Mini Slimline Christmas Mitten cards

Hi everyone! I have a pair of mini slimline cards to share using Stamp Simply Clear Stamps NEW Christmas release. The release is small, but oh so adorable! It has a couple stamp sets, a coordinating die set and some word dies. You can check out the entire release here.

I used the mitten dies and die cut them from patterned papers by Carta Bella. I really love the style of Carta Bella, they are not too frilly or ornate and I love the traditional colors and patterns they use.

There is one mitten die in the set, but it's easy to get the mitten facing the other way by reversing the patterned paper and die cutting it from the back. Then to flatten out the die cut "curves" I used a bone folder. With the patterns on the mitten you can't even tell the die cut is up side down. I dressed up the mittens with a die cut snowflake and some gems.

The sentiments are from the Peace & Joy Word die set and you will notice that on each I trimmed them a little to fit them into the space I had on the card. For the Joy sentiment, I kept all the swirls at the bottom and trimmed a little off the top. And for the Peace sentiment, I trimmed all of the swirls, making it more clean and simple. I love the versatility with these dies!

 Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

2021 Christmas card designs

Hi everyone! I thought I would take a few minutes and share some of the Christmas cards I will be sending out this year.  I've neglected this blog quite a bit, so if you are interested in following my work more frequently, you can follow my Instagram account. I post there more regularly.

First up are 2 cutie penguin cards. The first one is my favorite. I love the cozy sweater knit embossing folder with the penguin and matching blue poinsettia from the Christmas Blooms die set by Spellbinders. All of it together makes me want to hug something!

I went old school CAS with the second one -simply colored image and some patterned paper. CAS and flat for mailing!  Both cards use Playful Pengiuns by Gina K Designs
Welcome Winter 6x6 paper by Carta Bella

Next up is an adorable pick up truck filled with poinsettias! Kind of going with a farmhouse feel with this one. The truck is from the Spellbinders Holiday Haul - Small die of the month and the gorgeous poinsettias from Concord and 9th, Fresh Cut Florals 4 die set.

At this point I kind of decided to use poinsettias on the majority of my holiday cards and these next 2 use one of my new favorites, the Spellbinders Christmas Blooms (shop Christmas Blooms at Scrapbook.com).

For the sentiment I used Spellbinders Create a Christmas Sentiments.

The gorgeous cover plate dies on the base are the Stitched Stripe and Quilted card fronts by Concord and 9th. 

Patterned papers are Home for Christmas by Echo Park.

I have time to share 1 more card. This one is a mini slimline and once again features the Christmas Blooms poinsettias (shop Christmas Blooms at Scrapbook.com) by Spellbinders. The sentiment strips are from Gina K Designs, they come in black and white and are so easy to pop onto any card! The patterned paper in the background is from the Happy Christmas collection by Carta Bella.
I love this mini slimline design because regular 6x6 papers will fit and boy oh boy do I have a lot of paper!! 😍

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

CAS-ual Friday stamps: more April release cards

Hi everyone!  I have a couple more cards to share from the CAS-ual Friday Stamps April release.  Wasn't it a fun release?

First up is a card using Mums the Word. I have to say, this set is my favorite this month.  The beautiful flowers and sentiments are right up my alley!  I used Spellbinders new A2 Scalloped Borders for the bottom of this.  I think this border is so pretty along the bottom.  I stamped the flower blossoms using Gina K and SU inks (I find these work the best with solid image stamps).  I cut them out and added rhinestones to the centers.

Next is a card using Bold Wishes.  There is no pattern paper on this card (crazy, right?), but the elements in this set makes it easy to do some simple stamping to create your own patterns.  I added some mulberry flowers, rhinestones and ribbon accents.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  I'll leave you with some close up pictures.

Card Deets:
Stamps - CAS-ual Friday Stamps April release
Ink - (Gina K Designs) Honey Mustard; (Su!) Chocolate Chip, Night of Navy, Calypso Coral
Paper - (Gina K Designs) Ivory and Dark Chocolate cardstock; Carta Bella "Traditions" 6x6 pad
Accessories - (Wild Orchid Crafts) mulberry flowers; Spellbinders On the Edge and A2 Scalloped Borders One; 2, 3 and 4mm Topaz rhinestones; (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store) 1/8" striped grosgrain ribbon and brown wrinkled ribbon; (Want2Scrap) Say it With Bling Dark blue rhinestones

CAS-ual Friday Stamps: Only You

Hi everyone!!  Welcome to the final day of CAS-ual Friday Stamps February release sneak peeks!  Today we are spotlighting the set, Only You.  This set has 11 beautiful sentiments and 5 accent images. 

I accented my sentiment with a small flourish accent image and a blue rhinestone and I used some new paper from Carta Bella the "Devoted" 6x6 pad.  The rose and leaves are from Spellbinder's set, Rose Creations (another favie of mine) and I created the doily look by layering 2 Lacey Circles and embossing a circle into the larger one.  The bottom scallops are from the Classic Scallop Edgeabilities die.

Once again, be sure to check out what my fellow Guestie Glenda has made and the Girl Fridays have samples to share on the CAS-ual Friday Stamps blog, and as always, Michele will be giving away Only You to one lucky commenter on the blog, so head on over!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  I'll leave you with a close up picture.

Card Deets: 
Stamps - Only You (CAS-ual Friday Stamps) 

Ink - Slate (AMuse Studios)
Paper - white cardstock; "Devoted" 6x6 pad (Carta Bella) 
Accessories - Spellbinders Standand and Lacey Circles, Rose Creations and Classic Scallop Edgeabilities, Say it With Bling blue rhinestones (Want2Scrap), White grosgrain ribbon