Can you Case It? with Freshly Made Sketches

Hello stampers,

It is so close to Christmas, I can hardly stand it!  I almost have all of the Christmas shopping done, the wrapping will soon begin and our Elf on the Shelf has been in almost every spot he possibly can!

So, of course, I have a Christmas card to show you today. I used 2 challenges to help me create this beautiful card, Can you Case it? and Freshly Made Sketches! They both have very similar sketches and that made this card REALLY easy to create.  I took along with me to my most recent TV appearance with Roger's Daytime.  We had a ton of fun, but I will tell you more about that later in the week.

First, here are the sketches...

 

 

 And, here is my card......

A very traditional card....don't you think?  When I saw these sketches I knew I wanted to use one of my newest tools - the Festive Flower Builder Punch.  This flower is surprisingly easy to create.  I first punched all the petals, as well as a 3/4 circle that you can't see in the picture, all out of Real Red cardstock.  Then, I stamped the flower pieces with the coordinating stamspet, Reason for the Season, also in Real Red.  The flower center is punched out of a scrap piece of yellow cardstock.  The circle is used as a base for the flower to be assembled upon.  I used my Tombo glue to put it all together.

My greeting is from Versatile Christmas and the DSP is from the Season of Cheer package.

Thanks for joining me today.  Be sure to stop by Can you Case it? and Freshly Made Sketches to see all of the wonderful inspiration there.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

 

Happy 95th!

Hey there Stampers!


I have a really fun card for you today and I can't wait to share it with you, but first I will share with you how I came to create it.


My good friend, Kyla, opened a flower shop about a year ago and she asked me if I would sell my cards in her store!  I was thrilled and of course said yes!  I have been selling my cards there ever since.  A few weeks ago a customer was looking for 2 specialty cards to give to someone who was turning 95, so she gave me a call.  Yah!  I took down all the details and got to work!


I knew that it was a fall birthday, that she wanted '95' on the cards and she just loved all of the other things that I had made - no pressure!  ;)


So here is one of the cards I came up with.....

I wanted to incorporate a little sunflower (the flower of fall in my mind) some wood grain stamping and some wonderful fall colours - that plaid pattern was a great touch too!

I was really pleased with how it all turned out.  My customer loved it too!

Thank you for stopping by!  Happy Stampin'

Tammy

 

Birthday with The Paper Players Challenge #239

Hi there!

So glad you stopped by today.  I have a birthday card that I made using the great theme challenge over at The Paper Players!  Be sure to stop on over to check out all of the great cards made using this challenge.  You can do that here.

Their challenge was an easy one to partake in...the challenge was to use a die cut!  Done! I just love my Big Shot - the best tool I own!

 I wanted something really pretty and so chose to use Blushing Bride cardstock, DSP and Ink.  Perfect for a girl friend's birthday.

I also wanted to use some of that yummy Chalkboard cardstock with the chalk ink from the new Occasions Catalogue - a perfect match for the Blushing Bride.  My Banner framelits are my framelit of choice for the pretty card and to meet challenge.  My greeting comes from the Sassy Salutations stampset, which I thought looked great in the chalk ink!

And, to pretty this up a little bit more, I used the matching Flower Medallion Punch and Petal Potpourri stampset.  I then took my baker's twine and added a sweet little bow to finish it off.  

I just love how this turned out!  

 

I hope you like my card and that you found a little 'Inkspiration' along the way!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy