'Tis the Season for my Christmas Deer

 

My friend, Holly, invited me to be a Guest Designer at her 'Tis the Season Challenge blog. I love challenges! And this one keeps Christmas alive 365 days of the year. This time around it's an Inspiration Challenge. You can see the photo below and create where it takes you - wreath, deer, wood, whatever you like!

 

Here are the rules:

1. Your project must be a new Christmas project created for this challenge.

2. Link back to 'Tis the Season or use the Challenge Graphic within your post.

3. Please don't combine more than 4 challenges (including this one!).

4. HAVE FUN! (Okay, I added that one.)

 You have 2 full weeks to take part in this challenge, so pull out a favorite Christmas stamp or two and get busy! Now here's my pretty literal interpretation of the photo for my card:

 

 

I first stamped the Hardwood stamp in Crumb Cake ink on Whisper White card stock, then stamped the Christmas Deer image in Cajun Craze and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. I layered Cajun Craze card stock under the white layer and put both on a Marina Mist card. The color combo is from Stampin' Up!'s Color Coach. I love that thing! Anyway, I used a hostess set called Warmth & Wonder for the sentiment.



Warmth & Wonder Christmas tree card

 

Silver dazzling details adds sparkle and shine to this Christmas tree's ornaments.

I CASE'd this card from the Holiday Catalog (page 38) for a 10-card Christmas class. I started with a Whisper White card and added 1/4" x 5-1/2" strips of Winter Frost Specialty designer paper on each side of a 2" x 5-1/2" stamped strip of Whisper White because there's only one sheet of this foil design. The tree, ornaments and snowflake stamps are all from the hostess set, Warmth & Wonder. The sentiment is from Petite Pairs.

If you'd like to take part in my next 20-card Christmas class on October 26 for $20, please let me know by Oct. 23. I will be using a mix of retired and new products for the cards. The price includes envelopes and light refreshments.

Happy Columbus Day!

Easy for a man: Remembering Christmas

 

I think this is the perfect manly Christmas card for those single guys we all know. This Remembering Christmas card is earmarked for my neighbor.

 

I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Composition Specialty paper, rounding the corners before attaching it to a Chocolate Chip card front. Then I inked up the deer and stamped it on a Very Vanilla piece of card stock that was die-cut using one Apothecary Accent framelit. The sentiment is from the hostess set, Warmth & Wonder. This is card design 1 of 5 used for this morning's 10-card Christmas class. I've made so many Christmas cards already that I'm giving them away! lol

 

I've got a new hostess code for October - VEHSYQRR. Use it on any and every Online Order this month when you go through my Online Store at http://therubberroom.stampinup.net and you'll be entered into a drawing for the hostess goodies at my Nov. 1 drawing.

 

 

A simple decoration for any day - a wide-mouth jar of wooden spools and thread with a zinc lid. See more vintage decorations at http://www.facebook.com/booth6goods. And have a great day!



Enjoying Warmth & Wonder

 

I used markers (Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip) to color this image from the Warmth & Wonder hostess set in the Holiday Catalog.

 

This was another design from my 20-card Christmas class last week. It uses the Pretty Print embossing folder (item 132175, $7.95), as well as a strip of Season of Style designer paper on an Old Olive card.

 

To order Stampin' Up! products, please visit my Online Store at http://therubberroom.stampinup.net. Use the hostess code this month - AKS76R6P - and you'll be entered into my October 1 drawing to win FREE hostess benefits

 

My SPOOKY banner class is full! If you're signed up, I look forward to seeing you October 5 at 11 a.m. at my studio.

Lovely as a Tree Christmas card; Halloween banner class

 

Give old stamps new life with fresh colors and designer papers. I did for my 20-card class Saturday. One of the 10 card designs featured this Lovely as a Tree stamp in Island Indigo and Smoky Slate.

 

Winter Frost Specialty Designer Paper is beautiful! I used a 2" x 5-1/2" strip behind the tree (die-cut with an Apothecary framelit) on the Smoky Slate card front, then added a strip of Smoky Slate for the sentiment, which is from the Warmth & Wonder hostess set. Sparkle and shine is courtesy of the silver 1/8" ribbon (item 132137, $4.95).

 

To order any Stampin' Up! item, please visit my Online Store at http://therubberroom.stampinup.net. Use the hostess code this month - AKS76R6P - and you'll be entered into my October 1 drawing to win FREE hostess benefits.

 

Here's the letter P from my SPOOKY Halloween banner. I've got 2 more spots available in my Halloween Banner class on Saturday, Oct. 5, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The cost is $15. Here's the catch - I need to know by this Wednesday, Sept. 26, if you will attend because I need to get your banner kit ordered. Just email me at ericandterry@comcast.net. Thanks! You can pay me the day of the class.

 

 

These are just a few of the metal candle holders I've picked up lately. I love the different finger holds and materials used for each one. To see more, "Like" the http://www.facebook.com/booth6goods page on Facebook! Ta ta for now.