Did Someone See a Winter Dragon?

 Finally found time to play along with the Jingle Belles, the heat here at the cottage (not a breeze to be found) has been brutal and made it hard to craft, everything I touched stuck to my fingers but I got it done.

      Before I show you my card I will show you the great sketch that Stephanie did for the challenge.

Here is my take on the sketch

I used a Lawn Fawn stamp & die set I got on sale  3 years ago I am very happy that I lined up the 3 stamp sentiment almost perfect. I used a ornament embossing folder on the red piece. I believe the cloud die is from Impression Obsession. The watercoloured sky was leftover from the card I posted earlier.

I popped the Winter Dragon up on the cloud, and a better look at the sentiment.

I am adding this to

Jingle Belles Challenge ~~ 'Twas the Sketch Before Christmas

Thanks for looking today & I have one more holiday card, but I need to step up the pace.

Thankful....

 It seems like it was yesterday I was confessing about my obsession over House Mouse stamps and now we are on to thinking about Leaves which is the new challenge at Shopping Our Stash. Fall colours and pumpkin spice are not any of my favourite things but it had to be done which is why it's called a challenge. I'm Leaf-ing it up to you for the next two weeks to join in the fun.

Pictures do not do the colours of the leaves justice they are far more red/orange than the picture shows. First I made the inky paper, you can check my tutorial Here, I die cut many leaves from a Impression Obsesssion set of 5 leaves. i popped the maple leaves up on the die cut wreath which was flat attached on the Darice autumn embossing folder. I added the small Thankful die cut. (all dies are at least 3 years old and the EF much older, it was time to dust it off and give it some love.

Close up to show the colours and how beautiful my old cuttlebug embosses.

Finished the inside with some oak leaves and a very elderly sentiment. 

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the Main Blog and check out what the rest of the design team have created. I  hope to see your Leafy creations in our gallery.

 

Sentimentally Yours....

 A new challenge is happening at Shopping Our Stash!!  Sentimentally Yours, you know what that means we want the sentiment to be up frnt and center and it can take over the whole project. Lots of great large stamps and dies so dig through you stash and make one of them up front and center!!!

Here is my up front and center sentimentally yours card, I had trouble deciding on which one of my large birthday dies to use but chose this one as I know it is a NBUS I have had for many months and never been out of the packaging. Patterned paper and cardstock is pre-covid and the rhinestones are way older than that. 

Here is a side view to show the elevation of the sentiment. I die cut 2 regular cardstock and 2 heavy 110 lb. weight cardstock and glued them together.

Finished inside of the card using a IO sentiment and a couple of pieces of paper.

I am adding this to:

Seize the Birthday ~~ put a sentiment on a banner

NBUS Challenge ~~ #51 Large die never been used before. 

Cardz 4 Galz ~~ #201 Use Dies or Punches

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the MAIN BLOG and see what the rest of the design team have created for the Sentimentally Yours Challenge. 

She's a Lady

 The new challenge at Shopping Our Stash is "She's a Lady" we want to see a lady on your project, It should have been very easy to make a card with a Lady on it, but I struggled with picking our colours, now that's a new one.  Here is what I finally decided on. 

I shopped my stash with this 2017 Occasions catalogue from Stampin'up, the images on the 2 box set are just meant to be paper pieced. I used the sweet pea 3D embossing folder for my background and the cardstock has been in my stash for years, the Happy Birthday (hero arts) is also very dated but a favourite. 

Closer look a the paper piecing.

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

Thanks for visiting today and head over to the Main Blog and check out what the rest of the Design Team have made. 

Trim the Tree with Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge.

 It's hard to believe it's May already, our weather in South Western Ontario has not been very May-like, we had an April snowstorm and now we are getting April showers for the 3rd r 4th day but since we are very much an agricultural area the farmers need the rain for the crops. Well on to our new monthly challenge.

Lots of different ways to interpret the optional part of the challenge or just go with anything goes as long as it's Christmas, we just aim to keep you on track with your holiday card stash. Here is what I made with the option of Trim the Tree.

I used a Fluffles image he is working hard on trimming the tree (teehee). After I picked the image I chose my patterned paper I knew I wanted one with ornaments but now looking at it I'm not so sure I should have used such a dark paper, perhaps looking at it tomorrow I will be happier. 

I coloured te image with alcohol marker and added a wink of stella to the star, ornaments and base.

I added a bit of patterned paper and an Impression Obsession Sentiment.

Another month another holiday card finished, how is your stash growing?

Thanks for visiting today and I would love to see your Holiday creation in our gallery. 

Earth Day 2023

 The Jingle Belles are celebrating Earth Day 2023 by upcycling, re-using and altering to make projects. It isn't one of my strong suits but I try to make at east one for this special challenge.

First up is a saved store bought card I received and it was just so adorable I couldn't throw it out.

And here is how I upcycled it.

I made a polaroid selfie card, for the frame I used some photo paper and cut it with spellbinders original square and rectangle dies. Added a die cut sentiment from Impression Obsession and using foam strips popped the polaroid up on the base.

Closer look at what make me giggle.

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

Adding this to:

Jingle Belles Rock Challenge ~~ Celebrating Earth Day 2023

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great week.

Absolutely NO Patterned Paper Allowed!!

 The challenge at the Jingle Belles is a Cardstock Christmas (I hope Acetate is allowed), so not even a scrap of patterned paper is allowed. I did have this idea last challenge for clear but of course I ran out of time to make it but I was planning on using the idea sometime and it was just sooner than I expected to make it. 

Acetate cards are nearly impossible to photograph The birch trees, cardinal and stag are from Impression Obsession. I was lucky to have reverse dies to make the snowbanks in my stash, first time using them for what they are intended. The sentiment was cut in white and shadowed in black. 

I also photographed it with a white background, at least the reflections are not as noticeable.

A closer look and I added snowbanks to the back for the sentiment and backed it as well to put my logo on it, it also provides stability to the acetate. 

I'm entering this in:

The Jingle Belles Rock ~~ A Cardstock Christmas.

Thanks for dropping by today and have an awesome week.

Do You See What I See? ~~ I see a Narwal

 Finally I managed to get my second card done for the Jingle Belles Rock Challenge ~~ I can see Clearly Now. have a clear element on your project, my first I went half clear but went a bit smaller this time. I'm hoping I have time for a third and get back on track with my personal quota. 

I started with a trio of cover plate dies and attached them to a navy top fold base. The adorable Narwal was coloured with alcohol markers flat attached to a circle of distress oxide inked paper. I addded some clear beads then used a shaker card pouch from Impression Obsession (many, many years old, only one left now) then cut a scalloped frame to cover the edge of the pouch (they never go on straight for me) The sentiment is from the set and te Holiday die is one of my new sentient dies, I loved the font on this set and can you ever have too many sentiment dies?

Close up of that darling little Narwal in his winter scarf.

finished the inside with a couple of scraps of the water coloured inked paper and an Impression Obsession holiday sentimente.

I'm adding this to:

The Jingle Belles Rock Challenge ~~ I can See Clearly Now

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~~ #72  Wrapped Up for Christmas

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the Jingle Belles Challenge it ends at 6 p.m.EST but a new one starts Friday at midnight.  

Happy Little Stampers March Christmas Challenge.

 Back from an extended winter break and ready to inspire you to work on your Holiday cards. As you will see the challenge is always Anything Goes but with an option.

Very easy job picking out my stamp to use for the challenge I have 3 or more House Mouse with Candy Canes, 4 full size and a mini. I rarely have a problem using a Housee Mouse Designs stamp for any challenge, the hard part is not to use them for every one. LOL. So here is the image I decided to use.

I made a 5 1/2 inch square card the image is a House Mouse Design and the patterned paper is from Heidi Swapp. the sentiment doesn't show up very well in White but I don't think any colour would show up well on the candy cane striped paper.

A closer look at the darling little mice, the candy canes were coloured with the Lipstick spika glitter pen.

Finished the inside with a bit of patterned paper and an Obsession Impressions sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by today and now is the time to get your Holiday craft on so you don't end up in chaos in November. 

I'm living the Embossable Dream.

 Here I am with card #3 for the challenge at the Jingle Belles, I might not get a 4th done (I was trying to catch up since I missed (avoided) the sticker challenge, Lauren and Stephanie use stickers and they look awesome I use sticker and guess what, it looks just like stickers on a background, but I did want to keep up with my 2 cards for each challenge. 

Surprise it's not a house mouse card, but I sure took myself out of my comfort zone and I love it!!

I used the Brick Wall embossing folder from Sizzix (Stampin'up) on watercolour paper to look like a brick wall, then cut 2 diecuts of Gina Marie leaf wreath die and flat attached. The sentiment die is from Elizabeth Craft Desgns and was flat attached as well, The bow is popped up. I also added some Starform glitter dots. to the wreath.

Finished the inside with an Impression Obsession sentiment and a scrap of green along with some die cut berries and a bow.

I'm adding this to:

The Jingle Belles Rock Challenge ~~ My Sweet Embossable You

ABC Christmas Challenge ~~ C and D (I chose D is for Dies)

Thanks for looking today and check back again to see if I have managed a 4th card.

G Is for GLITTER!!

 G is for Glitter at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers so how did Edna do with Glitter today?

Looks like she is well glittered.

To save on getting glitter all over the desk for Toto to roll in as she has to inspect the daily craftin challenge, I used glitter cardstock, it has less shedding.

I cut the fancy lady out of very vanilla and out of some turquoise glitter cardstock and trimmed the dress, hat and  shoes and glues them on the VV base. I added some Star Form glitter dots for a necklae and embossed the black layer with the sequin embossing folder (SU) Then added the glitter meme I found on pinterest. 

Close up of the computer generated sentiment just in case you couldn't read it.

Finished the inside with an impression Obsession sentiment and a bit of glitter cardstock The card is using a premade Silver base with envelope. 

Thanks for stopping by and we are looking forward lots of Glittered cards in the gallery this challenge. Stop by the MAIN BLOG and check out the rest of the design teams cards.

Christmas Bells Those Christmas Bells

 I'm starting this one early, hoping to get one more done in the next 10 days and keeping my mind on my New Year's list. It sure does take me  along time to make one card, I did have the assistant helping (not). I have a plan devised, I will leet you know if it works.

Impression Obsession jingle bells and sentiment they work so well for a slimline card, I used distress inks for te background, and the montage of die cuts were from the off cuts bin. 

Close up at my collage attempt.

Finished the inside with a Hero Arts sentiment and a couple of extra bells and more  from the off cuts bin.

I am adding this to:

The Jingle Belles Rock Challenge ~~ Christmas Bells Those Christmas Bells

Thanks for visiting today, have a crafty day.