Reindeer Card

Good Wednesday morning to you all!!!! I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving!!! 

Today I am sharing with you my Shop Pumpkin Spice card! I really like it for some reason and I hope you do too!!! 

The reindeer are embossed. It's kind of hard to see in this photo, but they are swirly. :)

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Cricut Christmas Solutions™
• Cuttlebug Emboss Folder: D'vine Swirl™
• Patterned Paper:
• Echo Park Paper: Season's Greetings "Christmas Ads"™ (newspaper)
• Solid Paper:
• Echo Park Paper: Season's Greetings "Green/DarkRed"™
• Echo Park Paper: Season's Greetings "Red/Cream"™
• Echo Park Paper: Season's Greetings "Teal/Dark Green"™
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Hot Rock Compact in Jewel™
• Twine: My Mind's Eye: Holly Jolly Decorative Trims™
• White Gel Pen
• Ivory Ribbon: PTI

We have our Shop Pumpkin Spice Blog Hop this weekend! The DT call will be officially announced then!

Honey Bee Showcase- Jingle Belles Christmas Card!

Welcome to this fabulous Wednesday! 

Today we Honeybees are cross-pollinating (get it!?!) with the Jingle Belles thanks to my fabulously sweet friend June!! She is a guest designer for them and we have Lauren who guest designed on Monday for us! They are a couple of ladies dedicated to making Christmas cards all year long so that it doesn't overwhelm you come holiday season! So they have a different challenge every week. This week's challenge is to use a die cut! Mine is of course Cricut made! Hop over to Jingle Belles to play along and hop over to Betty Bee's Buzz to play with us too! Two chances to win! :) 

I have been doing SO much crafting recently and just keep thinking about how blessed I am that I have such a supportive and encouraging group of friends and family! That includes YOU out there in bloggy world! 

SORRY! OUT FOR PUBLICATION! :) 

The picture above didn't show the Glossy Accents so I went to take another picture and accidentally hit the button and this picture resulted and for some reason I really like it! :) 

SORRY! OUT FOR PUBLICATION! :) 

ALL that you see that made up my card came from PUMPKIN SPICE except for the twine, glossy accents, liquid applique, cartridge, and embossing folder. But all of the paper and embellishments came from the two My Mind's Eye Christmas lines from last year and they are both on sale at Pumpkin Spice along with Meadowlark!

SORRY! OUT FOR PUBLICATION! :) 

Now hop on over to Betty Bee's Buzz and Jingle Belles too and play along with us! I thought I would have a hard time getting in the Christmas mood, but I had a blast making this card! 

Noel banner and super big news coming up!

Hello everyone!!!

I am SO super excited about things coming up but I can't tell you about them just yet... but I will be able to soon and I think you will be excited too!

I am sure you have seen my new blog background and I now have a blinkie! It's over there ------->. Please let me know if you put it on your blog. I would love to come see it and say hello! It was all done by the fabulous (and incredibly prompt) Yvonne! Thank you! 

Don't forget there is a blog hop coming up on December 30th and 31st - the Rockin' New Year hop! Of course there will be giveaways! 

Everything you see is from Pumpkin Spice except for the ribbons - which were off our wedding presents two years ago!

Recipe:

Cartridge: Winter Woodland™

My Mind's Eye: Holly Jolly "Winter Branches", "Jolly Old St. Nick" (reverse side), "Deck the Halls" (all the scalloped circles)

My Mind's Eye "Holly Jolly" Adhesive Chipboard Elements™

My Mind's Eye "Holly Jolly" Coordinating Decorative Trims™

Here are some close-ups:

She has the whole set of papers + accessory sheet HERE for $6.29! I love this paper and there is still so much left! Pop on over as she has extended the free priority shipping over $50! Use the coupon code "ShippedBySanta". She also has all of the My Pink Stamper stamps which is how I found her in the first place! Love them! 

I hope everyone is getting everything done! I still have a few gifts to wrap! Eek! I better get off the computer and get to it! Hugs to all!

Echo Park Feature - Christmas Tag

I turned in a tag that could be used on Echo Park Paper's 12 days of Christmas countdown. They were asking for submissions and you wouldn't know if you were selected until it was posted! I am VERY excited to tell you that this morning I opened up their blog post and saw my Christmas tag using their Merry Christmas Line! 

THANK YOU Echo Park Paper for thinking my Christmas tag was good enough to be showcased! :) 

Recipe:
Echo Park Paper Merry Christmas Line™
Stamps: "To and From" are from MME: Holly Jolly Perfect Stamps™, "Merry Christmas" is Inkadinkado™ "Ornate Christmas"
Ink: Momento™
Adhesive: Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™
Ribbon, buttons, and twine: PTI™
Jingle bell is from Michaels™

Have a great Tuesday everyone! This definitely just made my week! 

