i created this tag for day 3 of the Ellen Hutson’s 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist 2017 Challenge.
Day 3 Designers are Julie Ebersole & Brandi Kincaid and it was Brandi’s tag that inspired me; i love the browns she used with the pop of bright green and i feel like it’s a cozy scene.
i used coloured pencils on this older penny black wooden stamp image. i resisted adding glitter, which was a challenge unto itself.
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it’s Ellen Hutson’s 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist 2017 Challenge, a challenge i love playing along with; this is my fourth year.
day 2 Tag Designers are Julia Stainton & Keeway Tsao and my inspiration for this tag was julia’s tag with the beautiful pink background. i painted the poinsettia with pink and gold twinkling H2Os, then coated it with shabby pink embossing enamel; it has a very fine gold glitter that doesn’t show. i used the debossed side and added a gold double ribbon bow.
i’m not necessarily creating my tags in order; i’m just going wherever my creativity takes me.
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we’ve got a very easy theme for you this month at the penny black and more challenge – to share your CAS (clean and simple) creations.
i painted this penny black cling stamp, 40-174 winter illumination, with twinkling H2Os as usual. although i made a christmas card, your CAS creation can be for any reason.
remember, your focal point must be hand stamped, any company, just no digis please; a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image and as always, you’ll love the prizes to be won from: Penny Black, Tattered Lace, Fantastic Ribbons.
visit the blog to be inspired by the rest the team and their lovely CAS cards.
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I’m playing with some new crafty goodies and the LAWN FAWNATICS CHALLENGE 17 – COLOR INSPIRATION:
i was inspired by the bottom right photo to create these little treats for one of my specialists and his staff. i die cut the lawn fawn winter tiny tags mitten, stamped and heat embossed one of the sentiments from the LF tiny tag sayings set and finished them off with a white die cut bow. i hope they like the ghirardelli peppermint bark squares as much as i do.
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I wanted a festive way to present a candy cane so I came up with this:
i stamped the IO holly leaves (retired) and sentiment from the IO Christmas Minis (MC199) clear stamp with versafine olympia green ink, coloured with watercolour pencils and added red stickles to the berries.
i’m playing along with the Impression Obsession ‘Tis The Season Challenge to create holiday projects, the Winter Wonderland Challenge to use Traditional Christmas Colors of Red and Green and the last Rudolph Days Challenge for 2017.
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i’m rushing now to complete my holiday to do list since a number of doctor appointments are interfering with my creative play time.
i’ve had this beautiful IO Holly Chickadee (E7024) for eight years now and don’t use it as often as i should. it really is quick and easy to colour; this time i coloured with watercolour pencils and stamped the IO Enjoy the Splendour (D6165) in black ink. a perfectly flat card to mail.
i’m playing along with the Impression Obsession ‘Tis The Season Challenge to create holiday projects and also these challenges:
Happy Little Stampers CAS November – Christmas – must be Clean and Simple
Happy Little Stampers Christmas November – Anything Goes + option : Tag
Winter Wonderland Challenge to use Traditional Christmas Colors of Red and Green.
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i’m playing along with the Impression Obsession ‘Tis The Season Challenge to create holiday projects and i’ve been working on plenty of those.
this is a notecard made with the IO Christmas Minis (MC199) clear stamp set; i bought it for 50% so maybe it’s retired because i couldn’t find a link to the IO shop. i coloured with watercolour pencils, added red and yellow stickles and covered the trees with clear wink of stella.
i’m also playing along with these christmas themed challenges:
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i’m playing along with the scor-pal #43 challenge to create special gift packaging.
i followed the tutorial on the scor-pal website to create this bag with my scor-pal and some older designer paper; the bag closes with a velco dot.
