Water Color Fun

With Water Color Die Cuts

And the January Stamp of the Month Card Captions

The Water Color Die Cuts are colored with the Sugarplum Shimmer Brush, water color pencils, and Clear Shimmer Brush. View the Shimmer Brush Video HERE. The card pattern is pattern #7 in the Make It From Your Heart Vol IV.

To view more Water Color Cards go HERE

Christmas Tags

Going Vintage This Year

Every year I make homemade decorations at Christmas. This started when my first born was crawling and wanted to eat the ornaments on the tree. All ornaments had to be safe if put in the mouth. I have continued making homemade Christmas decorations all through the 47 years of marriage.

This year I decided to go vintage with all my best vintage decorations. I wanted to make some vintage tags to adorn my Christmas packages. The color dare this week at Color My Heart worked perfectly into my plan. The vintage colors: Cocoa, Cashmere, Cranberry, and Fern.

First Set: Making vintage tags is easy as 1-2-3

1. Cut tag shape using cashmere CS and sand to get the worn look

2. Stamp a background with Cocoa ink or tone on tone Cashmere ink

3. Add your vintage embellishments (see suggested list below)

Second Set: Making vintage tags is easy as 1-2-3

1. Cut white Daisy tag and brayer with cashmere ink.

2. Stamp a background with Cocoa ink or tone on tone Cashmere ink.

3. Add your vintage embellishments (see suggested list below)

Suggested vintage embellishments:

Lace, twine, gingham ribbon, seam binding ribbon

Antique gold or brass hardware

Silk flowers, opaques, charms, brad accents, antique buttons

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: White Pines

Cardstock: White Daisy, Cashmere

Stamps: vintage sets through the years

Ink: Cocoa, Cashmere, Cranberry, Fern

Embellishments: Assorted vintage embellishments from my stash

A "No Stamping" Challenge

At Heart 2 Heart

Most of the time when I make a Cricut project with no stamping it just look too naked. So for me a Cricut project was not going to work for this challenge. So I decided to use the My Crush Holiday Happenings Assortment cards. The assortment comes with 4 X 6 cards, 3 X 4 cards, 2 X 2 cards, stickers, alphabet stickers, and envelopes. Easy ingredients to make some fun tags for this Heart 2 Heart challenge.

A 3 X 4 card with a sticker tag at the top. The trees are triangle shapes cut from one of the 2 X 2 cards

Added some holly leaves and a My Crush Holiday Badge Button to make this Merry Happy Holiday tag.

A 3 X 4 card with a 2 X 2 card centered in the banner. Added a sticker tag with some more cut trees and some banners off to the side made using one of the stickers.

A 3 X 4 card with a 2 X 2 card with "joy and peace" make from alphabet stickers. Added a little lace, ribbon, sequins and holly leaves to complete this fun tag. 

With the assortment of cards in the My Crush Holiday Assortment the mixing and matching designs are endless. You can view more Holiday tags Here as well as Gift card holders.

Share your "No Stamping" project with us at Heart 2 Heart.

CTMH Supplies:

Tags: My Crush Holiday Assortment

Embellishments: Sequins, Sparkles, Glitter Gems, Epoxy Hearts, Bakers Twine, Holiday Badge Buttons

Other: Assorted lace and ribbon from stash

Shabby Chic Time

At Heart 2 Heart

Shabby chic gives the appearance of age and signs of wear. 

To get that look I used some old fashioned lace looking paper, 

some cracked paper and lots of distressing on all other pieces.

Shabby Chic creations give me a chance to use up my recycled items 

that have been piling up through time. When ever I have a card that 

doesn't sell after three tries I just pull off all the embellishments and 

toss the card in the circular file. The embellishments are deposited 

in a container to be used another day. Ah...shabby chic time. Time to

get the container of used embellishments to recycle on a shabby chic card. 

To give an updated look I used a new stamp set along with new paper packs.

Be sure to share your idea of shabby chic with us at Heart 2 Heart.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Balloon Ride, Skylark, Frosted

Cardstock: Colonial White, Cocoa

Stamps: Dreamer, Believe in Yourself, Universal Backgrounds

Ink: Cocoa, Sorbet, Desert Sand

Embellishments: Recycled from the past

Pattern: Wishes "Midpoint"

Christmas in July

Sonoma Meets the Challenge

Our soon to be retired paper pack Sonoma makes great vintage Christmas cards. 

