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12/4/20 Featured Creation at Scrapping4fun Challenges!

Hi friends! Hope you’re having a great weekend! Today I’m posting for the first time on the Prickley Pear Stamps blog! The blog has been dormant for several years between ownership, and the current owners are striving to bring it up-to-date. So here I am with a fun slimline card I created with the oh-so-adorable Snow Family clear stamp set!

I’ve mentioned before that my go-to size slimline isn’t the same size everybody else is making these days although I’ve seen several different sizes out there. Mine is 9″ x 3-3/4″ because I think it fits better in a #10 business size envelope. I stamped the snow family in black ink on a white panel, colored the images with alcohol markers and then stamped the sentiment in red ink. I created an overall snowy appearance by covering the entire panel with Versamark Dazzle and applying embossing tinsel. I covered the panel a second time with the Versamark Dazzle and applied clear embossing powder so that the embossing tinsel wouldn’t rub off. I added a narrow strip of red patterned paper across the top, adhered the panel on a piece of gray cardstock and added two snowflake brads. I adhered the panel on a slightly larger piece of red cardstock and then to the card base.

Love the fun snowy appearance that the embossing tinsel gives this scene!

I embellished the inside panel with a strip of patterned paper and a narrow strip of gray cardstock, and stamped the sentiment in red ink. I adhered the panel to a piece of gray cardstock and then to a slightly larger piece of red cardstock. 

And one more peek… I absolutely LOVE this little snow family! What a fun stamp set!

Sharing in the following challenges:
1. ABC Christmas Challenge: W is for Winter Wonderland and/or X is for Xtra Special (Winter Wonderland)
2. Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: #265 – Anything Goes + A Sentiment
3. Cardz 4 Galz: #135 – Cute Christmas
4. Crafty Catz: #529 – Anything Goes w/ optional Baby Its Cold Outside
5. Di’s Digi Challenge: Emboss It (Wet or Dry)
6. Scrapping4fun Challenges: #180 – Snowflakes, Fairies, Angels and/or Stars (Snowflakes)
7. Sweet Stampers Challenge Blog: #50 – Christmas
8. Try it on Tuesday: Winter Wonderland

Products used:
Cardstock/Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White cardstock, CutCardStock Basis Gray and Red Wagon cardstock, American Crafts Christmas 6×6 paper pad
Stamps: Prickley Pear Stamps Snow Family clear stamp set
Ink: Versamark Dazzle ink; Memento Rhubarb Stalk ink; Nuvo alcohol markers- 393, 379, 453, 449, 417, 489, 491, 425, 429, 369, 360; Sakura white Gelly Roll pen
Accessories: Tombow Mono permanent adhesive, Ranger Embossing Tinsel, Ranger Clear Embossing Powder, MISTI stamp tool, Eyelet Outlet Snowflake Brads

I hope you’ve enjoyed this project! Be sure to check out all the awesome stamps and dies at Prickley Pear Stamps! If you’d like to save 10% on anything on the site when you shop at Prickley Pear Stamps, use the coupon code LESLIE10 at checkout! And be sure to ‘like’ and ‘follow’ the Prickley Pear Stamps Facebook page to keep up with news and sales, and join Prickley Pear Pals (the fan group) for lots of fun crafty ideas and to share your creativity! And finally, we’d love to see you visit the Prickley Pear Stamps blog that’s in the process of being revived and become a Follower! Hope to see you there! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you next time! ;)

Scrappy hugs,

Hi everyone! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We sure did… I’m still feeling stuffed! I’ve found a spare few minutes (finally) to play over at The Outlawz Challenges! We have two new kittens in our household which have demanded a lot of my time. Seems I’m busier now since retiring than I was when I worked full-time, lol! My husband is known around town as ‘The Cat Whisperer’ and was called to rescue several kittens that somebody had dropped off behind a local restaurant. Long story short – we kept two and re-homed three! <3 Now on to my card! Those playing in the November Freebie/Progressive Challenge were gifted the adorable Ellie With Kittens digital image from The Paper Nest Dolls which is our sponsor this month. How appropriate is this image with our current ‘new kittens in the house’ situation?!

I went with a green and purple color combo which is one of my favorites. I cut a top-folding 5″ square card base and adhered a panel of green cardstock to it. I cut another panel of green polka dot paper and cut it in half at an angle. I cut the half in half and adhered the bottom portion to the green cardstock, applied a strip of green glitter washi tape, then adhered the second half of the green polka dot paper. I colored the image with alcohol markers and cut it with a stitched octagon die which I layered on an off-set (to the right) green foiled stitched octagon die cut. Then I layered both of them on an off-set (to the left) purple scalloped octagon die cut. I added iridescent gemstones around the image and a couple tiny white flat-back pearls in the top corners. The front and inside sentiments are from the Frantic Stamper Cat Happiness stamp set.

I embellished the inside panel with leftover strips of the green polka dot paper and green cardstock along with a strip of the green glitter washi tape, stamped the sentiment and layered the panel on the green cardstock.

And one more look… there’s nothin’ sweeter than kittens! ;)

Sharing in these additional challenges:
1. Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: #265 – Anything Goes + A Sentiment
2. Creative Moments: #203 – Anything Goes
3. QKR Stampede: #408 – Anything Goes
4. Word Art Wednesday: Weeks #466/467 – Anything Goes

Products used:
Cardstock/Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White cardstock, CutCardStock Granny Smith cardstock, Colorbok Seeing Dots cardstock, Rinea Peacock Variety double-sided foiled paper
Stamps: The Paper Nest Dolls Ellie With Kittens digital image, Frantic Stamper Cat Happiness stamp set
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black ink; Nuvo alcohol markers- 404, 389, 434, 441, 417, 466; Spectrum Noir alcohol marker- FS9
Dies/Punches: Memory Box Stitched Octagons dies, Spellbinders Scalloped Octagons die
Accessories: Tombow Mono permanent adhesive, Bearly Art precision craft glue, Peachy Cheap green Glitter Washi Tape, MISTI stamp tool, Gemini Junior, Darice iridescent gemstones and tiny white flat-back pearls

I hope you’ve enjoyed this project and will come join us in The Outlawz Challenges! Lots of fun going on! Thanks so much for stopping by – we’ll see you next time!

Scrappy hugs,

Hi everyone! Just popping on real quick this evening to give you the heads-up that there’s going to be an awesome Black Friday Sale over at The Project Bin!

Use code WOOHOO to get 50% off the entire store! Whaaaaaat?! Yep, you read that right – 50% off the entire store! Sale going on November 27-30!

Have fun shopping!

Scrappy hugs,