12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching-Day 8

Hello! Welcome back to day 8 of my blog series of 12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching.

Thank you for visiting my blog. Please come back for Day 9 as I count down the last few days towards the 12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching. 

Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

Stitch pattern by Dorigo Michela for Crocette a gogo

Embroidery floss: DMC 6 strand

Paper: Neenah Desert Storm 100 lb

Piercing die: Waffle Flower 

Alternate Take on Christmas, a Blank Page Muse Post

Hello! I am back with another art journal page. For the month of December, the Blank Page Muse team is doing an Alternate Take on Christmas theme. For my journal page, I colored the pines with color blue instead of the traditional brown. 

The BPM products I used on this page are BPM Pinecones stencil and the BPM Handwritten Note Art rubber stamp. 

 

I used Post-It Notes for masking. I also used small tipped blending brushes to apply ink for detailing and applying ink to small areas of the stencil.

 

I created a mask so I can apply ink all over the pine cones for a solid look. I used a very light blue ink for this purpose. 

 

I stamped the handwritten stamp around the pine cones without using an acrylic block for an organic look. 

I searched for a pine cone quote and wrote this on the page. I blended gray ink on the edge of the page to frame the quotation and the pine cone. 

I hope you like today's page. Please visit the Blank Page Muse blog for more details.

Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

 

12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching-Day 7

Hello! Welcome back to day 7 of my blog series of 12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching.

Thank you for visiting my blog. Please come back for Day 8.

Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

Stitch pattern by Dorigo Michela for Crocette a gogo

Embroidery floss: DMC 6 strand

Paper: Neenah Desert Storm 100 lb

Piercing die: Waffle Flower 

12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching-Day 6

Hello! Welcome back to day 6 of my blog series of 12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching.

Thank you for visiting my blog. Please come back for Day 7.

Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

Stitch pattern by Dorigo Michela for Crocette a gogo

Embroidery floss: DMC 6 strand

Paper: Neenah Desert Storm 100 lb

Piercing die: Waffle Flower 

12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching-Day 5

 

Hello! Welcome back to day 5 of my blog series of 12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching. Isn't Santa adorable?

Thank you for visiting my blog. Please come back for Day 6.

Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

Stitch pattern by Dorigo Michela for Crocette a gogo

Embroidery floss: DMC 6 strand

Paper: Neenah Desert Storm 100 lb

Piercing die: Waffle Flower 

I shared this project at

Inspired By Challenge Blog #2-Inspired by the color red, the hat, the beard, the stitching even if Santa is an elf and not a gnome.

12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching-Day 4

Hello! Welcome back to day 4 of my blog series of 12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching.

Thank you for visiting my blog. Please come back for Day 5.

Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

Stitch pattern by Dorigo Michela for Crocette a gogo

Embroidery floss: DMC 6 strand

Paper: Neenah Desert Storm 100 lb

Piercing die: Waffle Flower 

 

Sparkly Sequined Christmas Card

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. Do you remember when the flip sequins were on trend? It was 'ASMR' as my youngest would describe it. I bought a piece of that fabric to jazz up my son's shirt for Christmas about 7 years ago. Since then, the rest of the fabric has been boxed with the rest of my craft stash. Thankfully, the Inky Paws Challenge made me dig it up and use it on this card. 

The stamp I used is from Newton's Nook Newton's Stocking stamp set. I stamped the sock twice on scrap cardstock. I fussy cut the sock on one of the stamped images, and the trims on the other. On the sock piece, I traced this  with the wrong side up on the back of the sequin fabric. I cut this fabric following the outline. I cut the trims on white felt, using the cut out trims as guide in cutting. I adhered the trims to the sequined cut out using glue gun.

I stamped Newton on white cardstock. I colored him with my sister's cat, Bibi, in mind. I used Copic markers for coloring. I fussy cut the cat. For a fun twist, I cut off the hat from the cat. I replaced the Santa hat with a 3D Santa Hat adhesive. To make the cat cute and naughty looking, I tucked one of the ears inside the hat. I snipped one side of the hat to allow me tilt the hat on the cat's head. I used glue gun to adhere the Santa hat to the cat.

Now that the focal point is done, I created the background panel using Lawn Fawn patterned papers. I die cut the green paper using an Avery Elle die. The die poked holes on the die cut to which I stitched a green DMC Diamant metallic thread. The poked holes were accents only but it worked well with stitching. I love when I can stitch on a die cut! I layered this piece with a red patterned paper from the same paper pad. 

I trimmed a jade cardstock at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I spritz this lightly (although I did the opposite) with water before embossing it with a 3D embossing folder by Simon Says Stamp. The water loosen the fibers of the paper preventing any cracking. Since I overdid my water, I had a bit of warping. Using a strong adhesive to adhere this to a note card will fix the warping.

I adhered the patterned papers to this panel. I adhered the focal point to the green patterned paper die cut. I added two layers of adhesive foam to the back of the cat and the tail to even out with the dimension of the sock and Santa hat. I used a glue gun to add adhere the sock and Santa Hat. 

