Canopy Crafts: merry everything

Sunday, November 1, 2015

A Woodlands Thank You PP269

Hiya friends! Can you believe it's November already? This week at The Paper Players, Claire has a timely theme challenge for this month of thanksgiving (at least in the United States)....

I am still not tired of the Woodlands embossing folder and coordinating stamp set, Among the Branches, so I hope you aren't either. I just love the way it looks when inked up before running through the Big Shot:

There are two ways to apply ink to an embossing folder. You can either apply the ink to the smooth side of the folder which results in a colored space in between the trees. Or, you can apply ink to the raised part of the folder, in this case the trees, which results in the trees themselves being colored as you see here. Two different looks--this one seems to highlight the trees a bit more.

You can probably see what I mean better in this pic where the debossed trees are colored with the Crumb Cake ink I used to ink the folder. The leaves were stamped in Rich Razzleberry, Cajun Craze and Crushed Curry--so a lovely fall color combination.

A few more leaves fluttered to the inside of the card where I used a sentiment from a returning 2014 Holiday Catalog set, Merry Everything. Such a great set with a sentiment for every fall/winter holiday!

Today's card was pretty simple to create but I hope you like the details in the design. I know you're going to love the creations from the rest of the design team so be sure to hop over to The Paper Players before our challenge closes on Friday, November 6th at Noon (PST).

The Paper Players Design Team

Claire Broadwater
Jaydee

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Amy Koenders

Jodi McKinney

Lisa Elton

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Fall Fest in a Box {PP216}

Last week our daughter asked me if this was the first weekend in October. When I said yes she ~~said~~ squealed "Yay, that means we can put up the Halloween decorations!!" Over at at The Paper Players we're putting up the Halloween decorations too with Jaydee's fun theme challenge:

Around here we love Halloween. I love the decorations, the costumes and our new favorite family tradition--decorating the trunk of our car for Trunk or Treat at our daughter's school. I love making the trunk into a special scene for the kids, really going over the top. With that in mind for this challenge, I really wanted to make something special....and I thought the card in a box technique would be perfect. What do you think?

Eeek! Isn't it cute?! I must confess though--between the designer series paper and the stamps with coordinating framelits, this baby came together easy-peasy! There are many tutorials out there but I found this one the easiest to follow. I made the "box" out of Basic Black cardstock and covered it with the adorable candy corn paper from the Motley Monsters DSP.

I've been on a kick with the moons lately and made another one for my box card. This time I added a little shadow effect to the moon with a stamp from Work of Art. The tone-on-tone stamping really makes it look like shadows across the moon doesn't it? A couple "cute" bats from Freaky Friends just add to the fun.

Love the faces that come with the pumpkins in the Fall Fest stamp set. I inked the pumpkins in Tangerine Tango and used a Q-tip to wipe the ink off just the stem then inked the stem with an Old Olive marker. A little Linen Thread bow and Fun Fall framelit leaf dress up these pumpkins nicely.

Lastly, you need a close-up of the ghosts. Did you notice a little extra shine to them? That's because they were embossed on Silver Foil paper! Just that little bit of shine peeking through makes a big difference.

Speaking of making a difference, check out the amazing creations from the rest of the Design Team. We hope you'll be inspired to play along with us before our challenge closes on Friday, October 10th at Noon (PST). Thanks for stopping by today!

The Paper Players Design Team