'Tis the Season!

Come and join the WeScrap iTeam this week on our week long holiday inspired trek! All of the iTeam designers will sharing holiday inspired projects. Play along and you could win a Guest Designer position in 2011!!

Join me today as I start off the week with some fun and easy holiday cards! Click HERE.


Click the image to check out my challenge for our event today! Hope to see you over at WeScrap.com!

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A "Saturday" on a Sunday


It's Sunday and I'm playing along with the layout ladies over at Mission to Create this week! This week's concepts are:

Deborah - use a day of the week in your title
Jocie - use newspaper
Nicole - stitch a frame around photo(s)
Vanessa - use pearls or something creamy white
Tonya - red, aqua, pink and orange

Here's my layout using all five concepts...

Saturday


supplies: stamps, myStamp BOX; patterned paper, stickers, die cut shapes; Crate Paper; twine, The Twinery; ink, Memento, Copic, Stampin' Up!, Ranger; pearls, Hero Arts; cardstock, Prism; glaze pen, Sakura; other, thread.

Here's a close up of my pearls on my snowflake die cut shape...

For my title I traced the circle on some scraps of white cardstock and then I stamped each individual letter from my myStamp BOX alphabet stamp set, "Funky Alphabet" along the curve. Once stamped, I cut around the images and then used my Copic airbrush to colour them with an orange and pink Copic. I used my Sakura glaze pen to add a bit of polish to the letters!

If you peak through the circle, you can see I also stamped the date using my "Mini Alpha" stamp set. I used the "20" on the printed page as part of my date: November 20. All the pretty snowflakes are part of the "Let It Snow" stamp set.

Come and join the Mission to Create team for your chance to win our prize package for this month.

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A Friend Is...

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American readers today!

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Last December, I had the honour of being a guest designer for Melanie Muenchinger over at Gina K. Designs. Melanie designs stamp sets for Gina K. and every once and awhile Melanie asks her previous guest designers to help her out.

I had the honour of guest designing with Mel's "Hand-in-Hand" stamp set. This set is so versatile. It features a variety of whimsical hand images and coordinating greetings and sentiments.

A Friend Is...

Supplies: stamps, Gina K. Designs (Hand in Hand, Very Merry Christmas); cardstock, Gina K. Designs, Bazzill; glitter glue, inks, Ranger; ink, Copic, Memento, Versamark; flowers, Prima; embossed tag, Provocraft; die cut circles, Spellbinder's; pearls, Hero Arts; other, thread, ribbon.

For my card I first die cut and embossed a simple circle of white Gina K. Designs "Pure Luxury" cardstock and stamped my hands using a beige Memento ink. I coloured my image using my Copic markers.

To make my green back ground, I used some other Gina K. stamps called A Very Merry Christmas to stamp in Versamark and then clear embossing powder was applied and heat set. I rubbed some glorious Distress Inks over it to reveal the embossed design.

I dry embossed a tag using a Provocraft embossing folder and then inked and distressed the edges. The sentiment is from Melanie's "Hand in Hand" stamp set as well.

Come and join me on Melanie's blog and just check out some of her incredible stamps and creations! This card is being featured on her blog today!

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Warm Wishes Coming Your Way!

I have been a sketch binge this week. You know how it goes... when you need inspiration you look for something to get your mojo going. So I literally went "mojo" this week... "Mojo Monday" that is! I went with inspiration from this week's #166 sketch:

(click the image to see the post)

Here's my card that I created using the sketch...

Warm Wishes

supplies: stamps, Flourishes; patterned papers, BasicGrey; die cut shapes, Spellbinder's; edge punch, clear beads, Martha Stewart; gold pearls, Micheal's; ink, Ranger, Versamark; embossing powder, Hero Arts; other, acetate.

I made my focal image a little shaker card. I used some clear mini beads from Martha Stewart inside.


Come and join in on this awesome sketch this week!

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