Christmas Carol

 Welcome back.  Hi, I am Nancy and hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

 I am back making more Christmas cards and had this gorgeous ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon called the Vintage Christmas Plaid ribbon.  I love making a variety of cards for Christmas and wanted the next five cards to have that ole country vintage look to it.

 I made this bow like all my bows using the Zutter Bow It All V2.0 and couldn't have done as well without this bow maker.  If you don't know how to use this bow maker, view the wonderful U-Tube  on Zutter Bow It All videos that Bonnie Garby has made for you to get you started on the right track.  She has created other U-Tube videos on different bows for your project and cards.  I added some beautiful spray berries and golden bells to this bow.  Again, this is the Really Reasonable Ribbon Vintage Christmas Plaid ribbon. 

I wrapped this corner with this beautiful ribbon and added some golden jingle bells and red spray berries along with the Creative Expression-Sue Wilson-Festive Holly Spray.  The tiny red berries on the holly branches are dots of Stickles red glitter glue.

The picture and green with holly background paper are from the Graphic 45 Christmas Carol collection and the gold and green die cut around this picture is the gorgeous new Creative Expression-Sue Wilson-Delicate Garden Frame.  Behind the frame is the Cherry Lynn Design-Boutique Rectangle Stacker Frame.  I had to cut some of the length of the Boutique Stacker frame to fit the Delicate Garden Frame.

Thank you for stopping by and I would appreciate a comment in the section below.   I plan to use the other vintage Christmas plaid ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon for my next cards and hope you get a opportunity to see these cards.  Now it is your turn and come join us at Really Reasonable Ribbon blog exciting challenge this past week for Silver and Gold with Ribbon or Trim.   Can't wait to see your new creation!

Nephew Turning One Year Old

 Hi!  I am Nancy and welcome back.  I am so excited to share my card with this gorgeous satin  ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon called the Stitched Sheer/Satin Ombre Light Blue.  You'll just love the wonderful selection of other beautiful ribbon, products, awesome prices, fast shipping and great customer service!  This beautiful ribbon comes in three other colors and only 30 cents a yard. I love the gorgeous shine and the delicate white stitch in this ribbon.  I made the bow using the easy-to-use Bow-it-All v2.0 which was purchased at Really Reasonable Ribbon.   Behind the beautiful blue ribbon is the 1.5" white netting ribbon which comes in a variety of colors.  I added some blue Stickles glitter glue on parts of the white netting to accent the area.

Also, Really Reasonable Ribbon has the Wild Orchid Craft flowers.  I used the Wild Orchid Craft Open White Rose size 15mm. throughout this card.   I made my own angel pin attached to the blue ribbon. 

The picture is from Whimsy Stamps-Sylvia Zet-Birthday Boy and I colored it with Copic markers.  I used Stickles Crystal glitter glue on the icing on both cakes.

I love the Cherry Lynn Design Anastasia border die and use this die often.  To make this border look more like lace after cutting the die out, I  crumbled the border and then glued it on the back of blue  Creative Expression-Sue Wilson-York Collection-Madison Square frame.  The inside white die cut, blue flowers and the butterflies are from the new Creative Expression-Sue Wilson-Delicate Garden collection.  I added some embossing powder that has blue glitter, white and gold colors in the powder to the butterflies. 

The background white paper was embossed using the Creative Expression-Sue Wilson-Snowflake Lattice embossing folder.   Even though it is called Snowflake Lattice, I still use it for other cards since I love this embossing and the snowflakes look like flowers as well.

Thank you a bunch for stopping by!  I would appreciate a comment in the comment section below.
Now it is your turn and come join us at Really Reasonable Ribbon blog this Friday for another new and exciting challenge.  Can't wait to see your new creation!

Monochromatic Christmas Card

Hi Scrapyland Bloggers.   
It's the middle the month and that means it's time for a new Scrapyland Challenge (http://www.scrapyland-blog.com/). The Scrapyland Challenge #30 is "Monochromatic" using any brand of dies that Scrapyland on-line store sells.  This challenge ends on December 1st and the winner, chosen by the Designers, will receive a $15 gift certificate to Scrapyland (http://www.scrapyland.com/) on-line store. 

