Christmas Cheer

No matter how many times I see it, the movie Elf is a must see for me every holiday season.

I love the quote from Will Ferrell, "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear," and hope to get that as a stamp one day. For now, I thought I would create this card to play along with the Merry Monday challenge of creating a card based on your favourite Christmas movie and made it "clean and simple" to play along with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. To achieve this I used the layout over at Freshly Made Sketches.

Paper - Silver & Gold paper collection; White, Gold glitter paper (CTMH);

Dies - Snowflakes (CTMH); Wet Paint Holiday die (PTI);

Stamps - Wet Paint Holiday Stamp set (PTI);

Embossing Powder - Silver (CTMH).

Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 2017

Hooray it's the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop! I've been planning this card this week and came across the perfect sentiment to add to it just released from Verve! This is my first blended background with my distress inks and I am quite pleased with how it turned out.

Paper - White Daisy, Chocolate cardstock (CTMH); Perfectly Plaid for Fall (Lawn Fawn);

Stamps - Coffee Please Digital Stamp (Verve);

Dies - Coffee Love (SSS); Noted: Scalloped A1 Die Collection (Papertrey Ink);

Ink - Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick, Peacock Feathers, Walnut Stain (Tim Holtz Distress Ink).

Joy Tags

I had the perfect stamp to play along with this week's Merry Monday challenge and hope to be playing along frequently this fall now that they are back!

Paper - Poppy, Kraft cardstock (CTMH);

Stamps - Holiday Jingle (CTMH);

Ink - Desert Sand ink; White, Silver embossing powder (CTMH);

Dies - Stitched Dress Up Tags (SSS); Flourished Tag (Verve).

Sidewalks Dressed in Holiday Style

Do you ever have a vision of what you want a card to look like but you just can't make it happen on paper? Well that definitely happened to me this week! I played and played with this idea and am finally happy with the result! I wanted to play along with Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday challenge for the first time and was excited to pull out this set I've had for a few years to play along with the "small images on repeat" challenge this week. I am also linking up with the "stamp it" challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

Paper - Kraft, White Daisy cardstock (CTMH); 

Stamps - City Scene, City Scene Christmas Sentiments (PTI);

Ink - Charcoal, Cranberry, Sweet Leaf, Cocoa (CTMH); Hybrid Key Lime (SSS);

Dies - City Scene Die Collection (PTI); 3 Sided Scallop (SSS);

Embellishments - Black Metallic Twine, Gold Glitter pen (CTMH).

Fall Flowers

I really quite liked both the sketch and the inspiration photo colours over at Fusion and decided to use them to make our niece's birthday card.

Paper - Kraft, Colonial White, Black, Sea Glass cardstock (CTMH); 

Stamps - Card Word Puzzle (CTMH); 

Embossing Folder - Wood Slats (CTMH);

Embellishments - Just Blooms Floret Paper Flowers, Liquid Glass (CTMH); Clear gumdrops (YNS); twine.

French Toast Ooh La La

It is my goal this fall to really work on making sure I have an actual breakfast every single day - something I have struggled with for years! I decided on this name for my french toast dish because it reminds me of being in France and having SO many delectable choices for breakfast. It was inspired by a beautiful recipe from the Whitewater Cooks with Passion cookbook. Here is my version for one person. You can substitute basically any berries you want for this yummy breakfast.

Snowflake Blueprint Tags

Here are some more tags to add to my Christmas collection! I used some of my new Hero Arts supplies, along with these awesome Tim Holtz sketches, to play along with the "anything goes" challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

Paper - Slate, Kraft cardstock (CTMH); Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black (CTMH);

Stamps - Christmas Blueprint (Tim Holtz); Open Me Clearly (Hero Arts);

Dies - Open Me Clearly (Hero Arts); Stitched Dress Up Tags (SSS).