Coloring Down the Lines - Seasonally Scattered Love

Hi again!  Happy 2015.  We're off to another year of fun and stamping!

Our Coloring Down the Lines challenge today is to create something that inspires us using cajun craze, calypso coral, and crisp cantaloupe, while choosing whisper white and/or very vanilla.  When I sat down to make my card, I just couldn't use the whisper white and very vanilla together - it just didn't speak to me.  So I decided to use whisper white and go with it.

For the line up this week, Carol preceded me, and I hope you arrived here from her blog.  If not, you may have back tracked from Joni's blog and got here.  Either way, I hope you travel forward or backward to see what everyone created for you this week.

Here's my seasonally scattered love ...

close up view - crisp cantaloupe & calypso coral ink over dazzling diamonds heart


Recipe
Paper:  cajun craze, crisp cantaloupe, silver foil, whisper white, dazzling diamonds glimmer paper
Ink:  cajun craze, calypso coral, crisp cantaloupe
Stamp Set:  seasonally scattered
Accessories:  whispser white seam binding, decorative dots EF

And there you have it.  Hope you like it.  Until next time ... happy stamping!

It's Snowing at the Holiday Home

This is a card that I started for one of my challenges over at Coloring Down the Lines, however, I never used it.  As I was cleaning out my stamp room, I stumbled across it, unfinished, and blah.  So I stamped a few more things on the card and gave it some color and mounted it.  Whola.  Now I have a card for next year, ready to go.

That's all folks.  Keep a watch for the new catty items.  I'll have some nice, new creations for you using the fun stamps from the catalog.

Have a safe and wonderful New Year!

Brian King's Holiday One for One Swap

I just love when Brian does his one for one swaps.  I've participated in a few of them now and just love the swaps I get back in return.

This year, my swap was the Christmas Bauble, and I'm not quite sure who got it.  In return, I received this cute card created by Robyn Carter in Omaha, Nebraska.  I love it and wanted to share it with you.

Here's my swap (which I posted in an earlier posting):

And here is the one I received from Brian which Robyn created:

So how cute is that?  The full moon is raised a bit and so is the snowfall.  It's stamped beautifully, and she scored the edges of the card, adding a nice, neat border.  Love, Love, Love.

Hope you enjoy Robyn's card as much as I do.  Until tomorrow, to all a "good night".

The Paper Plunge #14 - Tis the Season for A Different Kind of Fold

I usually don't stray too far from the traditional folding cards, but since the challenge over at The Paper Plunge was to come up with a "different kind of fold", I thought I'd try something different.  I didn't know where to start, so lo and behold, a friend of mine just happened to send me a pin from pinterest, and as I was scrolling through what she had sent me, I found this fold that I made for you today.  The fold that I CASED was by Amanda Bates over at The Craft Spa.  I wanted to do a different design, so I pulled out some of my DSP and went to work.  I was rather pleased with what I created.  I hope you like it too.

This is the outside of the card.  I wanted something to hold the card together, so I used the silver satin ribbon and tied a bow in the center.  It worked out perfectly.

Now, check out the inside ...

I'm still working on the lighting issue, so bear with me until I get it all figured out.  The dimensions of the card are 6" x 12" (when card is stretched out).  It wasn't that difficult as I thought it would be and it looks so much better in person.  The center tree was made using the dazzling diamonds glimmer paper, and the two outer trees are the silver glimmer paper.  The designer-series paper (DSP) I used for the rest of the card is from "all is calm" from Stampin' Up's 2014 holiday catalog.

So thanks to The Paper Plunge for challenging me to go out of the box and do something a bit different.  Maybe now I just might try some other folds and techniques to add to my collection.

Enjoy your day, and tis' the season to enjoy the wonders of the world.

Cheers!

It's Christmas Time in the City

My sister and I went to visit my daughter in NY on the 18th of December and we hopped on the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan to see all the Christmas lights.  These are some pictures I took in Madison Square Park:

There's something to be said for Christmas in the City.  Just love it!

Wonderous Wreath Thank You

I just love the stamp set, Wonderous Wreath.  You can do so much with it.

I was asked to make some Christmas Thank You cards, so I thought I'd use the wreath, since I just love it.  Louise Sharpe created this beautiful card using it, so I CASED some of her idea and used my own colors and thank you and I just LOVE it.  So did the person I made them for as well.

I just love the gold glimmer heart hanging down from the center.  It makes the card look so elegant. Hope you like it as well.

Thanks for stopping by!

Gentle Peace

I stamped this image on a piece of velum way back in October and never colored it in, so I thought I better color it before I mount it on a card base and send it out to one of my dear friends.  Yeah, don't you think?  So I wasn't sure what colors to use, and after looking at others, I colored mine, but wasn't too thrilled with the way it turned out, but it's ok.  I mounted it on brushed gold paper, as well as blackberry bliss, and I think that made it.

See what you think!

Actually, seeing it posted here looks better than I thought.  O well .. I'm glad I did it.  Really like the velum and blendabilities ... awesome combo.

Stay tuned for more of my cards, and of course, the sneak peeks at the new occasions catalog.  Oh what fun we're going to have using the new stuff.

Ciao for now!