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Thursday Link Love

Another week of skipping through blogland:

• this Rainbow Leaf Layout is stunning
• are you a Christmas Cookie baker
• Vintage Christmas Images
• Chewy Pecan Pie Bars
• how to make your own Paint Pour Ornaments (think of the color combination possibilities)
• love this Curtain made of Photo Slides
• Caramel Apple Dump Cake
• do you have a Happy List
• Drop Biscuits with Honey Butter
• how cute is this Package Wreath (shown)
• Advent Calendar Ideas 
• How beautiful is this Midnight Cake ... always love fresh figs

Have a tremendous Thursday!

Technique Junkies Tags of Christmas

Today at the Technique Junkies Blog I'm doing a Mash-Up of the 25 Tags of Christmas Tags and the Technique Junkies 30 Days of Christmas ... using my Technique Junkies stamps to make two inspired tags.  Here is a peek at one of my tags inspired by Tracey McNeely herself.

 

Remember, all Christmas stamps are 20% off (and you can use my discount code TJ10Stephanie for another 10% off your order).

 

Birthday Time

I needed some birthday cards, so I decided to do some paper-crafting with Birthday papers from my stash.

The first one uses a sketch from Crazy 4 Challenges.  I used Essentials by Ellen Landscapes die to cut my cardstock curve.

 

I added the trio of embellishments to the left side of my panel because there was more empty space.  The sentiment on the bottom is a sticker (love my stickers).

 

The second card uses a sketch from Feeling Sketchy.

 

The circles are a new Stylish Frame Trio from Memory Box ... quick, easy and used a lot of paper scraps, which is always a good thing.

 

Christmas Sprig Tree

From Day 15 of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags, I fell in love with Tracey McNeely's Christmas Tree Tag.

 

I loved the unexpected colors and how they contrasted perfectly with the dark sentiment.

I used one of the sets of leaves from Penny Black's Christmas Sprigs and stamped it in various sherbet colors on white cardstock.

 

I die cut my tree and then added three Holiday Word Sentiment Stickers and some ribbon.  I photographed my tag before I attached it to the card base ... then somehow I managed to lose my photo card (still can't find it).  How I lose things on a 5 foot walk, I have no idea ... so I took another picture with my phone and called it good.  Thanks Tracey for the inspiration.

I'm also linking-up at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge where the optional theme is Tags.  It's also perfect for the Penny Black and More Challenge where the theme is Christmas.

Friend as Wonderful as Me

The current Challenge at Unity Stamp Company is Grounding with Supplies ... using your supplies to ground a floating image.

I stamped the lady from Unity's Damn Girl in grey ink on ivory cardstock and used a variety of Washi Tape (and one piece of cardstock to provide the opaque layer I needed right under her body) to ground her.

 

One of the Washi Tapes had a thin row of Pink, so I colored her hat the same color using markers.  I finished with a banner sentiment from the same set.  Fun card to make ... now who to send it to???

 

Boho Medallion Birthday

For the strip in this week's CAS(e) this Sketch!, I decided to mask an ivory card base with painter's tape and use two colors of Distress Ink (Spiced Marmalade and Mustard Seed) with the Boho Medallion Stencil from A Colorful Life Designs (you get 10% off your order with my code TJ10Stephanie).

 

 

The die cut sentiment is from Happy Birthday Words from Hello Bluebird ... love the two different fonts.   This would make a fun card set using different color combinations.

 

All the Joys of the Season

I wanted to go back and make a card for Day 3 of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags.  I loved the contrast of the black, red & gold on these wonderful tags by Jennifer Jackson.

 

I went hunting for a black plaid, but instead used this black poinsettia paper paired with red cardstock & white embossing.

 

I added a wrap of white metallic twine and finished with a Golden Stag.  The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti's Joys of the Season.  I paired my tag with a plaid paper from the same paper collection and turned it into a card, so I could join the Reverse Confetti Holiday Card Stock Your Stash Challenge.

 

I needed a few more masculine cards this year, so this turned out perfectly.

 

Christmas Mitten

Yesterday was spent replacing my desktop computer tower.  Apparently it decided to try to do its own Windows update in the middle of the night and crashed mid-update leaving me in an endless blue screen loop.  I knew the time was coming eventually, but I was forced to just deal with it.

Thankfully setting-up a computer has improved tremendously since the last time I did it, so I was up and running quickly.  While I went to pick-up my computer, I also stopped at Michael's which is nearby and picked-up their glittery Christmas Tags for this year.  I always like to stock-up on them because they are perfect for non-cardmakers to create when when we do our annual Christmas Card party at work (we make cards to give to local nursing home residents ... always fun for me to help a big group make cards).

So, when I saw today's Day 14 of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags post, I knew exactly what I wanted to make with one of the glittery Mitten Tags in my stash.  I was inspired by Carol's adorable Mitten Tags.

 

I started with my Mitten Tag and added a gem to cover the hole at the top for the string.  Next I went searching for some cute designer paper to use for my tag.

 

Instead of a snowflake, I used a couple of Christmas stickers to decorate my mitten and then finished with some coordinating ribbon.

Bringing Sexy Sweaters Back

I knew I had to break out the don we now our ugly sweater stamps from Simon Says Stamp for this week's Baby It's Cold Outside Jingle Belles card.

 

I did an oops when I scored my card base and scored the front too short ... I decided to work with it and trimmed it even shorter, so I could attach several rows of washi tape to the inside of the card (like I did last weekend on one of my Christmas tags) ... and I loved the effect.

I colored my sweater with markers and then added some gems for embellishments.  Such a fun card to make.

Thursday Link Love

Another week of skipping through blogland:

• I would bet that Cranberry Apple Butter tastes like Christmas
• I also want to make Cranberry Apple Crumble
• free Elf Quote Printables
• I do love a classic Pumpkin Roll
• Shaving Cream & Infusions ... looks like a fun artsy play date
• DIY Essential Oil Ornaments
• Dessert for Two ... love small batch recipes, especially for sweets
• Fun little Acorn Necklace DIY
• I'm all about smells ... I need to do some seasonal Stove Simmers 
• Do you need a Printable Christmas Planner?
• No Line Water-coloring with a Stencil (shown)
• you had me at Marshmallow Glaze

Have a terrific Thursday!