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This is one of my fall back on sketches. It works for any theme and works both vertically and horizontally.
I had a small strip of Trimming the Town DSP sitting on my desk and it was perfect for this card. I used Misty Moonlight card stock to mat the DSP and image. The image is stamped with Memento and coloured with my Misty Moonlight, Real Red, Smokey Slate, Petal Pink and Granny Apple Green.
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Vertical or horizontal, Trimming the Town works wonderful.
Again I both the Trimming the Town and Snowflake Splendor DSP pack but a different house from the stamp set and added the cute little VW bug. Not only does the coordinating die set cut out the houses, trees and car but notice the snowbanks, they too are included in the die set.
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Happy Monday, hope that you had a wonderful weekend. I certainly did and managed to get caught up on a lot of things. Got a busy work week ahead so rest was important.
I played with the Trimming the Town Suite this weekend and finished up my cards. My home is a faux log home so of course I had to turn the set into one. I used my Cinnamon Cider blends and then my Cinnamon Cider marker to make the logs.
Now the Trimming the Town suite does include with a DSP pack which is great but I used the Snowflake Splendor DSP for the background but I did use Trimming the Town DSP pack for the sentiment.
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From Christmas cards and a sneak peek from our January-June catalogue? Since demos can preorder I did take advantage of that opportunity as I had a few credits to use up. I didn't get much but I just had to get one stamp set and some DSP. They are from a suite called Snail Mail and you guessed it, it has lots of Snails! Cute Snails!
No stamping for this card, it is all DSP right down to the sentiment. The paper is so cute, it is a mix of smaller background patterns like this mushroom one and then it has some big bold images that you can fussy cut out or when they are available (just waiting to hear) there are coordinating dies. I used one of the labels from Hippo Happiness and sponged on a little Pool Party and Crumb Cake to make it look like they are on the ground. The sentiment is from the back of the mushrooms and actually has English and French but I used the French one as it was closest to the edge and the big snail looks French to me! It must be that moustache!
Have a wonderful day,
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Welcome to December's Blog Hop, this month our theme is Something New, Something Old and since it is December and I still have a few Christmas cards to make, I've got Christmas cards for you, one using a new set and one using a really old Stampin' Up set.
I have used the same layout and colours, Whisper White and Seaside Spray. First I used the Gnome for the Holidays set, just love these gnomes.
I used the beautiful Winter Snow embossing folder for the background and then the sentiment is Silver heat embossed and I added a few Silver foil snowflakes from a retired die set. My little gnome is coloured with Highland Heather and Purple Posy blends.
Now my old set is from 2001 and it is called Sunny Seasons. I love this set, reminds me of all the years that we spent Christmas in the sunshine and heat of the desert.
For this card I used our Evergreen embossing folder because if I used the Winter Snow folder, it would be more of a polar bear dip card!
Well, that it is for me today, enjoy the rest of the hop and Merry Christmas to you all and hopefully 2021 will bring many blessings.
Now onto Sharon's blog
And just in case you get lost, here are all of us hopping.
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making me wish we were able to be somewhere warm just like my Santa!
This is a really old set that I love, Sunny Seasons from 2001 and I will never part with it. I always make a few cards with this set each year for my warm locale friends. And don't forget to add a little oomph to your cards with our fabulous Fine Tip Glue pen. I used it on his glasses, the lights and the suns rays, to really make them pop.
Tomorrow I have another card using this guy as part of our Around the World Blog hop.
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Hope that you had a wonderful weekend, I certainly did even though it was cold! But better than snow, right?
Finishing off my Christmas cards, I again pulled out my Gnome for the Holidays set.
I told you I liked Blue for Christmas and this card uses Seaside Spray and Pacific Point . The DSP is from Snowflake Splendor and yes, Seaside Spray is not listed as one of the coordinating colours but I think that it works beautifully.
The gnome is coloured with the Light and Dark Seaside Spray blends. Simple layout, great for using up those bits of DSP, the strips are 1 x 4 perfect for our 12 x 12 papers.
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Woohoo, and since I had the Trimming the Tree DSP on my desk, here is a super easy, no stamping card.
I did use the coordinating dies to cut out the trees and house but if you don't have them, they really are not hard to fussy cut. Easy card perfect way to end the week.
Have a fabulous weekend and stamp a little (or a lot!). See you Monday.
Todays card I cased from Amanda Bates, an English SU Demo, I just loved her card and then I went a bit crazy and just kept on making them changing up the colours. So here is the one I cased,
The sentiment strips are from Trimming the Town DSP and that Christmas tree is from the head of the girl gnome, Brilliant right! Then I used Pool Party and Misty Moonlight and omitied the lower sentiment
Then more traditional with Real Red.
And finally, back comes the Purple Posy.
Yes the cards are square 5 1/4 and I have some envelopes from when we carried them years ago so yes, getting rid off using up some of my stash!Thanks Amanda for designing such a great card.
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Truthfully I am a " Blue & Silver" decorating type for Christmas, have been for years so using more traditional colours like Reds and Green really is a stretch. But today, you got it, Red and Green.
This is again a Sketch I use a lot. Regular card base, 4 x 5 1/4 layer, then a 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 image panel, sometimes matted sometimes not. I used the beautiful Winter Snow embossing folder for the background and then I stamped the gnome and coloured him with our Pencil Crayons.
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