Lovely Birthday

I am having a hard time making the transition from Christmas cards.  So this card took me way longer than it should have.  I made it for Jennie's sketch challenge on StampTV.   I was able to use one of my Christmas presents, Lovely Shelf.  I have been seeing all of the wonderful cards everyone has been making on StampTV and couldn't wait to get this set, thank you Theresa!  Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details:

Stamps: Lovely Shelf, Holiday Greetings- Gina K Designs

Paper: barely banana, old olive, June Bug-Basic Grey

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics: B00, G14, Y11, Y13, Y15, YG63, YG67

Other: circle punches, brad, pearls

A second look

I have been meaning to post this for a few days, but with being out of town I just never got to it. I had a few requests to see my triangle luminary on my holiday table. It is actually Theresa's table as that is where I was for Christmas.  I used three battery operated tealight candles which worked perfectly to give a great glow.

Theresa also gave me a little lesson in Photoshop so I am hopeful that my photos will be looking a bit better in the future.  I hope to have something new to show you tomorrow, if I can dig myself out of this mess that is in my room at the moment.  Thank you for stopping by.

Life is Good

Gina is having a customer blog hop for the December release.  With Christmas I didn't get time to make a card until today.  I used Theresa's set Life is Good, it is a wonderful set with a lot of possibilities.  I decided to make a CAS masculine card.  I stamped the trees in the background by stamping off one time giving the scene depth.  I finished up by sponging the edges and then layering with chocolate kiss and pumpkin spice.  The designer paper is from DCWV.  Thank you for stopping by.

Christmas Shaker Tag

I am over the moon excited to share with you that I am the Guest Designer for Belli Blog.  I love their  challenges and to be ask was such an honor, thank you Robin.   The challenge this week is to make a tag Belli Challenge #81.  Cretive Belli is a great blog that is full of wonderful inspiration. So check them out and give the challenge a try.  They also have a design team call going right now.

For my I choose to make a shaker tag that could also be used as an ornament.  I used the largest circle and scallop nestabilities I had to make the frame.  The snow is made by rubbing styrofoam together and then I added a sprinkle of glitter to help it sparkle. It is a fun little tag that would work well for a child's gift.  Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a Happy Holiday.

Tag Details

Stamps: Warm Winter Wishes, Winter Foliage-Gina K Designs

Paper: silver lining- Gina K Designs, bashful blue

Ink: memento black, copics

Copics:BG10, BG15, BG49, C5, C7, C9, G09, G28, R24, R27, R29, YG63, YG67, YR04, YR07

Other: silver pearls, cording, round tab punch

Triangle Luminary

 

I am super excited to share this luminary with you.  I made this for Gina's challenge this week to make a holiday box, mine is a bit of a stretch.  I used a tutorial I found on SCS by Carolyn King, it is a triangle treat box that I adjusted to work for my project.  I wish that you could see it in real life as it is so pretty when the lights are down low.  Thank you for stopping by.

Luminary details

Stamps: Festive Frame- Gina K Designs

Paper: pure luxury ivory, velum, Basic Grey Red

Ink: memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics:E25, E29, R20, R24, R27, R59, YG63, YG67

Other: flameless candles

Happy Holidays

Today I am showing you a card I made for my Design Team spot on Pile It On.  the challenge this week was to use anything digital and of course include at least one other challenge, I included 6 with it.  The digital part is the designer paper it is from Gina K Designs and ilustrated by Theresa Momber.  I used stickles on the holy berries and wished I hadn't as it looked better before.  I have to remember to take a photo before I add some of the extra touches such as stickles in case I don't like the end result.  Thank you for stopping by.


Challenges:
Pile It On: Anything digital, plus at least one other challenge
Creative Card Crew: Anything Goes
Simon Says: Merry Christmas
Craft Challenge: Free For All
StampTV: Sketch
My Time to Craft Challenge: Yuletide Wishes
Bee-Crafty: Circles
The Pink Elephant: Winter and/or Christmas

Card Details

Stamps: holiday cheer, holiday greetings- Gina K Designs

Paper: ivory, all spruced up deck the halls- Gina K Designs

Ink: memento tuxedo black, so saffron, copics

Copics: E25, G99, R24,R27, R29, R59, YG63, YG67

other: nestabilities, stickles, punches

Cardinal Sketch

A super fast post to show you a card I made this for the sketch last week on StampTV.    Thank you for stopping by.

