December Guest Designer at Eureka Stamps

I'm very tickled to announce that I was invited to be the December Guest Designer at Eureka Stamps! They have so many adorable and creative stamps — both digi and rubber.

Today begins their 17th challenge, with the theme of Winter Wonderland. Their store has lots of images that would work for this challenge, but I chose the fantastically fun Santa & Dillos. 

Although this card may not portray a traditional winter wonderland, for many in this world we have more sun than snow at the holidays! I'm visiting my folks in Sun City West, Arizona, so I had the perfect backdrop!

Challenges:

1. Crimbo Crackers #29 - Anything holiday/festive goes 
2. ATCs & Cards With Attitude - Anything Goes
3. DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge - December holiday 
4. Fussy and Fancy - I Love Christmas 
5. Jingle Belles - Anything (Holiday) Goes   
6. Paper Shelter Challenge #92 - Christmas 
7. Penny's Paper-Crafty #104 - More than 1 fold   
8. Stamp n Doodle - Fabulous folds
9. Wags 'n Whiskers - Christmas 
10. Winter Wonderland - Santa Claus is coming to town

I made a simple step card modeled after this one, made by my crafty inspiration, my wonderful Mom:

Thank you for visiting,

Being Cool at Card Cupids

Happy December! It's time for another great challenge at Card Cupids, and we have some great news too... Card Cupids has expanded into the Sunshine Mail Foundation!

Our sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps, and they provided our DT with these three adorable images that I just had to pile all together:

I cut the circles on my Bigshot with a Spellbinders die, and for the blank "snowballs" I ran them through my sticker machine and then covered them with white flocking. I colored the images with Copics & added white flocking with a ZIG glue pen. The flagpole is made with a plastic toothpick I took home from sandwiches (O how my husband rolled his eyes!), which I covered with baker's twine. I stamped "Warm Wishes" onto blue paper and hand-cut the flag. The background paper is from my stash.

Inspiration/Challenges:

1. Catch The Bug - Anything goes
2. Crafty Ann's - Birds & or Animals (no people or insects)
3. Cards by Lady Anne - Sentimental For Friday - Anything Goes + sentiment
4. DRS Designs #51 - Snowfun
5. Dutch Dare Card Challenge #193 - Winter Wonderlands
6. My time to craft #199 - Snowmen
7. Raise The Bar – Bundle Up
8. Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

 
Hope you'll join in with us for our "Cool" challenge at Sunshine Mail and be a Card Cupid! The only requirement for our challenges, other than the theme, is to send in at least one card to Card Cupids/Sunshine Mail (the simple instructions are here). We're always getting requests for cards, so do check out the blog. 

Thank you for visiting,

Sweet Hot Chocolate

It's "Anything Goes" week at One Stitch at a Time (OSAAT), so I made a cute little Hot Chocolate holder using Hot Chocolate by Beary Dust Stamps.

Everything is paper-pieced; the only thing I colored was the hot chocolate. I used Flower Soft's Teddy Bear collection to make the cute Teddy fuzzy!

I used the Sliding Treat Holder tutorial from Pioneer Party. You can see other treat holders I've made here.


Inspiration/Challenges:

1. ABC Challenges: Anything Goes
2. Cards by Lady Anne / Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes
3. Crafty Boots: Anything Goes  
4. DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge - Anything goes 
5. A Gem of a Challenge #60 -  Paper Piecing 
6. Emergency Crafters - Anything Goes
7. Fat Pages & Cards with Attitude – Anything Goes
8. Inspire Me Fridays – Always Anything Goes
9. Pixie Dust Studio - Winter Holiday Creations

Hope you'll join the "Anything Goes" challenge at One Stitch at a Time this week (and be sure to check out my teamies' fabulous projects). For entries using a StitchyBear Store product (be sure to add a # after your name when entering), the prize is a a selection of images from Crafts from Rick St Dennis. You're welcome to enter the challenge using different products, but instead you'll be entered into the draw to win a £3 coupon to StitchyBear Digi Stamps. Can't wait to see what you create! 

Thank you for visiting,

Oh Deer!

It's time for another fun challenge at One Stitch at a Time (OSAAT). Our theme is "Use a Digi", how easy is that‽

My teamie Crafting Vicky chose my image this time (I chose the image for us for OSAAT #138), and it's the funtastic Busted from Stitchy Stamps (image by Graphics Factory):

The card base was cut with Sizzix's Circle Flip-its Movers & Shapers die, but I traced it to make the layers. The pretty DP is from my stash, and I added some plastic holiday lights from Darice.

My favorite part of this card is the least obvious... If you look carefully at the scallops around Santa, you'll see that I backed it so that the holes are filled in black. That is actually black "sparkly fluff" from Our Craft Lounge, to represent coal! 


Santa is actually fussy-cut and glued onto the scalloped circle; I did this so that I could print his bag onto fabric. The two presents are stamped onto the same fabric and colored with Copics (as is Santa and his friend!)

 For the flipped side, I used two border stamps to make a simple pattern. I cut a hole in a sheet of paper with a coordinating die so that I could mask the scalloped background and stamp the design directly on it. The words read, "Oh Deer" which I thought worked well with the funny theme.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:
Christmas Cards All Year 'Round November Challenge: Shaped or Fancy Folds
Crafty Bloggers Network: Christmas Anything Goes
Little Claire's #27: Christmas
Paper Creator's Crafts: Christmas 
Southern Girls: Christmas projects
Tammy's Scrapin Corner: Anything Goes
Tandastamps: Christmas
The Pink Elephant Monday Card Challenge: Punches/Dies
Whimsy Inspiration #53: Traditional Christmas colors 

 

Hope you'll join the "Use a Digi" challenge at One Stitch at a Time this week (and be sure to check out my teamies' fabulous projects). For entries using a StitchyBear Store product (be sure to add a # after your name when entering), the prize is a Gift Certificate to Crafts from Joanna Sheen. You're welcome to enter the challenge using different products, but instead you'll be entered into the draw to win a $3 coupon to StitchyBear Digi Stamps. Can't wait to see what you create! 

 

Thank you for visiting & I truly appreciate your comments,

Anything Goes at Card Cupids

It's time for another challenge/card drive at Card Cupids! Our second challenge for November is "Anything Goes" (Nov 15-30), and is sponsored by Just Some Lines.

I used Gab Hanging Around by Just Some Lines to make this funky little card:

I cut the card base on my Bigshot with Sizzix's Circle Flip-its Movers & Shapers die; if you follow my blog, you know that I love this kind of card! It's so fun and really quite easy.

I printed the sentiment by TLC Creations on polka-dot paper from a•muse studio, and added a little scrap of leaf ribbon. The grass border was cut on my Cricut... I think from the Paper Dolls cartridge? I had cut a bunch for my stash.

Hope you'll join in with us for our Anything Goes challenge and be a Card Cupid! The only requirement for our challenges, other than the theme, is to send in at least one card to Card Cupids (the simple instructions are here). We're always getting requests for cards, so do check out the blog. 

I'm entering this into the following fun challenges:

1. Creative Moments: More than one fold
2. Craft Punked: Anything goes
3. Daring Cardmakers: Just Because
4. Divas by Design #61: Anything goes
5. Forever Friends November Challenge: Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting,