It's Christmas Kickstart Time!!!

Well Challenge #24 at Christmas Kickstart Challenge is just about over, I checked and I still have 19 hours so just under the wire. The prompt is  Show Us Your Santas.  I have a few Santas but I coloured and fussy cut this one when I was at the cottage in the summer but never had a chance to use it, until I saw it today.

I can really call this card "using your scraps" even the snowflake layer and the Merry Christmas were scraps, Santa is from Bugaboo Stamps I might have won it in a draw or it might have been a Friday Freebie. I can thank Pinterest for the card design, 

More scraps on the inside and a Impression Obsession sentiment.

I'm entering this in:

Christmas Kickstart Challenge  Challenge 24 ~~ Show us your Santas.

Thanks for visiting today and stay tuned I had a great crafty day!!

It's Saturday so Let's Get Inky!!!

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers challenge #110 ~~ I is for Inky. We want you to use inks not just for stamping an image we want to see more than that. I decided (due to a time crunch) to use Distress inks both oxide and regular and a stencil which is something a little new for me.

I used Fossilized Amber, Peeled Paint and Worn Lipstick Oxide inks and Picked Raspberry Distress ink from Ranger with a Hero Arts Stencil Large lotus pattern, The pearls are ancient from my stash bought at the dollar store.

Since I was going for fast and simple I used this very large Happy Birthday die cut.

Close up of the shading although there is some ghosting as the stencil wasn't secured as well as I thought, lesson learned.

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the main blog and check out the rules and how inky the rest of the team have gotten.

Shake, Shake, Shake that Christmas Shaker card!!!

I'm warning you it's going to be an influx of Christmas cards, only 3 1/2 months until I need my ticker tape filled or overflowing. Since this is the week I have lots of time to make cards at the lake I'm going to take advantage of it. Again I used my favourite ~~ House Mouse Designs, I have a lot more Christmas stamps than I thought I had when I went searching for something to bring with me, The one I picked is Stocking full of Love featuring Amanda and Maxwell.

After I coloured the stocking (which btw looks great in blue too) I had no real plan on what I was going to do with it. I decided a 5 X 5 square card and because the die cut fancy square was too large for the cut image I decided to make a frame well once I had the frame cut it then became a shaker.

Red beads from Dollarama were perfect but fun to corral

Finished inside 

Jingle Belles rock Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (predominately red)

12 Months of Christmas Link Up #20  

Thanks for stopping by to check on my holiday stash, you will be seeing more soon

Here We Go Again!!! More Christmas Cards......

I'm a bit behind on my count of my Christmas cards, I need to go count them again to know how many more I need to add to the  ticker-tape. As always I am joining the Jingle Belles for their challenge "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" which translates to USE RED and lots of it!!! Before I left the house to come to the cottage I grabbed a bunch of my House Mouse Christmas stamps to use and Candy Gram was one of them.

Featuring Maxwell and Amanda and patterned paper from KaiserCraft.

Finished inside with a Stampendous sentiment.

Challenges I'm entering:

Jingle Belles Rock Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

The 12 Months of Christmas #20 Christmas confectionery (peppermint candy canes)

Thanks for visiting today have a wonderful week!!!