On the Third Day of Christmas

We are up to tag 3 - the beautiful Alcohol Ink plaid. I made two samples - the blue and pink one is going to live with RoRo. This is the first tag that I purchased any supplies for - I decided it was time to bite the bullet and buy the white paint dabber...

Santa Plaid:


Tree Plaid:

Here's a link to Tim's 3rd tag.

Can you believe it's only 10 days until Christmas?

KAT

On The Second Day of Christmas

RoRo was surprised yesterday when an Elf left her a gift while she was taking a nap. Today she will receive her gift on the way to meet friends for a Christmas Dinner (Hello Suz and Diana!).

Here is Tag Two:


I only have one color of Distressed Embossing powder - Frayed Burlap - I bought it because you can use it as sand. I think the bird would stand out more IF I had a lighter color of the embossing powder (that might be a hint Santa).

Close Up of Idea-ology Charm:

This is my most favorite of Tim's new idea-ology line. I have an old dictionary that I color copy the pages from to use in the Charms.

Close up of Metal Rose:

Tim is a genius! Love this metal rose - warning - it takes some finger power to bend that metal - I used two needle nose pliers!

Here is a link to Tim's Second Tag.

I need a wrapping elf - any takers?

KAT

On the First Day of Christmas

I am using Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas as part of my 12 Days of Christmas for my SIL - RoRo. I will model each tag to Tim's depending on the supplies that I have. I've made two of each tag - one to give and one to keep. Here's a link to Tim's first tag.

Today she will be receiving her first tag and gift - I think she will be very surprised!

First Day of Christmas:


See the glitter of the Rock Candy Stickles:

Crack using the Rock Candy Distress Paint and ice using Picket Fence Distress Stickles:

I hope you are finding time to enjoy the Holiday Season!

KAT

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Just wanted to pop in quickly to wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving... Eat lots - you'll need your strength for the hustle and bustle of the Christmas Holiday season.

I have lots to share but I've been busy and blog lazy (guess I'm on Santa's Naughty list)... Promise to be back next week to share a bunch of new stuff with you!

What are you thankful for?

KAT

Christmas Card Quest

Did you think I forgot? Nope - I just haven't had time to post my new Christmas cards - when I get back from my trip I will share with you 12 of 40.

Have you started your Christmas cards yet?

Happy Creating!

KAT

Christmas Gift Pocket

How about a simple to make gift pocket out of a large 4 1/8 by 8 1/2 office tag:


I wanted to take a picture of this with Christmas candy - but no candy is available yet (good thing since it's only the middle of October) - I stuffed the pocket with little tan tissue paper so that you can get the general idea. This pocket could be adjusted to the size of your image or the size of your gift.

Happy Creating!

KAT

The Stuff:
Stamps - Festive Season, Eclectic Christmas

Pretty As a Picture

How about a non-Christmas stamp sheet. This card was made using Fruitful - a new sheet this week from ISC.

Pretty As a Picture:

To see the embossing and shimmer better:

The pears were water colored using Pearlescent water color palette.

Have a great day!

KAT

The Stuff:

Stamps - Fruitful, Old Findings (ISC)

Background - Acrylic Smash

Scroll down to the next post for information on how to WIN 3 free stamps sets from ISC.

On SCS in the last couple of weeks they had a tutorial for an interesting background technique called Acrylic Smash. This is basically stamping on an acetate sheet (transparency) and on the back paint/rub on some acrylic paints.

Here is the link to the tutorial on SCS.

I have two cards to show you using this technique:

Eclectic Christmas:

The Smash is on the layer behind the Dec 25 - I used Cranberry and Gold Ranger Paint Dabbers, white card stock and the background image from ISC new sheet Eclectic Christmas. I really like how this card turned out but I wanted you to have a better sample to see the background image and technique so...

Shimmery Snowflake:

The background for this I used Silver Paint Dabber and blue card stock and only covered parts of the acetate with the silver. The snowflake is cut from a cuttle bug and I glued 4 of them together (we'll call it faux chipboard) and sprinkled with Martha Steward Snow Glitter.

Here's a close up of the Snowflake - look at that shimmer!!!

Have a great day!

KAT

The Stuff:
Stamps - Eclectic Christmas, Festive Season
Other - Acetate, Stazon, Paint Dabbers (Ranger), Gold EP (Ranger)

ICS Christmas Card Extravaganza

Welcome to Innovative Stamp Creations 1st ever Christmas Card Extravaganza – ISC Blog Hop!

The Architect’s were challenged to choose a different image from the Joyful Christmas and create a card making it the focal point!

I chose the Holly image:

I cut the holly leaves from Basic Grey's Figgy Pudding and used an exacto knife to cut around the holly swirl so that I could tuck my red ribbon behind the image.

Do you want a chance to win some free rubber? You could win 3 of the Newest Christmas Stamp Sheets (Joyful Christmas, Eclectic Christmas, Festive Christmas)! Super easy, leave a message about what Christmas means to you & yours on the ISC blog. Hurry this opportunity will end Wed Oct 14th.

ISC is also offering 10% off your order until Friday 10/16! The Christmas Stamp Line is jammed packed and for a limited time only the retail price has been reduced!


Want to see more - hop on over to Sabrina's blog and she what image she used.


Happy Creating!

KAT

The Stuff:
Stamps - Joyful Christmas (Innovative Stamp Creations)
Paper - Figgy Pudding (Basic Grey)

Elegant Christmas

Innovative Stamp Creations is releasing 5 new stamp sheets this week! Today I am previewing one of the sheets - Festive Season.

Elegant Christmas:

This card is based off my studio bathroom Christmas Tree (yes I have a Christmas tree in a bath room - nothing wrong with that right? Something pretty to look at while you are in there...). My studio bathroom is brown with accents of blue and white.

I hand cut the beautiful flourish after I embossed it in dark brown EP. The ornaments are stamped using brilliance inks so IRL they shimmer.

Have you started your Christmas cards yet?

KAT

The Stuff:
Stamps - Festive Season (innovative stamp creations)