Elegant Season's Greetings

Start your season with an elegant ornament display. This card features three dangling ornaments. Each ornament is a two-toned color combination. In order to create the ornament, I stamped the image on vanilla paper and punched it out. Secondly, I punched a slightly larger circle out of the same color as the ink used for the stamped image. Simple green ribbon creates the dangling effect.

PPA115 - Silly Spooky Spider Card

This Silly Spooky Spider is a work of punch art!
Each leg is two pieces of oblong window punch cut in half. His scary teeth - the points of a small star punch cut off. I recommend only attaching part of each leg to the card, leaving the ends un-attached. This gives the cards great movement and dimension. Card measures a standard 4 1/4" by 5 1/2".

Magic Window Birthday Wishes Card

This card features a bold red design with a scalloped center panel. The scallop area contains three square stamped spots with 3-D raised circles. To complete the look, the Birthday Wishes Message is right aligned in a Modern Label punched out spot in the lower portion of the card.

- Card measures a standard 4 1/4" by 5 1/2"

- The exterior message reads: "birthday wishes"
- The inside is blank

Simple Chic Sunflower Thank You Greeting Card

This card was a personal challenge for a 'Single Layer'. No ribbon, no layers, and no embellishments. The card features a simple chic sunflower. By stamping the petals in different colors, you have the ability to create a layered look. For this card I used More Mustard and So Saffron. The simple tag 'thank you' in chocolate ship completes the look.


- Card measures a standard 4 1/4" by 5 1/2"
- The exterior message reads: "thank you"
- The inside is blank

PPA60 - Spongy Spooky Halloween

This week's PPA challenge (http://www.palspaperarts.com/) is a wicked one! Check out the site to see all the wicked, good fun they are having sharing cards in the Halloween theme.

For this card, I went sponge crazy. I started with the partially colored-in tree stamp. Using a combination of Basic Black and Whisper White, I sponged a foggy background over the entire card. Then I punched a 1-1/4' circle and used it as a mask to sponge in More Mustard and Daffodil Delight for the moon. To create the fog effort over the moon, take the edge of your sponge and swipe white across. Finally to complete the card, I added a two step stampin' process with the 'Goblin Greetings' message.

Mojo Monday 156 - Birthday Striping

Another Monday, Another Mojo. This week's sketch allows you to get creative with patterns and stripes. Check our the site for more examples of fellow stampers. (http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/)

For this project, I used an embossing folder with the Big Shot to create the patterns stripes of paper. I also used a striped ribbon in Daffodil Delight to provide another level of striping across the card.

PPA59 – Celebrity Color Challenge

PPA (http://www.palspaperarts.com/) offers a weekly challenge to help you get through that mid-week slump. Each Wednesday you can find a new sketch, color challenge, or a variety of other options to get your creativity going.

A beautiful speckling effect can be created by layering stamp over stamp over stamp. If you add a set which features the two stampin' option you can generate a dimension effect. To complete the look, I added a few stamped and cut out flowers and added a simple message.