Berry Grateful Wreath with The Stamp Market

 

Hello!  We had our first snow that stuck (for a day) this week.  It’s put me in more of a Christmas mood....while still wanting to hold on to Autumn as long as possible.  And while we’ve had Thanksgiving already in Canada, its always good to be full of thanks no matter the circumstances.  So today’s card is a bit of a transitional design between Thanksgiving and Christmas with new goodies from The Stamp Market.  This is the October Kit from The Stamp Market, and it includes a gorgeous oblong wreath for a shaped card design, lots of dies to accent the wreath and a coordinating sentiment set, dies and paper in the kit.  It’s a beauty!  

I went with some cool greens from the kit to design my wreath, and rather than flowers in the wreath, I only used the flower centers to create berries for the greenery.  Perfect to lean it more toward Christmas. Each bit of greenery was ink blended to give the leaves some extra dimension and colour.  

The sentiment is a lovely one, and I embossed it in silver and used the coordinating dies to cut it out and pop it up with foam.  With such great texture and colour, it didn’t need anything else to still be a gorgeous shaped design.  

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Berry Grateful Wreath with The Stamp Market

Stretching Your Seasonal Stamps

 

Delighted to pop in today with some sweet breaths of Spring!  Were quite a few weeks away from Spring here, despite what the calendar and the groundhog says, but I can always create it on paper.  Earlier this Winter when MFT was having a 50% off sale, I picked up these Seasonal Wreath and dies from them (now I believe they’re retired), because they’re so cute in their petite size, but I also knew they’d be great for wreaths that are NOT just for Christmas!  All it takes is a bit of a switch in colour palette, and elements to give it a touch of Spring that’s lovely.  

Just by adding in some peach tones in the berries in the set, and then popping in some die cut flowers from MFT’s Fundamentla Florals Die-namics and you have a perfectly Easter/Spring wreath to show off.  I’ve added a few enamel dots, and sponged the background onto green cardstock with MFT’s Basket Weave Stencil, and splattered some Distress Ink onto the background to tie the colours together a bit.  

The pretty sentiment is from MFT’s cute sentiment set called Crafty Friends.  Always fun to use the Spring colours too, even when I still see white outside!  

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Stretching Your Seasonal Stamps

TCP March Release Take I

Greetings friends!  I’m popping in with some awesome NEW inspiration from The Cat’s Pajamas for the March Release going on now!  There are some fun additions to this month’s release including digital patterned paper!  It was a first for me to play with digital paper files, but it was a blast to have the versatility of printing only what you wanted.  

I have two designs to show you today beginning with our favourite buddy bear in this set called The Little Things.  I love that he’s holding up a sunflower, which is perfect for nods of support for Ukraine.  He’s coloured with Copic Makers, with accents and shadows added with Prismacolor pencils.  

To accent the design I used some TCP dies to frame him up, add some swirly accent, a bit of twine and a cute wood button.  The honeycomb paper is from our new Happy Spring Papers.  

Here is a peek a the Copics I used.  I used the same colours for all of my release cards this month, but you’ll see two more of them next week.  

This next design was totally inspired by Amy Kolling who did a floral wreath a few years ago with buffalo plaid in the background, I loved it so much that I thought this would be the perfect time to use it as inspiration for this pretty wreath.  

I’ve combined the Rabbit and Wreath cutable files (I’ve used the retired metal dies, but the files are the same), I just cut out the wreath and accents several times in different colours so I could combine them.  Then I tucked in some of the Easter Eggs from the Happy Easter set to fill in the wreath.  The layers give it a nice 3D effect.  

A bit of sparkle is added with holeless sequins and the added vellum softens the plaid, but still allows the pattern to show through.  

The sentiment is from a retired TCP die, and works perfectly with its delicate font.  

Here’s a peek at all of the new goodies I used!   Thanks for joining me today.  

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TCP March Release Take I