Santa and Snow - they seem to go together!

First of all, THIS JUST IN - check out the January/February 2009 Simple Scrapbooks issue, pg. 59!!!! You will see a layout that I did!!!

Second of all, THIS JUST IN - check out my super cute youngest grandson and pictures my youngest daughter took of him this last weekend!!!!

And then to today's card - Something else that seems to go with Santa and Snow this year is glitter! Everyone is adding glitter and it is fun that it comes in so many different forms.


This is my CPS sketch card for this week. I loved the three sections to the sketch and thought that adding my vintage Santa over that just worked perfect. This Vintage Santa came in a set of two different images and I bought them from Emma's Paperie.
The extra touch - a punched out snowflake covered with glitter. I picked up a jar of Crystal Craft Twinkles by DecoArt at Michaels. It is a brush-on glitter paint. I love how easy it is to brush this stuff on about anything either with a brush or even with just my finger and when it dries it has a great amount of sparkle to it and the piece is still flexible.
The products for this next card are from the I Am A Scrapaholic's December kit. I just love this paper by Heidi Swapp. They don't have to be used for winter or Christmas themed projects but they sure worked for that. The scallop paper is a 12" square paper that has a die cut scallop edge all the way around. I just cut a slice from that paper so the scallop edge ended up at the bottom edge of the front and the back of the card.

The little chipboard house is by Maya Road. It comes in a tin with a whole bunch of chipboard houses and roofs in different sizes. These things are a fun accent to a whole lot of projects or cards. You can see here another example of my brush-on glitter paint. The snowflake is a velvety piece and this glitter went on great and it was also brushed over my house. First of all, though, I added some "snow" with a Snow Writer. When this is dry, it has a textured look that resembles snow.

Thanks for visiting and my your holidays and celebrations be wonderful!!! Linda

VINTAGE SANTA card
Materials:
Cardstock
Patterned paper – Peppermint Stripe/Scent of Christmas/g.c.d. studios
Vintage Embossed Santa cut out – B. Shackman Co.
Snowflake punch – Martha Stewart
Ribbon – Michaels
Craft Twinkles – Deco Art
Button
Machine Sewing

SNOWY CABIN card

Materials:

Patterned papers - Heidi Swapp

Punch out calendar die - Heidi Swapp

Velvety snowflake - IAAS kit

Button

Snow Writer - Deco Art

Craft Twinkles - Deco Art

Ribbon

Chipboard house - Maya Road

CPS #94 and 2 Sketches 4 You cards

I am having way too much fun creating Christmas or Winter themed cards!!! I stayed with that theme this week for both my Card Positioning Systems card and Kazan's Sketch #15 at 2 Sketches 4 You card. I have said this before, but I just love the jumping off place that sketches give for creating. Sometimes it is fun to just get a bit of inspiration for your creations from a sketch, sometimes it is fun to follow the sketch very closely. I love the little wave look at the bottom of the sketch so I took that literal and handcut a couple wave shaped pieces from plain white cardstock. The fun thing here was that I then painted them with this Glitter Dimensional Paint. You get a great amount of sparkle and it is easy to apply.

I hope you can see it here - look very closely. Do you see the "dimension" of the rub-on bird piece? It is just so cool. These rub-ons are "thick" or "dimensional". They really make a stunning addition to a card. I found this set at Michaels in the Christmas supplies.

For this card, I combined a couple things, my I Am A Scrapaholic kit for December and the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch. I also got in my brand new Distress Stickles by Ranger!!! OHHHHH what a wonderful color - Broken China.

The snowflake piece is a Glimmer chip by Tattered Angels. It comes with a soft silver look but I also sprayed it with Silver Glimmer Mist for some additional sparkle and accents from my new Stickles.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SNOWY BIRDS card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Christmas Is/Cloud Nine/Fiskars (2 sided)
Bird rub-ons – Royal Brush/Royal and Langnickel
Glitter Dimensional paint – Plaid
Snowflake punch – Papershapers/EK Success

SILVER SNOWFLAKE card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Heidi Swapp
Broken China Stickles – Ranger
Snowflake piece – Tattered Angels
Ribbon – Michaels
Silver Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels

Did you get a peek!?

