Welcome to the Last Challenge of 2013 at The Cheerful Stamp Pad

Only two more days of shopping, I hope you are ready!! I have one item I couldn’t find so will be out today finding it or a replacement and some groceries too. I always make “nuts and bolts” at Christmas and I love putting the Oriental mix in it, nice crunch and a little sip too along with the garlic sesame sticks…yum.
This is the first week of the Any Thing Goes challenge at The Cheerful Stamp Pad I hope you will find some time to enter the challenge. The sponsor for the challenge is Bugaboo Digis it’s a Canadian company and they have free digis every Friday. Now for my card I used a Freebie Friday image I got a couple of weeks ago, I had printed it and it was in my “scrap box” waiting to be coloured. The sketch I used is from Catch the Bug Challenge Blog it’s the last sketch of 2013, Stella says Sketch #148, there is lots of time to check it out.

                                

I followed the sketch pretty close, I fussy cut (my crafting buddies know how I am not fond of cutting) and I used the left over white cardstock to make the snow hills. I added crystal effects to the mask and white opal liquid pearls on the hat. I added the strip of bling to it just because it was sitting in front of me.

Challenges I am entering this in are:

Catch the bug challenge Blog Stella says sketch #148 1/4/14

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge # 64 Non traditional Christmas colours Dec. 27, 2013

Thanks for visiting at this busy time of year, I hope you find time to join us in the ATG challenge at The Cheerful Stamp Pad there are two weeks to the challenge. Hope to see you there.

Merry Christmas

Barbara.

Christmas Time at Clear it Out Tuesday…New Challenge

Make room for your new Christmas gifts…….So it’s up to you whatever you want to do, the object is to use your stash or you can put a present on your project. My idea was of course a Christmas card and I put a couple of presents on it for embellishments. I used a red glitter die cut that has been in my stash since last year. Now you have an idea what I’m doing I hope you will head over to Clear it Out to check out the rules and what my team mates have done for inspiration they will WOW you.
Sponsors for this challenge are Bugaboo digi stamps, Lacy Sunshine and Stamp Art by Katheryne. Please check out the great digi stamps that they all have to offer.
For the first week I chose an image from Lacy Sunshine, It is called Eleanor and Pickles North Pole, and here they are………

I chose semi traditional colours for my card, since I have been making a lot of Christmas/Winter cards I have different pieces of patterned paper hanging around my desk and one of my favourite combinations is Kraft and Red, so when I found this paper I knew it was a good match to my red glitter. I stamped the presents (there are three on the stamp from the Artful Stamper London Ontario) I covered them with clear paper glaze and cut them out, flat attached one and popped the second one up.                .
I would like to enter this in two challenges:
Simon Says Anything goes
Shopping our Stash,. challenge #129 Winter or Holiday

Happy to see you have found my newest card, I hope you will find some time to join in the fun at Clear it Out Tuesday use up your stash on the new challenge.