A LITTLE STAMPIN' UP! CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR MERRY MONDAY #71

I really do wish I'd been more organized, and joined in the fun of Lesley's Merry Monday Challenges sooner!  What a great idea, to make one Christmas card a week during the year - really takes the pressure off at the "pointy end" of the year.  Oh well, I think I can claim that I'm "on a roll", as I have joined in this week's Merry Monday Challenge, after playing along last week.

Here's Lesley's sketch:

... and my card, featuring the stack of presents from "Wishing You", one of the gorgeous new sets available in Australia and New Zealand at the end of August:

Stamps: Wishing You (available 29th August), Sweet Essentials. Owl Occasions (not current)

Card: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler Core'dinations

DSP: Season of Style Designer Series Paper (out 29th August)

Ink: Cherry Cobbler stampin' pad and marker, Crumb Cake stampin' pad, Old Olive marker, Baked Brown Sugar marker

Other: Ovals framelits, 3/4" Circle punch, Small Oval punch, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, sanding block, sponge dauber, stampin' dimensionals, 1 1/4" burlap ribbon (available 29th August)

 

 

 



DD #38 and SC #072/13 : STAMPIN' UP!'S BORDERING ON ROMANCE

I have had a lovely weekend in my craft room, and have really enjoyed playing along with some challenges that I've been neglecting.

Dynamic Duos has this colour challenge for the week:

As we're nearing Valentine's Day, Sunny Challenges & Creations have set a theme of "love", which I decided was a perfect complement to the colour challenge I was working with.


Here's the card I am entering in both challenges (and yes, the edges are distressed, not just tatty!):

Stamps: Bordering on Romance, Itty Bitty Banners, Sweet Essentials

Card: Real Red smooth and Core'dinations, Whisper White

Ink: Real Red stampin' pad and marker, Pretty in Pink stampin' pad and marker, Crumb Cake stampin' pad and marker, Jet Black Staz-on inkpad

Other: Window Frames framelits, Word Window punch, Bitty Banners framelits, Large Scallop Edgelits, Delicate Designs embossing folder, Pretty in Pink Scallop Dots ribbon, Pretty in Pink satin ribbon (retired), Basic Pearls, sponge dauber, Stampin' Distress tool, Lacy Brocade embossing folder, sanding block, Beautiful Wings embosslits, glue dots

 

 

Come back tomorrow, and I'll have another card to share with you.  I've been quite productive, and have a few cards to put on my blog in the coming week!

 

 



JAI #150: FRIENDS FLOCK TOGETHER

Mae has come up with a great sketch for this week's Just Add Ink challenge:

I received, from a dear friend, Stampin' Up!'s Flock Together stamp set for Christmas, so decided to ink it up, and pair it with the cute Birds of A Feather Designer Series Paper that I've been meaning to cut into.

Stampin' Up! now offers Oval Framelits dies - woohoo!  I've used them to create my focal panel.  The wavy embossing at the bottom of the card is courtesy of the new Borders Scoring Plate that is a new feature of the Simply Scored scoring tool. 

 

Stamps: Flock Together, Sweet Essentials

Card: Crumb Cake, Whisper White

DSP: Birds of A Feather Designer Series Paper

Ink: Crumb Cake, Primrose Petals and Island Indigo stampin' pads, Crumb Cake marker

Other: Ovals Framelits dies, Primrose Petals stitched satin ribbon, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch, sponge dauber, glue dots, Borders Scoring Plate (and Simply Scored), Stamp-a-ma-jig, Basic Rhinestone 

Here's a close-up of the embossed pattern on the front of my card; just one of several designs on the Borders Scoring Plate template:

 

Make sure you check out the rest of the Design Team samples over at Just Add Ink.  We hope you play along with us this week, and link up your creation on the Just Add Ink blog!