Home for the Holidays!

I am so excited for yet another amazing release from Wild Whisper!! November 1st marked the release of Home for the Holidays! And yes, order two of everything LOL Decisions are so hard to make when both sides of the paper and the card pack are gorgeous!!

My first project with this new release is this great flip card.

The ornament sheet of paper just screams to be fussy cut, so to silence the paper, I fussy cut a bunch of the ornaments and added them with pop dots! And the small sentiments stamps from the set are just perfect to fit inside the ornaments. For more detailed pics and pics of the inside head on over to the Wild Whisper blog and check it out. Don't forget to follow on Instagram and the blog because there will be new projects up all month long with this wonderful holiday collection! 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!!

Cathy

Christmas Has Begun

I was so lucky yesterday to be able to pick up some of the Christmas dies from the Tim Holtz Christmas release! Before anyone else in the world (well before other stores had them)! How excited were the shoppers at the Customer Appreciation day at Clipper Street yesterday?! Crazy excited!! So many dies sold out so quickly! I was so happy to get my hands on the retro car! It had me at first sight! LOL I was excited to get that package open and try it out! Wow...there are a so many little pieces and yes I did lose two teeny weeny dots for the "i" and for the exclamation point! But perfect chance to add a touch of bling.

The completed card. Nothing to fancy on the first run, I put it together like it shows on the packaging. The blue behind the hills is just blended Iced Spruce Oxide ink then splattered with Salty Ocean Oxide ink.

Here are all the tiny bits you use to put this together. The door panels are there too, just hard to see on my Ranger mat. One thing I did have to redo was the set of black ovals at the bottom. they need to done in white so you get the image of the whitewall tires.

These are all the different papers I used for all the little bits. The plaid and the stripe are from the TH paper stash last year and were used for the bow and gift and the words. The silver holographic I used for the the 3 little fender pieces. I used a shimmer white (had in my stash and never used it before) for the snowy hills, the red for the base of the car is also a shimmery one. Two shades of green for the trees and black and white for the tire bits. The car panels are cut out of a little piece of scrap I had left over from my coffee journal I made.

And again, all the little pieces put together! :)

I am very happy to have my hands on this die and can't wait to create more cards with it. I already have a turquoise cardstock picked out for the next car and on that car I think I'll do white panels. Or not...not sure yet lol. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Cathy

I Was Ahead of the game!

I was so prepared and had everything timed out and what days I was going to work on what gifts etc....then I got an abscess tooth and my face was swollen to the size of a baseball and soo painful. I lost two days of crafting time. Went to the clinic, major antibiotics, on the mend, face is only size of a ping pong ball now and pain is greatly reduced and now I have to play catch up!! 

I did get some ornaments done before the tooth issue. My sister asked me to make some ornaments for her, as gifts for our Aunts and Uncles. I tried some new ideas and liked how they all turned out!

The tree box and cork ornament went to one set and the purple Believe and snowman hat went to the other set.

Used a TH bottle brush tree for the first time!! Stained with Evergreen Bough, then dipped the edges in Picket Fence paint and Soft Fallen Snow ep from Emerald Creek.

Stained the baubles with turquoise and silver alcohol ink and hot glue them into the tree.

Found a gold star in my stash but wanted it to be more sparkly so I dipped it in glue and then dipped it in Irridescent sparkle ep and added some distress glitter too.

 

Sliced a wine cork into circles (on the hunt to find a better way of doing this so I can get them more uniform), glued them together then added the steampunk tree charm and the reindeer charm to a piece of jute and tied them in the center.

A little irridescent medium added to my distress paint to paint the ornament, then punched (another TH punch that I completely forgot i had) out the snowflakes on shimmery silver cardstock.

Dylusions stencil, texture paste with the irridescent medium to decorate the back.

And last but not least, a little snowman hat. Yes i found this idea on pinterest and it worked out!! I used one of the K-cups from my coffee machine, painted it with Dina Wakely's black Gesso and glued that to a circle of black cardstock (also gesso'd this so the blacks matched).

Glued some ribbon from my stash around it and used it for the hanging part as well. The greens and berries were again things I had in my stash of craft supplies.

So my family has new ornaments for their trees, my sister got gifts to give them and I have some new ideas for ornaments for my craft fair next year! And I've already added to my ribbon stash for the snowman hats! LOL ANd I know we will definitely have a pile of K-cups because we drink alot of coffee in this house!!

