplies used on this card:

Sticky Notes
Holiday Home Stamp Set (retired)
Stampin' Write Markers used since I can only list the color groups:
Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Mossy Meadow, Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake,
Soft Suede, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight, Night of Navy & Pacific Point

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Merry Christmas

Hi Everyone, I'm here to show you another Christmas card today. :) We have a fun sketch over at 'Tis the Season, so it's pretty much anything goes on your card as long as it's Christmas and you use the sketch.  I hauled out a set I haven't used in a while called Beauty of the Season.  It's definitely helped me make a few beautiful cards. :)  

Make sure you head over to 'Tis the Season HERE to check out the other fun Christmas cards and to play along too.  We'd love to see what you create!  Plus you'll love getting a head start on your Christmas card stash. :)  We are also looking to add to our Design Team.  If you like to make Christmas cards and want to be a part of our team head to our blog and check out the details. :)

This was a pretty simple card to make.  I used StazOn black to stamp my images on watercolor paper and used my aqua painter to color everything in.  The colors I used will be listed below in my supplies.  Oh I also used my Northern Flurry embossing folder because I have a hard time leaving something blank even though it wasn't that much space!  I guess I just needed the card to look a little more winterish or something. 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

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Christmas Postage Due

Today I have another Christmas card to show you.  It's a color challenge this time at 'Tis the Season and it's all about cherry, kraft, gray and red.  I had a little bit of trouble at first trying how to figure out how to use the colors together, but managed to come up with a card a really liked. :)  I did end up making four, but never got pics of that last three I made.

Head over to 'Tis the Season HERE to check out the other beautiful cards made by the designers and show us what you can create using these colors.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

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Silver Snowflakes

Who's ready for Christmas?  Not me! lol  I sure am willing to work on Christmas cards though so I don't need to do them at the last minute.  For the next two weeks we have an inspiration challenge for you over at 'Tis the Season.  I liked the simplicity of our inspirational photo and how each of the designers had a different twist on what inspired them.

Head over to 'Tis the Season HERE to check out all the great Christmas cards made by each of the designers.  Then show us what you've been inspired to create.  We'd love to see it!

I made my card pretty clean and simple by stamping everything with VersaMark ink, then embossing it all in silver.  I used Silver Encore ink around the edges of my banner.  And to finish it off I placed rhinestone jewels on the middle of each of the snowflakes.  Pretty and simple was what I was looking for this time around and I was happy with the finished cards. :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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From our Home to Yours

It's time for another Christmas card for 'Tis the Season, and this time it's a sketch challenge.  It's a great sketch to work with because it's pretty simple and was perfect for a scene I decided to create.  So there is a bit of a story to this so if you don't mind sticking with me keep reading below...

I went to Hobby Lobby last week and bought some canvas paper because I wanted to try a little bit of oil painting...yes, I'm a huge Bob Ross fan and stay up way too late sometimes watching him on PBS.  Since it's on so late I have to admit I've fallen asleep and haven't seen the final painting. lol  So this whole story really is going somewhere. lol  I had taped a second piece of canvas paper down (because I did NOT like what I had painted on the first one.  Let's just say it wasn't even a painting, although I did manage to make some nice pine trees!).  Ok..the second piece of canvas paper...I was going to try to paint again, but my kids came home and we did a bunch of chatting, so I never got around to it again.  So the next night when I went downstairs to stamp again and there sat the blank canvas paper.  I decided to us it for my Christmas card and paint the sky light blue using pool party ink and an aqua painter.  I actually didn't like how it looked at first, but was determined to use it anyway.  Once I started to build my card I was really happy with how it turned out. :)

Make sure you stop by 'Tis the Season HERE to check out all the other great cards using this sketch and to play along too.  I'm SO glad I'm a part of this challenge team. :)

Just another pic for you....

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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Silver Stars

We finally had some warmer weather here in my part of Michigan yesterday!  It was around 65 degrees.  After this past winter it seemed pretty warm to me.  I even had my office door open to let in the sunshine and warmth. :)  Seems kind of strange that I'd be making a Christmas card with this kind of weather, but it's time for another challenge over at 'Tis the Season and this time it's a color challenge.  I thought it was going to be a difficult one again, but I think I managed to do ok with it. :)

I used the colors Pacific Point, Soft Sky and Night of Navy.  I heat embossed to get my silver.  As you can see I did just a touch of each of the colors and let silver be the focus of the card.  I'd still like to make a few more and have the base be Soft Sky on one and Pacific Point for the other.  The last one will be the one I like the best out of the three. :)

Make sure you head over to 'Tis the Season to check out all the other great cards by the design team and to play along too.  You need to make your Christmas cards at some point and getting them started sooner rather than later will make you happy when December comes creeping up on you! lol

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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Christmas Beach

Are you ready to check out a few Christmas cards?  If you're thinking, "No way! I'm done with the cold and winter" you might want to check these cards out anyway.  This time around we have an inspiration photo from 'Tis the Season and it has a beach with Christmas ornaments on it.  That ought to make you think of warm weather! :)  I have to admit my imagination did not go wild with this photo.  I pretty much copied the idea that was in the inspiration photo...beach and bulbs. lol  That's ok.  I had a lot of fun creating these two cards and trying to figure out how to make them at least a little bit Christmasy.  At any rate I hope you enjoy the cards I made. :)

Make sure you stop by 'Tis the Season HERE and check out all the other great cards made by the designers.  Plus take a bit to play along with the challenge.  We'd love to see what you create. :)

Just a couple more pics of each card a little bit closer.  I have to tell you those ornaments were a bugger to make!  Lots of small detail work is what they were. lol

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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