Text Me!!

 Finally I have a card made for the Jingle Belles Rock!! I have tried to get to all the challenges since January 1st and there never seems to be enough time so today I MADE time and got one done. Now my last post I said I was green challenged and what did I make today another green card nothing like pushing my luck. 

This is a mini slimline card 3 1/4 X 6 1/4 and is the perfect size for putting money or a cheque in for a gift. The sketch is from a Sheetload of cards January 2023 which makes 8 cards but there are instructions for a single card. Patterned paper is Holly Jolly from American Crafts, the cute owl is a Stampendous mini clear stamp and was stamped and coloured last year so I just fussy cut him, flat attached his feet and popped the rest of him up. 

Finished the inside with a scrap of patterned paper and a vertical sentiment from Stampabilities.

I'm entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Text Me

Addicted to Stamps and More ~~ Christmas

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the challenge at the Jingle Belles and get a jump start on the Holiday cards. The challenge ends Wednesday at 6 p.m. but I new one will appear on Friday. 

Tinsel Tree Inspired.

 Hello fellow crafters I'm here with my card for the Jingle Belles Rock Challenge ~~ Tinsel Tree Inspired.  I don't have any of those cute trees but I do have a 3 D folder that has great trees and I dove right in inking the folder with 3 soft shades of distress oxide ink on it (as per a video) spritzed it with water until the ink beaded up added 110 lb. cardstock and ran it through the big shot, awesome it worked the first time, although a little softer colour than I had hoped but I was happy. 

I cut 2 sentiments and layered them for dimension and I thought that is all the card needed, I wanted the embossing folder to shine. I added wink of stella to a lot of the snow dots. The embossed layer was attached to a narrow black border to hi-light the image then on a pale turquoise top fold base. 

I always struggle with picture prompts as too many ideas race through my head. 

Finished the inside with a vertical sentiment from Stampabilites. 

I'm adding this to:

Jingle Belles Rock Challenge ~~ Tinsel Tree Inspired

Thanks for dropping by today I am still a few cards behind where I want to be but hopefully I will find some crafting time before the challenge closes on Wednesday.  

Hey (h) Ombre!!

 It's time for a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash #479 Hey (h) Ombre, there are a few ways to do an Ombre effect on your project as you will see when you head over to the main blog, paper, ink blending, paint chips, you can do a background or use the technique on your image. I went the easy way as my plan "A" didn't work, but as with all crafters I have saved my "fails" and will use them, I even have ideas but it just wasn't working for me today. So plan "B" I dug through my stash and found some ombre glitter paper and made a Gah Pink Christmas card.

Pink cardstock from my stash, 2 piece snowflake die, gently falling embossing folder (SU) and it's a Mini Slimline card. 

I added two layers of heavy cardstock behind the snowflake and two extra JOY die cuts to elevate both, the Joy die is from Elizabeth Craft Designs 

Finished the inside with some scraps and a very (probably one of my first) Christmas sentiment stamps from Stampabilities 2005.

Since I mentioned Plan "A" earlier I finished it still not 100% but my "critics" think it's great. 

The Sunflower die was a fund raiser for the Ukraine, I used a couple of yellow oxide ink pads and made the ombre cardstock to cut the  Sunflower from and two green oxide ink pads for the leaves and stem (that shows, the background was a very old sample of smooshing that was in my stash and the brown frame too. The front sentiment Stampendous. 

Sentiment is from Impression Obsession. 

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the MAIN BLOG and check out the ombre effects the rest of the team have made

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

 When I saw the challenge at Color Hues I immediately thought St. Patrick's Day and Fluffles. The two colours to use are Green and Gold. I have worked on my card off and on for almost a week, life really gets in the way of crafting sometimes. Enough said, so here is my finished card.

I made an alcohol ink background  by scribbling greens on a huge ziplock bag, spritzed it with alcohol then took a 4 X 6 photo sheet (bought a couple of packs at a yardsale) put it shiny side down wiggled it a bit then lifted it up. Drying time is minimal. Stamped and coloured Fluffles, layered him/her on green and then gold. Added a couple of banners and a Hero Art's "one liner" cut with a banner die. Then because I really wanted to have another bit of gold on the front I added Stampendous stickers I've had for at least 20  years. 

Close up of Fluffles (sorry it's a tad out of focus) The image was elevated with three rectangles of heavy cardstock . 

Finished with a Stampablilities stamp (have no idea where I bought it) added a scrap of patterned paper with a sticker.

I'm adding this to:

Color Hues ~~ #36 Green & Gold

Show us Your Pussycats ~~  #76 Furrything goes.

Thanks for stopping by today and have a lovely weekend 

August Rudolph Days.............sadly it was cancelled.

