Get Cracking On Christmas Blog Hop

How many of you find yourselves in a mad rush at the holiday season to make cards, only to run short on time. I know I do! I am always wishing I would have started the card making a lot sooner!! Well, that is how the #getcrackingonchristmas started. Jenn, Chari & Cheiron started doing a series the third Thursday of each month. This month they asked a bunch of ladies to join them to do a #getcracking blog hop. 

So, grab a cup of coffee and join us for some Holiday inspiration! For today, I created two cards. My first card is using Honey Bee Stamps products. 

This fun coffee cup shaker card was created using the Honey Bee Stamps Merry Christmas Stamp Set,  Merry & Bright Honey Cuts Die Set, Coffee Cup Card Honey Cut Dies and Blah Humbunny Stamp Set.

I stamped the holly leaves and berries using Lawn Fawn's Chili Pepper & Noble Fir inks & the cardstock is Lawn Fawn in coordinating colors.

Here is a photo showing the Coffee Card Sleeve removed to reveal the shaker bits. This card is so fun & will fit a Starbucks gift card inside perfectly. Great for those quick, last minute gift ideas we all need during the Holidays.

My second card was created using Lawn Fawn's Winter Village Stamp & Die set, the Stitched Hillside Portrait Backdrop & the Here We Go A-Waddling Stamp set. 

 I colored all the images with Copic Markers, and used Distress Oxide ink in Broken China to ink blend the sky and the snowy hills!

Be sure to leave a comment below. Honey Bee Stamps has generously offered a $25 Gift Certificate to one lucky winner on my blog. Winner will be announced on July 26th.  Oh, and I should mention that Honey Bee Stamps is having a new release at the end of the month!! So be sure to check out the sneak week coming soon!

Now to continue the hop, here is the lineup:

Jenn Shurkus

                         Susan Opel (on Jenn's site)

Chari Moss

Cheiron Brandon

Libby Hickson

Caryn Davies

Emily Midgett

Vera Yates

Tifany DeGough

Jana Millen

Lydia Fiedler

                          Lisa Cisneros (you are here!)

Susan Wymer

Jessie Banks

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Teri Anderson

Lisa Henke

Thanks again for stopping by & don't forget to Get Cracking on Christmas soon!!

Hugs,

Lisa

Season's Tweetings Blog Hop

Hi Friends!!

Thank you for stopping by for the Honey Bee Stamps Season's Tweetings Blog Hop. The Honey Bee Stamps Holiday Release is now available in the store. Affiliate links provided at no cost to you. Thank you for your support.

For today's projects, I created a fun winter scene using the Season's Tweetings stamp set and coordinating dies. For the background of the card, I used the Tim Holtz layering tree stencil with Peeled Paint Oxide Ink.

Next I took my Tim Holtz blending tool and blended a soft sky with Broken China Oxide Ink. At the very top, I hit the edges harder to give it a cloudy affect.

After getting the sky completed, I cut out the Hills border dies to create the look of snowy hills for my birds. I also used the Tim Holtz blending tool with Broken China Oxide Ink to create a little color on the snowy hills.

I stamped the bird images with Ranger Archival Ink, and colored the images in with Prismacolor pencils. Once the images were finished up, I used the Sakura Glaze Black gel pen to dot their eyes to make them pop! Lastly, I added a layer of Glitter Nuvo drops "Fresh Snowfall" to the top of the snowy hills for a little sparkly fun!!


Thank you so much for stopping by! Be sure to visit each blog & leave a comment, you don't want to miss out on the fun prize!!! We will be giving away a $50 gift card to the Honey Bee Stamps store.

The winner will be posted on the Honey Bee Stamps blog on Monday, November 13th.

The Blog Hop lineup is:

Amy Rysavy

Bibi Cameron

Emily Midgett

Kelley Kohout

Laurie Case

                            Lisa Cisneros  <YOU ARE HERE>

Melissa Bickford

Nichol Spohr

Taniesa Vlasak

Vera Yates

Yulianna Neginskaya

December Daily - The Joy of Christmas!!!

Hi Friends & happy Tuesday! It's Lisa here to share a new Project Life card that I created. I am in the beginning stages of working on my December Daily album, so that is what inspired me to create this card.

For those of you not familiar with December Daily, Ali Edwards created it to document the days of your December. Basically, you do a page for each day spotlighting the activities of the day to include your family traditions, etc. This will be my first year to do this, and I am super excited!

For this card, I started with Pink Paislee Merry & Bright 6x6 paper pad. I cut a tag and a 3x4 project life card from the paper pad. I then used The Crafter's Workshop Positive Stencil and texture paste to create the black cross or plus signs on the paper to add some dimension and interest in the corners. I doodled around all the edges with a black 0.8 American Crafts Black Pen and inked with black Memento Ink.

To finish off the top of the card, I used The Crafty Pickle's Black & White Color Pop Flair and wrapped a ribbon around it. I added some sequins from The Crafty Pickle. Adding any of the Relish Mixes to your layout or cards gives a fun, sparkly and thin embellishment. These come in all colors, I used the Magical Mouse mix for this card.

The title on the card is made by using American Crafts cardstock stickers and American Crafts Be Merry Red Thickers Alphabet.

I hope you enjoyed my Project Life card & are inspired to start a December Daily! Look for some more blog posts showing my December Daily in the future!

Thanks for looking & Happy Crafting!