Thank you all for the support and comments this year, it has been appreciated so much. And this year has brought me in contact with so many new crafting friends all over the world and I am so grateful for that! Hope that which ever holiday you are celebrating, it is filled with love and laughter and all things wonderful for you and yours! Merry Christmas from my home to yours!!

Thank you!

Cathy

 

Wild Whisper Inaugural Blog Hop

Welcome to the inaugural blog hop, introducing Wild Whisper Designs!! A brand new Canadian company designing their own paper lines and carrying matching embellishments from other companies. I am so honored to be a part of this exciting day and to have been able to create a couple of projects to share the Wild Whisper Holiday Style collection with you all.

I created a Christmas postcard and a pocket scrapbook page. I used some of the 12X12 sheets, the 4X6 cards and the 3X4 cards too.  The hardest part for me was having to decide which side to use because I love them all!! And I did not want to cut into my pages, but sometimes I just have to do it! 

Up first is my 4X6 Christmas post card. I went with this size so I could use the full antler background and I could pop up my layers a bit more on the front and still be able to mail it! 

The background is the 4X6 antler card, then I have used a piece of the teal plaid from the 12X12 pages for layering, and I used a left over piece from one of the 3X4 cards to stamp Merry Christmas on. The stag and the Merry Christmas stamps are from Emerald Creek.

Directly behind the stag is a piece of a 3X5 card in a lighter teal, then the plaid.

I love how the whole collection matches so well!

 

The Merry Christmas was stamped on a piece of a 3X5 card and then layered on the teal plaid.

My second project was a pocket scrapbooking page. I have had these pages in my stash for a while and just hadn't gotten around to using them. As soon as I saw the Holiday Style collection, I knew I had found my muse!!

This is the page with my little flip pockets closed and showing the the cards I used.

 

This is the 4X6 card and I knew what picture I was going to use, even though it makes me look ridiculous! LOL

And "Dressed in Holiday Style" is me in my "Free the Elves" shirt with my elf hat and elf shoes. My kids just rolled their eyes when they walked in the door and here I was!! LOL

The bottom half of the page with a 4X4 flip pocket, and inside this pocket is a trimmed 3X4 card and the "notes" piece is one of the 3X5 cards too.

And under the second flip pocket is my daughter and I! She is a bit like me :) But we love our holiday style!

And for the strip down the side I used the teal plaid. And you can see here the back of the Dressed in Holiday Style is this gorgeous firework. You can leave it as it is, which I did or you could put another picture in the pocket.

I loved creating with this collection and I know I'll need another one just so I can use the other sides of the cards! And I still have pieces left that I can finish a few more pocket pages, I can do a 12X12 layout and I'm pretty sure I'm going to be fussy cutting out some of the sayings on the 12X12 page. So much fun with this collection and I can't wait to order the Adventure Collection, I 'm not outdoorsy, but I will be able to have some good pics to use with the Adventure Collection!

Thank you so much for stopping by this stop of the blog hop and welcoming Wild Whisper Designs to the paper crafting industry!! Don't forget to hop over to the other blogs featuring Wild Whisper Designs!
You have a chance to win both collections, Holiday Style and Adventure!! Just make sure you visit and comment on all the posts in this blog hop and both of these new incredible collections could be yours!
You're next stop for inspiration in the Wild Whisper Blog Hop is 
Katelyn - A Creative Journey 

Have a great hop everyone!

Here is your complete blog list!! You have until November 25th to comment on each post for your chance to win!!!

 Wild Whisper

 Kim 

Julia 
Tori

 Nicole 

 Wild Whisper YouTube

Cathy...You are here

Katelyn

 Heather

Cathy

Tag #10 - Tim Holtz Tags of 2016

Woot Woot!! Got my October tag done!! Wasn't sure I was going to pull this one off since I didn't have the supplies for one of the techniques! It took me a bit but I found a semi compromise so I could do the top layer of this tag! And I also skipped Halloween again and went straight to Christmas! I promise...next year I'll do Halloween!! I hope to have more seasonal things next year!

Tag #10!! I can hardly believe I made it this far! LOL Unfortunately I do not have any of the Monster dies and am not able to get them before they retire. But I did manage to get the cardinal die from Simon Says Stamp when I won a GC for there! The cardinal doesn't cover as much of the tag as the monsters do, so I did 3 of them and layered them! 

