Showing posts with label CC Designs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CC Designs. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Sweet Little Altoid Box

Happy Tuesday, peeps! Yesterday I resurrected an Altoids box that had been floating around my craft room after seeing this sweet card by my friend Lisa. I remembered that I had some of those Mintay papers, and like so many of the 6x6 pads I get, there are scrapbooking elements on some of the pages, which I never use. I thought it would be fun to incorporate them into a little vignette within my Altoids box.  The designs are both whimsical and elegant, and you'll see what I mean.  Here's the front:


All the papers and elements are from the Merry Little Christmas line by Mintay.  I used the Iconic Imagery die to cut out the snowflake paper for the front of the tin, then fussy cut the deer and that fierce-looking cardinal from the scrapbooking elements of the pad.  I did add a couple of diecut snowflakes as well.  Sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs, Mini Tag Sentiments.  Here's the back:


This time, I stamped a sentiment from Jolly Christmas by CC Designs and used the Nested Essential dies to cut it out.  And here's the inside; these papers are from the same pad but definitely have a more elegant feel:


I simply trimmed the papers to fit the inside, popping up the one on the right.  The left design is all one paper, the only addition is the sentiment (Tiny Words Christmas, from Simon Says Stamp), stamped on a scrap of the paper in Soft Succulent.  The right design has the flowers fussy-cut and popped up; same set for the sentiment.  Here are some closeups:



I did add a few glimmer paper leaves using the Timeless Arrangements dies and some retired glimmer paper, as well as a big silver wire bow.  A piece of retired Blushing Bride ribbon went around the outside, adhered with some Tear n' Tape:


This was loads of fun to make! I am going to enter this is the Inspire.Create challenge this week, which is "Anything But a Card" as well as the Peace on Earth challenge:



Thank you so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!






Sunday, December 1, 2024

PP718 Peaceful Deer

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Wow, happy December...that month flew by!  It's my turn to be the hostess over at the Paper Players this week, and the theme I've chosen is "Be a Deer"---add a deer to your project!

It wasn't my plan to be so literal in my interpretation of the sketch, but I had a piece of Winter Meadow on my desk and I liked how it looked like a wintery sky, so I went with it!  Here we go:


I have several deer dies, but I hadn't used this Papertrey one for a while; I diecut it in white and stamped the antlers and legs in Misty Moonlight ink:


I placed him on a stitched hill then added a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp along with some of the "greenery" from the same PTI set:


The background looked a little bare, so I added some glimmer stars, a couple of rhinestones and a few Poppystamps Whittle trees!  The inside sentiment is from CC Designs called Fanciful Christmas:


While I had the die out, I decided to make a second card since I just got a die I had been wanting for a long time (Michele is such an enabler!):


This time I stamped my deer in Pecan Pie on some Kraft cardstock, then added the background DSP, the double scalloped borders and a sentiment from Hope & Peace.  I am sure you'll be seeing a bit more of this fun die!  And we hope to see YOU in the Paper Players gallery, showing off your deer!  It doesn't have to be Christmas; deer are great for masculine cards, baby cards, anything!  Can't wait to see what you create! Thanks for visiting today!

The last of my "smalls"!  Now I have some bigger projects to frame or finish somehow....more work, more money, LOL!




 Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps Deer to Me (Papertrey), Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp), Fanciful Christmas (CC Designs)
Card stock & Papers     Basic White, Misty Moonlight, Winter Meadows DSP, White Glimmer (ret)
 Ink Misty Moonlight
Accessories Silver Cord (ret), Dimensionals
Tools     Cut & Emboss Machine, Deer to Me Dies (Papertrey), Tree Dies (Poppy Whittles), Christmas Blessings Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Star Dies (Taylored Expressions), Stitched Hillside Dies (Lawn Fawn)

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps Hope & Peace (ret), Deer to Me (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers     Basic White, Kraft (ret), Home for Christmas (Violet Studio)
 Ink Pecan Pie, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories Dimensionals
Tools     Cut & Emboss Machine, Deer to Me Dies (Papertrey), Scalloped Contours Dies (ret), Double Frames Dies (Penny Black)

Saturday, December 9, 2023

Very Merry Scotties

Happy Saturday, peeps! Hope you have a good weekend planned!  I am squeaking in one more Christmas card for the year; I always send my niece a Scottie card, as she has three of them!  I don't remember if I sent her one with this little lineup before...if I did, I am sure she'll forgive me!


