Welcome to the Neighborhood

Hello friends!  I have a quick card to share today that was so much fun to make!  I've been wanting to try THIS card fold that I found on Pinterest and was inspired by THIS card created by Sunday's Featured Stamper on Splitcoaststampers, Lizzie Walker, and by THIS card made by Judy Rozema using the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps set, Happy Home.

Creative Nugget:  I modified the directions to form the base for my standing box card and lined each panel with patterned paper to form the background for this little neighborhood scene.  A fence and some rolling hills were added.  Then it was just a matter of coloring the little houses and trees with Copics, fussy cutting them out, and attaching them with foam tape to vary the dimension for each layer.  Finally some clouds were die cut, one of which was used for the sentiment.  What a colorful, happy neighborhood!  Wouldn't you just love to live here?

Here are the supplies currently available at the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store that were used to created this card:

This card will be entered for the following challenges:

Pile It On - #71 Focus on Coloring

Cute Card Thursday - #375 Too Cute

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Sister Act - Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by…find time to spread some kindness to a neighbor today!

Hugs,

Cathymac

From Our House to Yours

Hello crafty friends!  Christmas is drawing ever nearer and there is still so much to do, but I have a quick card to share with you today.

What do you get when you combine a Splitcoaststampers Ways to Use It Challenge, a Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps feature, and a Mojo Monday Sketch?  This snowy ornament card with a merry Christmas wish from our house to yours!

Creative Nugget: The snowy backgrounds on this card were made by sponging Cool Caribbean and Marina Mist inks on pieces of Neenah Solar crest card stock and then splattering the panels with watered down white acrylic paint.  The new Hillside Edges Dies by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps were used to create the snowy drifts.  The little houses on the dies coordinate perfectly with the houses in the Happy Home stamp set which was featured on Thursday on the Sweet 'n Sassy Blog.  The ornament was made with circle dies by Our Daily Bread Designs.  A little Copic coloring, seam binding, and metallic thread were added to finish the card which was designed using this week's Mojo Monday Sketch!

These supplies from Sweet'n Sassy Stamps were used to make this card:

Here is the Mojo Monday sketch:

Thanks so much for stopping by…I'm off to wrap some gifts!

Hugs,

Cathymac

Season of Wonder

Hello friends!  This past weekend I had the pleasure of teaching a class and working the "Make and Take" table for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps at the Heirloom Rubber Stamp & Paper Arts Festival in York, PA.  People were in awe of the beautiful card created by Korin Sutherland that we did for the "Make and Take."  Korin's card can be found HERE on the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Blog.  When I saw that the Ways to Use It Challenge on Splitcoaststampers yesterday was to use denim in some way…including using the color of denim…I immediately thought of Korin's card.  The card I have to share today is a CASE of her card.  I changed the stamp sets and used the design from Wednesday's Sketch Challenge at Splitcoaststampers to modify my card.

Creative Nugget:  Light of Christmas was lightly stamped on the background with Tumbled Glass Distress ink, and the tree from the Christmas Silhouettes stamp set was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black.  Modeling paste snow was added to this panel but was mostly covered by the top two layers.  The moon and snowdrifts on the backgrounds were masked and a combination of Tumbled Glass, Faded Jeans, and Seedless Preserves distress inks were sponged on the night sky and the drifts.  The tree was again stamped on both layers, while the houses from the Happy Home stamp set and a sentiment from Christmas Innies were stamped on the smaller panel.  (It was quite by accident that the tree image lined up on the two panels…love when things like that happen!)  The deer was stamped, cut with the matching Christmas Silhouettes Die, and popped onto the top of the card.  A white Sharpie paint pen and Wink of Stella were used to add shimmer and accents to the card.  Thanks for the inspiration, Korin, as I really like how this card turned out...

…and I hope you like it, too!
Enjoy your day and be blessed by the wonder and beauty that surrounds you.

Hugs,
Cathymac