Peek-a-boo Pals Tag

Hello everyone! I hope you had a great weekend and are all ready for Christmas! I’ve been super busy with family holiday stuff but finally managed some time in the craft room to make a couple of last minute projects.

Today I’m sharing another Christmas tag. I loved the star-shaped tag I did before so I decided to try a heart. I love how it turned out!

I used the Lawn Fawn scalloped hearts and inside out stitched hearts paired with Avery Elle polar peek-a-boo pals stamps.

I die cut the scalloped heart from blue cardstock and then the inside out stitched heart 3 times from white. One went on the back with the recipient’s name and the other 2 got ink blended and glued to the front. Then I stamped, colored and die cut my pals and adhered them as well.

For finishing touches I used black glaze pen to the eyes and small noses and white gel pen accents throughout. Then I added glossy accents to the deer hooves and nose and penguin’s beak. I added Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the antlers, hats and scarves and Stickles to the pompoms on the hats.

The last thing I did was punch a hole and thread some baker’s twine through it.

Super cute and I loved using non-traditional colors for a Christmas tag.

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Elf Popcorn

Welcome back and happy Friday everyone! Today I wanted to share a project I designed about 5 years ago and have made them every year since.

It’s essentially a wrapper for a package of microwave popcorn. The front looks like elf clothes and then I add a little piece of cardstock to the back so you can write a message.

To make these I cut 8.5×5.5 green cardstock. Then I cut a red patterned paper (pants) to 8.5×2.5 and a black strip (belt) 8.5x.75. I designed a belt buckle on my Cricut and cut those from gold cardstock and threaded the belt through.

Next I glue the belt and pants to the green panel and score that whole piece 2 1/8 from each side. To make the collar I use a 2″ circle scallop punch, cut it in half and glue the two pieces to the top. Finally I add scor-tape to the back, wrap it around the popcorn and seal it shut.

I have this adorable pair of stamps from Stampendous that I like to put on the back. This white panel is 3×4 inches and I just use tape runner to adhere it. I’ll write a quick note and it’s ready to give. I make these in mass, 44 to be exact, because that’s how many packs come in a Costco box of popcorn. Lol!

These make great teacher and classroom gifts, or put one on all your coworker’s desks like I’m doing today!

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Trinity Stamps – Do Re Me Ow

Hello everyone! I’m so happy to be back crafting and sharing fun things with you. My whole family got really sick, including me, which doesn’t often happen. So we’ve been laying low and I haven’t had much energy to craft.

Last night I finally got back in there and made this super fun, punny Christmas card for my daughter’s choir teacher. It features a Trinity Stamps set called DO RE ME OW that is definitely one of my favorites of the year! I hope you enjoy it.

I started by ink blending a background and spritzing it with water. Then I die cut some white glitter cardstock for a snowy hill and set to stamping my images. I colored them with copics and die cut them with the coordinating dies. I love that this set also cuts out the words! So cool!

Then I started assembling everything. The words, music notes and fence are glued directly to the card and everything else is popped up with foam squares. Finally, I moved on to finishing touches, which is my favorite part!!!

I had colored the Christmas lights on the pole but decided to use Nuvo Crystal Drops on them instead. I love how it turned out! I also added glossy accents to the glass on the light, all the kitty noses and tongues, and the sticker on the box.

I put Stickles on the kitty boots and hats and used my Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the music notes, words and snow on the light pole.

The inside of the card finishes the punny question from the front with, “DO RE ME OW” and under that I added the sentiment from the set, “We wish you a meowy Christmas.” My daughter is so excited to deliver this with his gift tomorrow. I’m sure it will give him a chuckle.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I’m so happy to be back at it! Have a fabulous day!

Trinity Stamps – Season Greetings Silhouettes

Good morning everyone! I was really restrained over Thanksgiving weekend with all the amazing sales going on but I did splurge on 2 orders. One was the amazing $25 grab bags from Trinity Stamps! I just had to have one! It came in this week and I had a moment to play with this new-to-me set called Season Greetings Silhouettes. It’s beautiful and totally the opposite of what I usually reach for so I really enjoyed creating with it.

I started by arranging my stamps to get an idea of the layout. Then I cut a 5.25×4 inch panel and grabbed my distress inks. I inked up that panel with weathered wood, faded jeans and black soot distress inks and splattered it with water. Then I stamped a few trees directly to the background and die cut two stitched hills. Next, I stamped more trees and the deer images and used my Scan-n-cut to cut them out.

I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment at the top and started adhering everything together. This is such a sweet and serene card. I love how calming it is.

Are you finished with your Christmas cards yet? I need to get mine in the mail ASAP!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Newton’s Nook – Hot Chocolate Day

Hello everyone! Happy Friday! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week and have enjoyed the last 12 days of Christmas tags. I am leaving commenting open until this evening for those posts. I will choose winners and post them on here and Instagram in the morning. Be sure to check back and see if you’re the luck winner.

And on to today’s fun card. I’m playing along with the Newton’s Nook Inky Paws Challenge – Snow Day! Everyone needs hot chocolate on a snow day, right?!? My daughter and I always go play until we’re too cold, come in and warm up with a cup full and then do it all over again.

