Clear it Out Tuesday’s first Challenge of 2015!!!

I hope you all had a great Christmas and wonderful New Year’s Day, now all that is behind us we can get down to creating something other than Holiday cards.  The theme for this first challenge of 2015 at Clear it Out Tuesday is Anything Goes and the stash item is anything goes….easy peasy for the first challenge of the year. The sponsor is one of my favourite sponsors Lacy Sunshine Designs stop by and have a peek at what great digis they have to offer. I picked a super cute image called Lily of the Valley Enchantress. and I used PINK.

Isn’t she adorable and there are so many more Enchantresses in the store. I used the sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch, I saw it Sunday morning on Facebook and just had to make my card with it.

A close up of the image. I used a Spica clear glitter pen on the flowers

Finished inside of the card.

Challenges I would like to enter this in:

Lacy Sunshine challenge blog….Sparkly and New challenge #49 spica glitter pen on flowers

Hiding in my Craft Room….use PINK challenge 181

Glitter N Sparkle… Anything Goes challenge #118

Sweet Sunday Sketch #250

Love to Create Challenge Blog challenge #148 Anything goes
Design Teams Showcase January 12 to 13 2015

Thanks for stopping by today and have an awesome week don’t forget to take some time for yourself.

Challenge # 102 at The Cheerful Stamp Pad is…….

Monograms!!! The team at The Cheerful Stamp Pad would like to see your projects using Monograms. The sponsor for the challenge is Stitchy Bear Outlet/Floppy Latte. The image I used is Floral Cap Nouveau H. I decided I wanted to use the letter H and alter a composition note book. 

Although the background paper looks purple it is brown and wood grain. I used a fleur dis lis die from spellbinders and some alpha beads I found in my stash. I did add a ribbon with a bead on the end to use as a book mark.

Here is a close up of the monogram.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you will have time to do a project to show off how you use a monogram.

Happy New Year!!!

Oh my goodness where on earth did 2014 go to? The days and weeks and months seemed to fly by. I hope all of you had an awesome Christmas and a wonderful New Year’s Eve and day!!! We were lucky today as we were invited to a friend’s house for New Year’s dinner and it was so delish, It’s always great when I don’t have to cook and the best part I didn’t have to do dishes either.  When invited to dinner I think we should take a bottle of wine, I have seen quite a few people making tags for the wine bottles and thought they were awesome. I used a tag I had made in October HERE is where you will find the original post with the tag on it. I just added a backing for it and punched the hole for the neck of the bottle.

I cut the purple cardstock 3 1/2 X 8 1/2 and scored it at  2 1/2 inches and punched the hole with a 1 1/4 circle punch, I did round a few of the corners .If I was making the tag from scratch I would have made it a little narrower, the original measurements were 2 3/4 inches wide.

Here is the tag off the wine bottle, I knew that tag would come in handy some day.
Thanks for stopping by today and may 2015 be wonderful.

Challenge #182 At Shopping Our Stash

Ah Shopping Our Stash is  back after a holiday rest with a new challenge, the theme is Thrice as Nice….you need to use at least 3 different patterned papers on your project. I know from experience it isn’t as easy for me as it sounds but I think I did a fine job.  Of course I made this before the Christmas season was upon us, I needed all the time I could get the last week before the “big” day and I made this to send to one of my “snarky” sisters, I think she liked it.

The papers were all from American Crafts 6 X 6 pad called Hot Cocoa, it was a lot different than other holiday pads as it was red, black, kraft and white. The bottom layer is one piece that had the snowmen on it.

Close up of the cute snowman, he/she is one of a set of 4  I bought at the Stamp Barn in Stittsville before they were bought by the Frog’s Whiskers in Campbellford ON, although this set is not on their site, but there are sure lots of great stamps in both wood and cling mount.

Using leftover scraps and the top note sizzix die I finished the inside with a seasonal sentiment.
If you celebrate the season I hope your holiday was filled with friends, family and fun.

I would like to enter this in Freshly Made Sketch #167 

Thanks for stopping by today and I will see you again in the New Year.

Challenge #24 Y is for Yuck

It’s Saturday and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers have a new challenge. Y is for Yuck it’s to use something you don’t like but you better tell us about your yuck or we might not think it is Yucky at all.
Christmas day festivities are over and the Boxing Day Sales are on full tilt here in Canada. It started in England when the affluent people would give their servants something in a box the day after Christmas, I have no clue how it came to be a shopping frenzy. Any way on to my Yuck card.

my yuck is the paper, I bought it cheap from the clearance rack from Stampin’up, I wanted something that would go with coral and it does but all around the edges there is distressing, if I wanted it distressed I could have done it myself, to me it looks dirty. The stamp I used is from an old hostess set that has never seen ink but I love how the Calypso coral blendablities worked on it. I layered it on Nellie Snellen oval die cuts.

Close up of the flowers.

The finished inside of the Birthday card, I hope the recipient liked it. Funny how I thought the paper was Yuck and it looks pretty good in the picture.
I hope you can find some time to join in the fun and dig out your yuck things and make us a project with them.

Reminder that Red Alert Challenge #181continues at SOS

If you are looking for my Clear it Out post scroll down or click HERE.

The team at Shopping Our Stash is on a well deserved break and will return with a new challenge on December 30. I had a few extra red cards so offered to add one to the reminder post.  I think I have all my “Winter’ cards in the mail, when it gets late in the season I make cards with snowmen on them that say Warm Winter Wishes, that way if they arrive after Christmas I have it covered.

The poinsettia is a die from Boss Kutz, I cut two sets out of white recollections holiday paper.(it’s shimmery) embossed the sentiment in gold.

A closer look at the poinsettia.

Close up of the sentiment.

Inside of the card.

I’m happy you stopped by to check my blog today and you still have a week to put your “RED” alert project on the main blog. Remember a new challenge January 6, 2015

Have a wonderful Holiday season with friends and family.

I picked a Favourite Card of 2014……a Challenge

A very interesting challenge we have the next two weeks, Pick a favourite card from the past year and post it to the challenge blog at Clear it Out Tuesday.  I have so many favourite cards that I have created over the past year and it was so hard to choose. I picked a card that was first posted on February 4th you can find the original post HERE.  The theme was karaoke and in the midst of the worst winter in a while all I could think of was Baby it’s Cold Outside.  Along with being my favourite card it’s my favourite digi store….Bugaboo Stamps. So here is my favourite card of 2014.

And it’s our favourite snarky lady…Stella

The song title

And the punch line!!!

That’s about what everyone was thinking last February and March.

So glad you could join me today and remember we are taking a well deserved break and I will meet you back here January 6th 2015

I would like to take time to wish all my family, friends and followers a very very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015.