Circle Santa

  I am taking part in the Build Your Stash Holiday Cards Falling for the Holidays 2025 Linky Party which ends today. This is my ninth card for Friday.

Materials used to create this card:

Sleigh Scene die by Impression Obsession

Sentiment from Maybe Christmas by The Project Bin

Papers by the Paper Studio

VersaFine Clair Nocturne Ink

CCEE2244 - Silhouettes

Maryann Einam, our CCEE Stampers challenge hostess says, " I love the simplicity of the a silhouette, and a lot of companies have them whether they are stamps or dies." She has requested that this week the CCEE Stampers create a card with a beautiful silhouette. She says it can be a scene or a stand-alone image.

Well, I LOVE silhouettes and love creating with them. Since I am WAY behind on my Christmas cards this year, I have made 10 copies of this card to add to my stash. This design was created using Tim Holtz Vault Series: Christmas 2021 while the sentiment is from Joyful Song by The Project Bin.

Linked below are the cards the CCEE DT created featuring silhouettes:

Kelly McKown-Santi

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Byrne

Maryann Einam

CCEE2237 - First Day of Autumn

Today is the first day of autumn so CCEE September Hostess, Kelly McKown Santi, has the CCEE Stampers thinking fall for this week's challenge. We are to create cards with an autumn theme!

Sentiment by The Project Bin

Leaves by Sizzix 

Click below to see the autumn designs by the CCEE DT:

Kelly McKown-Santi

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Byrne

Maryann Einam

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Double D Challenges - Things the Fall

Fab 'n' Funky - Challenge #557 Autumn Colors

Crafty Gals Corner - Challenge #235 - Signs of Fall

CCEE2206 - National Embroidrey Month

CCEE February Hostess, Liz Williams, is back with another fun challenge for February. She discovered that February is National Embroidery Month, so she has invited the CCEE Stampers to use stitching, faux stitching, cross-stitching, or any other stitch design we might want to represent. I have gone with a home-stitched fashion theme with a wonderful sentiment from The Project Bin.

Cards from the Design Team:

Kelly McKown-Santi

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam

 

Happy Birthday, Denise - the Design Team of TPB

Good morning, all! Today's post is a part of the Happy Birthday Blog Hop that The Project Bin Design Team is putting on for Denise, the creator and owner of The Project Bin. What an honor and privilege it is to work with such an amazing, talented, and kind woman.

What a way she has with words! Her fabulous sentiments are a delight to craft with! They span the range of hilarious to sweetly sentimental. There is something for everyone and every occasion in her wonderful collection.

Thank you, Denise for sharing yourself so freely with us all! We wish you the very best this birthday and always!!

The Project Bin Team Members Hopping Today are:

Kelli Santi

Dawn Mercedes Barrett

Lynn McAuley (you're here)

Tracie Clary

Barb Deichl

Vicki Dutcher

Jeanette Cloyd

Kren Kurts

If you started the blog at the top, you should have arrived here from Sunnyside Up, the blog of Dawn Mercedes Barret.

Here is the card I mailed to Denise on Wednesday. It combines images from Hole Foods and Born Yesterday.

From here you will be visiting Crafty Creations by Tracie, the blog of Design Team member Tracie Clary.

Thank you for your visit and enjoy this parade of fun and beautiful birthday cards created just for Denise by The Project Bin Design Team!

SCS Color Challenge 822 with The Project Bin

 This Christmas card, sponsored by The Project Bin, was created for today's Color Challenge at Splitcoaststampers. The required colors for CC822 are Black, Magenta Madness, and Granny Apple Green by Stampin' Up. It was stamped with images from Maybe Christmas by The Project Bin. Bright pink jewels were added for the holly berries. Last of all I attached the black satin bow.

King of Angels - The Project Bin

Today's card sponsored by The Project Bin was created with one of the awesome sentiments from their set Joyful Song. I have paired it with Spellbinders' Manger die set and rubbed on a bit of Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide Ink around the babe. The sentiment was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black. The star was cut from copper glitter paper. It is a quick and simple design that tells the true story of Christmas.

I love each and every one of this fabulous Christmas sentiments and will be using them on many of my cards! Head over to The Project Bin and get yourself a set! 

Black Friday Weekend Sale at The Project Bin

Just a quick heads up for those of you on the lookout for Black Friday crafty sales.

The Project Bin will have all stamps on sale at 50% off on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, November 27 - November 30.

Just use coupon code WOOHOO at checkout!!

I just love putting The Project Bin's fabulous sentiments together with designer papers for quick, fun cards! I have to agree with Marilyn on this one, but for me more often than not, the "right" shoe is a Skechers! This sentiment is a part of the Wise Women set! Check it out!

Here is a holiday card featuring a sentiment from Maybe Christmas and created for Sketch Challenge 828 at Splitcoaststampers.

