HCW Day 5

Hi everyone!

Here are my His and Hers cards for Day 5 of the Holiday Card Workshop.


I LOVE Laura Bassen, she is very talented and she just cracks me up!

So for my "Hers" card I took inspiration from Laura and found a stamp set (SSS CKOM) and found some stripe stamps.  She was right, this is a bit time consuming but a whole lot of fun!

I used the Hero Arts Red Royal and Pale Tomato shadow inks and used Versafine Onyx Black ink for the sentiment, whis is from the "Christmas" 3x4 stamp set from SSS.  I used the Jillibean twine that came in the Elegant Dec card kit from SSS, the special one and made a bow to use up some on the white space.

This is my "His" card which I took inspiration from Debbie (love her too!).  I used the Paper Smooches snowflakes dies and heat embossed them with the Martha Steward silver embossing powder.  I used the "Holiday Hellos" 3x4 stamp set from SSS and heat embossed it as well with Hero Art white embossing power (this is what happens when you only think to use your embossing buddy after you've turned on your hear tool!)  

Thanks for stopping by!

See you soon.

Coralynn :)

HCW Day 3 & 4

Hello everyone,

I have two days put together for the Holiday Card Workshop.  Life has been SUPER crazy and I am not crafting as much as I would like but I did manage to get something done for day 3 & 4.

Day 3

Day 4 - I used Kristina's one layer card.  I used Hero Arts shadow inks in charcoal, pale tomato and butter bar ( I love that name!)   I used the back of some CTMH border stamps 

Thanks for stopping by!

See you soon.

Coralynn :)

HCW13 Day 2

Hello everyone,

It's day 2 of the Holiday Card Workshop 13 and I took inspiration from Debbie's card.  I received my SSS extra card hit for December (so excited!) and I used the snowflake die that came with that kit.

I used glitter on the blue snowflake, stickles on the other and liquid glass on the third.

I also used the stickles to line the white snowbank.  

I used the sentiment that came in the same kit and used Outdoor Denim ink from CTMH.

Thanks for stopping by!

See you soon.

Coralynn :)

Holiday Card Workshop Day 1 - Card #2

Hi everyone,

I found the time to do up another card and this time I used Jennifer McGuire's card.

I didn't have a background stamp so I used patterned paper.  I heat embossed the star and coloured it with a yellow copic marker.  I used May Arts twine that came in one of the SSS CKOM and the card base has red glitter!

Thanks for stopping by!

Coralynn :)

Simon Says Stamp Holiday Card Workshop 2013 Day 1

Hello everyone!

I have joined the Holiday Card Workshop and this is day 1 and I am super excited!

Here is my card for Day 1.  I've used Kristina's card as inspiration.  Since I only have three rolls of wash tape in my stash (Yes, you read that right!) I used red baker's twine instead and,  here is another shocker, I don't have a penguin stamp either!  So I used this stamp from SSS Purry Christmas instead.  I also thought it would be cute to wrap the twine around it's tail and ear as this is what my cat would do.

I used kraft card stock from one of my SSS CKOM kits and used the Swiss Dots embossing folder by Cuttlebug.  I heat embossed the sentiment from the Purry Christmas stamp set with Hero Arts white embossing powder.  I love it because it is actually a nice crisp white.

Finally I coloured in the image with copics and you may not be able to see it well but I used stickler on the ribbon part of the gift box.

Thanks for stopping by and what for another card tomorrow!!

Coralynn :)

More Christmas cards

Hi Everyone!

I have two more Christmas cards for you.   I am also submitting these for the Paper Smooches DT call.  

The first one is one that you could reproduce quite easily as it's mostly stamping and one die cut.

I used the SSS Merry Christmas die and the November CKOM stamp set that came with the kit.

I used Momento due drop ink in red and galaxy gold.

The Merry Christmas was cut out of red card stock from Recollections.

My next card is done with a Paper Smooches free digi stamp (so cute!) This is for the PS Sparks challenge "STRIPES" 

 I printed it out on some card stock and use copics to colour it in.  I

I used white pigment in from CTMH to stamp the sentiment from SSS as well as my while gel pen to make the dash lines.

I also use the Copic glitter pen in clear  and gold to colour in the ribbon on the golf boxes.

Thanks for stopping by!

Coralynn :)

Holiday Wishes Card

Hello everyone,

Today I did up a card using the Hero Arts tree cutting file from Silhouette and a few snow flakes.

I used Recollections cards stock kraft, white and a deep red.  

I stamped the sentiment on SSS velum with Versamark and the heat embossed it with Hero Art white embossing powder.  This is a very white embossing powder and I love it.

I used a topic to colour in the start, then a glitter pen from Sepia in gold then I used liquid glass (CTMH) to finish it off.  I used diamond stickles on the snowflakes to give them some sparkle as well.

Then to finish the card completely I used a white gel pen to add in the lines to bring it all together.

Thanks for stopping by!

See you soon with another card.

Coralynn :)

SSS Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"

Hi everyone,

Here is the second card I made for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday "Anything Goes" Challenge.

I used the tree die and Thanks die from SSS and I distressed the edges of the white card stock.  This card is out of my comfort zone as I distressed the edges and used bakers twine.  I normally don't use either one on my cards but thought this would work for this one.

Hope you enjoyed my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Coralynn :)

SSS Wednesday Challenge is "Anything goes"

Hi everyone,

Here is a card #1 that I made for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

I used the SSS Merry Christmas die set and I cut it out of adhesive backed DCWV paper.  I found it in my daughter's craft drawer and couldn't resist when I saw this challenge.  I didn't have to fuss with glue or my Xyron machine.

Thanks for stopping by, see you soon with another card!

Coralynn :)

CASology card challenge. Week 68: BLACK

Hi everyone,

Today I did a card for the CASology challenge "Black"

I used the SSS "So stinkin' cute" stamp set and I heat embossed it in Hero Arts white embossing powder.  I dry embossed the card base with the Diving Swirls Cricut embossing folder.
(I apologize for the quality of the pictures. My daughter took the camera I normally use and I can now see the difference!)

This is just an extra card I thought I would do up.  It's Lawn Fawn "Critters in the forest" stamp set and the sentiment is from "Sunny Skies".  I used Recollections white card stock and Momento tuxedo black ink.

Thanks for stopping by!

Coralynn :)

Muse Challenge #41

Hi everyone,

This is the card I made for the challenge.  I cut out the trees with my Silhouette and used the SSS Merry Trees. 

The MUSE used trees on her card and this is what I came up with.

I used clear embossing powder on the snow flakes and Momento silver ink.  I used stickles to outline the snow banks and  a yellow CTMH pigment ink on the little start at the top of tree.

Thanks for stopping by!

See you soon.

Coralynn :)