Merry Scenic Winter Wishes

This card is for this week's Color Throwdown (CTD270) and Paper Players (PP174) challenges.  I actually stamped and colored the main image some time ago.   Since I'm recovering from carpal tunnel surgery, it prompted me to dig through my stash of predone elements and work with those.  This image was a perfect fit for both challenges.   

Here are a couple of angled shots.

and the inside of the card.

Supplies:

Stamps: winter scene (Hero Arts); background (Impression Obsession)

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); embossing ink (Versamark)

Coloring: markers (Copic); Gumball Green Marker (Stampin' Up)

Cardstock: Crumb Cake,  Gumball Green (Stampin' Up); silver (Core'dinations); silver (Canson); white (Neenah)

Ribbon: Gumball Green stitched, silver (Stampin' Up)

Tools: oval and scallopped oval punches (Stampin' Up)

Other: silver embossing powder

Cheerful Monday - Any Occasion

Cheerful Monday?   Not sure about you, but I need a little perk me up on Mondays.   So this is a step in the right direction.   This is the fourth card of this little card collection I've been posting the past three Mondays.   It uses the same stamps and papers but takes a bit of a different spin on it.  Oh and be sure to scroll all the way down in this post to see a group shot of the four cards in this pack. 

Showing off the texture and dimension.  This Cuttlebug embossing folder is just amazing.   How pretty!

Inside of the card.  Just a couple of touches of that flower.  

All four cards in this little series of yellow and orange.   I'll have to come up with a different color combination for the next Cheerful Monday cards. 

Supply List

Stamps:  Hero Arts (Small Open Flower, Small Closed Flower), 
Cardstock: Stampin' Up (Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White), Hammermill Coverstock for the card base)
Ink: SU (Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie)
Tools: SU large oval punch, Cuttlebug embossing folder

Accessories: SU satin ribbon (Pumpkin Pie)

Cheerful Monday - Birthday III

Here's my third Cheerful Monday card.   See the last two Mondays for the first two cards in this little four card collection.   .

An angled shot that shows off the dimension.  I adore embossing folders.  I'm hooked.   I think I have enough, but noooo then a new one comes out that I just have to have.   I'm beyond help.

And the inside of the card with a touch of embossing on one side.  I ran the cardstock into the machine for just an inch or so and backed it back out.  

Supply List
Stamps:  Hero Arts (Zig Zag background), Stampin' Up (Happiness Always, Perfect Punches)
Cardstock: Stampin' Up (Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White), Hammermill Coverstock for the card base)
Ink: SU (Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Gumball Green, Certainly Celery)
Tools: SU large oval punch, Cuttlebug embossing folder

Cheerful Monday - Birthday II

Here's a second Cheerful Monday card.   Check back to last Monday for my first and keep checking back on Mondays to see if I can manage to keep this up....  LOL.   

An angled shot so you can see the layers and dimension.   I just love adding a few layers and might need a 12 step program for pop dots (SU Dimensionals).

 

Inside

Supply List
Stamps:  Hero Arts (Small Open Flower, Small Closed Flower, and Zig Zag background), Stampin' Up (Perfect Punches)
Cardstock: Stampin' Up (Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White), Hammermill Coverstock for the card base)
Ink: SU (Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie)
Tools: SU large oval punch
Accessories: SU Satin Ribbon (Pumpkin Pie)

Cheerful Monday - Birthday

A couple of weeks ago, I purchased these beautiful flower stamps during a visit to my local Archivers and I wanted to put them to use.  I was in the mood to do some crisp, clean and happy cards.  Yellow and orange seemed like a perfectly cheerful combination.  Thus I put them to work and ended up making four cards.  This is the first of four.  Call it a Cheerful Monday.  I know I need a pick me up on Mondays, so I just might do cheerful cards on Mondays as a gimmick.

Supply List
Stamps:  Hero Arts (Small Open Flower, Small Closed Flower, and Zig Zag background), Stampin' Up (Happiness Always, Perfect Punches)
Cardstock: Stampin' Up (Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White), Hammermill Coverstock for the card base)
Ink: SU (Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Gumball Green, Certainly Celery)
Tools: SU large oval punch

Golfer's Christmas Gift

I changed job's this year and my new boss is a golfer.  The idea of these ornaments stared out as a joke idea, but then.... what the heck.  He can think of us year over year as he puts golf balls into a tree.   After all, I understand that golfers often put golf balls into trees.  Right? 

P.S. He also got a gift card to a golfer's pro shop.   

Supplies For Card:  

Stamps:  Stampin' Up (Lovely as a Tree), Hero Arts (Greeting - backgroudn stamp cut apart)

Ink: Stampin' Up

Cardstock:  Hammermill Coverstock, Misc Red and Green cardstock from Hobby Lobby, Creative Memories Silver Shimmer paper

Toos: Cuttlebug embossing folder, EK Success circle punch, Creative Memories circle punch, Stampin' Up tag corner punch

Accessories: Paper Studio gold brads, Misc. red ribbon

Supplies for Box: 

Cardstock: Bazzil (red), Hammermill (white coverstock)

Tools: Paper trimmer, Score Pal, Martha Stewart border punch, Cuttlebug embossing folder

Accessories: Ribbon

Golf Ornament: 

Golf ball, gold hooks with screw in, ribbon

Christmas Tag Card - Take 3

Here's another variation of the tag card I posted earlier.  Hope you're not bored by these.   I did have to pick some cards that I could make fairly easily and make multiples without getting bored.   We sent out over 90 Christmas cards this year....   Making the cards in batches and repeating a design I like is the key to be able to get 90+ hand made cards done.  Last year I made multiples of the same card and waited until late in the year to make the cards.   Lesson learned.   This year's card making endeavors were a lot more fun since I worked on a larger variety of cards.  Plus, I worked on some of these earlier during the year.   

So the design does vary some from the previous versions.  I used different papers, a different border punch, and different stamps on the background paper.   I grabbed snow flakes from two different Basic Grey acrylic stamp sets.   The greeting is from a Hero Arts background stamp that I cut apart and am using the greetings individually.   

I almost forgot to mention the most interesting technique on this card.   It's that little bit of shimmer behind the cut out on the tag.   I cut the tag with my Wishblade using a free ttf dingbat font.  I then ran a scrap of cardstock through the Xyron and adhered it, with the adhesive side up onto the card.   Coat the exposed adhesive with glitter and voila.

 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Hero Arts (Background stamp cut into individual greetings), Basic Grey acrylic stamps

Ink: Stampin' Up, Colorbox Liquid Chalk

Paper: Basic Grey, Misc cardstock

Tools: WishBlade, Hole punch, Martha Stewart Border Punch, EK Success (label punch), Stampin' Up (large circle)

Accessories: Glitter, Ribbon

Misc.: Xyron