Both card were created with a bit of washi tape and design papers from the Paper Studio.

Power Couple - The Project Bin

I've had to add more Pumpkin Spice coffee creamer to my grocery list! With temperatures dropping, I know I will be wanting it in my morning coffee most days this week!

Today's card sponsored by The Project Bin features their Pumpkin Spice set that is jam-packed with fun pumpkin sentiments!

I die cut the coffee cup with Thanks a Latte Impresslit by Sizzix. The designer paper table cloth is from Cider Woods by DCWV.

 Check out this fun set and many more at The Project Bin!

Shadow and No Line Stamping - The Project Bin

I have just returned from Northern Georgia when I attended the wedding of my oldest granddaughter in Cloudland Canyon State Park. What a remarkable place for an outdoor wedding. The beauty that I experienced there was the inspiration for today's card sponsored by The Project Bin.

I used their New Leaf autumn set paired with designer paper by Bo Bunny, dotted oval dies, and a jute bow. Below the card are photos of the view down into the canyon.

I shadow stamped the sentiment using Chocolate Chip and Pumpkin Pie ink by Stampin' Up. I used no-line stamping on the pumpkin. It was stamped with Memento Dessert Sand and then watercolored with Stampin' Up reinkers in Marigold Morning, Really Rust, Lemon Lime Twist, and Lucky Limeade.

 

Cloudland Canyon State Park, Georgia - October 25, 2020

I Remembered - The Project Bin

For today's design sponsored by The Project Bin, I used their awesome sentiment set, Born Yesterday. It has so many fun sentiments to use in creating birthday cards for your friends and family.

As a fellow card maker, you know there is one major flaw in waiting to see someone's birthday pop up on Facebook! It's too late to get a card in their hands on that day unless you hand-deliver it. I have solved this problem by writing my friend's birthdays on my calendar 5 days before their actual birthday! Now I don't have to send out belated cards nearly so often! LOL!!

To create this birthday card, I stamped this fabulously fun sentiment using Versafine Onyx Black ink on designer paper from the Whale of a Time designer paper series by Stampin' Up and layered it on top of another design from the same series. The crab is a Momenta die cut, and I added some enamel dots as air bubbles. 

Thanks for your visit today! Stop by The Project Bin and check out their fun images and sentiments!

Santa Claus is Coming to Town - The Project Bin

Today's Christmas card sponsored by The Project Bin features the wonderful Santa face from their newest Christmas set, Mid Century Christmas. It brings back so many treasured holiday memories of my 50s and 60s childhood so, of course, I love creating with it!

During those years my dad and my uncle worked for the some electric company. My uncle had always played Santa at all of the company Christmas parties. The time came when he could no longer do it, and my dad decided he would enjoy that. Well, it just so happened that my mother was an amazing seamstress and made all of the clothes for herself, my sister, and I. Undaunted by the task, she set about to make him the most amazingly awesome Santa suit that he enjoyed wearing for many, many years to come serving as Santa for his company, our church, and many charitable organizations. Even after retirement, he would dress up in that gorgeous Santa suit each Christmas to delight and entertain his grandchildren and great grandchildren.

There even came a time when he was involved in a traffic accident while wearing his suit. Imagine the story that lady went home to tell her family! "Guess who I ran into today? Santa!" We still laugh about that one!

Designer Paper: North Pole by Doddlebug Design Inc.

Holly Sticker by Jolee's Boutique

Check out the other wonderful images and sentiments that 

are a part of Mid Century Christmas and be sure to pick up the matching dies

in The Project Bin Shop!

  

But It SHOULD Be - The Project Bin

Today's design sponsored by The Project Bin features a sentiment from their Cowgirl Up! that I dearly love. It mentions three things that this Texas girl is very fond of!

I used my brushes and Distress Oxide inks to create the sky at sunset and added a silhouette from Cricut Design Space which I cut out with my newest favorite toy: the Cricut Joy. The sentiment was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink.

If you are a cowgirl at heart like I am, you'll want to hurry over to The Project Bin and lasso this fabulously fun set!!

 

Wild Thing Birthday - The Project Bin

A friend requested a birthday card for her cycle-riding husband, so for today's card sponsored by The Project Bin, I reached for Wild Thing. Nothing could be more perfect for her husband's birthday card!

I created a center step card so that the motorcycle could have center stage on this design. The center panel was covered with Duck Tape and embossed with a 3-D embossing plate from Sizzix. I stamped and watercolored the motorcycle on heavy cardstock and then cut two additional motorcycles layering them so that the piece is almost like chipboard. After adding some Crystal Accents to the headlight,  I popped the motorcycle up on thick dimensionals.

The sentiments were stamped on the side and bottom panels  using Versafine Onyx Black ink and flicked with gray watercolor speckles. Handsome was added from Just Sayin' also by The Project Bin.

Thanks for visiting today!

