Pink Poinsettia Ornament - Heartfelt Creations

Happy Wednesday!

It's time for a little inspiration from Heartfelt Creations!  This week I have a little Christmas ornament to show you!

In real life this is actually really pretty!  It's one of those projects that is just plain difficult to photo!  If you click on the photo itself, you can get a better view of it if you like.

The base of the ornament is made using the Raindrops on Roses Die. The flower is the Christmas Poinsettia done with white card stock, heat embossed with white powder and colored with chalk ink.  The full instructions are at the bottom of my post if you would like to try it out for Christmas gifts this year!

Be sure to visit the HC Blog to see all the beautiful creations by the designers this week!  There's also a sneak peek of the collection being released on Black Friday!

I'm submitting this to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #158 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by to visit!

Blessings!

Kathy


Pink Poinsettia Ornament

Heartfelt Creations Products and Products Carried by HC:

HCPC 3557 - Christmas Poinsettia PreCut Set
HCD 734 - Sun Kissed Fleur Die
HCD 743 - Raindrops on Roses Die
452255 - Grand Calibur
368770 - Scor-Pal
459222 - McGill Paper Blossoms Tool Kit
159223 - McGill Paper Blossoms Molding Mat

159723 - Art Institute Glue - Dries Clear
SMP001 - Stamp Mat Pad
Metal Glue Tip
359848 - Spellbinders Tool N' One

Other Products:

Paper: Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: VersaMark Watermark, Perfect Plumeria (VersaMagic)
Accessories: make-up applicator, 1/8" Scor-tape, metal charm, bead, spacer, 1/8" pink ribbon (Offray), White Seam Binding, Pearlized String Beads, Bow-Easy Tool (Really Reasonable Ribbon), Diamond Stickles (Ranger), glue gun, Bazzills Splat Mat, White Embossing Powder (Stampin Up), orange stick, adhesive pearls (Recollections), heat tool.

Instructions:

Using white card stock and the Raindrops on Roses Die, die cut 6 Lattice Pieces. Score each piece down center point to point of longer side and crease. Glue half piece at a time with another half using the glue and metal glue tip leaving last 2 side open. (Follow the same technique Emma Lou used in making the dimensional tree card here.) Cut a 16" piece of 1/8" pink ribbon. Thread ribbon through charm and then the bead spacer. Add strip of Scor-Tape down center of ornament where all the scored pieces meet. Lay the ribbon inside onto Scor-Tape to secure in place. Glue last two side together to form ornament. Cut approximately 10" piece of Pearlized String Beads, make loop and glue to top of ornament with glue gun. Make 5 loop bow with White Seam Binding and bow tool. Glue over beads where they cross each other using glue gun.

Stamp Christmas Poinsettia image on Solar White with VersaMark Ink and heat emboss with White Embossing Powder. Die cut with Sun Kissed Fluer Die. Select 3 flowers (I used the 2nd, 4th, and 6th largest blooms) and color with Perfect Plumeria Ink and make up applicator. I shaped the flowers using the mat and pressing the end of an orange stick down the center of each petal and then using the Paper Blossoms tools to press in the center. Glue flowers together, offsetting petals, using Art Institute Glue. Add adhesive pearl to flower center and outline pearl with Diamond Stickles. Add flower to bow center using glue gun. Tie knot on top of pink ribbon for hanging ornament. Thread ribbon through metal bead and glue over knot to cover it.

Heartfelt Creations - Blessed Christmas & Cream Poinsettia Ornament

Happy Wednesday again!

This is my second post for today, so if you are looking for my CottageCutz "Dear Santa" post please scroll down to the next post!

It's inspiration time from Heartfelt Creations!  Today I have a Christmas card and ornament using the 2 beautiful new Christmas collections!

For my card, I used the Banner & Tree Die for the tree and added cream Christmas Poinsettias that were heat embossed and inked to give an aged look.  The circle sentiment is heat embossed with Aged Ivory Embossing Enamel and also inked.  Behind it is the next size up flower cut in half.  The blue designer paper is from the Christmas Card Paper Collection.  I heat embossed the flower flourish from the Peaceful Night Set on the blue top corner and also 3 times on the bottom cream mat.  If you click on the photo, you can get a better look at the embossing.

