Stay Snuggly

Here is a late fall/early winter card I made the other day. I used quality Your Paper Insider cardstock and vellum for my card except for the cabin. The snow is a textured cardstock with subtle glimmer to it. The trees, rooftop and stars have non-shedding glitter in them. The alpine lake and mountains in the background are a light teal vellum over white cardstock. The card has lots of "feels" from smooth to sparkly! Even the trees have texture from the dies. I took a close up of the texture and sparkle.

What I used to make the card:

• Spellbinders Through the Woods dies, Cocoa Wonderland dies, Stay Snuggly stamp set

• Sizzix Tiny Snowglobes dies

• Simon Says Stamp Drifting Stitches Border dies

• Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders dies

• Altenew Obsidian black ink pad

 Thanks for stopping by!

Carol

 

All You Need is Love

It is Word Week at Just Us Girls #801 and our teammate Carol Mayne chose Winter!! This snow couple is having fun in the snow together passing the heart/love back and forth. We have a lot of inspiration for you, so stop by all the blogs, including that of our talented guest Leslie Miller.

I am also playing along at Inkspirational Challenges #354 Knit/Knitted for the knit cap and scarves the snow couple is wearing.

What I used:

• Sizzix Chilly and Freezy die set
• My Favorite Things Snow Swirls Cover up die
• Tim Holtz Small talk sentiment strip
• Glitter cardstock
• White glimmery cardstock

I die cut and assembled the snow people, then created a scene with them that is definitely winter time. The snow and the heart are sparkly and the wind swirls around them.

See you in the gallery!

Carol 

Sweet Surprises

It's time for the CASE It Instagram Hop for November! We are a group of online crafty friends who will be playing with the idea of Copy and Share Everything each month. I CASEd @craftyengineer's card for its cute houses all in rows and made mine for Christmas. I really like grid cards and @craftyengineer's happy design caught my eye. She is also in our CASE It group! Here is my card.

And here is @craftyengineer's card!

I copied her grid idea with a mat and the sentiment below it. Aren't her houses fun in the bright colors? I die cut my candy shapes instead of stamping them and lined them up into a tree formation. I hope I can find peppermint candy wrapping paper to go with it this year!

Products I used:

• Spellbinders Christmas Cocktails dies, Red shimmer cardstock
• Ellen Hutson Sweet Surprised stamp set
• Amazon candy sprinkles
• Copic markers
• Altenew Obsidian black ink pad, Artist Markers in Red Cosmos
• Glossy Accents
• Clear glitter

After I colored, die cut and assembled the candy, I covered it with Glossy Accents and some glitter to give it shine and sparkle. The tree trunk is from a peppermint candy clay mix. I popped up the completed grey panel on a panel of the red shimmer cardstock, then on a white A2 card base. 

We hope you will visit the CASE It Hop and enjoy the way our group was inspired to make their own version of someone's card.

Thanks for visiting!

Carol

Be Merry

It's an exciting week at Just Us Girls #800 because it is our 800th challenge! We are celebrating with an Anything Goes theme for you and we have a wide variety of cards for your inspiration. 

To help with the celebration, some of the team members are giving away a prize on their blog. In order to win, you need to play in this challenge and also leave a comment on the team member's personal blog. To celebrate this milestone, Vicki is offering a $25.00 gift certificate prize to Simon Says Stamps! Check the other members' blogs for details on their giveaways. Not everyone is participating in the giveaway.

So, I got out this fun Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits set from last year and created a pop art style card with Santa celebrating the season. The pop art nature of this die is what drew me to it...that shadow!

What I used:

• Sizzix/Tim Holtz Be of Good Cheer die set
• The Stamp Market Candy Cane Christmas stamp and die set
• Altenew Obsidian black ink pad

It takes a bit to die cut all the little pieces but they come together easily. The non-traditional colored Santas are popped up on foam tape and that's it for my card! This was a Diecember freebie die in 2024 if you made an order.