 I'm crafting along at the cottage and trying to get a few challenges finished before they ended,  managed to get the ABC Christmas done, now on to the Rudolph Days.  Last Tuesday I saw a sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches and thought wow I can use the last piecs of that 12 X 12 patterned paper, I don't usually make "dark" cards but it just seemed right to use Green as a back drop. I'm sure the other cards I made with this patterned paper I used Red.  

As you see I took the picture on my deck it's too busy to try to get to the breakwall as there is a lot of traffic on a Saturday and Sunday.  I used Fluffles with a present, this can be used for any occastion that is gift giving. It was planned to make another to use for Two-fer challenge but it has closed and sadly ended. I picked up the green and kraft in the plaid to use for the layers, Flufflies is popped up with a couple of squares of heavy cardstock scraps  This sketch is certaily a keeper as it uses up scraps.

Finished the inside with a Stampabilities Stamp (2005) it's just perfect for the vertical cards. And not sure where that scrap of plaid was from but sitting on my cutting table and "waste not want not" and it fit perfectly. 

I'm entering this in:

Rudolph Days Challenge ~~ August

Tuesday Morning Sketches ~~ 620

Show Us Your Pussy Cats ~~ Furrything Goes Challenge #69

ABC Christmas Challenge ~~ P for plump, fluffles is a bit chubby. 

I went to add this to Rudolph Days and sorry to hear due to illness it was cancelled for August.

Healing vibes heading out Maureen's way. 

Thanks for stopping by today and having a look at what Toto has given me a chance to craft today. 

Gnome Doubt About It!

 Challenge #446 at Shopping Our Stash is Gnome doubt about it! ~~ use a Gnome or other Magical creature. Last year when gnomes were just becoming a "trend" I questioned why I didn't have any gnomes so one of my teamies sent me a couple and I figured it was time to shop my stash and use them on a card. 

It is a slimline card 3.5 inches by 8.5 inches and fits in a business envelope. I used a inverted scalloped slimline die on some shiny red cardstock, the plaid patterned paper is double sided and I bought it last year at Stamp Art in London before we were in lock-down, I love plaid for Holiday cards. The film strip was made by cutting a tad larger than 2 inches and used the binding edge punch from Stampin'up which I haven't used in many years. Then using a small rectangle spellbinders die cut the openings and used a 2 X 8.25 white piece as a backing, sponged some ink and then fussy cut the two gnomes and my alpha dies were to large to add three HOs. 

I love this vertical sentiment from Stampabilities dated 2005, I'm sure I've had it that long too. I added a strip of the patterned paper to finish the inside.  I try to finish the insides of all the Holiday cards that way there are no surprises come mailing time. 

Has anyone any tips on how to photograph slimline cards, I really was in a dilemma trying. I even propped the Ott lamp up (dang it was hot too) They are too tall for my homemade photo booth. It will be nice to get to the cottage so I can use the lake as a backdrop (as long as it's not windy). 

Thanks for stopping by today I hope you find time to get your magical creatures or gnomes out and enter the challenge, don't forget to head to the MAIN BLOG and check out what the rest of the design team have made. 

 

Jingle Belles are still Rockin' the Holiday Leftovers.

At the Jingle Belles Rock Challenge they are still asking for us to use our Holiday Leftovers and wow I seem to have a lot of them. I have no idea when I coloured this super cute  Mini clear owl from Stampendous but I know I had a gray and a brown owl (gray one is hiding)  I'm using the sketch from Freshly made sketches that ended at 3 p.m. today.

Since I left my camera at home I'm using my phone to take pictures and send them to my email, well Samsung updated and now they way I did it earlier this week isnt working as well, why don't people leave things alone, if it's not broke don't fix it.  (rant is over) The leftovers I used here are birch branch ornament circle that I cut a circle out of because the ornament was too big (I remember that)  Backed the ornament with an oxide background scrap. Since the sketch was to have stripes I used some patterered stripes an embossed the white with a cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder.

Finished the inside with a Stampabilities sentiment 

I'm entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Holiday Leftovers

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~~ Snow is Falling

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week.

It's Rudolph Days (and I'm sneaking in on the last day)

Every month I say the same thing, now Rudolph days are over I should make a card for next month so I don't have to rush the last day.....it didn't work in June better luck with July. LOL.

As you see I'm taking the pictures at the breakwall, it's not as busy during the week but wait until Wednesday, it's Canada Day July 1st and it will be wall to wall people, hopefully in groups of less than 10 and doing some social distancing but then again I'm hoping for a miracle.

I printed a Bugaboo stamps digital image I think he is so adorable, The sentiment is computer generated to match the image, And I made a "mailable:" card. 

Finished the inside with a Stampabilities senetiment circa 2005 love this vertical stamp. and a bit of paper left over from cutting the front background.

I'm entering this in:

Rudolph days ~~ June

Thanks for stopping by to check out what I'm doing with my isolation time.

