December 22nd Weekly Post

 Happy Sunday!

I'm a little early because I'm guest hosting again for Sunday Postcard Art and it goes live on UK time which is 6 hours ahead of me.

The theme for this week is Scandi Christmas.

I went with a Scandinavian folkart look, using a couple of stamp sets on my pre-cut 4X6 Cut Cardstock card. The trees were stamped using Hero Arts' Color Layering Nordic Tree set and the top and bottom accents were stamped using Funky Fossil's Scandi Home set. I accented with stars die cut out of red foil card using a Sizzix die and punched circles. The Swedish sentiment God Jul was created using some very old Karen Foster card stock stickers. For the final touch, I ran a red Promarker all around the edge of the card and done.

I kept it clean, symmetrical and colorful.

I love the Scandi look in art and decor so this was fun for me to create.

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That's all I have ready to show you today. I wanted to show a few photos of our house decorations, but I just haven't had time to take and process them yet. I will try to have them for next Sunday. Life is busy around here right now and I'm barely keeping up! LOL It's a fun busy though and I hope you are having a good holiday season. I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and may this season bring you joy!

Thanks, as always, for the visit and see you next Sunday!

XOX

December 15th Weekly Post

 Happy Sunday!

Hope all is well in your world.

The ceiling work went very well and I did some things to my desktop to make it work better.

So the week turned out great for me!

The new theme at SPA is Reindeer, hosted by Anne.

I wanted to use the Artistic Outpost Midwinter stamp set because it has a reindeer I've never inked up. I started with a 4x6 white card. I stamped and heat-embossed the reindeer using Versafine Clair ink and clear ep. Then I cut a mask for the reindeer, applied it and a mask for the hill/ground, then ink-blended the sky with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I placed a Memory Box Flurry Frame snowflake stencil over the card and stenciled using Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink. After that dried, I trimmed it down to layer onto a piece of 4x6 brown card. Then I added phrase stickers from Tim's Christmas Sticker Book, outlined them with a brown pencil and done!

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And I have the final Christmas cards I haven't yet shared.

First one: some glitter foam tree and star stickers, 3 Gecko Galz collage sheet images, some yellow paper scraps and DCWV patterned paper on a white card base, plus a little outlining with Stickles and metallic gel pen. I've had those foam trees at least 10 years and I was shocked they are still good!

And the Splitcoaststampers sketch I used.

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And second card: I used a print of the little Art Impressions stamped and colored scene I created last year and placed it behind a Sizzix /Tim window frame cut out of kraft card. The designer paper is from my stash scraps and the poinsettia bouquet is an Echo Park sticker. I added a Papertrey Ink sentiment stamped on a tan paper scrap and cut it to fit the window box. This card was an unexpected last-minute one and everything I used was in my scraps box of leftovers from previous projects. So I thought it turned out pretty well, considering. 

And the Splitcoaststampers sketch I used.

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Well, that is all from me today.

Thanks for the visit and have a wonderful final week before Christmas week.

Please don't stress, it'll be what it'll be, right?

Just breathe and enjoy.

XOX

December 8th Weekly Post

 Happy Sunday!

Hope all is well with you and yours.

I had my tests done and nothing bad showed up, thank goodness.

But later in the week, something happened to my computer and it did some very weird stuff, mainly my inbox emails just vanished, and it has begun freezing up, so it looks like Santa's bringing me a new desktop for Christmas. Or maybe after Christmas because I don't really want to deal with that right now, lol. And then we are having some ceiling repairs done this week. We had an air conditioning wall vent put in our living room/den a while back because that room wasn't getting cool enough. But then it made it too cool and the other rooms past that one hot. So we are having the original ceiling vent taken out and the ceiling re-sheetrocked and painted after they fill the hole. Everything in there has to be covered and some furniture moved around. 

Then, after I clean up the dust, I'll be decorating for Christmas.

The theme this week at SPA is Mistletoe and is hosted by Deann.

The cute lil gal is an Artistic Outpost stamp.

The sentiment is a My Favorite Things stamp, as is the mistletoe and bow dies.

The background is ink blended with Salty Ocean DI and stenciled with titanium white acrylic paint.

