trapped sequins (IamDoe, Basic Grey, Ribbon Girl, TPE )

It started with a sketch.  This one from Basic Grey.

Add sequin inspiration from this December Daily binder over at I am Doe.  And the cue word from CASology, sparkle (yeah, I know, the challenge is over - story of my life).  Let it mull around in my mind for...well, too long... and this is what I get.

Was kinda stumped by the, count 'em, 12 items on the sketch.  Loved the idea of sequins trapped in the plastic binder page so decided to trap them on my card front in 12 squares.  Tricky part was finding a "sentiment" to fit the 12 squares.  As you can see, I didn't.  But I went with C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s cuz I think our brains "get" that word at a glance.

Thought I would use tissue paper but it was too opaque to see the sparkle of the sequins.  Used a separator page from a photo-album-turned-art-journal and pretty much got the result I wanted.  Glued the die cut letters and a couple sequins before stitching.  Left a few sequins free to float around.

Could be tweaked, but I'm likin' the result.

Hooking up to these challenges:
The Ribbon Girl - December "Ho Ho Ho"
The Pink Elephant - #178 Photo Inspiration

Happy Day ya'll.

Supplies for merry christmas:

Paper: CS American Crafts, Neenah

Stamps:  sentiment WMS

Ink : Jenny Bowlin

Tools: sewing machine, die Memory Box (alpha), MFT

Other: sequins

sledding snowman (CTS, SSS)

This little guy graces my take on this week's sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch #8.

 Decided to go with die cuts down the sides of the front panel mimicking the sketch.  To keep the little guy from looking too lost in the middle I stamped some cream colored (Amuse Lemon Whip) snowflakes in the BG and some glittered snow hills and flakes.

 Also playing at Simon Says Stamp where the challenge is "Snowflakes".  Thanks for looking.

Supplies for happy holidays:

Paper: CS American Crafts, Neenah

Stamps:  American Crafts

Ink :Jenny Bowlin

Tools: die Memory Box

Other: glitter, glue, foam adhesive

shiny baubles (Moxie Fab, ATCAS, JayGees)

Remember those shiny baubles... in the wine... make me feel happy... make me feel fine... What was his name - the singer???  Anyhoo, this makes me happy:

Including this pretty little guy, aparently called a European Robin when translated (Rotkehlchen):

It's what I saw when I looked out my window while photographing today's card.  Happy winter!  Just in time for our Christmas tree cutting tomorrow.

Now back to our regular programming.  And the card on the chair in front of me.  Here she is.

Love of my life - negative die cutting with inlays.  Notice I didn't remove all the little pieces from the gold piece.  And I backed it with black (notice the black star in Jay Gee's inspiration photo).  A piece of washi, a piece of gold twine and a heat embossed sentiment with bling.  Voila.

Entering these challenges:

Tuesday Trigger - Shimmer and Shine

Addicted to CAS - Challenge #2

Jay Gee's Nook - Challenge #26

Happy weekend all!

Supplies for Celebrate the Season:

Paper: CS PTI, gold and black scrap

Stamps:  sentiment Hero Arts

Ink : Versamark

Tools: star Sizzix, Memory Box

Other: cord, washi, bling

using up more scraps (CFC, Dream Valley)

Coming in under the wire with a couple more tags for CASual Fridays #80 - Gift Tags.  More using-up-what's-taking-up-space-on-my-ironing-board-crafting-space.

Also playing at Dream Valley #46 -Non-Traditional Christmas cuz this is!  That holey red star used to hold mandarin oranges.  Just sayin'.

Here's another non-Christmas at all.  That tag upon the tag is die cut from a kleenex box.  Beautiful pink rose image on it.  Just sayin'.  Yep, they call me the re-cycler...

Have a great day.  Hope all your holiday prepping is going well.  Mine's not yet...

Supplies for tags:

Paper: tons of scraps

Stamps: BG WMS, sentiment Inkystamp, letters Fancy Pantx

Ink : Memento

Tools: dies:  PTI, Spellbinders, Sizzix, MFT, star punch ?

