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Deck the halls….

I love this sentiment set from CC Designs by Amy. It came with the Winter kit and so did these two cuties, Emma and Trevor. They are just all the things I love! lol
I just had to start with the close up this time.

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Here’s the card… I followed the sketch from Friday Sketchers

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I used this Merrymint paper from American Crafts. I love this pine needle border punch from Martha S. The postage punch is by Marvy Uchida. The tree punch is a new EK Success punch and comes with a stocking too. The kids were colored with copic sketch markers. Pretty much the same colors I’ve used before and posted for other cards.
I need to get back to “deck the halls” here. I’d rather be stamping or looking at stamping!

Just remembered to check the comments for the paper give away from Nov. 30th!  sorry… Linda Ward,  I have some Memory Box Winter papers for you!!!

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Monday Guest Designer Spotlight at All That Scraps…

Good morning and I’d like to report, thankfully,  that this is “not” our weather conditions right now!  The cuteness factor of these stamps is making the dial go up on the cuteness scale for sure though!!!!  I am loving these stamps from All That Scraps!!!  This is Trevor, posing for a picture on a snowy day! lol

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I know, I love snowmen, but this kid just melts my heart too! I love how he colored up and worked into this scene. The trees are so cool too! The pattern papers are from a Snow collection 6×6 pack from Memory Box…it’s an older pack, so probably not available anymore. When you leave a comment, tell me you’d like some of the sheets and I’ll do a random drawing next Monday. The sentiment is from All That Scraps also. The mittens are an old Emaginations medium size punch with a Martha Stewart snowflake punch from the Aspen border punch. I used the Martha Stewart Snowfall Around the Page border punch to frame the shadow box. The medium size snowflake is from the Aspen corner punch and the large snowflake is the Martha Stewart Alpine punch (I think). There is snow on the trees that I made with the Marvy snow marker…it works really slick…glitter on some and frosted lace stickles on some. I stamped with Memento Black ink and colored with my copic sketch markers…no picture this time but I wrote down the colors for you!
skin…E000, 00, 01, R20, 30
hair…E50, YR21, 31
Blues…B0000, 32,34 C0
boots…C0 – 7
sweater…G40, 82, 85
scarf…YR12, E95, 97, 99
Tree…G21, 24, 28

skis are a silver gel pen…
here’s a close up for you…yep, he makes you smile!

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My inspiration for this piece is from Sharon.  Click her name to see her adorable Tilda frame card. Thank You Sharon!!!!!  If you’d like to make a frame card like this there is a tutorial here on the Papertake Weekly Challenge blog.  Here it is the end of November and my month as guest designer for All That Scraps has come to a close!  I’ve really enjoyed this honor and am looking forward to using many more of their wonderful stamps!  Lots of cute still to come!  Happy creating and thanks for coming by to see what I’m up to!

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Monday Guest Designer Spotlight at All That Scraps…

Two cards with the November release stamps from All That Scraps today. I have really enjoyed designing for them this month!
First up is a card created with stamps from HR Designs Otis and Milo set. The pattern paper is by Bo Bunny.

I colored with copic sketch markers… here’s a photo of the colors I used.

I used the new EK Success snowflake punch again,  it comes with a holly punch in the set also.  In the center of the snowflakes is a snowball looking thing by Mark Richards that I purchased at Archivers.  White w/glitter all over it…wish you could see that.  I used Diamond Dust glitter by the Art Glittering System on the furry part of the hat and the stocking.  I love the colors of this card and I had so much fun coloring it…oh,  I always say that but it’s so true! lol  If you know me at all,  you know I don’t care for animals at all! So it’s surprising I love coloring these!  lol  Circle punches by EK Success and McGill.

My next card is Sayuri with a flower by Chubby Pencil and sold at All That Scraps.  Another delightful image to color!

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I didn’t do the marker colors for this card… holler at me if you want to know.  I colored until I was happy with the red color with the pattern paper…I know…crazy! 12 reds or so… lol  I just love the face on this one and the flower in her hair! The paper is by American Craft and Prism card-stock. The photo turn is from Creative Impressions.  “Just for you”  is from the Fall sentiment set at All That Scraps.

I’m entering this card in the Crazy 4 challenges sketch challenge this week.  Here’s the sketch…

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Monday Guest Designer Spotlight at All That Scraps…

I like this job! insert grin! Such fun stamps to create with and challenging too…look at these kids…I stamped them…wondering what am I going to do…start coloring and the magic happens! Decided they should be ATC’s…cute, cute, cute!  I think this first one would be an adorable Valentine!  There are four of these cute kids by Chubby Pencil in the November release at All That Scraps…adorable!

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Showed them to my grandchildren this afternoon and Gena the two year old didn’t want to give them back to me!!! She cried!  She especially loved the frog boy…what a girl! lol

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Monday Guest Designer Spotlight at All That Scraps

Two cards today for All That Scraps blog. I’ve been coloring away and creating. Pulling out papers, punches, trying this, trying that…all part of my card creating process. I’m glad there isn’t a secret agent video taping me!!!
Here’s my first card for today…Swiss Pixies Heidi with two of the stamps from the Christmas Otis and Milo set. This was so much fun to color… I have to show you the close up first!

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The top piece is the new EK Success string of light slimline border punch. I punched it in the green Bazzil card-stock. Then punched it in white card-stock…collected the white light bulbs and colored them with copic markers and stuck them in the punched holes in the green card-stock….I know, crazeeeee! The border on the edge of the green piece and the red piece is another EK Success border punch, wave with dot…not sure what the “real” name is.  Oh and there is that Martha Stewart Pine branch punch again!

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It’s hard to see but there is an embossed line the punch makes for the cord the light bulbs are attached to.
Here’s a picture of the copic markers I used for this card. The four “Y” and “YR” on the right end are what I used for her hair.  Y15 managed to escape the pile up….I used it for the yellow light bulb. E01 should have been in here too!!!  I used E000, E00, E01 and R30 on her face.  I am using a Sakura white gelly roll pen right now for the white dots. I used the clear spica glitter pen on the ornaments but you can’t see it in the photos…to bad, it’s just the nicest twinkle!

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I was going to save card number two for Tuesday but that thought didn’t last! silly me!
Meet Swiss Pixes Santa Birgitta!

 

 

Hope you can see the Art Glittering System Diamond Dust glitter on her wings, cuffs and hat band…love this stuff and I hate glitter…go figure!

here’s the flower fun…

 

EK Success medium papershaper flower punch, The Punch Bunch leaf branch and then I used an 1/8th inch hole punch to punch the tips of each leaf…well, I was trying to make it look like mistletoe for a minute there!!! lol The Martha Stewart Pine Branch punch…the new EK Success holly punch, the punch case is read, comes in a package of two, the other is a snowflake. The brads on this card are by Bo Bunny.
Here’s a picture of the copic sketch markers I used on this card…

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Thanks for coming by today! ‘preciate it! All these stamps are by CC Designs and are available to order at All That Scraps online store. Pure colorbook therapy!