12 Days of Christmas--Day 3!

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Hello and welcome back to Day 3 of our 12 Days of Christmas Hop—I hope you are enjoying what we have both been sharing so far!

My project for today is a fun pull out card—or a pocket card—you can decide which name suits it best. But it is a card style that I do tend to make each year as its such an easy way to add a gift card. I have 3 teens myself and lots of teenage nieces and nephews, so gift cards are a popular gift!

I am trying out my new logo on this photo—what do you think? After 3 amazing years on the artisan team its time to start a re-brand with my new logo!

The base of this card is Old Olive and its simply folded like a standard tent style card, however, on one side you make another score mark at the 1 1/2 inch point. This folds down to create the ‘pocket’.

I added a second strip of Old Olive card stock 1 1/4 x 4 that I ran through the Snowflake Sky embossing folder. To the keep the flap down, I used the 3/4 Herringbone Ribbon from the Annual Catalogue, tied around and secured with some Linen Thread. Sometimes using wider ribbon can be tricky and I thought this was a really good use for it.

 

I wanted to use the Beary Cute Bundle for this project so I stamped out a big and little polar bear in Pebbled Path ink.

I have been using Pebbled Path quite a bit for outlining images lately. Its not quite as harsh as black.

I used my Pool Party Blend over some of the details on the Polar Bears to add a subtle bit of color and to introduce another color into the card. As you can see with the Beary Christmas DSP, its a very green card. I also colored over some of the snowflakes on the DSP with my Pool Party Blend marker (it might not show in the photo but you can see it in real life).

On the Basic White pull out part, I stamped some of the snowflakes from the stamp set in Pool Party, but I stamped them off first, so they are very faint. The sentiment is stamped in Mossy Meadow ink.

Lastly I added a few Iridescent Pearls to the pull out portion for a little bling!

Head on over to Melanie’s blog to check out her fantastic project! Just click this image below and it will take you right there!

Please feel free to shop my online store by clicking any image—-if I have inspired you and you need supplies, please feel free to shop! It helps to keeping loving what I do!

Creative Convention--Day 7!

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Yay! A whole week of fun and inspiration! I have had an amazing time at Backstage being inspired myself so I wanted to inspire you as well! I hope you have enjoyed all of my posts so far and I have gotten you excited for the upcoming Holiday catalogue!

My last project had to be a scrapbook page, there was no way I could not share one as that is actually my passion. While I do enjoy making cards, I really LOVE making scrapbook pages!

I really wanted to use the new Festive Tags —kits are on sale this month, and I love how SU released a new kit and put it on sale for us! Isn’t that amazing? I always love our tag kits as I find them to be extremely valuable in content and a total time saver when the holidays get busy!

I thought these tags would look awesome as a banner on a scrapbook page and I was right! I was so easily able to bring my vision to life with this tag kit. I love the color palette of the kit—Lost Lagoon, Pool Party, Sweet Sorbet, Flirty Flamingo with gold accents!

I also printed my christmas picture in black & white—the reason is that I find holiday photos almost overwhelming with all the color and it sometimes competes with the colors in your scrapbook page, so this is an easy solve—print in black & white so it is a neutral canvas!

There is only one things stamped on this page because I could not resist this sentiment. I was absolutely perfect for this page! You can find ‘Christmas is better Together’ in the Beary Cute stamp set. I love it so much!

I also decided that my Pool Party background needed a little something and since I had already added polka dot Pool Party DSP (from the 6x6 Subtles paper collection) to my page I decided to continue that theme. The easiest way to add polka dots is with a finger dauber! It is the ideal size as the scale works perfectly on scrapbook pages and cards.

Not only does this kit have adorable tags but it also has cut things like snowmen, trees, ornaments and a whole bunch of holiday words that are STICKERS! Yes, this actually a stamp free kit!

I miss these little kids—this was christmas eve 2012! They say the days are long but the years are fast and it is so true!

I really hope this scrapbook page encourages you to look at our Kits as a whole in a new way. I often find I can use the elements to create completely different projects than intended!

Thank you so much for being a part of my “Creative Convention”—please feel free to shop with me if you do not have a demonstrator. I love what I do and your support allows me to keep doing it!

And if you missed yesterday’s post, please go back and take a look and consider joining me and Tricia for the Joy of Christmas Stamp Camp on October 21st on Zoom! We would love to spend the day stamping with you!