October's Stamp of the Month set: Yuletide Joy

I know that it can be hard to think of it now, but let's try to get in a festive mood and think of the upcoming holidays. October's Stamp of the Month set, Yuletide Joy, is perfect for helping us with our holiday projects. This set has 7 stamps, with adorable doodle-like designs of a stocking, gift, star and bell with coordinating sentiments. I have a few cards to share!

The first card is using a patterns from the Oh Deer! collection. The star was stamped in Slate ink, with the sentiments stamped in Saffron and Desert Sand. The flower in the star and stars on the border strip were colored in with markers and a few sequins added to finish off the card.



This next card is using a pattern from the City Sidewalks collection. The bell was stamped in Archival Black ink and colored with the smallest paintbrush and our Watercolor paints. When it was dry, I added some shimmer with the Shimmer brush. I love that thing, can you tell? I attached some of the Black & Gold ribbon as accents, with the sentiment "happy holidays" from the Short & Sweet set.



Here is a close-up of the shimmer accents.



This next card is using a pattern from the City Sidewalks collection again as well as a pattern from the Oh Deer collection. The stocking was stamped in Ruby ink on Ruby cardstock, with parts colored in with marker and the paper pieced top stamped on White Daisy.  The sentiment "Merry Christmas" was also stamped in Ruby ink under the banner with several sequins added along with some stitching for accents.



For this last card, I decided that while the gift could obviously be used with holiday designs, it can also easily be used for other present giving occasions. A diagonal-striped design in Saffron was used from the Enchantment collection with Cranberry and Cocoa cardstock. I stamped the gift and the sentiment "happy" in Cocoa ink with "birthday" in Cranberry ink from the Happy to Be Friends set. The stars and confetti were from the Happy for You set, stamped in Saffron.  Then I colored in parts of the gift and confetti with markers.



Enjoy!
Dani

 

Happy World Cardmaking Day!

Happy World Cardmaking Day, everyone! Here is some artwork to share in honor of the day. These were cards that I had out for the Open House.

This first card is using the new Swan Lake collection, featured in the Holiday Expressions. The flower and jar cut-out are from the new Cricut Flower Market Collection. I love the layered flowers that are available shown here, one push of the button and it cuts out all your layers. The leaf pattern on the bottom, is from one of the sets in the Flower Market Collection as well. The sentiment is from the Finding the Words set.  I added a sequin as the center of the flower.



This next is a pattern from the new Rustic Home Fundamentals, with the fish and sentiment from the Hooked on You set. The fish and water was colored with markers, and then I added some strategic sparkles with the new Shimmer Brush. It's hard to take a good photograph of it, so I took a close-up to hopefully see it better. Then I sponged the edges of the top to give it a distressed look.





This is a sweet little card using another flower from the new Cricut Flower Market Collection using the colors Flaxen, Fern and Saffron with White Daisy for the flower petals. The background was stamped with the mini set Dandy with the sentiment from one of the sets included with the Flower Market Collection. The ribbon is from the new Rustic Home Ribbon Pack.  



Think festive holidays with this next card. This is another layered flower from the new Cricut Flower Market Collection with prints from the new City Sidewalks collection. The sentiment on the tag was stamped from the Short & Sweet set.  



Gold and Black, two colors that always look good together.  The polka dot vellum on the bottom is from Uptown Fundamentals. The gold vellum die-cut message bubble is from the Good Life Complements.  



Yet another cute flower from the new Cricut Flower Market Collection using a print from the new Adventure Fundamentals. The smiley face was from the Emojis set with a sentiment from the So Many Smiles set.  Cute and simple!



I stamped the Wreath first, with a sentiment inside from one of the sets included in the Cricut Artistry collection, then carefully cut out the left side as shown. The stamping was done with Flaxen, and all the leaves where colored by marker. The wood print is another from the Rustic Home Fundamentals.



More festive holidays! A variety of prints from City Sidewalks were used with the Framework Alphabet set for the "joy" sentiment.  Finishing it off with shimmer trim in Red, Green and Black.  



How about cute, adorable monsters? This card is using patterns from Jeepers Creepers, with a smiley face and small sentiments from the Emojis set as well as a sentiment from a set included with the Cricut Flower Market collection.



Yet another layered flower from the new Cricut Flower Market Collection using a print from the new Memo Fundamentals. The sentiment is from a set included with the Cricut Flower Market collection with a ribbon from the Rustic Home Ribbon pack.



Here's a graduation card to share! Using a print from the new Adventure Fundamentals with stamps from Diploma Day and Woodland Critters.  I colored the owl in a bit with markers and added some sequins as a final touch.



And last, but not least, here's a little "just because" card. I stamped the leaves from the Lovely Leaves set in Chocolate ink on Kraft cardstock for the background. The leaves were then colored in with markers. The sentiment is from the Happy to Be Friends set.  



Enjoy World Card Making Day!
 Dani