Plaid Stamping: Tidings of Joy

Hi Everyone!

I am here on my birthday morning to share a fun card with you for the holiday season. I first saw this plaid stamping technique on Jennifer McGuire's blog and I just LOVED it! I think it's such a fun and versatile way to make an awesome background. You can change how many "rows" of each color you do to whatever makes you happy.

For my card, I chose to do 3 rows of SSS Teal ink and then bordered each of those 3 rows with one row of Hero Arts Wet Cement Shadow Ink.

The center of the card can be a little trickier to do because you don't want to hide the background; but you also need to have something that will stand up the background as well. I made a different card using this technique; but ended up scrapping it because the sentiment used in the middle was just too small.

For this version, I chose the "Unto Us" set from Verve and stamped the outer image using the Wet Cement ink and then the sentiment itself in Teal. I layered it on a piece of Aqua Mist from PTI and then put some platinum liquid pearls around the border for some embellishment.


That is all for me today. I hope you are inspired to create something using this fun techique. Have a great day, everyone and I will see you again soon!

A few challenges:

1. Stamping Sensation: Simply Christmas

2. That Craft Place: Anything Goes

3.Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas: Christmas (Go Green)

4. Treasured Times: Anything Goes

5. We Do Doobadoo: Anything Goes

What's for Dinner Monday? Chili

A quick recipe to share for the cold winter days that are coming! This chili has just the right amount of spice to warm you inside and uses easy to find ingredients. 

Printable Recipe

Have a great day and thank you for visiting with me today. 

Season's Greetings

Hi Everyone!

I have another Christmas card using the Simon Says Stamp November Card Kit. I wanted to use my Circle Card Border die as well with this card. I kept the images simple with the two Christmas trees. One from the stamp set in the kit and the other from the Merry Trees set.

Not a whole lot else to say about this one, so I'm going to leave it at that and get back to doing some more creating.

I decided to find a few challenges to link the card to as well:

1. Addicted to Stamps and More: Anything Goes

2. Inspiration Destination: Anything Goes

3. C.R.A.F.T Challenge:  Christmas

Simon Says Stamp November Card Kit: Holiday Cards

Hi Everyone!!

I'm baaaack!! I know I have been so remiss in blogging lately. I guess I should explain a little bit. I am one of those people who really really dislikes anything related to Christmas prior to November. If given my choice, I would keep everything related to Christmas away until the day after Thanksgiving. Alas, I have come to realize that's not always practical.
I have been working on my holiday cards. A LOT to be honest! So far I have 35 cards created, all of which I hope to start sharing with you. I just didn't want to share them too early.
I promise to also get back to sharing recipes and goings on with the kiddo's and parenting life as well.

Today, I have two cards to share with you using the Simon Says Stamp November Card Kit. This kit has been a lot of fun to play with especially using the pattern papers. With these two cards, I focused on the pattern papers and kept the rest of the card simple.

For the second card, I used a technique for a pattern paper pinwheel that I found on Pinterest. This was a technique that looked easy; but was a little trickier than I thought. I would definitely do it again, however, because I liked the final result so much! Again, I kept the rest of the card simple by just adding some baker's twine and the sentiment.

I hope you like what I've shared with you today. I am looking forward to sharing more with you in the next coming days and weeks!