Celebrate the Season

Hello and Happy first day of March! Our weather here in Central NC is calling for some very nice temperatures this week (70's)which causes me to do the Happy Dance.

Today I took down the rest of my Christmas. I left very little out and was just waiting for today to decorate with my Spring decor inside and out. I'll be changing some of that up again in June for Summer decorations.

I was able to get upstairs to my crafting area to create a card for Addicted to CAS-Snowflakes, and CAS C&S#459. 

I really needed to use some snowflake dies I was given by a friend many months ago and had not used. The color combination for CASC&S 459 just sparked an aha moment when I saw it. I love this color combo.

Products Used: SU Fresh Freesia, Soft Seafoam, Flirty Flamingo, SU Itty Bitty Christmas,

SU Snowfall EF, Unknown Snowflake dies, MFT Stitched Sentiments Die-namics( I cut the edge with the stitching to fit the space) and raised the sentiment with foam, and finished the snowflakes off with SU jewels. It really was a fairly quick card that I will use for future projects this coming Christmas holiday.

As always, thanks for stopping by and I would love to hear what you think of this finished card.

Blessings, Bernie B

On a closing note, I was chosen by Addicted to Case as one of the Top 3 for challenge #212 Triangles. Thank you Design Team for choosing my card.

Season's Greetings

Today I am posting a card that I created with MFT's Stitched Tall Triangle STAX Die-namics that I received several weeks ago. I used the triangles to cut 3 individual shaped Christmas trees from the colours  CSA Colour & Sketches #444 used for their colour challenge for this week.

PRODUCTS USED:

MFT Stitched Tall Triangle STAX Die-namics

SU CS, Shaded Spruce, Real Red, Pear Pizzazz

SU retired Snow Fall EF

SU Star Punch

SU Gems

Gold Glitter Paper - unknown

SU Stamp Itty Bitty Christmas

MFT Stitched Sentiments

Have a great day. Here in Central NC it's 45 degrees and rainy, a perfect day to catch up on some paper crafting.

Blessings, Bernie B

Peace and Happiness

 Well, I'm here today to post a card over a Freshly Made Sketches and being just under the wire for joining that challenge. I worked on it for several hours, but was, I feel successful in putting the final card together. 

Although I still was second-guessing myself about the different colored Green Trees. All the greens, by the way, are Stampin Up greens; Granny Apple Green, Shaded Spruce, Old Olive, Pear Pizzazz, and Mossy Meadow. I just decided to go with it. I believe that's called Artistic License. 

PRODUCTS USED:

* I did make this a small slimline card, 7x6, folded at 3 1/2".  This is the first slimline card I have made. I'm not really a fan of the bigger ones which I know have been very popular but this one was more pleasing to me. I will be creating more in this size in the future.

SU Papers

SU Sentiment- Itty Bitty Christmas

Trees - MFT Tiny House Die-namics, MFT Snowdrifts Die-namics

SU Fallen Snow EF

Spellbinders Long Classic Rectangles

Embellishments - SU Snowflake Sequins

White Paint for splatters, uni-ball Signo UM-153 white pen

That's about it for today's post. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful Monday!

Stay Safe and Well

Bernadette

Christmas Cheer and some News

 

Hello all! I'm here today posting a Christmas Card that I created for CAS Christmas for October. I just came across this site and thought it would be a great idea to start my Christmas cards. I put off this task too long every year. I'm hoping this challenge blog will keep me focused.

I had just received the new die-namic from MFT, Tiny Houses and I knew I wanted to create a card using them. The problem, I needed to incorporate Christmas Birds for the challenge. I checked through my stamp stash and found these cute little Birds in MFT Better Together.  

The Itty Bitty Christmas stamp set by SU had a sentiment that I felt went with the design. I added the assembled houses, the trees, and the birds to a circle which I cut off some of the bottom to accommodate the Snow Drift. Using SU Soft Sky ink and a blender brush to add some "sky" to the project then added some Snowflake Sequins by SU.

This die-namics set by MFT was a breeze to assemble so the card went together fairly quickly. I colored the birds with my Prismacolor Pencils and the inner panel was given some texture by using the Subltes EF.

On a side note, my card over at CASColours&Sketches was chosen as a weekly winner with 2 other crafty ladies. Thank you ladies for choosing my card! It's always nice to be recognized by your peers.

That's it for today. I have my craft desk to tidy up so I can work on another card. 

Stay well and Stay Safe

Bernadette