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.

EBP Luminary Part 2

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 hope the wait since Wednesday for part 2 hasn't been too painful? Let's get straight to it. In addition to the items listed in part one, you'll need just a couple more things, Silver Foil and a suitable adhesive, I used Adhesive Sheets. So here's a full list

Card: Tempting Turquoise measuring 9½" x 8¼", 3 pieces of Vellum measuring 2 3/4" x 4" and Silver Foil
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 and Adhesive Sheets (retired) OR Fine Tip Glue

Die cut 3 of the swirly ornaments in the set from Silver Foil. Using your Simply Scored, carefully score down the center of the ornaments on the reverse side

Using your fingers, gently fold along the score line. Apply adhesive and press into the Vellum lined apertures

Snip the bottom to form tabs and complete in the same way as in my Coffee Pot Pictorial

Add in a BATTERY tealight and enjoy!

I really hope the wait for part two was worth it? I'd love to see yours if you give it a go. Either drop a post link into the comments, or post pix to my Facebook page.

Challenges...

Whatever you're doing this weekend, have a great one. I'll be back on Monday with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Delicately Glitzy Ornaments #2

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 first time I played with the new ornament stamp and die bundle from Stampin' Up! I loved it as much as I had when I first saw it in the new holiday catalog. At the same time I created this card, I also created the one I'm sharing with you today.

I had only intended to create one card, with three Tempting Turquoise ornaments, but I thought they needed something else, so added in the Rich Razzleberry one. I could have put the spare ornament away, bit decided it was safer on a card. Grin. In literally minutes, I had the other created...

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

If you're wondering how I got the Silver Glimmer ornament to look different than the others, I did it by putting the die on the back of the card and cutting. I found it cut better that way and also creates great variation too.

Challenges...

#88 Designer's Choice at CYCI
#202 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#196 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground

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

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.