Happy New Year--2017

Happy Birthday Dee

This card is for my special friend of 50 years + who will celebrate 86 of them on Jan 6th.  
                                                       Happy Birthday Dee!

It is created with Sugarplum and white papers (SU), The dies are SU Bloomin Hearts, IO Die235-M and Sizzix 657561 Hearts.  Finished with Wink of Stella, Posca white pen, rhinestones, enamel dots.  Technique is inlaid die cutting.

Plush Poinsettias

Here are some beautiful cards created with the Plus Poinsettia Corner by Memory Box 98967.  Some are cut from glitter paper, others matte, and all are touched with  Tim Holtz Enamel Accents.  These are the base cards, the sentiments will go on as I decide who the recipient will be. SPECIAL THANKS goes to Pam Sparks for her Video that made this NOW something  successful and fun, where it was just incredibly difficult before her techniques.

Big Eyed Sophia

Another Sophia --just love her big eyes!   This is pencil colored for the Miran  # 73  Anything Goes   Lots of detail with snow and snow writer, and with grey pearls that didn't photograph well.  She's just so sweet, and the recipient of this card will love her.  The stamp is Warm wishes and mistletoe kisses from SU Tin of tags.  Distressed edges are touched wit Aileens Glitter Snow.

Snowflake and More Snowflakes

This just magnificent card is created with SU Winter Wonderland designer vellum, Tim  Holtz Thinlits Snowflakes (660059) Gold foil cardstock, a star punch, and sheer gold ribbon.  Merry Christmas is gold embossed and is from the Jusst Right Elegant Christmas Swirls stampset. This card is surprisingly easy to create.  Thank you to Sandi McIver for her superb tutorial found here. Her dimensions are modified a little, but the idea is hers.

Today I was in kind of a "flaky" mood as I did several snowflake cards.

Left features stamps from Tin of Tags (SU) stamped in Cherry  Cobbler and embossed with a Christmas Words Sizzix embossing folder from Hero Arts "Christmas Words" 658285.  The card on the right is similar, but the background on light gray paper is stamped (off) Merry Medley background stamp (SU) with Smoky Slate, and then stamped with all over design that used snowflakes from Hot off the Press Snowflakes and Dies set Inkadinkado Christmas and one other set named Noel, unknown company.  Both cards are touched with Viva Pearl Pen Silver Chrome for accent.

Detail of the  embossing and stamping areas

Smore's

S'More Christmas as I hurry to make cards for friends and family.

Merry  Tags  SU

Starform Stickers and wrapping paper

Merry Tags SU

A sticker snowman accented with stickles, Enamel Accents, and stenciled

SSS snowfall using Aleens Glitter Snow

Glitter Paper with notes, Elizabeth Craft stickers, white, gold and 

black glitter matting with the Merry Tags Dieset from SU

Hey! HI! Little Miss Santa

She's created for the Anything Goes #73 Challenge at Art by Miran.  She's Hey Miss Santa colored in Prismacolor pencils, with a fur collor and glaze pen accents.  The distressed matting paper is from Snickerdoodle Designs by Karen's new kit "I'll be Home for Christmas"    Metallic threads sparkle on this fun card.

Star Ornaments

The tutorial for these cute ornaments was written by Amy Kunkle at Split Coast Stampers  Theywere fun to try and are really quite easy to do.  thank you Amy and all the design team at Split Coast Stampers for another year of awesome projects and skill building.  

Running toward the Christmas Finish line

I'm trying to finish up cards, and couldn't have had much success without the great tutorial by Pam Sparks.  FINALLY I've seen success after years of trying---success with delicate dies. I've just gotten so frustrated I could scream cutting out very detailed dies and getting them onto the card.  My combination that's best for me is StickIt and PEELED (be sure to peel) glimmer paper.

 Kit and Clowder Advent gift 1----Prisma Color Pencils and reverse double zfold card.

Starform stickers over red foil from Pop Ups Etc, on designer paper and real red cardstock

Tim Holtz Treeline die (Sizzix 661064)  glitter paper, watermarked snowfall over distress ink from the Simon Says Stamp exclusive--stencil Falling Snow.  Merry  Christmas sentiment is embossed on acrylic, (or the card) and is from the Stampers Anonymous Christmas Time CMS141 set.

And this die--which has given me SO much trouble cut like butter and stayed in the die so I could adhere it!  It's We Wish You Elegant Script by Memory Box (99555)

here are four cards I did with that Tree Line Die

This one details the "Falling  Snow" stenciled with Aleen's Snow  

 It's so pretty, but the photograph isn't!

And this is Memory Box SUPER detailed Swirling  Snowflakes---cut from gliter paper on Night of Navy cardstock.    This is a very special card I made for a very special friend.

This one is by Hannah Lynn--an Advent Gift this Christmas called Hot Cocoa Fairy.. She is finished with Marvy heat puffed snowflakes, wink of stella, glaze pens and glitter pens, and mounted on blue shimmer paper.  The graphic is colored in Prismacolor Pencils.

Woodlands

These cards are some of my favorites this year.  They are done with one of the Tim Holtz "Woodlands" dies.  The "Joy" is cut from  Holiday Double Cuts from Papertrey Ink (PTD-701)  The cards use glitter paper and foil cardstock, and cardstock that is spritzed with  " Shimmer Sparkle" spray by Imaginecrafts.    Whether silver or gold earth tones or winter colors, this design is gorgeous! The tiny stars are punched with a  SU star border punch

Poinsettia and Girl

Love this little Poinsettia and Girl image by Miran. She's done for the Anything Goes Challenge #72 I This card is a modified Zfold card that shows a perfectly matched Christmas  Word art embossing folder (Hero Arts Christmas Words 3 658285) on pure white shimmer paper behind the artpiece that's on real red paper.   The design of this card allows a short note and Christmas message to be adhered to the back of the card that is allowed to open and stand. Colored in Prismacolor Pencils and touched with glitter and wink of stella, white Posca pen, it's ready for the mail.

  

December Progressive

This darling little Love Lucy is the graphic for the December Progressive Challenge in Miran's Facebook Challenge.  She's colored with Prismacolor Pencils, accented with white Posca Pen, and  Red  Wink of Stella on her balloon.  The Happy Birthday sentiment is a SU stamp from Elementary Elegance kit. This is die cut and sponged and mounted on gold heart vellum over white cardstock adhered to a Night of Navy cardbase.

Just Rite Poinsettias

This landscape card uses the Just  Rite Festive Poinsettias  stamp that coordinates with Spellbinder's Layered Poinsettias die.  The Merry Christmas EF I used is Sizzix Merry #2 657059 and the oval matte is from Lil Inkers Stitched Ovals  Wink of stella, rhinestones and Stickles, Ribbon and silver thread finish the card.

Christmas Tree Fairy

This graphic is from All Dressed Up designers, and is called the Christmas  Tree Fairy and was a gift to start off Kit And Clowder's Advent play on Facebook.  I love this little fairy and enjoyed the cards that I made with her.  The fairies are colored with Prismacolor Pencils and the cards embossed with Sizix EF # 657059  The Die for "Joy" is Holiday  Double Cuts from Papertrey Ink (PTD-0701)  The ornaments and graphics are touched with Wink of Stella and Diamond Stickles