Tulips!

Happy Friday Friends!

I have been on vacation this week, just hanging out around the house.  It has been really nice to not have a lot of extra stress and worry.  I spent all day yesterday and part of the day today sifting through my craft room.  I have purged things to donate, share and trashed some things.  After all of that, I still had several totes that got packed up and put in storage.  My room doesn't look the same at all.  It looks so bare, but I left out plenty of supplies so I could continue to create until we move.  I have a sneaky suspicion that there is a hoarder living in my craft room....  After all the cleaning and packing, I could not locate that hoarder... Hmmmm.....

I decided to do a CAS card today, one of the hardest for me.  But I just love the Tulip Wheelbarrow image by Magnolia and feel that it really does not need much else to go along with it.  They are colored with copics and matted on burgundy and brown cardstock.  I colored white ribbon to match the tulips.  Added a charm and some dew drops.  It was that simple.

Supplies used:

Magnolia - Tulip Wheelbarrow

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Copics
Ribbon

Pearls

Dew Drops

Charm

Make sure to come and join our Girly, Glittery & Glam challenge this week at Loves Rubberstamps!  Also check out the New Items in the store this week by C.C. Designs, Make it Crafty & A Random Fan!

That is it for me today! 
Blessings until next time...
Athina

Loves Rubber Stamps December GDT - Merry Christmas or Happy Chanuka

Good Morning Blogging Friends,

Today I am back with another challenge as a Guest Design Team Member for Loves Rubberstamps Challenges.  The sponsor this week for Loves Rubberstamps is Sweet n' Sassy.

Ok, let's get to the challenge, it is Merry Christmas or Happy Chanukah!

I wanted to do something a little bit different than a normal Christmas card for this challenge.  I have been wanting to try a Star Fold Card for some time and I thought this would be great for this challenge. You can find the tutorial here for the Star Fold Card.  It is actually very simple!  So I picked out some double sided Christmas Basic Grey paper from my stash and started scoring and folding.  I choose the Cocoa's Gift image from Sweet 'N Sassy stamps.  He is perfect popping out of the box since you have to also unwrap the card to get into it!  I colored the image with my copics on cryogen paper.  I used red cardstock cut out with Spellbinders Floral Doily Motifs dies to put behind the image.

I then attached the image to one side of my card (you can see this better below).  I thought it still looked a little plain so I decided to embellish it a bit more.  I used pearls on the tips of the star and stamped the Merry Christmas image by Magnolia on a circle.  I added a star charm to the circle and hung it from the card with twine.  It was still not just right, so I colored some white ribbon with my G24 copic to match and tied a bow on the corner of it.

Copics used:

Box:  G20, G21, G24, G28
Ribbon:  R24, R29, E07
Mouse: E30, E31, E35
Ears:  R00, R21, R22

For the inside of the card, I simply stamped the sentiment by Stampabilities (Merry Christmas Always). You can see how the image is glued to only one side of the card.

Check out Loves Rubber Stamps store for the following products:

Magnolia Stamps

Ranger Inks and Tools

Spellbinders

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Come and Get it - Anything Christmas

The Squirrel and the Fox - Christmas

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Christmas Crackers

Basic Grey Challenges - It is Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Cards Galore - Christmas

Cupcake Craftroom - Anything Goes for Christmas

Card Makin Mamas - Happy Holidays

Paper- Crafting Journey - Christmas Project 

Please stop over to Loves Rubberstamps Challenges and play along!  I will be back next Tuesday with my last challenge as a Guest Design Team member!

Thank you for stopping by!
Blessings until next time....
Athina