Nacho Christmas Eve

Hello Stampers! Wishing you a wonderful Christmas Eve. Do you have any traditions you celebrate on Christmas Eve with your family?

We have a fun new sketch for you to play along with us at Nacho Average Challenges this week. We hope you can find some time to join us. We love to see what you create.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Hope your Christmas is a wonderful one.  Blessings to you and your family. 

Throwback Thursday

Hello Stampers! Happy Thursday and welcome back to another Throwback Thursday!  I'm featuring another "retired" stamp set today.

I saw the new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and I was inspired to play along with the Designers this week. You can check them out here. Isn't it a fun sketch! I know I will be using this sketch again. 

Here is my take on the sketch:

I love the way it came out! So glad I kept this stamp set, Greeting Card Kids.  They are so cute, especially this beauty with her Christmas tree. I also used some retired Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint on the DSP and onto the Whisper White. Did you notice I paper-pieced the dress with some DSP?  Loving those Expressions Thinlits Dies!  The "Merry" sentiment looks great when used with the silver glimmer paper. 

Thanks for stopping by today. Until next time. 

 

New Sunday Stamps Sketch

Happy Sunday Stampers! Can't believe it is the first Sunday of December! Wow, time is flying by so fast! If you live in the United States, hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  Did you go out and fight the crowds by shopping?

We have a fun new Sunday Stamps sketch created by Hayley for our bi-weekly challenge! Thanks to all of you who continue to play along with us.  We love visiting your blogs and seeing your creations.

I once again used the Best of Snow stamp set. I finally colored the cute little hedgehog and the snowman. Those two are so adorable. The base of my card is Cherry Cobbler and the DSP is layered with Chocolate Chip.

Thanks for stopping by today, until next time.

New Nacho Sketch!

Happy Tuesday Stampers! Hope your week is going well.  Can't believe Thanksgiving in the U.S. is later this week.  Still have so much to do!

We have a fun new sketch for you at Nacho Average Challenges. Love the inspiration from my fellow Nacho Designers!  Amazing how different everyone's take on the sketch is.  I hope you have a chance to play along with us this week.

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time. 

A Fitting Nacho...

Happy Tuesday Stampers!  We have a soft color challenge for you at Nacho Average Challenges today!  We hope you will join us!  I'm continuing to use the Card Base Pop n' Cuts die, this time I created this cute little box!  I call this my manly box, since I made it for a co-worker of mine who recently got a promotion at work.  It'll suit him well! :)

Thanks for stopping by, until next time!

Happy Veterans Day & Tis' The Season

Hello Stampers! Happy Veterans Day!  A huge thanks to all our Veterans and all they have done! To their families as well.  Thank you!

Hope you had a nice weekend.  It was a busy and fun one for me.  I have been working on some swaps and my creations as part of the Design Team for Sunday Stamps and Nacho Average blogs.  You'll see those creations later this week.

Today I have another Christmas card to share.  This is the challenge over at Tis' The Season with the optional trimming of stripes. I knew I wanted to play along once I saw the banner.

This is what I created, a neutral holiday card.  I've been seeing the red holiday cups at Starbucks and  that was my inspiration.  The base of my card is Baked Brown Sugar layered with Crumb Cake and then Early Espresso. Some Cherry Cobbler with all those browns makes my cup pop. 

Thanks for stopping by today. Until next time.

Sunday Stamps Banners!

Happy Sunday Stampers! Happy first Sunday of November! Can't believe how quickly the year is going! I'm hosting this week's sketch challenge at Sunday Stamps and it's all about banners.  I still love creating with banners.  Hope you will have a chance to play along with us!  Can't wait to see what you create.

And while you're checking out our Sunday Stamps blog, please leave some blog love for my fellow Designers. Hope their creations inspire you. 

Thanks for stopping by today, until next time. 

Perfect Blend

Hello fellow stampers! Happy Wednesday to you.  It's been a busy week for me at my "other" job so I've been relaxing by creating.  You ever do that? It's good for me to use the other part of my brain. I was inspired by two blog challenges; the Dynamic Duos with their current color challenge (Crumb Cake & Basic Black) and the Techno Stamper with a sketch challenge. A Perfect Blend of challenges. :)

Perfect Blend is turning out to be one of my new favorite stamp sets to play with. It's a fun set to paper piece with and create a 3D effect.  It's a bit hard to see in the photo but I used the crayon resist technique on the edges of my cup, using a white crayon, then sponging with Crumb Cake onto the cup. It's a nice subtle effect. The Dynamic Duos challenge also had an option to use wet embossing and I used clear embossing powder on the lid and white embossing powder on the sentiment. I really like the designs in the Season of Style DSP Stack from the current Holiday catalog because you can use the patterns for everyday cards, not just holidays. What do you think?

Here's a closer photo of the coffee cup. You can see the white edges on the cup and the embossed lid better.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. Until next time.

I'm part of the Nacho Average Challenge Design Team!

Morning Stampers! Happy Tuesday!  I'm super excited about today because I'm a new Design Team member of the Nacho Average Blog Challenge. Yay!

I'm part of an awesome group of designers! I'm inspired by their creations. I'm looking forward to creating with all of them. Make sure you check us out at http://nachoaveragechallenges.blogspot.com and of course I hope you can play along with us.

This week we have a sketch challenge for your inspiration. You have until Sunday, September 8th to link up your creation. 

I created a simple card as I wanted the DSP to stand out. All items are Stampin' Up!

• Season of Style DSP Stack #132181 (2013 Holiday Catalog)
• You're Amazing Stamp Set-Wood #132103
• Sweet Essentials Stamp Set-Clear #126457
• Cardstock; Cherry Cobbler, Baked Brown Sugar, Old Olive and Whisper White

Thanks for stopping by today.   Until next time.