Shopping Our Stash Challenge #276 Home Sweet Home

Challenge #276 at Shopping Our Stash is Home Sweet Home......use a house or any building on your project. This should not have been a difficult challenge for me, I had a plan and you know what often happens to plans....they go south quickly. As you know we have closed the cottage for the winter and all my craft supplies are home unfortunately they have not all found their way back to their proper homes. After several hours of searching I gave up finding my never been opened package of double sided sheets so I could do the Burnished Velvet technique so with time getting short I went with plan B.

The stamp is a Thomas Kinkade inked with Brillance Mediterranean Blue, I added some light sources then covered it with a scrap of vellum which is attached with some very ancient brads. The cardstock is Ballet Blue (retired) and Recollections Silver.

Finished inside.

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Getting Sentimental with the Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #199

I had plans, lots of plans for this challenge but only one card emerged from my plans. while planning this one I found that my two Brilliance ink pads were in dire need of ink lucky me I was heading to The Butterfly Moon in Lyndoch as Natalia will re-ink them for me, it's just a perk of buying from her, we take our own inks to class if we have them. So the card was on hold for a day or two. I changed my mind two or maybe three times on how to assemble it......so here is my card with the sentiment as the focal point.

The sentiment is from Stampabilities stamped with brilliance Mediterranean blue, I stamped the Thomas Kinkade Silent Night image with brilliance ice blue. I love the subtle look.

I carried the subtle theme to the inside and stamped the Hampton Art stamp sentiment across the TK cottage scene.

I'm entering this in:
Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #199 Let's get sentimental.

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All That Glitters…Challenge #112 @ Drunken Stampers

I did it again……slipped in a card for the Flirtini Challenge week, I hope they don’ t mind. First I did think the last challenge of 2012 was a combined one, second I love glitter and couldn’t let it go by without making a card with lots of GLITTER. So if you didn’t arrive here from the Drunken Stampers blog head over there and check out what you need to do to join in the glittery mess I got into. Just click HERE,

Here is what I came up with for some inspiration to get that glitter out and create.

I used my brand new Nellie for the oval, it was fun poking all the little cuts out of it too. Although you cannot tell the image is covered in cool tone Ritz Glitter. The inside of the card is posted below.

I used the silver glitter piece that was cut from what I used for the frame. The sentiment was sitting finished in my box of bits.

What I used

Stamp Thomas Kinkade Silent Night

Nellie Ovals Spellbinder ovals

Ink Brilliance Sky Blue pearlescent

Cardstock….GP White, Pacific Point

Glitter cardstock from the dollar store.

Sentiment ….not sure of what company

Snowflakes…EK mini punch

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Silent Night

It’s December already, wow why do the days move so fast? Before long Christmas will be here. I am working on Christmas cards and this is the one I made today. It’s Thomas Kinkade stamp called Silent Night. I stamped it on GP white with Brilliance Mediterranean Blue covered it with a large piece of Sookwang tape then Glitter Ritz cool highlights. Mounted the image on night of navy and GP white then attached it to a base  of Bashful Blue cardstock.  It was a very quick and easy but a very messy project. I’m still wearing a lot of glitter.
                          
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