A Holly Jolly Christmas — FMS 117

Posted on December 18, 2013 by amyoneillblog

Oh, my! We’re getting close to Christmas! Just one week away! And I get to be the hostess this week over at Freshly Made Sketches. Here’s the sketch:

This sketch has lots of “white” space, and gives you the chance to use up some of those pretty paper scraps you’ve been hoarding. I made another Christmas card with the sketch, and kept it very clean and simple with a couple of extra details — some stitching, glitter and gold foil paper, and a button.

I hope you can take a little break from your Christmas shopping, baking, wrapping, etc…and make a card using the sketch. I’d love to see what you make! Meanwhile, be sure to stop by the Freshly Made Sketches site to see what the rest of the design team made. I already took a peek, and they have all done an outstanding job!

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

Snowflakes with Doilies and Glitter

Posted on December 14, 2013 by amyoneillblog

I haven’t really played around with the new Gold and Silver Stampin’ Glitter very much this season, so I decided to use it on these snowflakes. It’s two days later, and I think I still have glitter on me. I really love the look of glitter, but I have to admit I reach for the glimmer paper when I can over the Stampin’ Glitter.

I’m going to take my girls to see “Frozen” at the movies today, and then I have to get some serious work done on our family Christmas cards. Why, oh why, do I put this off every year?

Enjoy your Saturday! Thanks for stopping by!

Vintage Christmas — FabFri33

Posted on December 13, 2013 by amyoneillblog

Here we are with our last Fab Friday challenge of the year. And we have a fun sketch challenge for you.

I decided to try to make a Christmas card with a vintage feel to it. I love that look, but find it hard to make. I pulled out my dusty Layered Labels set and stamped the beautiful bottom layer with the Gold Encore ink and went from there.

I hope you’ll go by the Fab Friday site and see what the other designers did with the sketch. And then I hope you can find some time to play along with us and add your card to the gallery.

Enjoy your Friday! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Layered Labels, Joy to the World
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Gold Encore
Paper: Very Vanilla, Gold Foil Sheets, Modern Medley dsp
Embellishments: Pearl Basic Jewels, Ovals Framelits, Victoria 5/8″ Crochet Trim

Christmas Joy — FMS116

Posted on December 11, 2013 by amyoneillblog

It’s Wednesday again already! Can you believe it? It’s time for another sketch challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches, and this week our fabulously talented Australian team member, Narelle Farrugia has a great sketch for us:

I love this sketch! It’s nice and simple, and it has such fun banners on it. I really stuck to the sketch this time, and pulled out my A Banner Christmas set.

You can check out the rest of the design team’s fantastic creations at the Freshly Made Sketches site. And then we hope you’ll join us and post your own creation in the gallery so we can see your work.

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: A Banner Christmas
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Versamark
Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Whisper White, Gold Foil Sheets, Season of Style dsp
Embellishments: Cherry Cobbler Stampin’ Emboss Powder

Polka Dot Cheer

Posted on December 10, 2013 by amyoneillblog

I saw a card made by Cristina at My Paper Secret that I love. I decided to case it using Stampin’ Up! products. This card came together very quickly.

Enjoy your Tuesday! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Endless Wishes, Festive Flurry
Ink: Smoky Slate, Cherry Cobbler, Versamark
Paper: Whisper White, Midnight Muse, Season of Style dsp, Vellum card stock
Embellishments: Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Festive Flurry framelits, Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Cherry Cobbler 1″ Stitched Edge Grosgrain Ribbon

Simple Sewn Season Greetings

Posted on December 9, 2013 by amyoneillblog

Iced in here another day. The kids don’t have school again today. Yikes! I don’t know how those of you who live up North do it. My creative mojo has been frozen over as well. I’ve had more time to craft the past four days than ever, and I can’t do it. Nothing is coming to me — I just want to cuddle up by the fire with a cozy blanket, and snuggle with the kids and dog all day. I did sit down at my desk and force myself to make something yesterday. I thought if I could just make one thing, it would get the creative juices flowing and I could get more done. Didn’t work. But here is what I did make.

It’s a very simple card, and I’ve used a bit of an unconventional color scheme for a Christmas card. I even pulled out my little sewing machine.

Enjoy your Monday! Thanks for stopping by!

O Holy Night

Posted on December 8, 2013 by amyoneillblog

Well, we’re still iced in here (since Thursday evening), and I’m starting to get a touch of cabin fever. It would be nice to at least see the sun again. You would think I’ve been getting a lot of crafting done, but unfortunately that hasn’t been the case. I helped my third grader with a big project she has due at school tomorrow, and got several loads of laundry done and a few other chores completed yesterday. Maybe today I can spend more time crafting.

Here’s a simple card that I did have time to complete. I love this O Holy Night stamp. I still need to try it with the chalkboard technique. Hmmm….maybe that should be on my list for today.

Enjoy your Sunday! Thanks for stopping by!

My Christmas Banner

Posted on December 5, 2013 by amyoneillblog

I decided I needed a new banner for our fireplace this Christmas but I didn’t want to spend a lot of time making it, so I knew I needed to keep it simple. Punches and dies to the rescue!

I started by cutting out some of the red and white striped paper from the Season of Style DSP stack into the pennant shapes. Then I die cut one of the snowflake shapes using the Festive Flurry framelits and the Champagne Glimmer Paper. I punched a 1-3/4″ circle using my circle punch and white card stock. Then I die cut the letters from Cherry Cobbler card stock using the Typeset Alphabet Bigz dies.

For the banner between the two words, I made a decorative snowflake using some Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder and Cherry Cobbler ink. I also added a Vintage Faceted Designer Button.

All in all, it took me about one and a half hours to assemble the whole thing. Pretty easy!

Enjoy your Thursday! Thanks for stopping by!

Starry Wishes — FMS114

Posted on December 4, 2013 by amyoneillblog

It’s Wednesday, and the super talented and very lovely, Jennifer Timko has a great sketch for us over at Freshly Made Sketches:

This is such a nice, simple sketch. You can really use your creativity or you can keep it nice and simple and strictly follow the sketch.

I decided to use a non-Christmas themed stamp set on a Christmas card for my sample. I pulled out my Simply Stars set and stamped three of the stars. We have a star on the top of our tree, so I think of stars as having a Christmas theme. What about you? Do you have a star or an angel on the top of your tree? Or something else?

I added some sequins (I know — I’m addicted) and trimmed some Silver Foil paper with a fun blade on my Stampin’ Trimmer. This was really a pretty easy card to make.

I hope you’ll join us at Freshly Made Sketches this week and make your own card to share in the gallery. You should go check out what the rest of the design team made while you’re at it.

Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Simply Stars, Endless Wishes
Ink: Real Red, Basic Black
Paper: Whisper White, Silver Foil Sheets, Winter Frost Specialty DSP
Embellishments: Silver 1/8″ Ribbon, Tiny Waves Stampin’ Trimmer Rotary Cutting Blade, button (retired), sequins (non-SU)

Joyful Poinsettia Wishes

Posted on November 30, 2013 by amyoneillblog

I guess I need to be getting in full Christmas mode now. We’re planning on decorating the tree today and putting out all of our Christmas decorations. I just wish we didn’t have to rush from one holiday to the next.

I definitely need to be getting in Christmas card mode though. Here’s another one I made yesterday.

I stamped the flower on vellum card stock and then cut it out.