Here's a close up of the sentiment.

The ornament is made with Spellbinder's Heirloom Ornament 2010 Die, cut twice with the same blue designer paper.  The flower is made with the remaining flower pieces from the card (plus an extra on the bow).  Underneath the flower I have a heat embossed flower wreath image from the Love at Christmas Set that I fussy cut.

Here is the back of the ornament which I left plain.

Hope this gives you a little inspiration today!  Please visit the HC Blog to see all the beautiful creations this week by the designers!

I'm submitting this to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #100 - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting!

Blessings!

Kathy

Blessed Christmas Card & Cream Poinsettia Ornament

Heartfelt Creations Products & Products Carried by HC:

HCPC 3561 – Christmas Sentiment Circles PreCut Set
HCPC 3557 – Christmas Poinsettia PreCut Set
HCPC 3554 – Love at Christmas PreCut Set
HCPC 3553 – Peaceful Night PreCut Set
HCD 739 – Banner & Tree Die
HCD 734 – Sun Kissed Fleur Die
HCPC1 236 – Christmas Card Paper Collection
Product ID: 354808 – Standard Circles Small
Product ID: 159223 - Paper Blossoms Molding Mat
Product ID: 459222 - Paper Blossoms Tool Kit
Product ID: 159723 – Art Institute Glue –Dries Clear
Product ID: 452255 – Grand Calibur
Product ID: 368770 – Scor-Pal

Other Products Used:

Paper: Natural White (Neenah)
Ink: Wheat (VersaMagic), Antique Linen, Vintage Photo Distress Inks (Ranger), VersaMark
Accessories: Snow Pearl Embossing Powder (Recollections), Aged Ivory Embossing Enamel (Stampendous), adhesive pearls (Recollections & Kaiser Craft), Ivory Satin with Scalloped Edge Ribbon, Leather Tan Seam Binding (Really Reasonable Ribbon), Bow-Easy, Heirloom Ornament 2010 (Spellbinders), 1-3/4” circle punch, pearl string, Tombow Marker #990 – Light Sand.

Instructions:

Card: Make 5-1/2” square card with Natural White.  Cut 5-5/8” square mat with Natural White, stamp 3 flower flourishes (Peaceful Night Set) on the bottom with VersaMark Ink, and heat emboss with Aged Ivory Powder.  Color berries with marker.  Cut blue designer paper 3-5/8” x 5-5/8”.  Stamp and heat emboss flower flourish on top right with Aged Ivory.  Glue to white mat and ink edges with Antique Linen.  Wrap Ivory Satin Ribbon around mat and add to card base with pop dots.  Die cut tree with Natural White and add to card with pop dots as shown.  Stamp flowers on Natural White with VersaMark and heat emboss with Snow Pearl Powder.  Cut flowers with matching die, shape with mat and tool kit, and ink edges with Wheat Chalk Ink.  Add the 6 smallest flowers to tree as shown with pop dots.    Cut next size up flower in half and set aside.  On Natural White with VersaMark stamp sentiment and heat emboss with Aged Ivory.   Shade image with Antique Linen Ink using a sponge and trim with scissors making a circle.  Punch blue designer paper with circle punch and glue to sentiment.  Add sentiment with cut flower as shown.  Add bow, adhesive pearls, and string pearls as shown.

Ornament:  Glue 3 remaining flowers together as shown.  On Natural White with VersaMark, heat emboss wreath image with Snow Embossing Powder and fussy cut around outside of image.  Add flower to center with pop dots.  Die cut 2 ornament shapes from blue designer paper.  Add flower/wreath to ornament with pop dots.  Add ribbon to back for hanging and glue 2 ornament shapes together covering ribbon.  Ink edges with Vintage Photo Ink.  Add gingham bow and pearls.  Optional: Make additional small flower to cover bow center.

 

 

Heartfelt Creations - Season of Joy Collection

Happy Wednesday everyone!

It's time for the new release from Heartfelt Creations - The Season of Joy Collection!

