Christmas Cheer--New SSS Stamptember Release

HI! I am really, really excited to be back today with this post. I am sorry it was delayed. The start of school threw me. I have literally been living in my car driving the kids EVERYWHERE. I never even made it to the stamp room until Saturday night to clean it.

Anyhow, I received a SWEET TREAT in the mail a little over a week ago. It was THIS FAB stamp set from Simon Says Stamp!!! I was so excited to play with it. I started playing with the trees immediately and had a few sneaks on Twitter and Instagram:

These are the trees when they were still wet.

An Instagram Sneak that shows all the yummy glittery goodness.  Perfect pearls on the background, Distress Stickles and Wink of Stella. The options for glittery goodness are everywhere these days.

Today I am revealing the entire card:

I started by stamping the trees in Hero Arts black ink, then I took my colored pencils and just kept drawing lines in different colors of green until I got that natural pine look.  It is such an easy way to get dimension and texture while coloring.  After they were colored I covered the entire tree in Rock Candy Stickles. While the Rock Candy was still wet I added Star Dust Stickles (Thank you Kelly Latevola) to the edges to make it look like ice and snow.  The look of these trees are so AMAZING in person.

I also fussy cut the sled....no easy task but with the help of a really sharp xacto knife it made it easier.

The presents were cut from scraps of paper.

The background is Distress Chipped Sapphire and Distress Faded Jeans, with a heavy dose of Perfect Pearls on them.

There are so many wonderful stamps, dies and stencils in the Stamptember release. Make sure you check them all out. :)

Have a great day.
Michelle

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Fun with Tim Holtz Marker Spritzer

Hey, hey, hey! I am missing days again. Sorry. If my life would calm for 2 seconds I could be a really good blog poster! LOL I have enough cards to get me through....just no time to post!

Anyhow, I went to my AWESOME lss Absolutely Everything the other day and I had a $40 credit to spend. You get 10% back on your purchases after every 6 or 8 purchases (I forget which). I was so excited that I decided to finally splurge on the Distress Markers. I have wanted them since they came out but there was always some stamp set more pressing to buy.

So while I was there I decided to give the Marker Spritzer a try....Oh....MY....GAWD!!!! How did I not get this thing before? It's incredible and I am in total love.

I am trying to get through my box of "never used" products. I have a box that I throw new product into. It's overflowing and I must get through it. All stamps deserve inky love right? Well I agree so I pulled out and older stamp from Simon Says Stamp and a brand new stencil from them. Here is the results:

It looks like I did so much work and honestly it is one of the fastest cards I have ever made!  I started by laying the stencil on some Neenah Solar White paper and taping it down.  I then went to town misting it with Peacock Feathers, Chipped Sapphire, Salty Ocean....I fell in love. That spritzer is just COOL!  I couldn't stop playing with it so I took a piece of watercolor paper and masked off the clouds then spritzed on Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire. Only I wasn't getting the look I wanted so I misted it with water and took a water color brush to it and VOILA! the perfect sky!

I  stamped the ship on the watercolor paper and on Neenah and cut the Neenah one out. I then cut the wave paper in half and mounted it on pop dots. I stamped the sentiment and then punched it out using a square punch. attached with a safety pin and called it a day.

So so easy and I am just in love with this card.

Have you used the Spritzer yet? If so I would love to see the creations you made.

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Mootiful Birthday

HI!!!!  I'm finally back!  I have been dying to share projects that use the new release from Simon Says Stamp called "This is the Life". If you haven't seen it go look HERE. It's one of my all time favorite releases. I don't work for them either so I am not saying that because I have to. I really LOVE their stuff!!!

I couldn't wait for this set to get here. It's one of my favorites:

I used masking paper so that I could do a one layer card. The sentiment came from another Simon Says Stamp set. I used Prismacolor Pencils to color it in.

Come by tomorrow. I have a very Punny card from the new Simon Says Stamp Card Kit to share with you.

Hugs!

Michelle

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Dot Com Password Book

Hi everyone!  Sorry for the lapse. I was so sick after Christmas and then my back went down. I spent almost 2 weeks on the floor, couch and in bed. I couldn't even sit.  I am back though. Hoping to redo my blog in between working on cards, journals etc.

