Cottage Wall Wishes

Hello everyone,

Today's post is another series of Stampin' Up cards.

The card bases are Stampin’ Up Old Olive, Orchid Opulence and Rich Razzleberry.  The printed paper is Stampin’ Up Cottage Wall layered on more Old Olive, Orchid Opulence and Rich Razzleberry.  The sentiments are Stampin’ Up It’s Your Birthday, Warmest Regards and Curly Cute stamped in Versafine Onyx Black on Recollections White and layered on more Old Olive, Orchid Opulence and Rich Razzleberry.  The die cut sentiments are Sizzix Happy Birthday Thinlits and Crafter's Companion Die’sire Happy Birthday.  The embellishments are Darice Rhinestone, Crafts Rhinestone Stickers and Silver Stickles.

Cottage Wall is one of my most favourite Stampin' Up papers ever!  I use it judiciously so it will last as long as possible.  Before it retired, I bought an extra package just to always have some available.  The coordinating colours are really beautiful and all the cards I've made turned out really well.  I changed things up with different sentiments, including a few die cuts that I've used before.  The results are as great as I'd hoped.

I hope you enjoy these cards and come back to SPI again soon.

Gisèle

More Christmas Plaid

 Hello everyone,

Today's post is another great plaid Christmas card.

The card base is Recollections Vanilla.  The printed paper is Simple Stories Merry & Bright layered on Stampin' Up Always Artichoke.  The sentiment is Crafter's Companion Festive Phrases cut from and stamped on more Recollections Vanilla and stamped in Early Espresso.  The ribbon is of unknown origin.

I just love this big, bold bow!  I just couldn't resist using it with this great plaid paper.  It works well to anchor the two elements of the sentiment.  The layout is quite simple and one I've used quite often.  I think the different elements came together wonderfully.  It's a great result.

I hope you enjoy this card and come back to SPI again soon.

Gisèle

All Natural

Hello everyone,

Today's post is another simple and traditional Christmas card.

The card base is Recollections Kraft.  The printed paper is of unknown origin layered on Close To My Heart Garnet and Ponderosa Pine.  The sentiment is Crafter's Companion Festive Phrases stamped in Garnet and die cut from Ponderosa Pine on Recollections White and layered on more Garnet.  The tree brad is of unknown origin.

This is another great piece of printed paper perfect for a traditional masculine Christmas card.  The sentiment is a combination of stamps and die cuts.  It's a new set (like I needed another!) and while the die cut works great, the polymer stamps don't take ink all that well.  In regards to the layout, I placed the sentiment in the design 'sweet spot' which not only leave much of the printed paper visible but allowed for the perfect placement of the embellishment.

I hope you enjoy this card and come back to SPI again soon.

Gisèle