AHSC590 Sparkly Snowflakes

Happy Monday, everyone! Finally, we had a glorious weekend, weather-wise!  John was able to take me out on the boat and the weather was perfect! Looking forward to it again!  It's time for a new Atlantic Heart Sketch, and honestly, I really bungled this one! Here's the sketch:

 

Sometimes when a sketch has flowers, I try to NOT do flowers....I like to do something different! I thought snowflakes would be a nice substitution!  After many, many trials and errors, I finally ended up with this...not really the effect I was going for, but after spending so much time, I just gave up:

I didn't have anything doily-related big enough to work for the right side of my card, so I embossed a piece of white cardstock with the Dotted Circles embossing folder and cut it down with a circle die. I found a snowflake element in my stash so I adhered that to the top. I then diecut several silver glimmer snowflakes using various dies and layered them around the outer edge:

One thing that did work out well was this cute little sentiment from a SSS stamp set called Let It Snow:

And since I did it in silver on Balmy Blue, I added some silver sequins and blue gems for embellishment all around my snowflakes!  I heat-embossed another silver sentiment on the inside and finished it off with a leftover snowflake:

It will definitely bring a bit of zing to the recipient come this Christmas!  I hope you'll play along with our Atlantic Hearts Sketch this week!  Check out the blog on Wednesday to see ALL the creations from the Design Team; meanwhile, put on your creative thinking caps and play with us too!

No boat pictures today, but I thought I'd share a video of some hummers that have been frequenting my feeder lately.  There are probably five or six of them altogether, swooping through the air, chasing each other in and out of the trees. We have three feeders and they go to all of them!  This particular one sticks to the window over my sink (thanks, Sheilah!) and if I am very still, I can watch them....which I do, instead of doing my housework, LOL!  Here we go:

I read that they are filling up in anticipation of their long migration which will be coming soon!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Let It Snow (Simon Says Stamp), Christmas Silhouettes (Sweet & Sassy)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Basic White, Balmy Blue, Silver Glimmer (ret), Wonderland Collectibles (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Silver Encore (ret)
Accessories	Silver Sequins (ret), Blue Rhinestones (Michael's), Dimensionals, Silver Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Dotted Circles EF, Stylish Shapes DIes, Circles Dies (ret), Stitched Snowflakes Dies (ret), Snowflake Dies (Taylored Expressions), Heat Tool

Let It Snow for Christmas

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I have a Christmas card to share today; it uses the colors from 52 Christmas Card Throwdown and the sketch from Atlantic Hearts:

I perused my Christmas papers and most of them are red, green and white! Imagine that!  But I did find some Carta Bella Welcome Winter papers and came up with this:

I cut 1" strips of various prints and plaids for the background, then added a glimmer paper snowflake on the focal panel and added some mittens for the accents, also in glimmer paper:

The sentiments inside and out are from Simon Says Stamp's Christmas Blessings, stamped in Misty Moonlight ink:

I might add this is an appropriate card for me today because after assuring us that the impending winter storm was going to go NORTH of us, we woke up to this:

And it is still snowing! Yay! I can stay inside and enjoy it as I have nowhere to be today!  And it fit perfectly with the Bible verses I was reading as I took this photo:

"Come now, let us settle the matter," says the Lord.  "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.  If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land; but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." For the mouth of the Lord has spoken. Isaiah 1:18-20

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Welcome Winter (Carta Bella), White Glimmer (Close to My Heart)
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layering Squares Dies (ret), Stitched Snowflake Dies (ret), Christmas Blessings Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Love Mittens Dies (Poppystamps)

Merry & Bright in RED

Happy Wednesday, peeps! Halfway through the week! I am taking a break from Valentine's Day cards to make another Christmas card! The Jingle Belles want to see RED, so that's my theme today!  Here we go:

I got these pretty papers from Echo Park in December but didn't have time to use them, so I thought that now would be the time!  I added a snowy panel with a Simon Says Stamp sentiment, and a pretty diecut tree with some cardinals as accents:

I had a couple of cardinals left over, so I added them to the sentiment on the inside:

