Posting a card for the CASology Glimmer challenge.

This cue took me a bit. I had to look up the definition “shine faintly with a wavering light” — and the example sentence was “moonlight glimmered on the lawn”. No way could I make grass work, but water…definitely could do that:

The moon is done by stamping the brushed half-circle image (in Papertrey’s Brushed Off set), rotating it 180 degrees and stamping again. I saw someone else do this with this stamp set, but I cannot find it – sorry to whoever did this before, thank you for your inspiration!!

The water is done with a combination of images. I then used Stickles on the water images for the actual glimmer. It is hard to see even when I tried to take a good photo of it:

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Another card from my Splitcoast Dirty Dozen time. Each DD month has a theme. If you are a member of the Fan Club, you can view more details about this card and its relation to the challenge here.

This is my favorite card from the month. I was again inspired by the winter sky. I used distress inks to create the background then added dies to create the scene.

No sentiment because it is the “still of the night” – quiet.

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Happy new weekend! I’m posting another card from my December 2015 Splitcoast Dirty Dozen time. Each DD month has a theme. If you are a member of the Fan Club, you can view more details about this card and its relation to the challenge here.

I used some bright pattern paper to perk up a snowy white card. The snowflakes stamped down the center helps to anchor the snowman.

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Another card from my Splitcoast Dirty Dozen time. Each DD month has a theme. If you are a member of the Fan Club, you can view more details about this card and its relation to the challenge here.

So today is my mom’s birthday, so I thought it would be cool to post a birthday card. This isn’t the one I sent my mom, but still gives me an opportunity to say “Happy Birthday, Mom!”

I’m sorry I don’t have a link to this paper folding technique. I know I saw it somewhere, but I couldn’t find a card or tutorial. I punched a bunch of circles from pattern paper, scored a square on the inside and folded the edges in.

I placed the folded circles in the diamonds of the embossed background.

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Another card from my Splitcoast Dirty Dozen time. Each DD month has a theme. If you are a member of the Fan Club, you can view more details about this card and its relation to the challenge here.

Love this card – the bright colors the stitch details.

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So this weekend and next, I’ll be posting my December 2015 Splitcoaststampers design team cards. Each design team month has a theme. If you are a member of the Fan Club, you can view more details about this card and its relation to the challenge here.

I used a cream color panel to warm up the card (going along with the sweater theme).

I’m not exactly sure why I put the ribbon off-centered, other than trying to give it a bit of interest (love the phrase you can justify anything with it :).

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This card is for the current CASology challenge – Hugs.

I’ve been feeling prickly the past few days. That helped me pick my image for the card:

This turned out so much better than I was envisioning!

I sponged some light blue onto the background through the stencil. I stamped the images using Antique Linen distress ink so I could do no-line water-coloring. After coloring the images, I added the prickly details using a colored pencil.

To add a bit of dimension, I attached an enamel dot to the flower center.

Next up was picking the color for the base. I definitely thought green, but I hemmed and hawed over the shade, but settled on the brighter green to keep the fun feel of the card. Then I wasn’t sure how to cut or mount the cactus panel. I started by trimming one side, but I didn’t like that. As I was moving it around, I liked this layout.

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Sadly, I needed a sympathy card. I wanted flowers in a subdued tone. This is what I came up with:

This is a true one-layer card. The layered stamping helps bring dimension to an otherwise flat card.

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