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 Hello, crafty friends. Today, is the absolute LAST day to get your own Trimming the Tree Bundle in the Perfect Partners Promotion! Don't miss out on this classic Christmas stamp set and the coordinating 27 piece Trimming the Trees Dies. The Perfect Partners Promotion ends today! I love the classical look of this Christmas themed stamp set which contains sentiments for both the inside and the outside of your holiday card.  I stamped 2 trees using  Evening Evergreen and Garden Green inks onto Garden Green cardstock and 2 trees stamped in Garden Green and Old Olive ink onto Garden Green cardstock.  I added my trees with Dimensionals onto a poinsettia piece of the Boughs of Holly 12" x 12" DSP and then finally matted onto a piece of Garden Green card base that was embossed with the Dainty Diamonds 3D Embossing Folder- which is now retired. With this beautiful piece of Boughs of Holly DSP, I chose not to add a lot of elements to my Christmas trees  and let the DSP a...

Hello, to my crafty friends. Today, I have a fun creation to share with you using the Trimming the Tree stamp set with the coordinating Tree Trimmings Dies which is part of the Perfect Partners Promotion ending Friday, September 30th. I paired my trio of trees with the Splendid Day 12" x 12" Specialty Paper to add some festive shine and to show you how versatile the Splendid Day 12" x 12" DSP really is. My focal tree is stamped using Soft Sea Foam and Pear Pizzazz ink, and then I reversed the order of stamped colors for the remaining two trees. To make my card look like the trees where in a forest, I added a row of hand cut snowdrifts under my trees and a few rows of garland to my focal tree using Basic White cardstock.  I could have added more bling to my trees, but I really liked the green and white as my focal colors.   Next, I added a White Glimmer Paper die cut star to the top of my tree and a copper embossed sentiment to match the Splendid Day 12" x 12...

Hello, and happy Friday to my crafty friends! It's been a busy week for me and I am sure for you as well. But we made it to Friday and we are all ready for the weekend. :)  Today, I have another creation to share using the Apple Harvest Bundle which is part of the Perfect Partners Promotion which ends on September 30th. Can I just say how fun these apples are to color!? For this creations, I decided to try out Colored Pencils and Stampin' Blends together after seeing a few lovely creations on Pinterest. What a fun "new" way to add color to a stamped image! I used yellow and gray colored pencils to create a "shadow effect" of my cut apple and also used it for the centers and shading areas of the flowers. I then added color over the top using Stampin' Blends.  So fun to try a new technique, right?! I paired my colored and die cut apples and flowers with some Garden Green die cut leaves. I also added a fun frame around my apples using the Stylish Shaped Di...