New Year Sparkle

Good Morning!  Since I just posted about the start up of my birthday club yesterday I thought it was only fitting that I post a birthday card today.  If you would like to join my birthday club you can read more about it here in yesterday's post.

I also made this card for this week's ABC blog challenge and the challenge this week is 'New Year Sparkle'.  We were to create any card using anything that sparkles and I decided to use rhinestone gems.  It's hard to see in my photo so I wanted to point out that my gems are just below my sentiment.

I first cut a die shape using the label collection framelit and then I stamped a flower and two small green stems in the lower right corner.  Then I stamped the sentiment using chocolate chip ink towards the left side.

The white card stock towards the bottom of my card was stamped using the same flower stamp as on my sentiment layer and the same baja blue ink.  The chocolate chip card stock was punched using the dotted scalloped ribbon border punch and then the background towards the top of my card was dry embossed using the square lattice embossing folder.

The only other embellishment I added was the twine.  I was trying to keep my card more flat for mailing.

I hope you'll stop on by our ABC challenge blog this week!  I wish you and  your family a wonderful Happy New Year!  Have a great rest of the day!

Stamps:  Stippled Blossoms, Petite Pairs
Card Stock:  White, Chocolate Chip, Festival of Prints Designer Series Paper Stack
Ink:  Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze, Wild Wasabi- I stamped off with this ink and the leaf stamps
Supplies:  Label Collection Framelits, Big Shot, Twine, Rhinestone Gems, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Dotted Scalloped Ribbon Border Punch
Technique:  Dry Embossing

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My Birthday Club


I've decided to start my very own birthday club!

Beginning Jan 1, 2013 I would like to create a birthday club for the members on my mailing list.  As a member of my birthday club you will receive:

- A handmade birthday card, made by me, for you.
- A special discount (only available through me) for your birthday.
- My monthly emails with Stampin' Up! news as well as any other SU updates and specials only offered to the members on my mailing list.

Would you like to join?  It's quick, easy, and simple.  All you need to do is to sign up for my newsletter by sending me an email and then simply ask to join my birthday club.  Please include the following information with your email-

Full Name-
Mailing address (optional if you would like to receive a handmade card in the mail)-

Birthday date (month and day is fine)-
Email address-

My birthday club is open to US residents only.  Thanks for your understanding.

My email address- pebbles4@ptd.net
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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you and your families!  I will be taking a short break from blogging and spending some more time with my children while they are home from school for their holiday/winter break.  In the mean time I will be busy working on some stamping projects!  See you in the New Year!

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My Last Twisted Tuesday Card

Good Morning!  Today is my last post for the Twisted Tuesday design team.  I have decided to step down and I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to Melina and the other DT members for having me.  It was truly a pleasure and I had such a great time visiting new blogs and leaving comments for everyone!  Melina, I wish you the best with your Twisted Tuesday challenge blog! 

This week's Twisted Tuesday challenge needs be a tag or have a tag on it and the twist is to show something that makes you smile.  It can be a favorite stamp, embellishments, something crafty you received as a gift, etc.  Be sure to post what it is that makes you smile. 

What makes me smile...??  Well, I decided to use one of my very favorite stamp sets, Lovely As a Tree and I just love a fresh coat of snow and how pretty it makes everything look so I decided that my card needed to have lots of snow.  Now if we'd only get some snow here for Christmas!

I stamped the tree image onto my background and then again onto my tag.  I masked off the snowy areas so that they would remain white and I sponged my background using night of navy ink and I sponged heavier around the edges and lighter towards the center.

I made the tag by cutting a strip of card stock and inserting the top portion through my large tag punch and simply punched to top design.  My night of navy layer was cut 1/8" larger and since I don't have a tag punch that's 1/8" larger I simply trimmed the top design by hand.  Then I punched a hole at the top of my tag and I threaded some silver cording through and tied it off.  You could easily use ribbon here instead.