I added 3 pink plastic snowflakes.

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Here's another Christmas card. I used a red Cardstock Warehouse card base and mats, Chloe's Closet designer papers, Sizzix Sizzlits alpha dies and Making Memories alpha stickers. I used some red and green punched circles found in my stash.

And here's the Splitcoaststampers sketch I used.
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And before I take all this down to put up Christmas, I remembered to take a photo of my Autumn banner that I made. I'm making one for each of the four seasons, pretty much the exact same way but with different papers. Since Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer all have six letters each, the easiest thing is to use the same dies and construction method. Something I've wanted to do for awhile, but finally getting a round tuit, heehee.

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That's all from me today.

Thanks for the visit and I hope your week ahead is a good one.

XOX

December 1st Weekly Post

 Happy Sunday and December!

Hope everyone had a good week.

I'm doing better. I've been following a restricted diet and taking peppermint in various forms. I see the doctor tomorrow for tests.

Our kids came down for the Thanksgiving holidays and we had a fabulous 3 days together.

Honey and I have been winding down from that and took the weekend to laze around.

The theme at SPA this week is Sleigh Rides, hosted by Audrey.

I ink blended a Northern Lights background with Distress Oxides on my pre-cut 4X6 card stock base from CutCardStock. Then I splattered some Titanium White acrylic paint for snow. I cut the focal out of black card scrap using an old die I've never used and adhered it along with a TH Small Chat sticker.
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Here's a Christmas card I made using Cardstock Warehouse base and center mat, along with Chloe's Closet Reindeer Games designer papers. I cut 2 jingle bells out of red and gold mirror card scraps using an Impression Obsession die and frames them with these little frames that came with the designer paper collection. The mirror card was also used to mat and frame the Jingle X 3 sentiment, which is a sticker from my stash. I used 4 shiny red flat dots for accents and a corner rounder punch on a few of the papers. I took this angled shot so you could see the shine coming off of the card.

And the Splitcoaststampers sketch I used.

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That's all for me today, so have a great week and see you next Sunday!

XOX

November 24th Weekly Post

 Happy Sunday!

Hope everyone is doing well.

I've some personal news. I just spent the better part of this week pretty sick with digestive issues and it looks like after Thanksgiving I will be having quite a bit of tests done. They wanted to start now but I refused because it's been a year since I've seen my daughter and it's not life-threatening so it can wait until after their 3-day visit this week. My only reason for mentioning it is because during the testing and other procedures I may not be able to comment on your blogs as often but since many of you post multiple times a week I hope to read all your posts like I always have but comment on at least the latest one. I've also made several weekly posts ahead to schedule for every Sunday. I had no idea how many things I'd made this year that I hadn't posted yet so I had content, thankfully.

Anyway, here's hoping it's nothing major!

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First up is my weekly 4X6 art for SPA, this week hosted by Cindy with the theme of Upside Down. I found the theme a bit hard until I found this Mary Ellen Smith digital illustration in my files, added an appropriate Shell Silverstein quote, gave it a red border and drew a floor with my Fountain Desk Pen after printing out.

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Next up is a birthday card for my favorite cousin. I made this during a session where I used almost all the Craft Consortium images that were in the Sandy Paws 3D deco kit that I had. I got several cute cards made. I used Basic Grey Cupcake designer paper and SU and Color Mates card stock, along with coordinating Sandy Paws washi tape, red enamel dots, X-Cut balloon die, Stamplorations sentiment die and Impression Obsession stamp. I used my corner rounder punch on the focal image and its mat was cut with an Amazon nested arch die to try to match the sketch...

...and here is the Splitcoaststampers sketch I used.

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And here's a Christmas card.

The card base is Cardstock Warehouse Electric Red, which I also used for the mats, and the designer paper is Chloe's Closet Reindeer Games. That collection came with square tiles which I've used here and added Sizzix Sizzlits Stencil font alpha dies to spelling JOY. Several little dots of Nuvo Crystal Drops were added randomly to complete the card.

And the Splitcoaststampers sketch I used.

All for this week.

Take care, enjoy your holidays if you have them and see you next Sunday!

XOX