A cute little Christmas House

With Christmas just around the corner, I started making some fun winter house boxes to put some treats/gifts in. I absolutely adore this box die from Lawn Fawn with the coordinating Christmas house dies! 

I cut the box out of some Neenah desert storm cardstock. The rest of the fun add-ons were cut out of a bunch of scraps in my stash. (what a great way to use up some scraps too!)

I used some walnut stain distress ink around the edges of the paper and then I used some simple white acrylic paint for the snow on the roof. 

These little boxes are so fun to make and I plan on making many more for my family and friends this holiday season!

Oh, and my project today totally fits with the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge for this week, that worked out perfect!

Thanks for visiting my blog today, have a wonderful and crafty day!

Glittering Gold Thanks

Hello, fellow crafters, I hope you are all having a wonderful Tuesday! I have a simple project to share with you today that I hurried and put together yesterday. I am getting this post up just in time before the deadline for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge ends tomorrow. 

The theme: All that glitters is gold! and they are featuring Lawn Fawn products.

 Well, I got out my supplies and found out I have only two stamp sets from Lawn Fawn, but a bunch of dies, so I ended up choosing the Small Stitched Envelope die set to make a quick project since I didn't have very much time. I thought the fall colors of brown with a deep red-orange would go well with gold and it's perfect for this time of year. 

I got out my paper scraps and used my Big Shot Plus to cut out the dies. I used Walnut Stain distress ink on the edges of the patterned paper and a gold Cricut marker around the edges of the brown paper. For the "thanks" die I cut 3 of them out of white paper and then stacked all 4 of them together ending with the shimmery gold on top. The SSS 3x4 stamp set had the perfect companion sentiment to add with the "thanks" die; I stamped it with Versamark ink and embossed it with Early Espresso embossing powder from Stampin' Up. Some Simon says stamp sequins finished it off and gave just a little more gold sparkle to complete this cute little envelope. 

Thank you for visiting me today, Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Crafting!

Wishing you a Wonderful day!

Good morning friends! I posted this card on my Facebook page yesterday and didn't get a chance to put it up here until this morning. 

I had fun making this card, I got the idea out of an old Stampin Up catalog. I liked the colors used and just the overall layout. I changed my card from theirs by using different stamps, a different embossing folder, different ribbon, and I didn't pop up my panel-I just popped up the flower. They used a button for the middle of the flower and I used a brad. 

I stamped my images using Lawn Fawn Jet black ink, Memento Tangelo ink, Simon Says Stamp Audrey Blue ink and Stampin Up Green Galore ink. I then used Prismacolor pencils to add shading and depth to the flowers. The Swiss dots embossing folder helped to add that little bit of pattern without distracting from the focal point of the flowers. The Nested Circles dies from Simon Says Stamp and the Sentiment Banner dies from Lawn Fawn were helpful in creating this card also. Add some simple yellow ribbon and white twine to finish it off and there you have it! 

Thanks for visiting, have a wonderful and crafty day!!

(FYI, the stamps used were from the CTMH "Delight in Everything" stamp set, and the sentiment was from the "Bring on the cake" set from Stampin Up. I believe both sets are retired)

Lots of Smiles for the SSS Monday Challenge

Hey guys! Today I have a card that I hope will bring a smile to your face. 

I loved making this card, and using all the fun bright rainbow colors for my background. I am submitting this card over on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog where we were challenged to make our own background! Here is what I came up with: 

I used an old retired stamp set from Stampin' Up for my smiley faces. It's amazing that even though things get discontinued and old they are still cute and fun to use in making our projects! I stamped the solid shape in various colors of Memento ink. The smile stamp was stamped on top of the solid shapes using Lawn Fawn jet black ink. 

I then started using my dies. I used Pink and Main's stitched round rectangles to cut out my background and then I cut out of black cardstock Lawn Fawn's Cole's uppercase ABC's. I cut out 3 of each letter and stacked them up for dimension. Once they were glued down I sparkled them up with a Wink of Stella glitter brush pen and then put a coat of Glossy Accents on top of that for a fun sparkly and shiny finish! 

And that is my card for today, thank you for visiting, and have a super fun and crafty day!