Christmases Past - The Project Bin

This wonderful Christmas tree image, which is a part of the Mid Century Christmas set by The Project Bin, takes me back in time to the early sixties when every other house on the street featured a silver tinsel Christmas tree in the front bay window lighted by a spinning wheel of pastel colors.

That was the inspiration for this holiday card sponsored by The Project Bin. To create the rainbow background I used the smashed acetate method created with water-based markers spritzed with water and slapped onto the paper. I embossed the tree in silver, of course!!

I know many of my friends share the same memories! I need to start checking the antique stores to see if I can track down one of these magical trees!!

Mid Century Christmas - The Project Bin

I am here today to share with you the new Christmas release from The Project Bin. The stamp set is called Mid Century Christmas and features a fabulous retro Santa face and Christmas tree! Our family never owned a tree like this, but we certainly envied those who did! The trees came in all colors and sizes and looked so amazing with their perfect symmetry! Included in Mid Century Christmas are numerous fun sentiments  as well as ornaments, a star, and gifts for the tree!

Released with it is a 4 piece matching die set which cuts out the tree, the gifts, and the star. What fun!

The Project Bin sponsored Christmas card I have created for you today uses all of the picture images from the set along with this fabulous sentiment!! I stamped the sentiment on a die cut heart which was mounted over the  sweater designer paper from Comfort and Joy by My Mind's Eye chosen for the tiny hearts  woven into the print. The images were then popped up over it with dimensionals.

My next card with this set with feature the glittering silver tree I so admired in the picture windows of the homes in our neighborhood in the 60s! These images bring back so many memories of Christmases past!

Thanks for visiting here today!  If you are a child of the 50s and 60s like I am, you'll want to add this awesome set to your Christmas collection!!

Wild Thing with a Reverse Stencil - The Project Bin

A couple of weeks ago, Lyn Tomlin posted a challenge at Splitcoaststampers called Reverse Stencil. It involves inking the card front in bright, vibrant colors and then placing a stencil over that and inking  over it in black. I absolutely loved the look and knew I wanted to give it a try as soon as possible.

Needing several masculine birthday designs for the month of August, I decided today was the day to give it a try. Today's card, sponsored by The Project Bin, features images and sentiments from Wild Thing.

I started with a 4 x 5.25 white panel and blended Twisted Citron, Blueprint Sketch, and Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide inks by Ranger across the entire surface. I thought the Mini Gear stencil by The Crafters Workshop would be perfect with the motorcycle so I placed it over the colored panel and blended Versafine Onyx Black ink over the top of that. I then created an Abandoned Coral panel for the motorcycle and a Twisted Citron panel for the sentiments. They were stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink, as well. I spritzed a little water at the top to break up that large blue patch and am very happy with the results.

I certainly will be using this technique again!! It was quick and fun!! And I love the motorcycle and gears as a masculine birthday card!

I am entering this card in SCS Technique Lover's Challenge #804. Here is a link to other cards created with this same technique.

SCS Color Challenge 800

Today's birthday card sponsored by The Project Bin was created for a huge celebration going on over at Splitcoaststampers. Their Color Challenge is celebrating its 800th challenge with a fun choice of colors and prizes galore.

With one of my beautiful granddaughter's birthdays just around the corner, I have used one of the sensational sentiments from The Project Bin's fabulous Born Yesterday set! It is one of my favorite go-to sets for birthday sentiments, I am sure you can see why!

The three colors I have chosen to create with are Stampin' Up's Pool Party, Old Olive, and Poppy Parade. The neutral I have used is white. For a dessert option with these colors hostess Karen Barber asked for silver accents. I think I have covered all the bases.  The designer paper background is from BasicGrey, and I sponged it with Distress Oxide inks in like colors and spritzed it with water! I layered up the colors under the sentiment and added bits of a white doily for a little frill!!

Check out this delightful set and others over at

The Project Bin!! You won't be disappointed!!

#BFF - The Project Bin

My design sponsored by The Project Bin features one of the awesome sentiments from their set #bff seen here:

My family is made up of many strong, beautiful women, inside and out, so this card was created for one of my granddaughters who just celebrated a birthday this past weekend. I'm sending her this card to let her know how much I loved spending that very special day with her celebrating her life!

The designer paper is from Fashionista by Echo Park. The dies are by Spellbinders and I added lace, a paper rose, and ferns as embellishment.

Happy Birthday, My Friend - The Project Bin

For today's card sponsored by The Project Bin, I have created a fun birthday card for someone very special to me! I have used sentiments from two different stamp sets by The Project Bin. The sentiment inserted in the typewriter die is from Born Yesterday on the left below and the birthday greeting is from Just Sayin' on the right.

                 

Typewriter Die - Momenta

Leaf Die - Sizzix

Flower Die - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Designer Paper - Stay Sweet by American Crafts