It's a Mini Slimline Kind of Day!!

 Hello and I hope you are having some sunshine where you are, it's a gloomy, rainy, overcast day in SWO it just means I get to make my own sunshine. And that I did by getting a card done for the Jingle Belles Rock. I haven't managed to find time to make any for the challenge for a few months....gasp, now I'm going to be short when November comes. I do like making Slimline and Mini Slimline cards and the die I used works perfect for one.

Very simple card cutting the image out of heavy white cardstock, attached it to some glitter cardstock I picked up at the $$+ store I thought it was perfect for the sky. I did layer it on white then a blue and on the white base.

Finished the inside with some scraps and a blue layer the sentiment is Hero Arts and was part of a Jingle belles prize package. 

I'm adding this to:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Skinny Santa Slimline

Thanks for stopping by today, stay safe stay healthy. 

Under the Sun, Moon and Stars

A new challenge at Shopping Our Stash has started and for the next two weeks we would like to see the Sun, the Moon, the Stars one or all of them on a project.  I had an idea and made a background with some oxide inks. The die set I used is three pieces now I would have loved to use the village but I was afraid to mess up the whole card as I only had one background.

I'm still in the Christmas mode, I have had this die set for close to a year and never been used. The shepards were cut out of shimmer white and the star out of glitter paper although you can't see the sparkle. I also made this a "mail-able" card which I'm trying to do more often but is not easy.

Rummaging through my supply of sentiments I now realize I don't have any religious stamps so for the few I make and send I will have to print them off on the computer.  The sentiment is really old it's from the Artful Stamper when they were in London Ontario, at least 10 years ago. I also added a gold star for interest on the inside.

I'm entering this in a newlyA found challenge:

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge ~~ ATG with option of stars

Head over to the main SOS Blog and check out the awesome inspiration the rest of the design team have to offer. 

Thanks for stopping by today and stay in and stay safe.

Peace on Earth.....

Be prepared there will be a few new posts today as some of the challenges are coming to the end of the month/challenge. Jingle Belles is one of those challenges that I seem to pop a card in at the last few hours.  The Challenge is Peace on Earth so a peaceful scene or the word peace on your card. I came up with both.

The background was made last weekend thinking I would get something done then but alas time was short last week. Very simple card the oval was elevated with foam core on a dark blue background. I think it makes the image pop. A simple die cut Peace was cut out of foam core and attached.

I finished the inside with a Hero Arts stamp I won from one of the previous Jingle Belles Challenges. (thanks) because there was a tree in the word "year" I added a small tree. (from a left over die box)

I am entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Peace on Earth

Thanks for stopping by and seeing what I've been crafting.

Happy Easter!!!

Hello friends, family and followers, although I haven't been doing a lot of crafting, life seems to have gotten in the way of crafting and I'm still having trouble creating, hope things soon get better.  The weather is trying to warm up and soon we will be making our weekend trips to the cottage. I will have internet there this year, going to the library wasn't fun last year not to mention the 24 mile round trip. Anyway I took some time Thursday morning to make an Easter card for a friend.

I used the whole piece of alcohol ink background on this card, I mounted the oval over the hole that was cut in the background. I popped the center star up and added a pearl. 

A simple gold Happy Easter die cut to finish the inside.

My friend loved her card and mentioned she sill had the one from last year isn't that sweet.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope your Easter is filled with good food and family.

Look What Santa Brought Me ~~

The Jingle Belles Rock challenge is Look What Santa Brought Me.....like Lauren I'm my own Santa!!! and I never have to return anything. I did buy a few dies just before Christmas and the first week of January hubby ended in the hospital so life has not been the same as far as crafting goes. He is on the mend and I'm slowly getting back to crafting.  I'm sliding in on the last few hours of the challenge with this card.

2019

I have a lot of cute and beautiful Christmas items but not much in the line of religious items so I saw this die and thought it would round out my Christmas crafty things. I made the background "galaxy" style with oxide inks, I think I got a little heavy with the water splatter. 

Finished the inside with a Stampendous sentiment. (one of my favourites)

There you are my second Christmas card of  2019 I had better start doubling up or when November gets here I will be in chaos.

I'm adding this to:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Look What Santa Brought Me 

Thanks for stopping by today and keep warm (unless you are in Fla.)