And what's a snowy card without any glitter, right?  So I decided to add lots of glitter!  I simply swiped my 2 way glue pen all over the snow and sprinkled dazzling diamonds all over....easy peasy!

Well, I'm off to bake some Christmas cookies!  Thank you so much for stopping by!  Have a great day!
Stamps:   Lovely As a Tree, Petite Pairs
Card Stock:  White, Night of Navy
Ink:  Brown Stazon, Night of Navy
Supplies:  Sponge, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, 2 Way Glue Pen, Hole Punch, Silver Cording, Large Tag Punch
Technique:  Spotlighting, Sponging, Masking

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Christmas Crackers


Good morning!  Today's 52 Christmas Card Throwdown blog's challenge is our last challenge for the year.  It's also my last card as a member of their DT.  I would like to take a moment to say thank you so much for having me, it was a wonderful opportunity being on their DT and I had so much fun.  I love their challenges and I will continue to play along when I can.

Today's challenge is a theme challenge, 'Christmas Crackers'. Interpret this as you wish - images of crackers, hats, toys confetti etc - you can even do a joke card it's up to you.

It took me a little bit to think of what sort of card I wanted to create, but once I remembered I had the Stampin' Up! July 4th stamp set I knew exactly what to create.  It's almost like stamps in disguise....I never thought of using my July 4th stamp set for Christmas cards, but it worked!

I did lots of heat embossing on my card which is something I rarely do.  I used white craft ink and white embossing powder for the white fireworks and versamark ink and gold embossing powder for the gold fireworks.  It's hard to see on my card so I wanted to point out that I used the small splatter stamp from the SU stamp set Itty Bitty Backgrounds and using cherry clobber ink I have some splatter stamped all over my cherry cobbler card stock.  In-between the open areas of my images I added some gold and white dots using my white gel pen and gold dazzle marker.  Then I decided to add a few of the larger rhinestone gems, it' looks really neat in person.

Just below my stamped area I added 2 rows of dry embossing using my simply score tool and then just below that I placed some white ribbon.  My sentiment is also heat embossed using white craft ink and white embossing powder.

I hope you liked my Christmas Cracker card!  Thank you so much for stopping by and we hope you'll join us and play along with our last challenge for the year!  Have a great day!

Stamps:  July 4th, Curly Cute, Itty Bitty Backgrounds
Card Stock:  White, Cherry Cobbler
Ink:  Cherry Cobbler, White Craft Ink, VersaMark
Supplies:  Ribbon, Simply Score Tool, Heat Gun, White Embossing Powder, Gold Embossing Powder, Embossing Buddy, White Gel Pen, Gold Dazzle Marker, Rhinestone Gems
Technique:  Dry Embossing, Heat Embossing

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Twisted Tuesday Multiples with Stitching



Good Morning!  I tried making more of a clean & simple card for the Twisted Tuesday challenge this week.  The challenge this week is to use multiples of something and the twist is to add some stitching.  The multiples can be images, buttons, ribbons, etc.  The stitching can be faux or real stitching.  Since I rarely pull out my sewing machine I decided to use faux stitching and my multiples are my images and brads.

I used the poinsettia stamp from the SU Christmas Blessing stamp set and I stamped the image three times in a row.  I colored them using my SU markers and then I added three gold brads in the center.

My faux stitching is on my gumball green layer which I then punched out using the scallop border punch.  My sentiment was stamped and punched and layered using oval punches.  I have dimensionals underneath my sentiment layer as well as behind my Raspberry Ripple layer.

Have a wonderful day!  I'm off to get caught up on some house work and finish up making some Christmas gifts!  Have a great day!

Stamps:  Christmas Blessings, Petite Pairs
Card Stock:  White, Gumball Green, Raspberry Ripple
Ink:  Black Stazon
Supplies:  Ribbon, White Gel Pen, Paper Piercing Tool, Essentials Paper Piercing Pack, SU Markers, Gold Brads. Small Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Scallop Border Punch, Dimensionals
Technique:  Faux Stitching

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Silver Embossed Tree

Good morning!  This week's 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge is a color challenge and we are using the color:  black, white, and metallic of your choice.

