Snow Day Snowman Swap Card

Is it winter yet?  My favorite thing about winter is bringing out all of my snowmen and decorating the house up with them.  This sweet little guy I made for an organized swap for the Stampin'Up! Convention a few weeks ago. 

 

 Here's what I used:

131895    Snow Day - Clear Mount

131197    Bermuda Bay Cardstock

131297    Coastal Cabana Cardstock

132183    Winter Frost Designer Series Paper Stack

124005    Silver Glimmer Paper

129399    Tea Lace Paper Doilies 

101731    White Craft Ink Pad

119275    Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch

100082    Basic Black Marker

                Chocolate Chip Marker

                Tangerine Tango Marker

                Strawberry Slush Marker

131175    Coastal Cabana Ink Pad

 

I hope you enjoy my little snowman from the Snow Day stamp set in the Holiday Catalog that will be available August 1st.  You can shop directly thru me online at www.cmhollingsworth.stampinup.net

 

Thanks and have a great day! 

Charlotte

 



 

 

My Paper Pumpkin June Kit just "kissed"

 I was so excited to open My Paper Pumpkin kit this month! I really love this kit called Hello to You!

The hexagons are so hot right now!  Above is the design that the kit gives you all the supplies to make. Below is the card that I changed up just a little bit using my Island Indigo marker and the "kissing" technique.  The kissing technique is really simple.  Stamp your solid image stamp onto a patterned stamp and then stamp it on your paper.  The solid stamp will pick up the pattern to make a whole new cool "kissed" image!

 

 

I hope you enjoyed my quick post today! Try out the "kissing" technique with your stamps! It is fun and easy! Have a great day!

 

Charlotte Hollingsworth

 

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To subscribe to the My Paper Pumpkin kit monthly: www.mypaperpumpkin.com and choose me for your demonstrator if you need one!

 

Thanks!

 



Happy Retirement Watercolored Flag Card

I hope you are having a wonderful day! My mother retired last Friday after 32 years working at a military base so I wanted to create a special one-of-a-kind retirement card for her.  The first thing I thought about was how do I make a flag without a flag stamp?  Easy, you paint one!  So I started out with 2 ink pads, Midnight Muse & Raspberry Ripple and a 5 1/4 x 4 inch piece of watercolor paper. I used the reinkers in the lids and painted the blue part of the flag with an Aqua Painter.  I didn't use very much water because I wanted the color darker blue. I then freehanded the red stripes remembering there are 7 red and 6 white.  I also used my little star punch (retired from the Holiday Catalog 2013) to punch out 11 stars from the Silver Glimmer Paper. Of course I couldn't fit 50 on there, so I settled.  I trimmed about 1/4 off the bottom and right sides of the watercolor paper.

 

I forgot to mention the sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.  I stamped it with Versamark ink, dipped it in Clear Embossing Powder and used my Heat Gun to set it.  This technique is called Emboss Resist.  So when I went over it with the Raspberry Ripple it stayed white in color.  This is a great technique!

 

Have a great day!

Thanks,

Charlotte

 

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