The Man with the Bag....

 Hello and welcome to the second "Santa" mini slimline card I have made in the last two days, remember I think they are great to tuck a monetary element to the inside as they are the same size. This time I went with a vertical card using a scrap of patterned paper that seemed to surface from a pile on my desk, a super cute Santa I was gifted a couple of years ago and some red metallic posterboard that was also on my desk from a previous crafting session, now if I had put all of it away in the folders perhaps the card wouldn't happen. 

I love the "big" HoHoHo and of course works with any Santa. I flat attached the die cuts but popped Santa up on the larges O, I inked the sentiment (from a long retired SU set) with a red memento ink 3 times as I wanted to put it right on the patterned paper, the one stamped on white just was too much "in your face" and I wanted Santa to shine.

The inside was finished with a couple of scraps of paper and a sentiment from the same SU set as the Happy Christmas. 

I am adding this to:

Jingle Belles Challenge !! The Man with the Bag 

ABC Christmas Challenge ~~ H is for Hat

52 Christmas Card Throwdown ~~ April Technique Slimline card

Thanks for checking in today and now I have another mini slimline card for my stash, love making these cute cards. Having great Christmas Challenges really helps keeping up with the holiday cards.

Christmas in White and Gold

I am very partial to white and gold for Christmas cards so when I saw the new challenge at Christmas Card Throwdown I had so many ideas it took me half the day to decide what to do.  I took a card class at the Butterfly Moon in the fall, loved the tree die from Elizabeth Craft Designs as it very versatile.

Even though this is in white and gold it would look fabulous no matter what colour glitter paper you used. The die comes with the tree, the outline and two stars. 

For the inside I used a fancy Merry Christmas Die cut in gold and added a trio of the small stars.

I am entering this in:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown ~~ March Colour Challenge ~~ White & Gold

ABC Christmas Challenge ~~ G is for Glitz

I'm trying hard to keep up making a few Holiday/Christmas cards every week so thanks for stopping by and checking in. 

It's Rudolph Days for October!!! from the 25th to the last day of the month!!!

I'm so happy to be super quick with my card for Rudolph Days I look forward to it every month I'm not always as early as this, I'm usually scrambling at the last minute.

What do you know I have used my favourite "critters" a house mouse, he is so adorable "helping?" with the string of lights. A very quick card, it looked rather plain even with the polka dot paper so I glued two think scraps of cardstock to sides. HoHoHo is from a super cute set of self inking tiny sentiments, I bought two different Christmas ones at Winners a couple or more years ago and there is nothing on the little boxes to tell me who made them.

Carried the polka dot theme to the inside and one of my cute sentiments 

Challenges I'm entering:

Rudolph Days ~~ October

Jingle Belles ~~ While Shepherd Watched their Flocks

52 Christmas Card Throwdown ~~ October 

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything goes Option fall colours.

Thanks for visiting today come back anytime you are always welcome.

It's Jingle Belles Time!!!

How great to be keeping up with the Jingle Belles this year!! I haven't missed one and it's a really cute challenge this time, While Shepherds Watched their Flocks which translates to they want to see CRITTERS on your holiday card.

I have a trio of cute critters for the challenge from Bugaboo designs and a fabulous sketch from Sketch Saturday. 

Close up of the super cute kitties.

Finished the inside with a scrap of patterned paper and an Impression Obsession sentiment.

I am entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ While Shepherds Watch their Flocks

52 Christmas Card Throwdown ~~ Christmas Pets

Sketch Saturday ~~ October

Thanks for visiting today and stay tuned Rudolph Days are coming soon.

Jingle Belles Rock the Christmas Bells

I did some crafting over the weekend but had to wait to post the card as the sketch I used was incomplete so I had to wait until I was home with my snowflake punch and of course a Christmas sentiment. I'm really trying to keep up with the Jingle Belles but it has been difficult with all the appointments and luncheons not that I'm complaining about meeting with friends for lunch but all our appointments seem to be pooling the same month, once over the summer is mine. Anyway the challenge at the Jingle Belles is "Christmas Bells oh! those Christmas belles" and I found a great sketch from Christmas Card Throwdown and it was perfect for the image I chose.

Of course a super cute image from House Mouse Designs, I think this is the first time I have used this "new" to me stamp.  My picking of items to take to the lake seemed to work well other than the two snowflakes for the embellishments for the sketch.

Close up of the super cute mousie I think it is mudpie (stamp still at the lake)  check out his paperclip skates. 

Finished inside and one more for my stash.

I''m entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Christmas Bells

52 Christmas Card Throwdown ~~ Sketch

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge ~~ June

Thanks for stopping by today and check back again soon I have a few more "bells" in my stash.

Jingle Belles Rock it with a Saturday Sketch........

