Merry Friends - Embossed Background

I have this one up on the blog over at Brass & Bliss Craft Co!

I hope you'll hop on over there for the details!

 

Merry Canvas - Brass & Bliss Craft Co

I'm up on the blog over at Brass & Bliss Craft Co with a mixed media canvas!

With lots of pretty snowflakes and more!

Hope you'll join me there for the details!

 

A Jillian Vance Design - Prized Poinsettia Mega Die Set

I'm up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design with a new floral mega die set called Prized Poinsettia!

Hope you'll come on over there and visit for links and details!

Thanks so much for stopping!  Come again soon!

 

CAS-ual Fridays Stencil Release - Snowflake Stencil

Today is the start of a new stencil release over at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps!  We're sharing projects using the new Snowflake Stencil!

I started this one by blending some Broken China and Tumbled Glass inks onto a panel cut with the Pinked Slimline die.  Then I applied Blanco Transfer Gel through the snowflakes and set it aside to dry.

I cut the Merry Christmas from white glitter paper and twice more from white cardstock and stacked them together with glue.  I mounted it onto an oval panel.  When the gel was dry, I laid some flock over it and ran it through my Minc.  Finally I popped the sentiment panel over the top in the center of the slimline and added a few sequins.

That's me for today!  I hope you enjoyed it!

Now be sure to head on over to the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Blog to see what everyone has created for you!  And be sure to come back tomorrow for more New Release!

 

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps-Merry Christmas!

I'm up on the blog over at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps with this one.  Hope you'll hop on over there and see how I created this background.

Thanks so much for stopping and hope you'll come again soon!

 

A Merry Ornament Shaker with CAS-ual Fridays Stamps!

HelloI hope your holiday season is full of love and peace in the midst of all of the hustle and bustle!  I have a card for you today using one of my fave dies in the CAS-ual Fridays shop, Ornament Tag Fri-Dies!

I love this die set because you can make it a shaker or not!  Usually I do because it's so easy and I love shakers!  I just place the two circles together, the smaller inside the larger, on my paper and use some washi tape to hold them still and then run them through my Gemini.

I just add a piece of acetate on the inside of the frame I've created and then add foam tape around the entire frame.   The small circle became my background to my ornament because I wanted the whole ornament to be gold this time.  I added my gold sequin mix within the smaller circle and then placed the windowed frame over the top.  I've used this ornament to create a fall ornament... it's good for any season!  It also comes with cool ornament holder and hanger dies that are hard to see in this pic, but I just love them... the curly delicate hanger is so pretty!

I embellished my ornament with the Mistletoe image from the Mistletoe and Holly stamp set cut with the coordinating Fri-Dies (I love how detailed the dies cut and they come with some cute little word dies too!).  I stamped, colored and cut two and the second one was cut apart and added underneath the first.

I'm playing along over at Double Trouble Challenges Earn Your Stripes Challenge and Cupcake Inspirations Holiday Challenge!  You should check them both out!

Should you decide there is something you need to have, I have this for you:

And that's me for today!  So happy you stopped by to spend a little of your busy season with me!  Hope you'll come again soon!  Hope whatever holiday you celebrate that you get a chance to enjoy it!

Snowman Fun With Trinity Stamps!

Excited to be guesting up on the Trinity Blog one more time this month!  Today I've used the new Tall Shaker Dome Die Set along with the adorable Snowman Border Builder die set to create this little snow globe scene!

I love how this Dome die is tall and leaves a bit more room to do some really cool stuff.. it includes some sweet snow landscapes so it was easy to create a few layers of snowy hills.

I love to use white glitter paper for my snowy bits on a card... I don't have snow where I am here in Sunny AZ, however I do hail from the Western NY area (think Buffalo) so I know how pretty snow can be when it sparkles in the sun!  (If only it wasn't also SO cold!).  I cut the dome and base pieces from gold metallic mirror cardstock and the inside back layer from some cloud design paper.

I added the buildings, tree, and fence that come in the Dome set way up on the hill and in front... a couple of those adorable snow dudes!  I love these guys!!  I always cut extra parts/pieces when I cut them and have them all saved in a little clear bag for future use.  My fine tweezers come in so handy for all of these small die cut pieces.

