I'm Playing Along with the Jingle Belles again this week ~~ Oh Christmas Words

The Jingle Belles are still texting this week,  after three fails on an embossed background text stamp I went with a plan I had thought of already, last week I used patterned paper and didn't want to repeat it but since plan "A" was a bust I grabbed the patterned paper I had chosen earlier.  So here is plan "B".

Since the patterned paper was black I decided the sentiment should be chalkboard technique. I just added a few red rhinestones and popped the sentiment up with fun foam. 

Close-up of the sentiment/

Using the big note die I finished the inside with the left-over patterned paper and another sentiment

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Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Text Me

Two for two on this Text Me challenge at the Jingle Belles!!! Thanks for stopping by and have you started your Holiday Stash yet? 

Shopping Our Stash #339 ~~ He Loves me, He Loves Me Not!!!

It's a Valentine challenge at Shopping Our Stash!!! Valentine's day is only 15 days away so now is your chance to make your "honey" a Valentine, or for someone Special in your life. As I did need to make a Valentine but for the "Good Bread Company" I sent a Christmas card and it was returned so after Christmas we hand delivered it and of course bought a loaf of cranberry pecan bread.....yummy. So if the Valentine comes back we will just have to make another trip.  The Good Bread company is in Vittoria, Ontario (near Turkey Point)  All the bread is free of chemicals, preservatives and dies.  I plan on putting a computer generated sentiment on the front to say "we (LOVE) the Good Bread Company".

Of course I had to use my House Mouse stamp, I bought it last year and finally got to ink it up.  This features Amanda and Mudpie and is titled Take a Bite out of Love (2007) The crumb cake base and the melon mombo cardstock were out of my scrap box but the patterned paper is new this year, it is a 6.75 X 4.75 valentine mat pad from Martha Stewart Crafts I found at Dollarama (score)

I couldn't resist a close up of the super cute pair of my favourite critters.

Finished the inside using some leftovers and a sentiment from Inkadinkadoo which is ages old too.

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House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Love

Hiding in my Craft Room ~~ any Holiday

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Jingle Belles Challenge ~~ Text Me!!

Wow I'm not rushing at the last few days to get a card made for the Jingle Belles challenge!!!  My card is made with all sorts of scraps, The background and the base are the only two things that were not in my scrap box, or "parts" box. Even the image was printed a while ago in anticipation of a challenge. So here is my "text me" card.

Remember I said scraps well the tree and the let it snow were in a scrap box all ready to be used. You have to love it when you can make a scene without a lot of work.  I had the snowshoeing Bugaboo boy printed so after I coloured him up I fussy cut and popped everything up but one snowshoe.

the Let it Snow was cut several times and glued together.

Super cute bugaboo boy image.

Finished the inside with scraps of patterned paper and of course a small tree from the scrap box. A simple Warm Winter Wishes sentiment to finish it off.

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Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Text Me

Rudoph Days ~~ January 2018

Sunshine and Flowers

Now that my friend has received her Birthday card I can blog it and add it to a couple of challenges, which is unusual I manage to get it added to a challenge before it's over, that being said I used Sketch Saturday #497 which of course is over as a new one started Saturday.  It has been so dull and drab, the snow is almost gone and it's just all one colour so I decided a flower infused, brightly coloured card.

It's my first time inking up this super cute House Mouse Designs stamp.  I coloured it with alcohol markers and elevated it with a rectangle of fun foam, this makes it stable for mailing.

Close up of the super cute image.

Finished the inside with a sentiment and a strip of Birthday washi tape from the Eyelet Outlet Store.

Challenges I'm entering:

House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything Goes

Just us Girls ~~ Photo Week (I saw yellow and black)

Seize the Birthday ~~ No Toppings (one layer is not for me)

Thanks for checking  my blog today and have a great week.

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

Challenge #102 at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is "Farm Life" if it's on a farm we want to see it on a card!!!  I don't have a lot of farm animal stamps but Bugaboo Stamps has lots of different ones although I printed one I didn't use it I decided to go with a set from Stampin'up I have only used twice and to make the same card as I have made here....so have a peek.

Yes it's an Etch-a-Sketch card, I used a tutorial I found on line.  I stamped the image on vellum and backed it on grey to give it the look of the screen. The tutorial was easy to follow.  The Etch-a-sketch will be 58 years old this July. Did you have one?

Close up of the sketched farm animals

Finished the inside with a super sweet sentiment....sorry no snark this time, I'm not sure my snark button is working....perhaps next time.

Thanks for visiting today and head over to the Main Blog and check out what the other dt members have made and I know they have managed some snark.

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Three of a Kind #2

Finally I got to finish the second card for the Jingle Belles challenge We Three Kings or Three of a Kind which means to put three of something on your card. I did have three cards in mind but of course sometimes the best laid plans go astray.

Another super cute trio from Bugaboo Stamps, the embossing folder is the original snowflake folder from cuttlebug and it embosses so crisp.

Close up of those adorable birds on a limb.

The Joy is a silver/clear plastic sentiment I found at the local $$ store, I'm really not a sticker kind of crafter but this just did the job.

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Jingle Belles Rock ~~ We Three Kings

Thanks for checking today, I'm keeping up with the holiday cards. 

Shopping Our Stash #338 ~~ Birthday!!!

Now the holidays are over it's time to re-stock your supply of Birthday cards, the gals at Shopping Our Stash want to see birthday cards with balloons, cake, cupcakes perhaps presents too.  For my design team card I had a super cute digital image from Mel-jens digis which no longer available. I still have quite a few cute images from my days as a designer for Clear it Out Tuesday.  Every thing I used was a scrap even the base I used was in the scrap folder.  I also broke out the balloon die set I've had for over a year and hasn't been used.

The birthday embossing folder I received free before I even had a die cutting machine. Isn't the little mouse cute? and so different from my usual "meece"

close up I hope you can see the simmer from the wink of stella.

Carrying the balloon theme to the inside I finished with a hero arts sentiment.

Seize the Birthday

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