Charlie's Sketch

My cardmaking friend, Sheri, has a very talented 8yr old son, who is an amazing sketch artist!  I needed a few more Christmas cards, so when I saw Charlie's sketch, I knew that I had the perfect image already coloured and ready to go.  And yes, you've seen my Reindeer Games gal from Art Impressions more than a few times recently, but she is my favourite holiday stamp this year!  Here's what I came up with:

Here is Charlie's great sketch:

If you want to play along and use Charlie's sketch - leave a note here on Sheri's blog!

Patterned papers are Very Merry Christmas, Echo Park; Cardstock is Cocoa & White Daisy, CTMH; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Copic Markers.

Frosted Christmas cards

I have a wonderful new Memory Box die that I'm trying out today on a couple of cards.  I've used the Frosted paper pack, and added a little chunky glitter to the berries:

Patterned papers are Frosted, CTMH; Cardstock is Cocoa, Slate, Colonial White, CTMH; Ink is Whisper, CTMH; Stamp set is Glad Tidings, Verve; Curvy Oval dies, Verve; Hayden Twigs die, Memory Box.

 

Art Impressions Babies Blog Hop!

The Art Impressions Design Team is hopping today to share the absolutely adorable Ai Little People with you!  They are now available for purchase through the Ai website here.  I have made up two cards with Little Man (Sku#UM4321), and for my first card, I cut out my Little Man and popped him up on an Action Wobble:

I love machine stitching on my cards, so I've done a straight stitch in cream thread around the background panels, and have added some zigzag stitching in teal to both cards:

 

And a shot of them both together:

Well, I loved my cards so much that I decided to go ahead and make the female version.  So here are the same card designs using Little Sprout (Sku#UM4317):

 

There is some serious cuteness in this line of stamps, so you're going to want to visit all the Design Team blogs today to check out all the babies!  The hop begins here on the Ai blog, if you'd like to start at the beginning.  Your next stop is Cheryl's blog, or here is a complete listing of everyone on today's hop:

Art Impressions Blog

Marie-Pierre Capistran

  Reneé Matarese

   Kerry Kung

   Rhonda Harre

     Karen Day 

  Cheryl Valadez

We have a new challenge starting today on the Art Impressions blog - we are looking for any kind of card that spreads some cheer, whether it's for Christmas or another occassion, like a new baby!

 Happy stamping everyone!

 

 

Atlantic Hearts Challenge #32

I'm playing along with the Atlantic Hearts Challenge this week, with the Frosted WOTG stamp set, and the Sparkle & Shine paper pack:

I was trying hard to incorporate juniper into the card somehow (that's the minty green that you see in the polka dot paper)... I tried second generation snowflakes behind the sentiment, but it was way too busy.  I used to own juniper grosgrain ribbon, but not any longer, so I couldn't add any ribbon.  Anyhow, I decided that plain was best for now - any suggestions?

Patterned papers are Sparkle & Shine, Cardstock is Slate, Ruby & White Daisy; Ink is Slate; Stamp set is Frosted Workshop on the Go - all Close To My Heart.

 

Charity Angel

It is my Tuesday post on the Art Impressions blog!

I have a trio of cards to share today, using the sweet Charity Angel (Sku#T4177) .  She is one of three angels in the Art Impressions collection of Christmas stamps (you can see Faith here, and Hope here!)  I had this set of papers with graphic patterns, and coloured up my angels to match:

 

I made a little banner of pennant shapes, spelling out Joy, which I heat embossed with gold embossing powder for a little shimmer.  I glued them onto some gold cord and added a bow at each end.  There are three little gold sparkles on the lower right of the card as well.

Happy stamping everyone!

 

 



Mojo Monday #332

Another Reindeer Games gal for Mojo Monday this week.  I kept it fairly clean, not a lot of layers, just added a grosgrain bow & a button:

Patterned papers are Very Merry Christmas, Echo Park; Cardstock is Cocoa & White Daisy, CTMH; Stamp set is Reindeer Games (Sku#UM4351), Art Impressions; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Copic Markers; Button and Chocolate grosgrain ribbon, CTMH.  Twine, American Crafts.

Sleepy Santa

Well, here we are on the last day of November, and I've pretty much managed to stick to my personal challenge of posting a card a day for the entire month.  I missed a couple of days, but made up for it the day after, and posted a snow globe one day instead of a card (but there was stamping & colouring in it!).  What you didn't know is that I had a rush project come up in the first few days of the month, where I made an additional 9 or 10 paper craft projects that haven't appeared on my blog!  I'm pretty proud that I still managed to post cards during those few days of hectic crafting.  You can expect my posts to slow down a bit over the next few weeks as I get all those cards addressed and in the mail... I'll pretty much be back to my usual 3 or 4 posts a week, I'm sure.  Here's what I've put together today:

This is one of the three images that come with the Sleepy Santa Try-fold set from Art Impressions.  They are intended to be used together on a three panel card, but they are lovely just used on their own as I have here.  I made a second card which is a complete CASE of a card I made a few weeks ago:

So all in all, I've managed to make 31 cards this month, and my stash is looking pretty good.

Patterned papers are Elf Magic, Bo Bunny; Cardstock is Pacifica, Cranberry & White Daisy, CTMH; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Copic Markers; Twine is American Crafts; Window die is Memory Box; Sentiment dies are Verve.