Session #3 of the Jingle Belles Rock Pink Christmas!!!

This will be my third entry for the challenge, I love this challenge and try to get as many cards done as I can, remember Lauren and Stephanie donate $2.00 each towards Breast Cancer research for every card added to the Jingle Belles Blog.

I sort of cheated a bit here, the image was in my printed image stash, it's from Mel-Jens digital store which is now closed but I love the images I have and will continue to used them as they are adorable. The sentiment is from Impression Obsession.

Continued the dots to the inside and used a sentiment from Stampabilities (unfortunately closed)

I'm entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Deck the Halls Pink

Christmas Card all year round ~~ October Challenge ~ Santa and or Elves.

Thanks for joining me for the third of the Pink Christmas Cards for the cure. 

Shopping Our stash #275 Three Trees ~~ use Three or more Trees

Happy Tuesday, we closed the cottage this weekend so no more shuttling craft supplies from one place to another ~~ now to get them all back in their places so I can find them. Of course I also have to find homes for all the supplies I brought home, for a while we will have doubles of all condiments in the refrigerator.  On to the challenge at Shopping Our Stash, we want to to use at least THREE trees on your project, you can make a whole forest if you would like to and I think I did.

Birch tree die from the Frantic stamper, Deer, evergreens and Merry Christmas is from Impression Obsession. The background is on of my last pieces of swirly shiny paper bought eons ago. 

the deer are woven into the birch trees and the whole frame is popped up.

Finished the inside with a Stampabilities sentiment and one more tree.

Thanks for spending some time here today and head over to the main blog and check out what the rest of the design team have done. 

Christmas Wishes to Warm Your Heart and Home........

Home/House is the challenge at the Jingle Belles Rock ~~ there needs to be a house on your Christmas project. I had quite the time deciding what I would use, in fact I brought several "house" stamps with me this weekend. so look for at least one more before the challenge is over on Wednesday. Here is what I ended up using.

I used the large background house stamp from Hero Arts Stamped it in tuxedo black memento ink layered it on red and on a black base, I added a bit of colour to the houses,. The car with the tree is also from Hero Arts, I coloured, fussy cut and added clear acetate to the windows.

Close up but you really can't see the acetate.

The sentiment on the front and the inside sentiment are from Stampabilities

I am entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ O' Little Town of Bethlehem 

12 Months of Christmas ~~ Optional theme the nature of Christmas

Thanks for visiting today and it's one more holiday card for my stash.

It’s Saturday!!! Challenge Time at the Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers.

Challenge #18 wow that many already where does the time go? is ………..I is for Iconic. Head over to the SOSS Blog and get all the rules and have a look at what the design team has made. Our GDT is Lynn you can visit her blog HERE and leave her some love.
I struggled with this challenge I had an idea and then checked out all other ideas I could come up with and then back to the first one. It didn’t go well, I think when it took me four tries to get a “clean” image I would have stopped but I blundered on, I won’t bother you with all the  horrific details just think of what could go wrong and it did. ……here it is.     

the image I used is from Stampabilities and I have had it a long time, I decided to do a spotlight card. As you see I decided to go with an iconic place the Eiffel tower in Paris.  Everything used was stash.

The patterned paper is from a travel paper pad, there is enough room to put a sentiment on the paper. The cardstock I used is Wild Wasabi and Very Vanilla, rhinestones are from my never-ending pile of them.
Thanks for visiting today and you have two weeks to get your Iconic project to the SOSS Blog.  We want to see who, what or where your icon is.

Shopping Our Stash wants you to use Your Oldest Tree

If you are looking for my Clear it Out Tuesday post scroll down or just click Here.
Stamp that is,  I’m sure it’s been a long, long time since that first tree stamp has seen ink, just think how happy it will be when you give it some LOVE. I know mine has not seen ink in a long time, it was the very first tree stamp I bought and it is a Christmas stamp.  I also dug deep in my papers and found some really heavy stardream cardstock, I haven’t any idea how long I’ve had it but it’s so pretty I didn’t want to cut it. (sad isn’t it) Because of the cardstock the card was very hard to photograph.

The stamp I used is Scribbled Tree from Hero Arts 2000 and the Merry Christmas is also Hero Arts 1999 bought at the same time at The Butterfly Moon the first year I started stamping. I stamped with Versamark watermark ink and embossed in pewter embossing powder from Stampin’up, the gray ribbon is also from SU and never been opened.

I finished the inside with a sentiment from Stampabilities. If you remember I’m not a CAS stamper but I’m very pleased with this one.
Now it’s your turn to dig that oldest tree stamp and dazzle us with your projects. Check out the rules of the challenge at Shopping Our Stash and while you are there have a look at all the different old tree stamps the design team has used. Awesome.
Thanks for checking in at my blog today and come back again soon.