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.

Up, Up and Away.........

Hello my crafty friends I hope your week is going well and you are having good weather, we had our preview of summer for a couple of days and now it's -1 C or 30 F and been snowing so I'm back wearing my winter coat. The only thing to do until the real summer arrives is see what new challenges are being promoted, starting with Up, Up, and Away at Shopping Our Stash so create a card with something you will see in the SKY, balloon, plane, bird, rainbow....so many options. A couple of Thursdays ago while at bowling the score board puts animated pictures when a strike, spare, headpin etc happens well one was a biplane and an idea was planted, sometimes you don't know where or when inspiration will happen, now own to my card. (just as I envisioned)

The stamp set I used is Sky is the Limit  from a Sale-a-bration promotion not sure of the year but this is only the second time it has seen ink, I did a bit of colouring and fussy cut the plane and cut a second propeller which is popped up, then flat attached it to the acetate. The background was blended with broken china distress oxide ink on a Studio Light cloud stencil (second attempt at clouds) Both sentiments are from the same set. 

Side view.

Another angle but nothing really shows it perfectly except to see it IRL

I am entering this in:

The Male Room ~~  vehicles or transport

Seize the Birthday ~~ Anything Goes 

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you get a chance to create a card for the Up, Up and Away challenge at  SOS. 

Let the Reindeer Games Begin

 I finally finished a card for the Jingle Belles Christmas Challenge  ~~ Walking in a Whimsical Wonderland, and nothing is more whimsical than mice dressing up like  a reindeer, an angel and just being goofy. Time is of the essence as the challenge closes at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The image I used is a wood mount House Mouse Designs stamp, I cut the many layers with Elizabeth Craft Design stitched and scalloped rectangle die sets. The sentiment is a silver sticker.  The inside is to be finished when I find the suitable sentiment in my stamp jungle.

I am adding this to:

Jingle Belles Christmas Challenge ~~ Walking in a Whimsical Wonderland

Thanks for stopping by to check out what I've been crafting, and it's Holiday cards.

I Don't Sweat, I Sparkle

 Welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash the prompt is to create a card with lots of sparkle, glitter, gems etc. Well I wasn't in the mood for loose glitter and with a cat that needs to be supervising that would be a disaster so I dug out a 6 X 6 pad that has glitter sheets and mirror cardstock I picked up at Dollarama and of course when you say glittery it spells Holiday card which I add to my 2026 holiday stash.

I made a 5 1/2 inch square card I use Elizabeth Craft Designs snowflake trio dies, I cut the large snowflake out of the glitter cardstock and the small one out of aqua mirror cardstock which I popped up and added an aqua gem. the snowflake was then flat attached to the white layer which was embossed with a Stampin'up softly falling embossing folder which was added to the glitter and a premade square base. I added the word JOY (found it in my bits box) just so the recipient knows which end is up. 

I different angle to show the glitter 

Finished the inside with a scrap of glitter cardstock and a very ancient wood mount stamp from the Artful Stamper. 

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the Main Blog and see what the rest of the team have glittered I hope you will be inspired to join the "I Don't Sweat, I Sparkle" challenge.

H is for Happy Birthday

 Hello friends and fellow crafty people, it's a new month and a new challenge at the Sisterhood of snarky stampers and it's just in time for my youngest son's birthday...H is for Happy Birthday. Again I chose a snarky cat but he is a Birthday cat next year I need to find something other than the snarky cats. Last year's card he said was the best ever I am not sure I can top that.  Now here is Edna to announce the new challenge.

What a party Edna has been the recipient of !!  

Now here is what I made for the party

I wanted a plaid background but didn't want it to look like Christmas plaid so was very excited to find this in my 6 x 6 patterned papers it went perfectly with the gray and black cardstock, I dry embossed the matte finish silver panel with the diamond plate folder and layered it on a postage stamp die cut, sentiment is from another snarky cat set. The cat was fussy cut and popped up.

The inside was finished with scraps of the patterned paper and a sentiment that can be used for many occasions that only happen once every 365 days.

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the main blog and check out what the rest of the design team have made. 

WHITE-out

 Welcome back to a NEW challenge at Shopping Our Stash, the challenge for this fortnight is a White-out challenge, create a card that features NO WHITE.  I thought it was an opportunity to make a non-traditional holiday card, I really need to work on my stash. I shopped "as usual" in my parts box and found some die-cuts, probably from last years holiday crafting and I made a card around them using not a speck of white. 

I started out with a teal base, a layer of aqua mirror cardstock and a layer of pale aqua which was embossed with a Darice music folder. The bells are silver and bows are in the aqua mirror cardstock. The sentiment is silver as are the chains hanging the bells, both I believe are from Starform. 

The inside was finished with a scrap of aqua mirror cardstock a silver bell and a bow and the sentiment is a very old Hero Arts vertical stamp. 

I am adding this to:

Jingle Belles Challenge ~~ We Three Kings

Thanks for stopping by today, check out the rest of the design team cards then put away that white cardstock and dig out the pretty colours and add a card to the gallery. 

I'm Counting On You!!

 Another two weeks has flown by, am I the only one that thinks days and weeks just fly by? It just seems like we were celebrating the new year and now it's March and closer to spring. All the huge piles of snow have melted with the warmer weather and it didn't take as long as I thought. That being noted I need to tell you about the new challenge at Shopping Our Stash, I'm Counting On You which we want to see a number or numbers on your card and since it's March guess what number is on my card.

