Block Alpha Valentine

You all know how much I love the 5072 - Block Letters Die Set from Art Impressions... and word die cards are very popular right now, especially as valentines.  I wanted to do another colour strip card, so combined the two ideas to make a slimline card:

 I did some ink blending on my white textured card stock, using Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide ink, fading it upwards, then cut out my shape with Studio Katia's Dotted Slimline die, and centered my L, V, E and heart die before running it through my diecut machine again.  I used a Pinkfresh Studio stencil and some Festive Berries ink to add a little something to my background panel, then added 1/4" strips of my six cardstock colours, and adhered the white panel down with 3D foam adhesive.  A few irridescent blue jewels added a little sparkle.

Striped Tags

 Here is the tag version of the cards I posted a few days ago...  When I cut my 3/8" strips of cardstock, they each made two cards, with a few inches left over.  Not wanting to waste my pretty stripes, I glued them onto some white tags that I diecut with a Studio Katia Dotted Tag die, added my glittery snowflakes, and used the Pinkfresh Studio Perfect Sentiments to finish them off.

I am entering the December challenge on the Pinkfresh Studio blog!  The theme is anything to do with the Holidays. 

Shaker tags

 These were so fun to make, but definitely take a little extra time to put together.  I've been wanting to get some shaker tags made up for gifts, and had these little penguins from Sugar Pea Designs coloured up and ready to add to my tags.  After die cutting all my pieces, I created the shaker pocket by cutting a rectangle to glue behind, added some foam adhesive strips, and a piece of acetate - then glued it all under the opening in my tag, after adding an assortment of glitter and sprinkles.

Tags are Studio Katia, and the Sentiment is from Art Impressions.

Tags 2.0

Same design, new papers.  I made a PILE of these sweet, skinny tags this weekend (I should really show the underside - they all say To/From...), so I got 16 more of them made up with some papers that work with the limey green cardstock I stamped on.

Tear Strip Tags stamp and dies are from The Greetery, Large tags are Studio Katia, Little tags are Lawn Fawn.  Papers are ancient Echo Park.

Tag Making!

 I like to tuck a few Christmas tags into the cards that I send out at this time of year, and was so excited when The Greetery came out with the Tear Strip Tag stamp and die set!  These unique skinny tags look great on their own, but I decided to layer them up with some patterned paper that I die cut with Studio Katia tags, and mini tags from Lawn Fawn.  I love the end result.

More tags...

 I'm on a bit of a roll making up Christmas tags - I love tucking a few into cards that I send out to friends and family.  I think this makes 26 as the total for the week's efforts!

This is one of Studio Katia's dotted tag dies, using up some patterned Echo Park paper that I've had for a few years.  Sentiment is from The Greetery.  I cut out a second tag from some patterned red paper to finish off the flip side where you can add your To & From:

Anniversary card for Inspired By

Oh, it's been so long since I participated in a challenge!  I am very happy to be playing along with this week's Inspired By challenge, which is a box of decadent chocolate covered strawberries.  I was kind of trying to go with the colours... but veered off a little, so I'm mostly working with the layout, as well as the sketch that Laurel provided (if you follow Inspired By on facebook, she gives us a weekly sketch!).  It also just happens to be our 25th anniversary in a couple of weeks, so this is going to be the card for my hubby:

My niece gave me this lovely Studio Katia background die - and it was perfect for the challenge.  I used the Charlotte papers from CTMH, and cut the die in about 5 of the papers to get the look.  I die cut some hearts and mounted them and the sentiment strip with pop dots.