New Year's Card with Freshly Made Sketch 167

Although I sent out many hand stamped Christmas cards I have more yet to send.  The message from the Snowhaven Cardmaking Kit has just the right message for an after Christmas thought card.  I paired it with the current Freshly Made Sketch #167 and used up some very old Close To My Heart papers and colors.

Close to My Heart products used:

     Snowhaven Cardmaking Kit stamp

     Holiday Red CS (retired)

     Holiday Red Ink (retired)

     Dutch Blue Ink (retired)

     Dutch Blue CS (retired)

     Dutch Blue B & T paper (retired)

     Black CS

Other products:

     Stampin Up ticket punch

     Snowman paper by Frances Meyer

Here is the Freshly Made Sketch that I followed:

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

Artiste Popcorn Boxes as Personalized Ornament Holder Table Placeholders

I love coming up with new ideas for decorating for Christmas!  When I feel inspired I make unique personalized name placeholders for my Christmas party table. This year I made glittered ornaments and used a red paint pen to personalize them.  They needed something to keep them upright so I made popcorn boxes from Artiste in Ruby CS and used paint pens to make them look like Santa.  To keep them more stable I put some chocolate coins in the bottom of the box.  Guests get to keep the personalized ornaments also.

The backside of the ornaments were also personalized with the year.

Here is a photo of them on my table:

Close To My Heart products used:

     Ruby CS

     Artiste cartridge

     Prisma Glitter

Other products:

     Red picot ribbon

     Craftsmart Red and Black paint pens

     Marvy DecoColor Silver paint pen

I'm entering this project into the following challenges:

    A Crafty Mess--Anything goes with traditional Christmas colors

    Milkcoffee Challenge--Make it Sparkle

    Shopping Our Stash--Red Alert

    Deep Ocean--Christmas is all around

    Pile it On Challenges--Anything Goes--Christmas/Holidays

You can check out my tealight snowman placeholders here.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful New Year filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

Use Your Stash Blog Hop--Remember True Teal and Vineyard Berry?

Welcome to the Use Your Stash Blog Hop!  This is the first time I'm participating and I'm happy to be joining this awesome group of Close To My Heart consultants.  If you are coming from Shirley Ross's blog you are on the right track.  We are trying to use up some favorite items that have been discontinued from Close To My Heart. We are going with a Christmas theme this month.

My card features retired colors True Teal and Vineyard Berry.

I adapted the idea for this card from this card that I found on Pinterest.

Close to My Heart products used:'

      Artiste cut mittens at 1"

     Teal CS (retired)

      Vineyard Berry CS (retired)

     White Daisy CS

     Stardust Glitz Glitter Gel (retired)

     Bakers Twine Neutrals Assortment

     Twinkle Brads (retired)

      Wonderful Season stamps (retired)

      Sponge Daubers

      Vineyard Berry Ink

      Teal Ink

Other products:

      Cuttlebug Pinking Stitches embossing folder

      Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder

Your next stop on this blog hop is Sheila Bennett's.  Have fun remembering all those great CTMH products as you move through this blog hop!

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

     

One Layer Card for Color Dare #123 and Stampin' Royalty #259

Welcome back to another Color My Heart Color Dare challenge post.  This is the final one for 2014 and you'll have two weeks to post your creation.  The challenge colors are New England Ivy and Ruby--it makes me think "holiday card" so that's what I made:

 

I challenged myself to make a one layer card (this is NOT my usual style!) to meet the Stampin' Royalty challenge also.  The To You and Yours stamp set images were inked with New England Ivy ink and then "smudge colored" with Q-tips and New England Ivy ink and Ruby ink as these are the challenge for the Color Dare.  To get the ink to color with the Q-tips I stamped ink onto an acrylic block and spritzed with water.   A retired Whisper Alcohol Marker was used to outline all the stamped images and White Wink of Stella was applied to create the leaf veins and highlight the berries and cardinal feathers.  I love the gentle shimmer that this brush pen creates.  There is a drop of Liquid Glass on the cardinal's eye.  The background was stamped with Whisper Ink and a very old CTMH wood stamp called "Stoneware Texture".

Close To My Heart products used:

     White Daisy CS

     To You and Yours stamp set

     New England Ivy Ink

     Ruby Ink

     Liquid Glass

     Whisper Ink

     Stoneware Texture stamp (retired)

     

Other products:

     White Wink of Stella Glitter pen

Card challenges entered:

     Stampin' Royalty #259--One Layer Card

     The Male Room--Christmas theme
     Addicted to Stamps Challenge--anything goes
     

Now it's your turn to play with these fun holiday colors!  If you don't have these exact colors you may substitute similar colors and you may also combine them with neutrals such as black, white, tans, and greys.  Please visit our the Color My Heart Color Dare blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has created and then link up your papercrafted creation with a direct link here.  Hope to see you in our gallery!   The deadline is Thursday evening, January 1, 2015 at 9PM CT.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

     

Final Post as a Sunday Stamps Designer

It has been my great pleasure to serve on the Sunday Stamps Design Team since June of 2013. Thank you, Holly, for inviting me to join you and thanks to all the other wonderful Sunday Stamps designers who inspired me so often.  I will miss being a part of this creative team.  Our last challenge for the year will last for 3 weeks:  Yellow, Teal and Brown.  

