PPA279 & SSSC299 "JOYFUL TIDINGS" Hero Arts Under The Mistletoe Gold Foil Card

It took me quite a while to get this card together and even after it's done, I'm wishing I had used a different color instead of black on the card.  It's done and put together and as soon as I make an envelope for it, it will be postal to someone.       

I used this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge ~ love their sketches!!   sketch is posted below.

I used the colors in this week's Pals Paper Arts Challenge which is a Color Challenge:   PPA279

This week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge:  SSSC299

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  MFT Kraft, Olive and Grout Gray. Black. SU Cherry Cobbler. Craft Smith Holiday Foil "Gold"
stamps:  Hero Arts CL797 Under The Mistletoe
ink: Versafine Black. SU Always Artichoke and Cherry Cobbler. Zig Clean Color Real Brush 065 Mid Brown, 043 Olive Green, 046 Mid Green. Wink of Stella Clear Glitter
accessories:  Scor-Pal, MFT Jumbo Fishtail Banner Stax, MFT Oval Stax, MFT Pinked Circles, Wrights Dark Scarlet Ribbon, We R Memory Keepers Next Level Embossing Folder Geometric, Scor-Tape and Foam Tape




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VLDEC2015 "LAND OF THE FREE Because of the BRAVE" ~ "GOD BLESS AMERICA" Verve stamps Patriotic card

I haven't made a Patriotic card in a while which is too long of a while for me.  Red, White and Blue is my favorite color combination.  I unfortunately didn't keep any of my Patriotic paper pads with me, I shipped them all. I did however have a paper pad from Authentique called "Abroad" and there are Red, White and Blue on the pages of the pad.     Not sure if it shows up in the picture or not, but I sponged the edges of the banner, the circle and the dotted strip under the star.

**ON THE LINK BELOW FOR THE SKETCH..  is a link to a FREE download of Cup of Kindness.. A Free digi stamp set from Verve Stamps.  Thank you!!


The VivalaVerve Sketches is on Holiday Vacation ~ there is a sketch on the post and that is what I used for my card.   I added a strip because my star looked lonely in the corner without it.

VLDEC2015 SKETCH:

SUPPLIES:
card stock:  MFT Kraft. Black. Pattern Paper Authentique Abroad
stamps: Verve American Hero
ink: Versafine Black. Hero Arts Soft Sand (for sponging). Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker Mustard
accessories:  Scor-Pal, MFT Blueprints, MFT Pinked Circle Stax, MFT Circle Stax, Paper Piercer, SU Vanilla Brads, a Sponge and Foam Tape



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MOJO427 "YOU'RE STINKIN' CUTE" Lawn Fawn card

Ohhhhh how "stinkin' cute!" Lawn Fawn's Stinkin' Cute stamp set is.    I received this adorable stamp set and matching Lawn Cuts with my Black Friday Sale order.  The polka dotted paper and Twine were gifts in my package.  What fun!!

Here is this week's MOJO Monday #427 Sketch:

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  white, MFT Kraft, SU Midnight Muse, SSS Woodgrain, Lawn Fawn Pattern Paper
stamps: Lawn Fawn Stinkin' Cute
ink:  Versafine black, Asst. Copics
accessories:  Scor-Pal, MFT Pierced Circle Stax, MFT Circle Stax, MFT Square Stax, MFT Blueprints, Lawn Fawn Lawn Trimmings Twine and Scrapbook Adhesives Foam Squares


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SIP26 "LOT OF ASSORTED QUICK & EASY CHRISTMAS CARDS"

Last weekend I purchased a paper pad at Michael's that is from Recollections and called Red & White Christmas. There are two sheets in the pad that have all these panels on them. I cut them all apart and layered them onto black card stock.  I then cut apart a gray and a red sheet of pattern paper from the pad and layered them onto black card stock.   .. fast forward to Tuesday when the new Stamp Ink Paper challenge #26 was posted so I decided to cut a bunch of little flag banners and get to making some cards.    I have a bunch more of these panels to use on cards, but only put this group together last night. Two of the panels had no sayings on them, so I stamped the "May Your Days Be Merry & Bright" stamp from the Joy To The World on them.


