Today, I am sharing a super fun card using the Mug Hugs stamp set from Sunny Studio Stamps:

Sunny Studio	My Favorite Things Die-namic Set – Wonky Stitched Rectangle STAX	Gathered Twigs Distress Ink Pad (Ranger Tim Holtz)	Candied Apple Distress Ink Pad (Ranger Tim Holtz)	Wild Honey MINI Distress Ink Pad (Tim Holtz Ranger)
Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pads – Antique Linen	Advanced Tape Glider and Tape – Pink (Scotch)

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Hi there! Clare here today! For today’s card, I wanted to show how to use a Christmas themed stamp set to make a birthday card!

To start off, I took the Baaah Humbug stamp set, and colored my little ewe simply with some Light Gray and Gray ZIG’s, with some water to blend it out. I die cut my lamb, then also stamped, heat embossed and die cut a present from the same stamp set. The present’s bow was topped off with some Stickles.

I die cut a frame for my ewe from My Favorite Things Pierced Rectangles die set, then die cut a window in that frame using Hero Arts Circle Infinity dies. To create my shaker, I quickly blended a background using Tim Holtz Abandoned Coral, and filled it up with some sequins.

I adhered my shaker frame to a gray card base, adhered my ewe, and topped it off with a die cut sentiment from Lawn Fawn’s Chit Chat, using Hero Arts Charcoal.

Thanks so much for stopping in today and God bless!

Baaah Humbug Stamp Set (Lawn Fawn)	Chit Chat Stamp Set (Lawn Fawn)	VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad	Hero Arts Hues Dye Ink Pad – Black	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush
Baaah Humbug Die Set (Lawn Fawn)	Chit Chat Die Set (Lawn Fawn)	STAX Pierced Rectangle Die Set (My Favorite Things)	Hero Arts Infinity Die Set – STAX Circle	Heat It Craft Tool (Ranger)
Double-Sided Foam Mounting Tape .5" (Scotch)	Advanced Tape Glider and Tape – Pink (Scotch)	Stickles Glitter Glue (Ranger)

Hello!  It is Lisa Lahiff here with you today, and I’m very excited to share this CAS Christmas Card with a Retro Feel…

I used a fun mix of products to create this card including: Retro Ornaments by Avery Elle, Lawn Fawn Stitch Border Cuts, and set #5 of the Tim Holtz Distress Crayons.  To be honest this card started out as a happy accident.  When I first got my distress crayons I just wanted to play around and test them out so I mixed a few colors onto watercolor cardstock and went over them with a baby wipe. I then spritzed it with some water and perfect pearls and set it off to dry.  The stitched background was inspired by a card I had seen Jennifer McGuire create quite some time ago, and I had been itching to create one too so I did.  I also decided to round the bottom of the stitched background with My Favorite Things Die-namic Stitched Basic Edges.  I then went back to my now dry watercolor cardstock and stamped the ornament images with Versafine Ink, cut them out and added a few accents with a gold pen. I stamped the sentiment in the right corner of some patterned paper, and then I layered it all onto my cardbase.

Thank you so much for stopping by and Happy Crafting!

Avery Elle – Retro Ornaments	Ranger Tim Holtz – Distress Crayons Set #5	Ranger Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper 4.25 x 5.5	Stitched Basic Edges Die-namics (My Favorite Things)	Stitched Borders Die Set (Lawn Fawn)
Pretty Pink Posh Mixed Cupped Sequins – Sparkling Clear Mix	Gold Sequins 4″ (Pretty Pink Posh)	VersaFine Pigment Ink Pad – Onyx Black (Tsukineko)

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…it’s Clare popping in today, with a fun card that has a wide range of uses!

I started my card off by coloring the cute little cow-raccoon (instead of cowboy? somehow it just doesn’t work…) from Mama Elephant’s Rowdy Raccoons, and coloring him in with some ZIG’s. I used Light Gray for his main body, Gray and Light Gray for the mask and tail, Mid Brown and Gray for the rope and boots, Brown and Beige for the hat and horse head, Light Pink for the ears and nose, and finally, Deep Blue and Persian Blue for the handkerchief.

I then die cut a tag using the Hero Arts Tag Infinity Dies, and blended a background using only Stormy Sky. For the stars, I die cut a piece of scratch paper using My Favorite Things Vertical Stars in the Sky, then used it as a stencil. I stamped my sentiment in Hero Arts Cup O’ Joe, adhered my raccoon, and my tag was good to go.

Now, you could leave it at that, and pair up the tag with a present or gift, but I decided to go the card route….

I die cut a background using Lawn Fawn’s Stitched Borders die, and adhered my tag on that.

Have a blessed day!

Rowdy Raccoons (Mama Elephant)	Rowdy Raccoons Creative Cut (Mama Elephant)	Stormy Sky Distress Ink Pad (Ranger Tim Holtz)	Stormy Sky MINI Distress Ink Pad (Ranger Tim Holtz)	Hero Arts Hues Dye Ink Pad – Black
Cup O’ Joe (Hero Arts)	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush	Round Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam (Ranger)	Stitched Borders Die Set (Lawn Fawn)	Stars in the Sky Die-namics (My Favorite Things)
Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock 8.5