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poppystamps Purr-fect Christmas and Day 1 of 30 days of coloring challenge…

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Hi everyone!  These cute kitties are all festive, toasty and warm!  So cute and fun to color and embellish with all the little extras in the stamp and die sets, the holly, the santa hats, the bow, the gift and so much more! I used the poppystamps Purr-fect Holidays stamp set and matching die set, Cat Friends stamp set and die set and Kitty Cat Gift stamps and die set

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The dies I used are the poppystamps Classic Brick Fireplace, Stocking Garland, Warm and Cozy Fire, Fireplace Logs and Pine Garland.

The fireplace inside wall is ink blended with Distress ink pads and ink blending tools, Squeezed Lemonade and Wild Honey.  The fire and logs are die cut in white card-stock and then colored.  The fire with Distress ink pads and ink blending tools, Squeezed Lemonade, Wild Honey and Fired Brick.  The logs with Copics.

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I stamped with the MISTI, Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch markers, W3, 5, 7 walking kitty, YG17, 25 holly and gift, R46, 27, 89 stocking and hats, Y23, 26, 28 yellow kitties, E 33, 35, 37 brown kitty, E43, 44, 47, 49 logs.

I ink blended the walls and floor of the card-base with Tumbled Glass, Antique Linen and Pumice Stone Distress inks.

The white on the stocking and hats is Nuvo White Crystal Drops.

This is an A-2 size card. I know my grandchildren are kitty lovers and they will enjoy this card. hehe

I’m going to give the 30 Day Coloring Challenge a try this month!  eek!  Today is Day #1 and I am actually ready with a card!  I hope I can keep up!  I have plenty of stamps and dies I can color for sure!  Wish me luck! lol

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Thanks for stopping by today! Happy coloring…if you’re taking the challenge I want to see what you’re coloring!

Thanks again for all your lovely comments.  The friendship and encouragement I receive here keeps me creating! I appreciate it so much!

Here’s hoping I’m back tomorrow! hehe

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Memory Box, poppystamps Festive, Fun and Flat Christmas Cards Class…

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Hi card makers! I wanted to share the pictures of the Festive, Fun and Flat Christmas Cards Class I taught at Scrapmania last Saturday afternoon. I tell ‘ya the gals are getting the hang of using my embedding technique with scor-tape!  So fun and such a neat look!  (pull down under the tab under the blog header for a video about it)

Three cards that you can embellish or leave flat for easy mailing but are still beautiful!

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Merry Christmas To You Ring die embedded into an A2 size card base. On the back side it looks embossed.

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Die cut layers…so pretty with Nuvo Crystal Drops Winter Blizzard to make the snowy scene look cold!  brrrrr

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Here I added some dots that I made with the same Nuvo drops.  I made them on a piece of slick paper and then glued them on with Tombow Mono Multi glue. The top photo shows the card without any dots though.

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This is a see through card…a 4.25 x 5.5 piece of acetate behind the front card base.

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The Memory Box/poppystamps Holiday/Christmas release is exceptional again this year! More to come!

Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy the weekend! We’re having beautiful weather here in Iowa! yay!

Shopping links for the products I used…

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Memory Box Purrfect Holidays and MFT Jungle Friends Birthday…

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Hi card makers! I can’t believe a week has gone by without me posting again! Yikes!  I have two cards today though.

Tonight and tomorrow I’ll be at Stamp Joy in Ankeny for Taylored Expressions.  I’ll post the cards I’m teaching there next week or so.

Then the 22nd I’ll be teaching two classes in Cedar Rapids at Scrapmania!  I’d love to see you either place!  Be sure to introduce yourself to me if you are there!

Back to my festive kitties!  This is a super cute set from poppystamps called Purrfect Holidays. Matching dies too!  I love it!  The mittens on the cat! and the hat! Purrfect is right.  So many cute elements to make scenes with.

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Just colored with Copics… the gray the both is the T series.  The blue green is BG11, 70, 75, 78.  The reds are R02, E07,08. Nuvo White Crystal Drops on the Santa hat fur.  Nuvo Winter Blizzard Drops on the tree star, ornament and here and there.

