Merry Monday #29 - Delightful Decorations

So happy that the weather was not outrages yesterday, which allowed me time to play in my craft area and have fun again. Also, get back on track with my favorite challenges again. This one is for Merry Monday Challenge#29 designed by Lesley Croghan over at Always Playing with Paper.

 

This challenge is perfect for getting a head start on Christmas cards. If you would like to join, Click here to go directly to the challenge. It ends today, Sunday, at noon (pst). As I said, I'm now playing catch up time.

I will say this is my favorite paper from the Holiday Catalog called: Snow Festival and so many cute choices to pick from. I'm sure you will love this pack.

Used the set: Delightful Decorations in Cherry Cobbler and punched it out with the matching Ornament punch. Layered behind is another favorite punch of mine, the Decorative Label punch and a 2 1/4" circle in Old Olive.

Ribbon is the 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon in Whisper White along with a Vintage Faceted Designer Button. Added 2 little basic pearls in the center to emphasie the button look.

Last but not least used the Snow Burst embossing folder and Stampin Dimensionals under the Ornament and under the circle. Hope you Enjoy and Have Fun Creating!!

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PPA123 - Puttin' on the Ritz - Delightful Decorations with Frostwood Lodge

Another weekly challenge at the Pals Paper Arts website. This week's challenge is Putting on the Ritz and a chance to win some blog candy. Whether you choose to add a little or add a lot, show us the sparkle, shine, or decoration that makes your project just a little bit fancier.  The design team has created some beautiful cards to get you started.

It's easy to join the fun by clicking here to go directly to the challenge and link up your card. Here is mine below....

Love this set, Delightful Decorations, so to dress it up, I first embossed the little flower images onto the crumb cake cardstock with white embossing powder and heat set it.  But before that, I scored the cardstock into 1" squares for a decorative look.

Than I proceeded to stamp one of the ornaments in 3 different colors, Marina Mist, Cherry Cobbler, and Pretty in Pink. Than decided to add a little glimmer onto the ornaments by using the Northern Frost Decorative Strip and the silver glimmer paper. Added pearls in the form of a string on each ornament and in addition added some glue on top of the string to add some dazzling diamond glitter to add more sparkle to the card. 

Here is a close up of one of the snowflakes from the Northen Frost Decorative Strip that was added to 2 of the ornaments. Added some waxy flax for the little bows on each ornament.

To create the middle ornament, I cut out 6 ornaments with the matching punch, scored each one in the middle and glued them together. Love how it pops out to you. The sentiment comes from the stamp set:Cotempo Christmas in Soft Suede ink. I did use stampin dimensionals under the Marina Mist ornament along with the Pretty in Pink ornament.

Hope you enjoy!!

Delightful Decorations 117635 - W

Contempo Christmas Stamp Set (118734 W, 120594 C)

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Mojo Monday 209 - Delightful Decorations and Letters to Santa

Been super busy with the new arrival of my baby boy so apologize for not posting lately, but having alot of sleepness nights and trying to get acustom to having a little one. Please bare with me while I do my best to get a routine. He is quite a handful, but love him to death. Got this card done on Tuesday, but just now having time to post it up.

Once again, it's another weekly challenge at Mojo Monday with October Mojo Madness Contest MOJO209, sketch designed by Julee Tilman. The important thing is to have fun! Easy to join click here to go directly to the challenge. Here is my card below.

 

This was a fun sketch design and allowed me to get a head start for christmas by using the stamp set Delightful Decorations along with the DSP, Letters to Santa.

Fun new silver glitter paper made this card sparkle. The Modern Label Punch along with the Word Window Punch helped to add a little glamour to the sentiment. The stamp set used was Teeny Tiny Wishes along with Soft Suede ink.

 

For the ribbon, I used Baja Breeze Seam Binding Ribbon and to get my Ornament to have some glitter, I used double sided sticky sheet to my stamped image and than added glitter to it.

Of course like always, I used stampin dimensionals to raise my ornament up and added some basic pearls to finish the card off.

Complete list of supplies:

• Stamp Set - Delightful Decorations (116517) 
• Inks - Soft Suede (115657), Marina Mist (119668) 
• Cardstock - Whisper White, Old Olive, Pretty in Pink
• DSP - Letter to Santa (122349) 
• Other- Stampin Dimensionals (104430), Baja Breeze Seam Binding Ribbon (122331), Sticky Sheets (114300), Dazzling Diamonds (102023), Silver Glimmer Paper (124005) 
• Punches - Modern Label (119849), Word Window (119857), Ornament (119847), Eyelet Border (119853)

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The Paper Players Challenge #54 - Christmas in July

The Paper Players has another challenge this week called Christmas in July, challenge#54 keyword PP54. Wow!! this is a great way to start Christmas cards early and the design team has done a beautiful job of creating some terrific cards, along with the other entries.

If you would like to join the fun, go to their website by clicking here. You can use any brand you like. It's just about having fun, so with that said....here is mine below

I decided to use the stamp set called: Delightful Decorations to create this card along with the stamp set called: Perfect Punches for the setiment on the left hand side.

I started off by creating some clouds as the background using Marina Mist Ink and than punched out 3 ornaments to use for hanging them up. 

You could just stamp the image down onto the cardstock, but by punching them out first, I had the ability to move them around to where I wanted to place them. It's so nice to have a stamp set with a matching punch. Than, I took a black marker and use the fine tip to create a line using the ruler for the string. 

To create the sentiment on the left hand corner, I stamped the image in Always Artichoke and used the scallop punch to cut it out. Afterward, I stamped the image again using Real Red ink and used the 1 3/8" circle punch to cut that out and place on top of the scallop using stampin dimensionals.

To complete the card, I added Basic Pearls on top of the ribbon and more basic pearls on top of each ornament. Almost forgot, I did use glitter for the sentiment (circle portion only). Hope you enjoy and join the fun at The Paper Player's challenge.

Supplies Used:

• Stamp Set - Delightful Decorations (116517) W,  Perfect Punches (120516) C
• Inks - Marina Mist, (119668), Real Red (103133), Always Articoke (105219) 
• Cardstock - Whisper White, Real Red
• Other - Stampin Dimensionals (104430), Basic Pearls (119247), Real Red Satin Ribbon (117286) 
• Punches -   Ornament Punch (119847), 1 3/8" Circle (119860)

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