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Sunday, October 30, 2016

Blessings, Prosperity & Peace

So here is my next snowman post ...can't believe I posted 3 cards today, but I'm trying to make as many holiday cards as possible this year for charities!  This is another adorable image by Chrissy Armstrong from 2011!  I colored these cute snowmen with my Promarkers & mounted them on a red card base.  The setntiment is from Altenew's Holiday Wishes stamp set.  Hope you like it & thanks for stopping by to take a peek!!


Challenges Entered:

Crafting by Designs Get Ready for Christmas
Christmas Card Challenges #46
52 CCT Challenge Previous Sketch February 2013
Allsorts Challenge Lets Make A Start On Christmas
Craft Hazelnuts Christmas #305
Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes


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Wishing You The Joy Of The Seasons Part 2

This is another really cute digital stamp by Sassy Cheryl from 2010!!  Back then & still today she makes some really, seriously cute images to color.  I again colored the entire sky using the broad tip of the same blue Promarker as the previous card.  I then used Promarkers in purple, violet, red, tan & brown to color the images in. There were a lot of snowflakes in the background of this digital and I used a white gel pen to color them in.  I mounted the panel on a purple card stock base and stamped the same Hero Arts stamp at the top. Snowmen are so much fun & I have a few more cards to show you using them in the next couple days.  Hope you like it & thanks for stopping by & taking a peek!!


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Wishing You The Joy Of The Season

I've started the big push to get a lot of Christmas cards finished to donate to SendASmile4Kids & Caring Hearts Card Drive.  Most charities have an early deadline so that they have time to collect & redirect cards out to their hospital & nursing homes in time for the holidays.  The next few cards I will post were made mostly of some older stamps & digital images that I never got around to coloring, and I was determined to use them for some of my first cards.  This one is a Chrissy Armstrong image, I don't know the specific name.  I first took a blue Promarker & colored the sky with the broad tip.  Then I colored the girl in with green, brown & red Promarkers.  It's probably hard to tell from the picture, but the image came with a bunch of snowflakes in the background, and I took a white gel pen & colored them in.  The sentiment is from a Hero Arts stamp set.   I placed the panel on a red shimmered card base.  I think it turned out pretty cute!  Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!


Challenges Entered:

Pink Gem Challenge Snowflakes
Crafting by Designs Get Ready for Christmas
Cristmas Card Challenge #46
52 CCT Pick Previous Sketch - July 2014
Allsorts - Lets Make A Start on Christmas
CraftHazelnutsChristmas #305
Simply Create Too /Christmas Colors
Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes


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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Happy Thanksgiving

I made this Happy Thanksgiving card for the SendASmile4Kids box I'm sending off today.  I'm a couples days late past the suggested deadline, but most of my cards are generally themed, so I don't think it will matter so much.  I don't know the exact name of this Tilda image from Magnolia stamps, I either bought it from another blogger that was having a sale, or one it in a challenge.  Anyway...I think she's a cutie, and I colored her up with my Promarkers, cut her & the orange frame behind her with a set of stitched rectangles, and then placed her on the purple colored card base.  That Happy Thanksgiving sentiment is from a set I got ages ago from a My Creative Stamper fall set.  Thanks for stopping by!  I'm off to the post office!


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Sunday, October 9, 2016

Many Thanks

I managed to squeeze one more card out this weekend!  My son, daughter-in-law & granddaughter  are visiting here from Michigan.  We all went to a family wedding last night with my two daughters who live here and their husbands and children.  It was a fun crazy night!  Anyway....for this card I pulled out as many thank you stamps as I could find, arranged them all on a piece of white card stock, then heat embossed them with black Versafine Ink & clear embossing powder.  Next I used Tim Holtz distress inks, Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick and Peeled Paint to ink over the sentiments, and put the finished panel on a black note card. I used to be intimidated by these inks, but once I started playing with them, really got to like them!  Normally I would use these stamps only as a single sentiment on a card, but saw others using them as a card front & a way of stretching your stamps, and think it is smart & looks really good!  Thanks so much for stopping by!



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