The Season of Joy Collection has been put together so you can create your most elegant Christmas cards, layouts and 3D projects. Create gorgeous typography backgrounds in your favorite Christmas hues. The hand-drawn, detailed stamps provide new excitement to every Christmas project you'll create as the snow flies and the hot cocoa simmers on the stove. Feel your heart ignite with passion and excitement as you delight yourself with the Frosty Blanket Paper Collection. Match the ornate poinsetta stamp with the cutting-edge Sun Kissed Fleur die and you'll save time while creating your Christmas projects.

And for 4 weeks only, gift yourself with the whole collection and save $20 off the regular price!

With this set you can create the most elegant, delicate creations your friends and family have seen. Being a smile to your loved ones' faces. See the Season of Joy Collection here.

Win The Collection: Leave a comment on the Heartfelt Creations blog by September 17th to be eligible to win the entire collection. The winner will be announced on the blog on September 18th, so make sure you check back to see if you won.

Watch the latest video: Click Here to watch the latest videos and learn how to make a quick glittery background, dimensional Christmas Tree, and cut out 10 poinsettias at once.

 

Here is my first creation with the collection, a card using the Christmas Sentiment Circles and Christmas Poinsettia Sets and the Frosty Blanket Paper Collection..

(Click on photo for a closer view)

I love this blue and burgandy color combination for Christmas!  I used pencils to color the flower and sentiment circle to match the papers and added Night of Navy Ink for the edges and for the branch image (Elegant Joy Set) on the designer paper mat.  This would be a fairly easy card to duplicate, which I might do for some of my Christmas Cards this year!

My next project is an ornament using the Banner & Tree Die!

This little ornament was easy to put together and I really like how it came out!  I used the designer papers to cut 5 of the trees with the die and glued the sides together with a string and a bell in the middle.  Then I just decorated it with a bow, a white snowflake using the die in the set and a little poinsettia flower done the same as the flower on the card.  Another fairly easy project to make a few of for Christmas Gifts!

I hope I have given you a little inspiration for Christmas using this new collection, I had so much fun making these!  Be sure to visit the Heartfelt Creations Blog to see all the beautiful creations by the designers this week!  So many awesome projects to look at!

I'm submitting this to the following Challenges:

Word Art Wednesday #97 - Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by!

Blessings!

Kathy

Merry Christmas Card

Heartfelt Creations Products & Products Carried by HC:

HCPC 3561 – Christmas Sentiment Circles PreCut Set
HCPC 3557 – Chrismas Poinsettia PreCut Set
HCPC 3560 – Elegant Joy PreCut Set
HCD 734 – Sun Kissed Fleur Die
HCPC1 225 – Frosty Blanket PaperCollection
Product ID: 159223 - Paper Blossoms Molding Mat
Product ID: 459222 - Paper Blossoms Tool Kit
Product ID: 159723 – Art Institute Glue –Dries Clear
Product ID: 452255 – Grand Calibur
Product ID: 368770 – Scor-Pal
Product ID: 352854 – Metal Glue Tip – Art Institute

Other Products Used:

Paper: Solar White (Neenah), white cardstock, June Berry (Coredinations)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Night of Navy (SU)
Accessories: Standard Circles Small, Large Petite Scallops (Spellbinders), Wine Gingham 3/8” Ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon), Bow-Easy, button fiber, adhesive pearls, sponge, Fired Brick Distress Stickles (Ranger), mineral spirits, Prismacolor Pencils: Periwinkle, Black, Mahogany Red, Black Raspberry

Instructions:

Make an A-2 card base (4-1/4” x 5-1/2”) with white cardstock.  Cut mat with June Berry measuring 4-1/16” x 5-5/16”.   Using Frosty Blanket Paper Collection, cut mats as follows: multi colored 3-7/8” x 5-1/8” and blue designer paper 3-7/8” x 2-1/2”.  Glue blue paper to bottom of multi paper.  Stamp branch with Night of Navy Ink on lower left corner and slightly on the top right corner of the mat and ink edges.  Glue to June Berry mat, wrap piece of ribbon across and glue to card base.

