Purple Onions Christmas Cards

 

I made these cards last night.  The cards (except the cups) are colored with my new Chromatix Markers that are alcohol based.  I'm still learning how to shade with them, and to try not to color right up to the image line as the color tends to bleed outide the lines a bit.  The cups were colored with prismacolor pencils.  Loving these stamps though, I still have about 10 more Christmas cards to make, and if I was really smart, I would make a bunch for next year in January.  Not sure if I'm really smart though....

These zippered pouches were made with a tutorial I found at Noodlehead.  It's the open wide pouch, and it really is very roomy.  The toadstools, and kite ties are the medium size (gifts for my girls) and the aqua/grey in the background is the large size as part of my sister's gift.  That's all for now folks, linking up to The Needle and Thread Network today and Freshly Pieced.  I only have one WIP piece to report, a quilt top I made in the summer needs to be finished, but other than that I will resume sewing after the holidays!

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Christmas Cards

I am slowly adding to my Christmas card collection, which is a good thing since we should be mailing them in the next week or so!  This one is a new stamp I bought from Purple Onions Designs and was drawn by Stacey Yacula.

This little mouse is also by Stacey.  I'm using up leftover paper from my SAS, so I'm sure you've seen this same background only with reindeer last time!

This one is all Stampin Up! I used the new color midnight muse and red riding hood ink for the ornaments.

 

For this card, I used the stocking punch and punched out from embossed paper.  The bakers twine is My Mind's Eye and I bought it at My Stamping Studio.  She has a ton of awesome twine there, and different colors of it too.

 

And no, these cards will not be on my Fair table tomorrow!  I wish I would have had time to make a few to sell, even if just to add a Christmas touch to my display, but I really need to keep these to give away!  Hopefully, I will see some of you tomorrow-now off to pack up.

 

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Christmas Cards

I ordered the new collection of Stacy Yacula's stamps from Purple onion designs and I love them!!  I colored a few yesterday with my tombow watercolor markers so I thought I'd share.  The snowman stamp is actually Sunshine Designs, but the others are Stacy Yacula's.

Love this little penguin, and those trees above are adorable.  Hard to tell in the photo, but the glitter snow is really sparkly.  I'm designing my cards with less layers now, and just letting the image be the focal point.  I'm loving the vibrancy of the coloring too.

This is a Stamping Bella snowman stamp and the snowflakes and paper are Stampin Up!  Love this stamp too.

That's all for now folks.  Off to PEI to participate in the Colonel Gray craft fair!!  Maybe I'll see some of you there!!

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Lots to share....

While wandering around Pinterest the other night I came across a tutorial from Stumble and Stitch and I just had to make some fabric ornaments.  She had just the stockings, but I decided to try a candy cane, bell and a heart as well.  I love these little ornaments, so bright and cheery.

I'm still getting ready for my craft fairs, and decided to make some sets of pot holders/hot pads.  They are totally reversible and have insulated batting on both sides so the heat shouldn't go through them at all.

One more owl blankie and bib set to add to the fair table.  Love this fabric!

And last, but not least, I bought this stamp at Kelly's store My Stamping Studio last week while at the Stamp-a-Stack.  I used tombows on watercolor paper to color this image.  So cute, I love the little birds, they are so cheery and this can be a Christmas card or a winter card.

I found a new linky to visit on Mondays.  Sarah at Alderberry Hill has an awesome blog, and she's from Newfoundland!  We're practically neighbors!And I'll be joining the parties at Quiltstory and The Needle and Thread Network too!

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So hot......

It is so hot here this summer, not sure what possessed me to keep going on the Christmas card theme but here is one I colored last night.  I used tombows on watercolor paper and a pearl pen.  This is a Penny Black stamp, I've had it for ages!

The oval and the joy stamp are from a new set in the Stampin Up! holiday catalogue named Joyous Celebrations.  The patterned paper is from a Quebec company named Harmonie, the other supplies are SU!
The girls and I went to Musquodobit today for a bike ride on the trail, but we only lasted around 45 minutes.  Next time, we'll go early morning or evening, midday is just too hot!  Good thing there was an ice cream hut where I parked the van, we were all much happier after our little delicious cone of ice cream!

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Christmas in July...

