I can finally share with you what I spent so much time on this Summer! YAY!!!! Click on the photo below to go to the book.
I hope it inspires your Christmas card making and I love it when you email me with the cards you’re making! If you see something you need… lol… here’s the link to Starlitstudio. Cindy has the best customer service and the fastest shipping around! 😀
Thanks for looking!!!!
How’d it get to be August already?! Here’s some of the birthday cards I made in July…
An older Penny Black stamp, watercolored with the Zig Clean Color Brush Pens HERE… love them! (Free shipping coupon code for August w/$80 order – AUG888)
Linking my kitty card to the Seize the Birthday Challenge – topping option embossing.
So much personality in these images! Next up an older Penny Black Frog stamp…done up the same way.
Just makes you smile! I matted all the cards with the Perfect Layers Tools… link over in the sidebar.
On the inside of both of these cards with balloons, I stamped the Printworks sentiment E2628 E.E. Cummings – it says “and up with joy and up with laughing”.
So cute! I would never touch one in real life! lol
A Flower card with Paper Smooches Flower stamp, vase die HERE and Printworks sentiments on the front and inside…
You can find this woodgrain cardstock at CutCardstock.com HERE. They have it in three colors, this dark brown, kraft and white. Their shipping is FAST! I just ordered metallic gold and silver on Friday and there is a box on my front porch and I think it’s from them! YAY!
Stitched Rectangles are cut with the Lawn Fawn sets HERE and HERE.
Happy Birthday stamp HERE…
and the inside the stamp, Though Everyone HERE.
The next card is the Memory Box happy die from the Open Studio set HERE on a watercolor background I painted with Peerless Watercolors HERE. The little birthday sentiment is from a poppystamps clear stamp set HERE. I put water on the watercolor paper first, then painted in the colors. The panel is cut with the Memory Box Cross Stitched Frame die set HERE.
Coming this Thursday is the Taylored Expressions August Release Day. I’ll be back with some cards then! Sneak Peeks from the TE Bakers Dozen are up on the blog starting today.
Thanks for stopping by! Happy birthday celebrating…don’t we celebrate our birthdays all year…every time we buy new stamps and dies?! haha We try to be good! lol Take care and ttul!
Christmas in July is always so fun! I have two more cards with the Memory Box Chatfords Wreath to share today. I love how these turned out! I threw in some teal card-stock to throw me off the traditional Christmas colors path! But wait…keep scrolling…I hopped back on with the second card! Another card with this wreath HERE.
I die cut the wreath two times from two different green card-stocks, kept all the pieces and just interchanged them between the two cards.
I die cut the alphabets with score tape on the wrong side of the card-stock so they’d be stickers. It works so slick! Easy to line up when you use the smallest size banner too! JOY is cut from metallic gold card-stock.
The white just makes it pop! Some pearls and Liquid pearls and it’s time to celebrate! or bust out singing a carol or two! : )
I’ll link up the dies and everything I used in inlinkz below.
I’m also linking to some challenges…
Merry Monday Christmas Challenges – Christmas card with a heart on it
ABC Christmas Challenge – O is for Off the Edge
Dies R Us Challenge – Christmas in July
Live and Love Crafts – Christmas in July
Pile it On – Christmas in July
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – ‘i scream for’ DIES!
Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday – Die cuts
Jingle Belles Challenge – Old Fashioned Christmas (my card has a retro feel/colors)
Next I have a birthday card I made for the WPlus9 Challenge and the CAS-ology Challenge…
I used the sketch from the Get Sketchy Challenge at WPlus9 – HERE
and
the challenge over at CAS-ology is Line – HERE
and
the challenge at Addicted To Stamps is CAS – HERE
I cut a quarter panel with the WPlus9 banner long die… it was the perfect amount of space I wanted for the ‘gap’ and an easy way to get a perfect gap! I lined each side with Washi Tape. Stamped the Blanket Stitch flowers with chalk inks, the sentiments with Versafine black and all with the MISTI.
Thanks for visiting today! Happy, creative weekend to you!
Supplies I used on my cards…
Hi card making friends! I promise something other than Christmas soon! Some family birthday cards coming. I wanted to play a long with the Muse: Christmas Visions Challenge. They provide an inspiration card for a jumping off point and yep, I jumped! lol I’ve got the circle thing going, the colors and a banner. I positioned my wreath too low though and you know how hard it is to pull up those mounting squares… so I added twine and the words at the bottom! Not exactly what I had in mind but I decided to post it anyway!
and it was a star! Thanks for the votes!
I had another card started, so I decided to go ahead and finish and post it too before I lost the parts. I love this poppy Seasons Greetings die…such a vintage feel to it. Another card that didn’t turn out exactly what I had in mind! I know.. two in a row! I’ll keep trying! lol
The Seasons Greetings fit on the card horizontal but the diagonal placement reminded me of the vintage Christmas cards so I went with it instead.
Maybe what it needs is some pattern paper! I’ve gotten to where I hardly want to get into the patterns because I have such a hard time making up my mind what to use. I guess I tend to cheat and use solids! I love to buy the stuff though!
It was fun playing with more of the NEW Memory Box dies anyway. It’s that time of year with lots of new product coming out to play with! Watching for CHA photos! I saw the darling Lawn Fawn scarecrow yesterday! So cute!
I’ll shut up and get some links made. Thanks for the visit and happy July day to you!
Dies and supplies I used…
Thank you for being such super blog friends!!! I have a Memory Box card to share today and one tomorrow too!
For this card, I started by stamping the beautiful Blooming Sketch Border stamp with Ranger Archival Black ink on watercolor paper and coloring with Zig Clean Color Brush Pens.
After it was dry, I die cut the panel with the largest rectangle die from the Cross Stitched Frame Borders die set and layered it to an A2 card base. I did put a little piece of washi tape on it… it was just laying there on the table, from Little B.
I embossed the poppystamps Thank You sentiment with super fine white embossing powder on a black banner from the poppy Classic Ribbons die set and stamped the friend sentiment directly on the watercolor paper with the MISTI stamp tool. Both are from the Hope and Thanks set.
I die cut the Pennington Rose Border die in white card-stock but just used the right end and one other rose from the cut to embellish above the banner. I added a few enamel dots in green. I love the fun touch the dots add to the mix.
Thanks for stopping by today! 8 ) I’ll be back tomorrow with a birthday card or two!
p.s. if you’re in the market for a new die cutting machine I have to share this with you… I was and when I saw it was white… I was delighted! lol Silly things make me happy! Anyway, over at Scrapbook.com they have a terrific sale going on and the new Big Shot is $79.99! A terrific price and a great online store! All their Sizzix products are on sale! If you’d like a larger platform, the Big Shot Plus is awesome! I love it too. Room for an A2 card sideways, easy to crank and it stays put! Holler if you have any questions!
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