Category: Christmas

cards · Christmas · Penny Black · Perfect Layers Tools · rubber stamps · Sizzix · Tim Holtz dies

Leaping Reindeer…

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The front…

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the inside…

I saw Shelly’s pop up leaping reindeer card HERE and wanted to try… I didn’t succeed with the swivel yet but went ahead and finished the card just as a pop up inside.  I like it anyway…funny thing is…when I started it Monday, I thought I would make six! hahahahaha, joke was on me… just because my prototype worked! lol

It was fun to try and check out her post for today… so cool!

I used some older Basic Grey paper and Tim Holtz dies HERE.   I used a Sizzix tree die but after, I thought the Tim Holtz tree sure would’ve been cool!  The pine branch on the front is from Impression Obsession. I swiped some Delicata gold ink on the branches… oh, the scene has Gingerbread Glimmer mist on it also…hard to see.  Perfect Paper Layers tools to mat the front…link in the sidebar…

The gold berries on the front are from Marianne Design.  The stamp I used for the winter scene on the front is from Penny Black, it’s called Heaven and Earth and you’ll find it HERE and 20% off too!

I’m linking to some challenges…

Everybody Art Challenge – Christmas
Papertake Weekly Challenge – Anything Goes
Shopping Our Stash – Winter Holiday

 

New arrivals at the Scrapping Center and 20% off a lot of items too!  Always love that!

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AND… just noticed that Scrapbook.com has some deals too… stamps on sale and a great shipping offer!

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Thanks for looking at my post today!  I know, it’s crazy busy, isn’t it!  Look what was at my house today!  My DH and his crew for a few hours making sheetrock dust!  So I’m off to vacuum to clear the air! eek! lol  So exciting to make progress on the house though! yea!

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cards · Christmas · copics · Magnolia · Perfect Layers Tools · rubber stamps · Sizzix · Tilda's Town · Tim Holtz dies

Magnolia…Tilda’s Town…Celebrate Christmas!

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Oh how I LOVE this new Nativity Collection from Magnolia!  It’s what Christmas is all about!  Jesus is the reason…so much rockin’ around the Christmas tree…it’s easy to get sidetracked!

It was good to color again for this week’s Tilda’s Town Challenges theme… Celebrate Christmas!  Hope you can join us!  We’d love to have you!

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You can find these new stamps at Tilda’s Town.com

Tilda’s Town is a most magical shop specializing in Magnolia Stamps. Over 1,100 stamps in stock at all times. Tilda’s Town offers FREE worldwide shipping on every order, every day. You can also save up to an additional 20% on your purchase by using one of the famous coupon codes. Shop at http://www.tildastown.com and live the magic.

I used a new Sizzlet die, designed by Tim Holtz for the Joy To The World sentiment
The wood grain embossing is a plate by Papertrey Ink
the cord is from Lawn Fawn, strategically placed because the embossing folder had to be run through the machine twice…
I cut the mats with my Perfect Paper Layers Tools
background is Distress ink Stormy Sky and Dusty Concord and the ink blending tool

Holy Tilda with Lamb, Nativity Fence, Holy Lamb and Nativity Star are stamped on Hammermill 80# color copy cover card-stock with Memento Espresso Truffle ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers.

skin – YR0000, E0000, E000, E00, E01, E21  (pretty much like my video in the tutorials tab under the blog header) diluted R20 for her cheeks
hair  – E50, Y21, YR31, E37
fence – E40’s and R30 for cheeks
Lambs – W’s
dress – V90’s

Linking to Simon Says Challenge blog – Anything Goes!  Jingle Bells Rock – Anything Goes! Crimbo Crackers – Anything Goes! Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge – Kraft plus one…

It’s crazy here right now… we’ve been working on our house… decisions and decisions…ugh…taking away from my creativity!  Want to see a scary photo?! haha  Now remember, we live in a big old house… 3 stories…4 if you count the basement!    Well,  we hadn’t restored the back stairway yet, so,  guess what…it shares a wall with the kitchen, the wall the stove is on, so we were able to install a range hood and vent it to the outdoors…love it but most of all, Tim was able to install a Central Vacuum system!!! OH,  how I LOVE it!  Something every woman should have! hehe  No,  I’m not linking up to anything! lol  It was a very big deal figuring out what to order that would work in our house but it turned out fabulous!  yea!  Early Merry Christmas to me!