This week's STAMP INK PAPER CHALLENGE #26:

SUPPLIES;
card stock:  black, white, red and foil paper. Pattern Paper Recollections Red & White Christmas
stamps:  Hero Arts Joy To The World
ink: Versafine Black
accessories:  Scor-Pal, MFT Circle Stax Die-namics


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PPA278 "WE WISH YOU A Merry Christmas & A HAPPY NEW YEAR" Quilt Square Cover Up card

The coveted My Favorite Things Quilt Square Cover-Up is now in my hands and I am over the moon happy.  This is the first thing I cut.. I now know to not do plaid.. haha. hard to lineup the way I put them together.   I have an idea in mind and can't wait to put it together using this die.    I used a sentiment from a new Hero Arts stamp set called Joy To The World.  


This is the Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge #278:

SUPPLIES:
card stock:  Bazzill Green, MFT Kraft. White. Pattern Pattern Recollections Cozy Lodge
stamps: Hero Arts Joy To The World
ink: Lawn Fawn Lobster
accessories: Scor-Pal, MFT Quilt Cover Up Die-namics, Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch, Eyelet Outlet Square Jewel Red and Scor-Tape

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SSSC297 "HO HO HO MERRY CHRISTMAS" Crazy Bird card

As soon as I saw this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #297 I knew right away that I wanted to use my Crazy Bird and Crazy Talk stamps.   I colored several birds, but couldn't get the  coloring I liked with Reds and Blues.  I decided to color one in blues and then die cut it, but didn't do a good job die-cutting ~ so I tossed it aside. I colored another bird and then took the piece of card stock I had die-cut the other bird from and used it as a template to get the die lined up right this time.    The Crazy Bird stamps just crack me up! 

Here is this week's SSSC297 Sketch: 

SUPPLIES:

card stock: black, white. Pattern paper Recollections Cozy Lodge
stamps:  Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Crazy Birds, Crazy Things and Crazy Talk
ink: Versafine Black, Asst. Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens/Markers
accessories:  Scor-Pal, Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch, Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Crazy Birds and Crazy Things dies, Foam Tape, Paper Piercer and Red Brad

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MFTWSC257 "YOU ARE MY FAVORITE.. NUFF SAID" Jimmie Johnson card

I have been trying to get this card uploaded all night ~ however my son needed to use the laptop for some homework, so I had to wait.  I was trying to get it loaded since tonight is the NASCAR Championship Banquet.  My favorite driver is Jimmie Johnson.  A couple of months ago I saw a post in a FB resale group I am in, for a package of 12 x 12 Jimmie Johnson scrapbook papers.. I about fell out of my seat..  me please!!!  I was over the top to get the papers.  

Stashed away in all my stuff that is currently sitting in storage in another state, is my beloved Dale Earnhardt scrapbook papers, stickers, etc.  I have lots of pictures that I took at Rockingham Speedway in 1996. Dale Earnhardt won the race that day. I was so excited that my first NASCAR race and my favorite driver of all time won the race!!!  Anyways..  I kept it all packed up in the packaging it was mailed to me in. I bought it from a scrapbook store that Dale's daughter Kelley owned. My world was rocked the day that Dale died. I didn't watch any NASCAR for a few years. When I started watching again I would pull for a few different drivers, not picking a favorite, then one day I decided that Jimmie Johnson was the driver for me to pull for. It was an easy pick, since his main sponsor is my favorite store in whole wide world~ LOWE'S!!!  

Okay.. back to the card..  I used this week's MFTWSC257 for my card:

SUPPLIES:
card stock: white, black, MFT Lemon Drop. Pattern Paper Jimmie Johnson by EK Success
stamps:  Paper Smooches Uplifters
ink: Versafine Black
accessories:  Scor-Pal, MFT Circle Stax, MFT Star Stax, MFT Fishtail Banners Stax, Darice Star Embossing Folder, Paper Piercer, Black Brads and Foam Tape


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MOJO426 "WISHING YOU A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS" card

Wow!  what an awesome sketch this week's Mojo Monday Sketch #426 is.  I pulled out some papers that are in a plastic storage bin where I keep a bunch of 6 x 6 papers that I cut down from 12 x 12 papers. I filled three or four bins, I shipped the others and kept one with me.  I am not sure who makes it.

