Stempel Spass

Hi Everyone, I felt like making a Christmas card - in July, playing with the Muse Christmas visions ! Perhaps to cool off...although our summer so far has been great - not too hot or humid. Just perfect! I did not do any stamping on this card - it might be a first for me. I went with the unconventional Christmas colors on Chris'  card and the dry embossing. But as you can see I switched the gloves for the tree. I dry embossed the tree as well as my background paper. Die cut the sentiment and used one of those pieces that falls out of the letters for my tree topper.  Chris Blagrave's fun Christmas card: Here is another view: My supplies: Patterned Paper, tree die and background wood embossing - Papertrey, Tree embossing - Sizzix, sentiment die - Simon Says Also linking up with: Crafty Hazelnut Patterned Paper challenge July - anything goes Crafty Hazelnut Christmas challenge July  - anything Christmas Simon Says Monday challenge ...

When I saw the inspiration picture at  Cure for the Monday Blues  and the theme at Make it Monday  I just knew I had to combine them! The fabulous  Danielle Flanders  made a wonderful video showing you how to to gold dipped die cuts. It super easy - all you need is Versamark ink and gold embossing powder. You ink up a part of your die cut with Versamark and then sprinkle embossing powder on  it and heat emboss it. Looks great! Here is a close up All my dies are Papertrey. I did some inlaid die cut technique for the Joy. The trees are mounted on foam tape. Added gold thread. And here is the wonderful inspiration picture: I am also linking this with the Snippets Playground - its all snippets - except the card base.... Have a great day!

Hi Everybody, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and enjoyed your Holiday! We had a lot of fun - having everybody here on Christmas including the daughter of an old friend of mine who is doing an exchange year in Maine and had to leave school over the winter vacation.  I finally found some time to take part in the Papertrey Blog Hop ! Here is the inspiration picture - lots of beautifully wrapped presents: So I took some patterned paper and used my Papertrey Pillow Box Die to cut the box. The Christmas tree die is Papertrey as well and the star is from Simon Says. I wrapped it all with gold string. Quick and easy and it looks quite pretty! I love that pillowbox die - its so convenient for all those gift cards that I often need. Have a great day and thanks for coming over!

One more post today - I saw the Muse challenge a few days ago and the card by Therese Clavird is just soooo fun and CAS-tastic I had to play!  It just makes me smile :) Of course I can't just copy it, although I really would like to do just that..... so I took some free interpretation here and turned it into a Christmas card: I basically just went with the underlaid die-cut with different papers, got the horizontal line with the silver thread and the stars. To leave the card just on a white background looked kind of bland, so I cut some strips of the tree paper and glued it to the sides of the card turning the ombre patttern around, to give it more life. Well, I like it, it looks quite elegant and I really like the sparkle from the glitter paper.  Materials: Papertrey Christmas tree die, sentiment by Impression Obsession, small stars -  Simon Says dies --X-- And here I want to share a card with you that I got from my blog f...

Great idea to make tags - I love it when something comes in handy! The  Papertrey Blog Hop  task is to make at least five tags and I just managed to make my five.....Its actually the first time I made tags, so this was a new experience for me. They are kind of cute little things to make.... I discovered, that I really don't have a lot of holiday supplies from Papertrey, but enough to take part in the hop.... All the dies are Papertrey, so are the stamps. The Merry Christmas sentiment is from my favorite set called Mixed Messages. The "snowflakes" are from the  Iconic Images set and I put some Stickles on them. And of course I used Twine from the Twinery on my tags. The tag die is from Mama Elephant                                                                         ...