The challenge from CAS on Sunday is to use black, white and one other color, so I chose to use some Poppy Parade gingham that I printed digitally as a background for my Scottie lineup:


The die is from Cottage Cutz; I added a little scallop border and embossed the front of my card with a Darice Snowflake embossing folder.  My sentiment, from CC Designs, was stamped in Versafine Black and I added a glitter scallop behind it...a little redder than the Poppy Parade, but hopefully she'll not notice!


Except for a few stragglers, I think I've got almost all my cards mailed!!!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!



Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps Jolly Christmas (CC Designs)
Card stock & Papers     Basic White, Basic Black, Poppy Parade, Real Red Glimmer (ret), Gingham (digitally printed)
 Ink Versafine Black
Accessories Dimensionals
Tools     Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Scottie Lineup Die (Cottage Cutz), Stitched Borders Dies (Lawn Fawn), Layering Circles Dies (ret), Snowflake Embossing Folder (Darice)

Friday, July 28, 2023

FMS596 Dash Away All

Happy Friday, peeps!  I am on a Christmas card roll for some reason...I have totally skipped over fall, but I am sure I'll get to it soon, LOL!  The FMS sketch this week was really neat:

And surprisingly enough, the idea that I had for it worked out fairly well!  Here we go:


I can't believe that I used Starry Sky cardstock twice in one week!  But I wanted to make a sky for my Dash Away All diecut from Tim Holtz, and it seemed like a perfect color!  I first diecut the image from Basic Black cardstock, then cut a piece of Starry Sky to fit the top of my Basic White card.  I diecut just the top portion of the die from the bottom of the cardstock, then inlaid the two diecut pieces together and glued them to the white card:


Before adhering, I embossed the Starry Sky panel with the Softly Falling embossing folder, then colored each "star" with a Silver Zig Painty Pen. I also diecut a moon from the silver More Dazzle specialty paper.  And thank you to everyone who gave me some hints about embossing!  This attempt was a little better....still a couple of strays, but I used the Embossing Buddy more liberally, I inked my stamp FIRST with Versamark, then craft white ink, and I was a little more intentional about flicking away the strays with a tiny paintbrush before heating:


After heating, I diecut it with the Bitty Banners dies and popped it up with black mini dimensionals.  The inside was stamped wtih a fun sentiment from CC Designs:


I am also going to enter this at Peace on Earth Christmas; here's their sweet mood board:


Last week while coming back from my early-morning walk, I noticed a great horned owl sitting on a bench my neighbor has by his pond.  I almost fainted....I have wanted to see an owl in the daylight for a loooong time!  The video I got at that time wasn't very good, but yesterday, when I was driving home from an errand, I saw him again on another neighbor's mailbox!  I stopped my car, got out my phone, slowly backed up and was able to get several shots and this video...you have to watch to the very end to see what he did!


I am such a bird nerd!  Anyone else get excited about these things?  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!


Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps Christmas Words (Impression Obsession), Jolly Christmas (CC Designs)
Card stock & Papers     Basic White, Basic Black, Starry Sky, Silver More Dazzle Specialty
 Ink Versamark, White Craft, Starry Sky
Accessories Black Mini Dimensionals, White embossing Powder
Tools     Cut & Emboss Machine, Softly Falling EF (ret), Dash Away All Dies (Tim Holtz), Zig Silver Painty Pen, Bitty Banners Dies (ret), Heat Tool

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

RRCB176 Sketchy Christmas Wishes

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Time for a new Retro Rubber Challenge, where we give our older stamps some love!  This week Jane has a fun sketch for us: 


I love things in threes, so I was excited to get started!  I haven't made any Christmas cards lately, so I thought I'd remedy that; I found three fun prints from the retired Let It Snow DSP and went to work:


I used the Rectangle Stitched dies to cut them out evenly and layered them on a Basic White panel that was embossed with the retired Polka Dot embossing folder:


The sentiment is from CC Designs; I have no idea how old it is as it was given to me by another stamping friend and it's no longer on their website, so it's definitely a few years old!  The hat image is from Right At Home's Winter Elements set, and it's at least three or four years old as well. I used Real Red, Pool Party, Flirty Flamingo and Emerald Envy to stamp it:


I added another sentiment on the inside from the same set, and I used an Ornate Frames die to cut them out!  I love the fonts, don't you?


And since it's Christmas week at Krafty Chicks, I'm going to enter this one there as well!

This sketch is so versatile, it can be used for any occasion and it's great to use up some scraps--we all have those, right?!  I hope you'll play along with us at Retro Rubber this week...just make sure to use stamps that are at least a year old, and tell us their approximate age!  Hope to see you there!  Thanks for much for popping in!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps Winter Elements (Right at Home), Jolly Christmas (CC Designs)
Card stock & Papers     Basic White, Pool Party, Let It Snow Specialty DSP (ret)
 Ink Pool Party, Real Red, Flirty Flamingo, Emerald Envy (ret)
Accessories Snowflake Sequins (ret), Dimensionals
Tools     Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Ornate Frames Dies, Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder (ret)

Sunday, November 22, 2020

PP518 Christmas Blues

Hi everyone, happy Sunday!  I am the hostess at the Paper Players this week and I have a fun sketch that will help you use up all those little scraps we all have hanging around our crafty area!  And it can be used for any occasion!  Check it out:

 

I chose some papers from Kaisercraft's Wonderland pad to create my first card (yeah, I have two!); here we go:


I used a Whisper White card base, and I cut the panels to 1 5/16" wide.  Then I added little doodads in Balmy Blue and Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper and Blue Metallic Gems for some pizzazz:




The sentiment is from Papertrey's Beautiful Berries: Winter, stamped in Lost Lagoon ink.  Here's the inside, stamped with an old sentiment from CC Designs:


And since this uses blue hues, I am entering this in the Double D Challenge, Winter Blues!


And I figured I would use the second piece of Whisper White for another Christmas card, this time using papers from 'Tis the Season, and a set I recently got from my friend and her stash:


I actually had a star punch to match this star from the set (Christmas Classics), and I added a green rhinestone to the center:


and a red rhinestone to the Mint Macaron Christmas tree:


And I just love this sentiment for the inside!


Please stop by the Paper Players blog to see what the other designers made with this sketch....they did a fabulous job with it!  Hopefully you'll be inspired to create something too!  I know it is a busy week here in the US, but for some families, Thanksgiving will be a bit subdued, so maybe you'll have some extra stamping time!  We'd love to see what you can create!  Thanks for popping in; enjoy your day and be blessed!

 "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." Ephesians 4:29

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps Beautiful Berries: Winter (Papertrey Ink), Fanciful Christmas (CC Designs)
Card stock & Papers     Whisper White, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer (ret), Balmy Blue Glimmer, Wonderland DSP (Kaisercraft)
 Ink Lost Lagoon
Accessories Dimensionals, Blue Gems
Tools     Big Shot, Christmas Cardinal Dies, Small Tree Punch (ret), Triple Heart Punch (ret)

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps Christmas Classics (ret)
Card stock & Papers     Whisper White, 'Tis the Season DSP, Mint Macaron
 Ink Real Red, Garden Green
Accessories Holiday Rhinestones
Tools     Star Punch (ret)