Card Deatils

Stamps: First Christmas GKD

Paper: Pure luxury ivory, fresh asparagus, BG wassail

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, apricot appeal, creamy caramel, copics

Copics: R24, R27, R29

Other: ribbon, nestabilities, cuttlebug, leaf punch

Life is Good Blog Hop

Today I am sharing some cards made with Theresa's newest stamp set Life Is Good.  This is such an awesome set that can be used to make more detailed cards or CAS cards.  I have made one detailed card and two CAS cards to show you.

As soon as I saw the train in this set I knew I wanted to make a card based on The Polar Express.  I started by stamping and coloring the train.  I then masked it off and sponged the sky.  I followed that sponging the light beam.  Next I stamped a couple of branches, added a few snow drifts and dotted the sky with a white gel pen for the snowflakes/stars.  To make the ticket I cut a rectangle stamped the sentiment and used a small circle punch it give it the look of a ticket.  I didn't want to take away form the scene I had created so I kept is simple and matted it on a rich layer of gold with a base of brilliant blue.

 

This card only took me about ten minutes to make.  I stamped the train in chocolate chip then cut it out using a oval nestabilities.  Before removing the image from the die I sponged with close to cocoa.  I finsihed by matting with soft sand.  The gorgeous designer paper is Comso Cricket Earth Love.

 

For my last card I stamped the sentiment and the cattails in chocolate chip and sponged with chocolate chip, close to cocoa and creamy caramel. I use some more of Cosmo Crickets Earth Love and layered with Green Apple and Chocolate Kiss. This card took me about five minutes.  Both of the CAS cards have no embellishments, which may be a first for me!



For even more inspiration tonight with the Life is Good stamp set, check out these links:

Theresa Momber {Illustrator}
Jessica Fick
Nina Brackett
Melanie Muenchinger
Lee Murphy
Erika Martin
Emily Giovanni
Colleen Schaan

Cheri Weston {CSS designer}
Melissa Shultz {CSS designer}
Peggy Wainman {CSS designer}


Geri Utterback {guest designer}
Brenda Turner {guest designer}
Linda Payne {guest designer}

The Life is Good discussion on the StampTV Idea Center is also a valuable resource for tips, samples, and tutorials. Theresa's tip sheet and the Card Kit is available in the discussion as well.

And, finally stop by GinaK's blog today to leave your comment on her blog for your chance to win today's featured stamp set or another stamp set valued at $23.95 of your choice!

Thank you for stopping by.

Card #1

Stamps: Life is Good, Botanical Dreams, Winter Foliage

Paper: brilliant blue, pure luxury good as gold, white

Ink: memento tuxedo black, bashful blue, ballet blue, brilliant blue, copics

Copics: B00, C1, C3, C7, W3, Y15, Y21

Card #2

Stamps: Life is Good

Paper: Pure luxury soft sand, ivory,  cosmo cricket earth love

Ink: chocolate chip, creamy caramel

Other: nestabilities, cuttlebug

Card #3

Stamps: Life is Good

Paper: Pure luxury soft sand, ivory,  cosmo cricket earth love

Ink: chocolate chip, close to cocoa

Sweet Christmas Treat

Hello my posts this week are very short, but at least I am getting my projects up.  After this week things will slow down for me, and hopefully I will have some sweet down time.

Today I am showing you a sour cream container I made for Carolina's anything but a card challenge this week on StampTV.  I was inspired by Carolina's sample and had to get right to this one.  I started with pure luxury white and clear embossed the snowflakes.  Next I sponged with bashful blue over the whole thing.  Then it was just a matter of taping it together and filling with candies.  Normally I would have used a crimper to seal the ends, but I can not find it so I used my scorpal to score a couple of lines, it worked great.   The whole thing only took me about 15 minutes.

