Christmas Season

Pretty sure I have shared with you before that I like to work on Christmas year round. I love Christmas and creating cards year round, helps me enjoy it even more. I get to relax a bit more because my cards just need to be sign and addressed. Now, I don't always get to that in a timely manner but I try!

Christmas Season is a really lovely Christmas foliage stamp set. On this first card I used the holly leaves and berries. The embossing folder is named Merry Melody. After I embossed the Very Vanilla cardstock, I added some Sahara Sand ink so the embossing would pop a bit more.

Celebrate Sunflowers

Celebrate Sunflowers is one of my all time favorite sets. I created several cards and scrapbook pages with this set and the coordinating dies. I was pretty sad when it was on the retiring list. I get why we need the turn over and make room for new and the next favorites but this set really bummed me. I will be holding on to this set for a while so that I can continue to create with it for personal use. 

These cards are made with a technique called faux wood burning. It's an easy technique but not every stamp set is made for this technique in my opinion.

Sweet Citrus

It's Memorial Day. I pray you are remembering all those who have gone before us and served this great country with their lives. 

Sweet Citrus is a great stamp set. It has coordinating dies and embossing folder. You can do so much with this set. Let me show you a couple of ideas. 

I started off sharing a some grapefruit. While I am not a grapefruit eater, I can appreciate the colors and smells of grapefruit, just not the sour taste. I should try again, it has been a while. To create the two shades of colors on the fruit I inked up the stamp with So Saffron (which has now retired so Lemon Lolly or Daffodil Delight would work) and then add some some Calypso Coral with a sponge dauber to the image before stamping and die cutting.

Happier Than Happy

Happier Than Happy has this adorable bear, owl, and fox in the set. The coordinating dies cut them out too which is always a time saver. The designer series paper that was part of the suite was adorable too. I was surprised to see this one on the retiring list as it is so cute I thought it would be good for so many cards and other handmade items.

The designer series paper is doing most of the work for this card. I did add stamped and die cut images of the bear, tree, stump, owl, and tag. 

Adorable Owls Scrapbook Pages

Adorable Owls really are adorable! My Belle LOVES owls! She has several around her room and has an email set up with owl as part of the name. She asked me to make her some scrapbook pages with the darling set and here they are.

True Beauty

I had pulled a number of stamp sets to work with recently. Little did I know that when I pulled them that most of them were going to be on the retiring list. Now I have all these cards that I made and you can't purchase the stamps and dies for them any longer. Oh well! You can always take away a layout, color combination or even copy because you have the set!

True Beauty was a set that I purchased a while ago but never put it to ink. I decided that it was long enough and then created 6 different cards with it. Here are three. Heather Highland and Mint Macaroon are the colors. The large flower was stamped and die cut.

Grassy Grove

Grassy Grove is a great set for creating masculine cards. Cards for guys can be very hard to make. Some guys like cars, some like sports, some like wood working, some like other things. One thing that most can agree on is the great outdoors. Grassy Grove fits that bill. It has trees, grass, deer and some awesome greetings.

Evening Evergreen has retired now but this could could be recreated with any shade of green and be awesome. I think even doing this cards with a bright green would be awesome.