SPDMIU26 - Thanks

We are carrying on with Anything Goes this month at Sugar Pea Designs!

I used repeat stamping (and my MISTI to keep everything straight and evenly spaced!) to create a fun, festive thank you card.

I used:
Thanks die
Beautiful Bauble
Sweet Treats Christmas

AJVD - Love

Today's my final post as GD at A Jillian Vance Design. Pop over for more details about this card!

FS516 - Great Joy

Congratulations to this week's Splitcoaststampers Featured Stamper, DCinkit. I chose
this card as my inspiration:

I focused on:
-star theme
-sentiment inside the star
-ink technique

I changed:
-season
-colours
-brought my watercolour to the front

I created a night sky on watercolour cardstock similar to Friday's card, but this time with distress inks, shimmer spray and silver stickles.

I used:
-A Jillian Vance Design Christmas Star Sentiments
-A Jillian Vance Design Stitched Dot Stars dies
-Papertrey Ink Flourish
-Distress Ink

Church Christmas Card Project Day 10 - O Holy Night

My final Church Christmas Card for this year was completely cased from Helen G. I've been wanting to make a galaxy sky all year, and practised a bit while we were at the Lake House in October. I made 32 of these. I used distress ink and water for the sky and then embossed the star and Taylored Expressions sentiment in gold.

Muse 197 - Happy New Year!

For this week's Muse Challenge, Jenni gave us a scenic New Year's card:

I focused on Jenni's:
-New Year's theme
-partially embellished die cut
-blue background
-yellow 'spots'
-black sentiment

I die cut the happy and partially covered it with Versamark ink before embossing with Enchanted Gold embossing powder.

I watercoloured the background including some gold spatter before stamping the rest of the sentiment in Versafine Onyx.

I used:
-Winnie & Walter Happy die
-Concord & 9th Happy Words
-Kuretake Gansai Tambi

Church Christmas Card Project Day 9 - Merry

For the past number of years, I have made photo Christmas Cards for a friend. She has decided this is the final year, so we wanted to design something really special.

When she showed me the photo for this year, I loved the black and white and the length of the layout. I suggested that we take advantage of that and make a long card that would fit into a red, No 10 envelope.

We decided on a rich red, sparkly silver and white colour scheme. I made 80 of these - the most labour-intensive part was the tag, but using a MISTI made it go fairly quickly.

I used
-Papertrey Merry die
-MFT stitched tag die
-Concord & 9th Perfectly Penned (which already had a 'from the' as part of another stamp)

SPDMIU27 - It's your Birthday!

Time for the next SugarPea Designs Mix it Up Challenge and again it's Anything Goes!


I think this is one of my all-time favourite SPD images - he is so happy and full of energy and he's just perfect for a masculine birthday card! He's from Every Day is Christmas. I love the idea of having a Christmas set that you can use all year long and for many non-Christmas occasions.

I stamped and coloured him with copics and added a sentiment from Celebrate All the Things. I finished the card by masking and sponging some spotlights to add to the celebratory feel!