The patterned paper is from an older Lawn Fawn 6×6 pad.

Linking to…

Merry Monday Christmas Challenge 

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Christmas Card Challenges – Decorations

Next is a birthday card for one of our 4 year old grandsons, Gilbert.  I hope he loves it! I do! lol

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The gator slides in the groove over to the giraffe and then….

chomp!

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Guess he was hungry! yikes!  Anyway, I had fun making this cute card! Elements are all from the MFT Jungle Friends kit except for the number 4.  It’s from Taylored Expressions.

Linking to ….

Seize the Birthday Challenge – Anything Goes, Birthday

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Thanks for shopping through my links too!  Happy stamping/creating weekend to you!

Shopping links…

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Memory Box Christmas Botanicals card and Nuvo!!!

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How are you? The sun is shining here and I was able to get a nice bright picture that even shows off the Nuvo sparkles here!  YAY!

I used the Memory Box Christmas Botanicals stamp set and coordinating die set for my card.  It was fun to stamp the backgrounds with a tone on tone look using just the stamps from the set!  I love how complete the Memory Box and poppystamps sets are and that you get dies for everything in the set! yippee!  You all know I love to die cut! hehe

I did snip some little branches off this new die…poppystamps Pine TwigI don’t know about you but I always feel like I need to own every pine stamp and die that comes out!  HELP!

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I stamped on watercolor paper, die cut and colored with Zig Clean Color Brush Markers.  Added Nuvo crystal drops, I used Winter Blizzard, Clear, Gloss White  and eek! There are Nuvo Embossing powders now… HERE!  Happy stamper! lol

A few Pretty Pink Posh 3 mm clear sparkle sequins here and there.

I LOVE Memory Box notecards…they are now available at Birch Press Designs. I used Cranberry and Meadow for my card today.  The card base is Taylored Expressions Cookie Monster card-stock.

I cut the MB notecards in half and die cut them with the Rectangle Layers diesI am getting so much mileage out of that set!

Linking up to…

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge 

Scrapyland Challenge – Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers – embossing (heat or dry)  My sentiment is embossed

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Sweet Stampin’ Christmas Challenge – Christmas die cuts

Virginia’s View Challenge – Focal Point

Thanks for looking at my ’tis the season’ card today!  Thank you so much for all your comments!  The encouragement this week has meant more than I know how to put into words! I appreciate your thoughtfulness and love it when you leave links to your cards when you comment so I can come visit you too!

Be back soon!

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Memory Box Poinsettia Band and We Wish You Elegant Script…

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Hi everyone! I wish you a merry Monday! haha  Really, it’s not so bad!  I had a lot of fun getting out the copics and clear embossing powder for this die cut!  Just cut in white and color it up!  Smoosh it with some Versamark ink and pour on the clear embossing powder.  I used regular for this, not detail/super fine.

Then the decision of what to do with it!  Sometimes I get stuck! Ended up pretty festive though and I really like it!

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Now to keep using up all the embossing powder from the last 22 years! HELP! lol

Linking to…

Christmas Card Challenge Blog – Christmas card

CAS on Sunday Challenge Blog – Heat Embossing

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers October Christmas Challenge – Embossing
hls-christmas-challenge-october-2016The next card is my once (or twice) a year black glossy card with Silver and Gold metallic cardstock too and yes, so far it’s been a poinsettia card.  HERE and HERE are some previous ones. Oh this one has red instead of silver…HERE.  It’s sure hard to find cards going back on a blog.  There are a lot of cards here! lol

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This is the new Poinsettia Band die. There’s those Rectangle Layers dies again. Easy card but really pretty IRL.

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A few Pretty Pink Posh gold sequins and gold cord and it was done.

Linking to…

Sweet Stampin’ Christmas Challenge – Christmas Die cuts

Virginia’s View Challenge – Focal Point

Thanks for stopping by today! I’ll be posting for Taylored Expressions Tues. and Thurs. this week.  Time for the October Release! yay!

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