Frosty the Snowman

There's a sketch challenge over at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown this week.

Since we've had so much snow around here in Colorado yesterday and this morning
I was inspired to do my card using this sketch with a cute little snowman.

The "Frosty the Snowman" stamp is from Deep Red.  I colored him with spectrum
noir pens, cut him out and foam taped to the tag which is from a free download at
Paper Wishes.  I used a Darice embossing folder for the white panel and added some
jewel snowflakes. Thanks for taking a look!

Hot Pink & Black Valentine

I love hot pink and black together so I had to give the Dynamic Duos challenge this

week a try. They also have a "dessert option" of umbrellas, but I wanted to get

another Valentine's card made so I went without dessert! 

I stamped the heart, die cut the scalloped circle and printed the greeting on the computer.  

I thought it need just a little bit more, so I added the 3 pink pearls.  I don't think you can

ever go wrong with pearls, right? Anyway, there you have it. Thanks for taking a look!

Photo Inspiration

Just Us Girls  has a photo inspiration challenge going on this week. This is just

what I needed to help me get another Valentine's card done.

I'm not entirely sure I'm happy with the way this card turned out. Something about that

white label keeps speaking to me to do something different and I probably could've

done with out those pearls, but I decided to leave it alone.  It seems I've become obsessed
with dry embossing these days! I had to give this new heart embossing folder a try.  I
ended up sanding the finished product a little, although that was not my original plan.
When I ran the red card stock through the big shot it was so tight some of those hearts had
the white core showing through, so I kinda thought I had to go with it! I also thought I had

to do something with the plain die cut hearts so I embossed the middle sized  and small 

one with a dot folder, sanded one of them and decided to use the debossed side on one.

I added a dazzle sticker to the large heart.  Thanks for taking a look!

Double Embossing

The challenge at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown this week is to do double

embossing.  That is using both heat and dry embossing.

Here's what I came up with.

I bought several stamps on clearance at Michaels after Christmas and thought this

ornament stamp from craft smart would work great for this challenge. I used red
 embossing tinsel on the ornaments and the Joy greeting.  The corner embossing folder
I used is from Sizzix.  The gold and red papers are from the DCWV Foiled Cardstock
stack. The gold cord I used to "hang" the ornaments are left overs I bought years ago.  So
 there you have it. Another Christmas card down! Thanks for taking a look! 

House of Cards 

This is my first post as a member of the House of Cards Design Team. I am so excited to be
part of such a great group of creative teammates who provide wonderful inspiration in
4 different styles,  which are Fun/Cute, Shabby/Vintage, CAS and Classic & Elegant.
I am on the Classic & Elegant team.

The first 2 weeks of the month we ask you to create cards in the Fun/Cute or
Shabby/Vintage styles and the next 2 weeks will be for the CAS or Classic & Elegant
styles, plus you are to incorporate the additional guidelines for the month.

For January you are to use this sketch.

Here is my Classic & Elegant card.

I did some stamping, fussy cutting, die cutting and added some pearls. So, I hope you get
some inspiration from my card and decide to give the challenge a try yourself.  As always,
thanks for taking a look!

Happy Valentine's Day

Okay, it's a little bit early to wish anyone Happy Valentine's Day but I realized it'll
be here before we know it and I have not made any Valentine's cards yet, until today.  I
thought I would use the inspiration at Dynamic Duos to get me started.  Have you seen
the Design Team's cards over there? They are all just beautiful as always.

This is this week's color combo…

and what I did.

Pretty simple. I used solid card stock because I didn't have any printed ones that I

thought would work well with this color combo.  When that happens to me I always 

pull out the embossing folders and go to town!  I stamped and fussy cut the heart, did

some die cutting, computer generated the sentiment and added some pearls.

Thanks for taking a look!

Thinking of You

I have a card this morning that I created for the Color Throwdown challenge. I really like their challenges because they get me to step out of my comfort zone a little.  I think I've
mentioned before that rarely do I use more than maybe 3 colors on a project and when
there are 5 to use,well I really have to put the old brain to work! But, enough of that.  I
used sketch #134 from the Deconstructed Sketch and here's what I ended up with. 

Incorporating the purples and the green were easy. It's adding in the kraft and black that
really threw me off. But, in the end I think it turned out pretty well.  I, once again, used a
 Hero Arts stamp and die set from Sizzix, Sizzix framelits dies for the circles, a Cuttlebug
 embossing folder, some black border Dazzles and a couple of black brads.
Thanks for taking a look!