Mikki's Creative Corner: Curly Cute

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Merry Monday #26 - Christmas with Curly Cute & Tags til Christmas

Another week and a new sketch with Merry Monday Challenge#26 hosted by Lesley Croghan over at Always Playing with Paper. The idea behind it is getting a head start on Christmas cards. I figured that by the time Christmas comes around, I'll have enough done not to be pressured on making them all at once.

If you would like to get started on your Christmas cards early, this site would be the one. Click here to go directly to the challenge.

Here is mine below:

Started this card with the embossing folder: Snow Burst for the background in Whisper White than went looking for some Christmas DSP and found Letters to Santa. For me, I love this paper and goes so well with Cherry Cobbler and Early Espresso.

If you click on the photo, you can see it at it's best since it keeps changing the look for html version and after repeated attempts can't adjust anymore....unless it's just me.

Used the stamp set: Tags til Christmas along with the macthing Ornament punch. Added a little Baker's Twine to make it look like it's hanging. Used Stampin Dimensionals under the Cherry Cobbler mat and under the Ornament. Final touch added this little ribbon and rhinestone.

For the sentiment, I used the set: Curly Cute and Cherry Cobbler ink. Hope you enjoy and have fun creating!!

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Pals Blog Hop Nov 2011 - Beautiful Season, Curly Cute & Contempo Christmas

Welcome to the November Pals Hop! This month, we're featuring Winter, Christmas, and Hanukkah inspired cards and projects! Enjoy the hop and the amazing creations that the Pals have come up with.

You've likely hopped over from Nicole Watt at Impressions By Nicole I'm stop number 9 on the Pals Hop and I'm glad you hopped in! Should you hop off course, simply click on any of the links in the Pals Hop Line-up below and you'll be back on track!

This is a great month to start off Christmas Cards and with a baby now in the house, the focus was creating a couple of quick cards that can be done in less than 10 mins.

This first card is quite simple and fast to re-create

The christmas tree is an image from the new DSP, Frostwood Lodge along with the gridlines. I cut a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of DSP making sure to include the tree as my focus and matted it with a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" cardstock in Real Red.

Before matting the DSP, I applied Dazzling Details to the tree and edges of the cardstock with a paint brush to add some shimmer to the card and used the embossing heat gun to dry it faster. The snowflake on the upper right hand side was punched using the snowflake punch along with Silver Glimmer Paper from the Holiday Mini Catalog.

Here is a close up of the Dazzling Details effect when added directly to the card.

The sentiment is from the stamp set Curly Cute along with Early Espresso ink, which is hard to capture this color with the camera. At the end, I added some basic rhinestones.

For the next card, I used the stamp set: Beautiful Season

Main base for the card is Old Olive (4 1/4" x 5 1/2") along with a 2" x 4 1/4" strip of DSP called Letters To Santa for the bottom portion.

Started with a 2 3/4" square in whisper white, stamped the image and sponged around the square using Soft Suede Ink. Used a blender pen to color the image and matted it to a 3" square in Cherry Cobbler. Stampin Dimensionals were added before matting to the main base.

For the middle, I cut a small strip of Early Espresso and added it to the Cherry Cobbler strip which I punched out using the scallop trim border punch. Added 5 Basic Pearls.

The sentiment is from the stamp set: Contempo Christmas and used Early Espresso ink, which is hard to capture this color on camera. Punched it out using the Decorative Label Punch and sponged around it with Soft Suede ink.

Hop along for more inspiring ideas from Kylie Nicolosi at Kylie's Crafty Corner, stop number 10 on the November Pals Hop! Thanks for "hopping" by!