I ran the cardinals through my Big Shot with the poinsettia embossing folder and instead of using paint, I just used my Distress Crayon to rub over the emobssed parts. Because the silver I had was not a foil or metallic, the paint just soaked in (on the very bottom layered cardinal so you can't see it), so I improvised! I glue the bottom cardinal on flat them added the red and top silver with pop dots for dimension.

I added my Emerald Creek snowflake charm with some hemp twine and just tucked the other end of the twine under the cardinal.

My little steampunk tree from Emerald Creek had to make an appearance too. And omg...I love the crazing medium! I want to do that to everything!

A little saying from one of favorite embellishments, and just cut it to fit in the space I needed it to.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my October tag! Hope you are all having a great weekend and Happy Halloween!!To see all the other incredible tags head on over to Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2016 October!

Thank you,

Cathy

The Spirit of Christmas

.....is alive and well! My holiday wishes for all of you, that have taken the time to visit, comment and enter over at Emerald Creek Dares for our challenges or taken the time to visit my little corner of the blogging world is very simple.....Believe!! Believe in the true spirit of this holiday season, believe that wonderful and positive things are coming in the new year, believe that the small things you do for someone else truly matter, believe that you are important and believe in yourself.

Again....I used the gorgeous Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder exclusively from Emerald Creek. I used it on my flowers, on a pinecone charm, snowflake charms and on the background behind my large pinecones! Yes I love it!

On my tiny pinecone charms I embossed two with Burnt Copper Leaves and one with Soft Fallen Snow

On the stamped image I used Soft Fallen Snow and Burnt Copper Leaves embossing powder

I used some Prima flowers I had stashed away, sprayed them with Barn Door Distress Spray, then dipped them in Soft Fallen Snow.

My finished card!

From my home to yours, where ever you are and however you celebrate, Merry Christmas and always....Believe!!

Don't forget to enter your holiday projects for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Emerald Creek Craft Supplies!! (Just think, you could have your very own jar of Soft fallen Snow!)

And please take the time to go and visit the rest of the design team's amazing creations!! They are truly an inspiring and creative group that I am honored to be a part of :)


Julia
Karon
Diana
Katelyn
Shilpa
Claudia

Products Used
Emerald Creek PC Frame 

Emerald Creek Snowflake 

Emerald Creek Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder

Emerald Creek Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder

Emerald Creek Pine Cone Charm

Emerald Creek Mini Victorian Snowflake Charm

Emerald Creek Believe Buckle Charm

Emerald Creek Arctic White Cardstock
Tim Holtz Distress Spray - Barn Door
Tim Holtz Distress Spray - Brushed Pewter
Tim Holtz Distress Spray - Tarnished Brass
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Mermaid Lagoon
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Evergreen Bough


Challenges Entered
2 Creative Chicks

My Digital Studio - Must Have

I have not been one for the digital scrapbooking, but then I`ve not really given it a try. For those of you who are on the fence about this, you have the perfect opportunity to try out some great layouts and ideas with Stampin`Up!`s MDS Express Free 30 Day Trial!!
I downloaded it myself last night and have made a couple small simple projects with it.  I love it and with all the digital downloads available, there is something for everyone and preset layouts are available if you are stuck for ideas. I will be spending more time playing with this over the next few days but am really enjoying this. And even if you use the MDS, once your printed book/card arrives you can still add some little embellishments if you`d like.

The first picture is a Keith Urban card that I did up to print for a few friends of mine who are as obsessed with said fellow as I am :)

This picture is set up as a 12 x 12 scrapbook page and I just chose a couple of pics from our Zoolights trip that was just myself and my kids. It was really a good night and I loved spending time with my babes. Both were done with the My Digital Studio Express Free Trial!

If you`ve ever thought about trying digital scrapbooking....even just for a moment...NOW is the time!!

Have a great night!

Cathy

Christmas Tree that I Love

I received these images in a swap a couple of years ago. The tree is still in the current catalogue and I just love it.

The tree is in the Snow Swirled set...LOVE it. Added a bit of sparkle with a dab of glue and some silver glitter. Or if you wanted to you could use the smallest silver brads to add some dimension as well. I added the small bow, but you could use a narrow ribbon straight across and add some small buttons too. With this one stamp the possibilities are endless and it can be as involved or as clean and simple as you want it to be.

Have a great night!

Cathy