Happy Holidays

For our last challenge of the year at Just Us Girls #755 Anything Goes with a Stencil I wanted to pull out this retro tree and combine it with the hand putting the star on the very top of it. The aqua tree and pink & red ornaments are stenciled and die cut. I put silver glitter cardstock behind the tree to look like lights and added rhinestones on the embossed background for even more sparkle. What will you create with stencils? Come play along!

Products I used:

Waffle Flower: Retro Christmas Tree Die and Stencil set

Concord and 9th: Handmade Holidays stamp and die sets, mini ink pads

Spellbinders: Loops 3D embossing folder

Rhinestones

I hope you will play along with us...maybe a card or some gift tags?

Happy Holidays,

Carol

Merry Christmas

It is my turn to host the Just Us Girls Challenge #754 Photo/Moodboard this week. I found a moodboard with lots of choices for your inspiration. We take a break at Just Us Girls in December, so I chose a Christmas theme. I made a card based on the deer slippers on the bottom right corner of the moodboard. My card reminds me of sitting and addressing Christmas cards. Be sure to check out the team's cards and play along with us!

Products I used:

Spellbinders: Cozy Toes Slippers dies, Betterpress sentiment

Scraps

I did not buy this Spellbinders Club of the Month die set (darn!) and asked my out of state friend (Thanks Richard!) if he would mind sending me some white cardstock die cuts to ink blend. I was so happy that he was okay with sending them. Now I REALLY wish I had bought the set!

Play along with us this week! You've got lots of choices and ideas from the moodboard and the team!

Happy Holidays!

Carol

Bake, Eat, Sleep, Repeat

I was about to start making gift tags for Christmas when I saw the Inspired By Challenge #IB310 Tags. I am also gearing up to start some baking next week, so I got busy making this card. I was inspired by the challenge's cute tags and their layout.

Products I used:

Hero Arts: tag dies

Sizziz: Christmas Mini die set

Alex Syberia: Foxtrot Alphabet dies

Stampin' up!: Various embossing folders

Red glitter cardstock, white glitter cardstock

Red rhinestones

Twine

I embossed some pink cardsotck with different fun patterns, did all of my die cutting, then assembled the tags and arranged them on a 5"x 7" card base. That's it!!

Now to get to my gift tag making!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Carol

Sending Joy

Sue is our hostess this week at Just Us Girls Challenge #753 Word Week and she has chosen the word Joy. I used these dies at a friend's house and did not know what I would make until I finally sat down to play this week. (I die cut multiples of all the elements in different colors.) There are endless possibilities! Here is my card for this week's challenge. Do check out the team's wonderful cards as well as that of our guest, Jenn Borjeson.

All products are recent Spellbinders (Olive Martinis dies and Christmas Cocktails dies) other than the patterned paper background. I would love to have this drink in hand just to see it sparkle! I used shiny gold cardstock for the glass, white glitter cardstock for the beverage itself, and red sparkle cardstock for the bow and candy cane straw.

Are you knee deep in Christmas cardmaking or are you done already? I love making tags and will begin that project soon. Happy holiday crafting! Join us with a "JOY" project of your own!

Carol

Cozy Wishes

I am playing along at Time Out Challenges #276 where they are challenging us to be Cozy. What is more cozy than a hot cup of your favorite winter beverage during the holidays? 

I am also playing along at Inkspirational Challenges: "Layer It" with my card. I used layering stencils, then die cut holly on the stenciled cups, then a larger die cut take out coffee cup with die cuts and stamping on top of it. LOL. Fun challenge!

Products I used:

MFT: coffee cup die

Sizzix: Christmas mini dies

The Stamp Market: Large holly die

Alex Syberia: Alphabet dies

Pretty Pink Posh: Coffee cup stencils, rhinestones

Concord and 9th: Mini ink pads

I made the stenciled card base a while ago and left it for future use. I love non-traditional Christmas colors and decided to use the card base for this challenge.

Hope you are warm and cozy these days. It is still hot here in the southeast!

Happy Holidays!

Carol

Craft Roulette #240 Paper Sack

I haven't been able to play Craft Roulette for a while, but I did manage to be home long enough to watch and make a card. So, am I stretching the parameters this week? The roulette wheel was fairly easy on us.

Projects: Card for a Helper

Colors: Cereal Box

Element: Jungle

Random: Paper Sack 

I made my card for my helper daughter who is so generous with her knowledge of computer stuff, online shopping and sales info as well as other helper duties. I used the colors of the Apple Jacks cereal box and jungle-y print papers. Now, a gift bag is a sack made of paper, right?!! I don't think that's a far reach from Paper Sack. Fingers crossed!

Good to be back to Craft Roulette for #240 on this fun week.  Now back to cleaning the ol' craft room. I used the Waffle Flower Flat Paper Bag die and a Sizzix Textured Impressions Honeycomb Frenzy 3D embossing folder for no more than some interest in the background. Poppystamps makes the die for the Sentiment. Go check out the gallery this week!

Thanks for stopping by!

Carol

Joy Poinsettia Tree

For our Just Us Girls  Challenge Color Week #752 Carol has chosen the pretty combination of  Gold, White and Blue. The team has a variety of great ideas for your inspiration. Be sure to check out each of the team members' blogs, as well as our guest Jenn Borjeson's for all the details on their cards. I went with a Christmas tree design. 

Products I used: 

Spellbinders: Layered Poinsettia Tree die set, Adorning the Tree 3D Embossing folder

Gold metallic cardstock

Blue cardstock

Versafine: White ink pad

Ink blending brush

My card requires little explanation as to how to make it...I die cut the florals and sentiment. I assembled the florals and arranged them on the background panel after I embossed it. I ink blended white in the centers of the flowers, then added the gold centers.

We hope you will be inspired to join us this week!

Carol