Wine some more?

More wine themed cards using the December card kit from My Favorite Things, A Good Time to Wine.

I made an attempt to use my little Foldio light box to take these pictures. I had to adjust the lighting a lot in Photoshop to keep them from looking dim and sad. I have got to get better lighting for that thing, or give up and get a real light box.

Happy New Year, everyone!

To your continued greatness!

I have a new card kit from My Favorite Things, "A Good Time to Wine". It has the prettiest sparkle gold paper I've ever worked with. OMG it doesn't shed glitter!!  So, what did I do? I added glimmer paste, which actually does shed a little.

The kit contains a shaped bubble that creates the body of the wine glass (die included), so I filled it with a small amount of white wine colored beads. The wine glass is cut from some of the Mercury Glass paper I've been using for Christmas cards. I love that stuff.  The background is an embossed swirly pattern that I've only used horizontally to indicate wind before, but it's very festive here vertically, right?  I used Tonic moonstone glimmer paste through a spotty stencil. Stingy old me only used tiny strips of the gold glitter paper on the side and bottom of the card.  The sentiment was gold embossed on a kraft strip, and the card base is kraft, also.

I have notice that I only do 4 or 5 cards from a kit before I "quit".  My goal is to do more than 5 with this one.  I may even go back to the Festive Flamingos and do more there, too.  I think they may still be in the bag. Except for the stamps and the dies, that is. Oh who am I kidding, it has been broken down into components into the stash at this point.

Oh, and those beads?  Well, they are just barely a little too thick for the shaker pouch. I had a little trouble gluing that glass down flat to the card. My bad, I know that sequins are better for shaker cards for a reason. Oh well, live and learn.

Die cut critters say "Merry Christmas to You"!

Today's cards are mostly all die-cuts, with minimal stamping. Really, I made these cards up back in September and thought it too soon to write about them, so here it is, time to send them and I'm glad I remembered to photograph them. 

The critters are SSS storybook characters, oh so much fun to cut from different colors and put together on a card base.  The sentiments are from My Favorite Things. The large "merry and bright" was stamped and embossed with sparkly green embossing powder. The "Jolly Holly Days" is from Lawn Fawn's Deck the Halls set, and the Merry Christmas circle die cut is from MFT. I think the row of houses border might be MFT also.

I'm trying to figure out what this last one is missing.  Ya'll may see it again with something else on it. 

I have a couple more cards to share in a few days. 

Green for the Season! With some gold thrown in, too!

I made a lot of green and gold tags, and wanted to feature one on a card. This specialty paper from Tonic is made from cotton, and is very soft, with hints of gold under the green. I love it and you will be seeing more of it in coming projects!

I didn't embellish the tag, I just put the "fa la la" and the music over top of it. The "fa la la" die is Simon Says Stamp (I think, I can't find the packaging), the tag is My Favorite Things' Tagbuilder Bluebrint 5, and the music is something I got at Michael's quite a few years ago.

My stash has reached the point where if I don't label things, I forget where and when I got them and exactly what brand they are. Dies, unlike stamps, look a lot alike under the packaging. Is this my subconscious telling me to stop buying stuff?  If so, no thanks.

The deer tag is one of several I'm working on. I'm loving the shiny gold "Mercury Light" paper.  It's also Recollections from one or 2 years ago. Also, it's hard to see in the photo, but the "fa la la" is covered with glittery shimmer paste from Tonic.  It's messy and fun.