Sweet Wishes

 I picked the wrong time of day to photograph this card as it's filled with shadows. I tried to remove them which left the colors diminished but this was the best I could do.

I had some die-cut striped snippets of SU! designer paper left over from a previous project, so this card began with them. I also used 2 tiny snippets of white cardstock to create the candy pieces. The image, sentiment, and candy pieces are all by Newton's Nook - stamped and colored with Copics, and a touch of Wink of Stella added here and there for sparkle. I added a red and green gemstone to each of the fussy cut candy pieces. The 2 striped panels were originally die cut with MFT stitched horizontal dies. I placed this on a dark green card base and have now added another Christmas card to my stash.

Sharing this with the following challenges:

Rudolph Days October Challenge - A/G Christmas before the end of Oct.

Allsorts challenge week #804 - Cute and Cuddly or A/G

Jingle Belles Christmas Christmas Challenge - use an animal

the Snippets Playground #492 - use snippets

Thanks for the visit and I wish you the very best possible day!

Carol

Christmas in July (again)

 I'm still trying to use snippets to reduce the clutter in my craft room but I swear the gremlins sneak in at night while I'm asleep and deposit more into my collection! I can't come up with any other logical explanation?! 😊

For this card, I used a couple strips of SU! (r) striped dsp along with some pre-cut Poppystamps Shasta twig dies I had stashed away that were used to create branches. I used a retired SU! ornament punch with a snippet of red and white polka dot paper and tied it onto the branch/card with some very old retired SU! gold cord. The sentiment is a pre-print from SSS and I added some droplets of gold Stickles to the branches and called this one done.

I'll enter this into the following challenges:

The Snippets Playground #432 -  Christmas in July (must use snippets)

Christmas Craft Creations July Theme - must use patterned paper

Jingle Belles Christmas Challenge - Stars or Stripes Forever

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #19 - A/G

Dies R Us Challenge #196 - A/G using dies from their store (Shasta Twigs)

I'm sliding in on the seat of my pants for a couple of these challenges just before they close, but I think I made it! (whew)

Thanks for stopping by and have yourself a super summer day!

Carol

Christmas Gnome

 So once again I whoosh from spring right into making a Christmas card!

I love the gnomes, so I used this SSS gnome die along with a paper pad from Kringle to make this card. I used a MFT notched border die along with some Lawn Fawn stitched snowflake dies, and added a SSS pre-printed sentiment. I also used a couple bits of red polka dot designer paper for the gnome's hat and the vertical panel on the left. The plaid and snowflake papers are from the Kringle paper pad. I added a few dots of liquid pearls to the centers of the snowflakes.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

The March Rudolph Days Challenge - A/G Christmas

The Jingle Belles Challenge - We wish you a plaid Christmas

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #60 - Snowflakes are winter's butterflies

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #12 - A/G Christmas

Wishing you all a good week ahead and a good weekend too!

Carol

Christmas Blues & Grey

 I've been trying to use my designer paper stash for the past year without buying more. It's clearly been an addiction I needed to get a grip on as I have enough paper to supply a little store of my own! For today's card, I'm using SU! (r) Winter Frost dsp along with some Soft Sky and Bermuda Bay. The sentiment and snowflake die set is from Reasonable Craft Dies and I placed the snowflakes randomly along with assorted gemstones and bits. I know it's not the usual Christmas color combination, but I like it! It's an easy design to mass produce so I will most likely be making many different colors of this design for my Christmas card stash.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

 the March Rudolph Days Challenge - make a Christmas card

 the Jingle Bells Friday Challenge - Holiday Cards to Die For (use dies)

Thanks for the visit, and I wish you a fantastic weekend!

Carol

Happy Holidays!

Every year I try to make a few non-specific holiday cards and this older SU! retired image works perfectly with a great matching sentiment. I pulled out some very old retired Baha Breeze dsp along with some pale blue card stock to put this together. I used a SB square and scalloped square set of dies to cut the panels, coloring the image with Copics and adding some stamped snowflakes and stickles for snow. The 2 blue snowflakes were done with Lawn Fawn stitched snowflake dies and dotted with tiny blue gemstones.

