Joy, Love, Peace

Happy Monday everyone! The big day is only 2 days away - are you ready? I am - FINALLY! :) I spent the day with my kids yesterday (teaching Kim how to cook a turkey dinner - and man, was it delicious!) and then I will be having another large family gathering at my house on the 28th. I am hoping to relax a bit in between and do some crafting!

I am up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog today with this pretty Christmas card:

 

For this pretty Christmas card, I dug out this gorgeous stamp from Unity Stamp Co. It's one of my all-time favorite coffee stamps :)

 

You can use any color you wish with this stamp - it's such a bold, wow-factor stamp! I just love it. I added some puff paint to the bottom of the cup for some added fun!

 

Thank you so much for stopping in today. Cheers!

Baby It's Cold Outside!

Happy Wednesday everyone! Wow, November 28th already...where oh where does the time go?! It was JUST summer time a blink ago wasn't it? And now, the hustle and bustle of Christmas preparations is upon us! I haven't even started shopping - ACK! But...on a good note, ALL my Christmas cards are out in the mail as of tomorrow. Including this beauty I am bringing you today over at Coffee Loving Cardmakers: 

I started by stamping the sentiment and coffee cup with Cherry Cobbler and cut out the mug with it's matching die. I believe this is from Lil' Inker Designs...

 I added the layers - plaid paper, woodgrain strip, vellum circle, greenery, ribbon, then I popped up the sentiment and coffee cup to give it some extra dimension.

I LOVE plaid and these colors are so pretty together! It reminds me of a traditional Christmas...I added a few sequins to give it a bit of bling and finish it off :)

Thanks for stopping in today and seeing what I've been up to! Enjoy your Wednesday! Cheers!

 

4 CC #380 {Monochrome}

Happy "4 Crafty Chicks" Thursday everyone!

This week, it is miss Leanne's turn to play challenge hostess and she is wanting to see the following theme for your projects this week:

4 CC #380 {Monochrome}

My card was made at our ladies stamping club night a couple weeks ago using Stampin' Up! products and the idea case'd from Pinterest:

We used a stencil and sponge to create our striped background and embossed the image and sentiment with black embossing powder - a nice, CAS yet elegant card!

Thanks so much for stopping in today - be sure to hop on over to the hen house HERE to see what our amazing Guest Designer and the rest of the Chicks have in store for you! Cheers!

4 CC #368 {Geometric Fun!}

Happy "4 Crafty Chicks" Thursday everyone!

Welcome back to my blog - this week, our hostess is Nance and she's issuing the following challenge for us all:

4 CC #368 {Geometrical Fun}

I really hope that plaid is considered "geometrical" lol....cuz I LOVE it and I used it! hahaha :D Nance said it was ok, so I ran with it!

I made this card last night at our monthly stamping club with my group of crazy ladies - card idea CASE'd from Pinterest:

Here's a close up:

All products from Stampin' Up!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes + sentiment

C.R.A.F.T. challenges - Christmas

Creative Knockouts - Anything Goes

Through the Purple Haze - In the Woods

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes

Please be sure to hop on over to the hen house to see what the rest of the Chicks are up to - they are always up to "something!" lol....Happy crafting!

'Tis the Season Challenge #2

Happy Saturday!! I had a very enjoyable evening last night in my craft cave and actually did a card "for fun!" YEP...can you believe it!?! I didn't want to miss out on Challenge #2 from 'Tis the Season - so I hopped on over and found this YUMMY color combo:

I went scouring though my file of digi's on my computer I've collected over the years and found this ADORABLE set of snow friends....if anyone knows where it's origin is, please let me know so I can give credit! I also realize now that I really READ the color pic above that the option was glitter - I will add glitter to their hats and pom-pom's .... 

I love this challenge site and will try to make it every week! My Christmas cards will be done in no time! :) I'm off...today is Awards Day at my daughter's school and she is up for an award - can't wait! CHEERS!!

Non-Traditional Christmas with Deacon Elf....

