This pretty little Christmas card features Embellished Ornaments and the 6 x 6 Merry Moments Designer Series Paper Stack. It’s a great paper stack – Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive, Real Red, Smoky Slate and Whisper White in 4 patterns. It’s a lot of paper and a lot of colors! This card will be one in my October Stamp a Stack. Hugs, Fran
Time for Crazy 4 Challenges! September’s birthstone in Sapphire – Show me the blue!
My blue is Soft Sky and Night of Navy – and Christmas! I used the Pop It Ups House Pivot card, Holiday House and the Stampin Up Snow Place set from the Holiday Mini catalog.
I added an extra 1 3/4″ to the side to make a fold in piece for the sentiment. It tucks right up to the fence so it’s hidden when the card is closed. The cute snowmen are out decorating with some Night of Navy light covered in Dazzling Details. Make sure to check out all the cards for this challenge – and play along! Hugs, Fran
Let’s Celebrate! I used the Sleigh Gift Card die flat on the front of the soon-to-be-released Gift Card Holder Acordion die. The beautiful frame fits as one piece on the front. The sleigh is done in Stampin Up’s Silver Foil and Red Glimmer paper. It really shines.
The inside holds a gift card! The tabs to hold the card are built in so there’s no guess work involved. I love to give gift cards! Pop over to Karen’s Facebook page to see the rest of the designs for this month. Hugs, Fran
This is a new set in the Holiday Mini called All Ye Faithful. I saw several cards using the image in a an ornament – all beautiful – and using this piece of vellum from the Winter Wonderland Designer Vellum Stack. Using Night of Navy, I made things a bit more “stream line” since we will be doing this card in the September Stamp and Stack. Hugs, Fran
Continuing on from yesterday! This gift bag uses the new Cup of Cheer stamp set and the Home for Christmas Designer Series Paper. The image was inked with Stampin Write Markers.
And this one got a big “thumbs down” from my youngest – the critic! Ha! But here it is, in case it inspires you to do something else! Hugs, Fran
This is a case of a card in the back of the Holiday Mini, Fun to do – but I had to do some “figuring” to get the look I wanted. The new Sleigh Ride Edgelit Dies are cut in Vellum card stock. With the way the card ended up – I think I’d use the Holiday Fancy Foil Designer Vellum that is the first mat on the card. But……Then I cut the Edgelit dies in Whisper White and just cut off the small images and adhered the to the card behind each image. Does that make any sense? I used Versatile Christmas for the sentiment. This will be my “go-to” set this season! The little embellishment is small and light. You’ll love them! Hugs, Fran
Here’s my Holiday catalog case of Embellished Ornaments. I used Mossy Meadow and Red Foil to make the ornaments – and the new Precision Base Plate. Wow! It’s amazing! Just a forward and back pass through my Big Shot and all those tiny pieces in the ornament die cut clean. The bottom piece on the card is the new Holidays Fancy Foil Vellum. Hint – it’s thin. Be careful to only have one sheet in your hand when you cut it!
Crafting today will be at a minimum so I can clean out the garage for our upcoming Rubber Stamp Garage Sale! Once a year my garage gets a good cleaning 🙂 Hugs, Fran
One more Inspiration Challenge card! This one is inspired by Frances Byrne (and her amazing scenes!) I did a mixed Circle/Ring Accordion Album using some Mo Manning digital stamps, Stampin Up sentiment, punches and paper.
I also used some Ring Frame Edges on the middle pieces. The flag at the top is shown on both sides and makes the card measure 5 1/2 x 5 1/2.
Then I sprinkles stars all around – various punches and dies 🙂 Make sure to hop over to Karen’s Facebook page to check out all the challenge pieces! They really are inspiring!.
Hugs, Fran
This card is fashioned after one Caz Counsell made when these dies were first introduced. I used the Merry & Bright stamp on the front and…
2 Jollys on the inside! They are loading Santa’s sleigh – with a gift card behind them. This Sleigh die is so much fun and I just love Jolly! On the right “Jolly”, I snipped off his tail (“cut off his tail with a carving knife” – sorry, couldn’t help it!) and tucked it in behind him so it wouldn’t stick out of the card.
I could have made a card for each member of the team and hopefully we’ll do something like this again. In the meantime, check out everyone’s creations on Karen’s Facebook page! Hugs, Fran
This month’s challenge for the Karen Burniston Design Team may be the hardest challenge we’ve ever done – select another DT member’s card to case! There are SO many great cards and it was so hard to make a choice! For today’s card, I chose one from the Red, White or Blue challenge that Shelly Hickox did in all white!
I did it up in color using the same Circle Accordion Album die – but I used the new Merry Christmas Pop Stand die to create the trees in the middle.
When you open it up – there’s Ruby waiting to greet you! The wreath in the middle is Stampin UP’s Wondrous Wreath, stamped twice so it shows on both sides.
The little trees are hanging from fishing line and there is lots of Crystal Effects on the wreath, Rudys’ nose and wreath.
I also added a banner to the last panel so you can write a greeting. The stamp is Karen’s Merry & Bright!
Make sure you check Karen’s Facebook page to see all the creations this month! Hugs, Fran