Yep you are right March 17, St. Patrick's Day!! I used my super cute Shamrock Fluffles Stamp and using a "sheetload" sketch a couple of patterned papers from a 6X6 pad. And there is more.....

As per the cutting guide of SUYSNov2024 using the two 6X6 pieces of patterned paper 1 piece of cardstock and two A2 bases it made two super cute cards 

Finished the inside of both cards with a sentiment and a couple of left over scraps of patterned paper, there very little waste. I didn't have a proper St. Patrick's sentiment with my old printer I would find a free sentiment site and computer generate it but I have not tried with the new printer yet. 

Thanks for visiting today and I hope to see your project in our gallery. 

C is for Cold

 Welcome to a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers, the prompt or the month of March is C is for Cold. I heard we will be having another "cold" snap next weekend so I'm going to enjoy the double digits while I can. Sorry no Edna prompt this challenge, my laptop was being a pita and I finally lost patience after 2 hours of trying to get pages to load, good job there was only one photo to edit.  

I used the snow-bear grumpling and  the sentiment from the same set, I found the sky, snowbanks, and trees in my "parts" box so I was half way  already. I fussy cut the snow-bear flat attached the base but popped up the head and body, wasn't sure about doing the fussy cutting as my scissors are mia, and I just fussy cut a santa yesterday. I'm going to blame the cat on this one. 

Thanks for stopping by today and hope to see your C is for Cold project on our gallery. 

The Golden Years

 Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash, the Golden Years yep I think I'm there LOL, kidding aside we want your to make a card featuring the colour GOLD. Lots of great ideas for the colour gold, golden anniversary, wedding card, confirmation and the one I chose was Christmas mainly because  I need to build my Holiday card stash.

 
I have gone the "easy route" and used some patterned cardstock from a paper pad from the dollar store I bought 2 years ago, I might have bought more than one. The snowflake wreath is really hard to see, it was plan "b" as I could not find the original die (found it after I was finished). The JOY die is one I have had a long time but never used, there is a word die and a shadow and because I wanted to pop it up I cut the shadow out of gold mirror cardstock. (also from the dollar store)

Finished the inside with a scrap of the patterned paper and a sentiment I found in the off cuts box.

Thanks for stopping by today and check out how the rest of the design team have featured gold.

Bent Out of Shape

 Welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash and the theme is Bent Out of Shape which is just make a shaped card (no squares or rectangles allowed). I have received really cute shaped cards one was a gorgeous layered butterfly birthday card and a super adorable mitten card for Christmas swap and if you have been to the main blog there are yummy cupcakes, now for me it's a circle easel card.

I had already decided I was making a "rocker" card but for some reason, being in a hurry I could not locate my infinity circles that I use so on to plan B I knew where this die set was so thought I might be able to adapt it to make the rocker card but when looking for it I found this whole set die cut and was never glued together BONUS. I have had it several years and it's so pretty. The gems I used are from my stash they are many years old. I had 3 packages of purple to pick from too.

Side view of the easel and the Birthday sentiment is popped up.

Best part is it folds flat for mailing in a square envelope.

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the shaped cards the rest of the design team have made.

B is for Black Black Heart

 Hello and welcome to a new month and a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!!

The theme is Valentine with black or anti Valentine. Took me a while to figure something out but I saw a meme that caught my fancy and went with it and a snarky cat.

Since my great grandson is all Halloween I'm giving this to him for Valentines day, he might agree with the quote. 

I found the scrap of glitter black cardstock in the black file folder, I cut the heart and flat attached it all but the top bit so I could tuck the cat in it. The snarky cat is flat attached under the heart but the rest is elevated as you can see in the photo.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the rest of the design team cards on the  Main Blog.

Love is in the Air

Or at least for the new challenge at Shopping Our Stash. Welcome to Love Me Do! which for the next 13 days it will be all over the gallery so get your hearts, hugs, love notes out and make a Love themed card with your stash. 

I have made a mini slimline card with a favourite sheetload from January 2023 which is on rewind right now so check it out. I am so sorry for the terrible photo, I am not sure what gremlin is living inside my laptop but I literally fought the edit program and I lost the fight. That was just the last pitfall, the first was "where is my valentine paper pad?" I still am in the dark on that one, but in my loose papers I found 2 that co-ordinated and some cardstock that matched. Of course I just had to use the super cute gnome with the hearts all aver his hat popped him up, added a few "who knows how long I've had them" pearls  and a valentine sentiment. 

Finished the inside with an "elderly" sentiment. 

Thanks for stopping by today and stop by the SOS blog and check out what the rest of the design team have made.

 

Out With The Old In With The New!!

 Hello and welcome to the first challenge of the New Year at Shopping Our Stash, the theme is to combine some old and some not so old or never been used items on your project. On my card I used a 3 layer floral die set I bought in 2019 and never even took it out of the packages. I will admit it was because it is not an A2 size and it isn't an A7 either it's somewhere in between so I "bit the bullet" and now I have to make an envelope to size.

The die set is from Nellie's Choice and I have had it since 2019, I used shades of purple cardstock and cut the base to fit. I chose a simple Happy Birthday stamp and die set. I am debating on putting some gems or pearls in the centers of the flowers, what do you think.

Thanks for stopping by today and have a fabulous new year.