End of Christmas in July

Wow can you believe we have made it to the end of July.  I bought these Penny Black stickers last year and never used them, so I had them in a spot that I would see them, which meant always moving them and putting them back, I decided that's it, July is almost over it is time to make more Christmas cards and use these stickers.

I am going to share them in order of which ones I liked the most.

Penny Black - Christmas song sticker

Graphic 45 - Christmas emporium paper

Cottage Cutz - Holly Branch w/bow die, colored w/markers

Martha Stewart - Snowflake border punch

Spellbinders - Holiday sentiment die

Penny Black - Christmas song sticker

Simon Says - Tiny words Christmas stamp

Kaisercraft - pearls

Brown card stock

Penny Black - Christmas song sticker

Bobunny - Father Christmas paper

DCWV - Metallic paper

Spellbinders - Holly & Poinsettia die

Cardmaking and Papercraft - sentiment

Gems

Penny Black - Christmas song sticker

My mind's eye - O Christmas tree paper

Memory Box - Stitched Rectangle layers die

Tim Holtz - Funky Florals #3

Simon Says - Tiny words Christmas sentiment stamp

Penny Black - Christmas song sticker, matted on brown card stock

Graphic 45 - Christmas Emporium paper

Spellbinders - Candlewick Rectangles die

sentiment die

Gems

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Connie

Framed

Memory Box's challenge this month is using a Frame, I have a few of their frame dies but this one I hadn't used in a little while so I just had to break it out.  I cut out two and layered them.  This is the first time I looked up the Jasmine flower and they are white with yellow centers so I decided to color them that way in this card.  I also took some flowers from another one of their sets that looked close to the picture I found and used them for the inside of the frame and also used one of their birds, flying up to land on the frame :)

Memory Box - Framed Challenge

Memory Box - Jasmine Frame, Seraphine Laurel (flowers) Contempo Birds dies
Spellbinders - A2 matting basics A die
DCWV - Timeless Texture paper
Whimsy stamps - Simple sentiment stamp
Stickles - Scattered Straw (flower centers)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today and say Hi,

Connie

Christmas Globe

I am pretty excited about the amount of Christmas cards I am getting done this month, that will help this fall when I have many birthday cards to make.

My local stamp store is closing in two weeks, so very sad, now I will have to travel over into Missouri to go to a stamp store and it is close to an hour away instead of just 10 minutes.  She is having some sales and I found this stamp set where the globe is separate and so I can put any image inside as long as it is small enough, so I thought it would be a good investment.  This house and the sentiments came with the set so that is what I used first.

I love that vine on the roof, colored it with markers and then fussy cut it out and added a little pine branch border for it to sit on.  I also remembered my white flocking I have so I used that for the snow on the door.

Penny Black - Cozy nights stamp set, colored w/markers

white flocking for snow

Paper studio - Cozy Christmas paper

Martha Stewart - Border punch

Nuvo Crystal glaze in windows

Next up I decided to try it with a horizontal card.

Changed up the colors I used to color it, different sentiment and the papers. But all from the same things in my first card.

Hubby mentioned I need to do some snow inside the globe like it was just shaken, thinking of adding some white paint splatters, what do you think, should I add them or leave it as is.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and say Hi,

Connie

Goodbye

Today was our Pastor and his families last Sunday here, they got a call to a church in Naples Florida.  

Can you guess why I picked a beach scene as their going away card :)  The stamps I used is from one of my recent Card making magazines, well before the pandemic happened and I quit getting magazines. In order to fit everything on the card I decided to make a 6x6 inch card.

I googled those beach bungalows or cabins to see if they are usually all colored or are the doors separate colors, and most that I saw had white doors, so that is what I went with, hubby said wow their house is small when he saw this, and I said that is a beach hut not a house, LOL!  I went with paper piecing the umbrella before I cut the whole thing out.  The chair I did  a bit of knife work to get into those little pieces along with fussy cutting.  I had to add a seagull from the set too :)  I cut the sand piece and grass piece out with my dies, added a little grass stamp and some dots for the sand with my sharpie pen.  The sun was from a circle die and I just inked it up, the clouds are a punch.

Cardmaking and Papercraft - Day at the seaside stamp set, colored w/markers and paper piecing on umbrella

Teresa Collins - Tell your story paper

Poppystamps - Stitched Landscape dies

DRS designs - Easy grass background stamp

Spellbinders - Inverted Scalloped circles die

Fiskars - Cloud punch

Inkadinkado - All Occasions sentiment stamp

I would like to add this to the following challenges:

Sisterhood of Crafters :Anything Ocean or beachy

Double D Challenge: Let's got to the beach 

Hope you have enjoyed a nice relaxing weekend,

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Lovely Day

This card came together quite quickly, using Paper, image panel and sentiment tag all from the same card magazine goodies!!  We miss going to the book store and looking at our favorite magazines.  Not long after they opened the store we went in to see what they had and the magazine shelves were pretty empty, so weird to see that, I wonder how long it will take for us to get the UK magazines back in stock.

I went through my ribbon drawer and round this piece of sheer ribbon to add to it and then I saw this lace that I have and it looks like a butterfly pattern in it so I had to add that too :)

Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine - Fairy tales, paper, image and sentiment panels

Butterfly lace

Sheer ribbon

Wishing you a lovely weekend!!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and say Hi,

Connie