Holly Jolly

Hi and welcome!  Today's card is yet another Christmas card - which, considering I've been making them all year and have enough, is a bit ironic!  But I can't help it!  Seeing all the fabulous Christmas cards around blogland at the moment and all the gorgeous new sets has inspired me.

The image on this card, even though it's new to me, is from last Christmas, I think.  I wanted to make a card for the latest Tag You're It challenge and I was intrigued by the sketch at Try Stampin' on Tuesday.  This card also fits the Christmas theme at Simon Says Stamp.

I wanted to keep the polka dot theme and the holly theme from Tracey's tag so I used some polka dot paper on the card base.  I stamped and colored the gorgeous holly leaves from Hero Arts and positioned them onto a small tag cut with one of MFT's pierced tags.  The berries are painted with clear Wink of Stella to give them a shimmer.  I had to hunt for a sentiment small enough to fit in the space left after placing the holly on and finally found this sentiment in the Build a Snowman set by SSS.

A small twine knot just to show the tag is actually a tag :) and the card was finished.

Thanks for visiting.

Products used:

Stamps:  Holly Jolly (Hero Arts), Build a Snowman (SSS)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark

Cardstock:  White, SU patterned paper, Riding Hood Red (SU), X-Press It

Dies:  Holly (Hero Arts), Pierced Tag Stax (MFT)

Accessories:  Copics, White EP, Wink of Stella, Baker's Twine

Cheers

Karren

Cupcake Celebration

Hi and welcome!  Today's card is inspired by Nancy's tag at Tag You're It and I'm also using the sketch at Try Stampin' on Tuesday.  As the stamp set I used is NBUS, I'm also linking up at Darnell's blog.

This was another card that took way too long!  I'll spare you all the failed attempts and the mountain of cast-aside cupcake images I have in my bin :)  I finally settled on this cupcake which is a NBUS set called Tasty Treats.  I colored the cupcake with Copics then went over the icing with Wink of Stella.  I had it sitting on a white tag but it looked a bit bereft, so I sponged three different pink inks in an ombre fashion on that white tag and I was quite happy with the effect - especially how the white die-cut sentiment pops.

For the confetti, I went through all my dies to find the smallest shapes and cut them from various colors of cardstock.  Funnily, the little dots are berries from PTI's Harvest Berries set.  The heart on the cupcake is covered in Glossy Accents and the whole cupcake is popped up on foam tape.

The bottom tag is also a white tag that I blended Sparrow and Dark Chocolate ink on in an ombre fashion.  I added more confetti to the card base and finished off with some brown baker's twine.

Thanks for visiting.

Products used:

Stamps:  Tasty Treats (Clearly Besotted)

Ink:  Rosie Cheeks, Twirling Tutu, Hollyhock, Sparrow, Dark Chocolate (SSS), Memento Tuxedo Black

Cardstock:  White, X-Press It, Green Apple, Lipstick, Sunshine, Cotton Candy

Accessories:  Tasty Treats die (Clearly Besotted), Joy to the Woods die (Lawn Fawn), Harvest Berries (PTI), Starry Dies (Verve), Tag Sale #5 (PTI), Wet Paint Cuts III (PTI), Wink of Stella, Copics, Glossy Accents, Baker's Twine

Edited to Add:  This card got a shout out at Tag You're It and Try Stampin' on Tuesday.