This is the sketch I used:  MOJO426

SUPPLIES;
card stock:  Bazzill Vibrant Teal and Dark Gray, white, Pattern paper unknown
stamps:  Hero Arts Family and Friends
ink: Versafine Black, Wink of Stella Clear Glitter (on bird)
accessories: Scor-Pal, MFT Fishtail Banner Stax, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Paper Piercer, White Brads and Foam Tape




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MFTWSC257 "I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART" card

This week's MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge is a pretty neat sketch.  I shipped my corner rounder, so I wasn't able to do any corner rounding. I decided to use a Tag instead and I just happened to have some polka dot paper to use on it.    I used a MFT stamp set that has coordinating dies to go with it. I purchased the stamps and dies while in TN recently.

Here is the sketch I used: MFTWSC257

SUPPLIES:

card stock  MFT Red and Green. White. Pattern Paper Unknown
stamps:  MFT LJD All My Love
ink: Versafine Black
accessories:  Scor-Pal, MFT Banner, MFT Circled Stax, MFT Pierced Circle Stax, MFT Tags Stax, MFT Pierced Tags Stax, MFT All My Love Die-namics, Sizzix Embossing Folder, Paper Piercer and Paper Studio Mini Red Brads.

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"GO SPARTANS" Michigan State Spartans Card

Ahhh..   With College Football and Basketball season in full swing, we are enjoying watching our boys in GREEN and WHITE playing so well.  Today I decided to pull out my Silhouette Cameo and get to cutting.  I have a bunch of Michigan State University Spartans images saved on my computer, so it was easy to get started cutting things out.  It took a few cuts to get things the right size.

A while back I downloaded the free MICHIGAN STATE SPARTANS FONT. I cut out the State "S" and then "Go Spartans".  I then cut the Spartan head out of white and green card stock, and then inlaid the white into the green.  I wish I had done that with the letters, because it would've been so much easier to line them up.   My husband called it a "masterpiece" and my son said it was "cool", so I'm happy with the way it turned out.


SUPPLIES;

card stock: white, Papertrey Ink Green, Pattern Paper Echo Park Dots & Stripes "Emerald Dots"
accessories; Scor-Pal, Silhouette Cameo, Double Sided tape and Foam Tape

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SSSC297 "HOLIDAY WISHES" w/Color Layering Christmas Tree

What a fun sketch this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #277 is. I love the diagonal panel on the sketch.  I thought I'd use a new stamp set by Hero Arts called Color Layering Christmas Tree.   After stamping several different greens, I stamped a layer with Hero Arts White ink.  I wish I hadn't shipped all my embossing folders and heat gun, or I would've embossed the white on it to look like show.    

Since I couldn't emboss the white, I took my Clear Wink of Stella pen and went over the areas that I had stamped in white.  It makes the tree shimmery like the striped paper. 

Here is the sketch that I used: SSSC297

SUPPLIES:
card stock: white and red. pattern paper is glittery green striped papers (not sure who it is made by, might be American Crafts because I bought it at Tuesday Morning around the time that a lot of the papers were by them)
stamps: Hero Arts Color Layering Christmas Tree
ink: Assorted Greens, Hero Arts White, Versafine Black
accessories: Scor-Pal, Foam Tape



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PPA277 "HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS" Foil card

I liked the Pals Paper Arts Sketch #277 so much that I made another card using it.   I used some awesome foil paper that I bought at Michael's last week.  What a site it is when embossed.  I stamped the tree on it and a star, but the ink smeared on the star, so I die-cut one.  I put clear packing tape over the tree. Not sure why in the image it looks blurry at the bottom ~ might just be the way the tape reflected when I took the picture.  

Here is the PPA277 Sketch:

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  white, Bazzill Red, Craft Smith Foil Paper (6 x 6 paper pad from Michael's)
stamps:  Just Rite Extra Grand Holiday Sentiments, Hero Arts Joy To The World
ink :Versafine Black
accessories:  Scor=Pal, Basic Grey Christmas Embossing Folder, Clear Packing Tape, MFT Star from a Blueprints set and Foam Tape


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PPA277 "YOU MAKE MY HEART MELT" card

These fun stamps are from a Paper Smooches stamp set that I purchased while in TN.  The fun images and oh so cute font is what made me grab it first out of a bag of a whole bunch of new goodies.  I used this week's Pals Paper Arts Sketch #277 for my card.   I turned it so that my sentiment would fit on it better.  

I used some more papers from a Carta Bella paper pad. I paper pieced the snowman's body, heart and nose. The trees were colored in with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens.    Afterwards, I was wishing I had colored them in in shades of the blues that are on the snowflake papers.

