Just sittin'

The year's end is fast approaching...time to renew

Moxie Fab World's Tuesday Trigger has a calming effect on me. Take a look at this room from Coastal Living. Serene. Love the colours.

The colour combo was most inspirational to me.

I decided to use this chair image from Impression Obsession and coloured it in a light warm gray with my Copic markers. I think the gray gives the chair that worn, has a history look to it. Maybe many stories were read/told from that chair...

The cushions on the chair took their colour combo from this pattern paper from DCWV "Berry Street" from the Farmer's Market pack. I love the textures and quality of this company.

Here is a close up of the chair. I cut out all of the spaces on the chair back with an Exacto knife. I have to tell you that this took more than the 5 minutes in my head that I thought it would! I do like the outcome however :) I also decided that the seat cushion should be puffy, so I stamped out another and coloured, backed it with dimensional foam and voila', a puffy seat cushion.

The punches I used are MS and the sentiment is also Impression Obsession.

Thanks for peeking in again,

cheers, chriss

Knitting my Mojo!

Here is my Mojo119 submission...a little lambie knitting. I made it for my friend, Michelle. She is, you guessed it, a knitter! I thought it would be a fun unexpected New Year's giftie to send to her.

I took my layout inspiration from Julee's

Mojo Monday 119 sketch, seen above. I knew that I wanted to use papers from an SEI pack that I picked up last month, Chick a Doo. I originally wanted to make this a calendar, but quickly realized that I would be covering up all of this pretty green lace so I put my Mojo cap on and came up with the custom blend skeins of yarn.

The little lamb image is a Rubber Soul stamp that I can't remember where I purchased, but I think it was at a local scrap booking store several years ago! I stamped the image in Memento tux. black and coloured with Copic markers. I placed her on a petite scalloped blue circle and added some dimensional foam to the back to give the little lamb a bit of pop. I then used (for the VERY 1st TIME and LOVED it!!!)a JustRite border stamp from the Deluxe round Monogram kit and cut it out with a scalloped circle Nestability. I layered a round green circle behind that and placed all on a larger blue circle from the same SEI Chick a Doo paper kit, very cute papers in this kit! I bought the charm on ebay and attached it with a strand of embroidery floss. The white floral panel has the looped edges on it from a MS border punch. I thought these were appropriate loops to use to resemble yarn loops and knitting stitches. The green jewels on the scalloped circle are from K and CO.

Thanks for peeking in today. Have a good one

~chriss

Birthday bird and a SFYTT

Hello out there. I had time today to play along with Jenn's ~sketch for you to try~ and this is what I came up with...

I have not shown any love to my BG Urban Prairie paper pad lately (so many neglected collections that I have to put to good use, a new year's resolution for sure!) and it is such a pretty collection of papers, so I pulled it out and started mapping out my card with this great sketch from Jenn. More details for this can be found on the iheart2stamp.com blog.

I made my panels with the pink print and solid pink (this one I placed in a Quickutz Retro Diamonds embossing folder and backed them with the solid blue and adhered to the pink pirouette card base.

I made some circles and ovals using my Spellbinder Nestability dies, alternating the paper patterns. To these I added a punched MS bird, a SU birthday sentiment and a Serendipity cake image that I stamped with Tuxedo black Memento ink and coloured with my Copic markers. This has a lot of colour in it and I am wondering if it has a little too much going on. Well, that's it for now...

cheers,

Chriss

Easter Tuesday Trigger

Another little post here inspired again from the MoxieFab blog. One of my favourite colour combos. black/cream/green, a classic (imho).

I immediately thought of an oldtime stamp that I don't get to use that much because it is an Easter stamp, but I love the style of these images.

I stamped the image in Memento Tuxedo black onto a cream card stock and coloured the leaves with a pale olive Copic marker. The flowers were filled in with an opaque white acrylic from Jaquard that I have had for several years. It is similar to a Lumiare product, but without the shiny pearliness, more of a soft glow. I applied it with a blender pen. I did some very sparse shadows on the tulip base with another very pale Copic marker, just to give a little bit of depth. I then cut out the "tiles" and mounted with dimensional foam to some black squares that I cut with a Spellbinder Nestability frame. I have always like to see portions of a stamped image jut out on a different background, as shown above.

For the actual card, I adhered a cream and black dp from K & CO. to the entire front and then a panel of cream card stock that I embossed using a CB Damask folder. I backed this with the same black card stock and applied to the center front. I cut out a strip of old olive card stock and used a MS border punch on both edges, applied that to the embossed panel and then arranged the floral tiles to the center of that. Very easy, but I like the effect that the layering adds to this card. I like the simple structure of this layout and can imagine making some other cards with this easy layout...maybe Valentines ;)

Thanks for peeking in,

cheers!

chriss

Christmas Peace and a mousie!

Can you believe the date already! I keep telling myself that I am not in a panic...just yet.

I am finishing off some more Christmas cards for the breast cancer event tomorrow night, Thursday. I found out today that it is taking place...outside. It is unusually chilly here in Austin and ANYONE that knows me, knows I consider it cold if the thermometer is registering below 83! I will be layered for sure!

Well, enough of my whining. This cute mouse stamp is from PTI tags and I stamped her in black and used Nestabilities to cut out the circles. The dp is from the Cosmo Cricket Jolly by Golly and the cream card stock was textured with a Quickutz embossing folder "Retro Diamonds". It has been used a lot this week by me ;) I added the teeny

rhinestones for a little detail. They are a nice size to use when using the petite scallop Nestabilities (imho)

The next card is an "all PTI" card, except for the SU pomegranate ink. It is a good enough match (when you don't have scarlet jewel!) and I kinda like that it is a little brighter shade for this card. The same embossing folder was used and the dp is from this years PTI Christmas pack. The ribbon is scarlet jewel and I have used up the whole spool, so I guess I have to order more (and maybe the matching ink too, since I am paying for shipping anyway...right? The borders were created with one of my trusty MS punches. The sentiment is from the Believe set, the very first set that attracted me to PaperTrey Ink in the first place (2 yrs ago?) and I only ordered the set last month!

Thanks for peeking in again. I will let ya know how the fundraising event goes on Friday morning...if my fingers are thawed by then.....

Swirlin' Mojo 116

Good morning everyone. My Mojo is still swirlin in my head, so I thought I would give Julee's Mojo116 a try. It has been some weeks since I have been able to play and I am so happy that I could play along this week...and before the deadline (wink!)

I like playing with circles and today I used this ever so sweet and whimsical Cosmo Cricket Jolly by Golly pack. Love these creams and blues/teal. I simple started by using my circle Nestabilites to cut out the circles from the DP and then from the cream card stock. The backed circles looked just ok, so I thought of edging the edges of the cream circles and dipped them in some Zing EP. I think this addes a little something and I used the same treatment on the top edge of the horizontal strip of dp and also around the sentiment. I made the snowflake from the same card stocks and a MS punch and added a sparkly brad. The sentiment is from PTI holiday tags 2008. Thanks for taking a peek!

Cheers, Chriss

more calendars...

Here are a couple more calendars I have been working on. I have been quite busy and working on getting some Christmas cards made and some small gifts...like these calendars. I love my papers, as some of you know, and each time I look through them another idea pops into my head. I wish I had 5 sets of hands sometimes, because this little brain seems to be on overdrive right now!

Anyway, just thought I would show you these two, the first being my favourite. Love the black/cream/olive combo and so easy to make. The cream and black paper is from K & CO. and truly inspired this calendar with the little green fronds peeking out from the lace. Under the lace is a double MS border punched detail that I can't seem to stop using!

The pink and green calendar was also inspired by this beautiful Cloisone paper pad from GCD Studios. It has great texture and colours. I had these wonderful tiny mosaic tiles that were a perfect colour match and this strand of seed beads that are becoming a fave of mine too for some of that feminine dainty detail.
Thanks for stopping by,

Chriss

Shop, Sip, Share ~event~

Good day everyone! I have been busy working on getting some of my personal Christmas cards made so that I can get the Canadian bound ones in the mail by the end of the week! I kinda wish that December had some extra days this year...

I have also been working on some special cards for an event that I am participating in this Thursday, December 10th. All of the details can be seen

here . It is the Shop, Sip and Share event that is being put on by Renee S. Such a worthy cause. If you are in the local area (Austin), please consider supporting this event.

Now, for the cards I created so far, I ordered this beautiful Verve stamp set called Believ. It is gorgeous! Julee (Verve's creator and owner) has been donating $10.00 for each of these sets that are purchased, so generous! The above photo is a group shot and this next one has this great quote.
sentiments and would be something really encouraging to receive. I had fun making these and like the way the white embossing came out on the pink. I fancied up the edges using a new MS edger punch and will be using that idea some more in the future! I love being able to layer the edges in

different kinds of paper and colours. The papers I used are pink pirouette from SU and a beautiful SEI linen textured pattern paper from the Cloisonne pack. It has some beautiful pinks and reds in it and will be ideal for Valentine cards. The sentiments were stamped in craft white and heat embossed with white as well onto the pink card stock. I then used different Spellbinder dies to cut out the shapes and the layers beneath that. The flowers were made in the same way, but hand cut. It took me quite a while to cut them all out. I have a few left over and BELIEVE me, I will not be tossing them out. The embossing folder I used is a CB Damask. Love how feminine it is, especially with the pink, and with creams it looks quite nostalgic.

Well, that's it for now. Hope you have a great Monday! Thanks for stopping in for a wee peek. Cheers! Chriss

Sorry about the photos. It has been foggy and overcast and pink & white is harder to photo than ya might think!

I needed a trigger!

Hi everyone! It's been quite a while since I posted and I can honestly say that I am glad that November has past! I finished working on November 1st and have been quite busy with some household chores and my annual big card order. That took longer than anticipated (I say that every year) but 650 cards is a lot! I need to get busy and make mine now ;)

The Tuesday Trigger on the MoxieFab blog really did the job on triggering me to make this very simple card. Love that blog!

I love this colour combo and may end up using it for my very own Christmas cards. To make this one I first cut my cream card stock and an extra panel to emboss with a new to me CB folder. It is called Damask and it comes with a die cut frame. I haven't tried the frame yet...but I really like the look of the Damask design on the cream colour. I cut it smaller and placed it on a berry coloured Bazzil textured A2 panel. On top of this I added another panel I made from the same CS that I used the new MS holly border punch on both sides. I then cut a panel of this cute Mistletoe Cardinal patterned paper to place in the center of the berry Bazzil. I love cream and red together! For the sentiment I used a PTI stamp from the Holiday Tags set and I cut this out with the Spellbinders Blossom die. I cut another larger one with the Bazzil berry and layered with dimensionals. I then added my little flourish that I made with 2 other MS punches (holly and branch

and added the discarded punched red holly leaves from the border to replicate the berry part of this little swag flourish).

I like how it turned out and I think it looks elegant, even though it was so simple to create! Thanks for taking a peek. I will be posting on a more regular basis now that I have more free time:)

Chriss