Gingerbread house gift bag

Hello everyone,

I hope you had a good weekend and are easing gently into the new week. There is a decided chill in the air around here as winter arrives but it is nice to get wrapped up in winter woollies again and feel all cosy at home.

Today is Blog Hop day at Papertrey ink and this time Nichole asked us to make a miniature holiday house. When I think of Christmas houses, I always think of a gingerbread house so I hope this counts for the blog hop.

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut a file from the Silhouette store and decorated it with some ribbon and stamps and die cuts from the Believe set

I was tempted to go over the top and decorate it with snow, glitter and candy canes etc but I decided to keep it simple so bits don't fall off when it is used, because it is actually a little gift box too!

There is room in the base for some chocolates or a small gift and then flaps tuck in to keep it safe in the base without being visible through the windows! Beautiful and practical too - the recipient can display it as a decoration once it has been opened.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy looking at all the fabulous inspiration that will be available to you today.

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink Christmas card

Hello everyone and a very warm welcome to Benzi who has joined us as a new follower this week.

I'm still following the Holiday Card Workshop and on Friday it was all about clean and simple cards. Laura Bassen showed a very simple design and as I had just received my parcel from Papertrey Ink, she inspired me to try this card

I used the following dies One Liner, Tiny Tags and the Countdown Details. along with stamps from Tiny Tags.

Here is a slightly different version

I would like to enter this into the Christmas Stampin' All Year challenge which this week is to use stripes.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x

Papertrey Ink Christmas card

Hello everyone and specially to Katrin and Crystal who have joined us as very welcome new followers this week.

I have signed up for the Online Card class Holiday Card Workshop and the first lesson was yesterday when we were asked to think about the inside of the card as well as the outside. I loved the card Kristina showed us with the embossing and I came up with this card.

I embossed the top and bottom of a white panel with a star embossing folder, leaving a central plain strip. I don't have many embossing powders and wanted to have a blue embossed sentiment, so I inked my stamp up with versamark ink and then quickly added PTI Blueberry Sky ink on top of it. I then stamped and embossed with clear embossing powder and the result was fine - you can see the shine better on this photo:-

I added 2 strips of washi tape, stamped and die cut the tree before adding some sparkle, and then matted it on to Blueberry Sky card before placing it on the card front.

I then moved to the inside of the card, and stamped a snowy background before stamping the focal point word on top.

I chose a sentiment for the inside to carry on the one on the front to emphasize a winter theme. A couple of strips of green card finished it off.

I'd like to enter this into C is for Challenge this week where the theme is 'winter', and the Creative Romance challenge which is 'winter blues'.

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs
Carol x

Papertrey Ink coffeecard

Hello everyone, and a warm welcome to Dora who is a new follower this week. I am having a busy weekend with my daughter visiting and our choir is singing tonight and tomorrow afternoon so I just wanted to pop on and post a card I made for the Muse challenge which had this card from Laurie Willison to muse upon



I took the strip of stripy paper and the ampersand to use in my card, and decided to try to leave lots of white space. I also wanted to have a try at the Casology challenge which this week had the word BROWN.

I didn't have any brown stripy paper so made my own with PTI BB Super stripes and Brushed Corduroy Distress ink, and I also coloured some white card with the same ink to make the mat and thin strip of card.

Stamps from the PTI Latte Love stamp set were used for the cups and sentiments, and the pops of red were added to bring a bit of contrast to the card. The words, grind, scoop etc were actually stacked vertically and as I didn't want to cut them apart, I masked and inked each word to make the line of words at the bottom. You don't want to know how many tries it took me before I got this right but I would advise anyone else to the cut the stamp apart!!!

Short and sweet today but thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend.

Hugs
Carol x

Happy birthday Tracey - Papertrey Ink birthday card

Hello everyone,

photo credit

Yesterday was the birthday of a very sweet blogging buddy who has always been so encouraging in her regular comments on this blog. She is also a most prolific blogger herself and comes up with the most amazing cards for her design teams, and those teams are very lucky to have her. So Tracey,
here is a little belated wish for good things not only on your birthday but for the whole year through. I know you must often feel low because of your health issues but I haven't heard you complain about it and I always come away from your blog feeling cheered by the visit. So little Superstar, this card is for you

Thanks so much Joyce for organizing the linky birthday party - you are a very sweet friend.

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink Christmas card

Hello everyone,

I hope you are enjoying a lovely weekend and that the weather is being kinder to you than it is to me. We've been having a busy weekend with running a Quiz Night on Friday, singing with our choir yesterday and a 70th birthday lunch today, but I had started a card for the Merry Monday challenge and I just finished it off before I have to go out. The challenge was to use a Santa image and I decided to go with this image from Papertrey Ink. It isn't the usual jolly, fat Santa but reminds me of the Orthodox Church one and I really like him.

I coloured him with copic markers and used scarlet jewel ink for the sentiment. I used the canvas impression plate to give the panel a bit of texture, and added a bit of sparkle (although it is hard to see in the photo) with my Wink of Stella brush pen. Mat stack dies were used to frame Santa and some scarlet jewel ribbon finished it off.

Well, I'd better scoot, so thanks for looking in and have a great day.

Hugs
Carol x