The Great White North

 Hello friends here I am with a card for the Jingle Belles Challenge, plans were made over a week ago to make this card but life and a holiday weekend got in the way. Since it's jumped from 4 degrees Celcius (39 F) to 30 degrees (86 F) in a matter of a couple of days it makes me feel cooler making Winter cards.  

Most of the parts of the mini slimline card were found either on my desk or in the "parts" box, even the base was already to go.  Sky is watercolour paper smooshed with distress oxide inks The cute bunny is from Neat & Tangled (no longer in business), I fussy cut the image as I forgot it came with dies, 

I finished the inside with a Hero Arts sentiment, a scrap of smoothed paper and a tree from the parts box. I love this size of card to use for a cash gift at Christmas. One down 5 to go.

I am adding this to.

Jingle Belles Christmas Challenge ~~ Dashing Through the Snow 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Congratulations

 Hello and welcome to my blog today, for my fellow Canadian friends I hope you had fabulous Victoria Day weekend, finally we have warm weather, there sure wasn't any spring weather here in SWO.  I guess you checked in to see what the new challenge is at Shopping Our Stash and as by the title I'm sure you have guessed we want to see projects that congratulate someone, perhaps Wedding, Anniversary, Graduation or anything else you can congratulate someone for.  Well last challenge I already congratulated Riggs (a charcoal lab) for being adopted to a great family so decided to go with a new baby theme.

90 % of baby cards I make are with a House Mouse Design image, this one is a Happy Hopper and so cute. Since I made a 51/2 inch square card I finally used my Elizabeth Craft Designs scalloped square dies and a very ancient dots embossing folder, it's one of the few I have that fit a 5 inch square layer. The sentiment is from another older set, I stamped it fussy cut around it and flat attached it.

Closer look at the happy hopper which is popped up on the card.

Finished the inside with a 2005 woodblock sentiment from Stampendous.

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the Main Blog and see what the rest of the design team has made, who will you congratulate, a grad, a bride and groom or new parents so many choices. We would love to see your creations on our gallery.

G is for Gnome

 Good morning friends, It's half way through the month of May and there is still 13 days left to get your project in for the G is for Gnome challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

Look at Edna with her little gnomies

 I was well on my way two weeks ago to have my card ready for the SoSS blog but I just couldn't pull it off in time for the 6.30 launch so decided a mid-challenge reminder would work as well. Now the warmer weather is trying to arrive it's time to think about summer and the cottage, I'm hoping to make up kits to take with me to cut down on the amount of paper/inks/cardstock/stamp and dies to take. 

In getting ready for the challenge I had everything picked out and as I went to colour the gnome I realized I needed a card for a May birthday so I know the recipient loves purple (like me) and then to even stress myself more I decided to make it shaker card.  The birthday coverplate die is perfect for a quick card (unless you make it into a shaker) just 2 co-ordinating cardstock and a focal point. The sentiment came with the set. 

I finished the inside of the card with a party hat stamp and a Hero Arts vertical sentiment. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope I have inspired you to make a gnome project and display it on our SoSS blog, you have until May 31st @ 11.59 p.m.

Peace on Earth (Day)

 I am really trying hard to do  the Jingle Belles prompts but so far I can't seem to get things going until the last days of the challenge, at least I am earlier than last prompt. As you see the challenge is Earth Day which means recycle something to use, well I spotted a gift card from 2024 in my old card stash and knew it was perfect to upcycle and at the same time I saw a new way to do the Eclipse technique which is perfect for the image. 

The gift card was 4 inches square, perfect size for a 5 1/2 inch square card, since there are many ways to do this new way of Eclipse I played around deciding circles, squares then I saw the hexagon dies on the desk I think I have been trying to incorporate them into a card for a while. I think this was the first time using the scalloped square dies from Elizabeth Craft designs and the embossing folder is Softly Falling from Stampin'up (my favourite winter EF)

I thought the sentiment was perfect for the gnomes.

I am entering this in:

Jingle Belles Challenge ~~ Peace on Earth (Day)

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers ~~ G is for Gnome

Thanks for stopping by today the Jingle Belles challenge closes at 6 p.m. Wednesday, the SoSS challenge ends May 31 at 11.59 

Man's Best Friend

Two weeks has whizzed by again and it's time for a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash, the theme for this fortnight is Man's best friend so create a card featuring an animal one would have as a pet. Now since I have a cat you would think I would pull out one of my many cat stamps but I changed my mind when I found out a friend just adopted a new dog so I just had to make a card to celebrate. 

Well my stash was really put to the test, embossing folder You never been used probably two decades old, I found the Katzelkraft dog image in an envelope that has gifted images and sentiments, not sure how old they are but probably 4 or 5 years of hoarding, the dies I used are long rectangles and the sentiment is computer generated (that caused several hours of stress) Although Riggs is a charcoal lab I had already used the lab image so just pretend he has floppy ears. I coloured and fussy cut and popped up on a  smooshed watercolour panel. 

A different angle to show how the image and the panel are elevated.

Finished the inside with a computer generated sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by today and we are looking forward to see your Man's Best Friend card in our gallery. 

Baby It's Cold Outside!!

 Hello fellow crafters, I'm finally slipping in with a card for the current (soon to end) challenge at Christmas Kickstart. When I saw the prompt "Brimming with Style" which means Hats I knew I had the perfect House Mouse image to make a winter card. Thank goodness we have finally passed (fingers crossed) the need for winter hats, bring on the face shading straw hats. So here is my card for the challenge. 

Being a Winter card I decided to use my favourite colour....Purple I like non-traditional colours for Christmas as well. The sentiment is a wood block stamp from Impression Obsession/

Finished the inside with a Stampendous Cling Mount Sentiment stamp.

I am adding this to:

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~~ Brimming with Style

Thanks for stopping by today as you can see I'm making progress with my Holiday Cards, hopefully there will be less stress in November. 

Very Vanilla Vintage Christmas

 Hello my fellow Christmas challenge crafters, I finally finished the vintage Santa card I started 8 days ago, I have been trying to organize my supplies (gasp) it's not easy but I came upon a box of vanilla invitation blanks that I found at Goodwill for $2.00 there are 100 in the box, yep gonna take me a while to use them up. I had been looking for the perfect vanilla shade for cards and I had it in my stash all along. Okay on with the card. I stamped the image, cut the ovals, had the base ready as well as a layer then life happened, appointments, dt cards, laundry, once that was under control I had a chance to finish my card for the Jingle Belles Christmas challenge.

Please note there is distressing on the music layer (gasp) not usually something I do and the inking whoa I inked and inked and inked some more. 

Items I used Vintage Santa, spellbinders plain and fancy ovals, Stampin'up music background stamp and Versafine Sepia ink for stamping, Walnut oxide distress ink for distressing.

Side view to show the slight elevation of the focal point. 

Inside finished with a scrap of music note paper and a Stampendous sentiment and some more inking.

I am adding this to.

Jingle Belles Christmas Challenge ~~ Walking in a Vintage Wonderland

Thanks for reading to the end of my mini novel.

 I love the Jingle Belles Prompts I need to get them done sooner, the challenge ends April 22 at 6 p.m. edt.