Vanilla Winter Snow Scene

The  Color Challenge on SCS this week was to use vanilla, black and a soft brown.  When I saw the challenge I instantly thought of the stark bare winter trees in the Lovely as a Tree set and a brown pathway in the snow.    I stamped the tree line on the paper with black …

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Make a Bow- Stampavie Challenge #18

The Stampavie Blog Challenge today is to create a project with some type of bow. Ribbon is my most favorite and frequently used embellishment.  I grew up in my mother’s flower shop and learning to use ribbon was a must in floral design. I use the same bow tying technique to create bows on a …

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Christmas Tree and Holiday Home

I have had a great Sunday playing in my stamp room.  First I created a peaceful tree card using Lovely as a Tree.  I love filling in the image with ink and then painting on snow with craft ink. I stamped the image on watercolor paper and heat set the ink.  I used a dry …

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Home for Christmas

I had lots of fun today playing with my new Papertrey Home Made set and template.  It was fun and easy and there are tons of possibilities. I printed the templates out on white and red cardstock and assembled. I used black craft ink to stamp the windows and shutters and embossed with clear embossing …

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Caroling, Caroling,

Caroling, caroling, now we go Christmas bells are ringing Caroling, caroling thru the snow Christmas bells are ringing Joyous voices sweet and clear Sing the sad of heart to cheer Ding dong, ding dong Christmas bells are ringing Can you hear Nat King Cole singing these words?  I love this song and thought of it …

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