Case Study #172

I have loved guest designing for Case Study Challenge this month!
Thanks again, Iwona, for asking me to join you!
Here is the last project that I made....

This month, we've changed things up a bit, so there isn't a Muse as such.

Instead, we're honouring Cath from the Moxie Fab World.

Cath stepped down from her position in the Paper Crafts magazine, as well as the host for MFW. December is a tribute to her influence on the paper crafting community,

 and we chose four of her past posts that she shared within the "Oh My Moxie Fab!" column.

Here's this week's inspiration photo:

Aren't these cookies fabulous?

I thought the designs on these were so pretty that I had to replicate them on a card!

I used my Wplus9 Fresh Cut Florals to stamp my flowers.

I started by diecutting my white & Enchanted Evening cardstocks with Mama Elephant's Femme Frame dies.

On my white cardstock, I stamped a banner & sentiment from Wplus9's Bountiful Banners stamp set.

Then, I masked that off and proceeded to stamp images from Wplus9's Fresh Cut Florals.

To finish it off, I added a few leave images from Wplus9's Mother's Day Bouquet.

Be sure to visit the Case Study Challenge blog to see what the rest of the team created for the challenge.

Thanks for looking!

Merry Christmas!

 I got the last of my Christmas tags made yesterday afternoon.

My gifts are all wrapped and ready.

What a great feeling!

Here are the tags....

For all of them, I used some PTI pure poppy card stock and the new Tag Sale #9 dies.

I also used this fabulous patterned paper by Webster's. I need to get more of this one -- I love it!

For my first tag, I used the Simon Say Stamp Merry Christmas die. 

For this one, I used the Lawn Fawn Winter Owl & paper-pieced him.

The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp's Envelope Sentiments set.

For these last two I used my Memory Box die and my PTI In the Meadow stamp set.

I'm linking all of these tags up for the Fusion Challenge #1,
where I used both the inspiration photo:

I'm spending the day getting food & my house ready for our Christmas gathering tomorrow.
Wishing you all the merriest of Christmases!

Thanks for looking!

My children's gift tags

I wanted to get my wrapping done last week and put the gifts under the tree.

However, I didn't want my kids to know whose gifts were whose.

So I wrapped them and made some tags using Mama Elephant's No Peeking stamp set and coordinating tag die and put them under the tree with no names.

On Christmas morning, I'll remember whose gift is whose. ;)

Thanks for looking!

A couple more tags

We celebrated Christmas on Friday with my mom and my twin brother, Chris, who was out on business from Nanaimo, B.C.

Here are the tags I made for their gifts.

First up is the tag that I made for my mom's gift.

I used my Papertrey Ink Tag Sale 4 die, as well as my Merry Christmas word die from Simon Says Stamp.

I die cut the Merry Christmas from a strip of SSS woodgrain card stock. 

Then I ran the negative piece though with my Tag Sale 4 die and layered it over some red card stock before adhering it to my tag. 

I added some baker's twine along the edges of the woodgrain card stock.

Then, I was left with the Merry Christmas word die cut.

As it was lying on my table, I couldn't help but notice that Christmas has my brother's name in it.

So I used it for my tag.

 

I die cut my tag using my Reverse Confetti Tag Me dies.

However, I wanted my tag a little longer to fit my sentiment.

So, I ran one end of my die though the die cutting machine but stopped before I got to the end. 

Then I flipped my card stock/die around and slid the die down a little to make the tag longer.

Then I ran it through my die cutting machine again, but stopped before I got to the end.

I stamped my sentiment from Reverse Confetti's Bring On the Merry stamp set in versa mark 

and heat embossed it with white embossing powder.

I added the trimmed die cut work, as well as some baker's twine.

Thanks for looking!

Getting some gifts wrapped...

Today, I have some wrapped gifts that I made using

some Reverse Confetti stamps & dies,

as well as some paper & cool twine that I picked up at IKEA.

These gifts are going to my brother and his family in Montreal.

For all of my tags, I used Reverse Confetti's Tinsel 'N Trim & So Stripey stamp sets

and Tag Me dies.

I made this one, first. It's for my brother's girlfriend, Tatiana.

To start, I covered some card stock in the wrapping paper and die cut it twice. 

The first time was with the larger tag die and the second time with the smaller one to create the window.

I then repeated this and lined the windows with some clear acetate.

I lined the exterior of the window with some dimensional adhesive & filled it with 

some Sand coloured Pretty Pink Posh sequins.

I stamped the stripes in classic kraft on the banner die cut and added my sentiment.

I'm linking this tag up to this week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Bling It On.

This one is for my nephew, Noah, who's ten.

For the red banner on the front, I used one of the left over tags from making the shaker tag.

And then I used the other left over small tag on my brother's gift.

I die cut the circle from the front of it using a stacked circle die and then I placed my stamped image behind it.

Thanks for looking!

CAS(E) this Sketch #58 & some exciting news

*Note this is my third post for today.
Please scroll down to see my post for this week's Case Study Challenge 
& 10 Minute Craft Dash #32.

It's Thursday, which means a new sketch for CAS(E) this Sketch.
I have a card to share that I made for Sketch #58 by N@ Ali:

Here's my card:

 I stamped my sentiment on a strip of Teresa Collins patterned paper, layered over some rustic white cardstock and added some stitching.
I diecut my skis & stamped them, using some gold embossing powder for the bindings.
I added a diecut evergreen sprig once they were adhered to my card.

And, we have a very talented guest designer this week..... it's Sage!

Chrissy Larson emailed me earlier this week and asked if Sage would like to be the guest designer. 
Needless to say, she was thrilled!

Here's her card:

She used some Teresa Collins patterned paper for the background.
She stamped the owl & sentiment from Lawn Fawn's Winter Owl set
and coloured his scarf and nose and paper-pieced his eyes & tummy.

Visit CAS(E) this Sketch to see the rest of the DT's takes on the sketch and to play along, if you'd like.
You have some time.... we're taking a bit of a break for the holidays, so you have until
Thursday, January 9th to link up your card.

Thanks for looking!

10 Minute Craft Dash #32

*Note this is my second post for today.

Please scroll down to see my post for this week's Case Study Challenge.

I cannot believe it's only one week until Christmas!
I still have a list of things today, although I did cross off my Christmas baking on Monday, which was good!
How about you? Are you ready for the 25th?

Today, I have a card to share for the 10 Minute Craft Dash #31, which is Anything Goes.

I don't know why, but I struggle the most with these kinds of challenges.

It's like I need a jumping off point for inspiration.

So I went looking for one and I found this one from The Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge.

Isn't it pretty?

So I gathered my supplies: my embossing paste & SSS snowflake stencil 

and my Reverse Confetti Lots to Say stamp set and Tag Me dies.

And here's what I made:

I spread the paste on some aqua mist card stock.

While that was drying, I die cut my vellum and My Mind's Eye patterned paper with the end of the smaller tag in the Tag Me set.

I stamped my sentiment in versa mark and heat embossed it with some aqua embossing powder.

Then I added the banners to my card and stitched them in place.

As a finishing touch, I added the felt "stars" --- these were left over from some snowflakes I'd cut using the Papertrey Ink Fancy Flakes dies -- they're the centres from each die.

And my time?

Honestly, I don't know. 

When I went to check it, I realized that my iPod had run out of power and had shut off. :(

But I'm pretty sure it was under 10 minutes. ;)

Click here to see what Paulina & the rest of the DT made for the challenge.

Here's the prize that will go to one lucky challenge participant.

Thanks for looking!

Case Study #171

I am so excited to be guest designing for Case Study Challenge this month!

 

This month, we're changing things up a bit, so there isn't a Muse as such.

Instead, we're honouring Cath from the Moxie Fab World.

In case you missed the news, Cath stepped down from her position in the Paper Crafts magazine, as well as the host for MFW. December is a tribute to her influence on the paper crafting community,

 and we chose four of her past posts that she shared within the "Oh My Moxie Fab!" column.

Here's this week's inspiration photo: 

 

 

I loved how the design of this photo filled in the outline of the bird.

So, at first, I thought I'd use a die to diecut some patterned paper.

But after I chose my patterned paper, I decided I wanted to showcase a little more of it,

so I decided to use the negative diecut from my woodgrain cardstock instead.

  

 

I used my Simon Says Hello die for my sentiment.

The patterned paper is My Mind's Eye. I fussy cut two of the flowers from the patterned paper to add to the front of my card, along with some Papertrey Ink twine and buttons.

Be sure to visit the Case Study Challenge blog to see what the rest of the team created for the challenge.

 

Thanks for looking!

Some Christmas things....

I have a few Christmasy things to share today.

First up are some treat bag tags.
(I hope you're not sick of these yet.)

I have eight more tags to share today that I made with 

the Wplus 9 Heartfelt Holiday stamp set &

my Papertrey Ink Tag Sale #7 die.

They're all very similar..... with a mix of different colours or images.

These will go to Sage's & Jonah's teachers as their Christmas gifts.

I also wanted to share some of my Christmas decor...

My chalkboard on my piano...

A little collection of lanterns, etc. on our TV stand...

Our tree....

My shelf in the corner where I store my scrapbooking albums:

And my nativity on my computer armoire:

And lastly, I have a tag to share:

I used some PTI dies (fancy flakes, tag sale #4),
a Reverse Confetti die (the banner from Tag Me)
& a sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp Christmas Stamps.

Here's a close up:

I'm linking this up for the Fusion Challenge #1,
where I used both the inspiration photo and the sketch:

Thanks for looking!