More Christmas

Yes, another Christmas card! I didn't get these posted during December. I was just too busy! But I really wanted to share them with you anyway. 

This card was one of the Christmas cards that we made at my Christmas card class in December. It was lots of fun to make! The Pool background has been sprayed with Shimmer paint and alcohol mixture. I don't think you can really see the shimmer that's on this card. The words were spritzed with Pool Party marker with the Color Spritzer tool. It just added the right touch to this card! I'm LOVING the Silver Glimmer paper too! This paper is available too!

Stamps: Stitched Stockings, Jolly Jingles wheel

Ink: Real Red, Pool Party

Cardstock: Real Red, Pool Party, Whisper White

Accessories: Snow Burst embossing folder, Frost White shimmer paint, Scallop border punch, Color Spritzer tool, Pool Party marker, Silver Glimmer paper, Jingle bells, White baker's twine, Stocking builder punch, dimensionals

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley

Holly Jolly Christmas

I used this card as a Make and Take at my workshops in November. I know that this set or paper aren't available any longer but the layout and colors could be used for other card. The image is stamped with Black Stazon and watercolored. The background is embossed with Perfect Polka Dot embossing folder. I did add the brads on my card to step it up.

Stamps: Festive & Fun

Cardstock: Real Red, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White

Ink: Wild Wasabi, Real Red, Black Stazon

Accessories: Perfect Polka Dot embossing folder, Silver brads, 

1/16" handheld punch, Holly Berry Bouquet DSP, aqua-painter

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley

Lovely as a Tree Christmas

Neglected  blog again! I'm trying to get organized and keep up on my blog. Please bear with me while I try to figure out how to get everything done and organized!

This is a card that we created at my Christmas card class in December. I know that we are pass Christmas but you still need inspiration for your cards for next year that you are going to be creating all year long, right? This card is pretty simple to create and it's flat so there's no chance of having to pay extra postage on it! Yeah! To make the oval area I die cut copy paper with oval frame die and then I taped the scallop frame back onto my copy paper so that I had just this oval opening. I sponged Wisteria Wonder in the opening and then stamped the trees with Concord Crush that was stamped off once first. Then I removed the mask and stamped the pine tree with Concord Crush full strength. I did put glitter on the pine tree but you really can't see it in the picture.

Stamps: Lovely As A Tree, Four the Holidays

Cardstock: Concord Crush, Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White

Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Concord Crush

Accessories: Scallop oval frame die, Ticket corner punch, sponges, 2-way glue, Dazzling Diamonds

I have some more Christmas cards that I'm going to be showing over the next few days, as well as some new mini stuff! I'm loving ALL the accessories that are in the Occasions mini! Haven't seen it? You can go to my website HERE and see it or contact me and I'll get you a mini catalog!

Happy Stampin'!

 Shelley

Occasions Mini Blog Hop Follow Up

First, I need to apologize for being gone so long and not posting! Life just got really crazy and I couldn't do everything. My blog isn't the only thing that didn't get done this last month!

Here's the first card from the blog hop. It has Melon scented embossing powder and boy does it smell yummy! I did use this card as a swap too.

Stamps: Mouthwatering, Short & Sweet

Ink: Whisper White, Certainly Celery, VersaMark

Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Early Espresso, Whisper White

Accessories: Perfect Polka dots embossing folder, Melon scented embossing powder, Early

Espresso marker, Whisper White grosgrain ribbon, Perfect Plum DSP, 1 3/4" circle punch, dimensionals

This card uses the new DSP from the Occasions mini called  Sweet Shop. Not a real difficult card but cute non the less! I really love the ruffled ribbon!

Stamps: Mouthwatering, Short & Sweet

Ink: Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade

Cardstock: Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade, Whisper White

Accessories: Perfect Polka dot embossing folder, Lucky Limeade ruffled ribbon, Modern label punch, Word Window punch, 2 3/8" Scallop Circle punch, mini brads, Scallop border punch, Sweet Shop DSP, sponge, dimensionals

I think this is my favorite card of this bunch! I was so happy with the way this turned out. I used the Stripes embossing folder to make the gingham background. I cut a piece of cardstock to 4 1/4" square. I brayered Old Olive ink on the embossing folder and placed the cardstock in the folder and ran it through the Big Shot. I took the cardstock out of the folder and re-brayered the folder with ink again. I placed the cardstock in the folder again so the stripes were perpendicular to each other and ran it through the Big Shot again. I then cut the cardstock down to the sized that I needed for my card.

Stamps: Mouthwatering, Short & Sweet

Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Melon Mambo

Ink: Old Olive

Accessories: Stripes Embossing folder, Melon Mambo and Old Olive

markers, mini brads, Melon Mambo Scallop ribbon, dimensionals

And last but not least, the ice cream cone necklace! I got the most comments on this little gem of a project and it's so simple! I stamped the cone on Crumb Cake cardstock using craft inks. Then I cut the cone out of the cardstock and glued it down, cut it out again. Because the vanilla ice cream didn't show up well enough for me, I stamped it on Very Vanilla cardstock and cut it out. Now I know what you are thinking but Shelley, it will be backwards then! Ahh, my dear, I used some Dotto adhesive to place it on the vanilla cardstock again and cut it out again! The second one is the one that I glued to the cone. I punched a hole with the 1/16" handheld punch and covered the whole thing with Crystal Effects. Once it dried, I turned it over and put more Crystal Effects on the back. Then I put a jump ring in the punched hole and put it on my chain. See, easy peasy!!

Stamps: Mouthwatering

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla

Craft Ink: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler

Accessories: Crystal Effects, 1/16" circle handheld punch, jump ring

I hope that you enjoyed the hop as much as I did! There were so many great projects and I know that my wish list has grown! I wish my pocket book would grow as fast as my wish list does!!!

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley

Occasions Mini Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stampin' Addicts Occasions mini Blog hop! We are featuring the new stamp sets and accessories from the upcoming Occasions Mini. There are 16 stops along the way. You may have come from Adriana's blog where she featured the stamp set You're My Type or you may be starting here, that's OK! The hop is linked in a circle so you can start anywhere along the way! If you get lost, you can always go HERE to get back on track!

The stamp set that I'm highlighting today is called Mouthwatering. It has 4 delicious treat images that you can use. I have used each image. The first one is a card that I used in a swap with other demos, so some of you may have seen this one already! If you have seen it, you might want to smell it too! I used the Melon embossing powder on the Popsicle! Yum, it smells so good!

 The next card uses the great cherries in this set! I also used the new DSP called Sweet Shop. I'm loving this paper! The colors are faboo and the designs are so cute. I'm not into the large print DSP's and this one is much smaller and for me, easier to use. It helps that it's all bright colors and I love bright colors!

The third card that I created uses the watermelon image. I made the gingham background with the stripes embossing folder. Love how this turned out! Come back on Monday and I'll explain how I made the gingham.

My last project is something that I've wanted to create for a long time but just never took the time to get it done. This was just the push I needed to try it out. The results are an ice cream cone necklace! I'll explain the how to's for this on Monday too! It's not hard though and my girls are now fighting over this! They all want one!

I hope that I have given you some ideas for this great new stamp set! It has been lots of fun to play with and I think I still have a few more ideas to create! Stay tuned to see more!

The next blog on the list is Debra's Heartfelt Inkspiration, where she used the Fashionable Hearts Embosslits die to create her projects. She really has some out of the box ideas with these cute little hearts!

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley