Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #224

 

It's time for another Snarky Saturday with the Sisterhood.  This is our final challenge for 2022 and we're going with a tried and true holiday theme....Naughty or Nice.  I couldn't help but set this mischevious geezer in a holiday scene.

I'm thinking we need to hook Edna up with Chester.  

What do you think?  LOL!

The focal stamp is a standalone from Art Impressions.  After stamping the geezer (I'm calling him Chester....feel free to fill in the rest of the title. *wink*) I masked him off before stamping the gifts so as to put him in the foreground.  I colored in a floor to ground the scene and added a fun holiday sentiment.  This is the perfect way to get more use out of non-holiday stamps.

Supplies:

Art Impressions - J1620

Ellen Hutson - Christmas Scribbles stamp set

Pink & Main - Ho Ho Ho stamp set

Fun Stampers Journey - Tinsel Tangle stamp 

MFT - Santa Elves stamp set

I invite you to visit our blog for more naughty holiday inspiration and hope to see your creation in our gallery! 

As always, thanks so much for spending a bit of your day with me!

Jules

Happy Little Stampers - December Anything Goes With Dies

 

Holiday time is here which makes it easy to decide on just what to make for our Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies challenge.  Today I actually have a two-fer.  This first one is up on the Happy Little Stampers blog.  

This second card was created at the request of my nephew who wanted something in emerald green to give to a special friend.  

Would you believe that I don't currently have any emerald green cardstock?  I know, right?  I created the green background with the help of some Bristol Smooth cardstock and several heavy coats of Mardi Gras ink by Catherine Pooler.  It's absolutely stunning.  The background texture was created with an embossing folder.  I did a die cut inlay technique on the ornaments.  I added a subsentiment in addition to the die cut Merry on the second card and finally some pearls as embellishments.  I really love the look of both of these.  

I invite you to join us over at the blog and hope to see your card in our gallery!

Supplies:

Birch Press Design - Roushan Ornament die

Simon Says Stamp - Kaleidoscope embossing folder

Simon Says Stamp/CZ Designs - Merry die

Simon Says Stamp - Tiny Words Christmas stamp set

Spellbinders - gold foil pearls

As always, thanks so much for spending a bit of your day with me!

Jules

Happy Little Stampers - December Christmas Challenge

 

It's time for our last challenge of the year over at the Happy Little Stampers Christmas challenge where our prompt is Stenciling.  

I chose to use a non-traditional color palette for my wintery holiday card.  I used dye inks to both stencil the background as well as blend out my white die cuts.  I added a bit of gray shading to the body of the snowman and a bit of blending to the sentiment banner.   No embellishments needed.  

Supplies:

The Greetery - Square Dance stencil set

Simon Says Stamp - Merry & Bright stamp set

Cottage Cutz - Winter Snowman die set

I invite you to visit our blog for more holiday inspiration.  We'd love to see your card in our gallery.  Remember, the prompts are always optional but remember that only holiday cards qualify.  

FYI - All HLS challenges will be on hold until March so the team members can enjoy a little after the holidays break.  

As always, thanks so much for spending a bit of your day with me!

Jules

Color Hues #54

 

Happy December everyone!  It's still in the 80s here in Florida so getting into the holiday mood takes a bit more imagination but we'll get there.  

Today I'm sharing a card I created for the final Color Hues challenge of 2022 where the color duo is Navy and Cream.  I thought the colors were perfect for a Hanukkah card.  

It's really hard to see from my photo but all of my elements are heat embossed.  I used a navy embossing powder for the sentiment and clear embossing powder over top of the die cut elements.  The background is a cream cardstock with a linen texture and together with the embossing it gives the card an elevated feel. 

Supplies:

Concord & 9th - Seasonal Sayings stamp set

Simon Says Stamp - Happy stamp set

Simon Says Stamp - Ultra Navy embossing powder

Poppystamps - Blooming Poinsettia dies 

I'm looking forward to officially joining the Color Hues DT in January but I need to up my game as they have some fabulous designers over there.  Take a peek at their blog and see if you don't agree!

As always, thanks so much for spending a bit of your day with me!

