Skating By

I loved Maile Belles' card a while back with cut out ice skates dangling on the front. Seen Here  I thought I'd try my own version.  I cut mine out of glitter cardstock with my Cricut.  I used some downloaded Color Couture paper from PTI, along with a Color Couture card template.  First time I've used either.

Cherry Cobbler Thank You

I was SUPER excited when PTI released the stamp set that coordinated with their Mat Stack Die 1.  I'm looking forward to all the other releases to follow!  I'm in love with labels, Just like the rest of the stamping world, I suppose.  I like the look of white stamped on Cherry Cobbler, so I decided to try it again, with the Delightful Dahlia stamps.  I added tiny pearls under the sentiment, medium ones on the smaller flowers, and large pearls on the big flowers.  I really love the simplicity and beauty of this one.

Felt Christmas Tree

I loved the idea of the green felt Christmas tree and different colored buttons that Maile Belles used on her blog back in Sept.  Now that I finally have the tree die, I decided to try my own version.  I used buttons from an Autumn Leaves Bag o Buttons (I loved the Christmas color combo).

Then I mounted the tree to a piece of Baja Breeze cardstock that was embossed with Elegant Lines.

FTL 117

I am so happy with how this card turned out.  I have been wanting to experiment with white dots on Cherry Cobbler paper for a while.  I cut the snowflakes with my Cricut from white glitter cardstock.

Pretty Paper

Eek!  Are we REALLY more than half way done with November???!  Where did the time go?  I have been super busy the last couple of weeks and haven't updated.  But today I HAD to share this card because of the gorgeous paper!  It almost felt immoral to cover it up.

I used the new Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Up! paper for the card base, and Victorian scalloped circle.  As well as the ink to stamp the Holiday Tags 2008 (PTI) center.  I added glitter to my star with a two way glue pen.  The sentiment was stamped and embossed with a mixture of white detail embossing powder and glitter.  I added some Aqua Mist ribbon to accent the mat of Aqua Mist.

FTL #114

I  used some spare maple leafs I punched from a previous card.  I used those to make my flowers, and a flourish from PTI's Fancy Flourishes. The sentiment is from Everyday Button Bits.

Mummy Oreos

I found this idea when someone on the PTI forum posted a link.  I HAD to try these.  Here's the link: Halloween Cookie Suckers 

The website with the instructions even has a free downloadable PDF for the bags.  I used the snapshot tool on Adobe to only print out the front of the bag (I'm stingy with my colored ink) and added some orange stickles to the center of the circles.  I made the box out of Basic Black and added the spider web stamp from Spooky Sweets II (PTI).

The mummies are wrapped in sucker bags I picked up at Michael's, and super thin orange ribbon.  I stamped little tags from the retired SU! set Boogily Eyes.  I used a watercolor pencil and blender pen to add some color to my mummies and topped them off with teeny tiny googily eyes.  I matted the mummy image with Rich Razzelberry scalloped circles.  On the back I stamped 'Happy Halloween' and a little pumpkin.

Some tips - my 'Boo Box's were a little top heavy from the suckers, not sure what would work best to keep these upright.  That's why they're photographed laying down.