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i’m almost finished all the christmas projects i’ve been working on; hopefully i’ll be done by next week.
this is the card that i made a set of for my dad; his only request was for a ‘peace on earth’ sentiment so i chose this cling mount one from magenta. the chalet is a nellie snellen image that stamps beautifully; i coloured it with pencil crayons and for the first time i used a blue pan pastel for the sky.
i’m playing along with these challenges:
Stamping Sensations – one layer christmas cards
Happy Little Stampers CAS November – Christmas – must be Clean and Simple
Noor! Designs UK November – Winter
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happy thanksgiving to my american friends. i love using gilding flakes for leaves, even if they are a bit delicate to work with; no sneezing near this stuff.
i die cut the paper smooches foliage 1 leaves from black glossy paper, added the flakes and attached the panel to a sheet of memory box autumn themed paper bought years ago. the memory box a little thanks was also die cut from the black glossy paper.
i’m playing along with these challenges:
Paper Smooches – Fall
Memory Box – Thank You cards
The Rubber Buggy – Challenge #6 Theme: Thanksgiving, Thank You, Blessed, Grateful
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you still have plenty of time to share your floral beauties with us this month for the flower power theme at the penny black and more challenge.
since I’m short on time, working on Christmas creations, my card was very quick and easy.
this pretty floral image is a sticker from the penny black #10-147 Collage Flowers sheet; I actually made a set of cards using the sheet but I didn’t have time to take pics.
remember, you can use any company’s stamp for your focal point, just no digis; the penny black stickers are the only exception to stamping. a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image and as always, you’ll love the prizes to be won from: Penny Black, Crafts U Love, Marianne Designs.
visit the blog for some creative inspiration by my teamies.
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our trees are almost bare but just like some of the leaves i’m hanging on to my favourite season so i really enjoyed creating this card. besides, i need a break from mass producing christmas items.
the IO maple leaves (DIE030-S) were cut, painted with twinkling H2Os and attached in a circle to paper that i swiped with distress inks to create the look of woodgrain. i cut the thanks from the IO greetings set (DIE174-W) five times in dark brown and attached it.
i’m playing along with these challenges:
Impression Obsession – Falling Leaves (fall themed)
Allsorts – Colours of Autumn
4 Crafty Chicks #376 Give Thanks
Come and Get It – Thank you/Thankful
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does time fly for you? it’s hard to believe we’re into november already but that means we have a new theme for you at the penny black and more challenge.
this month we’d like to see ‘flower power’ so i’ve painted the Penny Black Gossamer 3865K stamp and background of the image with twinkling H2Os and added nuvo crystal drops to the centre.
it’s easy to play along; just hand stamp your focal point with any company’s stamp. a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image and as always, you’ll love the prizes from: Penny Black, Crafts U Love and Marianne Designs.
visit the blog for some floral inspiration by the rest of the team.
finally, since i’m not using a critter this month, i can play along with The Flower Challenge; this month’s theme is CAS.
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EDITED: Diane asked about the background paper so i’m adding a link; it’s Studio Light #42 that I purchased at Buddly Crafts.
i’m not really a big fan of halloween, especially the macabre, but i love an excuse to make a cute card for any occasion.
i painted this penny black image with twinkling H2Os and then covered it in glitter, which looks better in real life but the sun was hiding today.
i’m submitting this card to these challenge:
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – All Creatures Great And Small
Cards und More# 196 – Halloween
Always Fun Challenges #30 HALLOWEEN
Animal Friends Challenge #55 – Autumn/Halloween
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i’m playing along with the Impression Obsession challenge and their ‘haunted greetings’ theme.
all of the images, from the IO when life clear set, were stamped on a distress ink-sponged tag and attached to a black mat.
i’m also playing along with the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge theme of All Creatures Great And Small.
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this is my design team card for october’s Rudolph Days Challenge, which runs until the end of the month and is a great way to tackle those holiday cards.
this adorable image is from a newer penny black clear stamp set called ‘snow much fun.‘ by the way, Buddly Crafts carries penny black stamps and has a page featuring PB Critters & Cuties Stamps here.
i painted the sky and image with twinkling H2Os, popped it on foam tape to a snow embossed background, added red pearls for the berries and glitter for the snow.
all you need to do to play along is make one christmas card; for more inspiration and to view the prize and simple rules, please pop over to scrappymo’s blog.