 Happy Totally Stampalicious Monday! The challenge this week is a fun one...the girls want to see you create a card, scrapbook layout or 3D project using NON-TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS COLORS! Ohhhhh...can't WAIT to see all the different combos that come of this challenge!!! :)

For my card, I went with another CAS layout and stamped Deacon Elf, and his sentiment right on the main white cardstock panel. I then added the bright,colorful strip of designer paper from the 6 x 6 EP Holly Jolly Christmas pad.   

Don't forget about our on-going contest:

We figured it was time to rev things up a little with a new contest!! We are offering up FREE STAMPS for an ENTIRE YEAR!!!! We're talking ALL NEW RELEASES for 2013!!! (approx 40+ stamp sets) And it's soooooooooo easy to win!! Your name will automatically be entered once for EVERY SINGLE stamp set that you buy!! So if you order 5 sets, your name is in 5 times (plus you would get a free set of your choice from the Dessert promo!)

Contest runs until Dec. 28th and the winner will be announced Dec 31! (what a great way to bring in the New Year!!) Click here for the complete contest rules....

Thanks for stopping in today and be sure to hop on over to see what other yummy, delish creations the rest of the DT has for you! Happy crafting!

4 CCC#115 - Melissa's Sketch!

Happy Thursday! This week the challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks is being brought to you than none other than our wonderful, miss Melissa! She has come up with this awesome sketch for you to work with:

I decided to make my card a regular size, not a square card, and I used a ribbon instead of a sentiment ;)

I am in love with this "new-to-me" color combo of Pool Party, Soft Suede and White!! Awesome Christmas colors for me :)


Thanks for stopping in today and be sure to hop on over to the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge blog to play along with us ;) Cheers!

4 CCC #103 - Circles

This week over at 4 Crafty Chicks, it's is Tamie's turn to bring you this week's challenge. Are you ready to have some fun?

4 CCC #103 - "CIRCLES"

Let's see 'em folks! They can be on paper, you can make them from punches, Spellbinders, dots, etc. You got circles, we wanna see them!!

I got the idea for my super easy-peesy CAS card from THIS card made by Barbara. I changed it up a bit and decided on some Christmas colors and now I have one more holiday card done to add to my stash!! Yay!

Stamps: All Year Cheer I - SU!
Paper: Whisper White, Early Espresso, Dots & Stripes Christmas Collection DSP (Echo Park)
Ink: Early Espresso
Accessories: 1 1/4" circle punch, circles border punch

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Spots and Stripes
Allsorts Challenge Blog - Going Around in Circles


Please be sure to hop on over to the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge blog and load up your creation for us! We would love to see what you make using Tamie's challenge this week :) Happy crafting!!

OOOOH! I See Something Shiny at Totally Stampalicious!!

Hi everyone! The theme this week over at Totally Stampalicious is "SPARKLE" - so that means bling, glitter, etc. I couldn't wait to ink up this pair of cutie-patooties and "bling 'em up!" I colored my image with Copic markers and then used my liquid glue to attach some Dazzling Diamonds glitter to various spots on the image. I also drew in a few snow mounds on the bottom of the image to add more glittery snow! I hope you can play along this week!!

Stamps: Deacon and Ava HoHo (Totally Stampalicious); Paper: Riding Hood Red, Always Artichoke, Whisper White, Jovial DP (Basic Grey); Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black; Accessories: copic markers, lace ribbon, nestabilities, snowflake punch, circle punch, gems, dimensionals, dazzling diamonds glitter, glue pen

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

JUGS - color (red/green/kraft or white)
Scrap-Creations - Snow
Catch the Bug Creations - Baby it's Cold Outside
Cupcake Inspirations - photo inspiration (I used the colors)
Paper Sundaes - Celebrate
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Anything Goes & Ribbon
Stampin' for the Weekend - Christmas!
Charisma Cardz Challenges - Last Minute Xmas Makes

The rest of the gals have created some SUPER DOOPER gorgeous creations for you all this week - hop on over to the TS Challenge Blog to admire them - links are on my right-hand sidebar!

See you soon for another color challenge from Scrapmaster's Paradise!

4 CCC#68 Christmas Card Extravaganza......

Welcome back to another challenge from 4 Crafty Chicks! There are only 10 days left until the big guy arrives - are you READY?!? If not, this week's challenge, hosted by our wonderful Tamie, will be sure to help you out! Our theme this week is CHRISTMAS CARDS...be it traditional colors, non-traditional colors, gift cards, gift card holders, you name it - if it is some sort of Christmas card, we wanna see it! :) 

This is a picture of the Christmas cards I am sending out this year....(sorry for those folks who will be receiving one - this is a spoiler post!) and I found the layout on Splitcoaststampers but cannot remember who the original person was who had this wonderful idea...if it is you, please let me know so I can give credit where due. I altered the colors and papers and added some DP from last year's SU! Christmas stash....

Stamps: The Sounding Joy, Serene Snowflakes; Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Stampin' Up! DSP; Ink: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake; Accessories: scallop edge trim punch, early espresso ribbon, corner punch, gems

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Clearly iStamp: Christmas
Fresh Brewed: Christmas
Creative Card Crew: Tis the Season
Creative Belli Challenge: Winter or Christmas
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges: Christmas
One Crazy Stamper: Christmas
Papertake Weekly: I'm Dreaming of a (insert fave color here - I chose brown/red) Christmas

The other Chicks, along with our new Guest Designer, Dee, have some gorgeous creations for you to drool over...click HERE!

SPCC #130 - Sending Holiday Joy

Hi all! This week's color challenge from Scrapmaster's Paradise is definitely a Christmas combination! I have been waiting for a time to use my new-to-me set from Papertrey Ink called 2008 Holiday Tag Collection. The colors have definitely WOW factor and it didn't take long for my card to come together:

Stamps: 2008 Holiday Tag Collection (PTI), Snow Wonderful (Verve); Paper: Sahara Sand, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Lucky Limeade; Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Momento Tuxedo Black; Accessories: Nestabilities, circle punch, scallop trim border punch, cobbler seam binding, dimensionals

I am adding my card to the following challenges:

Clearly iStamp: Christmas
Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes
Crafty Creations: a Card with a Sentiment
Fresh Brewed: Christmas
Creative Card Crew: Tis The Season
Creative Belli Blog - Winter and Christmas
ABC Challenge: E is for Embossing
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges - Merry Christmas
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
Phindy's Place - clean and simple
Paper Sundaes - Anything Christmas
Tuesday Throwdown - Celebrate the Season
One Crazy Stamper - Christmas/Holiday theme

Thanks for stopping in - be sure to check out what the rest of the team has created for you (links are on the right-hand sidebar). Cheers!

Eat, Drink & Be Merry at Totally Stampalicious!!

Happy Monday! Twelve more days until the "big day." Seems like every year, Christmas sneaks up on me quicker and quicker - thank goodness we have challenges like this one over at Totally Stampalicious, to help me get my cards done! This week the theme is "EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY." We want to see some sort of food or drink on your cards, scrapbook pages or 3D projects :)

The image I chose was Poppi Cocoa because I love this little penguin hugging this HUGE cocoa mug - reminds me of cold winter days, snuggled up by the fire watching Christmas movies :)

I am adding my card to the following challenges:

Clearly iStamp: Christmas
Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes
Crafty Creations: a Card with a Sentiment
Fresh Brewed: Christmas
Creative Card Crew: Tis The Season
Creative Belli Blog - Winter and Christmas
ABC Challenge: E is for Embossing
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges - Merry Christmas
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
Phindy's Place - clean and simple
Paper Sundaes - Anything Christmas
Tuesday Throwdown - Celebrate the Season
Cupcake Inspiration - Photo Inspiration (I used the colors)
One Crazy Stamper - Christmas/Holiday theme

I do hope you take some time out of the hustle and bustle of the holiday preparations to sit and be creative with us! Be sure to link up your creation HERE for your chance to win some awesome stamps! Cheers!!

Getting Colorful at 4 Crafty Chicks!

