Simply Sara Stampin' ~ Sara Hoogendoorn: Beauty of the Season

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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Christmas Wishes

Happy Thursday! Today I have another Christmas card for you. I have to say it seems more like Christmas here in Michigan right now with the snow we're getting than when it was actually Christmas! I definitely wish we had this much during the holidays, but that's here and gone for a while. That won't stop me from working on my stash of cards for this year though. :) We have a great sketch over at 'Tis the Season for you to check out.

Make sure you head over to 'Tis the Season HERE to check out what each of the designer's have created. We'd love to have you play along too!

I went with pretty simple for my card. I stamped the cardinal with StazOn Black on watercolor paper and colored everything using my aqua painter. Since I need to make more of these I think I'll try putting black under my cardinal and see how that looks. I couldn't try it this time since all of the banner pieces were already stuck on!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Beauty of the Season

I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date! Well I'm not really late for an important date, but I sure am late for my Try Stampin' on Tuesday post. I logged on to check out our next sketch thinking I'd be working ahead a little bit only to find out I was LATE! Not sure how I missed it, but thankfully I created a card for my winter stamp a stacks that is pretty similar to today's sketch and the optional theme is snowflakes.

Make sure you stop by Try Stampin' on Tuesday HERE to check out what the other designers created. If you get a chance to play along we'd love to see what you create!

As you can tell I used a retired stamp set and retired framelits. Sometimes it's just nice to pull out some of the older stuff I have and see what I can create with them, especially when it comes to making Christmas cards. I used to make the same one for everyone, but that isn't the case anymore. It's nice to have a variety to send out. :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Thursday, May 28, 2015

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

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Open House Make & Take -1

Today I'd like to show you my first make and take that I had at my open house last week. Since I did the diamond dust technique previously on a Friday Mashup challenge I decided I wanted to do it with the cardinal stamp Beauty of the Season from the Holiday catalog. I definitely think this was the ladies' favorite!

This pic doesn't look too bad, but seeing the diamond dust technique in person is SO much better! I stamped it with Memento Ink in Tuxedo Black and colored the cardinal in with Cherry Cobbler and Pumpkin Pie Blendabilities. I also used the Stampin' Write Basic Black for the branches and on the bird, plus Basic Gray for his legs. I didn't have enough candy dots for everyone coming and didn't feel like making my own, so I used the cupcake punch to punch out three circles.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Supplies used to make this card:

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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Beauty of the Season

Guess what? Christmas is coming! The last I heard someone mention it we were 15 weeks away. How are you doing on your Christmas cards? I have quite a few done thanks to 'Tis the Season Christmas card blog challenge. :) That's what today's card is for, and we are on challenge #25. Why not stop on by HERE to get a little inspiration and to play along.

I really like this new Christmas set from the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog, Beauty of the Season. I was going to add in some sponging or brayering for the backgrounnd, but decided I liked the card just like this. After coloring everything in with Blendabilities and coloring over it with an embossing marker so I could clear emboss over everything I wasn't about to take a chance and ruin it. lol