Comfy Winter Sweater

 

Good Morning!

I got a little stamping in this morning and now I'm going to run out and pick up a gift for a pregnant co-worker.  She's having a girl.  I'm going to need a comfy sweater today.  It's wet and cold out there, but it looks like the sun might find it's way out.

 

Monday Mood Board #23

 

 

Have a great day!

 

 

Cardstock: PTI Kraft, White
Stamps: WP9 Fair Isle
Ink: PTI Melon Berry, New Leaf, Autumn Rose
Dies: WP9 Seasonal Sentiments
Other: MS Glitter, Recollections Rhinestones, PTI Twine

Simple Snowflake {& FIF #142}

 

Hi!

I have a very simple one to share today.

I love blue so it's not hard to be inspired by this photo.

Monday Mood Board #22

 

 

SSS: Keep It Clean And Simple

 

The snowflakes are die cut from paper that was colored with a mixture of distress paint and color shine spray.  It is very shimmery in person.  I embossed the snowflakes with Lacey Layers to add the lace element of the inspiration photo. 

 

 

CFC119: Embossing

 

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Check out the newest additions to The File....#142!

Cardstock: WP9 White
Stamps: WP9 Lacey Layers, Iconic Christmas
Ink: Versafine Onyx, Versamark
Dies: WP9 Simple Snowflake, Seasonal Sentiments
Other: TH Distress Paint, HS Color Shine Spray, White Embossing Powder, Rhinestone

Joy

 

Hello

It's been awhile since I have posted a project.

It just got busy around here all of a sudden!

I haven't spent much time in my craft room. 

When I have, I've been working on organization and getting

Halloween cards packaged up with treats and ready to mail.

 

For this Wplus9 mood board I was inspired by large pattern and of course, color.

Not wanting to cover up the pattern I decided to try this idea, from Jennifer McGuire, to layer several of the same die cut word and then top it with the patterned die cut. I think I used 6 die cut words all together.

 

 

Monday Mood Board #21

 

 

Hope you are all doing well!

Thanks for stopping by.

Cardstock: PTI Pure Poppy, Enchanted Evening, WP9 White
Stamps: WP9 Fair Isle Background, Pretty Patches Christmas
Ink: PTI Pure Poppy, Enchanted Evening, Blueberry Sky, Versafine Onyx
Dies: WP9 Seasonal Sentiments
Other: Recollections Rhinestone

{WP9} Monday Mood Board #19

 

Good Morning.

 

 

I love the colors in this week's Monday Mood Board.

I decided to mask off a rectangle in the center of the card panel {leaving a one inch border} and then stamp a design alternating the ink colors I had chosen. 

I started stamping by lining the stamp up in the corner of the card front and then positioned the rest using that one as my guide. 

 

 

Monday Mood Board #19

 

 

Simon Says: Anything Goes

 

 

 

Thanks so much for coming by today!

Cardstock: PTI Kraft, Vintage Cream
Stamps: WP9 Quilt Prints, Embroidered Bouquet, Quite Like You, Fresh Cut Florals
Ink: PTI Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet, Spring Moss, Ripe Avocado, Dark Chocolate
Dies: WP9 Fresh Cut Florals
Other: Rhinestones

Victorian {Sand} Textured Wallpaper

 

While on our recent trip to the Poconos, we visited the Asa Packer Mansion.

This beautiful home had so many unique details.  One of which was a wall treatment where they used stencils, adhesive, and sand or gravel to create textured 'wallpaper'.  Adhesive was applied using a stencil and then sand or gravel was thrown at the wall; it stuck to the adhesive creating patterns.  After the adhesive was dry, gold leaf or paint was applied over the sand.  I wanted to create this same look on my card, but instead of sand I used embossing powder that I didn't heat.  This takes a while to dry and I couldn't help it along with my heat tool because I didn't want to melt the powder.  The unheated powder left the perfect sandy texture I was looking for.  Just to make sure it was secure, I used a spray fixative to keep all of the 'sand' in place.

 

Unfortunately, you are not permitted to take pictures inside the home,

 but here are a few from outside.

 

Asa Packer Mansion Museum

Jim Thorpe, PA

 

Monday Mood Board #18

 

Tuesday Trigger: I'm Craving Navy

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Cardstock: PTI White, Enchanted Evening
Stamps: WP9 Love You More, Folk Art Florals
Ink: PTI Enchanted Evening, Hawaiian Shores, Simply Chartreuse
Dies: PTI Turning A New Leaf
Other: Prima Stencil, Turquoise Embossing Powder, Matte Medium, Gold Embossing Powder, Spray Fixative, Scor-Tape

Monogram Staionery

 

Good Morning!

This card set was fun to make.

Using a stamp from Wplus9's A Pocketful set;

I played around making some fun, graphic patterns inspired by the most recent Mood Board.

 

 

Wplus9 Monday Mood Board #17

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

Enjoy your Saturday!

 

 

Cardstock: PTI White
Stamps: WP9 Pocketful, Folk Art Flurries
Ink: PTI EE, PP, OZ, NL
Dies: WP9 Folk Art Alpha, PTI LL Circles

Embroidered Quilt Prints

 

Good Morning!

 

A beautiful new mood board from Dawn was the inspiration for my card today.

It's really beautiful, but uses colors that I don't use often. 

That's what I love about challenges! 

 Using 2 Wplus9 sets I created this pretty floral pattern that I love.

I haven't explored them all, but I think there are tons of ways you could mix and match these two sets to create all sorts of beautiful patterns.

 

Monday Mood Board #16

 

 

I hope you are having a wonderful week.

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Cardstock: PTI White, Harvest Gold
Stamps: WP9 Quilt Prints, Embroidered Bouquet
Ink: PTI Harvest Gold, Lavender Moon, Plum Pudding, New Leaf, Versafine Onyx
Other: Recollections Rhinestones, PTI Plum Pudding Ribbon

Camera Shy

 

This card did not want to be photographed.  No matter what I did, change the time of day, change the background, it didn't matter.  I never did like having my picture taken either.  I guess that's why I'm always the one with the camera.  Everyone counts on me to take the pictures at family events and that's fine with me!

 

 

To create the XOXO banner strips I sprayed black color shine spary onto

white paper using an animal print stencil.

I let that dry and then dripped gold color shine on top of the black.

When that was dry, I die cut the borders and then sprayed them with a fixative.  The color shine sprays will come off on your hands and if they get wet they will reactivate. 

 To prevent both of those things, I sprayed the fixative.

 

 

Monday Mood Board #15

 

 

Anything Goes

 

 

Hope you're having a great week!

Cardstock: WP9 Sweet Gelato, PTI White, Black
Stamps: WP9 Sweet Nothings, Iconic Christmas
Ink: Versamark
Dies: WP9 XOXO Border Die
Other: HS Color Shine Sprays Black and Gold, Gold Embossing Powder, Animal Print Stencil