So now, it’s getting the stairway built back in…right now the cavity is 27 feet plus tall!!!  Crazy…amazing how they built old houses!  It’s really hard to show in pictures but I wish I could…if you open the door on the 2nd floor… don’t take a step…you’d drop all the way to the basement! eek! So much for the excitement here…more to do because of course, one thing leads to another! lol

Thanks for stopping by!  Fun to post today and thank you for your kind comments and visits!

Stamps and Supplies I used…

cards · CAS · Christmas · Hero Arts · Magnolia · Memory Box · Perfect Layers Tools · rubber stamps

CAS, Memory Box Wreath card and Printworks SALE…

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Oh my!  I’ve about forgotten how to blog!  Yikes!  That means I’ve been gone toooo long!  I’m hoping to do more stamping this week… I have to! : )

I made this with two Memory Box dies, a Magnolia Doohickey die (that I altered),  an older Hero Arts sentiment and probably  even older pattern paper from Cosmo Cricket!  I’m linking to another Memory Box die that I think would work for the bow too…

I used two of the grapevine wreaths layered on top of each other but turned, so they didn’t match up.  Then I die cut  four of the holly vine  and used the top halves of each, to stick into the wreath rather random like.  Joy and Peace is stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink,  my favorite for stamping sentiments.  (don’t try to color with copics with it though..it’ll mess up your nibs!)  Papers edged with Walnut Stain Distress ink and the ink blending tool.

Kraft card base… love kraft! : )  Love my perfect paper layering tools too… used the 1/16th inch one here.

It’s a 5 in. x 7 in. card… A-7 size envelope!

Stamps and Supplies links under this Printworks info…

What have you all been up to?  I’ve spent more time with family the last couple weeks and started Christmas shopping.  Course the online sales were rather time consuming weren’t they?!  There is still one more!!!

Here’s Printworks email newsletter…can you guess why the limited edition snowman is a chef this year????   well… can you???  Be sure to ask Nicole and Chelsea what they’ve been up to! 

PrintWorks Collection Newsletter, November 2012 #11

 
2012 CYBER MONDAY SPECIAL!!
We have extended our FREE shipping offer through Tuesday, 11/27/12!  Here’s the link to our 2012 Limited Edition Snowman,
PrintWorks would like to offer FREE shipping on ALL orders!!
Thank you for all your support over the years and through our transition to our new website.  We would like to extend this CYBER MONDAY special to YOU!!
Shop online for holiday gifts or a gift for yourself!  FREE shipping on ALL orders, plus a FREE gift with orders $15 or more.
Happy Holidays!
Don’t forget…New products being added daily…
We are still working on adding more and more of our products every day.  So if you don’t see what you’re looking for today, check back in the next few days and you may find it or something else you can’t live without!
If there is something in particular you can’t find, drop us an email at printworkscollection@yahoo.com and we’ll move it to the top of the list.
We hope you like our new designs and website, we’re so excited to bring them to you!
Thanks for reading,
Nicole and Chelsea
PrintWorks Collection, Inc., 9960 Bell Ranch Dr. #107, Santa Fe Springs, CA, 90670www.printworkscollection.com

Stamps and Supply links… Thanks for stopping by!  talk to you again soon!

cards · Christmas · Perfect Layers Tools · Printworks · rubber stamps · Watercolor

Printworks and Merry Christmas on Thanksgiving! : )

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Hi everyone!  It’s been 10 days since I posted! eek!  Wow, time flies!!!  Just for fun I’m showing you the second stack of cards I sent off to PrintWorks the first of November… it reassures me that I can stamp and create! lol These cards are on sample boards in retail stamp and scrapbook stores.

It’s been ten days of setting up Tilda’s Town Design Team and spending time with family.  yea!  Love all the grand kiddos!

Here’s a close up of the reindeer card… the photo below is from the first set I made… regular gold embossing powder comes out bumpy… the second set, the photo above, I used the super fine gold embossing powder and the deer heated up smooth!  Both are pretty, but I decided I am partial to how the super fine turns out!  The sentiment embossed up really nice with the super fine also!  I used to heat emboss everything but for the last decade I’ve only used embossing powder on rare occasions.  It was fun to use it again and see the ‘magic’! : )

I wish I’d taken a picture of the inside… ugh… I forgot… I used one of PrintWorks  Collection’s many sentiments for Christmas… F3157 Wonder of the Season…so many beautiful messages to choose from!

So thankful for you, my friends out there all over the world!  Who’d a thunk we’d all be sharing via blogs… I love it!   Thank you so much for stopping by and I’ll be talking to  you again soon!!!!

