Mojo Monday #502

Back with a card using the current Mojo Monday sketch #502...  Using up some old CTMH paper that I've had for eons (this stuff never ends!), and I managed to make up four of them:

Here was our sketch:

Colourific Christmas cards

I have the sweetest images to share with you today - all from the new holiday stamp sets from Colourific:

I'm all about bright colours & papers... and these images had me grabbing these bold patterns, and I love the aqua added in with the traditional red & green.

I stamped and coloured the snowmen from the Mr & Mrs Snow set with Copic markers, and started building my snowy scene... and felt like it needed a little glimmer.  So I ran the pole and striped scarf through my Minc machine, adding red foil to them, and I made the snowflakes silver.

 I finished off my card with some die cut snowflakes and some zigzag stitching with my sewing machine.

 There are actually three sweet birds that come in the Singing Robins stamp set, but I decided to just feature one, sitting on a branch with the snowy sky behind him.  There's a little shimmer on this card also, as I foiled the sentiment in silver as well:

Be sure to check out all of the new holiday sets that are available on the Colourific website here!  Happy stamping!

Sugar Pea November Challenge

I made a sweet card today that I'm really happy with for the November Sugar Pea Designs Mix-It-Up challenge.

I used the sketch portion of the challenge, and picked the polka dot paper, because it made me think of falling snow.  I added a couple of stitched banner die cuts and snowflakes in the top corner, and secured them with some silver staples.  I rounded two of the corners like the sketch, and mounted the whole panel with 3D adhesive onto a white card base. 

I hope to play along again this month... and will try to incorporate the yarn/colours next time!

Stamp set is Eskimo Kisses by Sugar Pea Designs; Patterned paper is A Perfect Winter by Echo Park; Copic Markers.

Freshly Made Sketches #362

I am YET AGAIN bringing out these Echo Park papers to make some Christmas cards... I still have a whole pile of it, so you'll be seeing it often.  Today I paired up the current Freshly Made Sketch with the Eskimo Kisses stamp set from Sugar Pea Designs:

I added a red and a white snowflake to each of them, and used a sentiment from an older CTMH set.

Another Sketchy Saturday

Laurel's Sketchy Saturdays are back up on her blog... so I've been working away all week to get six cards made up for my stash.  I recently bought a little kit of Echo Park's "A Perfect Winter", and it came with matching Enamel dots, phrases & shapes - so I used a little of everything.

Here was the sketch:

Fall Birthdays

Two more simple fall birthday cards to get me through my November crush of family birthdays.  Just some die cuts, and cute owl paper with a sentiment:

25 Days of Christmas Tags

Tracey McNeely puts on a fabulous event on her blog every November... "25 Days of Christmas Tags", with all kinds of wonderful inspiration... and encouragement to play along.  I was inspired by Tracey's pretty purple ink blended tags with white embossed snowflakes on Day One, and decided to make a whole bunch of my own:

I used a pretty Pearl embossing powder from WOW, using three larger snowflakes, and then filled in the empty spaces with a couple of smaller flakes:

 Here is my blue/purple strip... I started out trying a few different purple ink blends... and settled on a blue/purple mix of three colours sponged randomly on my strip of paper.  Even though I wasn't thrilled with the colours that I started out with, they ended up being really gorgeous tags:

 And here is my blue/green version:

 The strips were 3 1/2" x 12", and I cut them each into 6 pieces... to end up with 12!

 Each piece was mounted to a slightly larger piece of grey cardstock, and I added the sentiment with some pop dots.  I'm not sure what I'll do yet about twine or ribbon... so am just leaving them like this for now.