Did you get a peek at this project at Cut Card Stock? Go on over now and see the whole creation.
I only wish you could see how amazing the photo is printed on this paper, Curious Iridescent CRYOGEN WHITE cardstock. This paper is so soft and has the slightest sparkle - amazing IRL!!!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Christmas Tree Branches card

A quick card to help celebrate the season!
The products used on this card are from the I Am A Scrapaholic November kit. The papers are SEI and I cut the branches out of one of the patterned papers.

Red Stickles highlighted the red berries on the branches and I covered the chipboard ornament with another one of the papers in the kit. Something that I just loved was I painted the ornament with Angel Wings Shimmerz paint and it gave it the most wonderful little sparkle but I couldn't quite capture that with the camera. You will have to imagine it!!! A couple extra dots of sparkle were added with Glitter 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

CHRISTMAS TREE BRANCH card

Materials list:
Patterned papers – Alpine Frost/SEI
My Little Yellow Bicycle chipboard flourish
Machine Sewing
Cinnamon Stickles – Ranger
Angel Wings Shimmerz
Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint – Tulip

Creating Christmas or Holiday cards

You might remember that I love working with kits because of how well the products usually coordinate all together. This months kit from I Am A Scrapaholic is no exception! LOVE the papers and accents and, it was just in time for Christmas cards.
This card goes along with a sketch challenge we had at I Am A Scrapaholic. The red snowflake was a part of one of the patterned papers by SEI and I just cut it out. It was, however, not a full snowflake so I thought it worked really well with the sketch.

After the cut out snowflake was glued to the front of the card, I coated the entire piece with the Gloss Accents by Ranger. This product is clear, pretty much stays right where you put it instead of spreading out over the papers and dries with a raised or 3-D look. It is just like Aleene's Paper Glaze, Crystal Lacquer and Diamond Glaze by Judi Kins. While it was still wet, I slightly sprinkled the red, loose glitter over the wet surface. I didn't want to completely cover the red snowflake with the glitter. Pour on plenty of glitter and then when the Gloss Accent is dry, just brush off the excess glitter. I used a paint brush to really brush off all of the extra glitter.

For this next card, I combined several of the pieces from the kit to create my design.

The journaling piece is a sticker that comes with a white backing. I just kept it on the backing because I wanted white paper behind it. I rubbed on the tree, the green design that goes down the one side and the red, flourish design. Red Stickles were added to the tree to look like ornaments and I coated the flourish, chipboard piece with Platinum Stickles.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

RED GLITTER SNOWFLAKE card

Materials list:
Patterned Paper – Alpine Frost/SEI
Machine sewing
Gloss Accents – Ranger
Red glitter – Clearsnap
Rub-on greeting – Imaginsce
Corner rounder punch
Powder Puff Chalk stamp pads – Quick Quotes

MERRY CHRISTMAS - TREE card

Materials list:
Patterned papers – Alpine Frost/SEI
SEI rub-ons
Rub-on greeting - Imaginisce
My Little Yellow Bicycle chipboard flourish
American Crafts Remarks sticker
Machine Sewing
Stickles – Ranger

CPS #86, 2S4U and a funny pic!

It's that day again, time to show you my Card Positioning Systems card for this week and a card that I created using the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch using the supplies from the I Am A Scrapaholic's October kit plus a funny photo we took on a trip.
This weeks sponsor was Kandi Corp. You might ask what is that? I would say it is a pretty fun tool that it would pay to look into if you aren't acquainted with it. A brief description is it is a heat tool designed to attach their crystals or metal embellishments. Their decorative pieces come with a glue backing that melts when using the heat tool. It is fast, it is easy to use and while I have used the metal embellishments on paper, the beauty of this tool is it works so well on unusal surfaces like ribbon.
I used a decorative flourish that was cut with a Cuttlebug die and this provided just the perfect places to attach the metal pieces and a few orange crystals.
For the above card, I used Kazan's sketch #11 at 2 Sketches 4 You and my supplies from the I Am A Scrapaholic's October kit. The papers are from g.c.d. designs and they are wonderful! The beauty of using papers from one collection of papers is how well they go together. For my card, I used both sides of the papers because the backsides are great solid prints.
My chipboard piece was painted with a green Crackle paint. I love the look that you get with this paint.
And, I thought I would share a funny with you. There is a road we drive down in Oregon or Idaho, I forget exactly which one. We came across this road sign and just had to stop and take a picture and believe me, we wanted to drive down that road and find the house that just might have that good, old fashioned, chicken dinner ready!!!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

