Oh By Gosh By Golly....

Silly as it may seem, when I saw the sentiments in this stamp set it reminded of when I used to watch the Christmas musicals on TV, and I won't tell you who was singing them.  :-D  This is one of the hardest pictures I have taken.  The Whites just really didn't show right.

The card fold is again the Twisted Easel for 4.25X5.5 cards and the instructions can be found HERE.

All of the images on my card are from Flourishes Meet Me Under The Mistletoe.  The mistletoe was stamped twice with Brilliance Galaxy Gold ink, cut out, and painted with Twinkling H2O's.  The base was done by first using a Spellbinders Circle die with Bazzill Dotted Swiss Irish Eyes DP, cut and embossed.  Next, the white layer was first embossed with Cuttlebug folder D'Vine Swirls and then embossed again using their Swiss Dots.  A Spellbinders Picot Edge Circle die was then used for the shape.  The first mistletoe image was mounted.  Then the second one was embossed using a stylus to raise the bow, leaves, and berries, then mounted, using the first one as a base.  Glossy Accents was added to the berries.

Both the card front and the base were done with the same cardstocks and techniques as above.

The sentiments were done using Memento Bamboo Leaves ink on white cardstock and then using the same embossing folders as above.  (You would have a hard time stamping over the Swiss Dots) :-D  The shape for the first one is from a Spellbinders Circle die and then then Magic Matter with the Bazzill Dotted Swiss Irish Eyes DP for the bottom circle.  The second sentiment was done the same as the first with the exception that a Spellbinders Tags One die was used and adjusted as shown for the edges.

The ribbon is leftover from I think Michaels.  The pearls are Mark Richards 3 and 5mm.  The stick pin is from Maya Road Trinkets and the beads are Czech glass beads.

That's all for today!  Thanks for stopping by to look and say hi!!

 

 Shirley

 

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Finally Found Fine Snow Code For New Blogger Template

I didn't like the big flakes.  I found the code for the new Fine Snow that will work with either the Blogger Original or with the new Designer Template.  Let me know how you like it and below is how you can do it too.  So easy like the old one.  First you need to leave this window for my blog open and go to the tab to the right and next to this one and sign into Blogger and:

1.  Go to your Blogger Dashboard
2.  Click on Design Tab
3.  Click on Page Elements
4.  Click on Add A Gadget

5.  Click on HTML-Java Script
A window will pop-up.  (Do Not Give It A Title or it will show on your blog in the side bar.)  Leave the window up and:
6.  Go back to the tab for my blog
7.  Copy the code from the site listed below.  I just found out it won't copy and paste into a post, but it will copy and paste into the window one your Design-Edit-HTML window.   Here is the site:

Fine Blogger Snowflakes

It is the THIRD html code down.  You left-clicking at the beginning of the code and dragging your mouse to the end of the code.  Right click on your mouse and click on Copy in the drop down box:

1. Go to the pop-up window waiting for your code. Place your mouse in the area for text and right click. Click on Paste in the drop-down window.
2. Click on Save at the bottom of the window.
3. I always click on the Orange Save button on the upper right of the Edit Layout Page.   It will verify and say your changes have been saved.

I found this code at Blogger Stop.Net - Blogger, Widgets, Template Help! If you have any problems with this, let me know and maybe I can help.  Probably too much info, but I was trying to help those who aren't comfortable with making changes to their Edit Layout Page.  Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for stopping by to look and share.

 Shirley

Snow Family Fun And No Patterned Paper

The IO blog is having a "No Patterned Paper" challenge this week, and although I didn't play, I couldn't resist finishing this card that would have been okay to enter.  I love Alesa Baker stamps and had started this card a while back.

For some reason I did the card front and base backgrounds first this time.  I wanted a 5" square easel card.  I used a 5"X10 piece of Domtar Cougar Super Smooth White cardstock for the card.  You can find the measurements and instructions HERE.  If you would prefer a video, you can go HERE.  (You could increase the top half by .25" so it would cover more to the right when open, and set further to the right when flat.  It would extend .25" over the bottom part.  It would still fit in a 5.5" square envelope.)  I may try that next time myself.

The bottom cardstock is 5"x5" Bazzill Basics Blissful from their Blissful Trio collection.  The next layer (for the card front) is Neenah Classic Crest Solar White cardstock stamped with my Mega Mount and Impression-Obsession Cover-A-Card Pine inked with SU Old Olive.  I used snow behind the family that I had left over from another project.  I had stamped Cover-A-Card Dots on Neenah CC Solar White Laid CS with VersaMark, added Deco Art Crystal Glamour Dust, and heated it to set.  The layers were torn to give a snow drift effect. Then it was layered onto the Pine as shown.

