Primitive Tree

 I made this card for the challenge over at 

The Paper Players.

  I chose glitter, washi tape, and 

pine from their tic tac toe chart.

 I actually made four cards in this design 

and made some fun matching envelopes to go along with them!

Supplies and Tools: Kraft/White/Red Cardstock, Washi Tape, Scholar Prismacolor Pencils, Warm Holiday Wishes (Inkadinkado), Red and Gold Stickles, Sharpie Markers, Corner Rounder,  Digital Download from Our Homemade Blessings,

This post linked to:

The Paper Players

Tic Tac Toe

Crop Stop - Anything Goes

(Using Holiday Stickles, Adhesive Gun,  Tape Glider Refills,)

2017 Calendars

I added some 2017 calendars to my Etsy shop last week.

This year I made several different styles

by incorporating different hang tags to the top:

~Victorian Tea Cup

~ Shabby Chic Mason Jar

~ Primitive Tea Stained Jar

~ Rustic Farmhouse Sheep

 Sheep and Teacup printable from the Graphics Fairy

Mason Jar from Sweetly Scrapped

Primitive jar - my own creation.

Little Red Sleds

Here are some 

Little Red Popsicle Stick Sleds

I created to sell in my Etsy shop.

 After making the sleds,

I painted and distressed to give them a

Rustic Country Christmas feel.

Available for purchase in sets of

three, six, or nine.

 Stop by the shop and check them out!

Coloring on Kraft

I made this card for the challenge over at 

4 Crafty Chicks.

I did my "coloring on kraft" on the inside of my card. 

When my sister-in-law was here a few weeks ago, 

she showed me how to make a nifty little rubber band tool.

I dipped mine in blue paint and bounced it 

around the front panel of my card to create a spattered look.

Supplies and tools: Natural Beauty (Stampin' Up), Sentiment, Blue Paint, Scholar Prismacolor Pencils, Baby Oil (for blending pencils), Kraft/White/Blue Cardstock, Homemade Rubber Band Tool

This post linked to:

4 Crafty Chicks

Word Art Wednesday

Natural Beauty

Here's a fall-themed card I made this week using

the retired Natural Beauty Stamp Set from Stampin' Up (2004).

I added some interest to the inside of the card 

by stamping the leaves in the corners and connecting them with a hand-drawn line.

I also added a little leaf to the corner

 of the envelope to make a pretty set for use in the 

Shelter: Postmarked Ministry.

Supplies and tools: Natural Beauty (Stampin' Up), Honeycomb embossing folder (Darcie), Scholar Prismacolor Pencils, Baby Oil (for blending pencils), Distress Ink (Time Holtz)

This post linked to:

Word Art Wednesday

(Anything Goes)

Friendship Blessings

Here's a fun card I created
using the same pear stamp featured on these tags!

To make the background I inked up the back of a clear stamp with yellow ink and smashed it onto the Kraft Cardstock before stamping the script stamp and spritzing it all with a red marker. 

Supplies and tools: Script Stamp (Stampin' Up), Pear (Rubber Stampede), Blessings (EK Success), Friendship (Stampin' Up),  Red Sharpie Marker, Spritzer, Leaf Die (Provo Craft), Baker's Twine, Washi Tape, Kraft/Cream/Green Cardstock, Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Black/Yellow Ink

This post linked to:

The Paper Players  - Sketch Challenge

Creative With Stamps

Word Art Wednesday

Anything Goes

Autumn Tag Cards

Mod Squad's challenge this time is to case one of your old cards.

Here are two autumn "chalkboard tag" cards I made to use for
Shelter: Postmarked.

I based my cards on this tag I made in 2013.

 

Supplies and Tools: Black/Kraft Cardstock,  Leaves Galore (Inkadinkado), Thoughts and Prayers (Stampin' Up), Pray (Stampabilities), Labels 10 (Spellbinders)

This post linked to:

Mod Squad Challenge

(The Way We Were)

Word Art Wednesday

(Anything Goes)

Hello Friend - Long Card

This card was inspired by a 

birthday card my sister-in-law sent me.

It's a single layer card with
 light stamping on the reverse side.

 The neat thing about this shape and
design is you can get three cards

out of one piece of cardstock instead of the customary two!

I made long envelopes with matching

 cardstock that make the cards even more fun!

Supplies and Tools: Kraft Cardstock, Designer Paper, Eyelet Lace Border Punch (Martha Stewart), Sentiment (Wordsworth), Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad, Brown chalk, Swirl Stamp (Sparkle Flourish - Scrappy Cat), Pattern Trio (Stampendous)

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Word Art Wednesday

Mini Thank You

Here's a set of mini "thank yous" I created to thank my

friends and family for the gifts and cards they gave me for my birthday!

Since I was creating a lot of them, I kept the design clean and simple

Supplies and tools: Doodle Fall (Inkadinkado), Sentiment (A Muse), Scholar Prismacolor Pencils

This post linked to:

The Paper Players

Pear Tags

I made a set of pear tags to use as "thank you's"  for 

some sweet ladies who are a special blessing to me.

(I also attached two of these to Glazed Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Bread as a 

"thank you" to two guys from church who helped me out with

plumping problems yesterday!)

I stamped the pear on cream cardstock 

and lightly stamped a script stamp over it.

I added just a little bit of color (yellow, red, and green) 

to the pear with my Prismacolor pencils.

The back has a cream piece of cardstock attached

for writing my message on.

Supplies and Tools: Pear Stamp (Rubber Stampede), Sentiment (EK Success), 

Script Stamp (Stampin' Up), Paper Crimper (Fiskers), Scholar Prismacolor Pencils, Twine

This post linked to:

Mod Squad Challenge

(Anything But A Card)

This post linked to:

Word Art Wednesday

Clean and Simple Butterfly

Here's a clean and simple card I made for use in the 

Shelter: Postmarked Ministry

 I love how the black card makes the image "pop."

Supplies and tools: Butterfly Stamp (Studio G), Scripture Stamp (Biblical Impressions), Border Stamp from Simple Life stamp set, Scholar Prismacolor Pencils, Black/White Cardstock

 

This post linked to:

Less is More

(Spiders or Insects)

Word Art Wednesday

(Anything Goes)

Digital Journal Pages

 Life has been pretty busy for me of late, 

plenty of creating, just not a lot of time for posting!

Today I'm sharing three sets of digital pages 

I made to sell in the Etsy shop.

These pages are large (approx. 8 x 10), 

but can be resized to make smaller journals too.

This set of gratitude journal cards was hand-drawn 

in the primitive design to be used all year round!