I'll share this card with the following challenges:

Just Us Girls challenge Wild Card Week #516 - anything goes

Jingle Belles - Celebrating 9 years of making Christmas Cards

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Carol

Christmas Puppy

I haven't given this SNSS Christmas Puppy stamp much love, so it was time to get it out and have a play with it. I colored the pup with Copics, adding white gel pen, glossy accents, green glaze pen along with some red and frosted stickles to enhance the image. I used a Sizzix Snowglobe ef for the green horizontal panel and some SU! retired dsp along with Cherry Cobbler cardstock. I added 2 stitched die-cut snowflakes from Lawn Fawn with red gemstones in the centers, along with a Lil Inker banner die-cut with the white embossed sentiment and tied a bow with some SU! twine and called this one done.

I'm entering this into the Double D Challenge - If the Shoe Fits - use any kind of footwear. I chose one of Santa's boots ;)

I'm also entering this into the Jingle Belles challenge - Let it Snow

Thanks for the visit and I hope your Friday is a good one!

Carol

Tight Squeeze

I have another Christmas card to share today, made with a Whimsy digital image called Tight Squeeze. I colored the image with Copics, then water colored the night sky with not-quite-navy ink and an aqua brush. After it dried, I stamped lots of tiny snowflakes with white craft ink and assorted tiny stamps. I used 2 snippets of designer paper, and added 2 die-cut Lawn Fawn stitched snowflakes with drops of Nuvo glitter drops here and there. The sentiment is an old G studio stamp that just seemed perfect for this image :) I added liquid applique to Santa's suit and hat, and added lots of stickles to the rooftop for snow.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Jingle Belles Challenge - Let it Snow

Merry Little Christmas Challenge MLCCB#2 for September - anything goes

Craftyhazelnut's CHNC #404 - anything goes as long as it's Christmas

                                           Optional - use some patterned paper

Thanks for checking in and do have yourself a fabulous weekend!

Carol

Santa's Chillin' at the Beach!

This is not your typical beach scene, but what the heck?! LOL I found this old stamped Santa image in my box of stamped images and I THINK it's by High Hopes, but I'm not sure. If anyone knows, feel free to leave a comment and I'll correct it. I've had it for years! I colored it with Copics. and matted with a snippet of blue cardstock. I added some glossy accents to his sunglasses and some frosty stickles to the fur on his hat. I added a piece of striped dsp across the bottom along with a beach border done with an EK punch, coloring the elements with fluorescent Copics. The sentiment is by SU! and I added some red & white twine for the final touchm placing it on a snippet of watery looking cardstock I've had for eons.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

Jingle Belles "All Bundled Up" challenge - use 3 layers or more /Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Fun in the Sun

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #393 - Christmas/anything goes with an                                                option to use twine

Have a great Friday and stay cool! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Carol

Merry July!

It's going to be a sweltering day here in PA, so I have another Christmas card to help cool us all off. I used up some favorite snippets of retired DSP from SU! and die-cut them with GMD stitched squares. I die-cut the tree with SU!'s perfect pines framelits from the red and green pieces, and inlaid the tree into the red. Next I added a mirror gold punched star done with a retired SU! mini punch. To dress up the tree, I added gold stickles in a criss-cross pattern. The word Merry was done with mirror gold card and a Sunny Studio word die. It's all been placed on a vanilla card base for a quick and easy Christmas card.

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Jingle Belles Stars and Stripes challenge - make a christmas card using stars and/or stripes (I used both)

Craftyhazelnut's CHNC #392 - a/g as long as it's Christmas with an option of using a snowflake or two or more

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper July 2018 challenge - use any patterned paper

Thanks for stopping by and if you live anywhere in my neck of the woods, stay cool!

Carol

Season's Tweetings

I made a Christmas card today with a Lawn Fawn stamp set called Season's Tweetings. I colored the little birdies with Copics, adding some liquid applique to the little beanie. I used stitched hillside dies (also from Lawn Fawn) to make the snowy hills and stamped the musical notes in red and blue. The squares were die-cut with stitched squares, while the blue panel was die cut with stitched rectangles. I got a big ink smudge on the very bottom of the card, so I die cut another stitched rectangle edge and trimmed it to cover the boo-boo. Actually, I think it balanced the card out nicely with color. I wanted to add some glitter to the hillsides, but this will be going to cards for hospitalized kids and they don't allow glitter, so it's just plain snowy hillsides :)

I'm entering this into the Christmas always Jingle Belles "We Three Kings" challenge which is calling for multiples of 3........just hours before the deadline! Talk about sliding in on the seat of your pants! Whew! But I made it :)

I'm also adding it to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge which is "layer it up."