We hope you will join in our celebration and submit a card of your choice!

Thanks for stopping by...

Carol

Frosty Hugs

At Time Out Challenges #301 our theme is Inspired By: Your Favorite Holiday to Celebrate. I chose Christmas, obviously. The music, baking, shopping, decorating, pretty lights, family coming home, the Christmas spirit...I love it all! I made a little house decorated for the holidays with a snowman lawn decoration and a red roof that has snowflakes on it.

Our wonderful sponsor, Angie Blom Digital Designs, is generously offering a  $20 store credit as a prize for our Challenge Winner, who will also get an invitation to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge.

We are joined by Stef Perry of Perry Papercrafts, and winner of Time Out #296 as Guest Designer. Her cards are always beautifully colored and this one is no different!

What I used for my card: 

• The Stamp Market House Maker dies
• Sizzix Tiny Snowglobes and Christmas Minis die sets
• Spellbinders Stay Snuggly stamp and die sets
• Gold cardstock
• Altenew Obsidian black ink pad
• Patterned paper for the roof
• Vellum for windows

We can't wait to see what you create and the holidays you celebrate! See you in the gallery!

Carol Mc

Santa Tag

It is time for the monthly Gorgeous Gift Tags Instagram Hop for November with the optional theme of something vintage. I tried to chose vintage-y colors for my Sizzix Colorize Santa die set but he doesn't look very vintage to me. Vintage IS optional. He is a simple Colorize set to put together and...to add some fun I have him juggling sparkly snowballs! Be sure to hop through and see all the fun tags everyone made. You can find my Instagram account here.

I have him tied to a gift back already so the first gift of the season that fits gets this bag and tag. I need to go make more of these.

See you over at the hop!

Carol

Boo Mug Cookie Pops

Happy Halloween! Children are surely hyped up and ready for trick-or-treating tomorrow night. After today I will be finished with Halloween cards...I had to get just one more idea completed.

I am the hostess for our Just Us Girls CASE a DT Challenge #799 for the next week. You choose a card made by one of our team members and use the colors, theme, layout, element(s), or something else that catches your eye and make your own design. Be sure to tell us whose card you CASEd (Copy and Selectively Edit) and how you made it your own. I made a Halloween cup full of cookie pops. (You could use a mug for another holiday or just a pretty mug!) We love this challenge because the creativity by our players is so much fun to see.

I am also playing along at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes.

Products I used:

• Pretty Pink Posh Winter Mug (mug, ghost, leaf)
• Papertrey Ink Pumpkin House dies (star)
• Trinity Stamps Boo Brew Die set (Jack O' Lantern face)
• Studio Katia Slider Tag die set (mini tag)
• Paper Smooches Alphadot stamp set (Boo)
• Pink Fresh Studio Diagonal Stitched Rectangles die set (diagonal stitched rectangle)
• Sugar Pea Designs Card Front Builder die set (larger stitched rectangle)
• Altenew Obsidian black ink pad
• Black twine
• Toothpicks
• Foam tape

I started my card by making the cookie pops. I took some small dies and die cut them with colored cardstock. Then I traced around each metal die on tan colored cardstock (to look like a sugar cookie) and fussy cut each shape. I layered the colored die cut onto the tan one to complete my cookies.

Next was the mug whose dies came from two different companies' die sets. The "purple juice" just seemed fun instead of the usual brown beverage.

I grabbed three toothpicks and taped and glued them to the back of the cookies to make cookie pop sticks. The mug die cuts a slit so I had a place to put the cookies pops into the mug.

There was no room for a regular sentiment so I die cut and stamped a little tag with BOO in black ink and tied it to the mug handle with twine.

I die cut a smaller white panel with diagonal stitches along the edge, then die cut an A2 stitched rectangle out of patterned paper. Last, I assembled the card front on an A2 white card base.

I hope you will join us this week by CASEing a team member's card. Don't forget to tell us the "who" and the "what" about your resulting card!

See you in the gallery!

Carol