Candy Canes and Peppermints, Oh My!

 All my posts this week will be holiday themed using the September Papertrey Ink release. I'm so excited to have been invited as a Guest Designer for such a great company!

This card is all about candy canes and lollipops! The peppermint and candy canes were die cut from the Gingerbread Builder Die set. This set is filled with so many little elements that go beyond just a gingerbread cookie. It's a must have in your holiday crafty stash! I also went extra on the glitter accents :)

The borders on this set use the Candy Cane Frame Post Card Die for the main white panel, and then in bright red I used the Skinny Ric Rac Die. The sentiment is heat embossed in rose gold powder, and stamped from the Doily Trees Stamp Set.

The final accents on this card include the light pink bow from the Stitched Circle Die and the green element from Reflections: September Die. 

Cards like this are perfect for any holiday that a friend may be celebrating this winter. Thanks for stopping by!

Ho Ho Ho - Vintage Santa with PTI

 I'm thrilled to announce that I am a Papertrey Ink Guest Designer for September! PTI is a company that I've loved since the start of this blog (seriously, search "papertrey ink" in my blog search and there are some oldies but goodies hidden in there!). They have an incredible holiday themed release for the month, and I'll be sharing my cards all week long.

This Santa card is packed with new releases. I love the vintage vibe of the drawing, which uses the Santa stamp from North Pole Mail. The background was first die cut with the North Pole Mail: Postage Stamp Frame Post Card Die. I then heat embossed in silver the two different "ho ho ho" sentiment stamps from This is Big Sentiments: Ho, Ho, Ho.

Now, I didn't want poor Santa's head just floating on the card, so I anchored him with a die cut "ho ho ho" stamped in green. I also gave Santa some festive twigs that were die cut from the Into the Blooms: Swag Die set.

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Yeehaw! Desert Inspired Birthday Card

 September is a HUGE birthday month in my family... we are literally celebrating all. month. long (my own birthday included!). Today happens to be my dad's birthday, so I created this desert themed card just for him. I grew up in Arizona where my parents still live, and the desert is definitely "home". Give me everything cactus related!

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This Concord and 9th Bootcut set is perfect for all my desert needs! I used the smaller images in the stamp set to put together the background panel. I stamped the saguaro with the new Hero Arts Reactive Glitz ink in Byzantine Green and the starbursts with Naples Yellow. You can see how the inks shimmer in the last photo below!

The Yeehaw is a perfect stamp! I stamped here with Versafine Onyx Black ink onto Sand Cardstock, which I cut with a Postage Stamp Infinity Die. I also used the Bootcut dies to cut the cacti and flowers from C9 cardstock.

I did my best to capture all that SHIMMER that's in the new Reactive Glitz inks! It's so pretty!

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