Merry Christmas!!!

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

I'd like to take this opportunity to share my last Christmas card with you. If I could, I would personally send one to each of you! THANK YOU all SO much for all your support and friendship over the year. Words aren't enough to express what each of you means to me!

Card: Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Silver Foil and scraps of Coastal Cabana (retired)
Ink: Tempting Turquoise and Coastal Cabana (retired)
Stamp set: Embellished Ornaments
Tools and embellishments: Delicate Ornaments Thinlits, Silver Cording Trim
Adhesives: Stampin' Dimensionals, Adhesive Sheets (retired, alternate Fine Tip Glue) and Tear & Tape

I'll be back on New Year's Day, so whatever you're doing to celebrate, have fun and be safe!

Love, blessings and

Stamped Ornament Trio Cards

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

The cards I'm sharing with you today were inspired by a couple of designs I spotted in one of the groups on Facebook. While they aren't a direct CASE of Gill's, seeing them helped clear the design haze a little!

I love the color combinations I've put together and hope you to do?

Rich Razzleberry and Blushing Bride...

Tempting Turquoise and one of my favorites, Pool Party...

And a peek at the inside...

Card: Tempting Turquoise, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White and scraps of Silver Foil
Ink: Tempting Turqoise, Pool Party, Rich Razzleberry and Blushing Bride
Stamp set: Embellished Ornaments
Tools and embellishments: Delicate Ornaments Thinlits, Deco Labels Framelits, Basic Rhinestones
Adhesives: Stampin' Dimensionals, Tombow and Adhesive Sheets (retired)

Challenges...
AG at TTCRD
#65 AG at Inspiration Destination
#208/209 AG at Pixie's Snippets Playground

I'll be back on Friday with a special card, so I hope you'll pop by at some point during the festivities to see it.

Hanging Ornaments Cards

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

I'm absolutely LOVING the Embellished Ornaments/ Delicate Ornaments stamp and die bundle, but you might have already realized that! Grin. The round ornament in the die set is so pretty and I didn't want it to feel left out, having focused pretty much on the longer one, so I've used it to create today's cards.

I don't yet own the 1 3/4" circle punch that would have sped up the creation, so improvised by drawing around the outside of the die, and then carefully trimming the excess off once the two layers where adhered. Although I gotta say I don't think you'd have known that if I'd not admitted it?

Here's a peek at the inside of them both...

Card: Tempting Turquoise, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Silver Foil, Silver Glimmer and scraps of Pistachio Pudding and Crisp Cantaloupe (both retired)
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Tempting Turquoise, Crisp Cantaloupe and Pistachio Pudding (both retired)
Stamp set: Embellished Ornaments
Tools and embellishments: Delicate Ornaments Thinlits, Deco Labels Framelits and Silver Cording Trim
Adhesives: Stampin' Dimensionals, Tombow and Adhesive Sheets (retired)

Challenges...
#204 Metallics at Use Your Stuff
#177 AG at Brown Sugar
#155 AG at 613 Avenue Create
#208/209 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground

I'll be back on Wednesday with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Christmas Banner

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Way back in September when I created and shared my first Christmas cards for this year, I had thought that the color combination I used for those Delicately Glitzy Ornaments, Tempting Turquoise and Rich Razzleberry, would be the color scheme for my decor. Little did I know then that the appropriately named Pool Party, one of my favorite colors, would gatecrash the party!

Unlike some uninvited guests, this gatecrasher was welcomed with open arms and in the process pushing Rich Razzleberry outta the way. There's always NEXT year for that combination, but we'll see what happens. Grin.

Enough of my chatter, I can hear you saying, let's take a look at what you've done...

I really do love the cool color combination, so yep, the gatecrasher is welcome to stay!

Card: Whisper White and Silver Foil
Ink: Tempting Turquoise and Pool Party
Stamp set: Embellished Ornaments
Tools and embellishments: Delicate Ornaments and Little Letters Thinlits, Silver Cording Trim (used to hang the banner)
Adhesives: Adhesive Sheets (retired)

Challenges...
#154 AG at 613 Avenue Create
#292 AAG at Craft Your Passion
#207 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground

I'll be back on Monday with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Christmas Happy Mail

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

I've recently taken part in a couple of swaps with my House of Cards DT sisters. The first was a pocket letter swap and here's the stunning, stuffed to bursting creation I received from the amazingly talented Shawna Standish...

Every element can be used and I just hope I'll be able to do everything justice!

Here's the gorgeous card Shawna sent...

The second swap was a holiday card swap and here's the fab slider card I received from my amazing Norwegian sis, Merethe Arstein...

I feel very blessed to receive both. Thanks girls!

I'll be back on Wednesday with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

EPB Luminary Pictorial

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Have you realized how much I'm in love with the EPB? While creating my coffee pot, I thought how I could further adapt it for other uses, and I quickly came up with the idea for a luminary. Here's what you'll need...

Card: Tempting Turquoise measuring 9½" x 8¼" and 3 pieces of Vellum measuring 2 3/4" x 4"
Tools and embellishments: Envelope Punch Board, Simply Scored and stylus, Delicate Ornaments Thinlits, Magnetic Platform OR low tack tape
Adhesives: Sticky Strip (retired) or Tombow

Score the long side of the card at 1½", 3", 4½", 6", 7½" and 9"

Turn and score on the short side at 1½" and 6"

Fold and burnish all score lines and use your EPB to punch along the 1½" score line

Fold the top score line back down and using your Magnetic Platform. CAREFULLY line the card and die up, then cut

Repeat above until you have cut 3 ornaments. Unfold the top piece and notch in

Flip the card over and attach the Vellum pieces over the apertures. I used Sticky Strip, but you could use Tombow or another wet glue

Bring the top section back down and CAREFULLY, using only your fingers, reinforce the score lines along the middle of the ornaments

Attach tape to the back

And the front

Fold and secure the top section and short side to form the hexagon

What? You can't leave us like that!!! It's not finished!?! Yep, you're right, it's not quite finished, but you'll have to wait until Friday for part two. I know, I'm sorry, but it will be worth the wait. I promise!

To ease the pain a bit, here's what NOT to do when cutting the apertures...

Yep, I didn't line it up properly and it caught on the side of the Big Shot. Oops!!!

Until Friday,

Delicately Glitzy Ornaments

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

The AMAZINGLY talented and extremely generous Darnell has a new NBUS challenge and with perfect timing too! I've just taken delivery of the gorgeous Delicate Ornaments Thinlits dies and Embellished Ornaments stamp set from Stampin' Up! I had to have a play with both, as well as some of the other goodies I got in the same parcel...

Card: Rich Razzleberry, Tempting Turquoise, Silver Glimmer and Silver Foil Sheets (ALL NBUS) and Whisper White
Ink: Rich Razzleberry
Stamp set: Embellished Ornaments
Tools: Delicate Ornaments Thinlits
Adhesives: Mini Glue Dots, Tear & Tape and Stampin' Dimensionals

Challenges...

NBUS #5 at djkardkreations
#200 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#193 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground (hangers cut from snippets)

I'll be back on Friday, so I hope you'll join me then.