A Jillian Vance Design - Golden Trees

I have this one up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design!

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Jillian Vance - Blue Christmas

I'm up on the blog over at a Jillian Vance Designs with some Hootie and a Blue Christmas!

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Merry & Bright Hug In A Mug

I'm up on the blog over at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers with some more A Jillian Vance Design!

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Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #25 - Snowflakes with AJVD

It's time for a new challenge over at Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge!

This time around our Sponsor is A Jillian Vance Design and theme is Coffee, Christmas, and Snowflakes!  Here's how I was inspired:

I cut the Mug using the coordinating die to the Hug In A Mug stamp set!  I love that the handle cuts out so that the mug die can be used with or without the stamp.  I cut the mug and snowflake (the three Bold Snowflakes from AJVD are among my favorites!) from some pretty white holographic paper from one of my Your Paper Insider boxes and glued the snowflake onto the mug making it look like a pretty embossed holiday mug.

The background is my favorite holiday paper from Vicki Boutin which just happened to have some pretty snowflakes on it.

Almost all of the rest of the die cuts are from past projects that I ended up not using but they were perfect for this one!  I did add those cute mini tags for this project but everything else was "extras" from prior projects.

I love the size of this mug because it's big enough to be the main focus of a card and super love how all of these poor little misfit die cuts go perfectly together for this card.

We hope you'll play along with us!  You have until the 25th of the month and you could win a set of three different Bold Snowflakes!  You want them... you really do!

Thanks for stopping and be sure to head on over to the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge Blog for more inspiration and to play along!

 

Glittery Candy Canes

I'm up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design using the new Candy Cane dies that will be available in August along with a coordinating stencil.

I just used the dies and cut my candy canes from some gorgeous glittery paper from the new Your Paper Insider Box!  That pretty strip is a Vicki Boutin paper that I picked up while cropping at my local scrapbook store, Scraps of Love.

Head on over to A Jillian Vance Design for the details!

 

Let It Snow - A Jillian Vance Design and Deco Foil

I am up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design with these two!

A card and a tag with lots of foil-alike yet different!

Hope you'll join me over there for links and details!

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Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas - April 2022 Edition

It's the 25th of the month and time for the Crafty Elves to share the Christmas Cards we made this month!  I've been playing with foil all month.. mostly with my gel prints and acrylic paint.  For today I've used foil with acrylics and some good old Transfer Gel from Deco Foil because sometimes you just want some good, solid, dependable shine!

So here we go!

I made this background using a Newton's Nook stencil and applied some Deco Foil Transfer Gel Blanco... blanco because that's what I grabbed... could have used the clear.. but either way, I let it dry and ran it through my Minc... 

And bam!  Look at that pretty rainbow snowfall!

Here's how I made these first two backgrounds:

Just some good old fashioned foiling using a Snowflake Stencil from Newton's Nook and some Thermoweb Transfer Gel and Rainbow Foil!

The snowflakes I'm using this month were gel prints that I decofoiled with some used foil sheets and cut with dies from A Jillian Vance Design and Lawn Fawn.

Here's how I did that:

So pretty, right!?

The thing about foiling on a gel print is it's always unexpected... and some won't turn out the way you want, but you can always use them for die cutting!

I used the same stencil for this one, but just a simple inked background.... one of the beautiful foiled snowflakes that fit perfectly in the center of that cool MFT Happy Holidays die.  I don't think that one is around any more but you can get a Merry Christmas one here!

I think I must have a thing for purple and aqua for Christmas this year....

And this one... well... a digi printed on a very old gel print and then foiled in rainbow... yeah.  The Unique Snowflake digi from Angie Blom ... one of my very faves...

I just added the die cut Merry, cut from foil cardstock and stacked to the front and that was that!

And finally...

We colored this cutie from Paper Nest Dolls at Copic Bootcamp last December and decided it was time to get him on a card.  So I foiled a snowy background using the Tiny Snowfall stencil from Miss Ink.

I threw a few of the foiled snowflakes around for a fun and simple card.

And that's me for today!

Be sure to head on over to Michael and Debra's places to see what they've created for you today! 