I was challenged to make a monochromatic colored card but actually had fun with this one using gold, brown and black colors. 


I love the new Creative Expression-Sue Wilson Design Festive Collections for this year that Scrapyland store sells.  This is the  Sue Wilson's  Peace On Earth and was cut with black paper and  embossed with Ranger Melt Art Copper embossing powder. 















The copper frame around the Sue Wilson's Wise Men Mini Striplet was also done the same way.  This die set has two dies in it for the background and the frame.  The background paper behind the wise men is an antique gold glitter paper. 

I cut out the Cherry Lynn Design Horizontal Stacker Frame.  I love all of the Cherry Lynn stacker frames since the frames coordinate well with many Cherry Lynn dies.  I had to cut it down the center of this frame to fit around the Wise Men Striplet.  I used foam pads behind the frame.














The embossing folder is from Creative Expression-Sue Wilson Design Lattice Snowflake.  I am in love with this embossing folder and have been using it on many of my Christmas cards. 

I love this gold glitter bow from Really Reasonable Ribbon.com.  I used the Zutter Bow-It-All V2 bow maker from Really Reasonable Ribbon on-line store to create this bow.  I used my angel mold to make this beautiful praying angel and colored the angel with gold chalk powder to give it an antique vintage look.

I hope my Christmas card inspire you to get started on your holiday cards and projects this Christmas season.  Start right away by ordering your beautiful dies from Scrapyland one-line store  to make your gorgeous cards and projects.

Fabric Softener Sheets for die cutting

Does your die look like this when you cut something out? You spend the next few minutes poking out those little intricate cuts in your dies.  Want to save time as well as it provides a little better embossing look!!!

Using the cheapest fabric softener sheets and make sure it is as free of dyes and perfumes due to getting that sticky stuff on the paper and making it gooey, you get a die and cut that almost doesn't need any poking out.  It not only saves time but it is a great way to get all of the embossing out of your die.  I use each sheet about 4 or 5 times before it is no longer good.  Again, buy the cheapest fabric softener sheets without any of the dyes and perfumes.

This is a Cherry Lynn Design border and before, I had to spend a little time poking out all of the paper out of the die or the cut out.  The company says that I only have to tap the die and these little cuts come out, but never happened to my friends or me when we tried tapping it on a garbage can.

Place your die with the paper and then lay the fabric softener sheet down on the paper and then lay the cutting pad down and run your machine.  This is what it should look like with the fabric softener behind the paper.  This die needed the fabric softener behind the paper since it wasn't cutting out well.

Once I peeled off the die cut, this is what remains on the fabric softener.  Nothing in the die nor the cut.
Here is another example of an intricate die that was already cut out. 

Note:  The die cut is on the fabric softener sheet and nothing to poke out of the die.  

Now look at the fabric softener sheet after I pulled the die cut out of the fabric softener sheet.  Nothing was on the die or on the die cut and everything is on the fabric softener sheet.

This doesn't work with all dies, cuts or paper but when it does work, it saves time and note that it also adds more of the embossing from the die to the paper than just cutting it out with only the cutting pads.

All of my friends now use this technique
and we have been using it now for over a year with great results most of the time. 

Please leave a comment if this was helpful for you.

Christmas Is A Time To Reflect

 

 

Welcome.  I am Nancy and it is time for the November Blog Hop!  You should be coming to my blog from Bonnie. Wasn't her card just beautiful. 

Here is a look at the beautiful November Ribbon Club Assortment!!! You are going to love the beautiful lace and the Silver and Gold Mix ribbon on your project or card.   If you missed the November Ribbon Club Assortment, you can join  today. 

Tis the Season and playing with this beautiful November Club assortment of gold and silver ribbons inspired me to make Christmas cards and projects for this year since Christmas is just around the corner.

 

 This bow is a combination of the beautiful November Ribbon Club assortment of satin ribbons:  

Random Stars on Light Silver , Crosshatch on Old Gold, Satin with Grosgrain Edge Light Silver  and Judy White Crochet Lace. 

The center is a snowflake tie pin that I bought at a thrift store or garage sale this summer.  It is gorgeous on the bow. 

