Let It Sew - Jingle Belles #23

So we meet again? Yes, another week with my pals the Jingle Belles. :)

This weeks challenge is: Let It Sew, Let It Sew, Let It Sew. And yes, the challenge is sewing..."incorporating sewing into our holiday cards; whether that be in the form of hand-stitching, via sewing machine, or even by using a pen, a stamp, or some rub-ons to add some faux stitching. anything goes!"

As much as I love the look of sewing on my cards, I don't do it very often (maybe once a year?). My sewing machine is just a teeny little thing and is quite temperamental. Most days it doesn't work. :( So I was worried about this challenge. I wound up doing a combo of hand-stitching AND machine sewing.

I also wanted to keep a kind of monochromatic look. Hope I achieved that.

The vellum puffed a little as I used the sewing machine, but I can't complain too much. At least it didn't break down on me! ;)

Thanks so much for having a look & there's still a TINY amount of time to play in this challenge, so give it a go!


{Supplies:
Paper: Cardstock - Night of Navy (Stampin' Up), Patterned paper - Figgy Pudding (Basic Grey), Shimmer Vellum (Paper Temptress)
Ink: Distress Embossing Ink (Ranger)
Stamps: Wondrous Gift (Stampin' Up)
Embossing: Silver Super Fine Detail EP (Ranger)
Accessories: Ribbon (stash), Label Maker (Dymo), Thread (Coats)}

All my best,

SOS #3 - UFO's

UFO's?!?! Unfinished objects, my friends. NOT aliens. ;)

That's the challenge for this week over at Shopping Our Stash. Do you have unfinished projects, stamping, pieces of parts laying around that you had every intention of finishing or doing something with, but you just kinda put it aside? Then this will be the perfect challenge for YOU!

I will say that when I create something, it's usually with purpose. So I don't really have a lot of those "pieces of parts" I was talking about. Most stampers/crafters have some kind of pile they keep these things in...not me. I just don't have stuff like that. If it's too small for me to re-use I just toss in my recycle bin. Sounds wasteful, but I'd rather get rid of it then keep a pile I *know* I won't use. Is that weird?

Anyway, one of the Un-Finished Objects I DID find was some teeny canvases I had purchased after attending a Tim Holtz workshop. I had even gessoed 3 of them. Have absolutely NO clue what I had intended to use them for, though. Got as far as the gesso and then promptly forgot about them...until now.

I decided I'd use those 3 little canvases and make a triptych. Had a blast making it, too!

sentiment reads: inspiration comes from within... ♥ (Click for a larger view)

Isn't that fun? I just painted them each in a different color paint (since they were already gessoed) and then got a HUGE foam stamp, lined them up, and stamped with paint on top of all 3. Added my fancy label-maker sentiment and other small accessories and... VOILA! The hardest part of the whole thing was the eye-hooks and jump-rings. I hand-painted those to match with a black Copic marker. Give a triptych a try sometime. These are fun AND easy to make.

Join the Shopping Our Stash crew this week and dig around for your own Un-Finished Objects to finish up. Then be sure to link up your blog post with the Inlinkz linky frog. Be sure to check out the rest of the SOS DT for even more inspiration.

Have a great week!


{Supplies:
Canvas: 2.5 x 3.5" canvas (Blick's Art Supplies)
Paint: Quinacridone magenta, Phthalo blue - red shade, Hansa yellow medium (Golden), Pearl acrylic paint (Adirondack)
Stamps: Flower foam stamp (Donna Downey)
Accessories: Metal corners, film strip ribbon, jump-rings (Tim Holtz for Ideaology), label maker (Dymo), eye hooks (Darice), black Copic Marker (.Too)}


All my best,

Jingle Belles - We Three Kings (JB22)

Yay!! Time for another card for the Jingle Belles challenge!! :) I am so NOT gonna be sitting around come December stressing out over making cards. Woooo-hooo!

This week's challenge comes from another guest designer, Julie Tucker-Wolek. Please visit her on her blog at Life with the Tucker & Wolek Clan.

The challenge is Three Kings: " ... we want to see three (or more) different pieces of patterned paper in your card design this week."

THAT, I can most certainly do! :)

 

Lots of layery goodness! All the patterned paper is from My Minds' Eye and their "I Believe" collection. Love that line. So many of the papers have gorgeous, shimmery bits!  So pretty. Click on the pic above to see it larger...it's worth it.

Hope you all have been playing along with the Jingle Belles. This is such a fun challenge!! And speaking of challenges...don't forget the SOS Challenge #2! It's the post right below this one. :)

Have a great week!

{Supplies:
Paper: Cardstock (Stampin' Up - brown), (Gina K Designs - white), Patterned Paper - I Believe Collection (My Minds' Eye)
Ink: None
Stamps: None
Die-Cutting/Embossing: Seeing Spots Cuttlebug Folder (ProvoCraft), Simply Scallops, Double Scallop Border & Faux Crochet Border Die-Namics (My Favorite Things)
Accessories: Thickers Letter Stickers (American Crafts), Ribbon (Stampin' Up), Capuccino Baker's Twine (The Twinery), Button (Basic Grey).}


All my best,

Shopping Our Stash - Oldies But Goodies!

Hi there! Welcome to another fun challenge with Shopping Our Stash. Hope everyone had a lovely Memorial Day weekend (my U.S. followers) and that some of you participated in the OWH Blog Hop (always a good time and a great cause!).

This week's awesome challenge with SOS is "Oldies but Goodies"! So dig out the absolute oldest stamp (or digi-stamp) you have and ink that baby up! Show it some love and let's see what you can do. :)

Here's the card I made from one of the very first stamp sets I ever bought.

I can't even remember WHERE I bought it, but the copyright date on the back says 2003. Now, I didn't start stamping until 2007-08, so this one's an oldie but a goodie. And, I remember the rubber being unmounted/uncut and having no clue what to do with it. How funny!

Here's a look at the set in the box:

I wonder if Plaid is still making that set? ;) And, no...my sentiment isn't old. It's new. It's Lawn Fawn. But I don't have any old sentiments that aren't Christmas. HAHHA!!

Can't wait to see what everyone digs up to make an "Oldie but Goodie" card. Make sure to link up at the SOS Challenge blog and to check out all the rest of the Design Team, too. Their blogs are on my sidebar, over ---> there.

Have a great week!

{Supplies:
Paper: Cardstock (Stampin' Up)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
Stamps: Bouquet (Plaid Enterprises, Inc), Sophie's Sentiments (Lawn Fawn)
Die-Cutting/Embossing: Petite Oval Nestabilities (Spellbinders)
Accessories: Colored Pencils (Prismacolor), White Gel Pen (Ranger), Ribbon, Pearls (Stampin' Up!), Staples (Tim Holtz for Ideaology)}


All my best,