I’m so in love with the end result of this card even though I wasn’t sure when I started with the color palette. It’s just so sweet! I started out with the layering plaid stencil and moved on to color and die cut my images from the Cup of Cocoa.

I cut a piece of cardstock and stenciled it with the snowfall stencil and added a piece of purple glitter washi tape to the bottom to ground my images. Then I cut a frame from the Framework set and adhered it. This little panel is popped up on the plaid background with foam tape. Finally, I added my images with foam squares to give them a little dimension.

Last I stamped my sentiment and started on finishing touches. I put glossy accents on the snowman nose and buttons, candycane, Newton’s nose and the dots on the mug. I also added white gel pen accents on all of the mugs.

I’m so pleased with the outcome of this card and can’t wait to share it with someone. I think I’ll tuck a packet of hot cocoa inside for fun!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

The Rabbit Hole Designs – Heart Dance

Good morning everyone! I’m up on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog today with this sweet Valentine card featuring the new Love You More – Heart Dance stamp set. This couple is just so sweet and coincidentally kind of make a heart shape with their dance pose. 😉

To make this card I stamped the open heart cluster from the set in pink all over the card front and die cut a heart shape out. Then I backed it with iridescent vellum and put a sentiment strip across it.

Then I made a mini card for the inside and stamped my couple in the center and colored them with copic markers. I glued this to the inside of my regular A2 card so the couple shows through the window. I just love how this looks!

With it structured like this you get the pretty vellum window, the full image and still have room to write your love note to that special someone.

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

The products I used are:

Love You More – Heart Dance

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12 Days of Christmas Tags – Day 8

Good morning everyone! I’m so sorry this is late today. I just finished my one big craft show of the year yesterday and completely forgot to get this written for you all.

Today I’m sharing another quick and easy set of tags. This time I’m using the Holiday Seals set from The Stamping Village. I love this set and the fact that it’s profits go to a great cause.

Much love yesterday’s tags, these were the result of the center from the circle shaker tags in Day 5. I stamped the image in green and then matted it with pink glitter, gray embossed and then the pink tag.

I had so much fun with this non-traditional color palette! And I love all the texture from the different paper and embossing.

To finish these of I added Nuvo Crystal Drops to the berries and gray twits to the top.

I whipped up this whole set of 10 tags in about 20 minutes after I decided on the layers.

Don’t forget there are prizes to be won. Comment each day on here, on my Instagram post for the day and then head to Caffeinated Craftiness and do the same for her. Four comments per day gives you a shot at any one of four prizes!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

The Rabbit Hole Designs – Bow Love

Hello again! I’m taking over The Rabbit Hole Designs blog today with this fun, clean and simple Valentine card.

I was inspired by another crafter who did two versions of the same card a while ago – one was in full color and the other was simple and just the outline. This is something that I never do and was excited to try.

I heat embossed my bows in black and painted one that stood out to me with gold watercolor. I took the same watercolor and flicked it on a red panel. Then heat embossed love in black on the bottom right corner. I popped the red panel on a black card base and popped the bows up with foam squares.

The shine of the embossing and the shimmer of the metallic watercolor make this clean and simple card just a little bit more. It catches your eye and is just striking. I love this color combo!

The products I used today are:

Put a Bow On It

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Poppystamps Dies meets Trinity Stamps Sentiments

Hello again! Today I’m sharing a set of three clean and simple (CAS) cards featuring a recent prize I won during the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog hop – a gift certificate for Poppystamps. I chose a handful of dies from their “whittle” collection. These really caught my eye and I was excited to play with them. I decided to pair them with a Trinity Stamps new sentiment set called Merry Christmas Senti-mini.

For each of these cards I die cut the elements from white cardstock and custom colored them with my copic markers. Then adhered some with liquid glue and others with foam squares.

I chose a sentiment and stamped it either directly to the card front or, like the one above, die cut and glued on.

And then for finishing touches on each I glued embellishments to the background to go with the scene I had created.

The embellishments I used were also from Trinity Stamps – snowflake soup mix, cinnamon red hots jelly drop hearts and frosty snowflakes sprinkles.

These cards came together quickly and would be wonderful if you’re making a mass amount for the holidays. I love the earthy feel that they give, completely different from anything I typically gravitate toward.

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Newton’s Nook – Purr-fect Present

Thanks for stopping by today. I have had this idea in my head for a while and I was really happy to have a chance to make it a reality AND it came out just as I hoped!

Using the Gingham stencil, I inked black over red cardstock, added gold ribbon to make it look like a package and then glued it to a card front. Next, I die cut a circle from the card front and glued the circle to the inside card panel.

I stamped my Newton in a present from Purr-fect Present and die cut him out. Then popped him up on the circle with foam squares. Next I stamped the sentiment off to the left and couldn’t resist coloring in the holly at the bottom of it.

For finishing touches I added white gel pen accents, glossy accents to Newton’s ears and nose and Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the package’s ribbon and bow.

This image is just adorable and I love how this sweet card turned out. It gives the recipient a little surprise when they open it up. So much fun!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!