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A challenge on Split Coast Stampers this week was to create something using Gold and/or silver... so I choose to make some tags/ornaments out of shiny gold paper... I loved this.. I cut some paper using a Martha Stewart corner punch and then cut the corners down, so that I could glue them onto a circle... I created the little ornament on the right... then I used the Lattice pendant to create the other one... they both had a little white circle added that had been stamped with Tapestry stamps... just to add a little Christmas color... of course a bow using metallic gold ribbon and red ribbons... and they were ready to use in less than 30 minutes... I love making these... and have them on all my packages... what a pleasure it is to have nice looking tags on gifts that you have made... a real pleasure...


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On Saturday of every week, Split Coast Stampers has a challenge of going to a site, that is given to you... and becoming inspired by the work of that artist to create something of your own... Well this week it was stationery... and there was some really pretty pieces there... I was inspired to create quite a few pieces... loving every minute of it... off and on all day long.. I would make a Christmas ball as a present and then go back and make another card... all day long.. What a fun day... We had a snow storm on Friday, and got about 12 inches if not a little more of the white stuff... so I was happy to be able to play all day long and get some things done for Christmas presents that were long over due... It was a fun day... and follow on down and look at some of the other cards I got made... This card was a fun one to do... As I love drawing leaves, love cutting out anything... and so it was 100% pleasurable.. I used all scraps of green papers, and then mounted onto the octagonal patterned paper... added a bow and loved it... now I can add a small message when I decide to use the card... and it will then be done.


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Another challenge card was created by using a stamp ( Angel stamp on the left) that I think I bought over 5 years ago... never really liked it, as when I stamped it there was so much ink from the stamping that it was too much... so I just never really knew what to do with it... do you have stamps like that??? Well I used a white gel pen and 'colored' over the black areas of the stamp... then using a marker I colored the color desired... it came out the way I like things to be... realistic and also pretty... the little girls hair was all black... and by adding the white, I was able to make her a dark blond, by using the yellow and a couple of brown makers... The evergreen branch was also black... and now is realistically green.. .then I used my Twinkling H2o's to paint the rest of the stamped area... Then into the spellbinder circle to make the ornament... I made the top of the ornament with one of the little dies from the Fleur di lie die set... perfect ... cut out of metallic shiny gold paper.. The border was created with one of Maratha's newest punches...

Every once in a while you get to a place where you are using the same colors over and over... and you don't change... that is called living in a RUT... so I got out of my box today... and chose to work in some other areas as well... these colors are must about at the end of the road for me... I just don't use them together.. so why not try... the one picture that was an inspiration was in yellow and black and also the daisies... so the daisies attracted me and the colors pushed me away at first... but then I had to choose this as a challenge in a few ways... drawing the daisies was not a problem, but using the colors was.. but I did it.. .and I think it came out pretty good... so a hump was achieved for me in that way... I am happy... I also scored the background into diamonds using just my Fiskars personal trimmer, with the little black tool (v.s the little orange cutter) and it came out great... And of course my new Martha Stewart Border punch... love it... love my punches...



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Another fun challenge card... this one was really one of the first I did to reflect this challenge... it was a picture of thistle in turquoise and limes.. so very pretty with a brown background... not something that I would put in the background... so I chose this one again to get out of the box, and grow a little bit more...

I added the paper lace with a new punch from Martha Stewart... (My dear friend Marie, enabler, is always getting me these great Martha Stewart punches, as the stores are all so far away from me... and so when I go to my stamp group meeting it is like going shopping!!! I always can pick up my newest purchases from Marie... thanks Marie for being so gracious in always getting these for me.. ) the corners were done with a Fiskars corner punch and then punched out with a photo corner punch... I love the effects of this one... a nice bow, made with my new bow maker that Cheryl sent me.. thanks again Cheryl.. So I guess I grew a little as I would be able to add this yummy brown bazzill paper to a lot more colors now...


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We always give the mail something for Christmas... and I was really stumpted this year... I have given him so many paintings of fish, that I have
created with Fred Mullet stamps... and then painted with Twinkling H20's... and decided that this year I would have to do something different... He is an avid fisherman, but how many pictures of fish can you hang up in your fishing cabin??? So I decided to create a Fishermans Christmas ball.. and called it the Christmas Fish... and wrote a little story about how the Christmas fish can only be caught on Christmas Day and that is why he has never seen it... and then I created a card to reflect the story as well.. Thanks Cheryl for the glittery mesh on the left of the card.. it was perfect... I knew I would use it for something from the sea... it was perfect..

Hope you have enjoyed the views today... and hope you will become a follower.. thanks and enjoy your day to the fullest..make some cookies and sit back and relax... what a beatiful day it is...

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie