Magical Stair Step Card

I made this fun and easy stair step card in honor of this week's Featured Stamper at SCS, Karen! Karen is such a talented artist with a gallery brimming with inspiration! I chose to case her wonderful High Hopes Fall Stair Step card, changing my theme to Christmas. I used my Cricut and Winter Frolic cartridge to create the scenery and the little green house is a Unity stamp.  The stitched tag die is from My Creative Time's "Build A Banner" stamp and die set, which I love and adore! Embellishing a stair step card is soooo funnnnn!!! I had a ball making this one!  I hope you are inspired to try one too! Thanks for visiting!

SCS Featured Stamper Sunday!

Okay, so technically it's Monday--stamping is good for insomnia ;) This week Michelle Pearson was the Featured Stamper HERE at Splitcoast and a well deserved title indeed! Her gallery is beautiful, take a PEEK for yourself! After perusing through Michelle's stunning cards, I finally chose to case her sweet Christmas Snowman card. I used her Christmas theme and card layout, but changed my embossed bg from snowflakes to swiss dots and inked up Warm & Cozy Christmas by Gina K. Designs, colored in with Copic markers and finished with 2 buttons and a bit of gingham trim.

Thanks for visiting! Have a creative day! :)

Peaceful Winter

Hello! Thought I would show you what I made for SCS's Featured Stamper challenge today. *StampingPam* has an awesome gallery and I got my inspiration from her card here:

www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/353733?cat=500&ppuser=80431

I used a pre-folded glossy card from http://www.cornishheritagefarms.com/ for the base. I stamped the moon in craft white pigment ink, then embossed it with white embossing powder. I then rubbed purely pomegranate, pretty in pink and whisper white water-based dye inks by Stampin' Up across it to create a sky effect, then easily wiping excess ink from moon. I stamped the stamp set "Lovely As A Tree" from SU! in craft white again and repeated the same embossing technique as above. I sponged pomegranate very lightly sporadically on the trees for highlights, then matted them on two layers of cardstock. I popped the image on dimensionals, then stamped "Peace" from Stampendous on the bottom (I also embossed this in clear ep.) The stitched ribbon was placed behind the scene and I added diamond stickles to the moon, ground and trees.

If you haven't already, check out Pam's gallery over at SCS today and make your card case too! It's so inspiring! ~Hugs and Happy Stamping~