Today I have a project up on A Blog Named Hero. I will be doing a special, new project every month over there. So head on over to see what that will be and see the quick, fun, easy project I have up for today. I will give you a hint:

It's kind of like this but instead of patterned papers it uses a whole bunch of stamp and ink goodness.  Don't walk run....A BLOG NAMED HERO

Glittery goodness

I recently went to a stamp retreat.  While there a friend was showing us a small stack of DCWV's Glitzy Glitter Stack. Now normally if I had seen the packaging I would have walked right by it. Most glitter paper is chunky and not soft looking or feeling at all. Well folks lemme tell ya...this paper is NOTHING like that.  Out of the 36 women there I don't think one of us didn't fall in LOVE with this paper. It is soft, supple and just absolutely GORGEOUS!  Don't be fooled by packaging my friend. We seriously bought Archiver's out of all these stacks that weekend.

The good news is Heidi, the owner of Simon Says Stamp, was also there and she too fell in love with the paper. You can now find it in her store HERE. If you go to your local craft store looking for it you need to really look at it. Not all stacks are the GLITZY paper.  

I die cut this gorgeous Simon Says Stamp snowflake out of the light blue glitter paper.  You have to cut it with the die on the back of the glitter paper for the best cut and run it through a couple of times. It may not seem like you got a good through and through cut because of the glue they use on the paper but with a little tug the images will pop right out of the paper.

The silver edges are Martha Stewart glitter, the white is crushed glass (yes actual crushed glass) with the Glitzy snowflake on top.  Banner is from Avery Elle, Sentiment is Hero Arts.

Just look how amazing that blue glitter snowflake is. It makes me swoon.

This paper also cuts beautifully in the Silhouette Machine.  If you saw my coasters on ABNH or Here on my blog last week, the glitter tree is the same paper but cut with my Silhouette.

That's all from me today. Have a great day.

Dear Santa Week 4- 5 minute gifts

Hey all today is our final Dear Santa week over at A Blog Named Hero. I am sad to see it end. There have been so many wonderful projects up on the blog.

I would like to give a BIG HUGE THANK YOU to all our "Santas" They most definitely started my holiday season right! Simon Says Stamp, Avery Elle, Neat & Tangled, Kelly Purkey, Lawn Fawn, Amy Tangerine, CAS-ual Friday and Hero Arts! We couldn't have done it without you. They are some of the most generous companies in the stamping world!

This week is all about 5 minute gifts. I don't really think any gift can be done in 5 minutes but with a little prep work you can definitely get them done. One of my 5 minute gifts are magnets for the refrigerator. They were so very simple to do.

Here I  used the Hero Arts/Sizzix Floral set. I die cut the images out of Neenah Cardstock and the Darice Magnetic sheets (you have to run it through a couple of times) then I colored the stamps with Tombow Markers, misted them lightly with water and some Perfect Pearls, then stamping the image. I then attached them to the magnetic die cuts. The magnetic sheets are sticky on one side so no adhesive in necessary.

I did the same thing with the Lawn Fawn Critters in the Park except that I colored them with Prismacolor Pencils and Gamsol

Here I have some Avery Elle and Lawn Fawn Critters in Costume.  The top of the Avery Elle is pop dotted. These are great for kids artwork and papers that we all post on our fridges. 

To go with these I made some really quick gift card holders:

 I used Neat & Tangled's Simple Christmas and On the Strip 2, mixed with some Hero Arts. I masked off the bottom and stamped the stripes. I then masked off the stripes stamped the house and masked that too and stamped the Hero Arts snowflakes in Silver then heat embossed them. Super fast.

This last one took a little longer but was so worth it. I started by cutting a 3.5 x 3.5 gift card out with my Silhouette.  I stamped the Neat & Tangled wreath, pinecones and leaves. I also stamped the Avery Elle bow and covered it with Wink of Stella and Glossy Accents. It all came together fairly quickly.

Please stop by A Blog Named Hero to see what the other girls did....they are just so talented.  We have some great prizes you can win too.

See you soon.

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