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day whatever you do!

Carol

CAS Christmas

Today I have a CAS Christmas card - the first make for my 2018 stash. I treated myself to this MB Pine Trio Outline die and die-cut it with some glitter gold and dark green cardstocks along with a white card base. I placed the negatives back into the card base, adding interest with the green trees outlined with gold. The sentiment is a glittered gold sticker and I stopped at CAS instead of adding more layers which I always seem to do.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - use something new

the Jingle Belles Christmas challenge - use something new

Happy Little Stampers January 2018 Christmas challenge - a/g with an option of CAS

Thanks for checking in today, and I do hope you're safe and warm where you are! We are in SE PA and the winds are bitter cold but we only got a dusting of snow, unlike those who live along the Eastern coastline and up into New England! Brrrrrr!!

Carol

Holiday Thanks

I had lots of snippets left over that were too small for card panels, so I cut them into 1" squares and cut some in half lengthwise and some in half diagonally. I pieced them together to make a little patchwork quilt and turned it into a Christmas thank-you card. The sentiment is by SU! and I added a die-cut IO button to the center, threaded with narrow strips of matching green cardstock.

I'm sharing this with the Jingle Belles "thankful for the holidays" challenge.

I had plenty of leftover Christmas paper snippets so I made this card too...

This was one of my most favorite DSP's from SU! from years gone by, but none was wasted since I made these quilted thank-you cards. The sentiment is also by SU!

Thanks for stopping by and do have yourself a fantastic Friday and a good weekend as well!

Carol

Stampendous Patient Pup

I made this Christmas card with an adorable Stampendous patient pup stamp, coloring with Copics warm tones and adding a red santa hat to match the long retired red ribbon from SU! I added a piece of red/white twine around the ribbon and called this one done.

I'm sharing this with the Jingle Belles challenge  which is "Not a Creature was Stirring" - in other words, add a creature or animal to your Christmas card.

I'm also sharing it with Craftyhazelnuts Christmas challenge #357 which is anything goes as long as it's Christmas, with an option of adding something with wings.

Also adding it to the CHNC Christmas Challenge Extra for October 2017 - which is always anything goes as long as it's Christmas.

Thanks for stopping by and do have yourself a fantastic day!

Carol

{on a side note, does anyone know of a fix yet for the followers Google error 502? I noticed the followers disappeared on my blog and were replaced with this error code. I read that some bloggers removed the gadget and re-installed it with the same error code showing.}

Peace

Today I have a Christmas card using my new SU! embossing folder called Winter Wonder. It's quite large so there's very little else needed on the card, but I added a Lawn Fawn stitched die-cut snowflake, with a silver candi dot in the center. The peace sentiment was cut from silver mirror card with a Memory Box Die. The color is Pacific Point from SU!. I decided to make another one in a different blue color...........

This is a random piece of blue cardstock I had on hand, but it gives a bit of a softer look.

I'm entering the first card into the following challenges:

Darnell's NBUS #12 - use some "Never Before Used Schtuff" {embossing folder}

Jingle Belles Christmas Challenge - use embossing

Craftyhazelnuts CHNC 353 - Christmas

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great weekend whatever you do!

Carol

Stash Digging

I recently sorted through my stash and found a large package of felt snowflakes I'd had for years and decided it was time to use them. This card is Island Indigo with pool party mats on both borders. I used a CB snowflake ef for the horizontal border and a piece of retired SU! dsp for the vertical panel. The blue snowflake was by SU! and I used a punched snowflake for the center done with a MS punch. The sentiment is by Northwoods and the final touch was adding some aqua Nuvo glitter drops.

This version has the colors reversed and I used a larger Lawn Fawn stitched snowflake die cut with a smaller felt snowflake in the center. This dsp is a long-time favorite BG that I've hoarded because I love it! Now is the time to use it and stop hoarding!! The embossed panel was done with a Sizzix EF.

And here's another using more retired SU! dsp, some smokey slate cardstock, a Darice ef, and a different MS punched snowflake. I switched this one up a little bit by placing the embossed panel underneath the vertical panel. I don't know which one I like better?