The Penny Black Holiday Head Start Challenge ends soon so i just have time to submit this card before the deadline.
i’m also playing along with these challenges:
ABC Christmas Challenge – U for Unlimited/V for Vibrant
Christmas at Sweet Stampin’ – Anything Goes for Christmas
Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes
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i had some leftover watercolour paper scraps that i painted for halloween tags so i used those scraps to create this tag.
the tiny memory box pumpkin dies fit the scraps of watercolour paper perfectly and i die cut the ‘b’ from black glitter paper with the memory box typewriter alphabet die set. the die cuts were attached to some printed paper that was die cut with one of the memory box general store tags. to finish it off, i added some fuzzy black ribbon.
i’m playing along with these challenges:
Allsorts – Halloween
Make My Monday – #57 I PUT A SPELL ON YOU
Memory Box Challenge #29- Color Challenge Black/Orange
Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #174 – Anything Goes with Ribbon Theme
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i’m working on a number of christmas projects for various people which can be a bit repetitive so i took a break to create this tiny tag just for fun.
this cute little mouse is one of the sweet images in the penny black jolly friends stamp set that i painted with twinkling H2Os and added a bow from the penny black little ornaments die set. i finished it off by adding some glitter for snow and dotted some snow in the sky, also painted with twinks.
i’m submitting this to the penny black Holiday Head Start Challenge.
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we’re still enjoying ‘getting close to nature’ this month at the penny black and more challenge and you have plenty of time to join us.
i used this adorable image from the penny black ‘bubbly’ stamp set, painted with twinkling H2Os, because bugs are a part of nature – maybe some are more welcome than others.
i hope you’ll come and play along – remember, you can use any company’s stamp for your focal point, just no digis please; a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image and as always, you’ll love the prizes to be won from: Penny Black, Crafty Ribbons and Sizzix.
visit the blog for some creative inspiration by my teamies.
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the current Impression Obsession Challenge theme is ‘You’re An Animal’ and i just finished my card in time to submit it.
i could hardly wait to use this cute new IO giraffe stamp and i love the sentiments in the set too, like this one used today; i painted with sennelier watercolour paints and twinkling H2Os.
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i was happy to see the latest taylored expressions’ release included some coordinating stamps and dies for the TE matchbox die i bought when it was released earlier in the spring.
i used the matchy snowman die set and of course the matchbox die to create this little treat box. i’m actually making four but it’s getting so overcast that i thought i best rush and get a photo of the one i finished so far.
i’m submitting this to these challenges:
Little Red Wagon – Leftovers: i used leftover scraps of christmas paper and the nose was die cut from a leftover scrap of watercolour paper that i had painted with twinkling H2Os to use on my trick or treat tags.
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – NOT A CARD
Happy Little Stampers Dies – Always Anything Goes with Dies
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i’m still creating christmas cards because one of a kind cards with watercoloured images take me a bit longer so i have to keep at it.
this cute image is one of the adorable images in the penny black ‘snow much fun‘ stamp set that i painted with twinkling H2Os. i added flower soft to the hat, glitter on the ground and red glitter paper for the mat and trim.
i’m playing along with these challenges:
Simon Says Stamp – Christmas
Winter Wonderland Challenge – Anything Goes
Make My Monday – #56 ANIMAL ANTICS
Penny Black Holiday Head Start Challenge
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finally, cooler temperatures are here and i’m so relieved to be rid of the heat and humidity!
i think it’s cool enough for hot chocolate so that’s what this cute bear is drinking. i painted the gerda steiner designs bear clear stamp with twinkling H2Os, stamped the sentiment from the same set and added a heart die cut from the glitter paper.
i’m submitting this to the gerda steiner share your design challenge.
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i’m playing along with inspired by all the little things #66 featuring Anita in France; such a pretty inspiration photo:
i love how anita framed her flower on her lovely CAS card so i framed my flower, painted with twinkling H2Os, with some squares die cut from a leftover piece of watercolour paper that i stamped with a stencil.
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i created this invitation for the Impression Obsession challenge and their ‘you’re invited’ theme.
i painted the background and image from the IO when life clear set with twinkling H2Os, stamped the sentiment from the IO Invitations/announcements clear set, and stamped the cobwebs, also from the when life set, around the border.
i’m also submitting this to these challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – A WALK ON THE DARK SIDE (halloween or dark colours); this is as dark-sided as i get for halloween
HLS October Watercolour Challenge – Anything Goes, optional twist gold
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time sure flies! since it’s the first sunday of october, we have a new theme at the penny black and more challenge; this month we are getting ‘close to nature.’
i coloured the butterflies from the penny black florals & feathers stamp set with pencil crayons and also used the penny black letter background stamp.
i hope you’ll come and play along – remember, you can use any company’s stamp for your focal point, just no digis please; a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image and as always, you’ll love the prizes to be won from: Penny Black, Crafty Ribbons and Sizzix.
visit the blog to see how my team mates interpreted this theme.
