25 Days of Christmas Tags - Day 6

I'm back on Day 6 of Tracey's 25 Tags of Christmas using this days sponsor:  Lil' Inkers!

If you follow me on IG [@mfergu01 if you'd like to] I've been creating lots of cards using Lil' Inkers Vintage Wreath - it is bound to become an all-time favorite in my large collection of Christmas crafting supplies!  I've checked their stock: it's in the shop - but you better hurry!

Copic-colored - very simply!  and simple, too, because the stamp provides all that lovely shaded detail!

Here is how I've wrapped a vintage cookbook, in a lovely linen kitchen towel - I think the tag is quite beautiful with the acetate window.  Quite easily made with a simple circle die that was the perfect fit.  [It provides the perfect place for a favorite sentiment from Ellen Hutson - they are our sponsor on Day 16 btw!]

Remember, if you play along, follow Tracey's instructions to the letter - there are prizes you know!!!  Here is a link to Tracey's link!  I'll be by to visit soon!

=]  Michele

Ellen Hutson November 2017 Release!

I am always so honored to be invited as a Guest Designer for Ellen Hutson ... even happier to be Hopping along with their fabulous designers today as we introduce the latest and greatest Essentials by Ellen release!  

The fabulous E.H. team treated me to Julie Ebersole's Random Sayings as my Release assignment.  Julie's fabulous new sentiments say it ALL - outside, and in!

Are you ready ... let's get to it, shall we?! 

Inside:  "you are one of a kind!"

Supplies:  Random Sayings sentiment stamped in Versafine Onyx black, clear embossed onto a little torn strip of vellum.  Abstract Paint Strokes as a background, stamped on water color cardstock, with Distress Oxides. 

 

This next saying is one I've used all of my life, and just makes me smile - I got it from my Daddy, who also said
"al-u-minium."  =]

 



Inside:  You're the best!

and always know how to chase those rain drops away!*

 

Supplies:  Neenah Solar White #110 cardstock, Abstract Paint Strokes stamped in grey, clear heat embossed.  W&W Wonky Quotes die cut once from white, stamped my Random Sayings in Versafine Onyx Black, and mounted it on another quote box cut from hot pink fun foam.   

 

Perhaps my favorite of all Julie's Random Sayings - and who hasn't said this a thousand times?! ...



[You can bet I had my own Canon on hand to
create that lens cover!]
 

 

Last shot:  the inside scoop:

I created my camera, and lens cover, using:

• black cardstock, texturized by clear embossing an MFT Mesh background stamp, and a snippet of patterned paper.
• Essentials by Ellen Mirror, Mirror die, and MFT pierced circles.
• Photo Lady both reflected in the lens, and Copic colored inside my card.
• black cord

WOW that was a ton of information, right?  All of these fabulous products are available NOW! in the Ellen Hutson, LLC shop!  HOWEVER, before you shop, you must HOP over to Sharon Harnist's blog - you know something truly wonderful is about to be seen, right?

Head over to the Ellen Hutson blog any time you want to start over again!  Thanks so much for stopping by... it totally makes me...

=]  Michele

* my words.

25 Tags of Christmas Day 5

We're sharing the stage with another wonderful sponsor today:  Altenew!  You may already know how much I [buy from] love that company!  =] 

I'm so happy that I was able to snag a stamp and die from their 2017 Christmas release: Poinsettia & Pine bundle - I even think I got it on sale - score!  Convenient that the set comes complete with a "to and from" element!

I've also been totally taken by the colored pencil on dark cardstock technique that the fabulous Yana Smakula has introduced me to... follow her link to see it for yourself!

Here is my take on that technique: tag style!

A simple tag die was 'stretched' by partial die-cutting first, then moving the die.

Stamped and heat embossed in gold, I kept the coloring very simple, using two shades of dark red Prismacolor pencils.

 

I'll be by to check out all the tagged gorgeousness in our 25 Tags of Christmas linky post ... be sure to follow directions to the letter, and I'll see you in the gallery!

 

=]  Michele

 

25 Tags of Christmas - Day 4

Reverse Confetti has the cutest little characters - I'm happy to get one of my favorites among them inked up for Day 4 of Tracey's 25 Tags of Christmas!

I'm using one from the set of their darling Lacy Scallop Frame Confetti Cut dies to create my tag, the circle reinforcement from [quite possibly my first purchase] the  Tag me, Too set, Lovey Words, and lastly: that fun little Rudolph from Jolly Holiday! 

All this tag-making may turn me into a shopper!  [but probably not!]  Hope it turns you into a prize-winner... get those tags into Tracey's linky post here!  I look forward to seeing which Reverse Confetti products are your favorites!

=]  Michele

STAMPlorations November CAS challenge

There are so many cards that enter my inbox, and lodge themselves in my head ... Shirley B. recently made this card ...  and I just HAD to try it for myself.  It's Shirley's take on letterpress look... and I think it's fabulous!  Then this little number landed here from the one and only Just Me...c  who mentioned the challenge!  It was serendipitous!

Here's my take, I've added a little bough-bearing-bird [Shirley's bird, of course!] and used a very Christmas-y die:

I'm sending it over to the gang at Stamplorations for their CAS 'add brown' challenge... I've gotten the brown down... hope it's CAS enough!

=]  Michele

Supplies:  That little bough is the Circles Banner from Lil' Inkers!  MFT Happy Wonderful Christmas 2016; Mama Elephant Peek a Frame dies. 

CAS[E] this Sketch #246

Leigh Penner is up this week - a very interesting Sketch... meant in the very best way!  Take a peek:

As I've told you many times, I DO NOT peek at the artist's card before I create ... in fact, many times their card isn't posted before the team gets their hands on it!

Here is where my juices flowed for CTS#246:

Inside:

... friends, like you,  FALL into my life just when I need them the most!

 

Do you see it?  sure hope so!  Thanks so much to all of you who take the time to tell me - you cannot imagine how much I appreciate every comment!

 

May I just take a moment to remind you about that pesky 'no comment blogger' thingy?  amy Tsuruta has been sending us all here to fix the issue... still works perfectly, and easily!  I always feel so badly when I cannot say thank you! for stopping by!  so thank you for stopping by!!!

 

=]  Michele

 

Supplies:  Essentials by Ellen:  Brushstroke Wonderful die, Thistle stamps, and dies.  Distress, and Distress Oxides for water coloring.  MFT Wonky Rectangle dies.

 



25 Tags of Christmas

I'm so happy to be helping Tracey as she is kicking off her 25 Days of Christmas Tags today with Simon Says Stamp as her sponsor ... a simple little tag from me ... we hope you're ready to create, too!

My tag combines a little SSS set called Cute Snowflakes, which I heat embossed in white, on a ready-made tag of water color cardstock.  I added a simple little SSS die: enjoy cut from a bit of textured gold foil paper from Michael's.

Gansai Tambi:  Starry Colors in Champagne Gold provide just a magical bit of frost, right?

 

 

 

 



I'm kinda loving that gold and kraft together, and  the way the gold puddles into the texture of the water color card stock... hope you do, too!

Will you be joining in the fun today?  We sure do look forward to seeing those darling tags!  Be sure you post your projects to Tracey's Link-up post - there are prizes to be had!

=]  Michele