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

Devilish Layer Challenge

This month's Bombshell Stamps Pin Up, Jenn Cochran has issued a challenge to layer it up.   I took her up on her challenge and created the below card using the Cherry Bomb stampset from Bombshell Stamps.

Here are 5 layers piled on nice and neat...  a striped stamped card base, and embossed white layer, a tea mat, another background stamped layer and then that wicked devil from Bombshell Stamps' Cherry bomb set.

Here's a shot from the side and you can see the dimension.  Two sets of layers are adhered using some dimensional adhesive for eve more pop.  

Supplies: 

Stamps: Cherry Bomb (Bombshell Stamps), stiped background (Impression Obsession), Tin Pattern (Stampabilities)

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento): Cameo Coral & Bermuda Bay (Sttampin' Up)

Coloring: markers (Copic), markers (Stampin' Up)

Cardstock: Cameo Coral, Bermuda Bay, Whisper White (Stampin' Up)

Tools: Twirl embossing folder (Quickutz)

Accessories: red pearls, dimensional adhesive, ribbon (on the inside)

Little Santa Pieces

My little 8 year old girl decided that we needed this incredibly intricate Santa Claus die by Cottage Cutz.   Well, I have in.  What else is new?   She helped put the Santa together and then we made a card out of it. 

A bit of a close up to show off the dimension and detail.

And the inside of the card which is where Santa's sack landed.

Supplies: 

Stamps: Impression Obsession (background)

Ink: Stampin' Up

Tools: Cottage Cutz (Santa die), Spellbinders (scalloped rectangle), Sizzix (embossing folder on the red paper which isn't really captured by the photos. )

Paper: K&Company

Accessories: Misc. ribbon

Refreshing Flower - ColourQ #138

This is my first time doing a ColourQ challenge.   I really love the cards they have posted and the inspiration to use color combinations that I normally wouldn't reach for on my own.   

I used Stampin' Up DSP and cardstock.   The DSP is from this past Spring's Occasions mini catalog.   The greeting is also from Stampin Up (One of a Kind).  I used the Stampin' Up flower petal punch to create the large petals.   The inside petals are punched with two Marvy Uchida punches that I've had for ages.   The leaves and border are punched with Martha Stewart punches.   I cut the label using a Spellbinder's die.  I cut two extra shapes and cut them up to make the background layer.   The seam binding ribbon is from Stampin' Up.  I added a pearl to the center of the flower and used my Crop-A-Dial Corner Chomper by We R Memory Keepers. Almost forgot one more thing.   I used an Impression Obsession background stamp to stamp the stripes on the Crumb Cake card base. 

Tag: Wonderfully Wonky Birthday Cake

This is for a swap on Scrapshare.  The group is to make 7 and I chose a birthday theme.   I started with this great cake die from Quickutz and it reminded me of some of Tim Burton's movies.  I used that as inspiration for the background.   I created the frame using Make the Cut (MTC) software and cut it with my KNK Zing.  This one took me a while to get done, but I love the results.  

The printed papers are from Basic Grey's Green at Heart collection.  The cake stand is made out of this glossy pearl paper that I picked up at the art department.  The black cardstock is by American Crafts.  Every single colored piece is inked with Tim Holtz / Ranger Distress Inks.  It's very subtle inking but just enough shading to give the pieces some dimension and life.

I used a lot of bling and glitter on these.  The Quickutz die has a lot of voids in great patterns.  I took advantage of those voids and either added bling or glitter.   The glittered is applied by running a backing paper through the Xyron face up and then applying very fine craft glitter. 

Here's the entire grouping.   I love this look.  I made 7 for the swap and a few extra for cards. 

The swap called for the back to be finished too.   I used a 6x6 background stamp by Impression Obsession on the back of the scrap piece from cutting the green frame on the front of the tag.   I stamped using Stampin Up's Lucky Limeade Classic Ink and sponged the outsides with the same ink. 

I couldn't resist this shot as I finally compiled all the birthday cakes.