Stamp sentiment on Solar White with Onyx Black Ink and color as desired.  Cut with circles die and ink edges.  Cut blue designer paper with scalloped circles die, ink edges and add sentiment with pop dots.  Add to card with pop dots.  Stamp 3 small flowers, color, shape and glue to sentiment.  Add stickles to flower centers.  Add bow, button with fiber bow and adhesive pearls.

Christmas Tree Ornament

Heartfelt Creations Products & Products Carried by HC:

HCPC 3557 – Chrismas Poinsettia PreCut Set
HCPC1 225 – Frosty Blanket PaperCollection
HCD 739 – Banner & Tree Die
HCD 734 – Sun Kissed Fleur Die
Product ID: 159223 - Paper Blossoms Molding Mat
Product ID: 459222 - Paper Blossoms Tool Kit
Product ID: 159723 – Art Institute Glue –Dries Clear
Product ID: 452255 – Grand Calibur
Product ID: 368770 – Scor-Pal
Product ID: 352854 – Metal Glue Tip – Art Institute

Other Products Used:

Paper: Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Night of Navy (SU)
Accessories: Silver wired string, bell, Bow-Easy, Wine 3/8” Gingham Ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon), Fired Brick Distress Stickles (Ranger), mineral spirits, Prismacolor Pencils: Periwinkle, Black

Instructions:

Cut 5 trees from blue designer paper with Banner & Tree Die.  Score each piece down center and crease.  Glue half a tree at a time with another half using glue and metal tip.  Before gluing last 2 sides together, add string wire for hanging and add bell to bottom.  Glue last sides together.  Add stickles as desired.  Add bow to top.

Cut snowflake from Solar White with die.  Stamp 2 smallest flowers on Solar White with Onyx Black, color, cut with Sun Kissed Fleur Die and shape.  Glue flower and snowflake together and add to bow.

 

ODBDSLC130 - Use Silver or Gold

Happy Tuesday!

It's time for a new Shining the Light Challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs! 

This week's challenge:

Use gold or silver on your creation.

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Sunday, November 18th at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday.

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award . In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, November 18th at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC130. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Here's my take on the challenge this week...

I made a Christmas ornament using the "Ornaments" set.  I stamped the image 4 times, scored them down the middle, and then glued the sides together to form the ornament.  This is a technique I did recently at my Stampin' Up!'s consultant Krista's house that I thought was really fun and easy to make!  Here's a view of the back of the ornament.

This picture doesn't do it justice at all, it's actually very pretty with all the sparkle!  It's hard to capture sparkle on film though!  The poinsettia flower is made from silver glitter paper which goes perfectly with the silver embossing, crystal blue charm, and the sparkle in the ribbon.

Project recipe:

Stamps: Ornaments (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Paper: Solar White (Neenah), Silver Glitter Paper (Recollections)
Ink: VersaMark
Accessories: Heirloom Ornament 2010 Die, Layered Poinsettia Die (Spellbinders), heat tool, ribbon (Offray), adhesive pearls (Recollections), button (back of bow), jewelry charm (Michaels), silver wire string (Michaels)

For more inspiration, please visit the other design team ladies to see their gorgeous creations and our special guest designer this month, Barbara Pace!

Chris Olsen-Challenge Team Coordinator

Jan Keen

Jan Marie Ennenga

Lori Ulrich

Rosemary Dennis

Barb Pace - Guest Designer

Hope you can join in the challenge this week! Blessings! Kathy

 

Frosty Ornament - Heartfelt Creations

Happy Wednesday!

Today I have an ornament I made with the new Frosty Blanket Collection.

This time I used some of the blue designer papers and heat embossed with white embossing powder.  I love the the pretty contrast of the blue and white and decided to make the flowers the same way.  So simple to make these, and so pretty! 

I used recycled cardboard packaging inbetween the papers for the ornament to give it some stability.  Here's a picture of the back.

I'm not sure I used the right paper for the back of it to show the sentiment, but it's such pretty paper!    I love the flowers on this with the blue designer paper and the white embossing, so simple to do and it comes out very pretty!

Please visit the Heartfelt Creations' Blog for more inspiration from the Design Team this week!

