Showing posts with label Festive Flurry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Festive Flurry. Show all posts

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

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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Festive Flurry Christmas

Merry Christmas...at least that's what today's card says. :)  This card is totally different than what I usually make, but the challenge for 'Tis the Season is an inspiration challenge and has letters on it, so that's what I ran with.  I didn't want just black and white so I went with Naturals White, Basic Black and Blackberry Bliss.


Make sure you stop by 'Tis the Season HERE to check out some other great Christmas cards.  Christmas is coming faster than you think and you don't want to be stuck making cards at the last minute! ;)


Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

Supplies used on this card:




Thursday, July 17, 2014

Pistachio Pudding Christmas

Hi, Everyone!  Today's card is another Christmas card for the next 'Tis the Season challenge.  This time around it's a color challenge.  I have to admit I wasn't too sure about the colors this time around, but I have to admit I love them together!


Make sure you head over to the challenge HERE to check out all the designers cards because they are fabulous!!  



Can you believe the difference in colors between these two pictures.  I think my camera likes to play tricks on me...either that or just annoy me!  Why can't it take pics and have the color turn out exactly like the card looks when I'm looking at it.  Guess that's the way it will be, and I'll have to learn to live with it! lol


Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

Stamp Sets:  Festive Flurry & Teeny Tiny Wishes
Card Stock:  Pistachio Pudding & Very Vanilla
Classic Stampin' Pads:  Pistachio Pudding
VersaMark
Stampin' Emboss Powder:  Gold
Embossing Folder:  Retired
Framelits:  Circles Collection
Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer


Thursday, March 27, 2014

Christmas Blessings

Hi Everyone!  With spring finally on it's way (I think) it's hard to be thinking about making Christmas cards, but that exactly what I did for today's post.  I have to say I was a little baffled about what I would make using this sketch and trying to make it "Christmas-y".  I thought for a bit, grabbed an embossing folder, stamp sets, some ink, a punch and got busy.  I didn't think it was going to turn out at first, but I have to admit I like it quite a bit.  Guess the sketch was just right after all. :)  Now I need to sit down and make the other three like I'm supposed to be doing!  I'm thinking maybe a dark blue, possibly rich razzleberry and one other color.  Any ideas for the last color?  Guess I'll have to think about that a little more.


Don't forget to visit us at 'Tis the Season and play along too!  We'd love to have you join us. :)


Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

Stamp Sets:  Festive Flurry & More Merry Messages
Card Stock:  Cherry Cobbler & Naturals White
Glimmer Paper:  Silver
Classic Stampin' Pad:  Cherry Cobbler
Punch:  Chevron
Embossing Folder:  Pretty Print
Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer
Sponges


Thursday, January 30, 2014

Fancy Festive Flurry

Anybody ready to see more Christmas cards?  I am, and the designers at 'Tis the Season did a great job with their cards using Marina Mist, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White.  The optional trimming is brads, but I put rhinestones in place of the jewels for this challenge.  Check out our challenge HERE, and play along so you can get a head start on your Christmas cards for 2014...especially if you're a procrastinator like me! lol  I also used this week's Less is More sketch challenge #11 for my design.  I have to say I managed to whip up this card pretty quickly. :)  Not sure if you can tell or not, but I used Heat & Stick Powder to put Dazzling Diamonds on my snowflake.  I have to say shimmery stuff is hard to capture just right with the camera!





Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

Stamp Sets:  Festive Flurry & Teeny Tiny Wishes
Card Stock:  Chocolate Chip & Whisper White
Classic Stampin' Pads:  Marina Mist
VersaMark
Embossing Folders:  Northern Flurry & Delicate Designs
Framelits:  Festive Flurry
Heat & Stick Powder
Stampin' Glitter:  Dazzling Diamonds
Jewels:  Basic Rhinestones


Monday, December 16, 2013

Festive Flurry Snowflakes

Today's cards are the last cards I made for my December stamp a stack.  I wanted something simple for the ladies to make and this was pretty simple. :)  Plus they needed to be cards that could be Christmas or winter.  I made these two samples to be birthday and thank you cards.


Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

Stamp Sets:  Festive Flurry, Perfectly Penned & Simply Sketched
Card Stock:  Wisteria Wonder & Whisper White
Classic Stampin' Pad:  Wisteria Wonder
Framelits:  Festive Flurry
Jewels:  Basic Pearls - Large

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Festive Snow Day

Another quick post for today.  I need five winter cards for my three December stamp a stacks this week, so I looked through a few sketch challenges and used Freshly Made Sketches 115 to come up with this card.  I don't usually make my cards so simple, but I really like how this one turned out.  I need to do some clean and simple cards more often!


Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

Stamp Sets:  Snow Day, Festive Flurry & Teeny Tiny Wishes
Card Stock:  Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi & Whisper White
Classic Stampin' Pads:  Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi, 
Real Red, Basic Black & Tangerine Tango
Framelits:  Festive Flurry
Smooch Sprtiz:  Vanilla Shimmer



Friday, November 1, 2013

Creative Crew Creations for November

Welcome to November!  It's hard to believe it's already here.  Where has the year gone?!  Just to warn you my first post for this month is a long one since I'm going to combine all of my Creative Crew projects into one post instead of doing four this month.  I tried to keep my projects and little more simple this time.  I like to go all out and need to learn to do simple but elegant.  So let's start from the beginning...

Oh November, the time of sweaters & blue jeans, cocoa & fires, and just about every kind of yummy food you could ever be thankful for! This month we're going to take ourselves a trip down memory lane and remember what we have to be thankful for.
The first challenge...DSP/Color Focus: Since we're starting Sweater Weather why don't we take our trip down that road first. Show us Chocolate chip, Crushed Curry, Sahara Sand, Soft Sky, Tangerine Tango all getting happy together.

Since we've had our leaves on the trees for so long here in Michigan I figured I'd use the Lovely as a Tree set using the colors from the first challenge.  


I like to stamp the image on the inside after I've stamped the first time.  It leaves the same image just a lot lighter so you can write over it.


The second challenge...Creative Focus: KITS! We have a mountain of kits to choose from, they make a class or a workshop easy peasy! The next part of our trip takes us into packaging territory, show us something with the Pretty Packages line on pages 158 & 159 of the main catty or any of the kits or packages in the mini catty, tell us why you choose what you did.

The reason I chose this kit is because you can make so many cute things using the bags and tags and add anything you want to it to match what you're using from the kit.  Plus I have an open house coming and I'm trying to figure out ideas for some of the make and takes. :)


Just a close up. :)


The third challenge...Holiday focus: Did you know that November 26th is national cake day? Trip number three is to be inspired by the cake pictures and show us what creation one of these cakes led you to, please see the attached ideas.


I usually like color, but I love black and white cards as well.  Since it's November and a month to be thankful I thought it would be nice to make a thank you card that's clean and simple.


I had to make a matching envelope too. :)


The fourth and last project...Scrapbook focus: The last leg of our journey is to take that walk down memory lane and share a favorite childhood memory, event, toy, or treat on scrapbook page, mixed media project or with This & That!

Well, a scraper, scrapbooker (not sure what you call it!) I am NOT!  But I didn't want to do a mixed media this time, and I don't have a This and That journal so a scrapbook page it is.  I decided to make a quick page of when we brought our kids to Disney World with my brother's family in 1998 and for our fifteenth anniversary in 2005.  I made quite a few visits there while growing up, and it's also where we went on our honeymoon.  Love that place! :)  I think it's time to go back!! :)



Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

Lovely as a Tree Card
Stamp Sets:  Lovely as a Tree, Dictionary & Express Yourself
Card Stock:  Chocolate chip, Crushed Curry, Sahara Sand, 
Soft Sky & Tangerine Tango
Classic Stamp Pads:  Chocolate Chip, Sahara Sand, 
Crushed Curry & Tangerine Tango
Punch:  Modern Label
Candy Dots:  Neutrals Collection

Decorative Bag
Stamp Sets:  Festive Flurry & Teeny Tiny Wishes
Classic Stampin' Pads:  Coastal Cabana & Bermuda Bay
Framelits:  Festive Flurry
Ribbon:  3/8" Ruffled Stretch Trim in Coastal Cabana
Tag a Bag:  Gift Bags & Accessory Kit
Jewel:  Basic Rhinestones

Thank You Card
Stamp Sets:  Hello Doily & Blooming with Kindness
Card Stock:  Basic Black & Whisper White
Classic Stampin' Pad:  Smoky Slate 
StazOn:  Black
Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Scrapbook Page
Stamp Set:  Everything Eleanor
StazOn:  Black
 Card Stock:  Basic Black, Real Red, 
Pacific Pride & Garden Green
Punches:  1/2" Circle, 3/4" Circle, 1" Circle & 1 3/8" Circle