Thursday, October 3, 2024

Reindeer Fun Christmas Card

Here's a full reveal of the other card we made at our Open House on Saturday!  For this card, we used the Reindeer Fun Bundle with some traditional Christmas colors.  





The belly and tail of the deer were colored with a white watercolor pencil, and we added a bit of color in the ears with Flirty Flamingo watercolor pencil as well.  

The bell is stamped on Gold Mercury Vellum with Memento Tuxedo Black, and colored with Real Red Stampin' Blends.  This didn't go smoothly at the open house as for some reason, the ink went straight to the back of the vellum!  I thought maybe I'd used Black Stazon for my sample, but checked when I returned home and my Black Stazon is still awaiting reinking, so couldn't have been that!  Not quite sure why that was happening -- only other thing I can think is that the lighting was brighter at the open house than in my stamping space at home, and that made the ink soaking to the back more obvious?  Anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks for visiting my blog!

- Michelle

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Humble Home Gingerbread House Tag

Today's Open House with Connie and Michelle project reveal is the tag I designed with the Humble Home Bundle.  




The tag and snow layer were cut with the Greetings of the Seasons Dies.  The greeting and house were stamped in Pecan Pie ink.  After punching out the house, we colored that and the heart with watercolor pencils.  We actually ended up finishing up with some of the Real Red and White Baker's Twine plus some white snowflake embellishments, which I got after I'd photographed my samples.  I have an assembly video up on Facebook and Instagram, and you can see the white snowflakes in that!

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Assembly Video for Connie's Splendid Autumn Card

 Hi again!  In my last post, I mentioned I'd created a video of myself assembling the card kit Connie gave me for her card at our open house!  Well, it turns out that video is a little too big for me to upload directly here, but I can share a link so you can view it on my Facebook business page!  Here is the link.  Please let me know if that doesn't work, and I'll work on figuring out a different way to share it!  

Connie's Splendid Autumn Cards

Today I'm sharing the stunning cards Connie created for our Open House on Saturday with the Splendid Autumn Suite Collection, plus daisies cut from the Cheerful Daisies Dies.  Connie had three different designs for attendees to choose from. 




I finally had a chance to put together my kit today (and made a video of myself doing that, which I will share shortly), but one thing I was excited to learn is that the frame die in the Autumn Expressions Dies cuts pieces that will layer on each other!  Not sure why I hadn't picked up on that before!  Luckily, Connie had figured that out already!  :) 

Also, you'll see in the video that Connie ended up stamping the center strip of designer paper with the Sketched Plaid Background Stamp

Thanks for visiting my blog!

- Michelle

Monday, September 30, 2024

Connie's Sentimental Christmas Tree Tags!

 Thought I'd kick off sharing the projects from the recent open house Connie and I hosted by sharing the beautiful tag Connie designed!  She prepared two different designs for attendees to choose from, both using papers from the Sentimental Christmas Suite.  The tree die cuts are made with the Decorative Trees Bundle, and Connie made the layer easier to assemble by die cutting the top layer for the tree with an adhesive sheet attached to the back!  Peel and stick!  We also added a strip of the designer paper to the back of the tag!  So festive and fun!  






Which of these tags did you pick if you came, or would you have picked, if you were there?  Leave a comment and let us know!

Thanks for visiting!

- Michelle

Friday, September 20, 2024

A Friend Like You Brings Me Happiness

 Busy times at our house, as our youngest gets ready to head off to college, but I couldn't resist playing along with this month's Stampin' Through the Catalog case the designer challenge!  I love the card Melissa Faust created for the challenge, as well as the beautiful cards created by the Stampin' Through the Catalog team!  

For my card, I decided to use Melissa's layout, including the use of the plaid embossing folder in the backround!  I also used many of the same colors (Crumb Cake, Garden Green, Blackberry Bliss, Pecan Pie, Peach Pie).  I chose the Winterly TreeTops Bundle for my stamped images, as well as the Autumn Expressions Bundle for the die cut leaves behind the birds.  That is metallic card stock framing the Crumb Cake layer behind the birds and leaves!  





This was a fun challenge!  Would love to know if you end up playing along with it, too, and see what you create!

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Splendid Autumn Gratitude Card

 Is it starting to feel like fall for you?  It definitely is starting to feel like it here.  The weather has cooled off a bit, and I'm noticing some leaves are starting to change color already!  

I wanted to make a thank you note for a friend who ordered recently, and I really enjoyed using the Splendid Autumn Suite Collection to create this card.  I'm looking forward to making more cards with this Collection soon!