Poinsettias on Snowflakes

This week's SCS sketch can be found here.

The background was made with a piece of designer paper from the Heartfelt Creations Sparkling Poinsettia paper pad, topped with a large snowflake from the HFC Arianna Lace dies and the HFC Botanic Window die.  The poinsettias were sponged and sculpted from the HFC Sparkling Poinsettia stamps and dies, they are layered over mistletoe from the HFC Window Box Fillers stamps and dies. 

The flowers and mistletoe were finished with a coat of glitter and the sentiment from the HFC Ornate Sleigh Stamp set was stamped on a tag made with the HFC Cut Mat Create 1B die.

Blessings,

DJ

Silver Forest

The colors for the SCS Color Challenge this week are:

         SILVER AND WHITE or GOLD AND WHITE

I created a frame by cutting a circle in Steel Grey cardstock and embossing with a birch tree embossing folder, this was rubbed with silver Nuvo Mousse.  The scene inside was created by heat embossing in silver the deer and trees from the Heartfelt Creations Woodsy Critters stamps and dies set.  Snow drifts were cut out and topped with glitter. Two snowflakes from the HFC Snow Kissed Spruce stamps set,  poinsettias from the HFC Sparkling Poinsettias sets, and holly from the HFC Festive Holly & Cardinals stamps and dies were heat embossed in silver also.

The inner frame was made with a MFT stitched circle die-namics die.

Silver poinsettias

Silver cardinal.

Blessings,

DJ

Christmas Lantern

Hi there,
Today I'm playing along with the SCS Technique Challenge and the Featured Stamper challenge.

Our featured stamper this week is Andrea and you can find the card I chose to case here, it fit perfectly with the Watercolor Imprint technique challenge.  I began with a holly stencil and peacock feathers distress ink.  After cutting the circle, I added a HFC Large Elegant Word Background stamp to the center circle and raised the frame with foam tape for dimension.  The images are from the Heartfelt Creations Festive Holly Collection and the sentiment is from the Celebrate the Season Paper Collection.

The images were sponged with ink and accented with a dove blender pen.

Blessings,

DJ

Pale Poinsettias

Playing along with two challenges today, the SCS Ways to Use Leftovers and SCS Inspiration Challenge.

The inspiration I chose can be found here.  I loved the silver and beautiful texture on the lamp and decided to mimic it on my background by brushing Nuvo Silver Mousse on an embossed piece of Steel Grey cardstock.  For the WT left-over challenge I added these mauvy pink poinsettias made with the Heartfelt Creations Sparkling Poinsettia stamps and dies.  The poinsettias were sponged with ink and covered with Creatology Glitter from Michaels.

The sentiment is from the HFC Celebrate the Season stamp set on an MFT stitched banner die.  The holly branch is Winter Branch by Die-namites.

Blessings,

DJ

Ski-sons Greetings

Happy Thanksgiving Eve!
Playing along to day with the MFT sketch 360.

For the sketch I colored up this sweet bear from the MFT Ski-sons Greetings stamp set with copic markers and added a Action Mini Wobble Spring to give him a little bit of jiggle.  The background was cut with the Stitched Mod Rectangle Stax Die-namics and stamped with the MFT Sweater Stitch Background stamp.

The sentiment from the same stamp set was stamped on a MFT die.

Blessings,

DJ

Lavander Foam Floral

This is my card for the SCS sketch this week.

For the sketch, I combined Heartfelt Creations Majestic Morning Background stamps and dies made with HFC Art Foam and green stamens, with leaves from the HFC Italiana Grapevines stamps and dies. The flowers were sponged with glue and glitter added.

The background paper and sentiment are from HFC paper pads.

The background doily was made with the HFC Decorative Medallion Die.

Blessings,

DJ

Christmas Forest

The SCS Color Challenge colors this week are:

Tranquil Tide

Crumb Cake

Berry Burst

Gold

For the challenge I used stamps and dies by Heartfelt Creations.  The deer and trees are from the HFC Woodsy Wonderland Collection, the poinsettias are from the Celebrate the Season Collection, they were colored by sponging them with ink, prills were added to the poinsettias and glitter was added to all.  The frame was made with the HFC Eyelet Oval Basics Small & Large and the background flourish was made with the HFC Sweetheart Borders Die.  The designer paper and sentiment are from HFC paper pads.

