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Ho Ho Ho Bauble

Inspiration: Sunday Stamp #342

I have been crafting all weekend long with the Mistletoe Kisses collection from Simple Stories (2016). I was down to very limited scraps, but the Sunday Stamp sketch inspired me to fussy cut the cute bauble image from the cut-aparts and use at as the circle on my centre square. I added a few embellishments on the O's and I matted the striped paper with Glacier glitter cardstock. I added a fussy cut image to an aqua envelope to match.

 

 

 

Supplies
Cardstock: Thick Basic White (Stampin' Up!); Glacier Glitter Cardstock (PinkFresh Studio)
Patterned Papers: Mistletoe Kisses (Simple Stories)
Dies: Dotted Rectangle Stackables, Stitched Banners (Lawn Fawn); 
Stitched Mini Scallop Square STAX (My Favorite Things)
Accessories: Silver Rockette, Mini Buttons (Queen & Co);
Stampin' Dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); A2 Seafoam Envelope (Envelopes.com)

 

Snowpeople Duo

Inspiration: 52 Christmas Card Throwdown + Mojo Monday sketch #232 

I looked through my stamps and dies for some snow people and landed on the Cool Dudes stamp set from Paper Smooshes. I love those little images, they are fun and quick to colour and look so good on a card. I pulled out the Sugar Plum collection (2016) from My Mind's Eye, which is on my list of paper pack I would like to use up. 

I picked the paper that has little trees on it to give my snowmen a background and as I was moving stamp sets around, I noticed that the Winter Wishes set has a die for the main sentiment, so I decided to use it on my card. I had a piece of vellum lying on my desk and decided to emboss on it. As I was looking at colours options, I found that my Distress glazes would pair nicely, so I tested a couple of colours and decided to use the Speckled Egg version. I particularly like that since the glaze is not opaque, the sentiment looks like it is made out of ice. 

I paired two patterned papers to create the background, added a thin strip of striped paper in the center and I matted the image with a scalloped square to help it stand out more against the patterns. I punched a ribbon hole and added Pretty Peacock ribbon around the papers. I used the Cheery Snowflakes dies from Carta Bella and Glacier glitter paper to create snowflakes to add to the card, topping one of them with a Graphic 45 gem.

I used a piece of plaid patterned paper to make a matching envelope. I die-cut an address block out of Pool Party cardstock, added another small snowman image in the corner and my remaining snowflake in the top corner. I like how the glittery line of the patterned paper frames the block.

I love making Christmas/wintery card in soft candy colours. This turned out pretty cute. Only downside is that the glittered papers shed all over my desk and my clothes, so I'm going to be one sparkly lady for the rest of the evening.

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies
Stamps and Dies: Cool Dudes, Winter Wishes (Paper Smooches)
Cardstock: Pear Pizzazz, Pool Party, Vellum (Stampin' Up!); Solar White (Neenah);
Glacier Glitter Paper (PinkFresh Studio)
Patterned Papers: Sugar Plum (My Mind's Eye)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); VersaMark
Dies: Zig-Zag Stackers (Penny Black); Wonky Stitched Squares (My Favorite Things);
Scalloped Square Nestabilities (Spellbinders); Cheery Snowflakes (Carta Bella)
Accessories: Ribbon Hole Punch (Fiskars); Speckled Egg Distress Glaze (Ranger);
Stampin' Dimensionals, Pretty Peacock Ribbon, Envelope Punch Board (Stampin' Up!);
Gems (Graphic 45); Markers (Copic)

 

Not Superstitious

Inspiration: April 2024 Page Maps sketch

I was looking through my pictures to find birthday pictures to pair with Simple Stories' Birthday collection and I stumbled onto this picture of my niece, wearing clothes and holding an umbrella that matched the colour scheme from the collection perfectly. This picture has nothing to do with her birthday, but the patterns from the papers are generic enough that I thought I could work around that. I used a sketch to get my design started and I moved elements around to fit my picture size: the tag was pushed to the right side rather than be tucked underneath the picture (in part because I was using the bunting paper and did not want to hide that pattern) and I moved the title to the bottom of the picture, as it was going to be a long word.

I was debating getting my sewing machine out and laziness won so I did not, but I did go searching for my stitching rub-ons and found instead some very old Stampin' Up! rub-ons, with one of the sheet including olive green rub-ons that matched the collection very nicely. I picked the flourish and added it to the bottom right corner. I also added the "You make me happy." sentiment. I found some number stickers from an old Stampin' Up! Project Life kit and added my date at the bottom as well.

Since the Birthday collection is a small one, it does not include a tag sheet like the larger-sized collections do. I went looking through my other Simple Stories collection for something in matching colours and I found a tag that could work in the Heart Eyes collection. In it, I also found some decorative brads I could add to my layout, as well as a cute pair of pink glasses. On top of the tag, I tied a triple layer of sparkly green metallic ribbon, and I added a piece of thin washi where the pink topper part ends for added details.

 

 

 

 

Supplies
Cardstock: Tempting Turquoise (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers, Cardstock Stickers: Birthday (Simple Stories)
Accessories: Project Life Stickers, Parakeet Party Metallic Woven Ribbon, Washi Tape,
Love & Happiness Rub-Ons (Stampin' Up!); Black Roughly Sewn Rub-Ons (49 & Market);
Heart Eyes Decorative Brads, Enamel Dots and Tag Patterned Paper (Simple Stories); 
Turquoise Little Letters (Queen & Co); Doll Thickers (American Crafts)

 

Birthday Gift Squares

Inspiration: Simon Says Stamp Monday (Happy Birthday) + Freshly Made Sketch #648 

After completing my layout using Simple Stories' Birthday collection, I proceeded to make a card with the collection as well. I was inspired by the Freshly Made Sketch since the sticker sheet had three gift stickers, which worked out well with the three squares from the sketch.

I used one of the dies from the Stitched Mini Scallop Squares set from My Favorite Things and I layered them over the yellow star paper using foam tape. I popped the gifts with dimensional adhesive over the squares as well. The top one was a little short, so I filled the empty space using one of the little dot stickers. I picked two sentiment stickers from the cardstock sticker sheet - "Happy Birthday" and "and many more!" and I added those to the center gift.

I added striped paper on each side of the yellow paper, adding green sparkly washi tape as well. I picked my card size based on how tall my block would be once the three squares would be stacked, so the card is 4" x 7". This was one of the sizes featured on the Envelope Punch Board, so I was able to grab patterned paper and make a matching envelope, using one of the cut-apart to make an address block.

 

 

Supplies
Cardstock: Thick Basic White (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers, Cardstock Stickers: Birthday (Simple Stories)
Dies: Stitched Mini Scallop Squares STAX (My Favorite Things)
Accessories: Envelope Punch Board, Washi Tape, Stampin' Dimensionals (Stampin' Up!)