Snowglobe Christmas

Today is the last day for the Christmas in July challenge over at the Die Cut Diva's blog! I used some Tim Holtz designed items that I have, some sadly hadn't been used yet. 

 I started by distressing some watercolor paper in brown tones for the snowglobe stand and blues for the globe itself, then I die cut them. Thinking it would be nice to have a little more dimension for the base ( since the houses would be layered up) I cut out 3 more layers.

I added some snowflakes in the back ground and used white satin pearl embossing powder for a subtle look. 

I was thinking of adding color to the houses, but liked the look of the white houses and trees against the blue sky.

Thanks as always for stopping by and have a great day!
Monica

Supplies:

• Snowglobe
• Holiday words #2
• Holiday words script
• Snowflakes by Lia
• Distress ink- Old Paper, Ground Espresso, Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky and Faded Jeans

Party balloons

Poppin' in real quick with a card I made for the CASology 5 year anniversary. 

The theme is balloons and they have a blog hop going on to celebrate! It was perfect timing since I needed a birthday card for next week so the theme is perfect! I created this for the blog hop.

I was originally thinking of just coloring the balloons in the back ground in shades of grey so the party balloons popped more, but changed my mind. It is for a little boy and I thought it needed more color. So to help the party balloons stand out more I put some vellum over the colored back ground panel.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Monica

Supplies:

• Admit One- Lawn Fawn
• Celebration balloons- Mama Elephant
• Copics and Micron pen
• cardstock and Vellum

A2Z- You're truly...

Here's my card using just one layer of the layering Peacock stamp from Hero Arts. Please see the full how to at A2Z Scrapbooking! Join the team in anything goes challenge, we love to see what you make!

I'm linking this to the Freshly Made Sketches blog

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Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Supplies:

CM126 Color layering Peacock

PW118 White satin embossing powder

Distress Oxide ink- Wilted Violet, Peacock Feathers and Twisted Citron

Nuvo Drops- Caribbean Ocean

Wink of Stella

DCD- Peace and Joy

Here is my second card for our Christmas in July challenge over at the Die Cut Diva's. Today's card was pretty quick to put together and could be a good one to mass produce if needed for Christmas cards.

• Stamped sentiment and die cut panel
• Stamped and die cut branches
• Die cut patterned layer
• Adhered stamped panel with foam adhesive to the paper layer before adding to card base
• Placed branches to top panel and added a twine bow

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Monica

Supplies:

• Peace and Joy (Hero Arts)
• Holly Pine Branch stamps and dies (Hero Arts)
• Inside out Diagonal stitched rectangle stax (MFT)
• Cardstock
• pattern paper
• twine

a2z- anything goes

Here is a quick peek at my card for the Anything Goes challenge over at A2Z Scrapbooking. Head on over and check it out and don't forget to play along!

If you are in need of any items from the a2z Scrapbooking store you can use code Monica15 at checkout to receive 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. (before tax and shipping)  And don’t forget that we are on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.  Follow us on these different social media outlets so you won’t miss out on any fun promotions!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Supplies: (Hero Arts unless specified differently)

• CM164
• Butter Bar, Deep Ocean, Navy, Gray Flannel (Momento), Black, Forever Green, Emerald Green and Green Apple
• Nuvo Drops- Gloss White

DCD- Christmas chandelier

Hello all, here is my first card for the Christmas in July challenge over at the Die Cut Diva's blog. Our sponsor this month is the Frantic stamper, who is generously donating the die below!

I used a mix of Hero Arts (linked below) for my first card this month.

I started by taping the sides of my card to mask them. Then stamped the script background, the distressed strip for the ground and the sentiment. The tree then is stamped and embossed with pearl finish embossing powder. The chair and chandelier were both stamped and then die cut on a scratch piece of paper, before being added with foam tape. To finish the card I added some bling to the elements.

Below is a closer look at the bling and the embossing powder.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!
Monica

Supplies:

Hero Arts- Vintage Christmas Post

                  Soft Granite

                  K5849 (Tree)

                  Red Royal

                  Chandeliers stamp and die

                  VersaMark

Misc-         Cardstock

                  Embossing powder

                  Gems