Hello Jingle Belles Fans!!! finally I had time to join in with "tying one around the Christmas Tree" at the Jingle Belles, you get to use ribbon, lace, fibers, ricrac, or whatever trimmings you can think to attach to your card. Well I had dug into the ribbon jar and found a piece of red ribbon and that's as far as it went I didn't put it into the box of "stuff" for the lake, good job I had presence of mind to toss in some lace.

I had grand plans for crafting this weekend unfortunately I didn't plan as well as I thought. I took my big shot but only the magnetic base, embossing folder 3 of them, I couldn't emboss with the magnetic base. I brought no Christmas patterned paper pads, I must have 10 of them. What I did bring and gave some love to the music background I've had over 6 months and it's never seen ink, the other think ws the red doily bought at least 2 years ago after Christmas, the lace is sticky backed lace from Hero Arts and it reminded me of snowflakes.  I'm thinking there was no rhyme nor reason for my packing. Better luck next weekend. As soon as I saw the Saturday sketch I knew it was perfect for what I had planned for the challenge.

Close up of the image, it's called Candy Gram and features Amanda and Maxwell.

Finished the inside with a sentiment (remembered one good for me) and a piece of the music background

I would like to enter this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Tie a  ribbon around the Christmas Tree

Sketch Saturday ~~ #515

52CC Christmas Card Throwdown ~~ May challenge ~~ Lace..

Last but not least ~~ Rudolph Days ~~ May

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog for my second post on this fine Hot Monday.

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Spirit of Christmas Past

Since the Jingle Belle's challenge has a specific theme and it's one I love but for some reason this year I am struggling with Vintage!!! There is a prize too and if you don't have anything vintage there are two downloads from Lauren's personal stash.  I started with plan "A" but soon went to plan "B" and I like it much better. Lots of layers and fancy stuff it's certainly not CAS or DAB.

One of my favourite Christmas stamps it is called Santa Collage and is from Rubber Stampede I do believe I bought it eons ago on a trip to the U.S. at Target. I guess I had stamped it last year as it was in my box of stamped images, bonus, I did a bit of colouring on it cut with spellbinders ovals, the gold embossed paper was on my table beside the cutter and thought oh that would look good. So three layers of plain ovals, one scalloped and a fancy oval die cut. I embossed the scalloped rectangle with the Textile cuttlebug folder. It was too pretty to put a sentiment on it.

The image and 3 layers is popped up with fun foam and attached to the fancy oval.

Since we are going vintage I used a very vintage sentiment from the Artful stamper it might be older than the Santa Collage.

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Spirit of Christmas Past 

ABC Christmas Challenge ~~ E is for Embossing G is for Glitter

Christmas Card Throwdown ~~ March Technique 

Thanks for checking in today and have a wonderful weekend.

What's White all over with a Touch of Red and shakes? A Challenge or two!!!

I love making shaker cards and today's card is brought to you by a pair of great challenge prompts. Just Us Girls ~~ Sequins (I rarely use them) and 52 Week Christmas card Throwdown ~~ White with a sprinkling of Red. I've been hoarding sequins for a couple of years I'm never sure how to use them or how many to put on a card, I'm in awe of people that use them for me it seems the only use is a shaker card. I'm behind on my Holiday cards so I need to get busy an make at least two a week or I won't have enough for mailing. Here is my holiday shaker.

I used Vertical Birch Trees Card Panel from Frantic Stamper Inc. I bought it this year at Scrapfest Kitchener. The cardinals are from another birch tree die that has two cardinal dies from Impression Obssession I love both dies but the card panel is perfect for a shaker but very tedious cutting the narrow foam tape in half as the edges are very narrow. White and a few red sequins used to fill the shaker.

Close up of the sequins.

The base and the backing for the shaker is shimmer cardstock, for the birch trees I used a natural white cardstock The sentiment is from Impression Obsession Inc.

Challenges I'm entering:

Just Us Girls ~ #360 Trend Week

52 Christmas Card Throwdown 

Merry Monday #213 Inspiration challenge (I went with Red and White colours)

Thanks for stopping by and visiting today and since it's Monday have a fabulous week!!!

Red, Black and Kraft are great colours for one more Holiday Card!!!

I just love playing with my House Mouse stamps and I found a colour challenge that was fabulous, Red, Black and Kraft. I just happen to have a paper pad from American Crafts called Hot Cocoa, I've been hoarding it too.  Although the background paper was a paper pack I got as a gift but it matched the theme.

Although you can't see it well the base is kraft I then added  a thin layer of black as to pop the striped paper. The sketch is Mojo Monday sketch challenge #461, I just got it this morning in my e-mail and was perfect for my image from House Mouse Designs called Mint Nibbler.

I added some star dust stickles to the mint

Finished the front with a Stampendous Class "A" sticker sentiment.

Challenges I'm entering:

The 12 Months of Christmas link up #20 Christmas confectionery.

52 Weeks of Christmas Card Throwdown 

 Jingle Belles Rock Rudolph the red nosed reindeer

Mojo Monday #461

Whew that was a long list, One more holiday card for my stash!!! Thanks for visiting today.