Plenty of red!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Brightest Glow, Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Christmas Salutations (Echo Park)
Ink	Riding Hood Red (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Perennial Postage Dies, In the Wood Dies (ret), Cheery Cardinal Dies (Poppystamps), Snowflake Sky Embossing Folder

Cupcake Wishes

 Happy Monday, peeps! Hope you had a good weekend! I have a really quick little birthday card today using an older SU stamp set that hasn't seen much love lately!  The TGIF challenge this week is Make A Wish:

I chose cupcakes instead of cake, though, LOL:

My cupcake lineup was stamped with Stazon ink, then colored quickly with markers.  The sentiment was heat-embossed in white on Balmy Blue, diecut, then mounted on a Wild Wasabi circle:

It all went on a piece of  confetti DSP, and I used the opposite side to embellish the inside, along with a sentiment from Throughout The Year:

Now, I've got to get this in the mail to get it to the recipient on time!

Dana sent me this picture of Eden....she looks like she really wants to go outside, but Dana said she does NOT like the snow!!!  So I guess she's just gazing at the pretty scenery!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	The More The Merrier (ret), Let It Snow (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi (ret), Soak Up The Sun (Carta Bella)
Ink	Stazon Black, Versafine Black, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies (SSS), Heat Emboss Markers

AHSC555 Pink Trees!

Happy Tuesday, everyone! My friend Karen sent me a photo of a cool plate and sort of challenged me to make a Christmas card using it as my inspiration!  I took her up on it!  Here's the photo:

I used the sketch from Atlantic Hearts:

I have a cute little set from the Stamp Market called Tiny Trees Two, and I didn't use it at all this year, so I decided to put it to use on this card!  Here we go:

I diecut and stamped several trees, using Crumb Cake, Basic Gray, Bubble Bath, Smoky Slate and Sahara Sand inks and papers, all on a Bubble Bath panel that I lightly dotted with a Petal Pink marker.  I added some snowy hills and a vellum banner on which I stamped a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp.   The horizontal pieces are some neglected washi tapes.  I diecut one small deer from some gold foil as my embellishment:

Another SSS stamp and a little tree on the inside:

We went to Longwood yesterday; the theme this year is retro Christmas! So fun! I took lots of pictures, but I wanted to show you some of the "pink" themed items that were featured!

These giant Christmas bulb were floating on one of the ponds!

In the music room, a record player and a vintage ceramic Christmas tree:

This tree was loaded with pink, mauve, purple and gold ornaments and the gifts were lavishly decorated as well:

I love these vintage decorations....especially that pink and green bottle brush tree!

The Exhibition hall was just stunning:

I'll post more later!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tiny Trees Two (The Stamp Market), Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Vellum, Whisper White, Bubble Bath, Smoky Slate, Gold Foil (ret)
Ink	Smoky Slate, Pebbled Path, Basic Gray, Bubble Bath, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Washi Tape (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Square Dies (Lil Inker), Card Front Builder Die (ret), Tiny Trees Two Dies (The Stamp Market), Large Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Christmas Blessings Dies (Simon Says Stamp)

Happy Christmas Deer

Happy Thursday, peeps! The week is screeching along to the weekend and I feel behind!  LOL, I am sure I will get it all done, right?!  I made a card a couple of days ago and just had the time to post, and it happened to be for a couple of challenges!  First, the sketch at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown:

And both Little Red Wagon and Double D challenges want Christmas animals on their cards:

I hadn't used this sweet little deer diecut from Papertrey for a while, so I decided he needed to make an appearance:

I guarantee you that John won't see a deer out in the woods decked out like this one, LOL!  He's created from some retired Naturals White cardstock, mounted on various Christmas papers, and decorated with some sequins and twine on his little wreath around his neck:

The layers are mounted on a 4 1/4" square Mossy Meadow card, and the sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp's Christmas Blessings!  Off to make some more cookies!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Naturals White (ret), Real Red Glimmer (ret), Winter Flowers (Unity), Christmas Salutations (Echo Park)
Ink	Mossy Meadow, Real Red
Accessories	Sequins (from my stash), Cherry Cobbler Thick Baker's Twine (ret), Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Deer to Me Dies (Papertrey), Large Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

