Night of Navy Gingham Snowflake Card

Hello stampy friends. I just thought I'd share a card I made a week or so ago. I forgot to share it when I made it. I had been in a cardmaking slump. No inspiration at all. Then I found a card by Nadine's Stampin' Club that was very similar while perusing Pinterest and thought, "Hey, I could do something like that." I was itching to use the Winter Wonder embossing folder again, and I've never even cracked my gingham ribbon open, so this seemed perfect.

I really like the Night of Navy with the Smoky Slate cardstock. I think it gives it a bit of a more elegant feel.

I had an extra piece of cardstock that had been embossed with the Winter Wonder folder, so I decided to use that for the writing panel inside of the card.

I used the following Stampin' Up! products available for purchase in my SU store at the link in the sidebar :) 

Cardstock: Night of Navy, Smoky Slate, Whisper White

Ink Pads: Night of Navy
Stamp Sets: Star of Light

Adhesives: Snail Adhesive 

Other Accessories: Winter Wonder Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Night of Navy Gingham Ribbon, Rhinestone Basic Jewels

As always, thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you found something interesting to inspire you here today.

Pining for Plaid

Hey there! I'm back. Three days in a row. I'm impressed with myself :) This won't keep up though. I just don't have time with a full time job during the week (boo!). But it has been nice to be able to take some time to create and use the stuff I have. It does me a world of good to play with paper and ink.

I'm still playing with the sentiment stamps from my October Paper Pumpkin kit. I think the name of it is "Pining for Plaid". I should have mentioned that previously.

This card was pretty much CASED from one by Susan Campfield. Check her card out here. 

I used the sentiment stamp from the Pining for Plaid set along with the dies from Card Front Builder Thinlets, some current and retired designer series papers, metallic thread, and some contraband (non-SU cardstock) to create this woodsy looking Christmas card. I think this one will probably belong to my dad. Hope he likes it.

I used the following Stampin' Up! products available for purchase in my SU store at the link in the sidebar :) 

Cardstock: Scraps of gold foil sheets from Stampin' Up. I also used some non-SU cardstock from my stash. I think the color would be similar to Garden Green, 

Designer Series Paper: Wood Textures and Warmth & Cheer (retired)

Ink Pads: Early Espresso, VersaMark
Stamp Sets: Pining for Plaid (Octoer Paper Pumpkin Kit)

Dies: Card Front Builder dies (trees and deer)

Adhesives: Snail Adhesive and Stampin' Dimensionals

Other Accessories: Stampin' Sponges for inking edges, gold metallic thread and gold embossing powder mixed with dazzling diamonds

As always, thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you found something interesting to inspire you here today.

Joyful Christmas

I so enjoyed making the Christmas cards with my October Paper Pumpkin kit the other day that I was itching to get back in my craftroom and do some more. I am crazy loving the big sentiments in last months kit, so I wanted to use them some more. I think my all time favorite color combo must be black, white and red. I gravitate to that a lot. And today's card proves that it works so well...at least I think so.

I dyed my white/silver edge metallic ribbon with some cherry cobbler reinker. I love the result. It isn't perfect, but I kinda like a little imperfection. I think it looks rustic. Plus, nothing handmade is ever perfect.

Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black

Designer Series Paper: Merry Little Christmas

Ink Pads: Cherry Cobbler

Dies (using Big Shot machine): Layering Circles 

Adhesives: Snail Adhesive and Stampin' Dimensionals

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you found something interesting to inspire you here today.

October 2017 Paper Pumpkin, I'm in Love

So yesterday I finally had a chance to pull out my October Paper Pumpkin kit, and I SO WISH that I had gotten more than one! This is by far the best kit I have ever received from Paper Pumpkin. In fact, over the last few months, I have really enjoyed my kits a lot more than usual. I can't wait for my November Paper Pumpkin now. It is designed to work with the one from October, so I'm super excited. It's too bad I didn't make this post before. Someone might have benefitted from it and been able to order the November kit at least. But the cutoff date was yesterday :(  However--I'm sure there will be more fabulous kits to come. So, if you order, please make sure to choose me (Michelle Scott) as your demonstrator when you order :)

Now, onto the fun--here are my pictures of the project made with my kit. I got all the supplies to make 5 of each style of these cards, plus more that I can use to make future cards! I'm really loving the stamp set in this kit. It's perfect. I'm sure I'll be using it on some holiday cards this year.

The projects were so perfectly designed that I didn't even feel the need to come up with an alternate use or design at all. I just loved what they were designed for. 

Stay tuned for more projects using the stamps in this kit and for the November Paper Pumpkin projects!

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you found something interesting to inspire you here today.