Look who's coming to play. . . .

I'm happy to announce Amber Nustad, another CTMH consultant is joining me on Scrappy-Gals Blog!  You'll see some of her creations with a focus on CTMH products, but like me she likes to play in the big sand box and uses a bit of everything!  

Here's one of her cards just to start it all off:

Amber used CTMH Believe paper pack with CTMH Topiary and Holiday Red card stock.  Stamp sets are from CTMH I Believe Acrylic Stamps in CTMH Topiary ink.  The Snowflake is stamped using CTMH White Embossing Powder with CTMH Prisma Glitter mixed in to give it a "glittery" feel! 

Other accessories include CTMH Corner Rounder punch and a Snowflake Punch. 

Mojo214 - Let it Snow!

Week one of the month is the kick off to Mojo Monday's contest!  Yiiippppeee!  I always love a challenge and NO I'm not competitive at all!  So here's the dete's: 

For every 50 entries, up to a max of SEVEN winners!!! Winners will receive the Verve Stamps set of their choice!  Who couldn't handle a free stamp set and Verve Stamps are so versatile!   For full details check out the Mojo Monday Blog.

So here's the "sketch" for the challenge:

and here's my rendition:

Cardstock is CTMH Grey Flannel, Chocolate, Twilight and White

B&T papers are all from the CTMH Winter Wonderland Paper Pack

Ink is CTMH Chocolate

Stamps are CTMH Snowflakes and Amuse Holiday Greeting Set 1

Accessories include Nestabilities, CTMH Opaque Mocha Gems and Self Adhesive Snowflake Flock.  The Ribbon is a roll which I picked up from Michaels a couple of years go, and with all it's glitter and shine it went surprising well with CTMH color combos!   

Season's Change - Friendship stays the same!

Here's a fun card I made up to celebrate my favorite time of the year - FALL!  I'm trying to challenge myself to use more of my CTMH paper product but as my blog states I am a paper horder and have all sorts of paper and of coarse I LOVE it all! 

This time, the paper is from CTMH Dreamin' paper pack.    This paper pack truely inspires the colors of all with its combination of CTMH Goldrush,  Chocolate, Pacifica and Bamboo colors.  

The stamp sets I featured here is CTMH So Grateful Acrylic Stamp set.  I used the pumpkin and second stage stamped the image with a little "rock and roll" around the edges to give it a dementional appearance of being a fat round pumpkin in CTMH Goldrush ink.  Then followed with the second stamp set of phrases in CTMH Chocolate ink.   Added the swirls and 3D popped the leaves in CTMH Olive ink.

Add some gems and a little bit more stamping and you have a great card for a great friend! :)

Christmas is in the Air - Part 2

Okay. . . at the end of October I posted one of the Six Cards we are going to be making at the Contact Women's Society's Card Making Night.  Here is card two which Amber Nustad (my trusty sidekick - or maybe I'm hers, who knows!) put together!  Again, this is featuring the CTMH Winter Wonderland Paper Pack.  I love all of the blues and brown's in this kit!  

Images are cut using the CTMH Cricut Art Philosphy Cartridge and stamped with the co-ordinating stamp image from CTMH Holiday Cheer and CTMH Snowflake sets. Amber has added some bling to her card by stamping the greeting in CTMH Twilight Blue stamp pad and followed up by using a versa-mark pad and embossing with CTMH Clear Detail Embossing Powder and CTMH Prisma Glitter added to over the image.  The end result is a shimmer to the card and some added depth to the image.  

Add some gems - no girl could do without and vola!  You have one more card completed!  

Thanks Amber! 

Telescopic Christmas Card





I saw this little Christmas Card on Splitcoast Stampers and thought it was a very unique technique so I had to try it out. It's very simple, but you can bling it up and make it so much more "fancy" than a traditional folding card and it's one more way to use all of those nesting shapes you have laying around! :)

I made my card with a 5.5" Scalloped Circle as the base.  The top circle, which is stamped with CTMH Melody of Christmas stamp, lifted with 3D adhesive, on top of a Snowflake, rotates up to reveal the second circle.  I chose to put my greeting for the card on here.  This again is CTMH I Believe Stamp set. 

 

Rotate the card one more time to reveal the last circle, which I stamped again with CTMH I Believe  stamp set for the final image.  I left enough room in the last circle for writing a personal greeting/sentiment. 

Each of the circles are held together with a CTMH metalic brad.  All Cardstock is CTMH (Cocoa, Brown Bag, Garden Green & Vineyard Berry).  Background & Textured papers are My Minds Eye 6x6 Pad Lost and Found.  Images were stamped in CTMH Garden Green, Garnet and/Vineyard Berry Ink. 

Mojo Monday Layout 213

Since it's the last week of the month, Mojo Monday likes to mix things up and focus on non-traditional sized cards, so they've given everyone a Round or Square option.

I chose to do the square option with a "twist". Here's my card:


So here's the "twist" this card is technically a 6"x6" square card. . . well sort of, anyways.  I made it an easle card which in itself is a fun take on the traditional flat card as you can see by this picture:

It sorta pops up in all different kind of ways.  It's a very cool way to do a "square" card layout!  for instructions please e-mail me and I'd be happy to forward them on or you can check out the Score-Pal web site projects for this or plenty more ideas for different card layouts.  

Inside View

Close-Up of Sentiment

Papers:  B & T My Minds Eye 6"x6" Pad, CTMH Chocolate, Honey and Juniper Cardstock

Stamps:  CTMH Acrylic Friends stamp set

Accessories:  CTMH Chocolate Ribbon Collection; CTMH Chocolate Brad; Basic Grey mini pearl gems; e. gems in blue & brown; & paper flowers

Thanks for playing along with me and I look forward to next weeks Mojo - a whole new month and a whole new competition begins on week 1!!! :)

Christmas is in the AIR!

With Halloween officially over and Christmas only 54 sleeps away. . . (yupppers . . . is the anxiety and panick of what to get everyone for the Big DAY starting to kick in?), I figured it'd be safe to post some of the Cards Amber Nustad and I have been putting together for our gathering at the Contact Women's Society Evening Card Making Classes. Firstly, let me just say a BIG thanks to Amber for helping me PLAY and organize the projects for this event. It has been a blast so far getting creative with her and playing with our "toys"!!

This is one of six cards we will be making at the WCS evening gathering scheduled on November 22nd. 

We LOVED this little tea cup and the use of the CTMH Acrylic Stamps made it so easy to use the 2 piece stamp set and a little "rock and roll" technique. Add a little bling (no girl can resist bling!) and vola! You instantly have one card done and five to go. . . keep posted for the next card in the set of six!  :)