Peace...be still

Good morning everyone, I have one more Christmas card to share with you all, not sure how many more I'm going to be making before I move on to the next holiday. Trust me, I'm ready to move on!

This stamp is an older one from Sunshine Designs, one of the first stamps I ordered when I resumed stamping several years ago. It's one of my favorite Poinsettia stamps of all time. 

I stamped it three times on good sturdy water color paper and heat embossed it in gold. I pulled out my beloved Twinkling H2O's to color this beauty up and cut out three separate layers.

The flourishes are from Papertrey Ink's Silent Night set (which I cut up into two separate stamps for added flexibility) and also gold embossed those. I do that occasionally to my stamp sets, when I know it's a keeper and I want to be able to get more use out of certain stamps. Don't be afraid to cut them up to suit your tastes!

The card base and the Label diecut were also cut from the same water color paper, it lends such an elegant, rich look to a card. I love to use it when I know I'm going to be using white on white.
The sentiment is from PTI's Peace be still set (obviously, lol).

Well I really should go send out my Christmas cards, hopefully in time for Christmas. I am such a procrastinator!

Thanks for visiting!

Frosty Winter Wishes

Don't forget the Lili of the Valley blog hop is still going on, with a new stamp up for grabs, check it out here.

Well I apologize for being absent for a little while, it was crunch time for the Dirty Dozen over at Splitcoast Stampers. I procrastinated till the last minute, then really had to get my butt in gear to get my cards done for the midnight reveal! Shame on me, lol! Take a look at the beautiful stuff from all the Dirty Girls. 

Now onto our regularly scheduled programming...

I have a sweet snowman card to share with you all today. I LOVE snowmen stamps. This is probably one of the first ones I purchased when I got back into stamping, from Sunshine Designs. 

I colored him up with my pencils. I made one of my favorite snowflake embellishments out of coordinating papers and added lots of glass glitter to sparkle them up.

Isn't he just the cutest thing you've ever seen?!

Well I'm off to work, have a great week!

Stamps: Sunshine Designs, sentiment from PTI
Ink: Memento
Paper: Heavenly White, PTI, Basic Grey
Tools & Accessories: Clever Lever snowflake punches, Tonic ticket corner punch, PTI button, tan twill tape,  colored pencils, OMS, Liquid Glass, Viva Decor paint pen, Crop-a-Dile, glass glitter, Martha Stewart tiny tag punch

Amethyst Mother Card

This is another Sunshine Designs stamp I've had for a long while. Perfect for a Mother's Day card. Paired with SU's DSP, colored with my colored pencils, and some gorgeous Iris colored seam binding ribbon. I added some dimension around the large flower's center with Liquid Pearls. Love those little bottles of shimmery paint!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Sunshine Designs, Papertrey Ink

Ink: Palette, Paper Salon

Paper: SU, PTI

Accessories: Stickles, Liquid Pearls, colored pencils, OMS, ribbon, brads, Spellbinders Labels Trio

Fairy Flower

It's almost 60 degrees today, and I am stamping flowers and more flowers! There's no sign of flowers around here yet, but in my paper crafting haven, they're everywhere!
I've had this stamp from Sunshine Designs for a long time. I think it's one of the first stamps I purchased, right at the beginning of my stamping hobby a couple of years ago. I love their designs, but unfortunately, they're hard to find around here. I used my favorite colors on this one, a combination of periwinkle, pale violet and lime greens. I wish I had a little fairy stamp, because it looks like it should be the home to a tiny little fairy! LOL.

Colored with my Prismacolors and Polychromos & OMS. Added some glittery sparkle as well.

Thanks for looking, come back soon!

Stamps: Sunshine Designs

Ink: Palette

Paper: Bristol, Memory Box, PTI

Accessories: Stickles, self stick pearls, Liquid Pearls, colored pencils/OMS, Stickles, MS scallop punch, PTI ribbon