BIRTHDAY wishes and clearly Christmas 48

Hi there! I hope you are having a great weekend! Today I have several cards to share. First I wanted to share with you that Simon Says Stamp is celebrating DieCember™ Simon Says Stamp and is releasing 15 new dies to celebrate! Please be sure to visit the Simon Says Stamp blog~ click HERE ~ to read all about it!

We will be celebrating Scott's birthday this coming Tuesday, so it was the perfect opportunity for me to showcase the new Simon Says Stamp Balloon Bouquet craft die:

To create the bouquet of balloons, I ran the Balloon Bouquet craft die through my die cutting machine x 4 ~ once for each color used, adhered the balloon pieces in place then finished it off with a sentiment:

For sketch inspiration, I joined along with the Freshly Made Sketches sketch challenge:

Next I have a collection of Christmas / holiday mixed media style cards to share:

All six are quite similar, but like a snowflake ~ no two are the same ;)

To create this set of cards, I combined pretty papers from the Pion Design Shoreline Treasures collection:

For additional interest and design, I randomly applied texture paste to the background along with a stencil:

After the paste was dry and the cracks magically appeared, I randomly applied Peacock Feathers and Shabby Shutters Distress Inks:

I adhered the die cut houses, hearts and sentiments in place:

For a final touch, I randomly applied Ranger Gesso:

For theme inspiration, I joined along with the December Mixed Media Card Challenge:

and for color inspiration, I joined along with the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge:

Many thanks for stopping by ~ I hope you have a great weekend!
Be Sweet ;)







Pion Design products used:
Shoreline Treasures ~ Sailing ~ PD4601 back
Shoreline Treasures ~ Bottom of the sea ~ PD4603 back