Warm Holiday Wishes

 Merry Christmas!

It's really easy to get caught up in the hooplah, rush and busy-ness of the season, but I hope that you get to slow down and enjoy the Joy, Wonder and Gift of this season.

Today I've come with my last card for Christmas this year, in hopes of taking a short break and resting in peace.  Does it mean I won't make any cards?  Nope.  Or be visiting your wonderful creations?  Nope.  I just need to slow down and enjoy the holiday.

Foiled in silver, colored and then WoS on the white flowers and Stickles in the centers, all on red c/s.  I made another similar card with gold-foiled flowers in the lower right, sentiment in the upper left, colored with deeper colors and popped onto a green card base.

SB - GOM 10/22 Poinsettia Spray, Holiday Sentiments 2

Best wishes to all of you and may your Christmas be filled with wonder!

Thank you for being my Friends and supporting me!

Hugs,

TK

New Stash

Hello and welcome!

 Remember that pile of new stash I promised some more cards from?  Well, today I've got a couple of cards to debut two more items (plus another NBUS item), so let's get right to it.

My first card ~

A delicate wreath stamped, heat embossed in silver pearl, colored then die cut and popped up on a linen base.  Here's a close-up because I know the details are tiny ~

The sentiment was foiled in red.

And card number two ~

This little cutie started with the image stamped, colored and die cut.  After finding no real options for a background that I wanted, I decided to try out a new-to-me NBUS stamp.  I used a plaid builder stamped and two matching colors, rotating the c/s 180 degrees after the first color.  Perfect!  After cutting it down and attaching to the base, the cutie was perched before adding the reverse foiled sentiment (leftovers from another card), to ground her.

Oh my, a little Stickles was added to the hat's pom pom and trim too!  Look at that Aura foiling -- while not perfect, I do like foiling the solid portion too.

Well, that's it for me today!  Hope you're winding up on tasks and looking forward to the joyous Christmas holiday - I know I sure am!

 

Card 1:

   MFT - Winter Wreath & die (NBUS)

   SB - Red foil

Card 2:

   MFT - Warmest Wishes & die (NBUS)

   C&9 - Christmas Plaid Turnabout (NBUS)

Merry Christmas!

Hugs,

TK

Happy Birthday, Deer!

 Good evening!

Today's post comes as a post-Birthday post, a card for Hubbs!  I didn't get to post it, since yesterday was his Birthday and I've been running in a BUNCH of directions trying to prepare for Christmas, his Birthday and just get caught up with life in general.  I received this set just days ago, an enabling from sweet Michele.  I thought about it, and I had no deer stamps, dies or anything so I decided this one was just too cute to pass up.  Here's my card ~

Again, I used the glorious colors from Color Hughes #54 - Navy & Cream.  I used a couple of NBUS items, so this will also go to NBUS #45.  I used the cream base, embossed the navy panel, and then cut it a little larger than half before attaching it.  The deer were stamped and die cut, attached hanging off the center panel, and then hot foiled the sentiment with matte gold and cut it down into a banner before mounting it.

As you can see, the matte gold foil looks awesome, I felt it worked better with the cream color choice.  Also, I really hope that the brown antlers are considered "neutral" since related to the cream tones.

 

Supplies:

   PTI - Deer To Me stamps/dies, Stitched Florals coverplate (all NBUS)

   SB - Slimline Confetti (Bday sentiment)

That's it for me today!  Hubbs and his bowl of peanuts are beckoning me down to the Family Room!  

I do need a few more Christmas cards and tags, so maybe you'll see some more of my "new stash" soon.

Hugs,

TK

Brrr, Bear & Fishes - Oh My!

Hello again - 

Are you staying all warm & cozy?  I sure hope so!
Are you ready for Christmas?  I sure hope so (I am not...)!

