Christmas in July!

Christmas in July! Our challenge for this month was to take a non Christmas image and make into a Christmas card! I had a lot of fun with this one! I took the chipmunk and wiped the part of the stamp with the daffodil clean. Then covered it with a red flower that I thought looked like a poinsettia. Then added white embossing powder around to look like snow!

Supplies:

Chipmunk Cling set (1201QCL)

Merry Christmas Casual Small (668C)

Red, White, and Green Cardstock

Black and Red ink

Green and white pens

Brown shades of Copic markers

Red paper flower

Green jewel

Green Ribbon

Emobssing pen and gun

white embossing powder

Directions:

1. Cut card front from red to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2

2. Stamp chipmunk in black, I used a paper towel to wipe off the daffodil the chipmunk was holding. Color with markers. Cut into ciricle.

3. Cut scalloped circle out of green (I used nesties dies) add white dots to all scallops.

4. Using embossing pen add snow to the grass, leaf, and end of chipmunks nose.

5. Add snow to red flower and ahdere to card with green jewel center.

6. Tie ribbon around top of card. Stamp Merry Christmas in Red on small tag and attach under bow.

7. Add doodles to edge of card and tag!

Now for the other goodies this month check out the other Designers Blogs...

Anya's Blog

Lynda's Blog

Kathie's Blog

And for the rest of this year we have a special guest designer Jenny, check out her blog below!

Jenny's Blog



And as always check the new contest at Serendipitystamps.com and don't forget to sign up for the newsletter to get those awesome deals!

A trip in the way back machine....

For our first July Challenge Mary asked us to pick a stamp from one of her early lines. Once I saw this pile of books I knew that was the one I wanted to use.



This is a big card... 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 since I don't usually make big cards I was surprised at how much I liked it big. Lots of room to play with the big stamps.

Supplies:

Books Stamp set (063QCL)
Brown Cardstock
Yellow/Green pattern paper
Pattern Paper that looks like ledger paper
Brown Ribbon
Brown ink
Bronze Brads
Bronze glitter
Border punch (mine is from Fiskars)

Directions:

* Cut Brown cardstock to 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
* Cut Pattern Paper 1/2 inch smaller all around
* Border punch bottom of Pattern paper and a strip of brown cardstock, and another strip of pattern paper, adhere to back of big pattern paper.
* Ink edges in brown adhere to cardstock
* Stamp both stamps from set on ledger paper in brown ink.
* Ink edges and middles to give a worn appearance.
* Adhere to front of card with brads.
* Tie ribbon across card add double bow.
* Glitter around pattern paper and in holes of bottom punch.
* Adhere to card front!

Now for the other goodies this month check out the other Designers Blogs...

Anya's Blog

Lynda's Blog

Kathie's Blog

And for the rest of this year we have a special guest designer Jenny, check out her blog below!

Jenny's Blog



And as always check the new contest at Serendipitystamps.com and don't forget to sign up for the newsletter to get those awesome deals!