Multiple Borders

I enjoy combining products and designs to make an original one.  That is what I did with this card.  I took a border dye from Cheery Lynn Designs called Carnivale and combined it with a punch from Martha Stewart to make this lacy border and toped it with a narrow pink ribbon.  The image in the middle is the negative of a die from Cheery Lynn, Window C, and in the middle I used a cut out image from a stamp by Our Daily Bread.  Under it peeking out of the top is a diecut called Marietta Buckle from Memory Box.  The dainty butterflies are from Cheery Lynn also.  The two roses are at the place where the border comes to a point.

This card was made for the Border challenge on Classy Cards n Such.  They carry all the dies shown plus many more and some other Our Daily Bread Designs stamps.  The ribbon, roses, and punch were from my stash.

Mid-Challenge at Just Some Lines

I have made a card for Just Some Lines' midway Winter Wonderland challenge.  It is a card with a smaller front than the back.  The front has a lattice background that I made using a Martha Strwart punch..  The snowman spinning image was put on a mat of an ornament cut with a Spellbinders.  It laps over the over panel.   I thought the spinning image was perfect for the spinning ornament.  The image was colored with Copic markers.  The sentiment is computer generatored.

Great Day: Great Announcement

Hasn't this been a great month so far? At least in Tennessee it has been a perfect September so far as  the temperatures have been warm.  Today has been one of those GREAT days.  Now I have a GREAT Announcement.  Technique Junkies has just released a new CD call "Great Gifts".  There are wonderful tutorials on the CD.  And to showcase the CD the TJ Desing Team is having a Hop.
Here is the link to the pictorial directory: 

.http://techniquejunkies.com/CD_indexes/Great_Gifts_Table_of_Contents.pdf

Now that you have checked out the directory to the new Great Gifts CD, I am sure you will want to order.  Place your order below.  Click on the arrow for the drop menu and pick a couple of the CDs to add to your collection.  You will not be disappointed.

Select One or More CDs to add to your order

Great Gifts CD $14.95 USD Mini Album Mania CD $14.95 USD 3D and Fun Folds CD $17.95 USD Fancy Folds and Motion CD $17.95 USD Emboss or Die CD $17.95 USD Stampbooking CD $17.95 USD Stampin' Companion CD $17.95 USD

Now that  you have thought about ordering, but haven't decided yet, go to the Hop and come back and order.  The Hop is here:

http://techniquejunkies.blogspot.com/

 

I have made one of the gifts from the CD.  It is a Halloween Candy Box made from the Tall Window Box tutorial.  The tutorials are so clear and concise.  Below are some of the different views of the box.

 

I used a variety of Fall and Halloween designer papers and on the lid is a "fringe" made with a Martha Stewart punch and trim made with a Cheery Lynn die and on top is a medallion  made with a Cheery Lynn die.

Front

Front and Side

 

Back and Side

Top of Lid

 



A Great day, a Great announcement, a Great Hop.....get your Great Gifts CD! 

 

I am also entering this in Cheery Lynn Designs' Keep If Krafty.

 

Christmas is in the Air

I am really getting in the mood for Christmas.  We are running a little slow at decorating at my house this year as we  usually do it Thanksgiving Day.  However,  today we are going to pull the boxes from the garage.  You can imagine how many there are as I have all my stuff from 49 years of collecting.  I still have the first angel I bought the first year we were married  Would you believe she is in almost perfect paper mache  shape after 49 years!

I hope to post a couple of cards today.  The first one is a card using an image from CS Design.    You will find this card on Art with No Boundaries.  Chris has a great challenge going.  It is Red and Green.  Go and take a look at her blog and see the inspirational projects of her design team.

My card uses one of the winter images and I also put one of the Christmas sentiments on a Spellbinders diecut.  The fringe was made with a Martha Stewart punch and I inked the larger of the two Spellbinders mats with a gold painter's pen.   I used Copic markers for coloring.  The background paper is a piece of recently purchased Christmas paper.