Feather cards are quite popular now so my card is following the trend.

Close To My Heart products used:

     White Daisy CS

     Chocolate CS

     Canary CS

     Lagoon CS

     Lagoon Ink

     Sponge Dauber

     Gold Metallic Writer

     Artiste Cricut cartridge to cut feathers

     Say it in Style stamp (retired)

     Paradise Assortment Baker's Twine

Other products:

    Ranger Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls spray

My inspiration came from Case This Sketch #103:

We can't wait to see what you create using these colors!   Please use a direct link to join us here and include a link back to us in your blog post.  (Feel free to post our color graphic too to let your readers know about our challenge.)  You have until Friday, January 2 at 6PM EST to enter this challenge.

Please take the time to visit the rest of the Design Team's blogs and leave them some appreciation.  Holly, Alyson, Brenda, Steph, Angel, Leena and Kathya.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity! 

:) Marie

Let it Snow with a Freshly Made Sketch #166

If you are looking for the Joyful Stars December Blog Hop please go here.

Here is a quick card I made to satisfy two challenges--sketch by Freshly Made Sketches #166 and Dots theme for Addicted To CAS.

Close To My Heart products used:

     White Daisy CS

     Crystal Blue CS

     Be Jolly stamp set

     Sanding Kit

     Crystal Blue Ink

     Versamark Ink

     Polysparkle Tinsel Embossing Powder (retired)

     Metallic paper (retired)

     

Other

     Dots folder by Sizzix for Stampin Up

     Martha Stewart Punch (Drippy Goo)

     Holiday Time ribbon

Here is the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:
   

Here is the theme graphic for Addicted to CAS:

Thank you for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!
:) Marie

A Little Note for Joyful Stars December Blog Hop

I'm so excited to be joining the Joyful Stars Blog Hop this month!  It is being led by Joyce Hauck, a fellow Close To My Heart consultant, whom I've recently reconnected with. 

If you've come from Betty Locco's blog you are on the right track. If you get lost on the hop you can check the list from Joyce's blog.

My card features a new stamp set from the newly released Seasonal Expressions catalog from Close To My Heart.

Close To My Heart Products used:

     White Daisy CS

     Canary CS

     A Little Note stamp set (from Seasonal Expressions)

     Your Own Kind of Wonderful (butterfly stamp)

     Black Ink

     Thistle Ink

     Shin Han touch Markers--Vivid Green, Marigold and Golden Yellow

The sketch at Case This Sketch was my inspiration to make this card:

Please continue on to Nancy Brown's blog.      

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

Color Dare #121 Meets Freshly Made Sketch #165

Welcome back to another Color My Heart Color Dare blog post.  This week we are challenging you to use Cranberry and New England Ivy.  It was just so easy to make a Christmas card with these two colors!

Cranberry and New England Ivy

I followed the Freshly Made Sketch #165 for my card layout:

Close To My Heart products used:

     Cranberry CS

     White Daisy CS

     Holiday Magic tree stamp (retired)

     Cranberry Ink

     New England Ivy Ink

     Ink splatter stamp from Laughing Lola Cardmaking Kit

     Holiday Tags greeting stamp

     Woodgrain Washi Tape (retired)

     Silver Geometric Washi Tape

Now it's your turn to play with these fun colors.  If you don't have these exact colors you may substitute similar colors and you may also combine them with neutrals such as black, white, tans, greys.  Please visit our challenge blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has created and then link up your papercrafted creation with a direct link  here. Hope to see you in our gallery!  The deadline is Thursday evening, December 11 at 9PM CT.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

What's the Weather?--the Friday Mashup #187

Last week's Friday Mashup is all about the weather.  Apparently I couldn't pick one weather type so I have two contrasting weather items going on in my card:

Another challenge in the mashup is to use something "metallic".  Instead of using a brad or grommet I used metallic paper which is very challenging to photograph!

Here is another photo so you can see the focal panel better:

Can you see the reflection of my hair in this photo? LOL

Here is the graphic from the Friday Mashup:

Close To My Heart products used:

     White Daisy CS

      Metallic paper (retired)

     Sky CS (retired)

     April Calendar Cutie greeting (retired)

     Tropical Blue Ink (retired)

     Sunlight (retired)

     Shin Han Touch Markers (Cerulean Blue Light, Turquoise Blue and Golden Yellow)

Other:

   Raindrops and Umbrella--Darice embossing folder

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie