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.

Hippity Hop

 It's finally Spring (at least on the calendar) the tulip and daffodils are growing and if we could just have more sun and it a little warmer they will be blooming by Easter.  It is amazing how fast two weeks flies by it seemed like I just posted a card for Shopping Our Stash and it's time for a new challenge so for this fortnight we want to see and Easter card or a card featuring a rabbit or a chick. I'm sure you have a couple in your stash, I know I have a few. Since we shop our stash I went back to March 2022 Crop and Create virtual crop and dug out the Hero Arts class which I hadn't done, everything I used was in the package, Stamp set. stencil and all cardstock enough to make 3 different cards.

 

Now I don't often stencil but I followed the instructions except I added the purple base (I just don't like one layer cards) I coloured and fussy cut the flower and bunny, Happy Easter is from a retired SU set. 

Closet look at the bunny and flowers 

The horizontal easel card folds flat for mailing, because of the added cardstock it didn't want to fold flat for the photoshoot.

  Stay tuned for more projects from March 2022 Crop & Create.

Thanks for stopping by and check out the great projects the rest of the Design Team have made.

Just Fold It!!!

 Welcome to another new monthly challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers and here is Edna to introduce the new theme.

Edna has been very busy folding newsprint into a Hat or is that a Boat on her head, do you remember making these paper creations as a child? Well we don't want a newsprint hat/boat we want to see some Fun or Fancy folds. I love making different folds I find them easy and fun so here is what fold I did.

It's a Circle Easel card and I finally had chance to use the House Mouse stamp and I found this fruit designed patterned paper at Dollarama and matched perfect the sentiment I found on Pinterest, used more circle dies and popped it up to hold the top portion of the card.

Close up of the sentiment, it's a bit out of focus so your eyesight hasn't gone downhill.  Since I used my favourite "meeces" I toned the snark.

Side view so show ow the easel part works.

Best part it folds flat for mailing as long as you don't pop things up too high and it fits in a square envelope.

I'm adding this to:

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Use Some Patterned Paper {nailed it)

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge ~~ Diecut and/or Stencil

Critter Crazy Challenge Blog ~~ Anything Goes with a Featured Critter.

Inkspirational Challenges ~~ Word Prompt ~~ Fold

Thanks for stopping by to check out what the Sisters are making this month,  so head over to the 

MAIN BLOG and check it out then get your thinking cap on and make us a fancy/fun fold card, they are much easier than you think. 

Seeing Spots....

 Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash!! SOS#517 ~~ Round and Round, sounds like a fun challenge and we want to see round cards or feature circles, dots or spots on your project.  I decided to tackle a Round easel card....now it does look complicated but it is so, so easy and you can make it what ever size circle dies you have. I used some infinity circle dies, spellbinders dies and a scalloped die from a fun card die set. All three of these are many years old and the set to make the card, hmmm cut out but never finished.(couldn't locate it when I wanted it) 

I love using my House Mouse stamps when I make fun fold cards so it was easy to pick one that fit in the circle die. The patterned paper is a long retired Stampin'up dsp from my pile of 12X12 papers. The sentiment is also from a Birthday set also retired from SU, I elevated it with some foam tape. 

Showing the easel angle of the card.

This in the back of the card where I put the sentiment. 

Last picture showing how it folds flat for mailing in a square envelope. 

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the MAIN BLOG to see what the rest of the design team have made then once you have some inspiration dig out your circles, spots and dots and add it to our gallery. 

It's Back for the 4th Year in a Row ~~ P is for Pink Halloween!!!

October is Breast Cancer Month and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers loves to promote Breast Cancer Awareness with Pink Halloween.  If you enter make sure you use lots of Pink!!!

Here is what I made.

Here is the closed card, it's a Triangle Easel card.  Not as much pink as I've had in other years but I thought the paper was so cute.

The larger web is cut out of black foam core which makes it stable I didn't have to cut three and glue them together like last year. the spider is also cut out of foam core. The smaller web (I just cut the regular web down) is regular cardstock but the spider is foam core and elevated on a pop-dot.  Boo and EEK are cut out of regular cardstock which I layered on some wide EC double sided tape (eliminates gluing)

Close up of the easel part and you can see how the spider is elevated to use as a stopper.

Thanks for checking out my blog today and head over to the Main Blog and see what the rest of the design team have made.

You take the Cake!!!

Hello friends, family and followers it's Tuesday and time for a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash!! It's Donna's time to choose the challenge theme so Challenge #362 is Feed Me!! We want to see some type of food on your project, after last week's dandy challenge this on was easy peasy. Of course for me the second week of July is mega birthday time so I made a card with a Birthday Cake on it.

I used a "gruffie" from House Mouse Designs, I love this guy with the huge birthday cake, hope he doesn't eat it in on sitting, perhaps he is going to share it with his friends.

I made an easel card!! I haven't made one for a long time and they are so easy, in fact the base of the easel was in my box of "changed my mind" things. The image is also from the same box  it was stamped and never used.as was the patterned paper, nice when you can make a card out of "leftovers",as was the patterned paper, nice when you can make a card out of "leftovers", The enamel dots are over a year old, bought two packages at the dollar store I'm on the second package now.

Since there is no inside to an easel card I hid the sentiment behind the image.

I would like to enter this in:

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting today and head over to the Main Blog to see what the rest of the design team have chosen as their "food" 

Happy Birthday to a Friend……..

My friend Sheri-Lyn had a birthday celebration lunch on Thursday and I know she loved a card I made a few months ago so I wanted to do it in her favourite colours. I did tell her it will never be duplicated in those colours either LOL.

This is the front of the card closed and the image is from Sweet Pea Stamps and the creator is Ching-Chou Kuik.

I made it into an easel card cut the image with Spellbinders labels 8 and the frame with decorative labels 8 added a few rhinestones to finish the card, The sentiment is from Stampin’up.

close up of the gorgeous image.

I love this image and if you haven’t checked out Sweet Pea Stamps you are missing some fabulous artists, They have both rubber stamps and digital stamps. There is a facebook fan page and you can find it HERE, closed group there is a challenge going on too.

I am entering this in:

Sweet Pea Facebook Fan Page Progressive challenge part 1

Thanks for visiting my blog today I hope you have a fun filled weekend.

Be My Valentine challenge #103 at The Cheerful Stamp Pad

Week 1 of a Valentine challenge at The Cheerful Stamp Pad and the sponsor for this challenge is Sweet Pea Stamps. Oh my gosh there are some awesome digis there, it was so hard to choose one to use for this challenge. I finally settled on one from Ching-Chou Kuik called red hearts. I did colour the hearts red but I wanted to colour her up in turquoise. This is my first time colouring up one of these fairies.

I made an easel card, the dies I used were Labels 8 and Decorative labels 8 and fancy labels but trimmed it to fit, then added a couple of  sparkly buttons to keep the card from closing.

Such a beautiful image and fun to colour too.

If you haven’t checked out the main blog, head over and see what awesome projects the rest of the design team have done.

Challenges I am entering this in:

Design team showcase Jan 18 to 24, 2015

Thanks for stopping by today and have an awesome week.