Santa Claus is Coming to Town.....

Well it sure looks like Santa will be arriving soon, I can't believe my eyes...we are having snow showers all day and into tomorrow, Mother Nature sure gave us a belated April Fool.  Well this certainly fits in with two challenges one for Merry Monday Christmas Challenge and Jingle Belles Rock!!! Here is what I came up with that gave me a two-fer this week.

The image is a digi from Dr. Digi House of Stamps called Naughty or Nice.

Close up of the image and the ho ho ho stamp.

Finished inside using scraps left over from the front.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Merry Monday Christmas challenge #198 Christmas Carols (Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

Jingle Belles Rock Santa Baby (Santa or any character you would find at the north pole)

I am still working on making two Christmas cards a week but some weeks I get a bit behind as Merry Monday's challenge closes tomorrow. I really need to re-organize my Christmas stamps especially my sentiments. 

So happy you stopped by today to check up on my Holiday stamping.

It's Saturday!!! Time for a NEW Challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

We're back.......the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is back with a new challenge......J is for Joke. Easy Peasy, we do love our funny, snarky cards and want to see what you create.  Don't you love it when things fall into place? Well I do and last week a friend asked me to make a birthday card for her daughter and she kind of wanted a funny card and could I put a school bus on it....to me I thought "aha a challenge" So here is the funny card I made for the challenge and my friend.

There is nothing funnier than the Art Impressions "Girlfriends" for the school bus and background paper I checked out Pinterest and they were both pre-coloured. Bonus! The image was fussy cut and popped up on a wobbler, sentiments were computer generated.

Close up of the word bubble.

I found the verse at my favourite site Verses 4 cards and fussy cut the three buses for the inside.

Don't forget the Snark Off check out this post at SoSS.

Thanks for visiting today and let's see those Funny project for J is for Joke.

Shopping Our Stash #245 Something for the Big/Biggest Boys

March is winding down, the weather still doesn't know what to do we go from almost spring to freezing rain within days, March came in like a lion ~~ wonder if it is going out the same way.

Alica is our host for challenge #245 at Shopping Our Stash and we want a project for the BIG or BIGGEST boys. (masculine/teen).  Masculine cards are not the easiest for me to do but this time I have had so many firsts.....the first time I have used the stamp set. first time for the die that goes with it, first time I used one of my Kaleidacolor ink pads ( I have 4 that have never been out of the cellophane) I guess I'm not one for trying things I have not practiced with, I know it's not perfect but I closed my eyes and went with it.

The stamp set and die are from Local King Rubber I bought the stamp 4 years ago and the die two years ago at Scrapfest in Kitchener. Last year I bought more stamps and dies from them, this year I am not going near the booth. The ink pad I used is Autumn leaves and this was the first time I have inked a brayer to do a background. I had so much trouble cutting one horse I decided that's all the card needed. I will give this card to my son who's birthday is Thursday, On Sunday we celebrated Easter, our great grandson's birthday, my birthday and our son's birthday. One dinner 4 celebrations!!

I need a lot more practice with this horse die best I go look at the video of how to do it.

I finished the inside with the sentiment on a top note die cut

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the SOS blog and see what the rest of the design team have made for the challenge.

Happy Easter!!!

Just a quick post today to wish everyone that celebrates a very Happy Easter. We will be getting together today to celebrate Easter and three birthdays that have fallen very close to Easter Sunday. Quite often we have had our celebration at our cottage in Turkey Point and we do a slow-cooker dinner but this year Easter has arrived early and it's still a bit too cold to spend time there, and probably very muddy too. I also made a cute candy holder for our great grandson, it's small and only holds a little bit of candy.

I found the template for the box on Split coast Stampers with instructions and a video for using the Stampin'up dies and stamps. I don't have either so I "winged" it to make the bunny. I put the plaid on the ears and bow tie as it looks more masculine.

Here is the back of the holder I used a white pom pom for his tail

The back triangle tucks under the bow to close the holder up, as you see there won't be any chocolate overload in this gift box.

Thanks for looking today and I hope your day was AWESOME!!!

IT'S A SNARK OFF!!!

That's right!! Edna and the Sisters are looking for a few good women  (or men) to join our design team for a 6 month gig! For all the details check out our Snark Off post here.

Take Me To The Vintage Church!!!

Don't you love it when you see a challenge and know you are going to love it!!! Merry Monday's Christmas challenge blog has a new challenge and it is to put a Church on your project and at the same time Jingle Belles Rock a Vintage challenge so I put the two together and this is what I came up with.

Believe it or not it's another PSX stamp, now this has not seen ink (by me) as I bought it at a yard sale or some sort of sale  but at the time I loved PSX stamps and really had to have it. The image was coloured with copics and cut with a large spellbinder circle. I had some gold paper and made a rick rack frame for the stamp and popped it up on the embossed background. The frame was made with the large scalloped circle die and the large inverted circle die, when cutting it I off set the inverted die so the points were across from the scallops. Most of the card is made with Very Vanilla cardstock with the exception of the gold frame.

I had the vanilla lace out for another project and the button was sitting on my table and just begging to be used.

The inside was finished with a gold embossed sentiment.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #197 Take me to the Church

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Spirit of Christmas Past

Thanks for stopping by today to see another of my Holiday stash that is growing week by week.  If you want to get an early start on your holiday cards consider both these challenges the themes are always fabulous and fun.

Shopping Our Stash challenge #244 ~~ Cuckoo for You!!!

Looking for the Clear it Out Post Scroll down or click HERE.

Who comes up with these challenges for Shopping Our Stash? Chana that's who!! and you have to go to Shopping Our Stash blog and see what she made for the challenge, all I can say is AWESOME.
Now the challenge is Cuckoo for You ~ Use clocks, or paper/stamps/dies with clocks. I found some free digital paper on Pinterest and a sweet image and here is how it all came together.

I don't have much in the line of clock things but I had that cute charm? sitting on my table and to me it looked like a clock and it says Wish.

Close up of the charm? and clock that the little girl has in her hand.

Inside, I wanted to use the sentiment on the front but it was too large. I think it is a great quote.

Thanks for visiting today and it would be fabulous to see your take on the challenge.

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