Merry Monday # 156

The Merry Monday Challenge is to use Pine cones, Greens and the word BELIEVE.

I used PTI Peaceful Pinecones and my MISTI to double stamp and to have the leaves be in the same corner of the card.  After everything was stamped, I then cut it out using a Lil' Inkers Stitched rectangle die.  The "believe" (a  little yellow bicycle die) is cut from gold foil paper and once from white.  The gold sequins are from PPP.

I added a little bit of gold Wink of Stella to the pine cone tips.

Merry Monday ~ Pinecones and plaid ribbon

Merry Monday Challenge 

is all about pinecones, green and plaid ribbon.

I used PTI Peaceful Pinecones and a sentiment from a Stampin' Up set.

I used water color paper and distress inks,

and I used the Wink of Stella all over the pinecones, too bad it doesn't show on the picture!

Heart Hugs!

 

Merry Monday # 83 Stripes, Red, brown...stars or hearts AND The Holiday Online Card Class

Over at The Merry Monday on Lelsey's blog Always Playing with Paper you can find the newest challenge for Merry Monday.  Red, Chocolate, stripes and stars or hearts.  Do you see that I have one little heart on my card?  Plus I have the word heart...that counts too, right?  And of course the stripes are there.

the inside has a gift card holder

All products are Papertrey
stamps:  Peaceful Pinecones, Love Lives Here: Holiay, Think big Favorites #20
paper:  dark chocolate, white, pure poppy, vellum
Super Stripes Embossing Plate
dies:  Bells & Boughs, Peaceful Pincecones
ink:  dark chocolate, pure poppy
Twinery Twine, washi tape

I am also going to enter this into the Hoilday Card Class...I embossed the front of my card and added the vellum to the inside for a little pocket for a gift card.

Thanks for taking a look friends!
Heart Hugs,
Colleen

Merry Monday! Festive Friday! Building my Christmas stash!

                                                   

I love these color combos and think they are terrific for Christmas!  In fact I bought a roll of kraft paper just to wrap gifts and cover it with red twine, ribbons and tags...I think the presents will look so pretty under the tree!  I actually had this piece of kraft already stamped with some branches and pine cones from a set my BFF has...I had pulled it out and also found this strip of red in the same box, so I had mounted it on the side and wasn't sure what I was going to do with it, but then the MERRY MONDAY Challenge came up and voila... and I just realized this would work for the FESTIVE FRIDAY CHALLENGE !  It was craft red and green AND peace.  I pulled out Mistletoe and Holly and die cut my mistletoe with some ripe avocado paper and then stamped the design with simply chartreuse.

 



Paper:  PTI kraft, Authentique collection:  wonder, pure poppy

stamps:  Mistletoe & Holly, Peaceful Pinecones, Love Lives Here:  Holiday
dies:  Mistletoe & Holly
Ink:  versamark, simply chartreuse, MFT  colorbox red hot 
May Arts twine

Thanks for taking a look...almost all the kiddos are back in school today...mom's (and grandma's) can have a breather!!  My BFF is babysitting her two girls...they start tomorrow!  Sadly she won't be crafting with me via Skype today!