I'm also entering this in the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday #43
Stampin' Sisters in Christ #154 - use punches, dies, or shapes

Blessings!

Kathy

Frosty Ornament

Heartfelt Creations Products & Products Carried by HC:

HCPC 3415-1 – Petite Poinsettia PreCut Set
HCPC 3493 – Yuletide Sentiments PreCut Set
HCPC 3491 – Holiday Haven PreCut Set
HCPC 3490 – Holiday Mail PreCut Set
HCDP1 – 225 – Frosty Blanket Paper Collection
Product ID: 125126 – Layered Poinsettia Die
Product ID:159223 - Paper Blossoms Molding Mat
Product ID:459222 - Paper Blossoms Tool Kit

Other Products Used:

Paper: Capers (Bazzills)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), VersaMark
Accessories: Recycled cardboard, Heirloom Ornament 2010 Die (Spellbinders), white gel pen, White Embossing Powder (SU), Detail Clear Embossing Powder (Stampendous), heat tool, Sparkle Shimmer Spritz, lace trim (RAK – Sabrina), adhesive pearls, Nestabling (Want-2-Scrap), string, glue, Bow-Easy

Instructions:

Ornament base: On blue designer paper, randomly stamp poinsettia flower, branch (Holiday Mail), swirl (Holiday Haven) with VersaMark and heat emboss with White Embossing Powder.  With Black Ink on a piece  of matching designer paper, stamp sentiment and heat emboss with Detail Clear Embossing Powder.    Cut an ornament out of each of the papers with the largest die from the Heirloom 2010 Die.  Cut a piece of cardboard with same die and ink edges with black ink.  Glue the 3 pieces together with the cardboard in the middle.  Add dots around the edge of the blue paper with a white gel pen.

On a piece of blue designer paper, stamp 2 extra small flowers, 1 small flower, and heat emboss with White Embossing Powder.  On Capers cardstock, stamp a medium flower with Black Ink.  Cut all flower with match dies.  Add one of the extra small flowers to the ornament as shown and assemble remaining pieces to make a flower.  Add pearls and Nestabling as shown on front and back.  Make bow with Bow-Easy and adhere string, bow, and flower to ornament as shown.

ODBDSLC117 - Sketch - Two Week Challenge

Happy Tuesday!

It's time for a new Shining the Light Challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs! 

This week's challenge will last for two weeks and ....

It's a sketch.....

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Sunday, August 5th at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday.

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award . In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, August 5th at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC117. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Now for my take on the sketch challenge this week...

I decided to make a Christmas card using Holiday Ornaments Stamp Set and Holiday Tags Shapeabilities Dies.  The ornament is detachable and the recepient can hang it on their tree!  Here's a couple of more pictures, one closeup...

and the other showing it detached.

To make the ornament, I die cut a piece of recycled packaging and another piece of desginer paper (the striped one) and glued them together with the image die cut.  Then I just added some gold string I got from the flower section at Michaels, a little bell, a bow, and a pearl.

The Sentiment is three different die cuts glued together.  I stamped each one with the sentiment and then couldn't decide which one to use, soooo I used all three!  The bird is a project "leftover" from last year that I decided to include.  I love being able to used up those "leftovers" I keep on hand!

For all ingredients used:

Stamps: Holiday Ornaments (ODBD)

Paper: Solar White (Neenah), Glad Tidings Designer Paper (K&Co.), Capers, Palo Verde (Bazzills)

Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Wheat (VersaMagic), Amaretto (Powder Puffs)

Accessories: Holday Tags, Fancy Tags Shapeabilities (Spellbinders), 2-step Bird Punch (SU), Triad Leaves Embossing Folder (Sizzix), ribbons, velvet trim, 9mm Jingle Bell, gold string (Michaels), adhesive pearls (Want2Scrap), burgundy felt (Jo-Ann's), recycled packaging (cereal box), button (Basic Grey), Bow-Easy, Detailed Clear Embossing Powder (Stampendous), mineral spirits, Prismacolor Pencils: Crimson Red, Tuscan Red, Marine Green, Bronze, Yellow Ochre, Light Umber, Chocolate, Black

For more inspiration, please visit the super talented ladies on the team!  This month we have a new guest designer, Linda Lucas aka Lovely Linda in Blogland!  Make sure to visit her blog and give her some love!

Chris Olsen-Challenge Team Coordinator

Jan Keen

Jan Marie Ennenga

Kathy Roney

Lori Ulrich

Rosemary Dennis

Linda Lucas (Guest Designer)

Hope you can join in the challenge the next 2 weeks!

Blessings!

Kathy

Spellbinders Design Team Contest - Round 1

Hi there,

Just wanted to let you know that I wasn't selected for the Spellbinders Design Team.  I am happy to have made it to the third round though.  Thought I would show you my entries for the contest so you can see what I made and maybe give you some ideas.

Today I'll show you my first round entry submitted back in December.   I made a Christmas ornament using the Lacy Squares Dies from Spellbinders.  I had just received them in the mail, all excited to have something new, and came up with this ornament within a couple of hours...VERY unusual for me.  God was definitely with me on this one!  This is the picture I submitted to Spellbinders, not the best, but we could only submit one!

Here's the back, all finished off nicely.

Here's a closeup of the front.

This was really simple to make, once I figured out what I wanted to do.  I just glued 2 of the larger die cuts together with the ribbon running through so it's hidden, then 1 diecut each of the next 3 smaller sizes.  I then just matted them with white and designer papers from the Glad Tidings Paper from K&Co, I LOVE these papers.  The 2 stickers with "Joy" and "Jolly" are Word Adhesive Chipboard pieces also from Glad Tidings.  The 2 little corner edge pieces above and below "Jolly" are the leftovers from the Fleur de lis Edge Punch from EKS with Diamond Stickles on them.  The white snowflake is just a button that I threaded the ribbon through in the bottom circle of the larger die.

Here are the full list of ingredients:

Stamps: None
Paper: Glad Tidings (K&Co), Ruby Slipper (Bazzills), Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: None
Accessories: Lacy Squares (Spellbinders), Glad Tidings Word Adhesive Chipboard (K&Co), adhesive pearls, Fleur de lis Edge Punch (EKS), Diamond Stickles, snowflake button, ribbons (Michaels).


I think this makes a nice Christmas Gift and you can do lots with this one design.  I hope this gives you a little inspiration for gifts to make!

Blessings!

Kathy

Christmas Ornaments

Hi there!

Hope everyone had a good Christmas Day! I enjoyed the slower pace from before Christmas! It was nice to have the four of us here together and catching up with all our family members on the phone that are far away.

These are a couple of ornaments I made for Christmas, but didn't have time to post.

These are slightly different from eachother, but pretty much the same. Here is a close up of one of them.

These are ornaments I bought at Michaels, just like the rectangle frame one with the Cardinal in it from a few days ago. I stamped and colored the candle images which are from JustRite, and cut out and placed in the frames. I replaced the ribbon it came with and added a button. Very easy to do, and makes a nice little gift!

Ingredients:

Stamps: A Merrry Little Christmas Set (JustRite)
Paper: Solar White, Natural White (Neenah)
Ink: Black (VersaFine)
Accessories: Ornament frame (Michaels), Prismacolor Pencils, mineral spirits, and Diamond Stickles (Ranger).

Thanks for looking! I appreciate the comments you leave me, it's so nice to have feedback on your work! Blessings!

Kathy

Cardinal Ornament - Flourishes

Hi there!

I've been busy making Christmas cards and gifts. I thought I would show you an ornament I made as a gift for a family member. I love cardinals and have a couple of stamps, but just bought this one from Flourishes as part of the "Christmas Classics" stamp set. I love this set! I bought this ornament at Michaels for 1/2 price and I wish I bought more of them. There's so many things you can put in it and it makes a nice gift!

Here's the ornament:

I love gold and red together, it's so pretty together. Here's a closeup of the picture:

For ingredients:

Stamps: Christmas Classics (Flourishes)
Paper: Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: Black (VersaFine)
Accessories: Ornament frame (Michaels), nailheads metal stickers (Michaels), Glad Tidings rub-ons (K&Co), Prismacolor pencils, mineral spirits, rhinestone flower, ribbon.

