I will be heading out next week for our annual vacation in Bodega Bay for crab season so I am not sure how much video taping I will be able to do so I have set up several cards to post here for you - just in case I don't get any taping done. You can consider them my 12 Days of Christmas but they will be stretched out during the month of November to give you inspiration in creating your own cards this holiday season.
I have to sneak this one in right away since Halloween tomorrow! I love this gate die and can think of so many uses for it but we will start with the obvious - just an iron gate on eerie night! I started by sponging in the Daffodil Delight center, then worked out from there with Pumpkin Pie, Night of Navy, Eggplant Envy and finally Basic Black in the upper corners. At the bottom I used Eggplant Envy and the Basic Black. I added a few flying back and then placed my gate on the card front. The headstones were stamped in Basic Gray on Smoky Slate card stock. I purposely had the ink pad a bit on the dry side so it wasn't full coverage. This made it appear more textured like a headstone would be. A raven was stamped in Basic Black on Whisper White and cut out using my Scan N Cut. The sentiment was stamped in Eggplant Envy on Pumpkin Pie and trimmed to create a point.
Here on the inside of the card, I placed more headstones and stamped the Boo! from the Brushwork Alphabet set. That black & white ribbon at the top? Nope, wasn't planned but I got a black smudge at the last minute and didn't want to redo the entire piece so I just covered it up! I love being able to find solutions to problems like this instead of starting over.
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You knew it, didn't you? You saw this stamp set in the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog and knew that it would be on my list. You were so right! Of course my personal Christmas cards this year will be using this set as well but you can't see that one until they get out in the mail to the recipients. I thought I would share another one with you today instead. My wonderful upline, Stella MacKay held a meeting this week and I volunteered for a Make & Take for the evening and we made this card. There is a little bit of coloring but it goes pretty fast - making this a perfect Fast & Fabulous on Friday card!
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I just love this stamp set as the little kittens are so adorable. This is a card that I designed as a Make and Take at my #NorCalStampinEvent back in August and I thought it would be a perfect card to share with you on a Fast & Fabulous Friday. In this picture, the burlap background is stamped using Lemon Lime Twist ink while in the video I show the difference if you use Versamark. In fact, you can barely see the stamped image in the video! Versamark is great on the darker card stocks but on lighter ones, it doesn't show as well although that just may be the effect that you are looking for so definitely play around with it.
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Wow, I cannot believe how long it has been since I posted to my blog! I am so sorry that such a long time has gone by. What a crazy few months it has been with travel, family health issues and house issues. There has been so much going on since I last blogged including the Holiday catalog (don't you just LOVE it?) and the announcement of Stampin' Blends. Today's video & post introduce you to the Stampin' Blends which will be available to customers hopefully by the end of the year. (UPDATE: Naturally as soon as I do my video, they publish a release date! They will be available to order on November 1.) A project kit and a stamp set are also being offered with their release (while supplies last) and you can get a look at the stamps in today's blog post as well.
Also, to celebrate, Stampin' Up! is running a contest on Facebook. If you go over to their Facebook page HERE and find the post announcing the contest. Like, comment or share for a chance to win a full set of the blends (1st prize) or a single combo pack (100 winners). No purchase necessary! Who wouldn't want to do that? Now for my project:
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