THANKS card

Materials: Metal embellishments and Crystals courtesy of Kandi Corp

Cardstock - Prism

Die cut flourish – Cuttlebug/Provo Craft

Scallop square punch and square punches – McGill

Thanks stamp – Kim Hughes/Cornish Heritage Farms

MISSING YOU card

Materials list:
Solid Cardstock - Prism
Patterned paper – Changing colors, Cider stripes and Harvest Dots/Loverly Collection/g.c.d. studios (the reverse side of some of the prints)
Chipboard Flourish - Bazzill
Scallop circle punch – Marvy
Green Crackle paint – Ranger
Rhinestones – Michaels
Rub-on greeting – Making Memories
Tonic Paper DistresserMachine sewing

Sketch Inspiration

I know I have said this before but I'm going to say it again today - I love sketches! I love that someone else has thought of a unique way to lay out the papers and embellishments and I can just follow that and it is a "community" thing because of the others who also use the sketch and share their creations! This time I used a sketch from Sketch This and 2 Sketches 4 U.
Sketch 63 - Sketch This. This gave me a great reason to pull out some really YUMMY October Afternoon products.
Because the ledger patterned paper had blue lines in it, I decided to play up that color along with the obvious red in the other print. See my little spritz of my newest find!!! Memories Mists! That just seemed to tie everything together.
2 Sketches 4 U - Laura's sketch #7 and products from my August I Am A Scrapaholic kit.
The chipboard flower has just a simple spray of Glimmer Mist on it and it now matches my papers and what you can't see here is the "glimmer" that is on it.
More sketches cards later this week.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

HELLO card: Materials list:
Cardstock
Patterned papers – Gazebo/Detours/October Afternoon (both sides)
Stamp – October Afternoon
Tonic Paper Distresser
Clearsnap stamp pads
Flower – Prima
Big Brad – Bazzill
Fancy labels – K&Co.

MEMORIES Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned Papers – 7gypsies
Dictionary stamp – Stamper’s Anonymous
Glimmer Mist - Tattered Angels
Chipboard scallop strip and flower – Inque
Glitter brad – Doodlebug
Tonic Paper Distresser
Rub-on words – Making Memories

BLISS card and KIT CLUBS

So, first of all, let me tell you I am a fan of KIT CLUBS!!! I am on the DT for I AM A SCRAPAHOLIC's Kit Club , I know that there are many other kits out there and they are just plain fun! WHY? Because someone else has gone to the trouble of finding new and exciting products that all work together. Do you know how many scrapbook stores I could go to to put this mix of products together? I have found most Kit Club owners want to find fun and unique items that make their kit stand out and Lynn is no exception. If you have never subscribed to one, try it for a three month subscription. FUN STUFF!!!

This particular card is a little more 3-D then I would normally put together but it just happened that way!!I cut out a flourish design from one of the 7 gypsies prints. I inked the cut edges with the Fluid Chalk stamp pads. I then added glitter with the Tulip Glitter Dimensional Fabric Paint and that caused the edges to curl a little bit - I loved that look. I took just a section of one of the die cut pieces of the chipboard. I stamped it quickly with the dictionary print stamp and then just sprayed it with the Lime Glimmer Mist. Easy, fast and yet stunning!!!
The butterfly was another piece that was fast and easy. I applied the butterfly mask to the Core'dinations cardstock. If you aren't familiar with a mask like this, it is meant to "cling" to your paper and not stick as in with adhesive. This way, you do whatever kind of coloring you want and then you simply remove the mask and you have a resulting shape. I just brushed or rubbed a brown, Fluid Chalk stamp pad over the mask. This put color around the edges and in the holes. When the mask was removed I had a butterfly shape. I cut around that shape leaving a border of the brown ink and then I took a fine tip pen to give added accent to the shape. I filled in some of the areas with Stickles in a Cinnamon color - a product that was part of a recent kit.
Thanks again for visiting, Linda (aka lbpost)

From the August IAAS kit - Materials list:Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned papers – 7 gyspies
Die Cut Chipboard – Inque
Key Lime Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels
Dictionary stamp – Stampers Anonymous
Butterfly mask – Heidi Swapp
Fluid Chalk stamp pads – Clearsnap
BLISS ticket – Tim Holtz
Tulip Glitter Fabric Dimensional paintStickles - Ranger