Last Day of Christmas in July

Hi stampers!  How can it be the last day of July already?  I'll be ordering my holiday catalogs today to send to you!  I got a peek at it yesterday and it's AH-MAZING of course!  For now, here's a card using stuff from the annual catalog!

I used this greeting from Another Wonderful Year (which is my favorite in the set) and a bunch of framelits to make a pretty cute Christmas card!  I combined the pine sprigs and other little sprigs from Pretty Pines with the Foliage Frames Dies and then added my bow from the Stitched Seasons Dies which are available TOMORROW!  I love our dies because you can combine them with almost anything to create amazing cards and projects!  Don't forget that you don't have to use the dies with the coordinating sets at all or even OWN those sets!

The Foliage Frames Dies are amazing because you can use our new Embossing Mats to add some texture as well.  After I cut out my frame, I left it in the die and use the mats to emboss it.  I'll try to video that soon!

A few gold accents and the new Tufted Embossing Folder round it out!

Happy stamping!

Product List

Another Wonderful Year Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[146695]

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock

[140272]

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[100730]

Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[102482]

Shaded Spruce 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146981]

Lemon Lime Twist 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[144245]

Call Me Clover 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146969]

Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad

[147088]

Tufted Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[146335]

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

[141705]

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

Pretty Pines Thinlits Dies

[141851]

Foliage Frame Framelits Dies

[146353]

Big Shot Embossing Mats

[146327]

Gold Metallic Thread

[138401]

Metallics Sequin Assortment

[144214]

Hello December Album

Hi stampers!  I couldn't figure out what to share today as I was out of pre-edited projects.  As I was browsing my phone for photos, I came across the album I embellished the other day so I can put my project life pages from this month in as I get them done.  I'm trying to work little by little all month :-)

I love Project Life!  It's so easy to keep your memories without having to spend a ton of time on complicated scrapbook pages and it's CUTE!  Even if you don't memory keep or scrap much (or at all) Christmas is the prefect time to make an exception and the Hello December kits make it so simple!

I've never decorated one of my albums before but I'm glad I did because it turned out SO flipping cute!

Sorry about the shadow in the picture.  I have to work on my photography skills a little!

Here's how I decorated my album:

• I stamped the little stars from the accessory kit stamp set in white craft ink and added a few of the adhesive stars.
• The main panel is one of the PL cards and I overlayed it with one of the acetate cards from the accessory pack (the 2016).
• To help the overlay stay down I added some of the washi tape in the accessory pack
• I cut a few pine branches from emerald envy and then the mistletoe sprig is vellum (pretty pines thinlits).  I layered those behind a stitched shape.
• And finally, I added one of the wood trees from the accessory pack. 

I'll share a few of my pages soon!

Happy stamping!

Caseing the Catalog

Hi stampers!  I have a card today I cased from the holiday catalog.  I think this catalog has some really great samples!  I have a whole list of things I want to case but usually when I sit down I try to come up with my own ideas.  I have to remind myself to case sometimes :-)

I really liked this card!

Do you like the samples in the catalogs?  Do you case them?

Happy stamping!

Display Samples - Very Merry

Hi stampers!  Today my display samples are all Christmas cards.  You know me, I had to make some Christmas cards!  Christmas is my favorite!

The first card is probably my favorite and is a shaker card.  I used the pretty pines dies to make a little scene in my jar and added some mica flakes.  I think I made a boo boo and used the red foil when I meant to use the red glimmer paper, I hope you can forgive me :-)  The lid is embossed with the copper powder.  I also love the sentiment from wonderful year!

Here's a close up view:

I guess I was on a shaker card roll...for this one I did a watercolor wash on my background piece.  I cut out the word from the wreath framelits and added more micha flakes.  Simple but I think it's very pretty!

My final card uses some DSP from the warmth and cheer stack and the numbers from our numbers framelits.  I love stuff like this!

I hope you enjoyed these samples!  I only have a couple more to share!

Happy stamping!