Vikki's Paper Trail: December 2018

Saturday, December 29, 2018

Holiday cards

It's the end of another year and many bloggers and Instagram posters are sharing their top projects. I've not shared the following cards this season because I wanted to make sure the recipient saw their card before it was shared here and my Instagram "grammylovesherboys" spot.

Distress Ink Oxide blended background grounded the Hero Arts October MMH kit figures and sentiment. I used Copics on the fawn and Altenew's watercolors on the tree which was embossed first in white. This happens to be in my top five favorite cards of the season mostly due to the background and tree.
Linked to A Blog Named Hero Challenge: Winter

PTI's Botanical Blocks IV poinsettia and sentiment were embossed in gold, flowers colored with Altenew watercolors and framed with a PTI Pierced Feature Frame cut from wood pattern paper which was added to a dark green card.

These two cards were cased from Karen's Random Reflections card shared earlier this month. I silver embossed an old 2011 Penny Black "Adorned Tree" twice on PTI weathervane paper. One panel was cut with PTI's Scallop Stacker: Large die and the other with PTI's Mix & Mat: Plaid die. A PTI Peace sentiment was silver embossed on vellum with the strip tucked around the panels before gluing to a silver shimmer paper covering white side-folding cards.

An old wood Hero Arts Christmas stamp was inked with navy ink, spritzed with water and stamped on a panel shared by Greta recently and glued to a navy card front. PTI Christmas Faith sentiment was added. I made a variety of this card for our church friends with "Christ is Born" inside. Linked to A Blog Named Hero Challenge: Winter

The final card of this post uses funky Distress Ink oxide colors and a new Tim Holtz tree stencil. The PTI Treetops Glisten sentiment was white embossed on aqua paper and backed with a vellum PTI Tag Sale #12 die. "Stella" did a lot of winking on the sentiment stitched circle. The stenciled panel and tag were added to a mint green card. Linked to

SSW Challenge: Anything Goes

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Happy New Year

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Many Thanks

Papertrey Ink December Blog Hop Challenge

It may be December but PTI's inspiration photo looks

forward to card crafters next holiday focus - Valentines Day.

I think it's time to grab my embroidery thread and fabric again

as this photo reminded me of my first love of handiwork.

I decided to build a wreath thank you note. The long swag from PTI's older Make it Market: Holiday Folk kit was stamped in classic kraft and olive twist inks to form a heart wreath. Tiny pink dots, light green leaves, and two different Friendship Jar Flowers dies finished the decor. Penned Elegance II provided the sentiment. The wreath was stamped on a Scallop Stackers: Small panel given to me by my friend Greta and glued to a soft stone pattern paper covering a white A2 card.

I'm barely making it into this month's PTI Blog Hop

With our son on the road back to his home, I plan to tour

the other hop entries. Thank you for stopping by to visit.

Sunday, December 9, 2018

Joy

"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"

I love Christmas music! Any other time of the year canned music irritates me but not in December. When browsing in a store, I hum and sing along with the tunes playing over the speakers. I can't help myself. Not having any large Christmas sentiments, I chose my new-to-me Enclosed: Bell with the "Joy" sentiment for this week's MIM #344: Deck Your Dies inspired by the incomparable Melissa Phillips. A piece of white card stock was covered with several Heidi Swapp gold washi tapes and the solid bell cut from it. The top bell outline with "Joy" was cut from textured gold paper. The bell hangs from a Pierced Feature Frame which was cut three times, the top layer from cream shimmer paper. A Holiday Greens border was stamped with Delicata Golden Glitz ink on the card front within the confines of the frame before the frame and bell were attached. This was a quick and easy card!

PTI Card Supplies:

Stamp: Holiday Greens Borders

Dies: Enclosed: Bell; Pierced Feature Frames

Linked also to Time Out: #124

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grammylovesherboys

Saturday, December 8, 2018

Christmas poinsettias

I have eyed the Hero Arts Color Layering Poinsettia for awhile and on a recent sale ordered both the stamp and die sets. These two cards use the set in different orientations and colors along with help from a variety of paper crafting companies.

Card #1

I cut two Altenew Cozy Flannel Cover dies from white 110 lb. card stock and backed them with a dotted pattern paper from MME Christmas (very old stash) which was directly glued to an A2 white card. The poinsettias were stamped with DI inks, centers dotted with gold stickles and added to the card fronts.
Card #1 with a horizontal profile has one poinsettia which was accidentally gold embossed before the previous layer dried thus covering almost the entire surface with gold instead of only the veins of the leaves. So it was tucked under the pinkish red bloom on the left side of the card and the tiny "peace" and "joy" words from PTI's Winter Fox were stamped vertically on the white plaid squares.
Card #2 uses a vertical orientation with one bloom and its leaves smudged with Nuvo Gold Expanding Mousse. A PTI "joy" die was cut from gold paper and added at the bottom of the card.

Linking Card #2 to Time Out Challenge #124

Card #2

My mother's oldest sister turned 91 today. Many of my aunt and uncles celebrate birthdays this month so I'm always looking for new ideas. The HA Color Layering Poinsettia was used again in soft red and pink inks and gold embossing on the sentiment. I stamped two blooms with red inks and fussy cut only the center leaves on one to add an extra layer to the other. Again gold stickles were used for the flower centers. Concord & 9th's Tree Ring was stamped on a white SSS stitched rectangle panel providing a base for the blooms. The panel was added to a pale pink card front. The birthday card linked to SSS Monday Challenge "B is for ?" - birthday in this case.