I stamped Impression Obsession Snow Family Fun using Brilliance Galaxy Gold ink on Neenah Classic Crest Solar White cardstock.  They were painted with Twinkling H2O's, cut them out, turned them over on my Pergamano embossing mat, embossed their caps, scarfs, and buttons with a stylus, and then layered them on top using 3D pop dots as shown.  I added Glossy Accents to their buttons, coal, and carrot noses. :-)  Viva Decor Ice White Pearl Pen was added to the dots on the little snow-girl.

To finish off the bottom, I used the pine boughs from Impression Obsession's Clear set Winter View, by Alesa Baker on Neenah CC Solar White.  The image can also be purchased in red rubber as Pine Garland Border.  I used a Spellbinders Fancy Tags One die for the sentiment.  The sentiment is from Impression Obsession's Clear set Swirl Tree.  The pearls are Oriental Trading Post 7mm pearls.  The star pin is from aking Memories Mistletoe Deco Pins.  (I altered it in the photo because it looked gray when it really is a pearly white.  :-)

So that's all for now.  If you want to play, you have until this Wednesday night at 10:00 p.m.  The theme is No Patterned Paper and you could wind a $25 Gift Certificate for the online store.  You can get the detials by going HERE.

Hope you are having a great week!!  Thanks for stopping by to look and say hi!!

 Shirley

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InLinkz Link Manager, Pop Up Comment Windows, And It's Snow Time

InLinkz Link Manager
I don't have a card today, but thought it might be a good time to give you some information.  Several people have emailed me to ask how I do my Supply List at the bottom of my posts.  It is done through InLinkz.  Right now it is free.

• You can read all about it HERE.  Also in that same post is a CODE for you to use to get it free at this time.  If you would like a bigger screen, you can view it on YouTube.
• HERE is another post with another CODE.

If you have any problems with the 'CODES',  go HERE and send an email to InLinkz.

You can watch another video of  how it works HERE.  I will say this about that!!!  It takes a while the first time you add a link because you are hyper-linking to the site and also to a picture of the product.  Once you have done it, however, the next time you use the same product, you just move (drag) it from your product library into the place where you are building your current Supply List.  Essentially as your library of products gets bigger, building your list gets faster.  So far I am liking it and I think I would pay for it too.

Some Tip Reminders That Help When Blog Hopping:
We all have our 'druthers when we are hopping around looking at beautiful cards and techniques.  I like to comment to show my appreciation for the art.  The hard part these days is how to do it in a timely manner.  These are just my preferences and are not meant to slight someone else's preference and it won't influence whether or not I comment:

• A Pop-UP Window for comments is a blessing for me.  It allows the reader to have the window next to the card, etc. so they don't have to try and remember all of the detail on the card.  You can find out how to do this HERE.  You can do this under the Settings and Comments Tabs.
• How to stop SPAM comments.  Okay, I know the challenges don't like it.  I don't determine whose comment can be published.  I do ask for ask for word verification.  I do get notification by email of the comment.  Once in a great while I get someone commenting who has no business there.  I just click on it and go to the Comments tab and delete it.  When people want to okay it, sometimes I don't see it at the top and think I didn't whatever.  LOLOL
• And last, but not least, if you are Missing Your Followers, go HERE.

IT'S SNOW TIME!
I learned a few things this year when I wanted to put snow on my blog today.  I thought of turkeys for a minute, but they would hurt!!  Right?  I prefer the light and airy snow, but no, that was not to be this year.  I changed over to the new Blogger Designer Template.  I found out that the light and airy snow isn't available for that.  I even looked to see if there was a CSS code I could add to the template for it.  No, I had to settle for what you see.  LOLOL

• For those of you who still have the old template you can get fine and airy snow HERE.  If you don't like these instructions, you can always Google 'Snowflakes for Blogger' and find a lot of instructions there.
• For those of you who have the new Designer Template you can get your code and instructions HERE.  I found other codes with basically the same big obnoxious flake, but some were too many or too fast.  I didn't want a blizzard!  LOL

Now if any of you have a Designer Template and know how to get the fine and airy snow, I would appreciate an email with the site that has the instructions and the code too!  That's all for now.  Our weather has been in the teens the last couple of nights and it should warm up tomorrow a little!!  Have a great weekend everyone!

Thanks for stopping by to look and share.

 Shirley

Meet You At The Mistletoe

Okay, I have to admit, I am in love with A2 Twisted Easel cards.  HERE is my pictorial tutorial.   I also love Flourishes stamps and was looking for the Sunflower set when I found their Mistletoe sets.  The main site was out of the Sunflower and I found it and the others HERE.  It was a great buy and free shipping over $60.  She also has a great selection of dies for Cherry Lynn, Heartfelt Creations, Joy Crafts, Maryanne Creatables, and Nellie Snellen.  I have hunted all over for these in the states.  The service was extra fast.   She is in Las Vegas and I am in NC.  I had them in 3 days.  If you find what you want, tell her I sent you.


