Christmas Bingo

Hey there friends:

I found this blog by accident (love when that happens) and thought it would be fun to play along.  Merry Monday #127.

I recently watched the amazingly talented Sue Wilson create a gorgeous card using a black die cut on adhesive with gilding flakes.  So using Sue's inspiration and Kathy's Christmas Bingo challenge I came up with this card for the Merry Monday Challenge.  I chose diagonal -sparkle, ribbon, buttons/brads or it could fit - sparkle, die cut, red....see for yourself and decide. What a fun challenge.

Using black cardstock and new Memory Box Eliana background die I cut my background. It was adhered to 2-sided sticky tape and covered with gilding flakes.  I stamped my sentiment onto black ribbon with versamark and heat embossed with gold powder.  Using the largest poinsettia from the Memory Box Plush Poinsettia corner die and attached a brad. It is so shiny in person,  luv how it turned out.

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I'm Back

Hey there blog friends; oh wow how nice it is to be back.  I've been away from my blog and crafting due to some health issues.

So lets get down to business and sharing a couple of my recent projects.  Hope you enjoy them.

I love Memory Box dies - they are so versatile and produce stunning results with very little effort.  The following cards were made from the new holiday release "Plush Poinsettia Corner" die.

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Contrast Casology 79

Hi Friends;
Wow another week and another challenge.  Time is just flying by :) This week's challenge over at CASology blog is:

I think this card took me all of 10 minutes.  Anyone who knows me will agree that this is certainly a rare occurrence....lol.  So here's my card:

I die cut 2 Prized Chrysanthemum by Memory Box with black c/s. The die was placed on each of the corners of the blue c/s and die cut again.  I fitted the black die cuts back into the negative die cut spaces of the blue c/s.   The blue c/s mats were cut using A2 Matting Basics by Spellbinders.  Sentiment was stamped using versafine black onyx ink.  The trickiest part of making this card was fitting the die cuts back into the negative spaces and gluing the intricate die cuts down.

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IO Blue Challenge

This card was made for my sister's birthday as she loves blue.  I will also be submitting it at Impression Obsession blog for their "blue" challenge.

The blue cardstock was stamped with rose lace cover-a-card stamp using perfect medium and then heat embossed using gold pearl e/p.  Using border die 2, I die cut blue cardstock and layered it with some ribbon and pearls.  The sentiment is from the hydrangea set.  I only own 2 IO stamp sets and luckily this one works nicely.

Impression Obsession Stamps

Cover-a-card rose lace

Hydrangea stamp set (sentiment)

Impression Obsession Dies

Border duo 2

Thanks for stopping, hope your keeping warm :) its -40 today burrrrrrrrr....lol.

Christmas Tag Exchange

Tags, tags and more tags....my 12 tags are done and ready to go....almost a week early.

Here are a few close ups.  The poinsettias were cut from Spellbinders, the branch is IO and the deer is from Tim Holtz.  The deer is cut out of wood veneer and inked using tea die distress ink.  I love how these turned out.

Wood Inlay Tags

Welcome blog friends:

I have to apologize for this very short post.  I just couldn't wait to share this very cool technique that I have been experimenting with. I stumbled on a tutorial (which I can't find right at the moment, but I will keep looking for it) whereby the tag was made using a piece of wood paper. Well I couldn't find any paper but did find very thin veneer.  Well it worked!  Shreek!  

A piece of very thin 1/32 birch wood veneer was die cut using a memory box die.  I carefully inked the die cut piece and then "inlayed" it back into the wood tag.  To keep the cut image from popping back out I covered the tag back with a piece of adhesive.  Distress inks were used to colour the die cut.  Please ignore the smudge that I got when stamping my sentiment.  I'll figure out a way to conceal that :) ha.

Ohhh I can't wait to try some more dies.  Here's another one.