Here is this week's Pals Paper Arts Sketch #277. What a fun sketch.    

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  white, Bazzill Red, SU Midnight Muse, Carta Bella Bundled Up, watercolor paper (for trees)
stamps:  Paper Smooches Warm Hearts
ink: Versafine Black, Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens, Memento Black, Orange Copic (for nose)
accessories:  Scor-Pal, MFT Tag Stax Dies (Regular and Pierced), MFT Rectangle Stax (Regular and Pierced), and Foam Tape


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MOJO425 & SIP24 Color Challenge "MAY THE JOY OF CHRISTMAS WARM YOUR HEART" card

I received a stamp set in the mail today and I literally took it out of the package, put the stamps onto some blocks, inked them up and got busy coloring. The images are ohhhhh so cute!   They are from an Art Impressions stamp set. There isn't a name on the packaging, just a number: SCO716

I used this week's MOJO Monday Sketch #425:

I was using a Color Challenge from the Stamp Ink Paper site. I am limited in the colors I have with me (the rest are in storage) and so I went with what I had.  

Here is the Color Challenge I used for my card.

Stamp Ink Paper Color Challenge #24:  

SUPPLIES:

card stock:  black, red, green, Watercolor paper
stamps:  Art Impressions SCO716
ink: Versafine Black, Asst. Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens
accessories;  Scor-Pal, MFT Circle and Square Stax Die-namics, Paper Piercer, Large Red Brads, Cuttlebug Snowflake Embossing Folder and Foam Tape

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PPA276 A Sketch Challenge: "SEASON'S TWEETINGS" card

I have had this card in my head for a few days now, I just hadn't got around to putting actions to the thoughts.  Tonight I figured I'd better get it done.   I used a stamp set that I bought a long time ago and had never used it.  

Aren't these Lawn Fawn birdies soooo cute!!  The woodgrain card stock and the birds are on foam tape.  I was going to put some Wink of Stella on the scarf, hat and ear muffs, but it's packed up in one of the card kits that I'm taking to TN. 

Here's the Pals Paper Arts  Sketch Challenge I used:  PPA276

SUPPLIES:

card stock: white, blue and SSS woodgrain
stamps: Lawn Fawn Season's Tweetings
ink: Memento Black and Versafine Black
accessories: Scor-Pal, Lawn Fawn Season's Tweetings Lawn Cuts,  MFT Circle Stax Die-namics, MFT Fishtail Banners Stax, Scor-Tape and Foam Tape



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Bringing up to top.. one of my favorites "CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS" Santa card *w/measurements

I posted this card back in December 2011.  I have 

been asked several times what the measurements are for the layers 

on this card.. however I had gifted the card to a fellow stamper and didn't have it 

anymore.. this past weekend I sat down and remade the card based off the picture of it 

on my blog.. it took me two attempts.. the first one the red embossed layer wasn't long enough.

Below is my scribbled notes on the paper that I wrote as I worked on the card. 

Measurements are:

Kraft card base 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" scored at 4 1/4" and folded in half

strip with Christmas Blessings sentiment stamped on it and layers:

white: 2" x 4 1/4"

black: 2 1/8" x 4 1/4"

red...  this layer is punched with a scallop on the bottom.. after punching I measured it to be 2 3/8" x 4 1/4"

red embossed panel and layers are:

red embossed pieced: 2 1/4" x 3 3/4"

white: 2 3/8" x 3 7/8"

black: 2 1/2" x 4"

Santa layer:

Stamp is from Delta and is called Santa Collage. I found mine at Michael's but I have seen it at Hobby Lobby as well.

Santa:  2 1/8" x 3 1/8"  I cut then stamp

red: 2 1/4" x 3 1/4" 

black: 2 3/8" x 3 3/8" 

I hope I got them all right.. as I wrote them down.  

I put everything in an image that you should be able to print out.. I've never done this before, so I hope it works right.

SUPPLIES:

card stock: kraft, white, black, red

stamps:  Delta Rubber Stampede Santa Collage (Hobby Lobby carries this at the moment both online and in their stores), Christmas Blessings sentiment from a Hero Arts Greatest Gift stamp set

ink: Ranger Archival Sepia and Versafine Black

accessories:  Scor-Pal, SU Pick A Petal Embossing Folder, SU Scallop Border Punch, Hole Punch, White Brads and Foam Tape

   

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