Make sure you come back later night I have a card for Theresa's Life is Good blog hop. 
Thank you for stopping by.

Details

Stamps: Holiday Hospitality Gina K Desings

Paper: Pure luxury white

Ink: Versmark, bashful blue

Other: snowflake punches, scorpal, pearl

Square Holiday

Another quick post to show you a card I made for Gina's Technique challenge to make a square envelope with matching card.  This is a 4 1/4 post card with a lightly larger envelope.  Gina did a wonderful video on StampTV showing how to make these with a ScorPal.  Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details

Stamps A Year of Flowers, Holiday Greetings, Gina K Designs

Paper: Pure luxury White, Rocket Red, Good as Gold

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics

Copics:R20, R27, R29, R57

Tags!

A super quick post to show some tags and a micro mini pizza box I made for Anything But A Card challenge on StampTV.  I needed some small tags so this challenge was perfect for me. 

I hope you all are having a wonderful Holiday Season and it isn't getting to crazy for you!  Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details

Stamps: Holiday Greetings, Gina K Designs

Paper: pure luxury white, rocket red

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Other: red cording, various circle punches, scallop punch

Blue and White Christmas

A quick post to show you a card I made over the weekend for the color challenge last week on StampTV.  The colors were blue and white.  The whole time I was making this card I had the song Blue Christmas going through my head, LOL.    Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details:

Stamps:Vintage Borders, Holiday Greetings- Gina K Designs

Paper: Pure luxury White, brilliant blue, dcwv

Ink: memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics: B21, B24, B29

Other: cuttlebug, nestabilities, ribbon, rick rack

Celebrate Winter

I have been a bad blogger, and I am sorry.  This is such a busy time for all of us and I just have not been able to find time to post.  Happily I have found a little stamping time here and there.  I will be sharing with as often as I can.  I love the holidays, but every year I over extend myself.  some day I will learn.  So on to what you are here for.

Last week Selma ask if I would make a sample card for her Blast from the Past challenge on StampTV.  I said yes of course.  Selma is a super talented stamper and I really enjoy challenges.  Blast from the Past is a weekly challenge that is posted every Friday on StampTV in which Selma picks a challenge from the videos that Gina has done, each on featuring a different technique.  This week Selma choose was Partial Cuttlebug Embossing. Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details:

Stamps:Warm Winter wishes, Holiday Greetings, Very Merry Christmas- Gina K Designs

Paper: brilliant blue, pure luxury whtie

Ink: memento tuxedo black, versamark, copics

Copics:C1, C5, C7, C9, R29, YR000, YR02, YR07

Other: , cuttlebug, glitter, detail clear embossing powder

Inspired Snowman

A quick post to show you a card I made today for the inspiration challenge on StampTV.  If you haven't heard yet there is a new Challenge Design Team on StampTV and they are doing a fabulous job with the challenges so if you get a chance head over and give one or more a try.  You may just win a stamp set, how cool is that.  Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details:

Stamps: Holiday Cheer, Warm Winter Wishes, Holiday Hospitality

Paper: brilliant blue

Ink: memento tuxedo black, copics, versamark

Copics: C1, B21, G09, R20, R29, YG03, YR04

Other: pearls, ribbon

Another Christmas card

A quick post to show you a card I made for Shannon's color challenge this last week on StampTV.  I had this card almost done back on Monday, but felt it still needed something and then lost my creativity so there is sat until yesterday when I finally finished it.  I so hate it when that happens to me and after all of the thought I still don't care for this one that much, oh well.  Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details:

Stamps: StampTv Kit from Gina K Designs, Holiday Cheer, Holiday Greetings

Paper: Pure luxury all spruced up, rocket red, good as gold, GKD digi paper Deck the Halls

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics: BV17, E31, G09, G14, G28, R20, R22, R24, R27, R29, Y21

Other: Nestibilities, cuttlebug, pearls

Putting on the Glitz

Here is another one of my multi challenge cards for Pile It On.  This is a digital image from Soft Pencil.  I started off coloring with copics, then I masked off the whole image and sponged with bashful blue.  Next I completely assembled the card even the snowflakes.  The last step was to add stickles for the tree ornaments and falling snow.  I used my Quickie glue pen on the snowflakes and the angels wings before giving them a good dusting of glitter.  I wish that the photo showed the glitter better, it really sparkles.  The paper is Eskimo Kisses from Basic Grey.  All of the challenges and cards details are listed below.

