A Blingy Tree

 
The latest challenge at A Blog Named Hero is to use a punched or diecut element on your project.












After inking a piece of white cardstock with Mowed Lawn distress ink, I water stamped Snow Dots background and die cut Papertrey Ink's Christmas tree.

I love the ghostly effect and subtle texture from water stamping. Snow Dots was also stamped on the card base and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

And since I added a ton of gemstones I'll enter this card in this month's
Bring On the Bling challenge at Hero Arts.

I have a few more tree cards to share with you and also more Stacey Yacula designs.
Thanks so much for stopping by...enjoy your weekend!

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ORANGE you sweet

The cue word this week at CASology is ORANGE. Here is my card.

I was planning to use the orange from Purple Onion Designs, but that was 

a little too obvious. I decided to use the punny sentiment and paired it with the 

Starburst stamp from Hero Arts.

I took advantage of the circle in the center of the design. After trimming off the "O" 

on the stamp, I drew in the circle on the design and stamped the rest of the sentiment 

to complete the word "ORANGE".

Thank you for visiting today!

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Sweetest Season Tags

I'd like to share some quick tags that I made with Stacey Yacula's Sweetest Season. 

I colored up Holly Mouse and Filbert the Penguin with Copics and cut them out 

with Circle Nestabilities.

They were tied on to some pillow boxes that I made using 6" patterned papers 

in coordinating colors. The pillow boxes were made following this video tutorial
that I shared a few months ago. Easy peasy because all you need is an old CD, 

a stylus and some adhesive.

They're the perfect size for a gift card or some candy, or even Christmas CA$H.

I'll be sharing more cards using Stacey's adorable stamps in the coming week. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

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(Belated) Happy Birthday, Barb!

Last weekend, Virgnia Lu held a surprise virtual birthday blog hop for Barb Engler.

Barb is one of the sweetest bloggers who I "met" through the Hero Arts Flickr group.  

She makes timely visits and leaves comments on the hundreds of blogs that she follows 

and my day is always brighter after reading a "Barb comment".

She is also a whiz when it comes to cardmaking and always incorporates

a new technique that she learned, or shares the latest trend in her work.

What's amazing about all of this is she also has a FULL TIME JOB.

She's pretty much the Energizer Bunny in human form.

So I couldn't go without linking up a card for her, just under the wire.

 I used stamps from Paper Smooches and the candle is from Hero Arts. 

The images were colored with Copics and some sprinkles were added
with a white paint pen.

I'm also linking this card up at CASology. This week, the cue word is SUGAR. I think all that frosting qualifies for a ton of sugar!

Belated Happy Birthday, Barb! I know your day was as special as you are. 

Have another fantastic year!

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