Christmas Lodge - TSSC 236

 Well I had a great time at my Bring Your Own project Night last night!  I have these one Friday night a month.. I was determined to do Mary Jo's sketch challenge and just ran out of time this week.  As soon as I saw this sketch and immediately thought of the Christmas Lodge set.

So... last night - I choose the set Christmas Lodge and decided that I was going to develop some ideas with this set.   I used the Festival of Prints Designer Paper Pack which has 12 beautiful patterns of designer paper.  Some beautiful designs in this pack!!

 I also have to say that I love the new ink pads.  I am slowly replacing my ink pads and this was the first time that I used the Always Artichoke pad...  Stamps are so much easier to ink with the new design.  It does take some time to develop a little lighter touch inking up the stamp.

So the tree is stamped with always artichoke on very vanilla.  It is layered onto cranberry crisp cardstock and layered onto the houndstooth designed paper from the Festival of Prints designer pack.  The houndstooth design is layered onto a layer of  Early Expresso.  The card base is crumb cake

The ornaments on the tree are pearls that I have colored with a red permanent marker.  I just love this technique.  You can color the pearls or jewels any color with a permanent marker!

I layered the larger pearls on the side onto a 1/4" circle punched from the early expresso cardstock.

I can't wait to see what my other Stampin' Friends have made with this sketch!!

My Christmas Cards

I hope that everyone has had a great Christmas holiday.

These are the cards that I made and sent to my family and friends.  I get bored very easily so I usually make 20 of 4 or 5 different designs so I don't get too bored...


This card was made with Beautiful Season.  I used old olive for the card base and layer.  The technique is a spotlight technique.  The image is stamped in black. Then stamp a second image on a scrap piece and color that image.  Punch out a piece of the colored image with a circle punch and use a dimensional to layer over the black image.

This next card was a CASE of a card that Ann Schack had posted on her blog a couple of weeks ago.  I used the Christmas Lodge set and Ann used Winter Post which I don't have.  So if you see a card that you really like but don't have that exact set.  Look through what you do have and look for a stamp that is a similar size and can be easily substituted.

Ann's original card can be seen here.

We had a great day today with my husband's family.  Tomorrow we are leaving to celebrate Christmas with my family...

Time to start designing new ideas with all the goodies from the upcoming Occasions mini and Sale-a-bration sets!!

Talk to you soon!

Christmas Lodge Card

Good Morning!  I posted some pictures in my Splitcoaststampers Gallery yesterday of cards that I have made over the past two months.  I had not posted in my splitcoast gallery in a year - Yikes! 

It dawned  on me that there are a couple of cards that I made for swaps and had not posted to my blog either...  Ok - so now I am catching up!!  LOL

This is a card that I made for a Holiday swap this fall.  It uses the new Christmas Lodge stamp set that is in the Holiday mini catalog with several of the new products that are in the Holiday mini catalog. 

The paper is Frostwood lodge designer paper.  The ribbon is the new Quilted satin ribbon in cherry cobbler.

The base of the card is sahara sand.  I cut a layer of always artichoke and embossed it with the new Snow Burst embossing folder.  And what is a card without a little bling???  So I sprayed the artichoke layer with shimmer spray.

I stamped the Christmas tree from the Christmas Lodge stamp set using white ink on sahara sand cardstock.  I then embossed it with winter white embossing powder.  I carefully tore the cardstock around the tree.  I wanted that more casual look.  I tried cutting around the tree but that gave it a harsh look.   

Did you know that you can color our beautiful jewels with sharpies?  I thought the tree needed a little bling so added some jewels that have been colored red and yellow for the top star. 

I then wanted to change the Frostwood Lodge paper a little.  For some reason I really like plaids that are on the diagonal.  So I cut a 1 & 1/2" strip of the Plaid and then cut it on the diagonal with my paper cutter.    I added a white scallop border to the edgeof the designer paper and layered it onto the artichoke layer. 

Then I added the new Quiled Satin ribbon.  I just love the cherry cobbler and wish that I had purchased more of it.  To get the loopy look - attach a piece of sticky strip down the length of the area that you want to place the ribbon.  I start at the bottom and fold the end of the ribbon around the bottom edge and work up the card.  Press the ribbon very loosely with short loops along the sticky strip.  NOTE:  I don't cut the ribbon until I get to the top of the card.  Otherwise I never cut the right length!!  Attach the layer to the card base!  And Voila!

And the card idea - those of you that know me - know that I have very few original ideas!!  I use things in my everyday life for inspiration as well as Casing some of my favorite card designers!  This idea came from the cover of a Cards magazine from 2009 that had a Christmas tree decorated with some bling.  I loved the look of the card and just substituted our new products.

Have a great day!!

Marilyn