Other: cord, ribbon scraps

christmas angel (CFC, PC, SSS)

I used to give neighbors a mix of my homemade Christmas cookies every year.  A few years ago I started making a craft project every other year.  Here is a fantastic idea if you want to optimize "the bang for your buck" for homemade home decor gifts.  IMHO.

The idea was in a German magazine, "Landeslust".  Basically you cover a styrofoam ball for the head and a cardboard form for the wings with "Gipsbinden", and use a long nail for the head and two short nails to attach the wings to the wood.  A walk in the wilderness supplies materials for the halos.  Here is a photo of the rest of the group.

I created a "heavenly" tag bearing our Christmas wishes - the Hero Arts cloud background and a heat embossed sentiment.  CAS.  I'm entering these lovely ladies in the Paper Crafts December gallery as well as the tag challenge #80  at CASual Fridays.

Also playing in the Anything Goes Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

Appreciate your visit today.

Supplies for Merry Christmas tag:

Paper: tag Office Supply

Stamps:   Hero Arts

Ink :  Distress Ink, Versamark

Tools: 

Other: embossing powder, ribbon

frame by frame (Moxie Fab) and a winner

Lucky I got this one photographed before dark - in between six batches of Christmas cookie dough...
I recycled for this one - that should come as no surprise.  Upcycled actually.

When I saw the Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab it reminded me of a card I'd made for DD's bday which had found its way into my "old cards" box.  Feminine, pink, flourish of black.  Decided to turn the front panel into an anniversary card.  Inside now reads "nothing beats true love."

In the trigger the turquoise circle frame with the butterfly caught my eye.  So I added a turquoise heat embossed frame on vellum popped up on dimensionals with a stamped and pencil-colored butterfly behind it.  Voila.  Maybe in my next life I'll crochet some cool little frames.

Dear followers, thanks so much for your comments/advice on this post.  DD chose the number 3 which means Maria M. wins the wooden ornaments!  I'll be contacting you Maria (love the name BTW!).

Thanks for stopping by.

Supplies for love:

Paper: cardbase Buttinette, vellum

Stamps:   BG CHF, Fancy Pants, frame Viva, butterfly K and Co.

Ink : Cats Eye, Versafine, Versamark, Distress Ink

Tools: 

Other: embossing powder Zing, colored pencils

joining CASE study with candy canes (CASE, CTS, Dream Valley, KIS)

There has to be a first time for everything, right?  When I moved to Germany it took me nearly a year before I would try to speak German at work.  Not that my colleagues didn't encourage me.  I just wasn't willing to speak the language before about 80% of what I said was correct.  FYI, 20+ years later I'm up to about 95% and stagnating...

Well, so is my relationship with CASE Study.  I love the work of everyone over there but have not felt up to joining them.  Until this week - the last week of CASE #119 with November's muse, and I quote, "the exceptionally talented Angeline Yong."  I love this gal's work.  So I had to join in.

Here is Angeline's card.

I reverted to my CASEing-a-la-Aimes mode and this is what I got from this card - sweets, twine, dots.  I should say that is what I finally got.  The journey started with an idea of pink-snowflake-on-a-stick-with-a-twine-bow-and-embossed-dots-panel...blah, blah, blah.  Ya'll know how the creative process is some days.  Uncooperative.

But, I do like how this card turned out.  It's me.

Sweets, twine, dots.  Check.  It helped when I saw my candy cane stamp and also decided to use the CASE This Sketch again!  Heat embossed the candy cane and gave the little lollipops some Stickles to add some sweet shine.

And I was even going to use turquoise instead of green (more non-traditional), but when I went for the washi I liked the green dots better.  Does it qualify for Dream Valley's Challenge #46 "Non-Traditional Christmas," don't know but I'm hooking up anyway!  Also playing at Keep It Simple #2 - Washi.

Appreciate your visit.

Supplies for Holiday delights:

Paper: CS Neenah

Stamps:   American Crafts

Ink : Versamark, Versafine, Jenny Bowlin

Tools: corner rounder EKS

Other: embossing powder Ranger, baker's twine, washi Target (dots) and Rayher (stripes), Stickles