And before you go, let's see who has won some Happy Mail from last month's post:

Sue D!   Snail mail me your address to bzscrapper66 at gmail dot com so I can get something in the mail to you!

Thanks so much to everyone who stopped and left some love!  See you again next month!

 

A Jillian Vance Design - Joy and Peace!

I'm up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design with some Bold Snowflakes!

You can hop on over there and join me for links and details!

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A Jillian Vance Design Season's Greetings

I'm up on the blog over at  A Jillian Vance Design using the new Tall Trees from the shop!

Hope you'll hop on over there and visit for links and details!  Thanks so much for stopping!

 

Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas - November 2021 Edition

Welcome to the November 2021 Crafty Elves Post!  Every 25th of the month my crafty friends, Debra and Michael and I share the Christmas cards we made that month!  With the holidays, I needed some really easy but cute cards and I made a shaker from some new dies over at AJVD and a Carta Bella paper pad from a previous season and decided they were perfect for today!

No coloring and a quick and easy shaker!  Just paper and dies!  I used the little picture cards from the paper pack and filled my shaker with some snowflakes and a few clear sequins and colorful beads.  For this one I used a sentiment from the AJVD Let It Snow stamp set.

Didn't even need to add a sentiment for this one!  The sentiment is one of the picture cards!

I love this cutie pie picture card and added some snowflakes and a sentiment from the Cool Friend stamp set!

And another one where the picture card IS the sentiment!

And this is the one I made first that inspired the rest of my cards for this month and if you'd like a little more detail of how I made them, you can visit my post here!

I've got one more for you!  I didn't make this one this month... in fact I made it a while ago!  But Miss Ink Stamps is having a Winter Release and they are releasing a Limited Edition stamp set from a prior season, Snow Couple!

Tomorrow, Friday, November 26th, you'll find more New Release inspiration along with giveaways and a sale!  Be sure to check it out!

Thanks so much for stopping!  Now be sure to head over to Debra's and Michael's places to see what they've created for this month!

Now let's see who won some Happy Mail from last month's post:

Celeste Goff!  Email your snail mail to me at bzscrapper66 at gmail dot com so I can send you some Happy Mail!

We're playing again!  Leave me some love and I'll pick a name next month to send some Happy Mail to!

That's me for today!  Hope you'll come again soon!

 

A Jillian Vance Design - Just BeClaus

I'm up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design with this one using the adorable Santa and Friends die set and a few other things!

Hop on over there if you'd like links and details!

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

 

Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas - May 2021 Edition

Merry Christmas!  It's that time when the Crafty Elves share the Christmas cards we made this month!  After you leave here you'll want to hop around and see Debra, Michael and our special guest Crafty Elf, Crystal and what they've created!

Here's how I was inspired:

I'm lucky to be guesting with Joy Clair Stamps this month and as soon as I saw these adorable bears in the Making Memories digital set I knew they'd be perfect for this month's Christmas Cards!

The set has three adorable bears and some cute sentiments and they are so fun to color and easy to fussy cut.  This snowflake is from Paper Smooches.

I picked my papers and then colored these cuties to match.  These are some very "vintage" papers from CTMH.  These lacy snowflakes were perfect for this one with the lacy feel.

I used my favorite stitched rectangles and photo frame from AJVD for all of today's cards.

I love this singing bear and that mini bold snowflake from AJVD.

And the sentiments were easy to cut by hand as well!  

For my last one, I created another stripey background using the Sentiment Strips from A Jillian Vance Design like my rainbow card from yesterday.  I added the Bold Snowflake and Merry & Bright sentiment for a quick and easy card (don't you love that pretty font)!

And the colors I used....

Thanks so much for stopping!  Before you leave I have a winner of some Happy Mail from last month's post:

Karen!  Email me at bzscrapper66 at gmail dot com so I can send you some Happy Mail!

We're playing again this month!  Leave me some love for your chance to win!

Thank you so much for stopping!  Don't forget to check out my fellow Crafty Elves places (links at the beginning of the post) and see what they have for you today!  And please do come again soon!