I couldn't help but add a little string of lights from the Gingerbread House set.  I LOVE these lights...lol!  I should just stamp and die cut hundreds of them to add to every card I make!  I added little dots of Glossy Accents to each bulb.

Another must have in my craft room is the Merry Christmas Senti-Mini Die Set... used alone or with the included background piece and with or without the coordinating stamp set... it's a fantastic set!

I finished it off with some gold/white twine, a snowflake from the I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas Embellishment Mix and my new very favorite sequins, Soapy Bubbles (very few cards make it out of my craft room these days without a few of these on it).

I'm playing along with Anything Goes over at Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge!  Also playing along at Double Trouble with Bring On The Glitz and Snowmen and Cupcake Inspirations Snowman Challenge!  Also playing along again at the Simon Says Stamps IG Challenge #SSSIGCHALLENGE!

So thank you so much for visiting me here today!!  And huge thanks to the ladies at Trinity for having me this month!  I've had so much fun and they've been so great to create with!  Thank you thank you!!

Come back soon!

Crazy 4 Challenges - CFC509 Candy!

I'm happy to be guesting this month with the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog!  It's a weekly challenge just for fun and this week's challenge is "Candy"!

I've used some adorable stuff from Trinity Stamps for today's card including this Sweetie and her sweet treat from the Seasonal Sweetheart stamp set.

The candy images are from the new Gingerbread House set and the Merry die is from the new release also!  And don't you just love the Christmas Candy shaker filling??  Perfect for this week's challenge!

So fun right?  I hope you'll create something Candy themed and play along with us at Crazy 4 Challenges!

I'm also playing along with the Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge which is Anything Goes this week!

Also if you want to see more of the Trinity Stamps Release you can check out my post here and find out how you could win some free stuff from Trinity!

Thank you so much for stopping by!  Don't forget it's the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop this week so be sure to come back soon and often because it's going to be a busy week here!

Trinity Stamps Winter Release Blog Hop

I am honored to be guesting with Trinity Stamps for the Winter Release!  It's an awesome release and so excited I got to play with these great products!  You should have come here from the uber talented Courtney Kreeber's place!   Hop and comment all along the way for your chance to win a $25 gift code to the Trinity Shop!  You have until Friday, November 7th at 11:59pm to comment and the winner will be announced on the Trinity Blog on the 8th!

Here's how I was inspired:

Included in the release are some fantastic Slimline dies... I've used one of them on a couple of my projects today, including this one along with the adorable images from the Gingerbread House Stamps and Dies and the Merry Christmas Dies.  You can find all of these new products here!

O M Garsh!!  Adorable images in the Gingerbread House set... it was so fun to put this card together!  I absolutely love those lights... I think they may be my favorite.  This sweet bird has baked some cookies and is expecting some company!

And here is her friend!  They're going to celebrate the holidays together and she brought a gift and of course she showed up with a couple lattes!  (Those are from the Frappy Camper stamp set...lol!  You knew I'd have some coffee here didn't you?)

Love, love the Merry Christmas Senti-Mini Dies!  It's a three die set, with the words, the outline and a little banner that I didn't use here, but is fantastic for the little sentiments in the Merry Christmas Senti-Mini stamp set!

And the Slimline Series: Stitched Dies... can't say enough!  The 8 1/2" x 3 1/2" size is so fun to have a little extra room.  I created a shaker from mine using a beautiful glitter mix from Trinity.

I'm linking this one up to Simon Says Stamp's Anything Goes Wednesday Challenge!  You should check it out!

I loved playing with the Slimline dies so much I used them again for this one!  I used it along with the Snowman Border Builder.  SUCH a fun set!!

I used the hill die in the set with white glitter paper to create my snowy ground.  Then I just cut all my pieces out of a few different colors and some from glitter paper and started mixing and matching pieces.  My fine tweezers made this so much more fun and easy!

So cute, right?!  The dies to cut those tiny snowflakes were also in the set and the larger snowflakes are embellishments available in the Trinity shop in the I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas mix.

And I used the Merry dies as my sentiment for this one... sweet and simple!

