merry christmas...Guest Designing 32

Hi there! Today I'm so happy to share with you a trio of Christmas cards featuring fabulous designs from the following Gina's Designs sets: Ornamental Birdcages and Fern Fronds that I created as a guest designer for Gina's Designs. Please feel free to check out my post here on the Gina's Design blog (click HERE). 

I couldn't help but make three cards because both the Ornamental Birdcages and Fern Fronds sets contain so many beautiful pieces. Each birdcage and fern frond is so unique and elegant. All chipboard designs were embossed using embossing enamel.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to visit the Gina's Designs blog for some outstanding creative inspiration and if you are looking to add some great quality chipboard designs to your craft stash, please be sure to visit the Gina's Designs store (click HERE). 

Be Sweet ;)

Gina's Designs products used: Ornamental Birdcages, Fern Fronds

 

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Sending Holiday Joy 28

Hi there! Today I have a couple of Christmas cards to share featuring beautiful papers from Pion Design's Days of Winter collection along with sweet images from Pion Design's From Grandma's Attic ~ tinted paper. 

First one up features pretty shades of blue:

The second one features pretty shades of pink and maroon: 

What's not to love about those sweet vintage images?

For sketch inspiration, I joined along with the retrosketches sketch challenge:

Thanks so much for visiting ~ I hope you have a great day / evening.
Be Sweet ;)








Pion Design products:
Days of Winter ~ Church PD5105 front
Days of Winter ~ Pink ornament PD5107 front
Days of Winter ~ Pink ornament PD5107 back
Days of Winter ~ Blue ornament PD5108 front
Days of Winter ~ Blue ornament PD5108 back
Days of Winter ~ Borders PD5110 back
Days of Winter ~ Borders PD5111 back
From Grandma's Attic ~ tinted ~ warm clothes PD3105

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Holiday GREETINGS and more... 20

Hi there! I hope you are having a great time whatever you are doing. Scott had to work today, so I spent some time creating a collection of 4 cards featuring beautiful images from Pion Design's From Grandma's Attic ~ tinted paper:

All four cards are quite similar with the major differences being the beautiful image, pretty patterned papers used and sentiment. The first three cards were made using a combination of papers from the Days of Winter collection:

I used a variety of Spellbinders die templates:

PTI stamps:

flowers from my stash:

seam binding ribbon:

along with a piece of cotton lace from my stash:

The last card was made using pretty papers from the versatile My Beloved Son collection:

Don't be fooled by the name ~ obviously not just for masculine projects!

For sketch inspiration, I joined along with the MOJO Monday sketch challenge:

Many thanks for visiting ~ I hope you have a great week!

Be Sweet ;)

Pion Design papers used:

From Grandma's Attic ~ tinted ~ Warm clothe's ~ PD3105

My Beloved Son ~ My son ~ PD5501 back

My Beloved Son ~ Edvin's world ~ PD5506 front

My Beloved Son ~ Prince Anton ~ PD5504 back

My Beloved Son ~ Martin's train ~ PD5507 front

Days of Winter 6" x 6" ~ Lilly and Siri ~ PD5201

Days of Winter 6" x 6" ~ Erik and Elsa ~ PD5202

Days of Winter 6" x 6" ~ Christmas Flower ~ PD5203

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Some exciting news... 45

Hi there! Hope you are all off to a great start of a new week! Here to share a card I recently had published in the May issue of CARDS Magazine. Thank you CARDS for choosing my card! If you are looking for some awesome inspiration, be sure to check out the latest edition of CARDS Magazine!

Shown below is the card shown in the Original post. For the cards complete details, please click HERE.

Thanks so much for looking! I will be back tomorrow Tuesday, June 7th to share some JustRite Stampers June previews. Hope to see you! Have a great day :)

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Warm Wishes 45

Hi there! I'm so happy it's almost Friday (2.5hrs)! My weekend starts at the end of my shift ~ 3:00 pm SHARP! I'm lovin' my new job~no call and no weekends! YAHOOO!!! The weather has been crazy all over the United States and Australia! Thankfully we haven't had any snow flurries to report here in my neck of the woods (Ahwatukee, AZ) but many parts of the country have been getting pounded with heavy snow fall and frigid temperatures, including my hometown of Orchard Park, NY where I have a few friends still residing :) I made this card for my sweet friends Sue and John:

I love this little snowman from Waltzingmouse Sewing Box - Christmas - he's one of my faves :) You can see in the photo below that I stamped him x 2 and paperpieced one on to of the other, popping him up with a few foam squares for a bit of dimension.

My sweet friend Lisa recommended this fun sketch challenge site called Sketch Saturday. There was so much great inspiration and I loved the sketch, so I played along with this week's Sketch Saturday #140:

These are the Copic markers used to color the sweet snowman and heart images:

I finally get to share on my blog my warm winter wishes card that was published in CARDS magazine: January issue :) Here's the magazine version:

and here he is in my light tent before sending him off:

I hope you stay safe and keep warm wherever you may be! I will be back Saturday for an all new Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge. Thanks for looking ~ Be Sweet!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Waltzingmouse Sewing Box - Christmas, Very Vintage Christmas
Die Templates & Machine: Spellbinders™ Nestabilities® S4-295 Lacey Squares, S4-126 Classic Squares LG, S4-290 Labels Fourteen, S4-242 Big Scalloped Borderabilities Petite, GC-001 Grand Calibur

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