Ringed with Nature

CCMC791 – Ringed with Nature

November 2, 2023 By Connie | Leave a Comment

It’s Thursday and you know that means it is time for a Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge. It’s a fun sketch challenge this week!

RINGED WITH NATURE

I miss having a pretty poinsettia set in this year’s July-December Mini Catalog (and a SNOWMAN set!!!) So, I pulled out my Ringed with Nature Bundle to work with on today’s card and combined it with the A Walk in the Forest Designer Paper.

Stampin’ Details:

The base is 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Garden Green cardstock, scored at 4-1/4 and folded.
A 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Crumb Cake cardstock was added on top.
A 2 x 4 piece of A Walk in the Forest striped DSP was added in the back, then a 2-3/4 x 2-3/4 pine need pattern from A Walk in the Forest on top.
The 2 x 3-1/4 piece of Basic White was added on top.
The tree ring was stamped with Pecan Pie Ink on Crumb Cake cardstock and hand-cut (or use the Tree Rings Die). It was added to the front of the Basic White piece with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The poinsettia flower was stamped twice with Real Red Ink and once with Garden Green Ink, then hand-cut and added the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals. (The green one was cut into pieces for the leaves.)
Merry Christmas was stamped with Real Red Ink on 5/8 x 2-3/4 piece of Garden Green cardstock and added to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The Wild Wheat In Color Dots were added to the centers of the poinsettias.

SO pretty…did I say that I LOVE poinsettias? Go check out what the rest of the Challenge Team did with this challenge over on Create with Connie and Mary

Supplies:
Stamps: Ringed with Nature
Ink: Real Red, Garden Green, Pecan Pie
Cardstock: Basic White, Crumb Cake, Garden Green, A Walk in the Forest Designer Paper
Accessories: Tree Rings Die, 2023-25 In Color Dots, Adhesives

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CCMC731 – Ringed with Nature

September 1, 2022 By Connie | Leave a Comment

Hello! It’s Thursday and you know that means it is time for a Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge. It’s a fun Sketch Challenge this week.

RINGED WITH NATURE

Stampin’ Details:

The base is 4-1/4 x 11 Crumb Cake cardstock, scored at 5-1/2 and folded.
The 3-3/4 x 5 piece of Crumb Cake cardstock was sponged with Crumb Cake Ink and embossed with the Leaf Embossing Folder.
A 2-1/2 x 4 piece of green swirl Rustic Harvest DSP was added towards the right side.
A 1/4 x 3-3/4 strip of Night of Navy was added at the top.
The 7/8 x 2 piece of Cajun Craze has the greeting stamped with Versamark and embossed with White Embossing Powder and added with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
One of the tree rings was embossed/cut with the Tree Rings Hybrid Dies and sponged with ink.
The house was cut from the DSP and then added to the tree ring with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Go check out what the rest of the Challenge Team did with this sketch combination over on Create with Connie and Mary.

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IM243 – Ringed with Nature

August 29, 2022 By Connie | Leave a Comment

It’s time for our Create with Connie and Mary Inspiration Monday challenge! Isn’t this a GORGEOUS fall cake? I love the wood “bark” frosting along the bottom tier!

RINGED WITH NATURE

The tree rings image in the Ringed with Nature stamp set I thought fit this inspiration perfectly! I debated embossing them with the Tree Rings EF, too, but decided not.

Stampin’ Details:

- The base is 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Early Espresso cardstock, scored at 4-1/4 and folded to form the base.
- The 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Crumb Cake cardstock was stamped with the tree rings from Ringed with Nature stamp set in Early Espresso Ink and added to the front.
- A 2-1/4 x 5 piece of Very Vanilla cardstock was stamped with the Ringed with Nature flower in Pumpkin Pie Ink, the leaves with Old Olive Ink, the center and greeting with Early Espresso Ink.
- A 1/2 x 4 piece of Abigail Rose DSP was added along the bottom, then a 1/4 x 3-3/4 piece of Pumpkin Pie was adhered under the DSP. This element was added to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- The berries were cut with the Tree Rings Dies from Pumpkin Pie and the leaves from Mossy Meadow, then the leaves cut and added to the berry branches. They were tucked along the top left corner.
- The acorn top was cut with the Tree Rings Dies from Early Espresso cardstock and the base from Crumb Cake cardstock. It was sponged with some Early Espresso Ink, then added to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- Some Linen Thread was tied in a bow and added to the top of the acorn witha Mini Glue Dot.
- Three small Rustic Dots were added to the center of the flower.

More rustic, but still feminine…just like the cake! OK…check out what Mary did with the Inspiration Monday Challenge over on Create with Connie and Mary!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: Ringed with Nature
Inks: Early Espresso, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie

Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Mossy Meadow, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories: Tree Rings Dies, Abigail Rose Designer Paper, Rustic Dots, Linen Thread, Sponge Dauber, Adhesives

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Saturday Blog Hop – Casing Melissa Davies

August 20, 2022 By Connie | 1 Comment

For the next several weeks, we will be Casing the Design Team for our Saturday Blog Hops! This week our featured Design Team Member is Melissa Davies! We are to find an “old” card on her blog that we like and use the layout and colors with a new set from the July-December Mini Catalog! This should be fun! We will show both the “old” card that inspired us, and our new version! Here’s Melissa’s card that I choose from last year.

CHRISTMAS BANNERS and RINGED WITH NATURE

Not a whole lot of stamping on here…the Boughs of Holly is doing most of the work, along with a few die cuts from the Christmas Banner Dies.

Stampin’ Details:

The base is 4-1/4 x 11 Soft Succulent cardstock, scored at 5-1/2 and folded.
Some Iridescent Trim was wrapped around a 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Boughs of Holly designer paper, then was added on top of the base card. LOVE this birch print!
The tree ring form Ringed with Nature was stamped with Early Espresso Ink on Crumb Cake cardstock, then cut with the Tree Rings Dies. It was added to the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The poinsettia cluster from the Boughs of Holly DSP was hand-cut and added to the bottom of the tree ring.
Two greenery pieces were cut from Evening Evergreen cardstock and two other greenery pieces cut from Soft Succulent cardstock with the Christmas Banners Dies then tucked under the poinsettias.
Tis the Season was stamped with Early Espresso Ink on Basic White and trimmed, then added to the front.
A couple gold Brushed Metallic Dots were added to the centers of the poinsettias to finish it off.

OK, next up on our blog hop is our Create with Connie and Mary website, then on to creative Mary Brown, or head backwards to see Melissa Davies’ fabulous project and see what everyone did with this challenge!

SUPPLIES:
Stamp Sets: Ringed with Nature, Christmas Banners
Inks: Early Espresso
C/S: Basic White, Crumb Cake, Soft Succulent, Evening Evergreen, Boughs of Holly Designer Paper
Accessories: Tree Rings Dies, Christmas Banners Dies, Iridescent Trim, Brushed Metallic Dots, Adhesives