I chose to use black, white, and silver.  I used the silver on embossing my tree image.  I stamped the image using versamark ink and then I poured silver embossing powder onto my image and I hit it with the heat gun.  The silver embossing is awesome when you want to create that 'wow' factor without all the work of coloring. 

I kept my card more on the clean & simple side, but I did dry emboss the background using my simply score board and diagonal plate.  For my embellishments I used some silver cording and on the tree image I added a few pearls in the center of the snowflakes.  My sentiment is also heat embossed and I placed it onto my card using dimensionals.

I hope you'll have some time to play along with us this week; this is such a fun color challenge!  Thanks for stopping by!  Make it a great day!

I also made my card for the following challenges-
Sisterhood of Crafters- embossing- I used heat embossing and dry embossing
Sweet Stampin' Christmas- anything goes
Dutch Dare Card Challenges- non traditional Christmas colors
Moving Along With the Times- Clean & Simple

Stamps:  Snow Swirled
Card Stock:  White, Black
Ink:  VersaMark
Supplies:  Silver Cording, Simply Scoring Tool, Diagonal Plate, Basic Pearls, Silver Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Scallop Oval Punch, Embossing Buddy, dimensionals
Technique:   Heat Embossing, Dry Embossing

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My email address- pebbles4@ptd.net
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Winter Snowflake

Hi everyone!  As you may know I love making all white Christmas cards and here's another one I made.

The snowflake was cut using the retired Stampin' Up! snowflake die and I added a large pearl on each branch of the snowflake.  In the center I added a large white button with white twine tied in a bow.  My background was embossed using the lacy brocade embossing folder and the white layer behind that was paper pierced all along the edges. 

For my ribbon treatment I used some white organdy ribbon and I layered my sentiment using several oval punches and then I tied on my oval sentiment onto my organdy ribbon using white twine. 

If you eliminate the paper piercing layer, this would make a great holiday card that could be reproduced in no time at all!

I'm entering my card in the following blog challenges-
Twisted Tuesday Challenges- Wintery White & the twist is to include a snowflake
Paper Play Challenges- Christmas is Coming
Creative Craft Challenges2- White on White Christmas
Eclectic Ellapu- Santa paws and/or snow flakes- I used snowflakes
Shopping Our Stash- Any winter holiday or winter/snow themed project

Thanks for taking the time to stop by!  Have a great evening!

Stamps:  To You & Yours
Card Stock:  White
Ink:  Basic Gray
Supplies:  Organdy Ribbon, Twine, Button, Scallop Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Small Oval Punch, Basic Pearls, 2 Way Glue Pen, Snowflake Die, Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder, Big Shot, SU Mat Pack, Paper Piercing Tool
Technique:  Dry Embossing, Paper Piercing

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White Holiday Ornaments

I'm back with another post for today.  I wanted to make a card for this week's ABC Blog Challenge and this week's challenge is to create a holiday card using bling.  I love all white cards and so I decided to create an all white Christmas card using bling.

I also made this card for the following challenges-
Creative Craft Challenge2- which was to make a white on white Christmas card.
Tuesday Throwdown- white Christmas
Cupcake Craft Challenges- It'll be All White on the Night
Crafts and Me Challenges- Anything Goes With An Optional Christmas Ornament

My card is really just a matter of dry embossing and die cutting.  I began making my card by dry embossing the top portion of my background.  I left the bottom 1" or so unembossed so that I could stamp my Merry Christmas sentiment.

My next two layers were cut using the window framelits and the larger layer was paper pierced along the edges using my festive paper piercing pack and paper piercing tool. 

