Bling it on!

I am having so much fun with these Christmas cards, that I wondering if I will ever be able to do anything but Christmas again. I am entering my newest fun time in Simply Less is Moore Challenge - A Bit of Bling.

So do you see the bling?  I embossed the Penny Black ornament with Stampendous Marcasite embossing powder and added some jewels. The doves are also from Penny Black.  They are actually one stamp, but I glittered, cut them out and popped them up.  "Peace On Earth"" is from River City Rubber Works. The silver embossed DP that I used for matting is by The Paper Company.

That's all for now.  Have a great tomorrow. 

Winter just blew in!

Winds gusting up to 48 mpr here! Hubby is already in a tizzy cause there's a leaf in his yard. Ya, he can't handle my craft room either.
Sherri and I had our usual Saturday lunch, preceded by a little shopping, proceeded by stamping. Then a little late online shopping.  She calls me an enabler, but she's the one with the extra Michael's coupon that just couldn't go to waste.  She made a amazing cat card you can see here.  And I made a card using my every year Christmas stamp from PSX.

I've discovered 3D paint!  I colored this with Prisma Pencils and Gamsol.  The little sentiment is from Stampin Up and the punch is Martha Stewart's.

Winter Wonder Land

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Both of my Granddaughters were here today. Three were those other people too, but L & M are just the sweetest.

Oh this is suppose to be a blog about cards?  Sometimes a Grandma can't help herself. But I do have a card to show you.

This is my Simply Less Is More Challenge card.  This week we were asked to do Silhouettes. I've used this stamp from Rubber Soul before. This time I stamped it on black, then white and embossed.  I wish you could see how it sparkles.  I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder on the top and the sentiment on the bottom is from Serendipity.

Everyone be nice on Black Friday, and have fun. (I will be working on inventory. Yuk!)

Nature's Beauty

I bought some water color paper last week and have been itching to use it.  I haven't use watercolor pencils since I became addicted to Copics.  I use to water color all the time but just on plane card stock.  The fawn was a little difficult to color. But I am my biggest critic.

This stamp is from Stampabilities and the sentiment is Paper Trey Ink.  I misplaced the package that the gorgeous die came in @#$%.  The white leave is a Martha Stewart punch.  I cut the oval and label with Spellbinders dies.  The paper is a company I've never heard of before, Me and My Big Ideas. 

Maple Leaf

This was made forSimply Less is Moore Challenge week-41-one-layer-leaves. I hope they will accept just one leaf.

I am pretty sure this stamp is from The Stampin Place. I bought it unmounted several years ago. I cut my card with a Spellbinder die, and traced a smaller die and colored it in keeping with the one-layer theme. The leaf was also colored with Copics and I added a little Stickles.

Northwoods Fall

So I got so much sympathy from my last post, I decided to take the afternoon off and enjoy the fabulous warm SUNNY Fall day.  I feel so energized and just good all over.

I know blue is not the usual fall color, but I painted the milk can first and I couldn't stop. Frankly, I surprised the pumpkins are blue.  

This beautiful Northwood's stamp was colored with Copics. I used some distressed inks for sponging and of course Stickles on the foliage. This is large stamp so there's not much room for designer paper, but I did find this fabulous blue K&Company for matting.

Saturday is suppose to be another nice sunshiny day. Enjoy!!

Where's the Sun?

As of Monday, I will not see the sun, except for weekends for about 5 months.  Although, I have a beautiful office, I don't have any windows.  I go to work between 6AM and 7AM and leave for home around 6PM. Which brings me to this photo.  I didn't have any natural light for it, so I tried it with a flash, without a flash, I dimmed the lights and took about a dozen photos before I chose this one.  It looks just a little fuzzy to me.

This pumpkin is from Serendipity and the sentiment is Hero Arts. I colored the image with Copis and added a little glitter. That was the other problem the flash was hitting the glitter just right, so it looked like there were areas that didn't get colored.
I am entering this in the Simply Less is Moore Challenge week-40 which is orange and red.