I have a Birthday card for you today, but also a bit of "the back-story".  I had gotten notice in my e-mail box that I had a generous gift certificate to MFT.   Well I thought it was a prank or "fishing" or...  so I did nothing.  Then about a week later, I decided to give it a go because I saw that MFT had a sale going on.  I started by adding dies for some sets that I already had.  Then I was reminded of a stamp set that I see often that's as adorable as can be, so that went into the basket as well.  Oh yes, and then another set, also too cute.  The savings kept piling up, but I still had money left!  A few more things into my basket and this is what I got ~

Polar Bears, Wreaths, adorable Birdie Brown girl, dies, stamp envelopes for large sets (uh, the bears!) and then a freebie stencil ended up showing up in the basket too!  And guess what?  The gift certificate was real!  Come to find out, this happened ~

Wow!  I had totally missed it, and now I had a new cart full of goodies!  So being the good consumer that I am, I decided to start using my new NBUS stuff!  Here's a Birthday card ~

Copic colored, ink blended clouds, silver pen on the skates, and some winking on the fish to make them slimy!

I'll be sending this over to NBUS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HUBBS!

Supplies:

   MFT - Polar Bear Pals & dies, MFT Cloud stencil

Thanks for the visit!  Take care and stay safe!

Hugs,
TK

Faith, Hope & Peace

 Greetings, Friends!

Today's card is a pretty card, but unfortunately our gray winters don't allow for great lighting, so indoor lighting it is.  I've chosen the colors over at Color Hues #54 - Navy and Cream.  Here's my disclaimer, the cardstock really is Navy and Cream, I'm so disappointed that my camera cannot capture it with the current lighting.  

 

I stamped the Nativity Scene in Navy blue on cream card, then used a gelly roll in clear to add sparkle to the star atop the manger.   A Copic pen was used to mark the ground, and  then the scene cut out in a half oval.  The dark blue card stock was meanwhile spritzed with shimmer spray and left to dry.  I then mounted the scene over the shimmery sky and foiled the sentiment below.

Can you detect the shimmery sky, the shine from the Aura foil, or the sparkle of the star?  No?  Sorry, that's all I could get!  Either way, another card for the stash that soon needs to move into mailing mode!

Supplies:

   Echo Park - Wise Men Still Seek Him

   Clear Star Gelly Roll pen, SB Aura foil

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe and warm!  We have gotten our first snow -- how about you?

Hugs,

TK

Poinsettia Wreath

 Good Morning!

Today I have a card that used bits from a couple of other cards, you'll recognize it, I'm sure.  While not being overly tough, there's a lot of inlaying that takes a bit of time.  This time, I used the poinsettia inlays to make a wreath ~

Inlaying, stamping, and creative cut using longer blueprints die for the sentiment.  A few pearl dots (thanks again, Michele) were placed after this initial photo, to accent the wreath and middle, golden poinsettia.

This will be going over to The Flower Challenge #75 - Christmas 

That's it for me today.  I hope you have a fantastic week, and truly enjoy the seaon.

Supplies:

   WF - Poinsettia Panel

   MB - Christmas Botanicals (sentiment)

   MFT - Blueprints 27

Hugs,

TK

NBUS - Christmas Poinsettias

 Hello and welcome!
If you're new, thanks for coming by and if you're an old friend, I'm thankful for you too!

I'm honored to say that I've been invited again to be the Guest Designer over at Darnell's terrific challenge, NBUS #45.  It's a challenge that we all need, because frankly we all have new stuff that's just itching to be used.  

I've come today with a new 3D embossing folder.  What terrific texture and depth!  While I love all that beauty, I also challenged myself with a new-to-me technique of embossing, then coloring the embossed elements.  You've likely seen this around lately, and here's my card ~

Wow!  Love the dimension!  I colored the flowers with Copics but left the greenery white, to let the poinsettias shine.  I then hot foiled the sentiment, layered it up with dark green (tho it looks black) cardstock and adhered it.

This folder is actually so big that I was able to cut two smaller panels, and made a second card with a slightly different layout ~

How about you?  Are you inspired to dig out your NBUS products?  Join us!

Supplies:

   SB - Scenic Poinsettia folder (NBUS), Holiday Florals (sentiment), Aura glimmer foil

I hope to see your pretties in the gallery!

Hugs,

TK