I have fun making my own hat/corsage pins by using a variety of beads that I have collected over the years.  I add glue to the pin and put the beads back on the pin to keep the beads in place

I used foam glue pads behind the silver glitter paper before gluing it onto the white embossed paper to give it some dimension. 

 

The gold frame is a Creative Expression by Sue Wilson Carribean Island Background die.  This die set has four dies and I used the first three and not the center die for this card. 

The white paper with the embossed snowflakes is from Creative Expression-Sue Wilson Snowflake Lattice embossing folder.

The sentiment is from Stampendous Christmas Love rubber stamp.

 

I really appreciate you stopping by today and leaving a comment!   Hop on over to Karen's site next!   I know that she will have something wonderful to share with you.  

Please leave a comment on each blog, and don't forget to answer the question on the Really Reasonable Ribbon Blog at the end of the hop so that you will be eligible for the prize.  We hope that you are inspired by the projects we share and very thankful that you were able to join us. 

 

Wise Men Will Seek Him

Hi!  I am Nancy and I am honored to be a Quest Designer for Really Reasonable Ribbon with wonderful and very talented team of designers who share their gorgeous projects with ribbons and bows from the Really Reasonable Ribbon store.  The Really Reasonable Ribbon store has ribbons and supplies such as the Zutter Bow-It-All V2 to make your bows look professional and just beautiful on any card.

 I love November's Really Reasonable Ribbon Silver and Gold Mix ribbon.  Just using some ribbons from this assortment puts me in the Christmas spirit and inspires me to start making my Christmas cards now.  Also, the silver and gold ribbons would look great on any anniversary or wedding cards or projects.

 

I decided to make this Christmas cards using the November Silver and Gold Mix selection of Diagonal Stripes Light Silver and Old Gold on Satin Ribbon in the center of the Delicate Stitched Satin Old Gold .  I used my handy Zutter Bow-It All V2  to make this bow.

 I have a mold to make my angels.  I used some antique gold chalk to color this angel to make it more antique looking.

The embossing folder is from Creative Expression-Sue Wilson Design Lattice Snowflake.  Peace is from Impression Obsession and Joy is a Tattered Lace die.

 
 

 


This is a Creation Expression Sue Wilson's Wise Men Mini Striplet. The background paper behind the wise men is an antique gold glitter paper. 

I cut out the Cherry Lynn Design Horizontal Stacker Frame.  I had to cut it down the center of this frame to fit around the Wise Men Striplet.  I used foam pads behind the frame.

Also, don't forget to put on your calendar that the Really Reasonable Ribbon Blog Hop starts this Friday, November 18th.  We really love sharing our cards and techniques with you and enjoy hearing from you.  Also, enter you card with us in our current challenge "Tag, You're it" using ribbon or trim on a tag. 

Thank you for stopping by and a reminder that Christmas is around the corner.  Order your ribbons and supplies now for the holiday seasons.

Really Reasonable Ribbons Tag Challenge

Hi!  I am Nancy and excited to be on the talented designer team for Really Reasonable Ribbon.  I hope my Christmas tags inspire you to get started on your holiday cards and projects this Christmas season.  Start right away by ordering your beautiful ribbons and supplies from Really Reasonable Ribbon to make your gorgeous cards and projects stand out from the rest.

When I was a little girl, my aunt loved making flowers out of ribbon.  Therefore, I wanted these bows to appear like flowers on each of these tags.  I used the Scor Tape  that I bought at Really Reasonable Ribbon (RRR) to stick the bows on each stockings.  All of the stocking were hung using the RRR Baker's Twine Gold Metallic string.  The Christmas stocking die is from Sizzix.   

I wanted my first tag to look elegant so I decided to mixed the blue and white for the bow.  The beautiful blue ribbon with the snowflakes is the Grosgrain Blue Ribbon Mist Snowflake and the gorgeous white and silver ribbon is the Grosgrain Silver Edges White.  I had an old red felt Christmas stocking and cut out the white fur on top of the stocking to fit this one.  I used a blue Copic Marker to cover the white pearl on top of the corsage/hat pins.  I love making my corsage pins for my bows and individualize each pin for each card.  The embossing folder, poinsettia and leaf branch are from Creative Expression Sue Wilson Designs.

