Time for Presents!!

 Almost time for Christmas but I still have a birthday left for the year (not mine) so I decided to take time out from making my "new year" cards or "winter" cards for some I still need to send and make a birthday card with present on it for Challenge #486 at Shopping Our Stash is Time for Presents. 

I decided to use one of my "dual" images, it can be used for many occasions and I have made it for both birthday and Christmas. This is a Stampedous image of Happy Hoppers I have a few of the bunnies and also the Gruffies (bears) The image was stamped in a pile of "waiting to be coloured" images. The image and layers were cut with Elizabeth Craft Designs stitched and scalloped die sets.  Hero Arts happy birthday was cut with the original spellbinders circle dies.

Finished the inside with a Stampendous "Fran's" Sentiment, that no matter how I work with it I never get it perfectly straight.

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the Main Blog and check out the rest of the Design Team's projects, then dig in your stash and make a "present" card. 

Naughty or Nice.............that is the question!!!

 

Edna is getting her presents ready for the Sisterhood and is asking Naughty or Nice? We want to see your Naughty or Nice projects.

What is naughtier than a Snarky Cat? Nothing I can think of so I stamped, coloured and fussy cut one and a bunch of presents, (the bows were a challenge) Because of the "gung ho" in stamping so many pressies I made a full slimline card, and it gave me more room to use many snarky sentiments too.

Finished the inside with a Hero Arts sentiment and of course another snarky sentiment to boot.

I will add this to:

The Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Wrapping up 2022 Last link-up

Thanks for visiting, I'm still not done with my holiday cards, I was a tad slack this year.

Holly and Ivy

 Hello friends, it's a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash, Holly and Ivy which means use Christmas plants, and greenery (trees, poinsettias, boughs and mistletoe and of course Holly which is the winning greenery. I did look at poinsettias and mistletoe but when I saw an already printed image I knew I needed to do it (a friend loves Cardinals) And voila another Holiday card done. And my stash item is the image, and the plaid scrap. 

I am not sure who's digi this is as it was already printed, I have made the same image as a Birthday card but just added flowers where the holly is. This is a 5 1/2 inch square card and the focal point is elevated.  Joy is flat attached.

Close up of the Cardinal pair.

Finished the inside with a couple of leftover scraps and a Hero Arts sentiment circa 2002 one of my first holiday sentiments. I love the font.

Adding this to:

Jingle Belles wrap up post ~~ add your last minute cards.

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the holiday foliage cards the rest of the design team have made to inspire you to join the challenge. 

A Stenciling we will Go!!

Hello fellow crafters it's time for the December Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge and it is always  anything goes with an option. 

As you see it's optional to use a Stencil, I must admit I am not a stencil person, I have the equipment (although plan "A" required texture paste which was totally hard and not usable) So of course on to plan "B" which was a "fail" next in line was plan "C" also a fail, I gave up for the day I had been working for 2 days on this stencil prompt, so even though I was really late I trudged on, a good night's sleep with ideas roaming around in my dreams I set up for plan "D" and I am happy I just didn't go with the anything goes theme.

As I said earlier I am not particularly fond or good at stenciling but I dug out the winter trees stencil it is a large one so I made a Slimline Card 3.5 X 8.5 inches. I blended some distress inks to look like a sunrise/sunset  added some deer and of course some cardinals. I then layered it on a navy stardream layer and I diecut the words from the same cardstock. 

Closer look although you can't see how shiny the sentiment is/

Finished the inside with a stampendous sentiment I found while looking for my pallet knives, it has a bend in it and wouldn't stick to the block, Anyone know how to flatten it out?

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to look at the main blog to see the fabulously stenciled creations the rest of the design team have made.  This is the last Christmas challenge for 2022 come back in 2023 (check the blog for the date) 

It's a Banner Day!!

 The last Jingle Belle Rock challenge of the year is Banner Holiday, it's one of my favourite challenges too and I'm sneaking it in with one day to spare (better than last challenge) I haven't been keeping up with a lot of Challenges, there never seems to be time to craft, but today I made time the dishes can wait.  the challenge is to design a card using the Jingle Belles Blog Banner as inspiration....Here is mine.

I made a mini slimline card and used die cuts from Boss Cuts, Gina Marie, Impression Obsession and a mini stamp from Stampendous along with the background music freebie from the Jingle Belles.

Close up of Santa (looking for good points)

The inside was finished with a favouite Hero Arts sentiment (a prize from the Jingle Belles a couple of years ago) , of course while die cutting there are always extra so used a few on the inside.

I'm adding this to:

The Jingle Belles Rock Challenge ~~ Banner Holiday.

Rudolph Days for November ~~ haven't played much this year. 

Thanks for stopping by to see what I have been crafting. 

Q is for Queen!!!

 Hello everyone!! it's a brand new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers ~~ Q is for Queen!!

Edna our Queen

To tell the truth I really stretched the theme this time I have only one digi stamp related to a Queen and I'm sure I've used it multitude of times for the Q prompt. So while searching my many, many digi folders I came across an image that I thought would work so at last minute I decided to make it into an Artist Trading Card (hindsight I should have made a set, but there is still time)

I fussy cut the image and flat attached it the sentiment also came with it, which was the reason I chose the image. I also had the perfect paper from "Simple Stories". Found some teal rhinestones for the "crown and earring".

Close up of the card, check out the crowns on the paper, and of course the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the much better representation of the theme at the Main Blog. 

Shine Bright like a Diamond.....

 There is a new challenge up at Shopping Our Stash and it's Shine Bright Like a Diamond , a couple of choices Bling it up and or use something that gives you light. I chose Birthday Candles and lots of them.

I have had this House Mouse stamp for a long time and I used it once before and it was also a birthday card, it could e used for a Christmas one and I have a stamped image ready to make it too. The sentiment is a "one liner" from Hero Arts, way back when, I think I bought all the one line stamps, I have at least 6 and maybe more I haven't used them in a while, I'm pretty sure that's is the last piece of blue cardstock from SU I have in my stash. 

Nothing cuter than a close-up of the mice singing a birthday ditty.

Finished the inside with a very old stamp from the Artful Stamper, you know you are really digging your stash wen you use wood mount stamps. 

Thanks for visiting today and head over to the MAIN BLOG and check out more shiny things.