P.S.  have you been shopping?  of course I would bring that up!  I’m an addict! lol   I just ordered the NEW  Make it Merry Collection from October Afternoon!!!!  I LOVE it!  You’ll find it HERE at Blue Moon and HERE at Two Peas!  Awesome!  pp.ss. candy cane stripe washi tape with to: and from: on it!!!


Card construction information…

PrintWorks Collection.com  HERE,  When you click over… be sure to watch the photos in the header… the 3rd and 4th photos are cards I made!!!  So amazing!  Makes me smile all over my face! lol   ok – I’ll get back to work!

E3557 Wonderful Season

G4150 Ornate Reindeer

J4153 Ornate Textile
F3157 Wonder of the Season
Stripe pattern paper
Swirl pattern paper
Kraft card-stock
gold speciality paper
fine gold cord
green with gold edge wired ribbon
Oak Brown ink
Granite Gray ink
gold embossing powder
embossing ink
the ornate textile image is stamped in oak brown after stamping off on scrap paper
the circle is edged with oak brown ink and then granite gray ink using the ink blending tool (foam)
Don we Now Card ….
E3397 Gay Apparel
K3560 Swirly Background
A3985 Add Some Jingle
C3982 Santa’s Elf
C2143 Holly and Berries
C3582 Smile at Everyone
Holly Berry Red ink
Sage Green ink
Oak Brown ink to edge everything
Sage Green card-stock
Holly Berry Red card-stock
Kraft card-stock
white card-stock
Embossing ink and white embossing powder
red and white stripe ribbon from May Arts
kraft paper cord or sometimes it’s called Hemp
Merry Christmas Sleigh card…
G1848 Sleigh
K2298 Merry Christmas
G2284 Catalina Pine
B2285 Pine Cone and Sprig
K3560 Swirly Background
JB2138 At this Season
P3203 heart
Holly Berry Red card-stock
Cream card-stock
Stripe pattern paper
gold fine cord
McGill Holly and Berries punch
Coffee Archival ink to stamp the sleigh and Merry Christmas stamps
Colored with Oak Brown and Granite Gray ink pads
pine stamp inked first with the Ivy stamp pad and then onto the Sage Green ink pad and then a brown marker down the branch lines and then stamped
swirl stamped in oak brown but stamped off on scrap paper first and then onto the card
Merry Christmas painted in with ivy and sage green reinkers

Rejoice Angel card…

 

F4143 Sweet Music
D4137 Rejoice
D2389 Starry Night
JB3979 Old English Scripture
F3165 A Child is Born
A2753 Holly
watercolor paper to paint the angel…
Forest Green card-stock
Kraft card-stock
Edged with Oak Brown and Encore Ultimate Metallic Gold stamp pad
Oak Brown to stamp the stars
Forest Green to stamp the Scripture (stamped off on scrap paper first)
Colored with stamp pad inks (face is tattered rose and aged mahogany Distress ink, wings are Antique Linen Distress ink, hair is Brushed Corduroy Distress ink)  the rest are Printworks inks
Oval is from a Spellbinders die set called Floral ovals
gold fine cord
dark green velvet ribbon
cards · Christmas · copics · rubber stamps · Scrapping Center · Stampendous · Sweet Stamping Pixies

Sweet Stamping Pixies – Monochrome…

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Second Monday of the month and time for a NEW Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge!

The challenge….monochrome!  So glad Jay Jay picked this.  I love it but forget to do it, so it’s a great challenge! I hope you can join us… click over to see the fabulous monochrome color choices the rest of the design team used.

I stamped on PTI card-stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with the E40 series Copic Sketch Markers.   E40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47 and 49.

The ‘love’ word is from a pack of chipboard type sticker words by GCD Studios called Soul Food Word Stickers.

I love, love, LOVE this sentiment I used on the inside from Stampendous.  The true meaning of Christmas.

Linking to some challenges…

My card is featured on the Stampendous blog!!!  the challenge is Christmas CAS

Stamping Sensations – Traditional Christmas
Sweet Stampin’ Challenges – Anything Goes
Live and Love Crafts – Christmas
Oozak – Winter Vibes
Card and Scrap – Christmas
Christmas Stampin’ All Year Long – Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting today!  I love hearing from you and appreciate your comments!  Oh, found a Maytag in stock…a lot of places are only special order for dishwashers!  eek!  Tim installed it and after a call for more parts it’ll be all set! I’d rather be stamping than washing dishes! lol

Scroll down for the Veterans day sale info…

Stamps and Supplies I used…