Stick It Down- Christmas card

Hello, I hope you had a Merry Chrismas! I have a couple of cards to share today. It turns out, they were both to the same person, my oldest daughter!

First up is the Christmas card I made for her. I started with this month's sketch from Stick It Down:

 

I wanted to play a little with the Distres Resist Spray as I haven't used it much yet. I started with a heavy cardstock panel.and splatter some spray on it. once that was dry, I inked the panel with red, pink and green distress inks. I then splatter the panel again with Distress Resist Spray. Once that was dry, I inked the whole panel with Black Soot Distress Oxide ink. You can see on my background where all of the inks resisted my original splatter and where the black resisted the splatters over the colored inks. I finished off the panel with a few sprays of Perfect Pearls mist. Once all of that was dry, I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment. I added glitter riboon and some fussy cut ornaments. I finished off the ornaments with some sequins for added sparkle.

My second card was for my daughter's 13th birthday earlier this month. I started by pressing inkpads onto a plastic surface. I misted them with water and then pressed my card into the ink. While that dried, I cut the background with my Cricut and the Edge to Edge cartridge. I stamped the banner and sentiment on a piece of vellum and heat embossed them with silver powder. To color the banner, I used a water brush and gelatos. The vellum is attached with a couple of brads.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my projects. I received some new stamps and a MISTI for Christmas, so stay tuned for some projects using those!

Last Calendar Pages of 2019

Hello! I have my last two calendar layouts of 2019 to share! Both used sketches from Sick It Down. First up, the October sketch:

I stuck really close to this sketch, besides adding a couple extra photos. I used my Cricut to cut the tags from coordinating patterned papers. Since my background was white and many of my patterned papers were on a white base, I sprayed some spray ink over the background to make the tags stand it more. The journaling tag had an image that didn't match the rest of my last, so I used some stickers to cover it up. I scared some lead stickers, brads and silver Nuvi drops around the page to finish it off.

Next is the November sketch:

I noticed a lot of pinks in my photos, so I used some Christmas patterned papers that had some pinks too. This design is great if you have lots of scraps, which is much of what I was working with here. For the rows of lights and ornaments, I once again used my Cricut. For the light bulbs, I coated the "bulb" with some glitter paste to give it some shimmer. I also fussy cut some ornaments from one of my patterned papers. I mixed those in with my due cut ornaments and used a few around my title. A free sequins in the ornaments finished things off.

You're How Old?

I have another card to share. I used a couple of challenges as inspiration for this card. First up is this sketch from Sketch Saturday:

I also used the inspiration image from The Card Concept:

I started by using a plaid background stamp with black ink. To add some red to the plaid, I used a red Sharpie and a ruler to add some stripes. The sentiment is a digital stamp that I printed on white cardstock and then matted with red and black cardstock. I used some black 3D paint to add the dotted frame. The star embellishments were made from cardstock and embossing powder. I punched each star four times from black cardstock and glued the layers together. I then pressed the star into Versamark ink and sprinkled black embossing powder over it. While the powder was still hot, I sprinkled more powder over the start and heated it again. I did this one more time to get the smooth, shiny finish.

Snowy Anniversary

Wow, it's been a while! I have created some cards over the last few months, I just haven't taken the time to blog them. I may try to slowly share them as I have time. 

I made this card last week for my sister and her husband's anniversary. It is based on this sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch:

I started with the royal blue cardstock base. I stamped and heat embossed the snowflake images. The white snowflake was cut using my Cricut and the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cartridge. I decided the background needed a little more, so I sprayed some Perfect Pearls mist over the background. I then splattered some white mist near the middle. The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed with white powder. I attached the white snowflake with foam adhesive.