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Peace, Love & Joy with Laurie

Yay!! It’s the weekend! Welcome back to the SNS blog. I recently purchased some of the October MFT Release and was super excited to play with it.  Christmas card making is in full swing around here and this release is going to make it super fun and easy!

I was so excited about getting the new Filled With Joy Stamp set along with its Co-ordinating Dies!! This is a great, versatile set. I also got the older Scenic Snow Globe Die Set (also from MFT) which is an adorable scene builder set.  These two sets work beautifully together!

I started by doing some ink blending using Tumbled Glass and Broken China Distress Oxide inks onto white cardstock.  I trimmed the panel down using a stitched rectangle die from Lawn Fawn.  I die cut the large “Joy” die from the Filled with Joy Dies out of red cardstock and also out of craft foam.  I love the solid dimension craft foam gives! I used a variety of cardstock scraps to assemble the little house scene.  I love die sets like these although some of the pieces are quite tiny and a wee difficult to adhere.

I added a few puff details on the roof of the house and trees using a snow marker from Marvy Uchida .  I also used craft foam to adhere the house and trees so the dimension was the same as the sentiment.  It was also fun to add Nuvo Crystal Glaze to the windows and ornaments on the trees!

I used the snowflake die from the Filled With Joy die set along with some glitter cardstock for a bit of added sparkle.  The remainder of the sentiment was stamped with Versamark ink onto vellum and heat embossed in white. I used a sentiment banner die to trim that out. I adhered the focal panel and the vellum sentiment strip with Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive.

And that, my friends, is my finished card!  I hope you enjoyed and got some Christmas inspiration!!

See you soon!!

Laurie

 

 

 

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Tuesday with Tara (take 75)

Oh deer… and happy Tuesday!  I`ve got another simple card to share, but a closer look reveals some fabulous shimmer that was hard to capture with a camera!
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Basic supplies for this card include a couple shades of Color Burst, a stencil & die by Tim Holtz and some shimmering things… Stickles glitter glue, pearly cardstock & clear texture paste with glitter mixed in.  Everywhere there was color I used a combination of blue & green, one of my fave combos!

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I`m not sure if it`s because of my all around efforts to keep Christmas simple this year, but I tried adding a variety of embellishments & sentiments to this card and it just seemed to look best just like this.  I`m crazy about the text in the background and didn`t want anything to take away from that- it is perfect in it`s shiny sparkly-ness 🙂

There are just two more Tuesdays before Christmas, I`ll be hard at work getting cards finished up and in the mail (trying something different this year LOL) and look forward to sharing with you my final projects in the weeks ahead!  Hope your days are full of the joys of the season, and a good measure of ink & sparkles!

Inky hugs,

Tara

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Tuesday with Tara {take 4}



Happy Tuesday! Today I’ve got a blue “Christmas in July” card to share with ya’ll! I don’t know about you, but I always plan to start my Christmas cards in the summer (when all those Christmas in July sales start happening 😉 and when people start sharing how many weeks until Christmas countdowns on facebook…), but never really get around to making actual progress! Maybe this will be my year? LOL

Anyways, I have learned over all my years of card making that if I actually want to send out cards to people, I need to keep them simple! My favorite way to do this is to stick with a simple layout but find fun ways to add texture and bits of bling (it’s for the holidays, after all!) so today’s card showcases a fun way to keep it simple, but definitely not boring!

I created some fabulous texture for my card by applying texture paste through a background stencil (isn’t this one by Memory Box gorgeous?!) onto a shimmery cardstock.  I could have used plain white cardstock, but was really curious how the Distress Stains Spray I planned on using would react to both the cardstock and the texture paste… I think it came out pretty neat!  I’ve used Peacock Feathers, which is such a happy shade that really works in ALL seasons!  I did deliberately rough edges with my texture paste, to keep the background really interesting.

 

I’m in the middle of a crisis with my Vagabond machine, so I opted to embellish the card with a chipboard snowflake from my stash instead of a die cut chipboard shape as I was intending to do.  This was painted with two shades of teal/turquoise paint and then topped with some Rock Candy Distress Stickles for some shimmer.

Once everything was dry, I tied on some ribbon and twine and attached it all to the card, tying on a pewter Christmas charm to add some pop.  A bit of bling scattered across the card finishes everything off!

 

supplies used:

a2 card in blue

pearl white card stock (4×5.25″)

merry christmas stencil by Memory Box

ranger texture paste

distress spray stain in peacock feathers

snowflake chipboard shape by Maya Road (or cut your own!)

merry christmas “tidings tokens” by Tim Holtz idea-ology

turquoise paint by Dina Wakley

classic teal paint by Claidine Hellmuth Studio

clear rock Candy Distress Stickles

ribbon & twine

bling (Hero Arts?)

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