Festive Snowmen

I LOVE Snowmen!!!  And I know that I am not the only one!  I love decorating my home around the holidays with Snowmen of all sorts!  And when buying stamps, I fall for the ones with snowmen!  So here is another card with some Festive Snowmen!  The stamp is from Tara Reed Designs, Stamps Happen Inc



Card Recipe:

Red CS 6 x 12 & folded at 6

I used some of my paper scraps for the various panels

Stamp and color the image

I also used red ric rac, a mini paper clip, twine, a snowflake brad

I also cut a scallop circle with my Big Shot and Scallop circle #2 die 

which I then used a large circle punch to give me a sort of boarder! 

Challenge:

CPS Challenge - Sketch #243

Everybody Art Challenge - Advent

Simon Says Stamp - (Photo inspiration) Poppy Field

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A Snow Family

Here is my latest Christmas card to add to my collection!  I am slowly getting a pile ready to mail out across the Country for family & friends :) 

Card Recipe:

Whisper white cs base is cut with my Big Shot and the large scallop circle, I made a fold in the card before I ran it through, leaving a small portion at the top so that both pieces are still attached.  Then I cut another large scallop and taped it to the base so that it shows the whole scallop!  (Hope this makes sense!)

The blue circle is cut with the Big Shot and large clear circle die

The red scallop circle is cut with the Big Shot and the scallop circles #2

Then I stamped the SU Flaky Friends image on WW CS and used a large circle punch. 

I used markers and stickles.  I added bakers twine and pop dots to add dimension.

Challenges

PAPERTAKE WEEKLY CHALLENGE - Christmas

WINTER WONDERLAND - Make it sparkle

TOP TIP TUESDAY - Anything Christmas

STAMPS $ FUN - Winter

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Welcome Spring!

Doesn't this fairy look all ready for Spring?  While it still looks like Winter here in northern Alberta, I am longing and more than ready for warm mornings and beautiful flowers...(I do have fresh tulips in a vase on my table)!  I had fun with this card, it is the first time that I've tried stamping on velum and it works great!

So I am entering this beauty in a few challenges! 

1. Simon Says Stamp.  Anything Goes.... here!!

2. Cupcake Craft Challenge.  Up in the air with the option of Green....here!!

3.  Penny Black Saturday challenge.  The color Green....here!!

4.  Delicious Doodles Challenge.  Use Green for Saint Patrick's Day....here !!

5.  I am also linking up to a Butterfly linky party at For the love of life!!

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Winter Wishes

This is my second Christmas card for today.  I incorporated 2 different challenges for this card.  First the CPS Challenge 194 part 1 is here.

 And I also followed a color challenge from Stacey's Stamping Stage, Curtain Call 57  which you can view here. 

I love how my Winter Wishes card looks!  I added glitter to the center of each snowflake!

Card recipe:

All card stock from Stampin Up!

Sizzix embossing folder

StazOn Timber Brown

Martha Stewart glitter

Creative Memories corner punch

I got the stamp for free with a paper craft magazine! 

Flakey Friends!

Well, I really have been wanting to start with this years Christmas cards for awhile...but haven't until now!  I wanted to take part in the Christmas Card Challenge which you can check out  here!   This was a color challenge.  I had to use pink, grey, orange & white!  

Card Recipe:

Pink cs, Shimmer paper from my stash

Grey & whisper white Stampin Up! cs

Stampin Up! Flakey Friends stamps

Stampin Up! pink passion, pumpkin pie ink

timber brown StazOn

White jelly roll pen

corner punch, circle punch

Big Shot and Circle scallop #2 die

White ribbon from my stash

Caden & Poppy

While I've been doing some crafting in the past month it has been Christmas gifts so I don't want to show until after the Holidays!!  So after doing some blog hopping I came across a challenge which you can check out here --> thecuttlebugspot.  So I had to go to 5 different blogs to get the challenge recipe.  There was a sketch at this blog sassylilsketches, then scrapfit said you had to use 3 of the same thing.  Next shopcropsuey wanted you to get your hands dirty and scraptiffany said that we had to use lace!  Last but not least the cuttlebugspot said to add texture by embossing!  So here is my entry for this awesome challenge!!  Thanks for stopping by to check it out...cheers! 