This card design is inspired by this week's Challenge at Heart 2 Heart: Line, Line, Circle Square. 

Line: Stamped lace image

Line: cocoa satin ribbon

Circle: Brass button

Square: Sentiment stamped on the nativity scene.

Hint: When making vintage cards use some vintage materials: distressed papers, satin ribbons, 

brass or old buttons, curled edges, torn edges, Cocoa and Bamboo inks.

Now it's your turn to show us your Line, Line, circle Square at Heart 2 Heart.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Sonoma

Cardstock: Colonial White, Bamboo

Ink: Cocoa, Bamboo

Stamps: Lovely Lace, Glory to God, Everlasting Life

Embellishments: Cocoa Ribbon, Bohemian Assortment, Hemp, Mini Opaques

Last Vintage Card

Last vintage card made with Jeanette's Color Me Monday. I had fun. Hope you are too.

Crinkled CS, satin ribbon, and pearls set this card off.

See you tomorrow with the new colors: crystal blue, outdoor denim, cocoa and sorbet.

Two More Days of Vintage

Jeanette's vintage colors go great with the Vintage Christmas stamp set. A little Olive tree, Barn Red Merry Christmas, distressed Cocoa and Dessert Sand CS with crinkled Colonial White CS give this card a nice look. Add some cocoa ribbon, a tea stained crocheted flower with a pearl and ink the torn edges with Dessert Sand ink. So many possibilities with vintage.

Vintage Vintage Vintage

Fun, Fun, Fun! Love the vintage look. Thanks Jeanette for your colors.

This card has 3rd generation Cocoa Lacey Snowflakes in the background. Stamp your sentiment, add some holly and berries and a satin ribbon and you're all set. Desert Sand stamped on Bamboo CS with Lovely Lace makes the border on the edge of the sentiment piece. Hope you're giving this a try if like vintage.

Another Vintage Card

The Baroque Alphabet spells NOEL. Add a flower, a pearl, a satin ribbon and Jeanette's vintage colors and you have a vintage Card.

Another Vintage Card

Another vintage card inspired by Jeanette's Color Me Monday. Vintage is my favorite so I really had fun making these cards. Come back tomorrow for more.

That Vintage Look

If you like the vintage look then I have some cards for you. Thanks to Jeanette and her Color Me Monday inspiration had me creating. I used paper scraps, a flower punch and a border punch to make this easy card. Check back tomorrow to see card #2.

Wednesday Wishes Meets Color Me Monday

My first look at these colors immediately made me think of Christmas. I have been working on the cards for the Christmas Card Workshop so naturally I had Christmas on my mind when these colors popped up on Jeanette's blog. After looking over my Wednesday Wishes history I discovered I don't have many more designs to choose from before I will need to duplicate.

This time I decided to make some round card designs. I made the round cards according to the blue prints in Wishes and then attached them to the front of a 4.75 square card so they will fit perfectly into a CD envelope. For more ideas using this concept see You Spin Me Right 'Round (July 22) on Jeanette's blog.

These two cards are "Timeless Trio" and "Side Note" from Wishes. I used Vintage Christmas(D1166) and the new Card Chatter-Christmas(D1388). The New England Ivy is the 4.75 square card base, the holly leaves ink and the button. Cranberry is the berry ink, button, and ribbon. the Sweet Leaf is the btp from Boom-Di-Ada and the Desert Sand is card stock, ink and btp from Simple Pleasures.

Wednesday Wishes Meets Color me Monday

Oh boy, these colors were interesting and challenging. Not a color combination that I would ever think of. Jeanette is definitely inspiring. I used Jeanette's (http://www.jeanettelynton.com/) vintage look by using the Vintage Travel paper pack with the Bella paper pack. Also, using the pewter embellishments accents the vintage look.

These designs from Wishes are "Sentiment Secured" and "Designer Tag."

Don't forget to enter the drawing for the free card set (Posted May 31) by leaving me a comment. Every comment will have an entry, so comment as many times as you wish. Thanks.