Seize the Birthday: Sparkle and Shine

Happy Thursday! Seize the Birthday wants to bring some Sparkle and Shine to your day with our new challenge! My card adds shine with foil patterned paper, and sparkle with embossing powder: 

Shine is never easy to photograph! And my laptop is in for service, so my photo editing is a bit curtailed as well. You can still see the gold shine from the patterned paper as well as the brushed gold mat. For the sentiment, I used black sparkle embossing powder.  I cut my layers with a new set of mini-slimline dies - thank you, Carol! 

Lots of sparkle and shine over on the STB blog, from my teammates and our current surprise party guest, Vicky! I hope you'll join us. 

Supplies: Recollections black cardstock, My Mind's Eye On Trend 2 patterned paper, Studio Katia It's Your Birthday stamp, Versafine onyx black ink, Ranger black sparkle embossing powder, Photoplay stitched frames dies

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Happy Little Stampers CAS: Inky

It's time for the Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge, and this month we've got a fun theme: Inky! Inky may seem like it lends itself to more complex projects, but you'll see from the HLS design team that a clean and simple card can also be inky. Here's mine: 

It's a little layered, but still has an overall clean look, I think, and apart from the drying time, was quick and easy to make. I used pink, red, purple and silver alcohol inks on some mineral paper for my main panel - I decided to try mineral paper to see if it took heat better than Yupo paper does. It doesn't. :D While the inks dried, I die cut my heart from silver glitter paper and black cardstock. I also white-embossed the sentiment on black. Putting everything together, I have a dramatic-looking CAS valentine. With that in mind, I'm adding this card to the CASology Affection challenge and Simon Says Stamp's With Love challenge. 

I hope you will get inky - but stay clean! ;) - and join us! 

Supplies: Neenah white & Stampin' Up basic black cardstock, Yasutomo mineral paper, Concord & 9th Little Love Tags stamp, Versamark ink, Wow white embossing powder, senorita magenta, chili pepper, passion purple, pearl & silver Jacquard Piñata inks, Simon Says Stamp scribble heart & MFT blueprints 24 dies

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Addicted to Stamps and More: Christmas

After taking a short break (thanks, Kylie!) I'm back in time for Christmas in February at Addicted to Stamps and More! Often I use this time of year (when I actually have the time) for more intricate Christmas cards, but for today, kept it simple but I think cute: 

A card like this will certainly be easy to put together come December crunch time if I find myself running short! I think these little holiday mugs are adorable. I chose to use the snowman one, backed him with a kraft panel die cut for some extra interest, then mounted on a white card base. I also had a bunch of these simple sentiments already stamped and embossed, so I simply needed to cut and add one. 

I'm adding this to one of the newer card challenges on the crafty block: Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge! (Hearts on the mug - small but there!) 

I always advocate year-round Christmas card making, so I hope you'll consider joining us! Lots more inspiration to be found on the ATSM blog. 

Supplies: Neenah white & desert storm cardstock, Taylored Expressions Just Saying Christmas stamp, Versafine onyx black ink, Wow clear gloss embossing powder, STAMPlorations Christmas Mug Cuties ephemera, CUTplorations wonky stitched grid texture cover plate

 

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Color Hues: Red and Black

A new month means a new challenge at Color Hues, and I think it's a great one: RED and BLACK! While pondering a few Valentine ideas, I remembered I had a buffalo check background already stamped, and my card became a Christmas one: 

With the check already done, the rest of the card came together quickly: two deer die cuts adhered together, and a little banner sentiment. I was going to keep to entirely red and black, but decided on the pop of white embossing at the last minute. 

I'm adding this to Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Anything Goes challenge. 

Beautiful cards from my Color Hues teammates and our current guest designer, Michal, so I hope you will check them out and then join us! 

Supplies: Stampin' Up real red & Recollections black cardstock, Concord & 9th Plaid Background & Simon Says Stamp/Kelly Purkey Oh, Dear stamps, Versamark & MFT extreme black ink, Wow white embossing powder, CUTplorations Two Reindeer & MFT Blueprints 29 dies 

 

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I Made a Box for Scrap 'n Stamp!

Welcome back! I've been taking a bit of a crafting and blogging break to look after some other "stuff" - you know how real life can interfere sometimes. :D I'm back and on the Scrap 'n Stamp blog today with something completely different - a chipboard box made from a Graphic 45 kit! This turned out to be a lot of fun to make. More photos and an overview of how I made it are all over on the blog, I hope you'll check it out! 

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Tea for Two at Scrap 'n Stamp!

Since this is my first post in a while, HAPPY NEW YEAR! Welcome back for the January Scrap 'n Stamp inspiration hop, Tea for Two. The design team is ready to inspire you with tea-related, love-related, two-related creations! ;) And if you hop and comment along the way, you are eligible for a $50 gift credit to the Scrap 'n Stamp store! Here's my card:

To make this, I used two different Lawn Fawn sets: Thanks a Latte, which I find is really fun and versatile, plus the very first Lawn Fawn set I ever owned, My Cup of Tea. It was released in 2011, so not surprisingly, it's no longer available. :D  For the main panel, I used the tea bag, heart and tea leaf images from My Cup of Tea to make my own background. I stamped and die cut the tea mug from purple cardstock, then added the heart and lots of glitter with a Lawn Fawn glitter pen. To go with the glitter, I added some steam to the mug with Versamark and sparkle embossing powder. 

Head over to the Scrap 'n Stamp blog to start your hop! Here's the list of participants: 

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Kia

Deborah

Lindsey --> you are here! 

Tara

Susan

Allison

Jessica

Remember to comment at each stop for your chance to win! One last thing... we have a sale to go along with our hop... 20% off coffee and tea-themed items this weekend! 

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