Vintage Snowman

Most of what I've been making lately is Halloween themed and I really needed a break from it, so while I was at the crop at Priceless Friday night, I went down and picked out this cute snowman image from Impression Obsession. I have been wanting him since he showed up in the store a couple of weeks ago. I didn't bring any Christmas stamps with me that night, so it was the perfect excuse to add this cutie to my collection of about 5000 snowman images!! Well, it may not be that many, really, but they do take up a whole corner of my closet in the stamp room!
I was also excited to see that Trish had gotten in the 8 x 8 stack of the Graphic 45 Christmas papers. I had gotten the 12 x 12 stack, but for cards, I really prefer the smaller papers. Makes the patterns closer and better for small projects. Into the basket it went! She had also gotten in some new Nesties, so I added a set of those to my collection, too!! And here's the card!! Still haven't found my Momento black ink, so I am still working with the Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol for coloring. My Copics are feeling very neglected!! I guess I'll just have to buy a new ink pad! It's probably hiding in the same place as all four of my paper piercers!!!
Well, have a great Sunday! I'm going to spending some more time with granddaughter Kyli and then get some lesson plans done. Maybe even some stamping!!!

Tilting Pumpkin

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 I made this card for the technique challenge on Splitcoast Stampers this morning which was to make a tilt card. It was super easy and turned out to be a cool technique I will be using again! It's kinda like a slider card where the image rolls across the front of the card, but in this case, it just jiggles in one spot. The pumpkin on my card jiggles around in place like he's shaking and trying to scare someone. I really wanted to cut into some of the new papers I got at Priceless this weekend, so my card is Halloween themed. Also got to use one of my new border punches....hehehehehe!! I'm so addicted to these things!!
Stamps: Rubbernecker
Paper: GP white, perfect plum, cajun craze, Graphic 45 halloween in wonderland
Ink: Momento tuxedo black, basic black, crumb cake
Accessories: pennies, dimensionals, craft knife, sponge, border punch, sponge

Paper Doll Inspiration

I made this card for the inspiration challenge over at Splitcoaststampers today. The inspiration site today was a company called Warm Biscuit where they had the most adorable bedding for children and fabrics that were just beyond belief!! So many lovely patterns it was difficult to choose. That is until I saw some lovely pink fabric with a paper doll pattern on it. It immediately reminded me of the cute double sided Graphic 45 paper I picked up at Priceless Scrapbooks the other day. I only bought one sheet and if I hadn't used it today, as much as I love it, it probably would have ended up being hoarded and used years down the line!
I used the paper as my starting point in creating my card.
I used a strip of the reverse side to make a band across the center of the card. I used Real Red dsp from SU! and a MS border punch to make a loopy border for it. I dug out an ancient SU! set called Buttons, Bows and Twinkletoes to stamp my paper doll image and colored it with Copic markers. I made a tag using a scrap of the dp and the ticket corner punch to make a tag for the sentiment. Added rick rack and red gingham ribbon, some buttons, and popped it all up on dimensionals to complete the card. This was fun to make and I hope you like it!