Day 6 - Christmas Tags!

Courtney Lee

Good Afternoon! I hope you enjoyed this morning's post on tags over at Passionately Artistic! This is day 6 and I am the afternoon Tags post! :) This is my last post for the 12 days of Christmas series, but continue to head on over there for inspiration!  

My goal with this tutorial was to show a variety. A lot of times, I see something that I wanted to create, but I don't have the cartridge or the resources. 

Different Cartridges

Tie the Knot, Winter Woodland, Storybook, Gypsy Wanderings 

Using your Gypsy

I will show you how to make something truly unique with your Gypsy. 

No Cricut, No Cuttlebug, No Gypsy - just Scissors! 

Lastly, I will show you some tags that I did without any Gypsy, Cuttlebug, OR Cricut so that there should be inspiration here for anyone! :) 

Recipe:
Cartridge: Tie the Knot™
Base tag- 3.25"
rest - 2.5"
Stamper's Select White from Paper Trey Ink™ - heat embossed with a la Mode™ white
Martha Stewart Scandinavian Paper Pad ™ and Martha Stewart Winter Wonderland Paper Pad™
i-rock and bling by Imaginisce™
Glossy Accents
Pop Dots
Ribbon: Paper Trey Ink Saddle Stitch in Pure Poppy™

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Recipe:
Cartridge: Winter Woodland™ - all images cut at 3.25"
Martha Stewart Scandinavian Paper Pad ™, American Crafts Glitter Card Stock™
Paper Trey Ink Button Twine™
Ribbon from my stash

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Gypsy Fun making Tags!

Recipe:
Cartridge: Gypsy Wanderings™
Tag was cut at 3.75"
Snowflake and shadow cut at 2"
Accordion underneath the snowflake was cut at 1.5x12".
Martha Stewart Scandinavian Paper Pad ™, Martha Stewart Winter Wonderland Paper Pad™
Button from Paper Trey Ink Vintage Holiday Mix™
Button Twine from Paper Trey Ink™
Jingle bell from Michaels

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Another tag made with the aid of the Gypsy using Winter Woodland™

Recipe:
Cartridge: Winter Woodland™
Martha Stewart Winter Wonderland Paper Pad™, Martha Stewart Scandinavian Paper Pad ™
Liquid Applique in White
Pop-dots
White Gel Pen™
Saddle Stitch Ribbon in Pure Poppy from Paper Trey Ink™

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This last Cricut tag was two images welded together. I liked the holes it created in the middle. I cut the flourish again to place it on top. I used my i-rock to add bling and I heat embossed the "To" and "From" with gold embossing powder. 

Recipe:
Tag from Tie the Knot™
Flourish from Storybook™
i-rock and bling by Imaginisce™
Martha Stewart Scandinavian Paper Pad ™
Gold embossing powder by Filigree from Paper Trey Ink™
My Mind's Eye: Holly Jolly Perfect Stamps™

No Cricut, No Gypsy, No Cuttlebug - just manufacturer love. :) 

Sometimes we get so caught up in what a tag could look like on our layouts or cards that we just forget to use them as... well... tags.

I LOVE Echo Park Paper™ and the Merry Christmas line is fabulous. I just took these stickers, stuck them to card stock, cut it out, punched a hole on the the top, i-rocked some bling and tied a ribbon. Done. I am going to stamp a "To, From" onto the back. Easy Peasy. 

Recipe:
Echo Park Paper Merry Christmas line Stickers™
i-rock and bling by Imaginisce™
Gold bows were recycled off the top of a smoked almond package! (yay for up-cylcing!)

For this next one, I just took the My Mind's Eye: I Believe Chipboard and popped it out of it's little home. I added some green ribbon and - my favorite part - since it already has an adhesive back, it will stick right onto your gift! Done! AND it already is glittered - love that.

 Recipe: My Mind's Eye: I Believe Chipboard™

Next up we have the EAD Design Stickers. I had a bunch of fun with these. I stuck them to white card stock, cut them out, punched a hole in the top, added Stickles, and tied some twine at the top. 

The best part about EAD Designs is that this sticker set comes with cute little "To: From:" stickers as well. I put these on the back, but forgot to take a picture! So you'll have to go check out their website to see how cute the font is because I love it! 

Recipe: EAD Design Christmas Tags™
Stickles in Waterfall™ - the manufacturer pic looks like it is purple, but trust me, it's blue.
Stickles in Christmas Red™

I hope this inspires you to make your own Christmas tags this year! 

Don't forget to leave me a comment and become a follower if you're inspired! :)