Envelope Punch Board Slider

Happy Wednesday Morning! 😃

Do you have a bunch of Designer Series Paper laying around? I sure do and now that the new catalog is coming out next month, I need to use it up. Honestly, I'm a paper hoarder. I get it and it's so pretty. I tell myself I'm waiting for that "perfect" project to use it, then here we are at another catalog transition and it's all still sitting there. *Sigh*

Hence my card for the day. I wanted to use up some of that fun, vibrant Festive Birthday Designer Series Paper. I had seen this sliding gift card holder card all over Pinterest and really liked it because, well, 1. It's a fun fold card & 2. It uses the Envelope Punch Board to make a self-closing flap. How cool is that???

When you open it up, it slides and reveals the gift card. I popped some balloons made with the Balloon Bouquet Punch up on Stampin' Dimensionals to decorate the top panel. Fun! Fun!

The sentiments are from the Confetti Celebrations Stamp Set. The finishing touch is the addition of the Crushed Curry Baker's Twine & Party Animal Embellishments which are  both 40% off right now! Get 'em while they're hot! LOL!

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. If you'd like to leave me some love below, I'd be glad to hear from you!

Have a wonderful day!
~Kim~

Swap card

I made this card for a swap with my fellow Stray Ducklings (a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators in the area.) I must say, I'm very happy with the result :) The theme of the swap was Washi tape. The red strip at the top under the gold bakers twine (part of the Baker's Twine Trio Pack) is washi tape from the Warmth & Cheer Washi pack. 

Every Christmas season, I like to make at least one card that uses a tea light. There's just something festive about that for me. This is just a simple tent card in Old Olive cardstock. I stamped the trees with the Peaceful Pines stamp set then cut all of them out using the Perfect Pines Framelits Dies.

I stamped the Seasons Greetings like it was hanging from the Washi tap.  

Both sentiments are from the  Seasonal Bells Stamp Set. 

The center tree is made using shipping tape and Dazzling Diamonds then backing both with Vellum. 

And here it is all lit up. :) 

I really enjoyed making these cards for our swap. I sincerely hope the recipients enjoy them as much as I enjoyed creating them :)

Merry Christmoose!

As I sit here typing this blogpost that will go live in the morning, my toothless, old, cataract-ridden Rat Terrier, Buster, just chased a possum off the porch! My heart did flip flops trying to catch up with him in the dark and make sure he didn't get himself hurt (or rabies!) Turns out Mr. Possum stopped next to the house & Buster kept going! All's well that ends well. Buster returned and the possum missed looking down the end of a 12-gauge since hubby couldn't find him when he went back out. 

Now that that drama is over, onto our next card :)

Merry Christmoose!

This is the 2nd card from last weeks class. I started with a base of Real Red cardstock and layered it with Candy Cane Lane DSP. I stamped "merry" with the Layered Letters Alphabet stamps. "Christmoose" was stamped using the Labeler Alphabet stamp set.  The moose was stamped from the Jolly Friends stamp set on Sahara Sand and Crumb Cake & fussy cut out. We cut the antlers off the Crumb cake, cut the Sahara Sand moose off underneath the eyes and adhered it to the back of the crumb cake piece so the antlers would be lighter than the head.

The hat pieces were punched with the Jolly hat builder punch in Real Red and Whisper White. We added Mica flakes on the hat brim with tombow glue and added the mini jingle bell at the tip with mini glue dots.

The finishing touch was the Candy Cane Lane baker's twine and the sentiment inside from the Cookie Cutter Christmas stamp set.

I just love this moose :)

If you'd like to buy any of the items to make this card, I'd love to help you out. :)

Until tomorrow, Happy Stamping!
Kim