Yes, those are Christmas cards.  And today it was 30C, but I stumbled upon a blog that is doing one sketch a week that you turn in to a card for the holidays, and then there is not as much of a rush when December comes.  So, I went back to her past sketches and printed them all off (there have been 26 so far).  I've done the first 3, and made 2 of each card (one for me, one for my craft fair table).  Let's see how long this idea lasts (I'm hoping until I have around 100- 50 to keep, 50 to sell).  So far, I have 6!  Long way to go, I know.  The blog is called Always Playing with Paper if you're interested in playing along.  I'm linking this to The Paper Players this week.

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Cocoa on a cold, wet day

Seems silly to make a Christmas card today, but I just had to ink up this stamp and color it for the first time.  The whip cream on top is perfect pearl pen, the stamp is by Impression Obsession, paper is razzleberry by Stampin Up! 

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Done!

I think I'm done. I hope I am anyway. I haven't photographed all my cards, but most of them. I love the top one, it's for my parents and I used Outline posy stamps and colored them like a poinsettia. Then added gold liquid pearls and red stickles, (everything is better with glitter).

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Stained glass

This card will be mailed today to one of my sisters. I used a peel off sticker, then colored in with sakura gelly roll pens. It's quite sparkly in real life, and I find it looks like a stained glass window. Just a few more to do and I'm finished!

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King of the Wild Things....

Still trying to finish up Christmas cards! I love this stamp, I think he's so cute, it's a stamping bella image. The die-cut snowflakes are from Stampin Up! I used prismacolor pencils to color and the edge is distressed in memento Desert Sand.

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Teacher's cards

Tomorrow is the last day of school before Christmas vacation, so I made 2 cards for the girls teachers today. They each told me what image they thought their teacher would like last night and were pleased with the results today! The snowman is stamping bella, the trees are artful stamper. I used kiwi glitter ritz on the matt of the tree card.

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Bad Kitty Card

I think this stamp is so cute-maybe because I have 2 cats that used to be a little naughty. Now they are just old and sooky. Anyhow, I'm slowly getting through the pile of cards I need to make. Off to the mailbox shortly!

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Christmas Cards from class

I had a mini stamp-a-stack on Friday and we made 12 cards. We also made the stocking card, and a snowflake card posted earlier. It was a fun day, and I just want to say thank you to all who came.

The craft fair in Musquodoboit went well this weekend. Now, I can just work on some smaller items I need to make for Christmas, all the craft fair prep is done for another year!!

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Stitched Stockings

I just received the Stampin Up! Stitched stockings and matching punch set and wanted to give it a try for my upcoming class next Friday. I have 5 other cards that we will do as well, but I'll keep those a secret until everyone has come and made their cards. Paper is espresso, teal and vanilla.

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Catching up on cards today

It seems like it's been a long time since I've made any amount of cards, so today I decided to spend my afternoon stamping. The top card I will post in this week's Bellarific Friday at Stamping Bella (Emily's theme is holiday cards this week, and I've always loved the minty coffee stamp).
Maybe I'll have more to share later, but hard to say, kids will be home soon!

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Glittery Day

I felt like making some more Christmas cards today-must be the cold weather! The bottom 2 cards feature stamps by Artful Stamper, the snowmen are by Stampin Up! The bottom 2 are embossed and are quite sparkly in real life, the holly was colored using twinkling H2O's. The snowmen have some glitter ritz and some viva pearl pen for the snow.

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More Christmas Cards

Just returned from stamp-a-stack today. It was a lot of fun. These are the other 3 cards that my tables completed. It puts me in the mood to make my Christmas cards!

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Christmas cards

I made some Christmas Cards this afternoon. I'm loving the glitter paper! I'm linking this to SSSC139 since the top card is the sketch for this week. I'm also linking this to Cori's blog for her Created for Christmas linky party-it's time to start making some gifts for Christmas and she wants to feature some ideas on her blog.

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Christmas Stamp-A-Stack Sneek Peek

On Sunday, October 23rd, myself and 2 other talented ladies will be holding our annual Christmas SAS. It will be held at the Super 8 in Windsor, Nova Scotia from 9-4pm. At this event, you will make 24 cards (2 of each 12 designs) one of which I posted above. Come and join us and get a head start on your Christmas cards this year! For further info, leave a comment with your email on this post, or email me privately.

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