A Partridge In A Pear Tree

Odd Bird Planet has the funniest Twelve Days of Christmas Stamps, which I will be showcasing throughout the month of November.

I see this stamp on the elegant side, although it doesn’t have to be so formal.  The image was stamped onto watercolour paper and watercoloured with Tombow markers.  The image was stamped twice, and the pears were cut out and placed on top of the main image, with pop dots.  Have a great day!

Stamp:  Odd Bird Planet; Designer Paper:  Stamp’n Up; Ribbon, unknown source

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Congratulations on Your New House

Perfect card for the new house owner, don’t you think?

Stamps:  Odd Bird Planet, Designer Paper:  Basic Gray

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Snow in the House

My baby is here.  Snow is no bigger than her beanie baby.

Snow is very affectionate and loves to give kisses.

After a long night playing, Snow cuddled up and fell asleep for an hour.

Our first night went well.  She cried for only 15 minutes.

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Tutorial Tuesday: Peel-Off’s Christmas Ornaments

This week’s tutorial involves Peel-Off stickers, which can be substituted for another sticker that looks like it has been heat embossed when mounted onto a surface.  At the end of this tutorial, I will have links for purchasing these stickers.  For those of you in my area, Sarnia Craft Supply carries a wide variety of these stickers, as does Stamp Art, in London.  If you do not have these stickers, you can substitute with other decorative stickers.  Today I will show you two ways to use stickers.

Supplies:

• Stickers
• Permanet markers
• Vellum
• Christmas ornaments
• Pop dots

Very carefully peel off sticker and mount onto ornament.

With permanent markers, colour in open areas of the sticker.

Colour entire image.

For a 3-D effect, place sticker onto vellum.

Colour in image.

Use pop dots for added dimension.

My livingroom tree is now decorated for Christmas.

I’m setting up the rest of my Christmas ornaments and tree next week.

Are you getting ready for the holidays yet?

Links for purchasing stickers

Heinz Jordan

Class Crafts UK

Magenta Style stickers

Peel Offs

More Peel Offs

U-Tube videos using Peel Offs

U-Tube introduction

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It’s Time to Start Thinking Christmas

At this time of the year I get excited that Christmas is just around the corner.

I’m ready to start baking my Christmas fruitcake.

I hope you are having a great start to your week.  Are you thinking Christmas too?

Stamp:  Rubber Stampede; Cardstock: Stamp’n Up White, Certainly Celery, Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss; Ribbon:  Michael’s; Corner Punch:  Stamp’n Up; Cuttlebug snow and polka dot templates.

Stay tuned for a Christmas ornament tutorial tomorrow.

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month

This was my card for yesterday’s sketch challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers.

For more cards using this sketch, click here.

Stamp:  Whiff of Joy, coloured with Prismacolor pencil crayons and OMS, then painted with H2O’s.  Designer paper:  Basic Gray; Cardstock:  Cool Caribbean; Flowers:  Hero arts; Breast cancer brad:  source unknown:  Scallop sticker, Basic Gray

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Someone played a trick on my cat

It looks like someone played a trick on my cat instead of giving out a treat.

To help him out, bats fly around to scare tricksters away.

This cute little image was received in a Halloween swap I joined over at the Stamp Shack.

Image:  Unknown source; Paper:  K&Co; Bats:  K&Co paper; Sentiment:  Hero Arts; Image coloured with Prismacolor pencil crayons and OMS.

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Tutorial Tuesday – Embossing on Candles

Today on Tutorial Tuesday I will show you how to dress up your candle

with embossing powder.

Supplies:

• Candle
• Embossing Powder
• VersaMark
• Tissue Paper
• Heat gun
• Stamps
• Gems
• Wax paper (not in photo)



Trim tissue paper to size of candle.



Stamp into VersaMark, then cover area with embossing powder.

Heat emboss, keeping heat gun 6 to 8 inches away from tissue paper to avoid scorching.



Continue decorating tissue paper with embossing powder.



Cut wax paper to size of candle.  Place overtop of tissue paper and gently heat.

This step works the tissue paper into the candle.

Be careful not to overheat the wax on the candle.



Add decorative gems.



Close-up of embellished candle.

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Odd Bird Planet Cheerleading Squad

It’s Homecoming season at high school and college, and these cute Odd Bird Planet owls

are part of the cheerleading squad.  Paired with Odd Bird Planet

is Flair Designs stickers.

Don’t forget to come back for Tutorial Tuesday tomorrow.

Stamps:  Odd Bird Planet, Coloured with Prismacolor pencil crayons and OMS and then painted with Twinkling H2O’s.  Stickers:  Flair Designs.

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Embellishments Welcome

Are you enjoying your weekend so far, or are you stuck at work?

Tired of this image?  Believe it or not, I coloured 10 of these babies on my lunch breaks.

Maybe next time I’ll break up the images for you–LOL.  Last one for at least 7 days–promise.

Stamp: Cynthia Elmore; DP: daisyd; Cardstock:  Really Rust, So Saffron; Prima flowers; Leaf Punch: Martha Stewart

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