Polar Bear Shaker Card!

Hopefully I'm back for a while haha. My mondays ended up being really busy this year so I might switch to a new day, but we'll see, 

Anyway, today I have a shaker card! I started off with a piece of kraft cardstock and die cut the Simon Says Stamp Holiday Frames die. I kept the 'Christmas' letters in. Then I set that aside and used a piece of white cardstock. I stamped the polar bear and masked him off, then stamped the tree. I cut out two snowbanks and adhered those down. I faintly coloured in the polar bear with distress ink just to give him some shading.

Then I put the shaker card together. I am pretty sure you guys have seen it a million times haha. Used a piece of acetate from some packaging and some foam tape and filled the shaker part with some little bead things from Michaels. I stamped the background on the cardbase with white pigment ink and then adhered the shaker to the card base. I used my wink of stella on the 'Merry Christmas.'

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Busy, Busy, Busy.

Sorry, I haven't posted in the past two weeks. I've been busy with school, work, drama and dance. I will do my best to try and resume my regular Monday posts next week!

Christmas Tags with Lawn Fawn!

I made a set of 5 gift tags. I used a My Minds Eye paper pad which is unfortunately retired and couldn't link to. :/

But these were quick and easy to make using only one stamp set. I first stamped, embossed and die cut all the tags and then decorated accordingly. To make matching reinforcements I 'smooshed' the versamark ink pad onto some scrap paper and poured embossing powder all over and die cut out of the embossed paper. 

Not much to explain haha. They're pretty self-explanatory.

I also did the backs and since the paper is double sided it made it a lot quicker. 

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Balloon Travel + SSS Wednesday Challenge

I'm just squeezing this in to a Monday post. haha. It's 11:30 where I live. Ooops. 

But today I'm entering this card into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: (Floating away on balloons counts as a type of transportation, right? haha)

I started by stamping and masking the balloon repeatedly to create the cluster of balloons, then took a black sharpie to create the strings. I stamped the deer and then coloured the deer and balloons in with distress inks and a water brush. I also water coloured the grass. I die cut the balloons from white cardstock and adhered them down. 

 I inked around the edges with tumbled glass distress ink and then adhered it to an A2 card. I chose to not add a sentiment because I felt like it would have been too much on the card and I didn't want to add anything else. I loved how it turned out, and it would work well for almost any occasion! 

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Gingerbread Holiday!

Hello, hello, 

I just love how this card turned out. Everything just came together. It was a crap ton of fussy cutting, so definitely not one I will be making a lot of. haha.

I paper pieced everything haha. I started off with the house then stamped and cut out the gingerbread men and the trees. I cut a slit on the side of the door so I could tuck the little gingerbread man behind. 

 I inked the background with distress inks and stamped a few snowflakes along with the sentiment. I even cut out the little blue accents on the dress! Dedication. ;)  I cut two snow banks from white card stock and then adhered everything together. Some with foam dots, some flat. I also doubled up the foam dots on some pieces, To finish it off, I added my Clear Wink of Stella to the trees, gingerbread man and the tops of the trees, added some pearls and matted it onto a white A2 card. I tried to capture the shimmer for you. You can kinda see it on the gingerbread men. Everything just really worked together well. A short and sweet blog post today, hope you enjoyed! 

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Simon Says Stamp Haul!

Who doesn't love happy mail? My day was completely made when I came home to this! haha.

The first thing I got was the Clearly Besotted Honeycomb stamp set. this video by Kristina Werner really sparked my interest in this stamp set.

 I ordered my first couple of SSS ink pads! I don't really know why I ordered Coral Reef though. haha. I'm not a huge orange fan. It was random choice. But oh well. I'll make use of it! 

 I ordered Peeled Paint because when I was going through my distress inks I didn't have a good green to stamp trees in. I had Pine Needles, but it has such a strong blue undertone to it. So this one is perfect.

 Pretty self explanatory. haha.

 I don't know why it took me so long to hop on the Wink of Stella train, but man am I ever glad I did. haha. It's definitely worth the hype! 

 A cute and sweet little stamp. I ordered this with the intention of using it on gift tags! 

 This stamp set is so fricken cute and has been on my wishlist forever. Didn't get the matching dies though which is sad. Being on a budget sucks haha. (ps. A card will be going up on Monday featuring this stamp set)

 Okay, I didn't realize how much I loved every single one of Avery Elle's stamps! They're all perfect! They have such a unique look to them! This one is Storybook. And they just came out with a 'part two' and I can't wait to get my hands on it! 

 Because you can never have too many snowflakes, right? haha. And these ones by Lawn Fawn have the cutest little stitching detail! 

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(InLinkz is being weird. The Stitched Snowflakes and the Coral Reef inkpad would not come up. I don't get what's going on haha.)

Glittery Gold Autumn Leaves

Oooh fall is in the air! This is the prettiest season by far. Golden leaves, crisp weather, wheat fields and cozy sweaters! :)

For this card I started with a piece of cream cardstock. I used white modelling paste (but actually looks translucent. I really need to invest in the Wendy vechhi one. haha) through a Heidi Swapp stencil. I let that dry and moved onto the leaves. I did the same thing that I did on my last card haha. I stamped using the reverse side of the stamp and then used the right side with a darker colour. I sprayed each one with a gold colour shine.

 I fussy cut them all out. I heat embossed the sentiment and cut banner edges. I took another leaf stamp and stamped it in gold ink so they're just peaking out behind the panel.  I layered everything together and that was it! It's a very classy and elegant card! I definitely will do more of these haha. The only downfall is fussy cutting out all the leaves. They're such a pain! 

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(Again, I used recollections cardstock and couldn't find a link to the modelling paste I used, So I linked to alternatives which in my opinion would be better anyway! haha.)