It Is Finished Designs : December 2020

I found this ornament die on eBay and just fell in love with it, so pretty and ornate. Can't remember who it's by. I also saw a design like this on Pinterest and just had to try it 'cause I loved the colors. But I tell you what, trying to trace and cut out the different colors behind the different areas was not an easy task and it took me a good 4 hrs to finally get that done.

I used green, blue and purple matte mirror paper, the green is Anna Griffin's and the blu and purple is from Crafter's Companion, as is the ornament's blue glitter paper and the front sentiment stamp. You can't see it in the photos, but that top white paper is a fine white glitter paper too from Crafter's Companion.

The corner die came in a die set by Christina Griffiths called Lacy Circles.

The inside ornament dies are Anna Griffin's Christmas Sentiments Dies.

The card base is 6 x 6".

Inside

That's it for now, hope you enjoyed stoppin by!

Thanks to all the challengers above for lettin' me play along.

Blessings!

Pam D

Sunday, December 20, 2020

AG Christmas Card!

Merry Christmas Blogger friends!

I have an Anna Griffin card to share today'

Entering in these challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - #26 AAG

Crafty Catz - #532 AAG/Something New

Crafty Hazelnuts - #521 AAG/Christmas-word

Tha Holly and Ivy - #85 AAG

I made this card with Anna Griffin's Big Box Christmas Kit. This is a wonderful kit and has everything you need to make a quick card from the base card to all the embellishments, the background dies, bows and sentiments. It even has inserts for the inside sentiment. I made this for another cleaning client who I don't usually make a card for 'cause it's a dive shop, but I thought what the heck and basically threw this together.

That's it for now, hope you enjoyed stoppin' by.

Thanks to the challengers above for lettin' me play along.

Blessings!

Pam D

Friday, December 18, 2020

Merry Christmas!

Hey blogger friends, Merry Christmas everyone!!

I have another Christmas card to share today.

Entering in these challenges:

A Bit More Time to Craft - #130 AAG

Allsorts - #602 AG/Christmas

CRAFT - #581 Christmas (Winner!)

Crafty Sentiments - AG

Creative Moments - #204 AAG

Cute Card Thursday - #665 AG

Digi Choosday - #50 AAG

Double D - Poinsettia

L'il Patch of Crafty Friends - #147 AAG

Make My Monday - #137 Christmas

Penny's - #486 AAG

Polkadoodles - #50 AAG

QKR Stampede - #410 AAG

The Paper Shelter - #454 AG

The Sisterhood of Crafters - AG/Christmas

I made this for another one of my cleaning clients.

I've been wanting to use this Merry Christmas die for awhile that I got from Paper Wishes that is so pretty. The swirly holly is from Creative Expressions and the poinsettias are Spellbinders. The red, matte cardstock is Anna Griffin and the aurora borialis glitter paper I think I got from Michael's. Sorry this first picture is a little blurry.

Inside

That's all for now, hope you enjoyed stoppin' by!

Thanks to all the challengers above for lettin' me play along!

Blessings!

Pam D

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Christmas House!

Evening blogger friends.

I have a Christmas house to share tonight.

Entering in these challenges:

A Bit More Time to Craft - #130 AAG

Allsorts - #602 Christmas

CRAFT - #581 Christmas

Crafty Sentiments - AG

Creative Moments - #204 AG

Cute Card Thursday - #665 AG

Digi Choosday - #50 AAG

The Holly and Ivy - #85 AAG

Li'l Patch of Crafty Friends - #147 AAG

Make My Monday - #137 Christmas

Penny's - #486 AAG

Polkadoodles - #50 AAG

QKR Stampede - #410 AAG

The Paper Shelter - #454 AG

The Sisterhood of Crafters - AG/Christmas

I made this for one of my cleaning clients for Christmas.

It's made with the Open House Easel Die from Anna Griffin. I absolutely love these easel dies Anna has put out. She has several others as well, a church, a castle, and a ginger bread house. So dang cute! This kit comes with all the mini accessories as well, wreaths, trees, garlands, background papers, etc., but not all the other dies do.

The front door opens, I made a little tree scene.

That's all for now, hope you enjoyed stoppin' by!

Thanks to all the challengers above for lettin' me play along!

Blessings!

Pam D

Sunday, December 6, 2020

In the Garden Plaque!

Hi Crafty Friends!

I have a plaque I made to share today.

Entering in these challenges:

Allsorts - #601 Anything But a Card

A Bit More Time to Craft - #129 AAG

A Gem of a Challenge - #25 AAG

Aud Sentiment - #265 AG

Catch The Bug - AG

CRAFT - #579 Christmas Present

Crafty Sentiments - AG

Cute Card Thursday - #663 AG

Li'l Patch of Crafty Friends - #147 AAG

Penny's - #485 AAG

Polkadoodles - #49 AAG

QKR Stampede - #409 AAG

Tuesday Throwdown - #471 AG/Color of Love

Wow! I was pleasantly surprized at all the challenges that accepted craft items other than cards. I usually don't make anything else but cards, except every once in a while I'll find a craft project I want to try.

Like this plaque I made for my daughter-in-law for Christmas. She had a similar one she wanted on Etsy that was going for $30.00. (choke!) So I thought, I can do this! So I did! (I may have found a new source of income!)

I went to Michael's and found an unfinished, pine plaque, 8 x 10".

I already had some Americana, white, acrylic paints and gave it a couple of coats, letting it completely dry in between each coat.

It was a little rough, so I took a nail file block and smoothed it down a bit.

Then I did a search and found a free copy of the hymn "In the Garden" and printed it out and cut it down to fit.

Then I marked on the plaque where the print would go and took some Mod Podge and put a coat of it right where the print would be so the paper would adhere to the plaque and hopefully not buckle or bubble when the top coat was applied, (Worked like a charm!)

Then I applied a top coat of Mod Podge over the entire top surface. There was a couple of places that started to bubble, but I was able to press it down with my finger and go over it with more Mod Podge. Came out really nice!

While it was drying, I hooked up my Silhouette to my laptop and found some bouncy lettering I got from the Silhouette store and cut out the letters from some black vinyl I had from my Cricut stash and eye-balled them and stuck them on the front.

Then to make it look distressed and weathered, I took a rasp and filed the edges down a bit and took my E 73 (taupe) and N 3 (gray)copics, and went over where I rasped.

I remember seeing some metal, sawtooth hardware in my husband's misc. stash in the garage, that I centered on the back and nailed it in with some tiny nails so she could hang it on the wall. And voila!