Welcome, welcome!! There is a color challenge happening over at 4 Crafty Chicks this week! Our "hostess-with-the-mostess" this week is Melissa and she has made this gorgeous color combo:

I have been doing pretty good with making Christmas cards for all my Design Team commitments and this color combo had my creative little wheels turning...I was bound and determined to make a holiday card! So, I scrounged around through all my stamp sets and came across an oldie but goodie from Verve called Pointsetta Christmas and got to work. This CAS card came together rather quickly:

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Party Time Tuesday - Holiday Greetings
Raise the Bar - Christmas
Clearly iStamp - Christmas
2 Sisters - Punches &/or Dies
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
The Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes
Bling It On - Christmas
Fresh Brewed - Christmas
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges- Merry Christmas
Pixie Cottage - Last Minute Gifts and Cards
Creative Card Crew - Tis the Season
Crafty Creations - A Card with a Sentiment

Thanks for stopping in today! Click HERE to see what the rest of the 4 Crafty Chicks Design Team has created for you...we realize that the holiday season is upon us and we're all in the midst of Christmas parties, school functions, work parties, etc. but if you can, please find some time to sit and craft with us - we'd love to have you join us! Happy crafting!

SPCC #129 - Celebrate the Season

Welcome back! This week's color combo from SPCC helped me get yet another Christmas card completed and out of the way :) Gotta like it when that happens. Like I've mentioned in past posts, I am attempting to make all my Design Team commitment cards into Christmas cards (no matter what the challenge/color is) and so far, so good!!! Here's Samantha's color palette for the week:

For my card, I inked up Ornamental Trees from SP & Co. in Chocolate Chip ink and stamped them on Pool Party then cut them out and "popped up" the middle tree with dimensionals. I wanted to make the background look as if it was snowing behind the trees, so I used Swiss Dots embossing folder for that effect...The sentiment is from Cutest Gingerbread Man (also an SP & Co. stamp set).

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Raise The Bar - It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas
2 Sisters - Punches/Dies
CropStop: Punching your way around the holidays
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle: Holiday card
Secret Crafter: Inspiration Photo (I took the tree theme!)
Bling it On: It's Christmas!
GingerloftChallenge: Christmas
Clearly iStamp: Christmas
Scrap-Creations: Christmas

Thank you for stopping in this morning and please be sure to click HERE for more wonderful projects made for you by the Scrapmaster's Paradise Design Team. Enter your project at the SPCC Challenge Blog for your chance to win some amazing stamps from the SP & Co. store! Happy crafting!

Snow is Glistenin' at Totally Stampalicious!

 Happy Monday! I hope your weekend was a good one - we had a very busy weekend with Kim swimming in our hometown "Cookie Classic" Swim Meet. She did amazing and beat all her times once again! I am so proud of her...

This week the girls over at Totally Stampalicious are looking for SNOW on your cards, scrapbook pages or 3D projects...wheeeee! I decided to have fun with Winter Bird Snowman and the sketch is from an older i{heart}2stamp challenge - I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it!

Stamps: Winter Bird Snowman (Totally Stampalicious); Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise; Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black; Accessories: Copic markers, Nestabilities (Labels 22 and Fancy Tags), SU! border punch, gems, dimensionals, assorted embossing folders, SU! Dazzling Details, paper piercer

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Pile it On - Bling it Up!
2 Sisters - Punches &/or Dies
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Catch The Bug - Anything Goes
Gingerloft Challenge - Christmas/Winter
One Stop Craft Challenge - Let it Snow
The ABC Challenge Blog - E is for Embossing
Charisma Cardz Challenge - Spots
Crazy 4 Challenges - Let's go to the MOVIES! (my card reminds me of Frosty the Snowman!)
Cupcake Inspirations - I used the snowmen as my inspiration!
Totally PaperCrafts - Snow
Sweet Stampin' - Snow (snowmen, snowflakes, snow people or just snow!)

The rest of the Totally Stampalicious Design Team will be sure to knock your creative socks off - be sure to click HERE to check 'em all out! Leave your project on our challenge blog for your chance to win some oh-so-cool stamps! Happy crafting!

SPCC #128 Peace, Joy, Be Merry!