I cut lots of extras from the Snowman Border Builder because I knew I'd want to use them again and again.  I'll store them in little clear envelopes... but I didn't put them away quite yet... 'cause I needed some for this:

Have you seen the new Layered Pine stencils???  I used them for the background here and I LOVE them!  I varied my colors a bit and added a few of just the bottom layer in the background... of my background...lol!

And wasn't it just the perfect backdrop for my Frappy Camper?  I decided to dress it up for Christmas this time around.  I paper pieced the red and colored its belt black.  I used the Coffee Cup from Seasonal Sweetheart for a vent pipe again and added one of the little hats from the new Gingerbread House set.  I decided to make it a shaker with those adorable little Frappe sequins!  Perfect, right?  And those lights from the Gingerbread House set were perfect to decorate the camper!

And some of those adorable snowmen joined the party and they've got little frappes themselves!  Those sequins were the perfect size... although I think I'd need a larger cup than that.

I used the Christmas without the outline for this one cut in glitter paper and stacked and the Frappy is from the Frappy Camper Perking Spot set.  I just added some white Nuvo drops all around for a light snowfall and a trio of sequins from the Soapy Bubbles mix of sequins.  (my new favorite!)

I'm playing along with this one over at the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop that started today and continues through next Friday!  Trinity Stamps is a sponsor for the hop and you can check out the hop rules and link up at the main post here!

Now you should make your way over to the wonderfully creative Emelie Hessler's place and see what she's created for you today!

Here is the entire hop list should you need it:

Trinity Stamps

Brenda Noelke

Christine Burillo-Kirch

Davina Cantrell

Courtney Kreeber

Lisa Bzibziak (You Are Here!)

Emelie Hessler

Shanna Slater

Andrea Shell

Jeannie Lieu

Jenn Bena

Katie Brooks

Amanda Wilcox

Mary Polanco

Emily Mydlowski

That's me!!  Thanks so much to Trinity and Team for having me along for the ride!  I've had so much fun and I'm not done sharing!  I mean.. it's Coffee Hop week!  See you again soon!

Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas - July 2019 Edition!

Welcome to this month's Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas!  Debra Davison from Meticulosity and I are the Crafty Elves and we've made a pact to create a Christmas card a week so that when December comes, all of the hard work will be done and we can just mail them out!  We share our makes every 25th of the month and this one is special because we are also participating in an Instagram Hop with our Polka Dot Orchard Teamies to show off some awesome Christmas themed digital stamps!

Each month I draw a name from the visitors who commented the prior month and send out some Happy Mail!  Last month's winner will be announced at the end of this post.  And when you are done here be sure to head over to my Instagram Hop post that begins at 10am EST and follow the instructions there for a chance to win some more!

Here's how I was inspired:

This adorable Penguin from the Penguin Love digi set was just begging to have a Santa Hat on and this one from the Magic of Christmas set was perfect!  The awesome thing about digis is you can resize them so it was easy to make it in just the right size.  I pulled up the penguin and made him the size I wanted and then pulled in the hat and sized it so it would fit on his head.  I then separated them to print because I knew I'd be cutting them out.  I used the beautiful Really Rainbow Christmas papers from Lawn Fawn as well as the Mini Snowflakes.  The sentiment is from an adorable Reverse Confetti set, S'more Love and I layered my papers using some dies from Rubbernecker... these and these!

These images and sentiment are also in the Magic of Christmas set.  And since I printed the sentiment on my laser, I was able to foil it with my Minc.  I used the Lawn Fawn snowflakes and Rubbernecker background dies again.  I used this NEW Rubbernecker Stencil on the top layer and that adorable Santa Hat die from Taylored Expressions.

This one might be my fave... but then you know why that is...lol!  The belt and sentiment are in the Magic of Christmas digital set.  The mug die is from Memory Box and I used a stencil from Paper Smooches for the steam along with some texture paste and glitter.

And my fourth card for this month is this one that I shared a few days ago.  I used digital stamps from The Cutting Cafe and you can find more details on this one here if you'd like them!

Now for the winner from last month's commentors:

Shell!  Contact me at bzscrapper66 at gmail dot com with your snail mail so I can send you some Happy Mail!

Now be sure to head on over to Instagram (after 10am EST) and hop for a chance to win a digital stamp set of your choice!  Head to my Instagram here and look for this graphic!:

Come back soon!