Paper Craft Crew 220 Sketch Challenge

Happy Thanksgiving eve! We are finishing up the last little touches of cleaning the house before my in-laws get here for our feast tomorrow! I am sorry I am a little late with my post... the barometer and my head aren't always in sync and I was fighting a nasty headache!

So the Paper Craft Crew has a fun sketch for you all to play along with! I know that our design team really took this sketch to a brand new level.



 I really wanted to use a set that I feel like hasn't gotten enough attention from the Holiday Occasions catalog! I am really starting to fall in love with the "Be Jolly, By Golly" photopolymer set! It is so whimsical! So here is my design team submission for this weeks sketch!

I am loving the bright colors that I am seeing for Christmas this year! Crazy thing is that this card actually coordinates with my Christmas Tree decor! The color combo I chose was Old Olive, Bermuda Bay and Perfect Plum with some touches of Smoky Slate! I used our amazing stitched squares that are adhered to a Silver Glimmer Paper Layering Square. Those cute little ornaments are from the set Be Jolly By Golly along with my fun and funky winter scene complete with trees! The Christmas Greeting thinlit "Merry" is layered onto two die cuts of Old Olive!
I am going to cut this short because I have much to be doing! Thank You so much for stopping by!

Paper Craft Crew 214 Merry Christmas

Good Morning! It is a chilly fall morning here! It rained on and off most of the night and we even had a thunder storm go through! Spent the evening last night helping or maybe I should say encouraging my oldest to do his homework. I can't seem to get through to him how important it is just go to get it done!!! 

As I told you last week The Paper Craft Crews Challenge #214 is a two week challenge and I decided since I am on the design team, instead of not doing a post at all I would share another card that this sketch inspired me to make!

Challenge Details

I can't believe how easy this card came together!! I just love the fact that it exudes the lodge, rustic like feel that I wasn't necessarily going for but... this may be my personal Christmas card this year!
I started with the Very Vanilla card stock and used the Merry Medley background stamp with Crumb Cake ink at somewhat of an angle. I am a huge fan of our new Layering Dies and as you can see above the squares are what I used to make my Crumb Cake and Warmth & Cheer DSP Square. The Peaceful Pines Bundle was one of my favorites from last years Holiday Catalog and I was so pleased to see it carry over into our Annual! I simply stamped the tree with Garden Green ink onto the Very Vanilla Card Stock and used the coordinating die to cut this with my Big Shot! I knew that somehow I needed to achieve the strip of paper. Knowing I wanted to keep with my rustic approach I crinkled up the music pattern in the This Christmas Designer Series Specialty Paper a few time and did a quick swipe with snail to adhere it to my card. I then attached the tree to the layered square using Stampin Dimensionals and attached it to the card front. I happened to have the "Merry" Christmas Greeting Thinlit already cut out of the Gold Foil for my sentiment. What is a Christmas Tree without a Star? I punched a quick small star out of the same foil, added few gold sequins and bit of Warmth & Cheer washi to finish this beauty off!

Hope to see you all play!! You still have a week to enter! Have a great day!

Paper Craft Crew 211 Sketch Challenge

Hey there and happy Wednesday! I will be glad when this week is over! It has been a humdinger and I keep telling myself that things will get better...

This week with Paper Craft Crew we have a fun little sketch that really had my juices flowing! I really could have gone in a lot of directions with this but this style kept speaking to me! Make sure you check out my product list, it will tell you everything I used!

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All I could think about was not your normal Christmas card. I mean how many Christmas cards do you see in Melon Mambo, Basic Black, Gold and Whisper White? I knew in my heart of hearts that I needed to use the Pop of Pink for this and it really came out jolly good! It started with a Melon Mambo base with Basic Black matter. The gold polka dot is from the Pop of Pink DSP as is all the papers used on this card! To resemble the star in the sketch I did a heat embossed gold tree using the Stampin' Emboss Gold powder onto the Basic Black Card stock. The tree is from the set Peaceful Pines. My fun Gold Foil sentiment is from the Christmas Greetings Thinlits. For my loops under my banners I used the my favorite gold metallic thread! To finish this great card off I added 3 Basic Rhinestones around the tree!

Thank You so much for stopping in! I can't wait to see what ideas pop into your head for this
challenge!



All items on this card are Stampin' Up! and can be found in my store!

Cardstock

• Melon Mambo
• Basic Black

Stampin' Classic Ink Pad

• Versamark Ink (Used for Heat embossing)

Stamp Sets

• Peaceful Pines

Paper/DSP

• Pop of Pink DSP
• Gold Foil 

Embellishments/Trim

• Metallic Gold Thread
• Rhinestone Basic Jewels
• Mini Staples

Tools

• Stampin' Dimensionals
•  Big Shot
• Magnetic Base
• Stampin' Trimmer
• Handheld Stapler

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