The Cupcake Craft Challange

This is my first time doing a challenge at Cupcake Craft Challenge blog.  Here is my take on Challenge 97 - Sketch!  The stamp is Enchanted Hollow from The Stamp Barn.  I colored her with Copics (I am just getting into using these awesome markers, I only have a few in my collection.)  & watercolors.  I also use a punch from Martha Stewart and a brad from Stampin Up!  Please hop on over to check out all of the great ideas and challenges here

My Creative Time - Challange

Here is my layout for this weeks Throwback Thursday with My Creative Stamper.  You can check out the challenge for yourself  here.   For this challenge I used Jasmine cartridge.  It is a font cartridge but I think I only used it once so I thought this would be a good chance to see what I could do with it!  I hope you like :)  I also used a cute stamp of an octopus from Snag' em Stamps!

My Pink Stamper challange!

I saw that Robyn from My Pink Stamper had a color challenge posted.  The colors green, pink, orange, & brown!   And I have had my Mini Monsters cartridge for awhile and this was a perfect opportunity to put it to use!!  So I did a Halloween layout! 

Check out the challenge and enter your submission here!

A surprise visit with my Aunt Pearl!

Well here we are again....another Throwback Challange from Emma at My Creative Time!  As with all of the previous challanges, we are to use an older Cricut cartridge...I don't own the pick for this week, Doodlecharms.  So I picked A Walk in the Garden.  It is one of the first that I bought!  Here is my layout!

I am off to Lilith Fair tomorrow!  It is a 5 hour drive...the concert is on Monday so I am just a tad excited!  I LOVE Sarah McLachlan...and there will be other great artists!  So I was short on time but still managed to get this layout complete.  I love how it turned out!  I have some journeling to add later. 

I used the tulip card cut, which I cut at 11"!  I hope you like, it was fun!

Layout recipe:

A Walk in the Garden

Gypsy

Gypsy Font

Martha Stewert punch, CS and pearl ribbon

Micheals CS, ribbon and pearls

white gel pen

 Sizzix Texture plate and Big Shot

My Creative Time - Throwback Thursday!

Well, here we are again...Emmas 3rd challange and mine as well!  We had to make a 3-d or altered item!  And of coarse use an older Cricut cartridge in the project.  I don't have paper dolls so I made a flower from Accent Essentials for the front of my bag and I cut a heart from My Pink Journey which I place on the back!  I added 4 note cards as a gift pack...perhaps for one of my sisters!  Thanks for having a look...and please go to My Creative Time and see what the other awesome crafters created!!

    

Throwback Thursday!!!

Its been a busy day around here...my only day off , I am back to work tomorrow for another 6 shifts ):  I shouldn't complain bc I love to spend money on all of the wonderful papers, stamps and cartridges for my addiction!  LOL  Anyway along with the regular cleaning, errands & baking cookies and buns...oh and making supper I managed to do the challange for My Creative Time - TBT 49!

For the ice cream card I placed a pink brad under the cherry so the ice cream scoop can swing to either side revealing a heart!!

I made a band to keep the pack of cards together, and used a small strip of velcro to keep it close.

 

The challange was to use the cartridge "Stretch Your Imagination" if you have it but we had to use the colors brown, blue & red!  Because I am still a newbie at Cricut, I thought it would be a good idea to make a pack of cards...using a variety if images from the cartridge.  So here are 6 cards and a band, all with the 3 main colors.  I love how they turned out. 

 Thanks for looking!

CPS 169

This card is for the CPS 169  challange! 

Card recipe:

The dp and the paper that I used for the flower is from a pad that I have had for awhile

The cream cs is from my stash ( I always throw away the packaging and store my cs in like colors!)

I used the sentiment from Stampin Up!

The Big Shot and flower layers die

Brown ribbon from my stash!

 

Fun with Fabric

I did this card for the Fun with Fabric challange over on the Moxie Fab World blog, have a look here!

 

Card recipe:

Believe it or not, but this fabric is cut from a dress that I had in my fabric stash! 

I used Stampin Up! white cs

Green and Blue cs from my scraps

And the sentiment is CC Designs

I also added some stickles to the center of the flowers!

This card looks much nicer in person, I think I will keep it for myself :)