Hi folks, Just wanted to let you all know that Sizzle aka Christianne is moving to a new blog.  You can find her at cardstockfabricwood.blogspot.com.  I hope you'll find me there and say hello.

Happy Holidays,

Sizzle

I am playing with the Reverse Confetti SFYTT challenge today.  Here is the sketch:

I colored the Santa and wreath with Prima Colored Pencils with the blender.  I inked around the frame with antique linen distress ink.  Pretty simple.

I am playing around with a sketch from Reverse Confetti:

I have three sisters having babies this year so I thought I'd try to use this sketch to create a welcome baby card.

I made my own plaid with a snail shaped mask for the sentiment.  I also masked off a frame.  Did I mention 2 of the 3 are having boys and the third we just don't know yet.   - Sizzle

I have gotten so behind on posting since my kids started not school but soccer!  It seems like we are so busy that adding content to this blog is next to impossible but I have created several cards since SAF but it seems I only took photos of two but here they are:

This one I made for my wonderful Grandma.  I stamped on tissue paper and then applied it to a piece of card stock.  The technique makes it look like silk but it's just tissue paper.

This one was my brother's birthday card.  He is a drummer and is part of a band.  He just started a movie making company so I might have to go camera type theme in the future.  I paper pieced the card front from several pieces of patterned paper and then die cut the guitar out then I embossed it in silver on another piece of card stock and lined it up.  This is a camera photo (sorry) so you can't see the dimension as much.  It looks manly I think so that its what I was going for. I really loved a sweet sixteen one I did but I must not have taken a picture. Darn it. See ya next time Sizzle

I am participating in PTI stamp-a-faire this year.  There were 10 challenges and I completed all ten projects and I will upload them all here.  Thanks for taking a look.  I had a lot of fun together with other ladies in the DFW area.

Here is a photo of our group and our creations, Joy (the hostess) is taking the photo.  We had so much fun together and got a lot done!

This is my breakfast bake and take, you got to pick a sketch and a color scheme and go with that.  I tried to do a little boy birthday card.

This is my flower I made out of tea dyed fabric and burlap.  I stamped the fabric with pure poppy and sewed the button on to hold it together.

Here is my flower made into a project.  I utilized the same text stamping on the strip of vintage cream card stock

This is my use of the paper clay.  We had a difficult time with the stuff but we got a nice project out of it.  I used one of the sketches from the Take and Bake earlier in the day. We finally figured out that if you leave the die in the clay until AFTER you scrap it off then it works a lot better.  We had to cut the edges though.  This was not a favorite activity.

Here is my make your own mist.  We had fun with this one and whipped up a couple of colors including Royal Velvet and Pure Poppy which ended up looking more raspberry red.  I used both over a mask and finished up with a frame and a flower.

This is my sprinkle of salt project.  There are so pretty good dots on the watercolor underneath the vellum but it was SO bright so I had to put the vellum on top.  I liked this one though- it looks better in person and was a simpler technique than the paperclay.

This is my Galloon-Quart-Pint project.  I used a gallon of Hawaiian Shores, A quart of limeade ice (a new favorite) and a pint of Aqua Mist.  (In the photo you can barely tell the AQ from the HS but if you look closely you'll see it.

Scent-Senational project.  This was so fun and we scratched a few and they worked such a great technique and so simple.  Now I have a reason to buy Jell-O.  Our group loved the gingham with the cherries so we all did our twist with the same paper.

Limited ingredient challenge.  We weren't sure if we were allowed to use dies but it seemed like the design team did so we did but we tried to limit it as much a possible.

Last but not least is the Sugar Coated embellishments.  I couldn't think of what I had on hand (away from home) that I could glitter so I tried the score tape technique.  It is pretty impressive glitter.  I thought this one would be good for one of my sons.  It was a long day but 10 whole projects- WOW!

 I hope you enjoyed Stamp-a-faire as much as I did.  See ya next year :)

To  a great mom who came for three weeks to help my kids with their reading skills.

Sizzle here, Today I wanted to share some cards that I have done in the last month.  We are finally settling into our new house and I am getting it together.  I forgot to take pictures of some of the cards I made and one of them got lost in the mail *gasp*.  So I have been trying to do better.  I also finished up a few more woodworking projects that I need to share (5) so I am behind but I am trying to catch up.

I really loved the look of these two cards.  They were fun to make.  

This one I inked the background from bottom to top  (Slate (CTMH), winter wisteria (PTI), amber rose (PTI), and melon berry (PTI).  I then embossed the dandelion stamp from Botanical Silhouettes.  My vision was sending wishes in the form of dandelions.  A brighter twist on a sympathy card.

For this card I used Rosie Posie (PTI) and Say it with Style (PTI) , twine and pearls.  I wanted to use a modern, non-relastic color combo and this card is beautiful in person.  My photos don't do it justice.

 Have a great weekend!!