I am sorry that I have been such a bad blogger this week.  Work has been especially difficult and has zapped my creativity. That is behind me now so I am back to making cards and I have a bunch of more challenges I want to do. On a side note I finally made to see New Moon, and I have to say I loved it!   Jacob  is HOT in this one.  Thank you for stopping by.

1. Pile It On: Tinsel Town!
2. Cute Card Thursday: Swirly Girly
3. Copic Creations: Snow/Snowpeople
4. Stamp Something: Glitzy Something
5. Digital Tuesday Challenge: Christmas Sparkle
   
6. Crafty Calendar: Winter Sparkle
7. Just us Girls: Sketch
8. Creative Card Crew: Christmas
   
9. The Pink Elephant: Color me Wonderful
10. Clearly i Stamp: Winter Theme
11. Esty Inspired: So Stinking Sweet Here is what I use for inspiration
    

Card Details

Stamps: Digital image Soft Pencil

Paper: pure luxury white and rocket red-Gina K Designs, eskimo kisses-Basic Grey

Ink: Copics, bashful blue

Copics: B21, B24, B26, E00, E25, E31, E51, G07, G09, G28, R08, Y13, Y15, YG63, YG67, YR00

Other ribbon, brads from Gina K Designs, punch Martha Stewart, stickles, glitter

Snowman Gable Box

I made this gable box for a few challenges.  The first one is for Donna Baker's 3D challenge this month to make a gable box using NinaB's template. Second it is for this weeks challenge on JUGS(Just Us Girls) to make a gift box/bag from a template.  Lastly I used Rachel's cupcake inspiration challenge for the colors, snowman and snowflakes.  Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details:

Stamps: Warm Winter Wishes-Gina K Designs

Paper: American Crafts, Basic Grey, GKD pure luxury white

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics: BG01, BG05, C1, C3, C5, C7, C9, G09, R20, R24, R27, R29, YR04, YR07

Other: nesties, cuttlebug, glass beads, silver cord, mini snowflake, ribbon

CSS Challenge Blog Hop

It's time for another CenterStage Spotlight Challenge Blog hop!

Hostess: Jessica Fick {Design Team Coordinator} 
Theme: Stamp and color the image on Patterned Paper  
{ any occasion card acceptable, it doesn't have to be Christmas themed}  
{ image may be cut out and layered, but must be stamped and colored on patterned paper}  
Requirement: any GinaK Designs stamp set & Glitter  
Bonus Challenge: decorate the inside of your card to coordinate

Tonight the StampTV CenterStage Spotlight Designers past and present are having a fun challenge blog hop. For my card I stamped the frame from Melanine's Festive Frame stamp set on some DP I had in my stash.  I layered the main panel on some of Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Silver Lining paper and on a base of Pure Luxury White.

Here is a close up so you can see the coloring and stickles on the patterned paper.

And here is a close up of the inside.

So I am trying to keep this short so you can check out the rest of the designers and see what fabulous creations they have to show you.  Thank you for stopping by.

