Merry Christmas

Hello everyone and happy Friday!! Ohh my gosh...the LAST shopping weekend before Christmas...are ya ready??? Can you believe Christmas is Wednesday???? I'm sooo not ready. Usually I am calm and collected and have things done well in advance...not so much this year and I'm in panic mode! I just have my son to shop for and it's all his fault since he won't give me a clue as to what to get him. Darn kids!!! 

With things being all willy-nilly this time of year I decided to pull a cute little card out of the Addict vault. I know what you're gonna say..."again with the Medium Pine tree??" Yup, again with the Medium Pine Tree...told ya it was one of my faves, lol!! ;)

I just LOVE making my own patterned paper and this little card is chocked full of DeNami yumminess!! For the card base I simply used the polka dot background with some Versa Mark ink. On the larger panel I used the same polka dot background stamp then stamped the berries and pine cone from the Classic Christmas stamp set. On the smaller panes I used the polka dot background again and then stamped the word "Merry" from the Merry Christmas sentiment along with the holly leaves from the Classic Christmas set I used on the other panel. It seems like I used a lot of stamps, but really, I didn't...5 stamps is all it took - medium pine, medium swirl, polka dot background, Merry Christmas sentiment & Classic Christmas. Having that little Classic Christmas petit four set made it very easy since you get 4 matching images in one little set. I couldn't live without my DeNami petit four sets!!

Well that's it for me today. Be careful out there this weekend, too many party goers and shoppers! See you on Monday :)

Monochromatic Christmas card

Whew...you wouldn't believe what just a couple of days off your blood pressure meds will do to a person! Saw my doctor, got a refill and am feeling much better!! :) So much better that I have a brand new card for you today!!

Before we get to that, I have to give a big ole shout out for our own uber sweet and seriously talented DeNami gal, Lisa Elton! She's one of the newest DT gals (starting January) over at Paper Sweeties!! How fun :) and I can't wait to see what she makes with those darling images!!! Congrats Lisa!!!

Alrighty then, lets get to todays little card! I saw a darling little monochromatic card in green and white on Pinterest (I'm sure you aren't surprised, lol) and wanted to make one myself....

Well I almost nailed it, lol!!!! After I made the card I thought it really needed a little pop of color so I redid my medium pine tree with it's little medium tree swirl overlay stamp. Well, doing that led to another change - I had to pull the gold color from somewhere so I changed out the green rhinestones for gold ones. All in all, I'm happy with my card even if it isn't the monochromatic card I started out to make :)

That's it for me today, I'll see you back here on Monday with the cutest little Christmas treat box!!! See ya then, have a great weekend!

Denami Razzle dazzle blog hop - 12/8/13

It's a happy happy day because today it's time for another FUN DeNami blog hop :)

Let's get started shall we.... Here's the deets:
When: The blog hop starts on December 8,2013 at 6 AM, PST. However, you have until December 9, 2013, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on all the blogs (to be eligible for a prize).

Why: To be inspired by fun DeNami Design creations and also the chance to win mini shopping sprees on the DeNami Design website!

Prizes: We are giving away THREE $20 gift certificates to our website! We'll be giving away one gift certificate to a random participant (DT members not eligible) and then we'll also be giving away TWO gift certificates to TWO people who comment along the hop!

You should have arrived here from Tenia Nelson's blog. I'm betting you LOVED what she had for ya, her work is amazing :) If you didn't that's not a problem, simply head back to the DeNami blog and you will easily be able to get back on track.

I have 2 little projects for you today :) This first one was pretty darn easy but if I did it again I'd make one little change...

 

The change I'd make is that instead of rhinestones I'd use red stickles. This card has plenty of razzle dazzle! There's over 60 rhinestones...how's that for razzle dazzle, lol??? As I said, this card was super easy, I simply die cut the green holly panel and laid it over a piece of pattern paper then attached it to a kraft card base. Then I added a little sentiment (stamped from the Holiday Greetings set & popped up on foam tape) and added little bows.

Now this next card was a little harder and took forever to make, but boy oh boy am I happy with the results! if you know me at all you know I'm a Pinterest addict. Have y'all seen that gals are making snow globes with upside down mason jars??? ADORABLE!!! Well it gave me the idea for this little card...

Yup, it actually works!!! I made a fun little shaker card with my mason jar die cut :) And what would the season be if I didn't pull out one of my all time fave DeNami stamps, Medium Pine? Did you know that there are 3 stamps that you can stamp on top of this darling tree...I used the Star Swirl on this card.

 

After stamping the tree and swirl I used a cream pearl pen to make the "snow" inside the jar and added some DeNami Citrine glitter to the swirl and a little shaved ice from Stampendous to the "ground" around the tree. I added a little of both the glitter and shaved ice inside the "jar" to free float when you shake the card. The sentiment is another one from the Holiday Greetings set that I used on the other card. 

Allrighty, now off you go to visit with the super talented Tammy Hobbs!!! I'll see you back here tomorrow with some new The Shabby Tea Room challenge inspiration :) ...shhh, this one is right up my alley, it calls for one of my FAVE things...polka dots!! Don't tell anyone I told ya because the challenge doesn't start until tomorrow!! ;)

Classic Christmas...

I wasn't to sure how this card was going to turn out as I was trying to come up with a new layout. But in the end, it makes me smile, and we all know that that's what counts. It's very rare that I make a card on the fly without any forethought and comes out so perfect in my eyes. Hope you like it too :)

 

 

 

So whatcha think? I just had to have me some polka dots, lol. I started out by pulling out the green and lime cardstocks then realized I needed a 3rd neutral color and decided on kraft...kraft goes with everything! I just love that medium pine image. I purchased it last year along with the 3 stamps that you can lay over the top (this swirl line, stars and a mix of the stars and swirl). It's simply a beautiful little stamp.

 

PS: the medium tree swirl and medium star tree are on clearance....just sayin' ;)

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!