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i had so much fun making the treat bag yesterday that i made another but this one is tiny; it measures 2 x 2 inches.
i used my scor pal and followed the tutorial at pootles’ blog to create this one.
i’m playing along with the Scor-Pal More than One Score Challenge #41 Bags and Boxes and The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge – #15 – Anything Christmas Goes and the Winter Wonderland Challenge to Wrap It Up.
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it feels strange to be working on christmas projects when we’ve had record breaking high temperatures. even though today it ‘felt like’ 110 degrees fahrenheit, days are passing quickly so i need to keep creating for christmas.
i used my scor pal to make one of these 2-5-7-10 Boxes for the first time; i’ll know better next time to align the stripes more evenly. i think it took longer to tie the bow than it did to cut and score just because of my hands, but i’m pleased with how it turned out and will make more.
i’m playing along with the Scor-Pal More than One Score Challenge #41 Bags and Boxes and The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge – #15 – Anything Christmas Goes and the Winter Wonderland Challenge to Wrap It Up.
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i’m playing along with the paper smooches august challenge and the ‘animal’ theme.
i don’t have any paper smooches animal stamps but thanks to kim, i chose one of her free digis to create these bookmarks for my daughter using the paper smooches bookmarks dies, all coloured with coloured pencils.
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i’m still in christmas card mode, this time sharing my mid month DT card for our ‘get ready for christmas’ theme at the penny black and more challenge.
this cute mouse is one of the adorable images in the penny black santa’s helpers stamp set that i painted with twinkling H2Os; the sentiment is from the penny black christmas every day set. i added some taylored expressions die cut jingle bells, one die cut snowflake and some stickles for snow.
it’s easy to play along – your focal point must be hand stamped with any company’s image or large sentiment/quote and a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image. as always, you’ll love the prizes to be won from: Penny Black, Swedish House Crafts and Rare Earth.
visit the blog to see the creative christmas cards made by my team mates.
i’m also submitting this to these challenges:
penny black Holiday Head Start Challenge
Happy Little Stampers Christmas September – Anything Goes + option : Sparkle.
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i’m playing along with the Impression Obsession challenge and its ‘harvest hellos’ theme where they would like to see Fall or Halloween (or even those colors) projects.
i die cut the IO Trick or Treat Die (DIE342-A) to create these tags, using both the negative cuts and the positive. the backgrounds were made with distress inks and splattered with black twinkling H2Os – quick, easy and fun.
i’m also playing along with Scrapy Land Challenges #73 Anything with a Die and they also carry the IO die.
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i created one more card just in time for the Taylored Expressions birthday celebration and 9th year sketch challenge:
i made a christmas card for my husband using the tree from the TE baby it’s cold outside stamp set, painted with twinkling H2Os and covered the ornaments with glossy accents. i used a clear glitter pen on the tree garland dots and coloured the peel off sentiment and holographic dot stickers with permanent markers. the image circle was popped on foam tape for some added dimension.
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i created a second card for Taylored Expressions birthday celebration and 9th year sketch challenge:
i made a christmas card this time to add to my stash. i painted this cute snowman from the TE baby it’s cold outside stamp set with twinkling H2Os, stamped the sentiment from the same set and popped the circle on foam tape. i added clear wink of stella to the white stripes on the scarf and the dots on the hat, glossy accents to the buttons and white flocking to the cuff of the hat.
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Taylored Expressions is celebrating with a 9th year sketch challenge:
i made this card for someone who could use some encouragement with one of the sentiments in the TE spin cycle sentiments set. i painted four swatches of twinkling H2Os on cold pressed watercolour paper, die cut the TE little bits clothing confetti and the dots from those and popped the circle on foam tape.
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it’s never too early to get ready for christmas and that’s what we’re doing this month at the penny black and more challenge.
this is an older penny black stamp called 2993F xmas snail that i’ve painted with twinkling H2Os, mixing paint colours to coordinate with the paper and added flower soft to the hat.
you can use any company’s stamp for your focal point, as long as it’s hand stamped – just no digis please; a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image and as always, you’ll love the prizes to be won from: Penny Black, Swedish House Crafts and Rare Earth.
visit the blog for some creative inspiration by my teamies.
i’m also submitting this to the penny black Holiday Head Start Challenge.
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