Sunshine in my pocket

Vintage Christmas

November 24, 2015 Christmas, Holidays, Paper Crafting

This card was definitely out of my comfort zone. I was nervous to use brown distress ink over my stamping. But vintage fancy was the topic of the day at Online Card Classes Holiday Style!

I used Neenah desert storm for the card base (I have a TON of this, but rarely use it) and I think it complements the vintage look.

After I finished all my stamping and inking I slapped some Versamark clear ink over it all and sprinkled Judikins sparkle embossing powder over it! Then I heat-set it and I think it turned out so fancy! I love that the glitter doesn’t come off on your hands when you use heat embossing.

Well, Kristina Werner totally inspired me to try this card…something very new for me! What do you think?

May your days be filled with sunshine,

O Christmas Tree!

November 23, 2015 Christmas, Holidays, Paper Crafting

So I tried my hand at a clean and simple christmas tree card. I used the Tim Holtz Scribble Trees and I’m ready to try making more. There are so many cute trees in this set!

I used Evergreen Bough Distress ink to ink up the center of the card. This took me TWO tries! I really messed up the first one. This one turned out better. Laura Bassen warned that it takes a light hand and a lot of passes to really build up the color. I embossed the three trees with Ranger embossing powder.

I was going to add this card to a simple white card base, but it looked just too plain for me. So I jazzed it up with some sparkle tape!

This card makes me think of picking out a Christmas tree in a tree lot. That’s so fun to do, but we now have an artificial tree and never go to the tree lots anymore. So sad. I think I’ll visit one this year just for fun. Lol.

May your days be filled with sunshine,

Snowflakes!

November 23, 2015 Christmas, Holidays

This card is for the Holiday Online Card Class soft and subtle cards.

I used distress inks as watercolor (that twisted citron is a new favorite) behind those snowflakes. That snowflake die is from Simon Says Stamp “Eliza” and it’s one of my favorites, too!

I used some glitter embossing powder on the snowflake and it looks so pretty, don’t you think?

That sentiment is from Mama Elephant. Such a pretty font! I hope you enjoy this card.

May your days be filled with sunshine,

Tis the Season to be Jolly

November 22, 2015 Christmas, Holidays, Paper Crafting

Well, this card was a bunch of firsts for me. A first with all that masking (thanks to Laura Bassen), and a first using EMBOSSING PASTE!! Wow. I might just be addicted to adding embossing paste. I need to play with this more.

Isn’t this card fun? I used the gnome from Paper Smooches and some gifts from another Paper Smooches stamp set. The gnome and all those presents had to be masked first before I stamped another one. I thought this gnome was a Santa look-alike.

See the snow there…that’s the embossing paste. It’s actually Ferro in the color “Pearl” because I don’t actually own any white embossing paste yet. Isn’t that funny? I have some silver and gold to play with and haven’t used those yet, either. Next time.

Here you can see the shine from the pearl snow! And I added some stickles glitter to those gifts…in both platinum and gun smoke. I love a glittery bow.
You can also see a bit of Wink of Stella added to his beard.

But you want to know the best part? I took this picture at night in my new light studio box!! Yeow…that looks so bright and light! I think I’m going to have fun with this new present (it’s for Christmas, but I was forced to open it early! Lol.)

This is such a fun card class…see you with another card tomorrow!

May your days be filled with sunshine,

A Very Happy Christmas (with glitter)

November 21, 2015 Christmas, Holidays, Paper Crafting

One more glitter card because I just could not stop! I love this background die from My Favorite Things, and it’s so fun using glitter paper with that die.

That word die “Christmas” is embossed with glitter powder on the bottom and watercolored with distress inks on the top.

This card was easy and a whole lot of fun to put together!

May your days be filled with sunshine,