Christmas Gifts

I saw the beautiful colors over at the Embellish Challenge and thought of using the 2S4Y Kazan's Sketch 65 and combining the challenges together and creating a Christmas gift bag. This also works for Hero Arts monthly theme of Gifts / Gift tags.

Here is what I created:

 Here is the Embellish inspirational photo

 and the sketch:

The pink in my picture looks a little darker than the inspiration but it is due to me trying to showcase the vellum bag.

I didn't have any good bags in the house to stamp on and I wanted to showcase my cute little snowman, so I decided to create a vellum bag.  Here is the recipe for the bag:

1. Cut two pieces of vellum 5" x 10". Score at 8 1/2" on both pieces. Gentle on the scoring. (Mine cut through. :) I made my bag so the bottom doesn't fold up. If you need it to fold up you would create a bottom piece similar to the sides. Put double sided tacky tape along bottom flap on outside on one piece and on inside on the outside flap on the other piece.
2. Cut two side pieces 5" x 8". Score at 1", 2 1/2", 4" across the 5" span on both pieces. Fold the side pieces in half and fold outer scores the opposite direction. Put double sided tacky tape on the outside facing pieces. One on each side.
3. Punch a border edge across the top if desired.
4. Stamp on vellum using StaZon . Let dry as needed.
5. Put side piece flush with front and back edge and attach. Repeat.
6. Attach the bottom flaps together.
7. Cut slit in front edge on bottom and run ribbon through slit.

Hope that was helpful. I would tape my bag better and run the ribbon around the entire bag after putting in my gift with tissue paper for my next gift bag.

The image is from Art Impressions and part of a new line they have called Jingle Tots. I tried to limit myself so I bought the adorable snowmen and a stamp with the little kids. They are so cute.

The image was stamped two times and pieced together. (Sloppy coloring on my part using my copics) The tassels are Flower Soft and the lights and snow are accented using Stickles.  Little black gems as accents for eyes and buttons. The background snowflakes and stars are Hero Arts.   The stars are stamped using Versamark and embossed using Judikins Kaleidescope embossing powder.

Thanks for stopping by. Sorry about the double post. :) I am going to share my Oz stair step card tomorrow and wanted to enter the 2S4Y before the challenge ended.

Hope you have fun plans for the weekend!

Suzz

Scrollworks Guest Designer

I am happy to say that I am guest designing for Scrollworks stamps this month.  I will be sharing different projects using their stamps this month.  The first project I have to share with you uses the sweet Sorona.

She looked so pensive and quiet that I thought about pairing her up with some elegant flowers and putting her in a lovely garden.

She was stamped using Ranger Archival black ink on Marco's matte finish paper and cut out.

I used three different Webster's Pages papers from the 6 x 6 sets to create the garden. The Webster's Pages flowers around the edges are cut out to create the garden around her.

The papers were than placed onto the black cardstock cut to 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" card base.

Her hair was accented with a flower cut from a ribbon. The corner has a lace doily wrapped around the corner. The flowers are cut and placed in the corner along with a few pieces of sheer ribbon.

I will be posting every Friday in November with the projects I have created for Scrollworks including a tutorial on using photo stamps.

Have a wonderful Friday!

Suzz

Play Date Cafe Challenge #54 -

The Play Date Cafe Challenge this week has great colors and a fab sponsor!

Our sponsor this week is  The Artistic Stamper. I had a hard time choosing my stamp but I was drawn to the sweet images from the  Mabel Lucie Attwell collection. There is a wonderful selection and I am definitely thinking about adding to my collection! :)

Here is the sweet inspiration photo:

The image was stamped using the Memento and colored with Copics. The paper is a combination of Memory Box and Websters pages. The flowers are Prima. The edges of the green paper are sponged using the Memento Pear Tart and Rich Cocoa.  

If you are looking for  inspiration the team has some fantastic projects to go look at!

The Play Date Cafe design team:

Sarah Anderson

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn
Andrea Ewen

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

Hope your Thursday is wonderful!

Suzz

Tag Tuesday! Yeah!

It has been awhile since I was able to play along with the Tag Tuesday and the Hero Arts Challenge.  This week's Tag Tuesday is front and back tags. You need to go check out Louise's tag and challenge because she has such a clever and beautiful tag.  Hero Arts theme this month is gift tags or gifts. I combined the two challenges and came up with this:

The front of my tag:

 and the back of my tag:

The idea behind the front and back tag was to carry your image over onto the back. I did stamp the trees on the front and back in the same position but you don't get the same effect as Louise's tag. I did change up my back to have no highlights which I kind of like as if the front of the tag is what is in the light and behind the trees the colors are stronger and darker. :)

Late post as I gave up on my tag halfway through and set it aside and worked on a few other projects. I came back to it and decided to finish it. I also had a last minute panic thinking I made something very similar last year for the Hero Arts challenge. I went back and looked and it wasn't the same tag. LOL!

The tree and stars images are Hero Arts stamps and the sentiment is Penny Black. Colors (Ranger Dusty Concord, Chipped Sapphire and Adirondack Purple)

Have a good night!

Suzz

Wishing you the best...

Wishing you the best Monday! :)

I worked on mixing together a few challenges: Mona's color challenge CR84FN2, Moxie Fab World Diggin on Damask,  and Card Patterns Sketch #88 this week. This card has it all rolled up into one. 

 Here is the wonderful sketch:

and look at the beautiful colors from Mona's inspiration:

Products: Memory Box C1390 Elemental Damask, Memory Box Very Best B1359, Q-1802 Tall Poppies A Stamp in The Hand Co, Adirondack Pool, StaZon Teal, Recollections Pearls, Versafine Smoke Grey, Memento London Fog, Watercolor pencils (Teal, Blue, Tan), Spellbinders Die Cuts (Oval, Fancy Labels), Crystal Snow Glitter

Hope your Monday is sunny and bright!

Suzz

Trick or Treat

Happy Halloween!  Hope you have fun plans for today.

We will be taking our youngest out for two rounds of  trick or treating. Once by our house and later at Grandmas. The kids love trick or treating at Grandmas as where she lives has trick or treating after dark. We get to run around in the neighborhood that my DH grew up in which is really fun for everyone.  This year is a bit of a transition for me... My oldest son and middle daughter are not trick or treating with us they are both going to parties. It will be strange to not have them running off and coming back to join us with our youngest.

I have one last Halloween card to share that I made for Tanya (youngest).  I asked her if she wanted a card that moved and she said yes... of course!  So I made a fun little spinner card for her. 

I love this little witch. She looks like Wendy from Casper the Ghost.  The background is this really fun coverall from Impression Obsession and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Hope you have a wonderful Halloween!

Suzz

Get Sketchy and Just for Fun

I was over at Lisa's house yesterday and we worked on a few different projects together.  We pulled out the sketch from Get Sketchy #62 and decided to play along with our  blogging friend Mona's  Cupcakes Creations Color Challenge.

Combine those three factors and this is what I created yesterday.

Here is the Get Sketchy inspiration sketch:

Here are  the yummy colors from Mona:

The cardinal stamp is from Heartfelt Creations and there are so many wonderful cardinals in their sets that I had a hard time choosing which one to use. The image was colored using watercolor pencils.  The papers are from Stampin Up and Basic Grey.

Thanks Lisa for a fun visit! (and for sharing your supplies!)

Have a lovely Saturday.

Suzz