Holiday Place Cards--#tgifc343

This week the TGIF Challenges inspiration challenge is to create Place Cards and Table Settings. My holiday tradition is always to have a little bit of candy at each place setting at Thanksgiving and a small gift at each place setting at Christmas.  This year I created a place card and gift in one with the Pretty Pillow Box Dies (#156321):  One design for the Christmas table and one for the Thanksgiving table. 

I'm going to have to do a bit of creative shopping to find gifts to fit these little Christmas boxes, one each for a 2-year old, a ten year old, two dads and two moms.  Any ideas out there for me?  Cash is an obvious and easy choice, but . . .

For these I used the Tidings of Christmas designer series paper (#155718) for the boxes. Be careful as you are creasing the score marks on the ends of the box--do it slowly to make sure you are folding on the actual scoreline and folding up the box.  It is easier for and looks better to me to use designer series paper rather than card stock for the actual box.  To use as a place card, I like to seal down the flaps on the top and one one end of the box, then tie a ribbon around it and tie the ribbon in a bow on the side that is just folded down for accessing the surprise inside.  On this one I used Gray Granite 1/4" shimmer ribbon (#152463).  The  name plate is die cut out of Gray Granite card stock and stamped with an image  from the Peaceful Cabin stamp set (#156395) using Evening Evergreen ink.  The Real Red berries were die cut using a Poinsettia die (#153522) and the Soft Succulent leaves from the Forever Flourishing dies (#152714).  You could also use some kind of embellishment to fancy these up--but I'll have a 2 year old at the table!

The Thanksgiving place cards will be easy to fill with either chocolate or mini candies.  They were created with the Beauty of the Earth designer series paper (#155841).  The ribbon is the retired Mossy Meadow braided linen trim.  The place card labels were die cut out of the Pretty Pillow Box dies--the large one in Old Olive and the small one for the name out of Basic White.  The leaves were die cut using the Intricate Leaves dies (#153566) out of Cajun Craze and Bumblebee.

For more holiday table ideas head over to the TGIF Challenges blog here:

Wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving with family and friends--and may your favorite football team win!!!

--Sara Nell

   

   

Peaceful Cabin--#tgifc342

It is the week for a sketch challenge over at TGIF Challenges. My sketch challenge card turned out a bit different than the plan in my head, but in a good way.  My cabin and trees substitute for the circle in the sketch:

I used the Peaceful Cabin Bundle (#156816, which includes the Peaceful Cabin stamp set,#156395 and the Cabin Dies, #156404, at 10% off) and the Tailor Made Tags dies (#155563).  The background paper is from the Beauty of the Earth designer series paper pack (#155841).

The cabin was stamped in Soft Suede, the trees in Mossy Meadow and the fox in Soft Suede, then colored with the Pumpkin Pie Combo Stampin' Blends (#154897).  The Peace was masked off from a greeting in the stamp set, stamped in VersaMark ink (#102283), heat embossed with White Stampin' Emboss Powder (#155554, Basics Pack), then die cut with a Tailor Made Tags die. The tag was  bowed with a piece of Linen Thread (#104199). 

Check out other projects made with this sketch over at the TGIF Challenges Blog here.

Have a great day!

--Sara Nell

 

Butterfly Thank You--#tgifc341

The TGIF Challenges this week is a color challenge of Very Vanilla, Pale Papaya, and Pool Party.  I added Soft Suede for my butterfly outline and greeting and created a soft and pretty card for you today: 

The card base is Very Vanilla, layered with Pool Party card stock.  The top layer is Very Vanilla splattered with Pale Papaya and Pool Party Stampin' Write Markers and embossed using the Parisian Flourish 3D embossing folder (#151474).   The Butterfly from Butterfly Brilliance stamp set was colored with Pale Papaya and Pool Party Stampin' Blends and die cute using the coordinating Brilliant Wings dies (#155523).  

The greeting is from the Peaceful Moments stamp set (#151595).  It was stamped on Very Vanilla card stock then fussy cut.  A piece of Pale Papaya & White 1/2" ribbon  completes the card.

Head over to TGIF Challenges Blog here to see more projects using this color combination:

Have a great day!

--Sara Nell 

  

Creation Station November Hop--Specialty Papers

 

Welcome to the November Creation Station Blog Hop!

I'm glad you are here!  This month our theme is Specialty Papers--so get ready for some great inspiration. Be sure and click on the "Next" link at the end of each designer's blog to see all of our different takes on favorite Stampin' Up! specialty papers.

There is a nice variety of Stampin' Up! specialty papers to from which to choose. I chose from the shimmery, shiny ones:  The Expressions in Ink specialty designer series paper (#155464) with its bits of gold, the Gold & Rose Gold Metallic specialty paper (#156844), the 2021-2023 In Color Shimmer Vellum (#155616), the Gold Shimmer Vellum (#156471), the Brushed Metallic card stock (#153524) and the Snowy White Velvet Sheets (#156405). I embellished the cards with Simply Elegant Trim (#155766), Metallic Pearls (#146282) and 2021-2023 In Color Jewels (#155571).  I finished off all the fancy with some Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder (Metallics set, #155555).

Both cards feature the Poinsettia Petals stamp set (#153475) and coordinating Poinsettia Dies (#153522) with the same layout.  One is in greens and gold and the other in pinks and white with gold accents.  I really like how both versions turned out but, despite the tough time I had with the photos, I do think I slightly favor the pink and white card

Now head over to Denita Wright-Smee's blog.  I can't wait to see her beautiful creations this month!

To to Denita's Blog . . .

Have a happy, thankful November!

--Sara Nell

TGIF Challenges Mash-Up--#tgifc340

It's challenge time again over at TGIF Challenges and we are doing a Mash-up of at least 2 of the challenges we had in October.  I picked the sketch challenge and the technique challenge for my mash-up project:

The strips in the sketch challenge were created with strips of vellum card stock on which I used the alcohol blending technique.  These strips of vellum were adhered to Basic White card stock so the colors would pop on the background.  The colors used in the technique were Misty Mountain, Soft Succulent and a bit of Calypso Coral.

The stamped images and dies cuts are from the Nature's Harvest stamp set (#156495) and coordinating Harvest dies (#156504).  These may be purchased separately or bundled at 10% off (#156813).  Card stock and and inks used are Calypso Coral, Early Espresso and Basic White.  Early Espresso faux suede trim (#152472) was placed under the greeting piece.  There is a layer piece Crumb Cake and a card base of Calypso Coral.

For more fun challenge mash-ups, go to the TGIF Challenges Blog here.

Have a great weekend!

--Sara Nell