Masculine Christmas card

It's Christmas in July for the SCS Creative Crew!  Here is my masculine Christmas card for that challenge.  The cardbase is Cherry Cobbler.  See that Early Espresso layer??  It's the new Coredinations cardstock from the Holiday Mini!  The paper core is a different color (Crumb Cake in this case), so you can emboss it and sand it; I used the Woodgrain embossing folder.  The image is from Lovely as a Tree.  I layered that onto Be of Good Cheer DSP and tied some Cherry Cobbler bakers twine around it.  The sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes is punched with the modern label punch.

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New stamps plus paper piercing

I'm loving the new paper piercing templates!  This card uses Layered Labels for the main image, and the sentiment is from Itty Bitty Banners.  Both layers are cut out with the Big Shot.  The card base is Baja Breeze.  I used Twitterpated DSP and Island Indigo ribbon.

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Krissy's birthday card

I made this card for Krissy for her 18th birthday.  I love this pattern from Summer Smooches DSP!  It's so bright and cheery.  I also thought the circles echoed the shape of the medallion.  It's from the new set Blue Ribbon.  I was going to just add the ribbons at the bottom but decided I liked the look of the full loop.

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Hand Stamped Sentiments Artist Pick!

The kind and talented ladies at Hand Stamped Sentiments chose my butterflies card as one of this week's artist picks!  I'm blown away and so thankful!  I know some of these ladies, and they are uber-talented!

Fabric flower

The flower on this card is made of Twitterpated fabric.  I used the Big Shot and the Fun Flowers die to cut it out.  The card base is Old Olive.  I added striped Twitterpated DSP, an antique brad and Riding Hood Red pleated ribbon.  The sentiment is from Itty Bitty Banners.
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Color challenge butterflies

Today, I was checking out blogs, and I found a color challenge I really liked on Hand Stamped Sentiments.  The color combo is Calypso Coral, Baja Breeze and Daffodil Delight.  I've been wanting to make these butterflies for while, and this color combo is perfect!  The flower from Mixed Bunch is punched out, and two petals are trimmed away.  I also punched out 2 flowers from cardstock to add to the edges of the wings.  I used Calypso Coral bakers twine for the antennae.

The card base is Daffodil Delight with Baja Breeze DSP from Twitterpated.  The ribbon is retired SAB.  The sentiment is from Itty Bitty Banners and cut out with a framelit.

I'm so pleased with the piece that the butterflies are adhered to.  I wanted to use that shape from the Apothecary Accents framelits, but I needed it to be longer.  I cut a 2nd one and adhered them together; the rectangle is 4 inches long.  I saw the mat measurements on Patty Bennett's blog; I just made mine longer.  (For the original shape, cut a 1 5/8 X 3 1/8 rectangle and add 2 1" circles.  For my piece, the rectangle is 1 5/8 X 4 1/8.)  I used the new paper piercing template to add an accent around the edge, and I also added 2 Calypso Coral brads.

Happy stamping!