Faux Tiles Poinsettia

I'm back with another Christmas card today! Are you getting inspired to start making your own Christmas cards yet? LOL

For this card, I used the Poinsettia Background stamp from Chapel Road to do the Faux Tile Technique. It's a cool way to show off your background stamps! I kept the rest of the card simple by stamping a single poinsettia from the Poinsettia Plate and adding some gold cord and gold brads. The single poinsettia is embellished with the Wisped Frames technique from Technique Junkies.

This card is easily mail-able. Think of all the different colors you could do this card in - you could have a whole box of Christmas cards done in no time!


Stamps: Poinsettia Background and Poinsettia Plate - Chapel Road
Ink: Cherry Cobbler
CS: White, Cherry Cobbler
Other: sheer white organdy ribbon, gold cord, gold brads, oval dies, sponge
TJ Techniques: Faux Tiles and Wisped Frames

I Brake for Challenges - Summer!

It's time for the next challenge from the I Brake for Challenges blog! Can you guess what it is this time? It's all about Summer - hot days, swimming, flip flops, and BBQ's!

So what does a birdhouse have to do with summer? Bear with me as I tell you a little story. Every year we have some barn swallows who nest in the spaces under our porches. Well, right now I've been seeing a lot of those barn swallows flying in and they are hanging out on the ledges and on our outdoor ceiling fans. I don't know if these are the parents or the babies, but they come back every year. Sooooo..... I had birdies on the brain when I was creating my "summery" card. :-)

I was also inspired by a couple of challenges over on the Rogue Redhead Designs blog. They have a sketch challenge and a color challenge going on - click on those to see what they are and play along! I used summery colors - fun oranges and pale blues - and I aged these papers by doing the Distressed Papers technique. The birdhouse image (Birdhouses Set from I Brake for Stamps) is colored with Copic markers directly on some patterned paper. The ribbon is actually some white ribbon that I colored with some distress stains. A few Wild Orchid flowers from I Brake for Stamps provide the finishing touch on this clean and simple card.

I hope you play along with this fun Summer challenge over at the I Brake for Challenges blog. Feel free to combine this with the sketch challenge and the color challenge on the Rogue Redhead Designs blog as well! :-)


Stamps: Birdhouses Set - I Brake for Stamps (use code SAVE10HOLLY to save 10% off your order)
Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento
CS: dark brown, Stella Rose-Mabel paper (My Minds Eye)
Other: distress stains, white ribbon, Wild Orchid Flowers from I Brake for Stamps
TJ Technique: Distressed Paper

Eureka - Christmas in July blog hop

Hiya, folks! Welcome to the Christmas in July blog hop with the Eureka design team! If you have come here from Kristie's blog, then you are on the right track. If not, please start at the Eureka blog so you don't miss anything.

For my project today, I used the Three Wise Men stamp and the O Holy Night sentiment stamp. I stamped both with brown ink and then cut them with some oval dies. While they were still inside the dies, I sponged some Antique Linen ink around the edges. Some dark chocolate satin ribbon on the left side and some pale blue patterned paper is all I needed to add to this Christmas card.

I hope you have enjoyed my Christmas card today! Please hop on over to Dawn's blog to see her Christmas project. Have a wonderful day!


Stamps: Three Wise Men and O Holy Night - Eureka Stamps
Ink: French Roast (A Muse), Antique Linen distress
CS: Vanilla, Dark Chocolate, patterned paper from Hobby Lobby
Other: oval dies, Dark Chocolate satin ribbon
TJ Technique: Wisped Frames

Glimmered Snowflakes

Hiya folks! Are you ready for another Christmas card? This heat in Texas is just yucky, and I'm ready for some nice cool, crisp fall/winter weather. It can't come soon enough, lemme tell ya!

I love the Glimmering Silk technique from Technique Junkies, and I put it to use again on this card. This time I used a pale blue Glimmer Mist and I didn't sponge any extra color onto the card. These Snowflakes are from Chapel Road and I stamped them with a gray ink onto the paper after it dried.

The white and blue cardstocks as well as the pretty pink ribbon are from Paper Temptress. The white background is the yummy Cryogen White cardstock - it's a gorgeous shimmery white cardstock. The blue is Aqua Basics cardstock and that gorgeous pink ribbon is the 3/8 Reversible Satin Ribbon w/stitches in Pink/Light Pink. I ordered the 5 yard length, but now I'm thinking I need to order the 25 yard roll! It's gorgeous and soft and ties like a dream.

This close-up picture will help you see the gorgeous shimmer of the Cryogen White cardstock as well as the light blue Glimmer Mist on my Glimmering Silk snowflakes:

I love shimmery, glittery things! :-) I added some pink rhinestones to the center of the clear acrylic snowflake just to do something different and to keep this card sparkly.

As I looked around at all the different challenge blogs, I noticed that this card actually fits into several of the challenges. I'm entering this into these challenges:

Christmas Card Challenges #31 - Christmas cards
Craft Your Passion Challenge #65 - anything goes
House of Gilli #11 - lots of sparkle
There She Goes #114 - glitter, glitz & bling


I hope you have a wonderful day! Stay cool!!

3D Christmas Tree

Did you have a nice 4th of July? With the burn bans across most of Texas, we didn't get to see any fireworks, so we stayed in the house and watched fireworks on tv. At least it was nice and cool in the house! :-)

I promised you a lot of Christmas projects this month, and here is another one. This is a 3D tree from Eureka Stamps. It's so neat! You just stamp the image, cut and score, and then glue it down.

I actually sponged extra ink onto the tree to emphasize the edges, and then I adhered a million tiny little red rhinestones all over. This will be a fun tree to decorate - think of all the different colors you could use, glitter, pearls, brads, anything you can think of. I used the Wisped Frames technique from Technique Junkies on the vanilla background behind the tree. I kept the rest of the card simple so that the tree would shine.

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Stamps: 3D Tree Pattern from Eureka Stamps
Ink: Olive, Antique Linen distress
CS: Olive, Vanilla, Dashing dp (SU)
Other: sponge, May Arts ribbon, rhinestones (Kaiser), Label 8 die (Spellbinders)
TJ Technique: Wisped Frames

Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July, y'all!! I hope you are all having a fun and safe day today.

I'm sharing my patriotic card today, and this is the Color Sandwich technique from Technique Junkies. It's a fun and unexpected technique with loads of possibilities. I used Holly's Tattered Background from I Brake for Stamps on the star and accented it with some red, white, and blue buttons.

Enjoy the celebrations today!


Stamps: Holly's Tattered Background (I Brake for Stamps - use code SAVE10HOLLY to save 10% off your order)
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Not Quite Navy, Kraft
CS: Kraft, White
Other: buttons, linen thread, sponges, star die, distress tool
TJ Technique: Color Sandwich

$25 gift card giveaway at Paper Temptress

Hey folks! I've been down and out with a migraine all day today, but I wanted to let you know about a special giveaway at Paper Temptress. You could win a $25 gift certificate to shop at Paper Temptress (free cardstocks and papers!)! All the details are HERE. Good luck to y'all and enjoy your weekend!