Participating Designer's links:

Brenda Turner Carla Suto, Carolina Buchting,

Cheri Weston Deb Felts Geri Utterback , Giovana Smith, Gina Krupsky Janice Melton, JenMarie Taylor, Jennie Harper, Jessica Fick, Joy Hadden, Karen Knegten Kay Simmons, Linda Payne,  Melisa Waldorf, Melissa Cash, Melissa Shultz, Nina Brackett, Pam Imholz, Peggy Wainman, Selma Stevenson, Shannon Bracken, Sharri Seffens

Sue Morris Sue VanDeVusse Sue Walsh, Tina Gilliland

Card Details:

Stamps: Festive Frame- Gina K Designs

Paper: pure luxury white, silver lining and making memories black tie

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics: B21, B23, E29, E33, E35, E57, Y11, YG95

Other: Star dust stickles, silver pearls, silver metallic marker

Flaky Friends

Here is my card for Pile it ON this week.  The challenge this week is to use rub ons and work in at least on other challenge.  There is very little stamping, only the sentiment.  the adorable snowmen and snowflakes are rub ons from Royalo Langnickle.  I managed to work in a total of 7 challenges on of is Jessica's sketch on StampTV.  All of the challenges are listed below.  For the background behind the snowmen I started with some pure luxury white and sponged with bashful blue using a mask made from a torn piece of scratch paper.  I didn't have any blue brads that would work so I colored white ones with a copic marker (B23) and then covered them with waterfall stickles. To speed up the drying time I held each brad with a pair of tweezers and the hit them with my heat gun.  Thank you for stopping by.

• Pile It On: Rub Ons
• Daring Card Makers: The First Letter
• Creative  Inspirations: Sparkle
• Creative Card Crew: Strings Attached
  
• StampTV: Sketch
• One Stop Craft Challenge: Snowflakes
• KL Stampinnscrappin: Snowflakes

Card Details:

Stamps: Hoilay Greetings Gina K Designs

Paper: pure luxury white, SU bashful blue

Ink: memento tuxedo black

Other: Rub ons, button embroidery floss, brads, MS  punch

Stamp TV Customer Blog Hop

Today there is a customer blog hop on StampTV.  I knew the minute I read about it that I would have to join in.  I used Melanie's newest set Festive Frame.  I love this set there are some many wonderful things you can do with it.  I am going to keep this short so you can hop on to the next blog.  Card details are posted at the end of this post.

Now to follow the hop head over to Gina's blog.

Thanks for stopping by.

Card Details

Stamps: Festive Frame- Gina K Designs

Paper: Pure luxury ivory, good as gold

Ink: memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics:E29, E33, G05, G28, R20, R29

Other: gold pearls

Winter Glitz

So this card took me way too long to make.  I was at it all day,  I hate it when that happens.  The good news is that there are 13 challenges in it.  I was able to finally use one of my newest stamps set from Gina K Designs, Winter Friends by Rupa Shevde. the challenges and details are listed below.  Thank you for stopping by.

Chalenges:

1. CardPatterns: Sketch 41
2. Creative Belli Blog: Christmas themed embellishments
3. Creative Inspirations: New or Neglected (new stamp, nestie and snowflake)
   
4. Cupcake Crafts: Snow much fun
5. The Secret Crafter: Four Seasons
6. Crafty Creations:Snow
7. La La Land Crafts: Getting Punchy
8. Charisma Cardz: Merry and Bright
9. Cute Card Thursday: Glitter Me Silly
10. Basic Grey: Glitz and Bling
11. Frosted Designs: Bling it On
12. Crafty Calendar: Weather
13. 365 Cards: day 259 Snow

Card Details:

Stamps: Winter Friends, Gina K Designs

Paper: Pure luxury white, river rock, Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics: B00, E37, G07, R24, RV21, RV29, Y15

Other: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, glitter, MS punch, Me and My Big Ideas snowflake, raindot

A quick Christmas card

I made this card for the color challenge on StampTV.  The colors are ivory, burgundy and champagne (light gold).  I didn't have any light gold at all so I used good as gold from Gina K Designs.  All of the supplies in this card are from Gina K Designs.  I love to color so it is rare that I don't even a little. Even with all of the layers this is a quick card to make.  All of the details are at the bottom of this post.  Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details

Stamps: Festive Frame, Gina K. Designs

Paper: pure luxury ivory, cranberry tart, and good as gold, Gina K Designs

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Other: nestabilties, cuttlebug, embossing folder, gold cord