Blessings,

DJ

Thanksgiving Place Card

The SCS Free for All Challenge is to make a Thanksgiving card or place card.

This is the first of nine place cards that I'll be making for next week.  I used a 'grateful' die with a mum from the Heartfelt Creations Enchanted Mum stamp and die sets in SU Blackberry Bliss with yellow pearl stamens  and a leaf from the HFC Classic Rose set.

Blessings,

DJ

Starry Night

The SCS Ways to Use it Challenge is to make a space background or starry sky.

I created a water color starry sky with this technique and added a Bethlehem die from Paper Smooches with a Taylored Expressions sentiment.

Blessings,

DJ

Starry Nativity

Such a fun sketch today that I had to use it one more time.

For this card I used the Sweet n Sassy Stamps Joy to the World stamp set which was colored with SU blendabilities alcohol markers.  The large star is from the Sizzix Stars, Primitive die and the smaller are MFT dies.  The background was created with a MFT plaid background stamp and a piece of corrugated cardstock for the top.  The curved lace die was also used in my first card today, the Heartfelt Creations Fleur Border Basics dies.

Blessings,

DJ

Christmas Chickadee

Hi there!

For my card today, I used the SCS Sketch Challenge.

For the sketch, I heat embossed the wonderful chickadee from the Power Poppy Tweet Tidings stamp set and water colored him with SU markers.

The background was created with a Christmas DP and a wood grain embossed piece of Kraft.  The lacy border was created with the Heartfelt Creations Fleur Border Basics Die.

The poinsettia bouquet was made with the Cottage Cutz Holiday Greenery die and the little tag is by My Favorite Things and was stamped with a greeting from the Power Poppy Wreaths Plain and Fancy stamp set.

Blessings,

DJ

Blue Frosty

The SCS Color Challenge colors are:

real red

cucumber crush
marina mist

The snowman was stamped with the Power Poppy Snow Kissed Stamp Set and heat embossed and water colored with SU markers.  The snowflake is from the Heartfelt Creations Arianna Lace Die, the border die is by Spellbinders and the background was stamped with snowflakes from the same stamp set.

Blessings,

DJ

Puppy Christmas

Here's my contribution for this week's MFT Sketch.

I colored up this cute pup from the MFT BB Happy Pawlidays set with colored pencils and a pencil blending pen.  All of the papers and dies are also from MFT.

Blessings,

DJ

Beary Special

I'm playing today in the SCS Ways to Use It Challenge - Food, and the MFT Color challenge.

I used the MFT BB Birthday Bears, colored with copic markers and used a verity of MFT dies along with some Nuvo crystal drops.

Blessings,

DJ

Anniversary Heart

Great technique challenge this week at SCS, it's called Polished Stone.

For the challenge I used Early Espresso and Cherry Cobbler with Wink of Stella.  The hearts were cut out with MFT heart die-namics and the sentiment and hearts from the Verve Love Everlasting stamp set were stamped in black and Nuvo Crystal Drops in Dark Walnut were added for accent.

The large Cheery Lynn flourish die was cut out twice in black and added behind the heart.

A band of dark brown card stock was dry embossed and Nuvo Gold Embellishment Mousse was spread over to add to the dimension.

Blessings,

DJ

Foam Floral

I made this for several challenges: The SCS Sketch, Free 4 All, and Inspiration Challenges.

The Free 4 All challenge was to use multiple layers and I chose this for my inspiration.  The background was created with papers from the Heartfelt Creations Blushing Rose Collection.  For the bottom piece, I dry embossed a piece of lavender card stock and rubbed on Nuvo Lilac Lavender Mousse.

The lattice was created with the HFC Decorative Oval Die and topped with a scalloped circle made with the HFC Eyelet Circle & Basics Dies.

The flowers were made with Heartfelt Creations Art Foam Paper.  The white flower was stamped in mustard archival with the HFC Enchanted Mum stamp and die and colored with Gallery Artist's soft oil pastels.  The lavender flowers were made with the HFC Botanical Rose stamps and dies and stamens were added to all.  The tag is from a HFC paper pad and the enamel dots were created with Nuvo crystal drops.

Blessings, 

DJ