A Polar Bear Christmas {Annual Holiday Sale @Purple Onion Designs}

Welcome to the annual Purple Onion Designs Holiday sale. All stamps are 25% off starting today through December 5. The discounted price will show when added to your cart. 

Today's card features images from the Happy Winter Forest Friends set illustrated by @julianharlton which were all stamped onto Copic friendly cardstock, colored with Copic markers, then fussy cut out. I added a bit of sparkle to the star using a clear gelly roll pen. The background consists of a piece of dry embossed vellum with a border consisting of a strip of cardstock and patterned paper attached to the card front. After attaching all the images with either glue or foam dimensionals I attached the matted sentiment also using a layer of craft foam. 

Products: Purple Onion Designs stamps, MFT dp, MFT and PTI cs, Darice embossing folder, Altnew and WPlus9 ink, Copic Markers

Copics: Bird-R22, R24, YG01, YG03; Bunny-W00, E81, R01, R02, R2, R22, R24, BG01, BG02; Bear-W00, E81, R00, R02, R05; Bear Clothing-BG000, BG01, BG02, YG01, YG03, R20, R22, R27; Tree-G000, G00, G02, G07, E33, E35, Ornaments/Star-R22, R24, R27, Y000, Y13, Y17

Have fun shopping!

Snow Happy

I had a head start on today's cards because I created the tags during the 25 Days of Tags Challenge last year. Both were in my snippets folder which seemed perfect for the current Christmas Kickstart Challenge #56 with a theme of "Christmas Snippets". 

Both tag bases were cut from cardstock and patterned paper using dies from the Sunny Studio Build-a-Tag #1 set. I then stamped and cut the snow people and tree using the Feeling Frosty stamps and dies. I added them to card bases using strips of patterned paper. 

Products: Sunny Studio stamps and dies, MFT dp, PTI cs, Divine Twine, Darice Embossing Folder, PTI and Atenew ink, Copic Markers

Copics: Snow People: G0000, W00, E81, YG01, YG03, R20, R22, R24, R81, RV11, RV13; Tree-YG01, YG03, YG13, YG17

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday filled with family and good food!

Silent Night, Holy Night

I am just getting this under the wire for the current Color Throwdown Challenge #669 featuring colors of navy, white and gold. 

I used the Spellbinders Shapeabilities Nativity Layering die set to cut from navy and gold metallic cardstock once and from white three times. I layered them together achieving some separation from the gold with the three layers of white. For the background, I splattered some gold watercolor all over the front and stamped the sentiment from the Papertrey Ink Star of Wonder set using blueberry ink. I added a strip of the same gold metallic cardstock, then layered the diecut image onto it. 

Products: Papertrey Ink sentiment, Spellbinders dies, PTI and Michael's cs, Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor, MFT ink

This one was pretty darn easy to put together. I need easy right now. How about you? 

Comfort and Joy

I am still furiously working on Christmas cards. 

For what is basically a clean and simple card I managed to combine several Reverse Confetti stamp and die sets including Joyous Holiday stamps and dies for the cute angel, Triangle Trees stamp and die for the graphic trees, Joys of the Season for the holly cluster and Seasonal Say It All for the sentiment all anchored by the strip of patterned paper. 

Products: Reverse Confetti stamps and dies, Avery Elle dp, PTI cs, Sakura Gold Gel Pen, Altenew and PTI ink, Copic Markers

Copics: Holly Leaves-YG01, YG03, YG06; Berries-R21, R24, R27; Angel-Skin-E000, E00, E02; Hair-E50, E31, E35; Dress-W00, E81; Wings-BG0000, BG000; Halo-YR30, YR31

I am submitting this to the current Fusion Card Challenge

 and to the November Stock Your Stash Challenge. 

I hope you are having a great weekend. It's 60 degrees here and beautiful.

Let There Be Peace

 This was created for the Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge (#3) using their mood board for inspiration. 

I used several either under used or never used Memory Box/Poppy Stamps products to create a simple and peaceful scene. I cut the Stitched Pine Trees from patterned paper and used the Stick Pine Trees to cut from white cardstock, then layered together. To prepared the background I cut a stitched rectangle from white woodgrain embossed cardstock then added a patterned paper border at the bottom. After cutting a small "snow bank" from white cardstock using a stitched snow drift die, I stamped the sentiment with Christmas kisses ink for a single splash of red.  The smallest star from the Traditional Stars die set and the Tiny Fawns were cut from gold metallic cardstock. 

Products: Memory Box/Poppy Stamps dies, MFT sentiment stamp, Memory Box dp, Ellen Hutson and PTI cs, Hemptique cord, MFT dies, The Stamp Market ink

Thank you for stopping by. I'll be back soon. 

O Christmas Tree

I took a break from design team projects to create some Christmas cards for challenges this weekend.

This one was a breeze to put together since I already had the trees from the Reverse Confetti Triangle Trees set stamped and cut out with the matching die. And I had the holly image from the Joys of the Season set stamped, cut with the matching die and colored during the August #thedailymarker30day challenge. I spied the scalloped circle frame in my extra pieces bag and it provided an anchor for the other pieces. The sentiment was stamped directly onto the panel and I added a trio of tiny red jewels to add a bit of sparkle.

Products: Reverse Confetti stamps and dies, PTI cs, The Cat's Pajamas die, Oriental Trading Co. jewels, Altenew, Concord & 9th and PTI ink, Copic Markers
 Copics: Holly Leaves-YG01, YG03, YG06; Berries-R21, R24, R27

I am submitting this to the November Stock Your Stash Challenge. 

Have a blessed Sunday. 

Festive Mugs (2021 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop)

I have a Christmas card for the 2021 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop using some stamps and dies from Papertrey Ink. 

I used the Papertrey Ink Festive Mugs Stamp and Die set that I purchased last year and never actually got around to using to create the two mugs, greenery, flowers and candy canes, all stamped using sweet blush, simply chartreuse and Christmas kisses ink. The snowflake cutout on the top mug came from the Starflakes die set. I arranged the images onto a white panel cut with two of the dies from the Mix & Mat: Snowflakes set, then backed with a second layer of red cut with the largest die from the set. I love pink and red for Christmas. 

Products: Papertrey Ink stamps and dies, The Stamp Market and PTI cs, The Stamp Market and PTI ink

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you are having a nice relaxing weekend.