As I have mentioned, I used a flip sequin fabric for the sock. Below is how the sock looks when the sequins are flipped.

 

Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

I shared this card at

Challenge #247~Holiday Sparkle & Shine #2

12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching-Day 3

 

Hello! Welcome back to day 3 of my blog series of 12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching. 

Thank you for visiting my blog. Please come back for Day 4.

Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

Stitch pattern by Dorigo Michela for Crocette a gogo

Embroidery floss: DMC 6 strand

Paper: Neenah Desert Storm 100 lb

Piercing die: Waffle Flower 

I shared this project at

Challenge #355~Mood Board #29

12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching-Day 2

 

Hello! Welcome back to day 2 of my blog series of 12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching. I think this will be a favorite of my sister because of the cat. 

Thanks for visiting my blog. Please come back for Day 3.

Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

Stitch pattern by Dorigo Michela for Crocette a gogo

Embroidery floss: DMC 6 strand

Paper: Neenah Desert Storm 100 lb

Piercing die: Waffle Flower 

I shared this project at

Simon Says: Anything Goes

12 Days of Christmas Cross Stitching-Day 1

Hello! I am starting a new series here in my blog. If you have been following my blog, you probably know that I love to stitch on paper. In fact, I am addicted to cross stitching again. It was a total distraction to my crafting duties that I enjoy a lot.

The stitching pattern I used is designed by Dorigo Michela for Crocette a gogo which I purchased at a local store, Colour and Cotton Needleworks. The pattern is recommended to be stitched on a 13" x 23" fabric to create an advent calendar. The elements of the pattern fit a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" cardstock panel making it perfect for this project. The stitching pattern includes 25 images for stitching. Due to lack of time, I was only able to stitch 12 of the images. 

I used Neenah Desert Storm 100 lb cardstock for my stitching panels. I cut this into 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" panel. 

I added perforations to this panel using the Waffle Flower A2 Piercing Panel die. This die creates a faux 14 count Aida cloth fabric for stitching. 

I used 2 strands of DMC embroidery floss for the cross stitching and 1 strand of embroidery floss for the straight stitch. I followed the colors on the color chart. If I don't have the color in my stash, I find a substitute color using a color converter by thread-bare.com so I can use my floss stash. 

I took a photo of the stitching pattern with my phone so I can zoom and make th pattern larger making it blurry vision friendly. I used magnifying glasses by We R Memory Keepers. 

I located the center of the pattern and the stitching panel. I marked this with a pencil. This is where I started stitching going outwards to make sure my image is at the center of the panel.

I did not stitch the number of the image and the frame which is part of the stitching pattern. 

I did my straight stitches wrong in this piece. I did my usual way of doing a running stitch in between the boxes on this project. Somehow, the pattern has the straight stich on the middle of a stitching box which meant I have to poke the paper. I was afraid that I will tear the paper at one point. I learned better on my future stitched panels which I will share here as I go through each finished stitched pieces as we count down the days to Christmas. 

Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you come back for Day 2.

Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

I shared this project at

Simon Says: Anything Goes

Simon Says: Use Dies in DieCember #76

Sketch Inspired Christmas Card

 

Hello! welcome back to my blog. We have new sketch challenges at Stick It Down Scrapbook and Card Making Challenge in FB. It is very easy to join having three sketch options to choose from. 

I used a freebie stencil-die set from The Greetery which I got maybe 2 to 3 years ago. Although there is only 1 die in the set, the die cuts the ornament and the string separately. You just have to position the die on the paper according to which part you are die cutting.

I die cut the ornament on different colors of cardstock. I die cut the string on gold mirror cardstock. Using the stencil, I blended ink on each ornament using a darker shade of the color of ink as the die cut ornament. I adhered the string to the top of the ornament.

Instead of the zigzag matte, I die cut a skinny rectangle frame on the same gold mirror cardstock. The die is from Simon Says Stamp. I adhered this to a blue marbled patterned paper from Craft Consortium. I trimmed off the excess.

I replaced the oval shape on the sketch with a circular scallop, die cutting two scallop circles and nesting it on each other. I replaced one of the scallop circles with a vellum. The die I used for this is from Altenew.

I adhered the blue panel on a blue side folding A2 note card. I adhered the ornaments following the layout of the balloons on the sketch giving the sketch a twist. I flipped the balloon strings and the sentiment putting these elements on the opposite side of the panel.

I stamped the sentiment direct to the background matte using Versamark ink. It is a bold move. Unfortunately, I chose the wrong gold embossing powder since it can be hardly read on the marbled background. I restamped the stentiment with the intent to reemboss it with a different embossing powder but the paper had a bit of warping after the heat embossing, so the sentiment shifted even with the use of a stamp positioner. To fix this, I stamped the sentiment on a scrap marble paper, the same one I used for the background. After heat embossing the sentiment, I fussy cut the sentiment and adhered it over the other sentiment to cover it.

I added dots of enamel glue and glitter glue on the trim details of the ornament for some shimmer.

I hope you like today's card. Please join us in this month's challenge.

Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

I shared this card at

Simon Says Stamp IG Challenge~Dazzling Die Cuts

Simon Says: Use Dies in DieCember #39

Challenge #129~Anything Goes #8

2-For-1 Christmas Cards

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. Creating Christmas cards using the same supplies makes the process easy. I applied this trick on my cards but I wanted to give each card some individuality. Alike but different, if this makes sense.

I used a stamp from Avery Elle for the focal point on these cards. The card on the left is a one layer card. I colored the image with watercolor brush pens. I stamped the sentiment and stamped hollies for the background. I masked the edges of the image and pounced Versamark ink to the open area. I poured Wow! Ultra High Clear embossing powder to the sticky ink. After removing the mask, I heat embossed the powder until the powder is melted. I repeated the process to create more dimension and smoothen the embossing. I had a bit of warping. After the embossing has cooled down, I placed something heavy on top of the card to flatten it.

For the other card, the image was stamped on kraft cardstock. I colored the image with Altenew acrylic markers. I cut the image leaving a narrow border around it. Since the image is square shaped, it was very easy to cut it. For the background, I adhered several scrap patterned papers on a typing paper. The patterned papers are from the same paper collection which makes it easy to mix and match since most of the time, the papers in a collection complement each other. I die cut panel using a stitched rectangle die from Mama Elephant. I adhered the panel and the stamped image to an A2 note card. 

For the above cards, I received the tree die cut from a Christmas card swap a long time ago. The sender was very kind to send both negative and positive cuts. For the card on the left, I die cut a scalloped frame on aqua cardstock using a die from The Stamp Market. I die cut a scalloped edge oval on vellum using a die from The Stamp Market. On the negative oval cut from the frame die cut, I added Ranger Glossy Accents and poured Lawn Fawn chunky glitter to it. I adhered the vellum to the back of the frame and adhered the oval negative cut to the back of the vellum lining it up with the scallop frame. I adhered this to a Lawn Fawn patterned paper cut at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I adhered aqua jewels and added clear glitter drops to the tree.

For the other card, I trimmed this piece into a 4" x 5 1/4" panel making sure the tree is on the center. I adhered this into a pink glitter paper cut at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".

I adhered both panels to a side folding A2 note card.

I hope you like today's cards. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

I shared these cards at

Simon Says: Matching Set

Simon Says: Anything Goes

Holiday Cards 4 Kids #15

Clean and Simple Card~Frienship~Kindness~Gratitude-A Blank Page Muse Post

 

Hello! I am at the Blank Page Muse Blog with card. The month is almost over as the team celebrates friendship, kindness and gratitude. I created a clean and simple card and intentionally finished it off without a sentiment. I can always personalize it when the time to comes to give it away. 

The Blank Page Muse products I used are:

• Woodlands Art Rubber Stamps
  
• Leaves Collage Stencil
  

I like the large white space which makes the flowers pop. Please visit the BPM blog for details on how I created this card.

Thank you. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day! Happy Thanksgiving!

Maria Giselle B.

Color Inspired 18th Birthday Card

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. I have been commissioned to create a birthday card for a debutante. When I am tasked with creating a card, I usually ask about the recipient to customize the card. The only info I got is the party has a garden theme. I turned to the internet, specifically blog challenges, for inspiration. The Pinkfresh Studio Monthly Challenge was a great help in putting this card together. 

I stamped the floral cluster stamp from the PFS Best Thing stamp set on white cardstock. This stamp piece does not only have the floral cluster. It also has the bird. I only inked the cluster using a brown dye ink. I used the stencil to blend ink to the cluster. The colors I used are from the color palette in the monthly challenge. I die cut the cluster using the coordinating die. I created 6 pieces of this cluster.

For the card panel, I cut a blue cardstock at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". Using the same cardstock, I trimmed a 3" x 4" panel. I die cut a design on this panel using a die from the PFS Classic Tags with Fillable Elements die set (retired). I backed this with a metallic green vellum.

I die cut the numbers on the same blue cardstock. I die cut multiples so I can adhere the number on top of each other for some dimension. I pounced Versamark ink on the top layer of the numbers. I poured iridescent blue embossing powder on the sticky ink then heat set it until the powder melted.

The sentiment is from the PFS My Favorite Things To Say stamp set. I did some masking to come up with the 'you' sentiment. I inked the words with the blue ink and Versamark ink and stamped the words on white cardstock. I used the same embossing powder I used on the numbers. Since the font of the word 'celebrate' is thin, not a lot of powder stuck to it. I fussy cut the word 'celebrate' leaving a small white border around it. I die cut the word 'you' into a strip. 

I positioned the floral clusters on each corner of the cardstock panel. Once I am happy with the placement, I lifted these pieces off the panel using a Glad Press 'N Seal. I adhered the vellum panel, then adhered the floral clusters, making sure the vellum panel is showing through the center opening created by the clusters. The clusters will have some overhang on the sides which I later on snipped off. 

I adhered the numbers, then the sentiment. I added blue sequins to the panel.

I hope you like today's card. Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

I shared this project at

Pinkfresh Studio Monthly Challenge

Anything Goes Challenge #35 #45