I'm seeing RED!

Red tags that is! Again! Think my other tags better be some other color than red.

I found the felt ribbon after the holidays last year and bought a couple of rolls thinking, "I can do something with this - other than using on a package". Well, it will be used on a package but as tags. I had fun cutting the ribbon different ways to get the image I wanted. I embossed the tags with the CB snowflake folder and then distressed with Festive Berries and Vintage Photo distress inks.

 

The snowflakes were die cut using the Die-Namics snowflake dies and the to/from image is from PSX. Onto other tags!

Tags!

I've been having so much fun creating tags for my Christmas packages this year. Never seemed to have time before this year so 'tis a good thing! The images are from Stampin' Up and colored with copics. Great tags for my grands' pakages!

 

 

 

CR84FN Color Challenge 43

Once again, I'm playing along with my favorite color challenge CR84FN. This week's challenge is brown, tan and green.

 

I chose to use Impression Obsession's Cabin image to create one of my Christmas cards using these colors. The brown base cardstock is SU and the green and tan glimmer paper are Bazzill. The tan cardstock is embossed with the swirl CB folder.

The image and sentiment (Amuse) were stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa and the cabin colored with Copics. All were distressed with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. The main image was then punched with the EKSuccess snowflake border and glitter added to highlight the snow and punched edge. The sentiment was die cut with one of the Spellbinder's Ribbon and Brad tags and copper brads added.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We spent the holiday with our daughter and her family in the Chicago area and took the grands to visit the Museum of Science and Industry. What fun!

Stamp Club Project

It was my turn to bring one of the shoe box projects for our November stamp club meeting. Here's my version of Memory Box's Tivoli Snowflake card copied from one of their design team members. The white base card measures about 5" square and then layered with gold metallic cardstock.  The designer paper is Let it Snow, Christmas Past Collection from Graphic 45 and cut with the snowflake die.  What a cool idea to use the negative!   The sentiment is from Endless Creations.  I added glitter around the edge of the snowflake and added the little snowflake bling from Memory Box in the center.  Very simple but very pretty. 

We're poised to have our first snow storm of the season:(  Never ready for winter since it lasts well into March in our neck of the woods!

Happy Halloween!

Had fun creating this Halloween card!  The haunted house, Frank and moon stamps are all from the now defunct Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers and have been in my stash for years.  I stamped the house on white cardstock and colored with copics and then masked the house and stamped the moon.  (Remember you can click on an image to expand the view.)  Then the moon was masked and using my air compressor, sprayed the background with black and brown copics.  The fence punch is from Martha Stewart and raised with pop dots.  The bats were stamped last.  I used Versafine black ink on all the stamping.

I apologize for the blurriness of this photo but you get the drift.  The frank stamp was stamped on white cardstock and colored with copics and the sentiment was stamped in black ink and cut out as a tag.  I cut a slit in the roof line of the house so Frank's message can be tucked behind the house.

The inside of the card was air brushed with a black copic and the bottom was punched with the goo punch from Martha Stewart.  I cannot remember where the Happy Frank sentiment was purchased since it is an unmounted stamp.  The card measures 5 x 7.  Have a Happy and Safe Halloween!

Crayon Resist Technique

This card was created using the crayon resist technique and water colors.  I created the image some time ago and not with my stamps.  Half of the open line stamps were colored in with white crayon.  Squiggles were added with white crayon and a gold leaf pen.  Then a water color wash was added with various water colors.   The background piece was mounted onto red cardstock and then onto a folded black card.  Notches were punched in the corners and gold cording added (an old but effective embellishment).  The sentiment is from Flourishes and stamped on a Labels Four die cut from Spellbinders. 

Peak color in Northcentral Wisconsin along with temps in the 70s....doesn't get any better than this!  The bird feeders are alive with birds getting ready for migration or storing seeds for our long, cold winters. 

Another Card for Stamp Club

Members of our stamp club challenged each other to use the "No More Shims" pad on a card for our October meeting.  I used a Dreamweavers stencil with copper aluminum to create this raised image.  The sandwich I used for my Cuttlebug was A plate, copper sheet, stencil, no-more-shims and two B plates.  The image could have been used as is but I then "worked" the metal puffing out and sanding the leaves.  I mounted the image on some shimmery paper (which you can't see in the photo) and embossed with a leaves folder from Cuttlebug.  May I vent here???  Wish that Provocraft would put the names of their folders directly on the folders!!!  One of my pet peeves!  The entire piece was then mounted to shimmery bronze cardstock from the Paper Cut which I have had forever. 

Fun new tool to stretch the use of yet more tools!