ShowCASe Your Style Color Challenge

Hello!!  Today starts Challenge #2 for the new ShowCASe Your Style challenge blog!  The theme for the next two weeks is a photo inspiration and it is a gorgeous photo!

Here is my card based on the photo.

Whimsy Stamps has the perfect die for this photo challenge!  It's called the Holiday Gift Tag die set and it is on sale for $3.00!  I used embossing powder and washi tape to make the stripes on the ornament.  I also made one stripe with scor-tape and glitter.

The "Merry" was stamped in black and is from the Christmas Greetings stamp set. I die cut the Christmas Large Word die from gold metallic paper.  To finish the card off I added sequins in assorted sizes.

Now I do have to say that this isn't the cleanest card I've ever made.  I was so focused on the inspiration photo that I forgot to keep it clean.  I'll try to do better next time! :)

I hope you'll play along!  There is a great prize up for grabs!

Supplies not listed above:

Patterned Paper: Simple Stories The Story of Us

Sequins:  Cartwrights Sequins & Pretty Pink Posh

Gold Paper: DCWV

Twine:  The Twinery

Hey everyone!  It is going to be a cooooold week here!  I am so not ready for this!  But with the cold weather is the reminder that the holidays are right around the corner.  I know a lot of you are working on or starting to think about making your Christmas cards and so today I am going to share an easy Christmas card with you that I recently made.

This card was so simple to put together!  I started by cutting my white glitter mat to the size I wanted it and then rounded the corners with a corner rounder.  I really like this die by Frantic Stamper called Reverse Cut Triangle Christmas Tree. I lined it up on the glitter cardstock and die cut.  The cool thing about this die is you can use it two ways.  You can use it how it is intended like I did here or you can use the negative pieces that cut out and piece them together to create the tree also!

I wanted to keep the card soft so I chose a turquoisish pattern paper to put behind the die cut tree.  I popped the white glitter piece up with dimensionals and added some clear sequins to add just a touch more bling.

To finish the card I cut a little banner and added a button with some floss.  I almost always add a sentiment to the front of my card, but this one just didn't seem to need one.

Reverse Cut Triangle Christmas Tree

One more thing before I go.  Did you know that Frantic Stamper now has a Flickr gallery!?  We'd love to see what you've been creating using the Frantic Stamper Exclusive Precision dies!  You can join the group and see what others have been creating or you can upload your own creations by clicking here.

Thanks for visiting!

You're One of a Kind

So far on my blog this week I've covered Fall & Christmas and now I'm going to share a card that is just plain fun! :)

I have to admit that I kind of love this card!  I mean donuts with eyes?  How can you resist that?  LOL!  When I got my Lil' Inker Designs Eat More Donuts stamps and dies, this was the first card I made using them. The paper with the sprinkles just seemed to fit so well with sprinkled donuts too!

I love the little die that cuts out sprinkles too!  So cute!!  And the sentiments in this set are adorable!

 I used this photo for inspiration.  

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Thanks for visiting!  Have a great weekend!!

Supplies not Listed Above:

Patterned Paper: PTI

Twine: Londonderry Linen Thread Azalea

Triangle Trees

Did you get a chance to check out Clearly Whimsy's new release last week?  There were a lot of great new sets released! One of my favorites which is SO very versatile was the Tremendous Triangles set. I really like this set and so I pulled it out to make a Christmas themed card this time around.

I stamped various sizes of the triangles and embossed them.  Some I stamped directly on the card base and some I die cut out using the coordinating Tremendous Triangles die set and then stamped on to the die cut and embossed.  I also embossed several of the different sizes of snowflakes from the Sparkle & Shine stamp set in white.

I made a snowy, glittery hill using one of the dies from the Stitched Border Die set.  From this angle you can see the dimension of the trees and hill.  The sentiment stamped in gray at the bottom is from the Scandi Christmas set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Not Listed Above:

Embossing Powder: Zing Butter, Rose & Leaf; Recollections Glacier; Filigree White

Twine: Londonderry Canary Linen Thread

Cardstock: PTI Aqua Mist & White; DCWV White Glitter

Ink: Fresh Ink Provincial Gray