It's a Grumpy Christmas

 Another lovely day at the cottage, another holiday card made and plans on the itinerary for another except I had not planned on a trip to Port Dover to Len's Mills for supplies, like foam dots, I realized I had not packed them so couldn't pop my image up. I decided to follow a Sheetload sketch from November 2024. there are instructions to make 8 cards but there is also the measurements for just making one and they help you use up patterned paper and scraps. I also followed the Jingle Belles tic/tac/toe challenge board. 

Stretching it a bit for the Jingle Belles it was the left vertical  line animal/diecut/red and I only have two die sets, circles and hexagons and a few word dies but they just didn't fit. I even had a scrap of smooshed water colour paper in my basket of scraps. It took me longer to pick out 2 patterned papers that I thought went together nicely than it took to make the card.

Finished the inside with a scrap of patterned paper and a wood block stamp from Michaels eons ago. It's so much easier when you have a couple of challenges that make it easy and a sketch that ties them together. 

So on to where I am adding this card.

Jingle Belles ~~ Tree Skirt Tic/Tac/Toe (left vertical line)

Animal/Diecut/Red 

Christmas Kickstart ~~ #100 Merry go round

I'm glad you stopped by today to see my newest holiday card, I hope you are making progress with yours, both these challenges are great for building your stash. 

Peppermint Dreams

 I am so far behind with making holiday cards, I need to step up the pace and one place I get my inspiration is from the Jingle Belles challenges, I brought some crafty things for my almost 2 weeks at the cottage, not sure I have enough to last the whole time,  home is just an hours drive away if I really get desperate, I just need to remember when fall arrives I have to bring it me. 

There is a perfect time to take pictures by the lake and I missed it.  I was very happy to see I had an already coloured house mouse image with me, saved a little time. I followed the top row of the tic/tac/toe board at the Jingle Belles challenge, Animal, designer paper and ribbon. (if I had added a diecut it would have been a two-fer.)

Finished the inside with sentiment and a scrap of patterned paper.

I am adding this to:

Jingle Belles ~~ Tree Skirt Tic/Tac/Toe

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything Goes

Christmas Kickstart ~~ Merry go round

Thanks for visiting today and if you need to add more holiday cards to your stash you have until 

July 30 to play.

Wood is Good X 2

 Hello friends as always it seems 2 weeks just fly by, I want time to slow down so I can enjoy the summer.  I managed to spend 9 days at the cottage, of course being my first trip down there were a lot of forgotten items, but Simcoe is only a 30 minute drive to pick anything up I had forgotten. There are always little things like flour, I had a plan to make some mac & cheese well can't make a roux without flour, and if you flip the breaker for the outside outlets you don't get hot water, never a dull moment when I'm in charge. I didn't accomplish much crafting, the temperature was high as was the humidity.  So on with the new challenge at Shopping Our Stash, Wood is Good....create a card that includes woodgrain or wood pieces on it. I decided to turn my woodgrain into masculine cards, they seem to go together and with mostly males in the family they are always needed.

I used Stampin'up's woodgrain background stamp inked with versamark vintage sepia ink, added some cotton yarn from my knitting bag and three enamel dots (I made them a long time ago) and the perfect big birthday wishes die which I cut 3 and layered them for elevation.

I finished the inside of the card with a favourite sentiment and a couple of scraps of the woodgrain. 

Bonus time!!!

Since I am trying to get some cards ahead to donate to the troops I made an extra card.

Same woodgrain stamp, the circle with the trees is elevated, the background behind the trees is a scrap of smooshed watercolour paper, the sentient was stamped in sepia and diecut. 

Finished the inside with some off cut scraps and a leaf  and another great sentiment. 

Adding this to 

Seize the Birthday ~~ anything goes

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the great inspiration on the MAIN Blog. 

It's Halloween all Year Long.

 My great grandson loves Halloween sculls, spiders, ghouls anything in between, So I made him a halloween card for his birthday, makes it real easy to make cards for him. 

One of his favourite colours is purple so this scull paper was perfect and when you have a BIG sentiment it makes a card easier. What 8 yo doesn't like a shaker card, actually is there anyone that doesn't love a shaker? 

Finished inside of the card with a scrap of patterned paper and some escapees from trying to get the shaker together. Of course finished it off with a Hero Arts vertical sentiment.

Hopefully I can this can pass for a Halloween all Year long challenge

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ Anything Goes 

Seize the Birthday ~~ Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great day!!

Poinsettia Perfection

The current challenge at the Jingle Belles is Poinsettia Perfection and you just don't need to stick with the obvious you can use any Christmas bloom, greenery, mistletoe holly even evergreen boughs but of course I stuck with the obvious, mainly because I had a gold embossed image with me at the cottage, of course with the embossing I couldn't use my copics but I smooshed distress oxide inks ( one at a time) on an acrylic block and watercoloured  with a brush. I'm really quite pleased with the outcome. 

I layered the image on gold paper and popped it up on a dry embossed red panel, I don't often make a wide border but this image deserved to be front and center. (I love my old PSX stamps) I did add a gold layer under the red embossed one before attaching it to a top  fold base.

Always a good plan to finish the inside at the same time or you really get a surprise when sending your holiday cards. I added a scrap of gold which I embossed with the same folder as I used on the front. My favourite vertical Hero Arts sentient. 

I am adding this to 

Jingle Belles Challenge ~~ Poinsettia Perfection

Thanks for stopping by today, I am way behind in my Holiday stash this year, how are you doing?

Red, White & Blue

 Hello again, can you believe it has been two weeks since the last SOS challenge where has the time gone, well here we are again with a new challenge Red, White & Blue, the predominant colours should be a combination of these three colours.  I made a red & white card last challenge and the leftover cardstock was still on my desk. 

The first thing I did was look for red, white and blue patterned paper and I had a Martha Stewart valentine paper pad that has to be over 5 years old once that was settled I had to pick a festive stamp set and I picked a NBUS Stampin'up salebration set from 2017.  This will be a good card for the troops drive my local craft store is sponsoring. I fussy cut the truck and the cupcakes (they were not easy). I added three red enamel dots which I made many years ago. 

Sorry the fussy cutting isn't stellar but I now have located my good snips. the truck is elevated and all three cupcakes are popped up. 

Finished the inside with leftover patterned paper and a scrap of red die cut, I use a lot of scraps when they get left on the desk.

 

I am entering this in:

Seize the Birthday ~~ Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting today and head over to the SOS blog and check out the great cards.

Happy Canada Day to my Canadian friends (July 1)

Happy 4th of July to my American friends 

A Stitch in Time.

 New month, new challenge at Shopping Our Stash and it's all about stitches, cross stitch, faux stitching with a pen, machine stitching. very short post today as my fingers are not co-operating. So here is my stitched card.

First time I have coloured this cute House Mouse Designs image up and I have had it for a few years, it really seemed like way to much work, I did use a red pen liner to do most of the cross stitches.

Carried the red scallops to the inside framing a very very old wood block stamp from the Artful Stamper. I see my photography skills are lacking today as well. 

Thanks for stopping by today and stop by to see the inspiration projects the rest of the team have made.