Cattail Designs: Festive Birthday DSP

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Stampin UP, Pals Paper Arts color Challenge #317

And here are the challenge colors:

Brought to you by Michelle Quinno this week. Michelle's colors are awesome, but I had a hard time with them for some reason, the ideas were just not flowing. I have a lack of much Crushed Curry DSP, so this is from the Festive Birthday set. I guess I need a couple more of the stacks.

I'm working on a Halloween card for each of my grandsons. They are way too old, but I figured just one more year, right? They are all HS seniors and above. Sure miss my little guys.

Is there anything more usable then the Swirly scribbles dies? I have used them in so many ways! I love how they made my moon, I thought about putting a solid round piece behind, and decided not to.
We got our first Edgelits last Christmas and found out how much fun they were, these are also a lot of fun! I hope you will come and join us this week at PPA. Have a great weekend.

Spooky Fun Photopolymer Stamps

$16.00

Halloween Scenes Edgelits Dies

$25.00

Spooky Fun Photopolymer Bundle

$36.75

Metallic Enamel Shapes

$7.00

Festive Birthday Designer Series Paper

$11.00

Swirly Scribbles Thinlits Dies

$27.00

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Sunday, July 3, 2016

Stampin Up, Paper Players Challenge 302, Christmas in July

I had already done one Christmas in July for my class and still had the set sitting out when I heard about the Paper Players challenge for this week. I just had to play.

Being that I live in the desert, using the set for Christmas is just so much fun! And the DSP (Designer Series Paper) that matches the set is fabulous with fun graphics and great colors.

I did use the colors that match the DSP, so not red, but Melon Mambo together with our new Emerald Envy and some Daffold Delight.

If you can see the sparkle at the bottom and around the cactus plants, I just squirted out a bit of white glue, Tombo in this case, took a wet brush or even better the Aqua painter and brushed over the glue adding a bit of water, then I sprinkled on Dazzling Diamonds and set it aside to dry. If you do this, best to use a bit of Watercolor paper or our Shimmery White will work well too.

I also sponged on a bit of Melon Mambo around the edges of the dsp. The Peaceful Pines and Perfect Pines was used for the ornaments hanging from the cactus.

Thanks for looking!