Jules

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #223

 

It's another Snarky Saturday with the Sisterhood!  Before I get to my card I'd like to wish my American friends a belated Happy Thanksgiving.  It's been a rough year for me but there is still so much to be grateful for.  

Our new prompt for this coming fortnight is Queen.  I struggled a bit with this one so work with me here.  Mine is a very broad interpretation.  

My thoughts are that if you can sit and look pretty in a martini glass, you must be royalty, right?

I began my card by stamping the background colors followed by the image and sentiment.  I then ran the panel through an embossing folder and added some gems for some sparkle and interest.  I love to color but today I just plain didn't feel like it and think this makes for a fun alternative.   

Supplies:

MFT Stamps - Martini on Me stamp set

Simon Says Stamp - Lumen embossing folder

Ellen Hutson - Abstract Nature stamp set

Stamplorations - Some Snark stamp set (created by fellow Sista Chris)

Trinity Stamps - Mint Dream gems

I invite you to visit our blog for more royal inspiration and hope to see your creation in our gallery! 

As always, thanks so much for spending a bit of your day with me!

Jules

Seize the Birthday #252

Our last Seize the Birthday challenge of 2022 is a very fun one that I think you will all enjoy.  Our host Barbara is challenging us to CASE a card from any of the Seize the Birthday designers.  Beware, choosing just one designer and one design may result in many a blog/IG rabbit hole.  It's just so hard to choose!

Here's my card.  I wonder if my fellow DT member will recognize hers from my lift?

My card is based on one from fellow DT member Glenda.  In all honesty, I did not go back in to the STB archives but rather discovered her beauty from her IG account.  Red, Black, Birthday and CAS checked all of the boxes for me.  Here's her original card.  

Stunning, isn't it?

To create my version I actually dug out my Kuretake Gansai Tambi water colors that haven't seen the light of day in ages.  I stamped my chosen floral arrangement onto a panel of watercolor cardstock using a crisp black pigment ink.  After loosely coloring the florals and leaves I restamped the floral image overtop once again.  (The beauty of the MISTI.)  I stamped the sentiment and decided I wanted a narrow border which was accomplished by adhering it to a gray card base.  Very simple yet I think it's Oh So Striking.  

Supplies:

Altenew - Best Mom stamp set

Altenew - Birthday Greetings stamp set

Hobby Lobby - Watercolor Cardstock 

Kuretake Gansai Watercolor palette

For those who made it this far (thank you for that!) there will be a little change to my DT duties come January.   I am making a lateral slide over to our sister challenge at the Color Hues Color Challenge blog to join their DT group.  I've played with both challenges for years and because that's not going to change, I am not saying "good-bye."  :-)

I invite you to visit our blog for more inspiration.  We'd love to see your card in our gallery.  Remember, or toppings are always optional but remember to make it a birthday card.  Thanks Glenda for the inspiration!!!  Just who will you choose to CASE?  

As always, thanks so much for spending a bit of your day with me!

Jules

Color Hues #53

 

Hello Friends!  I am popping in today to share a card I created with the current Color Hues challenge in mind.  With Scarlet and Green as their color duo it was a no brainer to make a Christmas card.  

This was so simple but so fun!  And boy does it ever have a lot of dimension.

See what I mean?  No envie for this one folks!

 

I used a cover plate die to cut the beautiful holly background from green cardstock and then adhered it directly to a white card base.  I die cut the bow from a really, really, really old die set.  To create the beautiful arch to my bow I first spritzed it with some water and then worked it around the base of a Copic marker until it was pliable enough to adhere down.  The bow was adhered to the ribbon with a craft glue dot.  For my final touches I added in some gold foil pearls.  You may notice that I left off a sentiment.  I thought it stood well on it's own and will stamp something on the inside....if it ever leaves my hands.  *wink*

Supplies:

Poppystamp - holly die and stencil set

Dear Lizzy - ribbon and bow die set

Fun Stampers Journey - gold pearls

As I sit here still admiring it I'm thinking that I may just prop it up on my bar and use it as decor. Ha!

As always, thanks so much for spending a bit of your day with me!

Jules