This punch art elf is based on some of the images that have been floating around the internet, however, I thought he'd be cute holding onto a Christmas Letter to Santa! I started with a base card of Bermuda Bay card stock and stamped the snowflake from Stampin' Up!'s Winter Post stamp set randomly… [Read More]
Winter Post
Christmas Tag Swap
Every year for at least the past six years, I’ve been involved in an alphabet Christmas Tag Swap with an online group, Creative Stamping Friends. 28 people choose a letter to design their tag around, plus a cover and back that lists the names of those who participated. The theme of the tag must match… [Read More]
Winter Post invitation
Tuesday, I showed you the invitation that I did use for our Holiday Party invites, here is the one that I did first, but didn’t use. Mary and I worked on a challenge to use the Top Note as a fold over card. I combined that with an invitation since I needed to come up with… [Read More]
Winter Post – Burnished Embossing
My technique classes did this card at their classes this past month. A pretty simple background technique with lots of wow! I think it looks best when done with more of an open type stamp…something that allows the darker color to pop through…like on this lacy snowflake from Winter Post Stamp Set! I used White embossing… [Read More]
Winter Post – Control Freaks Swap
I think everyone should have received their swaps back by now, so this is ok to post. This was my swap for the Holiday Mini Catalog Swap for Control Freaks Swappers. We get the BEST swaps from this group! I love getting my package back in the mail…it is just like Christmas! I used Winter… [Read More]
Blogger’s Challenge – Warhol
Years ago our yahoo group, Creative Stamping Friends, did Technique University challenges. Pat from Technique Junkies shared the Warhol technique with us then and I thought it was SO hard. (It is now in a past issue of Technique Junkies Newsletter.) I remember how challenged I was when I did it years ago. This time… [Read More]