Christmas Wishes

Make it Monday #301:

Matting with Glitter

Ooh, am I out of my comfort zone this week with the MIM challenge.

Check out Lizzie's glitter tips

My roadblock for this challenge was the need for adhesive sheets which I have not purchased. When another challenge entry noted using score tape to create her mat, a light bulb turned on! Yay,  I have a narrow-width score tape roll and also unused MS glitter. And the card below is the result.

I white-embossed a tree on PTI dotted vellum and adhered it to a previously water-colored

rectangle. I carefully applied the score tape to the edges and glittered away, combining both
baby blue and lime green MS glitters. Voila! a glitter mat for plain-old-card-making me to
share this season! I added fun foam on the back before mounting it on another water color
paper rectangle. This panel was adhered to an aqua card. 

PTI Stamp & Die: Make It Market : Holiday Folk, Botanical Block IV

Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle die,  Hero Arts Navy ink

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Every leaf

Papertrey October Blog Hop Challenge

This is our stunning inspiration!! 

I love the variety of images and plan to refer back to it often.

I am not a watercolorist. You would know if I shared my attempts at some of these squares.

This time of year I love seeing trees and leaves and decided my inspiration choice would the

 third rows' tree. I found the older cover plate Mighty Oak and played with it. Its leaves were

were too large for my design though so Oopsie Daisy die cut petals, sponged with various 

autumn colors, rescued the situation. The tree was grounded in the confines of a blue Mix 

& Mat: Flourishes die frame and a Mighty Oak sentiment represents the hill. 

Drop by Capture the Moment's blog to see all the entries~
I plan to hop throughout the day also. 

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Christmas Card Trio

Make It Monday #300:
Build-a-Wreath

 Melissa shared several ideas for creating wreaths

on her blog for last week's MIM challenge. 

Here are my very late entries for the challenge.

I first stamped Twig Wreath in Soft Stone ink on the tag, placed a white embossed TW die cut over it and added stamped leaf and pine boughs. 

All Papertrey Ink Stamps & Dies unless noted:

Bells & Boughs, Tag Sale: Quilted, Tinsel & Tags Sprigs, 'Tis the Season, Twig Wreath

Misc: PTI Tinsel & Tags pattern paper; Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangles die

Linked to: Make it Monday #300

Autumn wishes

Just a quick drop in as it's almost the 

last day for Darnell's 12th NBUS Challenge

If you don't know NBUS = "Never Been Used Before"

Both the frame and the stamps are new to me this summer. 

(Oops! I lied. The grass was stamped with an old wood stamp)

I fussy cut the pumpkins as my order from PTI had not arrived 

with the dies. The scarecrow was colored with copic markers.

PTI Stamp: Autumn Scarecrow

PTI Die: Infinity Frames

I fell in love with Heather Nichol's funny scarecrow 

and have several panels ready to color some October 

evening while watching the baseball playoffs. 

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