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

A Note of Thanks

Today I have a (rare for me) CAS card to share. I used a snippet of retired SU! dsp, along with a scalloped border - cut with a SNSS scalloped border die and my Big Shot. The turquoise heart note was cut with a Casual Friday's die, and the sentiment is by Unity. The card base is kraft.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

 Cuttlebug Mania Music challenge 

Perfectly Created Chaos challenge PCC#6 which is to make a CAS thank-you card. 

That will do it for me for today. Thanks for stopping by and make it a great weekend!

Carol

Happy Thanksgiviing

I made this background with autumn-themed dsp snippets I cut with a 1" punch. I glued them on a snippet of cardstock, then embossed the whole piece with a Darice autumn leaves ef, sponging with fired brick distress ink. I ran the panel and card base through the Big Shot with a Lil Inker stitched rectangle die. The pumpkins are from MFP, fussy cut and popped up on foam tape, while the tall grasses and green grass panels were cut with SNSS dies. The sentiment was heat-embossed with white powder on black and cut with a SNSS ticket die.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

Double D challenge - Harvest Blessings and/or give thanks

The Little Red Wagon Challenge #366 - Happy Fall Y'All

Perfectly Created Chaos PCC #5 - Heat Embossing

Thanks for joining me today for a little visit, and I hope you're having a splendid Autumn day!

Carol

Plaid Christmas

I found a challenge to use plaid, and since I didn't have any plaid dsp, I made my own. I took a piece of white cardstock, and used a ruler to draw lines with Copics, markers, glitter pens and a gold paint pen. I used traditional Christmas green and red colors and added a scalloped border done with a SU! punch. I heat-embossed the SU! Wonderful Year sentiment, along with the mat, punched mini Christmas trees, and added a strip of gold-embossed cardstock to the right of the plaid panel. 

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

the Double D challenge to use "plaid."

Perfectly Created Chaos Challenge #4 - anything goes

Happy Little Stampers October Christmas challenge - "embossing."

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra for October - Christmas

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day whatever you're doing.

Carol

Water-colored Thank-You

This card began with a piece of white cardstock that I sponged with Distress inks. After the main panel was dry, I spritzed the Memory Box stamp with water and stamped it into the ink, giving it a white shadow. Once that was dry, I stamped the image in black, slightly moving it to the left of the shadow image. I die cut that panel along with the water-colored panel beneath it with a Gina Marie Designs stitched square die set, then added 2 white mini brads to the flower centers. The card base was a color-variegated cardstock and seemed to be a good color match to the distress inks. I added a snippet of die-cut white that was cut with a Lawn Fawn stitched hills die, then stamped a MFP sentiment. The card base was die cut with a Lil Inker stitched rectangle.

I just became aware of a brand new challenge called the PCC1 - Perfectly Created Chaos - which is to "Stamp it."

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

Carol