Did Someone See a Winter Dragon?

 Finally found time to play along with the Jingle Belles, the heat here at the cottage (not a breeze to be found) has been brutal and made it hard to craft, everything I touched stuck to my fingers but I got it done.

      Before I show you my card I will show you the great sketch that Stephanie did for the challenge.

Here is my take on the sketch

I used a Lawn Fawn stamp & die set I got on sale  3 years ago I am very happy that I lined up the 3 stamp sentiment almost perfect. I used a ornament embossing folder on the red piece. I believe the cloud die is from Impression Obsession. The watercoloured sky was leftover from the card I posted earlier.

I popped the Winter Dragon up on the cloud, and a better look at the sentiment.

I am adding this to

Jingle Belles Challenge ~~ 'Twas the Sketch Before Christmas

Thanks for looking today & I have one more holiday card, but I need to step up the pace.

Hot! Hot! Hot!

Another 2 weeks of this never-ending heat and humidity in SWO, it's even too hot and sticky to craft.  Of course I could be home in the A/C but summer is short and in a couple of months it will be time to close for the winter.  It did take me much longer to make my card and of course there are always a couple of speed bumps along the way, I am happy to say even though I didn't plan for the theme I had a couple of Photoplay stamp sets that worked. Now the theme at Shopping Our Stash for this fortnight is Hot, Hot, Hot so what we want to see is a card inspired by something HOT, the weather, food, fire  we are looking forward to seeing what you decide is HOT.

I had never used this set before and it's circa 2018 and has matching dies gifted to me from a friend. I made the background with distress oxide inks, stamped and coloured the bear sunbathing by the lake and used the coordinating die and popped him up on the beach scene. The patterned paper reminded me of a beach blanket or a table cloth and felt it fit the bill

Closer look to see how the bear is elevated.

  

Thanks for stopping by at the beach party of one today and check out what the design team has decided what is HOT.

A is for Aliens

 For the month of August we are delving into outer space and Aliens at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

Beam Edna up Scottie

For the second Alien challenge I have not located my alien stamps so I went the second option a Galaxy.

I made the galaxy background with blending shades of distress oxide inks an then using an IO stamp inked with yellow brilliance ink for the milky way, the sentiment is from a SU set long retired. It was fussy cut and popped up.

Thanks for rocketing by today and check out the rest of the design team projects, especially the mini books.

Juggling Raspberries

 Hello and welcome back to a NEW challenge at Shopping Our Stash the prompt is Eat Five a Day!! that is important information from the food guide, do you follow the "rule"? Make a card with either a fruit or vegetable or both, looking forward to see what you like the best. One of my favourites is in season right now, I picked a House Mouse stamp that has Amanda juggling raspberries. 

As always when I go to the cottage I forget things and one item was pop dots so I picked some up at Len's Mills but they are really much thicker than mine that are home. I seem to be in a Red/Pink phase but when I saw this paper in the pile I thought how it matched the raspberries. 

side view to see the elevation.

Finished the inside with some scraps of paper and I have a couple of fussy cut raspberries to attach yet. As I said earlier travelling with crafty things takes planning, evidently birthday sentiments was not on my mind, but I have lots of Holiday ones. 

I am adding this to 

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Summer Fun

Seize the Birthday ~~ Use your Favourite Colour (mine this week is Red/Pink)

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the great projects the rest of the design team have made. 

Juggling Act

 I'm back again with another Holiday card because it's Rudolph Days and it's my first one this year, of course there are a couple other challenges that I worked into the card. My post might be short today it is so humid at the lake my fingers are sticking to the keys, there is no A/C here.

Since Christmas Kickstart's prompt was Merry go Round, there are oodles of circles on this Circle Easel card. Next in line was the Jingle Belles Tic Tac Toe board and woohoo I did 2 lines with one card.

I used a House Mouse designs image nothing fancy in the design I only have circle dies with me.

As you see the easel folds flat for mailing in a 5 1/2 inch square envelope although I have no picture the sentiment is on the back of the card.

I'm entering this in:

Rudolph Days ~~ Anything Christmas

Christmas Kickstart ~~ Merry-go-round

Jingle Belles Challenge ~~ Tic/Tac/Toe

top horizontal row and right vertical row

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope where you are is a lot cooler and less humid than here.

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.