PP668 Let It Snow Sketch

Happy Sunday, peeps!  I took a little blogging break over Thanksgiving, but I'm back!  I hope you all had a wonderful holiday! Ann is our Paper Players hostess this week and she has an interesting sketch for us; I don't think I've ever done a sketch like it, but it was fun for sure!  Here it is:

As I was lying in bed a couple nights ago, having one of those sleepless nights, I remembered this pretty Let It Snow DSP from a couple of years ago, so I used that as my jumping-off point; here we go:

I had a piece of DSP that was 6" in width; I cut the length to about 4" and laid it on the card front at an angle, so the bottom left and top right corners of the card met the edges of the DSP.  I adhered it, then trimmed off the little triangle pieces left behind!  

I then added some Stitched Rectangle panels and a diecut snowflake from Fun Stampers Journey:

I embellished it with a snowflake sequin and a red rhinestone, then added a diecut Simon Says Stamp sentiment sitting on top of a Radiating Stitches circle on which I had stamped a few red snowflakes.  That diecut circle just reminds me of a paper plate and now I can't get that image out of my head, LOL!  Another SSS sentiment was added to the inside:

I love red and white for Christmas, and I think this was a fun sketch!  I hope you'll play along with our fun sketch too!  Share whatever you create over at the Paper Players blog...can't wait to see it!

I have been following the Springerle House on FB for some time because their springle cookies (made from dough similar to shortbread, then pressed into a mold to create an intricate design) were so beautiful!  They said they had a small shop where they sold some of the cookies (it's mostly mail-order and the bakery is on another site), so I wanted to go see this little shop.  It was about a 45-minute ride, so I conned John into taking me.  I warned him it might not be quite what we expected; needless to say, here is the shop:

It is literally an 10' x 12' shed in someone's back yard!  But it was as cute as a button inside:

John was more intrigued by the construction of the shed than anything else!  I got these ornaments, which are actually made of cookie dough, so they're fragile but should last a long time if cared for properly:

I also got this one, which is not cookie dough, but some sort of volcanic ash and clay (?? I think), then molded and painted:

They're small...no more than a couple of inches high but oh so pretty. They did have samples to taste, but it was an almond one, and I don't like almond, so it's better for me just to look at them!  

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp), Paper Pumpkin (snowflakes, retired)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Let It Snow Specialty DSP (ret)
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals, Snowflake Sequin (Pretty Pink Posh), Red Rhinestone
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Radiating Stitches Dies, Snowflake Die (Fun Stampers Journey), Christmas Blessings Dies (Simon Says Stamp)

AHSC552 Happy Christmas

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I have sweet little card today that uses a fun sketch from Atlantic Hearts!  Check it out:

I couldn't wait to play with some new papers that I recently got from Unity, so I mixed and matched and came up with this:

My card base is Pear Pizzazz, with a Poppy Parade mat, and the Unity papers are Winter Flowers.  The papers on the left side all measure 1 5/8" wide, and the top piece is 2 1/2" and the lower two are 1 1/4".  The papers on the right side all measure 2" wide by 1 5/8" high.  Just be sure if you have a pattern that is directional, to cut them in the right orientation. You don't want your patterns to be upside down or sideways!  I stamped a Simon Says Stamp sentiment in Old Olive and diecut it, then added a Petal Pink banner behind it.  To mimic the little holly leaves on one of the papers, I used a Magical Meadow die to cut two holly leaves from Soft Seafoam, then added some red pearls:

I just love the soft colors in these papers!  Another for my stash!

Dana sent me pictures of the pups while they were watching the Eagles play; they may have their Eagles shirts on, but who can tell, since they're all wrapped up in their Christmas blankets!  The look on Eden's face:

Ginger looks like the Eagles might have just scored a touchdown!

Thanks for indulging me with the "grand-dogs"!!  And thanks for visiting today! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Poppy Parade, Petal Pink, Soft Sea Foam, Pear Pizzazz (ret), Winter Flowers (Unity)
Ink	Old Olive
Accessories	Dimensionals, Red Pearls
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Magical Meadow Dies, Soft Sea Foam Blend, Christmas Blessings Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)