I'm sharing this with the Jingle Belles Christmas challenge which is a Tic-Tac-Toe grid this week. I used the center line up and down which is Snow, Card Stock and Blue.

To show you how determined I was to use up those felt snowflakes, I made a whole group of 43 cards using this simple sketch. I now have a serious jump on my Christmas stash and it's only September! Better yet, all of those felt snowflakes are now gone! poof!

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day!

Carol

Happy Freezin' Season

I found this pre-colored image in my box of images and paired it with some blue cardstock that was lying on my craft table to make a fun Christmas card. I embossed a while piece of cardstock with a snowflake ef, and added a couple Lawn Fawn die-cut stitched snowflakes, adding a blue mini brad to the center. The MFT sentiment was done on white and placed on a SNSS ticket die cut. I used deckled scissors to trim the white to make it fit the die-cut. I added a snippet of blue ribbon along with a blue sequin and a few light blue gemstones and called this one done.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

the Jingle Belles Blue Christmas challenge - use mostly blue

the CHNC #333 - a/g as long as it's Christmas

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope your day is beautiful!

Carol

Still in Christmas Mode

I made another Christmas card and really took this one over the top in the process! I saw the sketch over at the Jingle Belle's challenge and decided to play with my SB poinsettia dies/leaf that have been collecting dust. I cut an assortment of flowers from red card stock, sponging the edges with chocolate chip ink, then curling them around a pencil to give them some definition. I  covered them all with clear wink of stella for some serious glitz, then popped them up on dimensionals on top of a very vanilla punched border done with an older EK retired punch. I added a few golden gemstones randomly, along with some clear glitter Nuvo drops and then die-cut the Cottage Cutz sentiment, putting it all on a Wild Wasabi card base.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your day is a special one!

Carol

Pink Christmas

I know pink is not a traditional Christmas color, but I made this one in pink just to be different :) I pulled out a very old CTMH snowflake stamp set, and stamped the images with Versamark ink, then heat-embossed with white ep. I stamped the PTI sentiment in Versafine black and heat-embossed that with clear ep, then pulled out the distress inks and sponges. The top portion was done with Spun Sugar, while the lower portion was done with Picked Raspberry. I pulled out a big honkin' clear oval gemstone and placed it right in the center of the biggest snowflake. It looks blue in the photo, but it's clear and really looks pretty. I'm entering this into the following challenges:

March Rudolph Days - anything goes / Christmas

Jingle Belles - Christmas / Bling or sparkle

CHNC 326 - anything goes / Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra for March 2017 - Christmas a/g

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a fantastic weekend!

Carol

Santa??

I made a few cards of this design for my Christmas stash of cards for hospitalized kids. Hopefully they'll be smiling when they see Santa stuck in the chimney! LOL

This card began with the printed circle sentiment I found in my box of unfinished doo-dads and I pinned a card on Pinterest with this clever design and had to CASE it. The boots were done with a SU! heart punch, while the "fur" was done with a retired SU! Boho Blossom punch. The chimney was a piece of rose-red cardstock, which was embossed with a TH bricked ef, then sponged with white craft ink to look like real bricks. The background was embossed with a SU! softly fallen ef, and the sentiment circle was matted with emerald envy and red layers done with SP circle and scalloped circle dies. I added a die-cut Lawn Fawn snowflake to the center with a silver sticker in the center.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

Perfectly Created Chaos #7 challenge - Christmas anything goes

CHNC challenge extra for December 2016 

(anything goes as long as it's Christmas)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - anything goes

Jingle Belles - December Wrap-up Challenge

(Christmas)

I had some issues with the computer earlier this morning, and hopefully I'll be able to make it back again soon! If not, you'll know my PC quietly died :)

Thanks for stopping by and have a great Friday and a good weekend as well!

Carol

White Christmas

The Jingle Belles are dreaming of a white Christmas with an inspiration photo, so I created this white on white card using regular white cardstock and some white pearlized cardstock for the trees, sentiment and deer.

Here's what I used to make my card...

SU! Softly Fallen embossing folder

SU! Perfect Pines Framelit dies (Trees)

Tim Holtz On the Edge Tree Line die

Lawn Fawn stitched hillside dies

Impression Obsession Deer DIE117-C

Die-Versions "Peace on Earth" Sweet Wordlets die

Frosted Lace Stickles 

Liquid Applique from Jo-Anns

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great Monday!

Carol