Santa and his hat

Its actually just his cute little hat without santa.  I made this square card to measure 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 with crumb cake sard stock and basic white which I stamped in sweet sorbet and lemon lime twist.  I die cut the hats from sweet sorbet and basic white card stock.  I will be making more with sloghtly different color variations and different tag images but the same layout.  All products used on and in the making of this project are current stampin up products.  I will be submitting to the following challenges:

Christmas Craft Creations

I made this project specifically for the Barrel of Monkeys challenge and I think he turned out pretty cute.  I thought a little yodeling yeti could be good for winter and I decided to make him adventerous.  Barrel of Monkeys challenge is so much fun  inspired by childrens toys and games and I try to enter anytime possible, If you havent tried it yet you should, I will have the link below.

A Barrel of Monkeys Challenge

 

Home Sweet Home

I made this project using basic white and bubble bath cardstock.  I also used the colors berry bursrt and lemon lime twist, all current stampin up products.  The bundle of stamps and dies are also from stampin up called sweet gingerbread but are retired.  The decorative stitching around the panel were made with the stitched with whimsy dies which are still available in the annual catalog.  I absolutely the gingerbread look bc my daughter and I love making them together, we dont really eat them but love having them for decoration yearly.  I will be submitting this project to the following challenges:

Cupcaske Inspirations

 

Seasons Greetings sketch

I used starry sky and basic white thick cardstock as well as the same colored ribbon, silver shimmer paper and a retired dsp that I cannot remember the name but i felt like it fit perfectly in this project.  I also used versamark ink and silver embossing powder.  All either current or retired staampin up products.  I love the way this project and am considering making 2 dozen more for christmas cards.  Tell me what you think good or bad idea?  I am also submitting my project to the following challenges

Inspire.Create.Challenge

 

Let It Snow

I made this project using basic white thick cardstock, fresh freesia and orchid oasis inks and the sparkling snowflakes bundle all from stampin.  Available in the mini catalog that is active from now until the end of december.  I also colored white ribbon with the light orchid oasis stampin blend.  I used a blending brush and blended fresh freesia ink onto the white panel very lightly, I also blended it to the edges of the snowflake punched panel.   All of the snowflakes and the sentiment are available in the stamp set, I highly recommend this bundle, out of all of the ones I purchased from the mini catalog (which sadly was all with the exception of like 3, its shameful I know) this has been one of my absolute favorites and my go to frequently.  I will be submitting this projecy to the following challenges:

Use your Stuff challenge blog 

 

Double z fold

I made this double z fold using the Gift of Giving stamp set, available in the stampin up mini catalog.  I love the images in this set, so big and bold and perfect for christmas.  So easy to color using watercolor or your stamp and blends.  Would also be very easy to fussy cut any of the large bold images out bcause the shapes a pretty straight forward.  I used sweet sorbet as my card base and a retired stampin up that I find to be really beautiful, especially the back side of many of the sheets.  I cannot remember the name right now.  This card was so fun and easy to make.  Just looks like I spent forever on it.  I am not posting the card recipe right now because I am short on time but I will put on a later post or If anyone would like it let me know and I will do it ASAP.  I will be submitting to the following challenges:

Inspire Create Challenges

 

Sparkling Season

I made this project using watercolor painters and watercolor paper and the ink colors lost lagoon, petal pink and pretty peacock.  I I then stamped the medium detailed snowflake from sparkling snowflakes (available in the stampin up mini catalog) in memento black and the sentiment in black as well.  I applied my inks with a wide water painter and dried with a heat gun on the low setting.  I then adhered the watercolor paper to a panel of pretty peacock and then to a basic white thick card front.

I stamped the small detailed snowflake from the same set as above in the same colors used above and the sentiment again in black.  I had this project done in under 5 minutes and am very happy with the finished result.  I will be submitting to the following challenges:

Global Design Project #GDP417