Welcome back! Samantha at Scrapmaster's Paradise has issued yet another awesome color palette for this week! I found this combo rather "Christmas-y" so I decided to use the Mojo Monday sketch from last week and the SP & Co. stamp set "Cutest Gingerbread" for the sentiments

Stamps: Cutest Gingerbread (SP & Co.); Paper: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Real Red, Lucky Limeade, Stampin' Up! DSP; Ink: Momento Black; Accessories: Ornament dies from Whimsy, silver brads, baker's twine, snow dots embossing folder

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenges - Christmas or Winter
Little Red Wagon - Christmas
Pattie's Creations - Christmas
Friday Mashup - Sugar and Spice Make Christmas Nice
The Poodles Parlour - Christmas
2 Sisters - Holiday
Sweet Stampin - Dies/Punches
Craft Your Days Away - Buttons or Bows
Aud Sentiments - Winter Holiday Sentiments
PaperCrafting Journey - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too - Christmas
TotallyPaperCrafts - Christmas
Stamptacular Sunday Challenges - Anything Christmas

Please check the right-hand sidebar for the other members of the SPCC Design Team and be sure to hop on over to see their wonderful creations using this week's color combo! Happy crafting!!

Non-Traditional Christmas at Totally Stampalicious!

Happy Monday! Welcome back to another challenge from Totally Stampalicious...can you believe that we are less than ONE MONTH from Christmas? EEEK!!! I'm so not ready...cards to finish, shopping to do, baking to start...but, it will come together - always does, RIGHT?!? *wink*

Our challenge this week over at TS is a non-traditional Christmas colors card or project. I decided to use one of our newest releases, Margaret December for my card. I always get such a chuckle out of Margaret - she's a hoot! And the sentiments that come with her set are awesome!

Stamps: Margaret December (Totally Stampalicious); Paper: Whisper White, Concord Crush, Pretty in Pink, Cheerful Treat DSP (Stampin' Up!); Ink: Momento Black; Accessories: copic markers, nestabilities, concord ribbon, dimensionals, scallop border punch, dazzling details

Thanks for stopping in today - be sure to check out the other creations from the uber-talented Design Team HERE! Happy stamping!!!

SPCC #125 - Crafting with Jackie (and a DT call!)

 

This week at Scrapmaster's Paradise, our color combo is a soft, pastel-y one :) My sister was here for the weekend and when I asked her "what should I stamp with these colors?" she promptly said, "ornaments!" Ohhhhh....so I ran to my stamp cupboard and grabbed my stamp set of fancy ornaments and my snowflake embossing folder - here is the finished product:

I had a lot of fun crafting with my sister this weekend - she doesn't get much free time to do it and my kids helped out a lot so that she "could" stamp with me :) Thanks again, Jackie!! 

Samantha is looking for some new Divas for SP & Co. Stamps - click HERE for more info :)

Please take some time this week to sit and get inky with us - it can be a 3D project, card, scrapbook page, you name it, we wanna see it! Link up your creation HERE so we can leave you some luvin's too :) Happy crafting!

Monochromatic Christmas at 4 Crafty Chicks!

Happy Thursday! I sure hope your week has been fantastic and you've had some time to sit and be crafty. This week's challenge from 4 Crafty Chicks is "Monochromatic" And is being hosted by our wonderful Leanne! I had a lot of fun creating this card using a new set from Stampin' Up! called Christmas Lodge. I hope you enjoy it too:

For my color combo, I used Whisper White, Basic Grey and Basic Black. Please be sure to check out what gorgeous creations were made by our other 3 Chicks and our wonderful Guest Designer for October - Christy Dillman! Leave them each some love and link up your Monochromatic creation so we can do the same for YOU! Happy Crafting!

SPCC #100 - Ornamental Trees

Welcome back! If you are looking for my PPC post, please scroll down :) This week Samantha at SPCC is offering a bright, bold color palette. I have to admit, I took out my papers for this combo and it sat on my desk for pretty much the whole day before the bright light came on upstairs and I decided to make a CHRISTMAS card :) Yep, that's right! I know that we are just now getting nice temperatures and that Spring is here, but I really was lured to the Ornamental Trees set....and they haven't seen ink yet *shame, shame!* Here ya go:

Stamps: Ornamental Trees, Mix 'n Match: Basics; Paper: Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, Pacific Point, Pink Pirouette; Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Pink Pirouette, Pacific Point; Accessories: snowflakes embossing folder, razzleberry ribbon, dimensionals, scallop edge punch, pearls

Please be sure to check out the Diva's blogs (links are on my right-hand sidebar) for more inspiration using these colors. I can't wait to see what you come up with...will it be Christmas?!?Happy stamping...