Another ornament

Hi Ladies! Today I have another ornament that Jess and I made this past weekend.  We actually saw this idea on Pinterest and decided to see if we could do it.  It several tries – plastic doesn’t work as it melts when you emboss it.  We tried using a craft ink and embossing but it did not look right.  We tried regular ink but that smears.  What worked the best was gold (or silver) ink…

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Another Quick Card

Hello Stampers! Are you as busy as I am?  I still have things to get done.  My class is over so now I just need to grade final projects and enter grades.  Hopefully I will get that done in the next 2 days. With that in mind, I saw a clean and simple sketch at Red Hot Stampers Sketch Challenge     I thought this sketch would be perfect for a quick card.  I did make a…

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Hand Stamped Sentiments – Old Fashioned Christmas

Hello Stampers! Since it is Tuesday that means it is Hand Stamped Sentiments.  We have a fun challenge this week.  Our challenge is an Old Fashioned Christmas.  Since there are no parameters it will be fun to see what each person does with the theme. When I think of an Old Fashioned Christmas I think of deep red, muddy green, dark brown, lace, and holly.  That was the beginning of my card.  Now I needed…

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Late Night Stampers – Ornaments

Happy Monday Stampers! Did you have a great weekend?  Mine was fun but hectic.  Jess and Zoie came to spend some time with me.  We had lots of fun and even got some crafting time in. Jess needed to make some Christmas gifts and had to do an ornament swap.  I suggested we do the ornaments with the rolled ds paper inside.  After trial and error and an e-mail to my Late Night Stampers friends…

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Quick Share

Good Morning! This will be a quick share as Jess and Zoie are here and we have a million things going on. I made this card late last night.  I used retired paper from last year as I loved this paper and still have some left.  I used the sketch from Stamping 411    This was a fast card but still a great one to mass produce for Christmas cards.  Here is my take on…

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Different color combo

Good Morning Stampers! I played with sketch challenge at Cards and Things last night. I had an idea I wanted to try but when I started working on the card I ended up going in a different direction.  I also wanted to use some different colors for Christmas.  You will have to let me know what you think.   Here is what I did with the sketch. inside of card and envelope Hope you enjoyed…

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