Another Christmas Card

 Happy Wednesday, peeps! Can you handle another Christmas card?  The sketch from 52 Christmas Card Throwdown was a fun one, and I combined it with the RetroRubber Tic-Tac-Toe grid:

I chose the middle column down:  Pines, Snow and My Choice, which was embossing!  Here we go:

(Sorry for the glare in the corner--not sure how that happened!)  My pines are from Rooted in Nature (2018) and the sentiment is from Itty Bitty Christmas (2019).  I embossed my banner with the Softly Falling embossing folder and made some "snowy" hills with the Stitched Hillside dies from Lawn Fawn.  I added a border of Cherry Cobbler and a faux bow and ribbon, embellished with a sequin:

Sentiment on the inside was from the same set, and I stamped a couple of trees inside as well.  The DSP is the retired Classic Christmas!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rooted in Nature (2018), Itty Bitty Christmas (2019)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cherry Cobbler, Classic Christmas DSP (ret)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Shaded Spruce
Accessories	Dimensionals, Sequin from my Stash
Tools	Big SHot, Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Pretty Bows 2 Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Softly Falling EF (ret), Stitched Hillside Dies (Lawn Fawn)

TCC168 Coffee or Cocoa

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  It's time for a new wintery Card Concept challenge, where we share the concept we used to create our cards!  Here's the gorgeous prompt that Julie has chosen for us:

 

I just loved those little cups of cocoa, but I knew there would be lots of cards in the gallery using cups, so I went in a different direction!  I recently got this Tim Holtz Nordic Christmas cover die and thought it would be fun to use!  It's a bit fiddly, poking out all the pieces, but they come out easily! I would call this clean and layered:

I started with a piece of Basic White and ran it through the die, then diecut some selected areas in Chocolate Chip and Evening Evergreen, poking out the diecuts that I wanted to add back in, sort of like a puzzle!  I backed the white piece with some Real Red cardstock, then just popped in my pieces My Evening Evergreen card base is a little larger than normal because I did not want to trim down my die!

For the sentiment, I used the largest house diecut and used a stamp from Itty Bitty Christmas in Real Red, then popped it up and offset it:

My final addition was a checked bow using some really, really old ribbon I've had in my stash!  I would have preferred it to be a little more deeper red (it seems more like Poppy Parade to me) but it was all I could find!  I hope the recipient won't mind!

So what will inspire you from our photo prompt this week?  I hope you'll share your creation with us, and tell us what your "concept" is (the details are on the blog) so we can see it too!  Thanks for visiting today!

How can she be getting so GROWN-UP?!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Christmas
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Evening Evergreen, Chocolate Chip (ret)
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals, Gingham Ribbon (from my stash)
Tools	Big Shot, Nordic Christmas Die (Tim Holtz)

PP572 Sparkly Peace & Happiness

Happy 2022, everyone!  We're back at the Paper Players with some new challenges and new guest designers!  Ann is our first hostess of the year and she's asking us to use some sparkle:

I got some new ornament dies right before Christmas so I thought using them with some glimmer paper would be a perfect way to highlight them:

A photo just doesn't catch the sparkliness of the card!!  Anyway, I diecut three ornaments from gold, silver and white glimmer paper, then added bows of Merry Merlow, mounting them on a star-embossed panel and a Merry Merlot card base:

I stamped a sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas and diecut it out to pop on top.  There is a new die in the upcoming spring catalog called Sports Event, and it has a die that is a cluster of little stars....what a great die to have!  I used a scrap of Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper to cut some out and sprinkle on two of the ornaments, then added some on the inside as well to accompany my sentiment from Sparkle of the Season:

And I am squeaking in the sketch from FMS:

as well as the new Jingle Belles challenge, which is to use something new that Santa brought us!  

I hope you'll play along with us at the Players this week...it's a great way to get that stamping mojo back and get back into a creative groove!  Check out what the DT made as well as our new Guest Designers; you can see everyone at the Paper Players blog!

Thanks for popping in today!  Happy New Year, here's to a healthy one for all!  

My favorite photo of Christmas:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sparkle of the Season, Itty Bitty Christmas (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Merry Merlot, Gold, Silver & Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper (ret)
Ink	Merry Merlot
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tasteful Labels Dies, Sports Event Dies, Mini Treat Bag Dies (ret), Star Embossing Folder (ret), Ornament Dies (Hero Arts)

Sweet Little Teabag Holder

Hi peeps!  I haven't made too many gift items this season but I found some really yummy chocolate mint tea bags from Red Rose Tea and I wanted to gift a couple of them, so I set out to make a little tea bag holder.  Actually, my upline, Pennie McCallum, made something similar to this many, many years ago, which helped get me hooked on stamping!  Anyway, here we go:

I used some Painted Christmas DSP to embellish the front, along with an Ornate Frame die, a sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas and some Real Red Cotton ribbon:

First, I measured some Mint Macaron cardstock and cut it to 6 1/2" x 4 3/4", then scored the shorter side at 1 3/4" and folded it up for an inside pocket, trimming the inside edges a wee little bit so there was less bulk.  I decorated the front panels of each pocket, slipped in the tea bags, then tied it shut!

I didn't even put any adhesive on the sides; just folding and tying it together keeps it snug!  I am entering this at Just Add Ink this week, where they are looking for gift packaging!

A few more pictures from the Nativity play:

Joseph, Mary, baby Jesus and a donkey!

The angel speaking to the shepherds (recognize that little sheep?):

The angelic host, jumping for joy at the birth of Jesus!

Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

"And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.  An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.  But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid.  I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.  Today in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.  This will be a sign to you:  You will find the baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger." 

Luke 2:8-12

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Christmas (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Garden Green, Mint Macaron, Painted Christmas
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Real Red Cotton Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Ornate Frames Dies, Circle Punches (ret)

Dreaming of a Silver and White Christmas

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a nice weekend...we had rain, sun, more rain....but it was still nice!  I haven't made a Christmas card for a while, so I thought I'd throw my hat in the Christmas Card Throwdown, which is looking for silver and white, the Krafty Chicks Christmas challenge, and the Fab Friday sketch: 

I still have lots of  Feels Like Frost DSP, and despite the challenge it is to photograph, I used it anyway:

I used two patterns for the sketch, then diecut some poinsettias from Thick White Cardstock, adding silver centers and berries, then heat-embossed a sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas with silver embossing powder:

Here's another angle....still difficult to capture with the foil!

Saturday was spring clean-up at church.  LeAnne stayed home while the rest of the family raked, pulled leaves and got very wet and grubby!!!

We have a fairly large piece of property; there is a manse on the opposite side of the church as well; the property still has horse sheds from when people used horse and carriages to come to church!

Cassidy got right to work:

But they did get to take breaks, LOL!

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Christmas
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Silver Foil, Feels Like Frost DSP (ret)
Ink	Silver Encore (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Silver Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Poinsettias Dies, Tasteful Labels Dies,  Heat Tool

FMS464 Celebrate the Season

Hi peeps!  Just a quick post with a quick card and a quick little sketch!  The FMS sketch is a sweet one this week:

The prints in the Classic Christmas DSP line are so sweet; this particular one looks amazing with a W+9 diecut tree from Tiny Trees Two:

I gave my card lots of layers and polka dot embossing:

and some heat embossing of an Itty Bitty Christmas sentiment:

Now Cassidy and I are off to do some Christmas shopping for Mommy and Wayne...and probably the pups, too!  Thanks for popping in today, enjoy it and be blessed!

"Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.  This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us.  For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything."  I John 3:18-20

PP519 Tic Tac Toe in Red

Hello peeps!  It's time for a new Paper Players challenge, with Anne Marie as our hostess, and she has a Tic-Tac-Toe board for us!  Check it out:

I recently purchased a big beautiful stamp from the Colorado Craft Company, and I had been playing around with it, just testing it out, and the image was so pretty and stamped so nicely, I couldn't bear to toss it.  It was being pushed around on my desk and when I saw the challenge had "red" as a square, I went to work to figure out how I could used that stamped image!  SO....I have the middle row going across of Red, Fun or Fancy Fold and Ribbon or Twine:

So obviously, the stamp is big...and round...and I stamped it on a regular quarter sheet of cardstock, so I didn't get the complete design on it.  But I hated to waste it!  I used a huge stitched circle die to cut out what I could, did a little crease at the top and mounted it on a piece of Real Red cardstock embossed with some snowflakes, and then that all went on a piece of Thick Whisper White cardstock to give it some weight.  You can see how it folds out from this side view:

I added a shorted diecut tag with a sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas, and some Real Red ribbons:

When you flip it up, you have the sentiment in another circle and you can see all the embossed snowflakes:

I thought it was a good save, and I am looking forward to making a full-sized circle card with the whole design in the near future!

SO.....now what will tempt you from our Tic-Tac-Toe board?  If you need to make a few more holiday cards, perhaps you'll find a "recipe" that will give you inspiration!  Please check out what the DT did over at the Paper Players blog for some more inspiration and play with us as well!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Christmas, Nordic Ornament (Colorado Craft Company)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Real Red, Thick Whisper White
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Real Red Satin Ribbon, Playful Pets Trim, White Perle Cotton
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Tag Dies (Pretty Pink Posh), Stitched Circle Dies (Lil'Inkers), Snowflake EF (Darice)

Fusion Thanksgiving

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a good weekend!  The Fusion Card Challenge had an interesting sketch for a Thanksgiving card:

so I made a Thanksgiving card (two, actually) as well as a Christmas card!  First, the really, really CAS Thanksgiving card using circles cut from In Good Taste DSP and a sentiment from Banner Year, and embellished with a piece of Early Espresso Faux Suede ribbon:

And while I had those papers out, I made another one with banners instead of circles; this one uses Braided Linen ribbon and a little acorn from the same Banner Year set, layered on Crumb Cake:

For the Christmas card, I used larger circles and some Toile Tidings DSP, which I have totally neglected this season!  I just love the sweet little scene, it reminds me of my own childhood, sledding down our barn bridge and building snowmen with my siblings!

I used a retired Snow Flurry embossing folder and a sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas.  Simple and easy!  And since this has Christmas stamping and an embossing folder, I am entering this one at Let's Squash It! as well as Christmas Kickstart!

Thanks for popping in today!

Brilliant maple trees from my yard:

This tree was so yellow, it turned the whole yard yellow!  Beautiful!  And now...they're all gone....laying on my yard, wet and soggy!  Thanks for popping in today!

"Do not let your hearts be troubled.  Trust in God; trust also in me.  In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you.  I am going there to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.  You know the way to the place where I am going." John 14:1-4

Sahara Christmas

 Hey peeps! I am hunkering down, making Christmas cards to share with my club girls as well as to mail out!  The Classic Christmas DSP that SU is currently selling really appeals to me...those little prints in traditional colors are so soothing!  I chose the Sahara Sand ones to make a couple of cards over the weekend!  

The first one is for the Jingle Belles challenge "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear"...they want something clear on your card; I also used the CAS(E) This Sketch sketch:

I dusted off my white Stazon ink and went to work, stamping some snowflakes on window sheets for my simple card:

Of course, it's always a challenge to photograph something "clear"....here is a picture of the windows showing the edge of the back of the card peeking through the windows:

I added sentiments from Itty Bitty Christmas on the front as well as the inside, strategically placed so it didn't show through the window!

The second card also uses the Sahara Sand patterns; this is for the JUGS challenge which is triangles:

This card is a wee bit shorter than a standard-sized card; I had a piece of cardstock left over from another project and just decided to use it for a card. I used the Stitched Triangle dies, cutting four from the various patterns, adding Soft Suede "trunks" and gold metallic pearls for an embellishment:

This sentiment is from Wrapped in Christmas...such a pretty one, too!  

Thanks so much for popping in today...enjoy it and be blessed!

"God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them." Hebrews 6:10

Both Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Wrapped in Christmas, Itty Bitty Christmas, Jolly Bingo Bits (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Window Sheets, Classic Christmas DSP, Soft Suede
Ink	Crumb Cake, Stazon White (ret)
Accessories	Metallic Pearls, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Circles Dies, Stitched Triangle Dies