Beautiful Intricate Ornaments (Farewell Top Dog Dies)

It is so sad to see a company close their online store. Top Dog Dies has shut down. They had some wonderful Die sets. I wish I had stumbled across them sooner. I was lucky enough to scoop up a few one of which I used to make the following card.

 I pulled out a piece of water color paper and some MFT inks ( Hot Fudge, Jellybean Green, and Olive) and painted some pine boughs with my aqua brush. I wanted to do something a little different so I took the scalloped die and cut a stencil using the plastic piece from a pack of bacon and ran them trough the Big Kick. I then cut the rest of my pieces from the various card stock. Taking the stencil I made I laid it on the blue ornament an colored the cut outs with an embossing pen and heat embossed it with WOW Gold Rich EP. I finished this one up by aligning the piece of vellum over the embossing and adding the top of the ornament. For the other ornament I used the same stencil but put it on top of the gold piece that is shaped like a label and dry embossed some detail in it. I adhered this piece along with the top of the ornament. both were popped up on fun foam. I wanted them to look like they were hanging from the branches. I used some DMC floss poked a hole on each side of the branch and lace it through then tied a bow. The two ends I glued behind the ornament so it looked like a loop. The last thing I did was cut out joy from MFT Shiney Gold card stock using Reverse Confetti's Winter Words die and assembled my card.. 

Stampin Friends Merry Christmas Hop

Welcome to the Stampin Friends Christmas Hop!
I hope everyone will be enjoying the holiday with family and friends.

We have a line up of super talented designers and I'm sure you will be wowed!

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We are excited to have three Awesome Guest Hoppers this month that you should definitely check out!

 Maria Willis

 Twila Davis

                                                              Barbara Welch

I've been having so much fun playing with the heat embossing resist and Tim Holtz Distress inks. On a piece of water color paper I stamped my image with Versa Mark from 3 MFT sets (Sophisticated Snowflakes, Snowflake Flurry, and Snowflake Splendor) then heat embossed them with WOW Opaque Bright white super detail embossing powder.

 Now for the fun, I wet the paper then started dropping drops from the refill bottle of Shaded Lilac, Lucky Clover, and Peacock Feathers. If they didn't spread enough on their own I gave them a little help with a aqua brush. I added some Tim Holtz Brushed Pewter Distress spray which I'm really hung up on lately. While this dried I cut snowflakes out of MFT Brushed Silver card stock using Cas-ual Fridays Snowflakes from the Catherine Pooler Holiday Magic Stamp Of Approval box, these snowflakes are awesome. Also from this box I used Neat and Tangled's Happy Holiday die to cut a piece of black card stock. I assembled my card front and mounted it on Bazzill Fairytale card stock.

I'm in love with Catherine Pooler's Holiday Magic, if you can't tell! You can do so much with it and I can't wait till the new one comes out in Jan.  

I used Neat and Tangled's Bright Baubles and did a similar technique as the above card except I used

Wow Gold Rich embossing powder, Silver embossing powder and Ranger Liquid Platinum. I then wet my water color paper in the shape of a Christmas tree and dropped SU Gumball Green on to the wet part trying to avoid the inside of the ornaments. Then I colored the ornaments in with MFT Cranberry Cocktail ink. I mounted the card front to MFT brushed gold then put them on MFT Wild Cherry card stock. To wrap it up I chose some sequins from Design Creative Bling O' Tannenbaum sequin mix to scatter about.   

Some time back I had seen these elves made with pine cones and thought they were so adorable I had to give it a shot. So off to Jo-ann's I went and purchased some felt and 1" wooden beads.Once back home I went about outside collecting small pine cones that were 3 - 4" tall. I then made a pattern for the hat. For the gloves I used the mitten die from MFT Warm and Fuzzy and for the feet I used a heart from MFT Staggered Heart Border cutting 2 for each elf. The scarf was easy, I just cut a strip of felt about 3/8 to 1/2" wide and about 8 1/2" long.  After gathering and cutting all my supplies I began assembling my elves using a hot glue gun. I ran a narrow bead of glue down the straight edge of the hat and brought the matching side around to meet it, then pressed them together. Next I glued the hat to the Wooden Bead and mounted it to the pine cone. I then tied the scarf on and trimmed it to fit then cut the tassels in the ends. I glued the mittens on each side. for the feet i glued two hearts matched up on top of each other then attached then to the bottom of the pine cone with the rounded parts sticking out the front. All that was left now is to draw the face and hair, if you want hair, then glue the mini bell ( purchased at amuse studio) on the end of the hat.

Who wants to win some crafty supplies?!? If you do, and who doesn't, comment on all 14 post in this hop and email Elizabeth everyones favorite holiday to happystamper508@gmail.com by midnight Sunday 12/20/15. What do you get? In addtion to enjoying all of this group' s creations, you'll be entered to win a fun crafty present from every one of the bloggers! That's 13 crafty presents for you to enjoy and for us to say thank you for spending time with us!

I'm so glad you stopped by and hope you enjoyed my creations. I'd love to hear from you in the comments section and feel free to follow me and checkout my other post. Up next is Cheryl just click the Next button to continue on the hop and see what awesome creations she has in store for you!
My favorite holiday is Christmas!

1. Mandy Reedyk 

2. Raquelle Clifton 

3. Maria Willis 

4. Elizabeth Jeanne 

5. Siara Acdal

6. Barbara Welch  

7.Deana Benson- YOU ARE HERE
8.  Cheryl Piotrowski

9. Andrea Pancrazio 

10. Twila Davis 

11. Lisa Altman 

12. Andrea Tracy-Tucker

13. Tina Riddle

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These product you can find at Laura's Loft  (click here) along with many other great paper crafting item's at great prices. The sequin mixes are an exclusive item I ( Design Creative Bling ) designed for Laura's Loft.

MFT Sketch Challenge 224/ Happy Birdies

Ok what to do for the MFT Sketch Challenge. I chose the my favorite things lollipop addition birthday stamp set to make the circles. First I die cut four circles with the Distressed Hearts Frame Die-namics. I stamped them in Summer Splash, Sour Apple, and nightshift Blue which are all My Favorite Things die inks. The banner is from MFT Lollipop Addition Birthday stamped in Nightshift Blue. The birds or from MFT Tweet On You, I colored them with copics and grounded them with a piece of bakers twine I rubbed with sour apple ink to match.  Now what to do with the background (hmmm, yes I work backwards) I stamped it with the HB2U from Lollipop Additions Birthday in sour apple and nightshift blue and created my own background.