For my main image and sentiment, I used Flourishes Christmas Candles.  For the border trim and the bottom sentiment I used Flourishes Meet Me Under The Mistletoe.  All were done on Neenah Classic Crest Solar White cardstock.  All were stamped with StazOn Jet Black and painted with my Niji waterbrush and Twinkling H20's. I stamped the candle twice, cut them out, turned them over on my Pergamano embossing mat, embossed the bottom and candle with a stylus, and then layered the top over the bottom as shown.  I highlighted the berries on the lamp base with a Viva Decor Ice White Pearl pen.

After the sentiments were stamped they were put through and embossed with the Cuttlebug and Spellbinders Lacey Ovals dies.  The die was used as a stencil and a Round Stencil brush was used with Buttercup Twinkling H20's to do the edge around the sentiments.  In the photo it looks light orange when it is actually a pale shiny yellow!

The card front was done using Bazzill Dotted Swiss Irish Eyes DP as the base.  The Mistletoe border was stamped on Neenah Classic White Solar Crest and then put through the Cuttlebug using their  D'Vine Swirls embossing folder.  The candle and sentiment were mounted on top.  The bottom of the easel was done with the same cardstock and DP as shown.  The supports stops for the twist easel card front are Mark Richards Crystal Sticker 10mm pearls.

May Arts ribbon was wound and then threaded through the loops.  The bows were done with the Bow-Easy.   The stick pin is a corsage pin and Czech beads.  The tiny heart above the 'i' on Merry Christmas was done with Twinkling H2O's Garnet and Glossy Accents.  The lower left hand corner of an envelope was also stamped with the border mistletoe and painted.

This did not take long at all.  I love these sets and will be using them more.  Thanks for stopping by to look and share!!  Have a great weekend you all!!!

 Shirley

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It's A Chair Affair!

I know, I have used Impression-Obsession's Fall Serenity image before, but I saw a card HERE, that made me want to use it again!  So this time I stamped the image twice with Stazon-Timber Brown, so I could use one as a base, and painted with Twinkling H2O's Warm Pecan, Buttercup, Dreamsicle, and Ginger Peach.  I always paint with a Niji waterbrush.  (I never spray my pots of color, and I paint directly from the pot.)  I cut both images out.   I turned the painted image over and embossed on a Perganamo embossing mat and embossed with a stylus.  I spot stamped the pumpkin on the chair and the little pumpkin on the floor with a dauber of the Timber Brown.  I painted, cut them out, and embossed them too.

Here was the fun part!  I used my Mega Mount to stamp the upper 'wallpaper' behind the chair with Impression Obsession Cover-A-Card Round Floral, inked with Memento Bamboo Leaves, on SU Saffron cardstock (I think) .   Then I stamped IO Cover-A-Card Wood Grain, inked with Memento Rich Cocoa, on Bazzill Monochromatic Walnut cardstock.

I put a piece of Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb. cardstock and Spellbinders largest Lattice Rectangle die though the Cuttlebug.   I then used the same die as a stencil to get the wallpaper and floor.  I left a space in between as the 'baseboard molding'.  These were mounted to the die cut.

A piece of Bazzill Dotted Swiss Clover Leaf cardstock was mounted on white cardstock as the base.  The die, with wallpaper and floor, were mounted on to that.  I used my retired SU Small Horizontal Slot Punch to be able to place the May Arts ribbon. 

3D pop dots were used to mount the chair with pumpkins.  Next the larger pumpkin on the chair and the smaller one on on the floor, that were separately cut out, were mounted with 3D pop dots.  The ribbon was mounted.  I made the triple bow with my Bow-Easy.  I twisted each bow loop in the opposite direction to get the swirly effect.

The stick pin was created using a Maya Road Trinkit Crystal pin with Czech leaf and faux pearl beads added after adding a dab of Glossy Accents onto the shaft.  The pearls on the chair back and skirt ruffle were added using Viva Decor White Pearls.

I hunted forever to find a post for the really simple easel card fold I used to do this step and found it HERE, using white cardstock.  I layered the bottom portion with the Bazzill Dotted Swiss Clover Leaf cardstock, created wallpaper, and more white cardstock.

The sentiment is computer generated.  I didn't have a stamp I liked and didn't want to shop or wait.  I ran it through the Cuttlebug using a Spellbinders Fancy Tags One die.  Then I used my Magic Matter around the die cut.  Of course, I had to turn it over on the Pergamano embossing mat and use a stylus around these edges too.  The Self-Adhesive Pearl Jewels are some I've had a long time from Oriental Trading Post.

That's it for today and I hope you are having a great weekend!  Thanks for stopping by to look and say hi!!!

 Shirley

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