 

I love working with seam binding ribbon.  Did you know that you can get a vintage look by using a hot embossing gun to give seam binding ribbon some wrinkles to make it look old.  This is the RRR Lipstick Red seam binding ribbon with the RRR Wild Orchid Craft Gold Bead Berry Spray in the center to make the poinsettia.   The angel was a tie pin and the bells were earrings that I bought at a garage sale.  I used felt this time for the top of the stocking.  The green leaves are from Cherry Lynn and the white branch is from Creative Expression Sue Wilson die. 

 

 

I wanted to make a rustic country tag since we live in the country and raise cows and farm.  This bow was made using the RRR Wired Faux Burlap Antique Gold ribbon with the RRR red Wild Orchid  Wild Bead Berry Spray in the center.
I loved working with this wired burlap ribbon to make this bow.  The burlap paper is from DCWV printed burlap pad and matches well with this beautiful burlap ribbon.  The white branch is from Creative Expression Sue Wilson Designs.





















I really love my new ribbons, supplies and Zutter Bow-It-All V2 Bow Maker from Really Reasonable Ribbon. Learn how to tie different styles of ribbon bows to put on all of your gifts this year. You will be amazed by how easy and inexpensive bow making can be. Be your own bow maker!   I would highly recommend watching Bonnie's easy to follow videos on typing bows like a pro using the Zutter Bow-It-All V2 Bow Maker on the Really Reasonable Ribbon YouTube Channel.

Please come and enter your card in our current Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge starting November 6th for "Tag - You're It" with ribbon or trim taking place on the RRR Blog.

Special Furry Friends

It's the first Wednesday of November and that means it's time for a new Scrapyland Challenge (http://www.scrapyland-blog.com/). The Scrapyland Challenge #29 is "Anything Goes" using any brand of die that Scrapyland sells.  This challenge ends on November 17th and the winner will be chosen by the Designers and will receive a $15 gift certificate to Scrapyland (http://www.scrapyland.com/) store.   Scrapyland has great customer service and fast delivery plus they carry over 40 top named brands of dies at reasonable prices. 

I just received the new Creative Expression-Sue Wilson Designs - Festive Collection - Snowflake Corner, Border & Tag that comes in a set of 3 dies.  I love this set of dies for this year. 
I cut out 4 snowflake corners and the tag.  This tag is so gorgeous with the snowflakes at each end.

I used the Tattered Lace dies  2014 Christmas Sentiment set "Let It Snow" for the tag.  The mint green paper was embossed using the Creative Expression-Sue Wilson Designs - Snowflake Lattice embossing folder.

The beautiful doily is a die from the Cherry Lynn Designs English Tea Party Doily.   I used a mint green gathered ribbon from Stampin Up around the image before gluing it onto the doily.  The image is from Whimpsy Stamps called Winter Friends and I used Copic Markers to color it.  Like most Christmas images that I color, I always add a little Stickles glitter glue to accent parts of the picture.

The pearly white snowflakes were made using the Stampendous Chunky White Deep Impression embossing enamel.  I dipped a small pin into the embossing bottle and dotted it around  in different places around the picture and then added the embossing powder.  After shaking off the excess powder, I took a hot embossing blower behind the picture - NOT IN FRONT until I got the embossing power to rise to make the snowflakes.   I made the mistake the first time and put the image with the snowflakes through the Sizzix machine to cut out the circle and then the snowflakes became flat.  I just used the hot embossing gun on the back of the paper and snowflakes were fine and not flat.

The white glitter ribbon and rose are from Really Reasonable Ribbon.com.  This company also carries the Zutter Bow-It-All V2 Bow Maker which I use to make this bow along with all of my other bows.  I would highly recommend this bow maker.  I always use the 1.5 inch Scor-Tape to stick any bows to my cards.  Using this tape also keep the ribbon of the bow in the right place and this is especially helpful for mailing.

The red and white dotted paper is the new Graphic 45 Christmas Carol paper. 

I hope my Christmas card inspired you to get started on your holiday cards and projects this Christmas season.  Start right away by ordering your dies from Scrapyland.comhttp://www.scrapyland.com/ to make your gorgeous cards.