To create the ornaments I cut them out using the holiday ornament framelit dies and then I dry embossed them.  The largest ornament was dry embossed using the lacy brocade embossing folder and then I tied some sliver cording at the top.  The upper smaller ornament was dry embossed using my fancy fan embossing folder and then I die cut a tiny bit of glimmer paper for the top of the ornament.  The next smaller ornament was just die cut and I added two rows of dry embossing using my simply score tool and then in the middle I added a row of basic jewels and then I tied on some sliver cording at the top of the ornament.

Here's a tip when embossing and die cutting- cut first, then emboss!  Trust me, it works out much nicer this way.

I hope you will join us and play along this week at ABC Challenges!  Have a great day and be sure to stop by tomorrow.  I will be posting another all white card!
Stamps:  More Merry Messages
Card Stock:  White, Silver Glimmer Paper
Ink:  Basic Gray
Supplies:  Big Shot, Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder, Fancy Fan Embossing Folder, Festive Paper Piercing Pack, Paper Piercing Tool, Silver Cording- retired, Dimensionals, Simply Scoring Tool, Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Window Framelits, Holiday Ornament Framelits
Technique:  Paper Piercing, Dry Embossing

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My email address- pebbles4@ptd.net
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Crafty Gal Blog Group~ December Challenge

Hi everyone!  The blog group I belong to has a challenge every month and this month we are doing a really neat challenge.  For the month of December the Craft Gal's Blog Group is doing a 'Guess Who I'm CASEing' challenge.

We were to go back and pick another blog group member's card to case from the month of March.  Well, I goofed and the card I decided to case was from the month of October (sorry about that), but once the person I cased this from sees this card she will know it's hers.  I had to case this card because after I saw it the first time I had to go and order the En Francais stamp.  We aren't supposed to reveal whose card we cased until we've all had a chance to guess them so I'll come back on Friday and update this post with a link to the original card I cased. 

ETA- here is a link to Jackie's card that I cased.

I stamped the lower portion of my background using the En Francasis stamp and the upper portion of my background was stamped using the Hello Doily stamp.  The two images meet in the middle and it was pretty close, but it didn't really matter since my ribbon covered up that part.

My flower was stamped using the Daydream Medallions stamps and it was cut out using my floral frame framelits.  I have dimensionals under each layer of my flower.  I finished off my card by stamping a sentiment and punching it out using the jewelry tag punch and I also added a small button with some twine tied through the center.

I hope you like my card today!  Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a great rest of the day!

Stamps:  Daydream Medallions, En Francais, Hello Doily, Tiny Tags
Card Stock:  Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla
Ink:  Soft Suede
Supplies:  Crochet Trim, Button, Twine, Jewelry Tag Punch, Floral Frames Framelits, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

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52 Christmas Card Throwdown Sketch

Hi everyone!  Today's 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge is a sketch and as many of you know sketch challenges are my very favorite challenges so join us this week and play along with this awesome sketch!  Here's a pic of the sketch-


My card was super easy to make and it didn't take much time to finish it.  I used an older, retired Stampin' Up! stamp set called 'The Chill of Winter'. and all I really did was stamp my image and sentiment and then I colored them using my SU markers.  I added some dazzling diamonds glitter for the snow and I also added some silver cording toward the bottom of my card and I tied it off with a small bow.  (The silver cording is from SU, but it's been retired for awhile now and I'm glad I still have some left.

The background on my card was dry embossed using my big shot and petals-a-plenty embossing folder and using my cherry cobbler marker I decided to color in the flower centers just by using a small dot from the marker and that was it!  Real quick and easy to do!  Thank you for stopping by.  Make it a great day!

Stamps:  The Chill of Winter
Card Stock:  White, Cherry Cobbler
Ink:  Black Stazon
Supplies:  Big Shot, Petals-a-plenty Embossing Folder, Silver Cording, SU Dazzling Diamonds, 2 Way Glue Pen, SU Markers, Dimensionals
Technique:  Dry Embossing

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