That's it for now! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Blessings!

Kathy

Elusive Poinsettia Ornament

Hi there!

I have one more ornament to show you. I actually made most of this a few weeks ago, but couldn't decide how I wanted to finish it. Here's what I came up with!

I love how this one came out. Here is a close up of it.

This is a Holly Berry House stamp called "Elusive Poinsettia" that I bought a couple of years ago. Here's a link to their website if you would like. Their stamps are gorgeous and very well made! The technique on these is to stamp/emboss the image a number of times and cut away the layers for each progressively smaller. I have 4 layers on this one, but you could do more or less than that. I used a different paper on each layer. I added some diamond stickles in places to highlight some of the areas.

On the back of the ornament, you can do the same thing, but I opted to do just one layer embossed with a copper powder on black paper. Here's a picture of the back.

For ingredients used:

Stamp: Elusive Poinsettia (Holly Berry House)
Paper: Heritage Scrapbooking Paper Pack (Pizazz), black (SU)
Ink: Black (VersaFine), Versamark
Accessories: Embossing powder: black (Creative Beginnings), Classy Copper (SU), diamond stickles, buttons, ribbon, decorative brad (My Mind's Eye), rhinestone flower.

Thanks for looking! Have a blessed weekend!

Kathy

Cherry Heirloom Ornament - ODBDSLC86

Hi again!

This is the second ornament I made using my new dies and stamps...see my last post about these...

Here is the front of the ornament:

Here is the back of the ornament:

This time I used the small ornament stamp from the "Ornament" set (ODBD) and embossed it with Ruby Tinsel embossing powder (Recollections). I cut it with the 2010 Heirloom Ornament Die and then cut another larger ornament with glitter paper.

For the back of the ornament, I did the same sentiment as in the last post using the "Ornaments" Stamp Set (ODBD) and embossed it with the same powder as the front.

I'm submitting this to the same Challenge as the other ornament I posted, ODBDSLC86 using lace, ribbon, and glitter.

For remaining ingredients:
Paper: Cherry Glitter Paper (Recollections), Parchment Tan (TPC)
Ink: VersaMark
Accessories: Diamond stickles, button, rhinestone, brad, nailhead sticker, lace, ribbon, 1 3/4" circle punch (SU).

That's it for now! I need to make sure I get this to the Challenge on time!
Thanks for looking!

Blessings!

Kathy

French Heirloom Ornament - ODBDSLC86

Hi there!

I finally bought the Heirloom Ornament 2010 Die (Spellbinders) from Our Daily Bread Designs! I've been wanting this since last Christmas and finally have it! Yikes, now they have a 2011 version which I love too! I also bought the stamp set "Ornaments" from ODBD that goes with the die and the Fanciful Flourish (Cheery Lynn Dies) that I've been wanting. They're all so beautiful together. I've been playing with these the past couple of days and have come up with 2 different ornaments so far.

Here is the first one I'll show you that I used a new paper called The French Country Stack (DCWV). I love this paper! I saw this last year as part of a calendar kit at Jo-Ann's and fell in love with it then. Now they have the 12x12 paper available so...I just had to get it!

I used the largest die for the ornament and wrapped the flourish around it. I also used a different coordinating paper for the back of the ornament so it looked pretty too. The sentiment is from the Ornaments Stamp Set (ODBD) which I embossed on more coordinating paper. The stamp is actually one line together that I separately stamped/embossed to fit on the heart. After I did this, I actually cut the stamp into 2 separate words so I can use the "Blessings" portion with the other words in the set. I wish I had done this in the beginning...

I'm entering this in the ODBD's Shining the Light Challenge to use lace, ribbon, and glitter (ODBDSLC86).

For the other ingredients:

Ink: Versamark
Accessories: Lace, adhesive pearls, ribbon, button, flowers (Recollections), pirate gold embossing powder (Stampendous), 2" heart punch (Marvy), diamond stickles.

Thanks for looking! Watch for more ornaments to be posted!


Blessings!

Kathy