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Martini Season

Posted on November 21, 2025 10:13 PM by Julie Comment

I have a fun, classy, holiday card for the grownup crowd today. This would also be great for a holiday party invite or for your favorite martini loving friend. Change the colors, papers and greeting and you have an all season card. Great for birthdays and parties. The best part is it only takes 3 die sets, a greeting and some pretty paper.

For the Inspiration Challenge IC1042, we are visiting Callister’s Christmas & their Pinterest Board where I was inspired by THIS ornament.

To make my martini card, I die cut the glass out of a shimmery silver card stock. The shaker was cut out of 2 shades of metallic silver & paper pieced. The glass insert was cut twice out of transparent vellum & I used a lt red marker on the back side of the vellum pieces. After cutting the olives out of red & green glitter paper & piecing them to the stir stick, I attached one of the vellum inserts to the back side of the martini glass. The glittery olives were attached behind the vellum & the second vellum insert was attached behind it. Another glass cut out of card board was attached on the very bottom to sandwich all the parts together. The little bows & holly were cut out of glitter paper & added. The largest & mid size tag frames were cut out of white & a piece of designer paper was attached behind the largest one. A piece of vellum was attached behind the smaller one & popped up once more, before the the glass & shaker were added on top.

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Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Holly & Cheer set

Paper: Staples 110# white, shimmery silver, 3 shades of metallic silver, red & green glitter, vellum, Brass & Bliss: Boughs of Joy paper pad

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Holly & Cheer, Tag Frames, Martini & Shaker, Market Stand dies

Holly & Cheer set 37033	Holly & Cheer dies 37033D	Martini Glass & Shaker die 5843D	Framed Tag Cover dies 5852-02D	Farmer’s Market Winter Add On dies 5813-05D
Boughs of Joy paper pad 2304	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock	DCWV Glitter Matstack	Stardream Paper
The Paper Cut Vellum	Scotch ATG

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Winter Snowflakes

Posted on November 15, 2025 9:45 PM by Julie Comment

This card is all about negative spaces and shadow layering. Add some snowflakes & chilly winter blues and you have a card for a winter birthday, or late holiday card, or just thinking of you and missing you this season. The fab inset die is a sneak peak of another coming this Wednesday & I’ll add a link as soon as it’s available.

It’s my turn to host the Featured Stamper Challenge FS980 so a big congrats to Linda! She has a really lovely gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the colors & snowflakes but I changed the layout to vertical, used the inset die instead of blue ribbon & added the big snowflake circle element.

To make my card, I die cut the white panel with a stitch dot rectangle then placed the inset die toward the left side. It’s a little longer than my rectangle so I only cut it partially down the side. I also cut a cornflower blue panel with the same die then attached it behind the white panel, a little offset. This lt blue shadow just barely shows, but it adds depth & interest. I added a navy blue frame behind it. I had to trim it a bit in area behind the inset so it wouldn’t show thru. The large snowflake was cut out of navy instead of using the snowflake, I used the negative, cut around it w/ a circle die & attached it to a circle of the designer paper. The designer paper circle was the same size as the navy one, so I used a slightly smaller circle to cut the outside of the dp version & made a frame out of it, & attached it on top of the navy circle. A larger cornflower blue circle was added behind it. The smaller snowflake was cut out of white glitter & added in the center. The greeting was die cut & I used the same die to cut 2 of the lt blue, then offset them behind the greeting to form a shadow.

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Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Holly & Cheer set (greeting)

Paper: Staples 110# white, cornflower blue, navy blue, white glitter, Brass & Bliss: Frozen Elegance paper pad

Ink: Versaclair Blue Belle

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Holly & Cheer set, Tiered Rect 1/2 Panel (coming soon!), Stitch Dot Rectangles, Stitch Dot Circles, Lg Snowflakes, Snowflakes dies,

Tiered Rectangle Half Panel die 5837-01D	Holly & Cheer set 37033	Holly & Cheer dies 37033D	Stitch Dot Rectangle dies 5821-03D	Stitch Dot Circle dies 5821-02D
Lg Snowflake dies 5716-02D	Snowflake dies 5513-07D	Frozen Elegance paper pad 2303	Staples 110# White Card Stock	DCWV Glitter Matstack
AC color card stock	Versafine Clair ink

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Ice Skates

Posted on November 14, 2025 9:54 PM by Julie Comment

This is a sneak preview of a fab new Ice Skate die coming next Wednesday! It’s beautiful and there are so many ways to use it for your winter and holiday cards. Change the colors, the background, add a greeting and you have a totally different look. Be sure to enter the Brass & Bliss IG Hop to win some fab prizes. You can get there by using my IG LINK.
For the Inspiration Challenge we are visiting Ruby Lane & their Pinterest Board where I was inspired by THIS picture. I liked the ice skates hanging from the wreath.

The skates were die cut out of pristine white with the blades, eyelets & boot heels cut out of different shades of metallic silver. The heel backs & tops were cut out white glitter. After piecing them together, I popped them up one more layer. The snowflake wreath was cut out of the palest ice blue, attached to a card board version & then to a white circle. Everything attached to a piece of blue & white snowflake designer paper.

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