SUper Friends October Swap Cards

Happy SUper Friends Saturday!  Today I have our October swap cards to share with you.  Our theme for this swap was holiday.  

Jaya's elegant card combines sweet stamped houses created with the Humble Home Bundle and Full of Life Designer Series Paper and a lovely background with the So Swirly Embossing Folder:

Judy created her gorgeous card with the One of a Kind Bundle and White Loose Snowflakes.  I love her combination of soft colors and metallics, plus the peek through semi-circle on the side of her card!

Sheila created a beautiful Northern light background for her amazing card!  She also has a cozy house created with the Humble Home Bundle, and I love how she cleverly used the Iridescent Faceted Gems to create chimney smoke!  She also used the Frosted Forest dies to complete her holiday scene.

Margery's stunning card features some very fancy layering of metallic and designer paper cut with the Decorative Trees Bundle on a background embossed with the Painted Trees Embossing Folder.  I love how she added Real Red and White Adhesive Backed Peppermints to decorate her tree!

Jane's stunning card features a background she created by placing white leaf die cuts on white card stock!  Then, she created some hanging mistletoe by combining a stamped image and some die cut card stock and designer paper made with the Season of Green and Gold Suite Collection, topped with a beautiful bow!  (I love the font Jane used to address the envelope, too!)

For my card, I decided to pair the More than Autumn Bundle with the Round we Go Bundle and create a winter holiday version of Tammy Wilson's amazing Halloween card!   For my blended background, I picked a combination of Pretty in Pink and Pool Party, and couldn't decide which of those colors I liked better on top, so made versions each way.  I also used the Pool Party Pom Pom Ribbon, White Loose Snowflakes and Pearlized Enamel Effects to add some fun dimension to the card:

Thanks so much to the SUper Friends for another inspiring swap!!!  

And, thank you so much for visiting my blog!

- Michelle

Garden Meadow Fun Fold Card and Treat Pouch

 Finally sharing the make and take projects from our October SUper Friends gathering!  We made a fun fold card with the Meandering Meadow Suite Collection, and then a heart-shaped gift pouch with 4 arches die cut with a Garden Meadow Bundle die from that collection, decorated with stamps and die cuts from the Thoughtful Expressions Bundle and the retired Paper Florist Bundle.  

Here's the fun fold card:

Here are a couple different versions of the treat pouch:

Please let me know if you have any questions about how we made these!

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Michelle

Envelope Inspired Cards!

Here are the six cards that I created with the backgrounds I showed you yesterday!  I trimmed down two of the backgrounds, and then cut two backgrounds in half to use on these cards.  I also stamped envelopes to match.  Greetings are on circles cut with the Spotlight on Nature Dies.  Greetings are from Spotlight on Nature, Country Birdhouse (hello friend), and Sharing Loving Crafting (Just to Brighten Your Day).  

I think this might be a fun design to recreate in other colors.  What color would you pick?

Pretty Envelope Inspiration!

 Do you ever feel like you have too many projects going on at once?  I'm there right now!  The good news is that I just finished up two big crochet projects today, and I am very close to finishing projects for a Halloween swap!  I will share more of those soon, but in the meantime, I did take a few minutes to make some backgrounds inspired by some pretty packaging I received a couple days ago!  Here's the packaging:

First, I had to figure out how to translate the color of the envelope into Stampin' Up! colors.  My first thought was that it reminded me of Pecan Pie, but when I put that next to the envelope, it didn't match as well as I'd hoped.  I decided to try Copper Clay instead, and that was a much better match!  

Then, I knew I wanted to do heat embossing with white, but had to figure out which stamp sets would give me the right look.  I ended up making four different variations.

  1.  Spotlight on Nature stamps

2.  Spotlight on Nature for the larger stamps, but then speckles from Country Birdhouse

3.  Thoughtful Expressions Stamps with the speckles from Country Birdhouse

4.  Botanical Beauty Background Stamp

Which of these four do you think is the best match to the envelope?  Which do you like the best?  

Thanks for visiting my blog!

- Michelle

Potions and Spells Treat Boxes

 Hi!  I've been working on a few different projects this week!  I've been working on a new organization system for my Paper Pumpkin kits, where I will have them stored by month instead of the current system which is somewhat chronological and somewhat of a jumble! 

I took a bit of a break from that to work on some care packages for my sons who are in college.   I actually used Paper Pumpkin boxes, turned inside out to send them some goodies!  Here's a picture of the two boxes packed up and almost ready to go:

One of the special treats inside the boxes is a cauldron box, stuffed with gummy candies.  I made the cauldron box using the Potions and Spells Bundle, plus the little frog stamp and die from the Sunshine and Smiles Paper Pumpkin kit (one of the treasures I rediscovered in my Paper Pumpkin organization process!).  Here are some close ups of the box:

These were so much fun to make!  I may have to put some more together!  I'm also going to create a video on how to assemble them, so please stay tuned for that!

Thanks for visiting,

Michelle

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