Cookies or Cocktails?

Happy New Year and welcome back! I'm excited to share with you my first cards of 2022!

This card was inspired by the Weird Holidays challenge at Double Trouble. Did you know that December 18 is Bake Cookies Day? Neither did I! I'm also entering this at The Paper Funday Challenge for the Double Dare.

I started out using the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, but made a ink smudge that I couldn't cover up without straying too far from the sketch. I was stamping the cookies onto the DSP to get the crumbs when I dropped the stamp - oops! I decided to cover the smudge with the die-cut and left the fully stamped cookie in the background.

But now I needed another card for the FMS challenge so I recreated it with cocktails!

Here's the sketch I was working from.

I have an old high school friend who is having some serious surgery this week, so I think he'll be getting the "cocktails" card to cheer him up afterward. Please send some positive mojo into the universe for a successful procedure! 

Thanks for stopping by, and happy stamping!

--Cindi

Supplies used (all Stampin' Up!):

Cookies card:

Stamp set - Nothing's Better Than

Paper - Basic White Thick Cardstock; Granny Apple Green, Crumb Cake, Highland Heather, and Balmy Blue cardstock; Oh So Ombre DSP

Ink - Early Espresso

Accessories - Silver & Clear Epoxy Essentials

Tools - Big Shot, Love You More Than Dies, Adhesive Sheets, Stampin' Dimensionals, Multipurpose Liquid Glue

Cocktails card:

Stamp set - Nothing's Better Than

Paper - Basic White Thick Cardstock; Rococo Rose, Mint Macaron, Merry Merlot, and Basic White cardstock; Oh So Ombre DSP

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Granny Apple Green, Rococo Rose

Accessories - Silver & Clear Epoxy Essentials

Tools - Big Shot, Love You More Than Dies, Adhesive Sheets, Stampin' Dimensionals, Multipurpose Liquid Glue

 

Card of the Day - Love You More Than Cookies

Hello and welcome back! I don't know if I should really call this "card of the day" since it's my 4th post today! I've finally had some mojo so I thought I should use it. I've also gone out of order on my alphabetical challenge because I needed to use this set.

This card is a direct CASE from the Annual Catalog. I was surprised yesterday with a porch drop of cookies by a family from my church and wanted to send them a thank you. This set is perfect and I really couldn't improve on the sample in the catty.

The only changes I made were to substitute a retired DSP for a current one, a stamped heart rather than a punched one, and I colored the cookies to better match the yummy ginger cookies we received.

Even with the die cutting and coloring, this card went together pretty quickly.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day!

--Cindi

Supplies used (all Stampin' Up!):

Stamp sets - Nothing's Better Than, Heart Happiness

Paper - Real Red and Whisper White Cardstock, Regals 6 x 6 DSP

Ink/Coloring Tools - Memento Tuxedo Black, Petal Pink, Cinnamon Cider; Stampin' Blends: Cinnamon Cider Dark and Light

Tools - Big Shot, Love You More Than Dies, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets, Stampin' Dimensionals