New Challenge at Shopping Our Stash ~~ #230 UFOs use an unfinished object

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving last week and some of the design team had a relaxing time. So not sure but we are having some great challenges at Shopping Our Stash, I loved the No Stamping challenge and now we get to use a UFO ~~ un-finished object. Well going back a few weeks I made a card and just before I put the image on it a light bulb went on, my card was to be WHITE, so quickly made the "white" card so there was a full base, patterned paper and a sketch from The Crooked Stamper so I put it in the "UFO" box. The sketch challenge #10 is now over but I liked the sketch and it worked perfect for the sentiment I used for the focal point.  So before you go digging for your UFOs, head to the challenge blog check out rules and see what UFOs the rest of the design team have made.

I love the sentiment it's perfect for the front or the inside of a card.

Close up of the sentimen

Since I put the sentiment on the front I thought this was perfect for the inside.

Thanks for checking my blog today and have a fabulous crafty week.

Week 2 of No Stamping at Shopping Our Stash

Oh my gosh it is December 1st, wow where did November go, 24 more days to the big day!!!

I hope all my American friends had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Shopping Our Stash  let the U.S. half of the Design team have a week off to enjoy the holiday without stress of crafting. Since our Thanksgiving in Canada has been celebrated over a month ago I offered to make a card for the challenge. I'm getting the hang of just using die cuts for a card although the little fir tree was MIA for a day or two, I found it attached to the magnetic plate under the cutting plate on my big shot and the Merry Christmas was there too.  So here is what I made for Challenge #229 No Stamping.

The deer, fir trees and sentiment are from Impression Obsession 

Here is the card closed. 

Thanks for visiting today and head over to the SOS Blog to see more inspiration.

Freshly Made Snowman

Had an update from Freshly Made Sketches saying there was still time to play so I got busy with a super cute snowman that was already sitting on my table begging to be used.  I had already saved the image of the sketch as I had planned to join but as usual other things took priority.  I was planning out a card and picked the patterned paper but when I saw the snowman I decided to use it

This cute snowman is one of a set of 4 from Sunshine Designs, the sentiment on the  banner masked and inked and stamped a few times before it worked.

His scarf and mitts were coloured with a spica glitter pen.

Finished inside of the card using up a few more scraps

I would like to enter this in:

Freshly Made Sketches #214

Thanks for stopping by today and have a wonderful day!!!

N is for Naughty Christmas Card ~~ At the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

We are rockin' this challenge and hope you do too!!! Head over to the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Blog and check out what the rest of the team have  created for the challenge. This was a no-brainer for me I knew I would use my Dolly Mama Christmas stamp, it is a slightly larger stamp and made it 4 1/4 X 6 inches, most of the dolly mama stamps I have are fairly tall, it does limit the lay-out of the card but I used the sketch at Catch The Bug, Stella says Sketch.  So here it is!!!

I added a few black rhinestones

Close up of the sentiment 

I finished the inside with a simple Merry Christmas die cut (hiding on my desk) and a fir tree that was also kicking around on my desk, wow two scraps less on my desk.

I want to enter this in 

Catch the bug Stella says Sketch challenge #318

Thanks for spending some time here today and dig out those naughty stamps and create something for us at SoSS.

Shopping Our Stash #229 ~~ NO STAMPING!!!

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Wow what a great challenge!!! Shopping our Stash's challenge is No Stamping (use just paper, die-cuts, stickers, rub-ons, etc)  **TWO WEEK CHALLENGE! This challenge gave me the push I needed to get out those dies that have been sitting in a drawer gathering dust. I really love to colour and even though I bought these dies I just never got around to using them and there are more coming too. Here is what I did for the challenge.

I think the sleigh and deer dies are three years old, never used, but the tree and sentiment are fairly new. The patterned paper and "snow" paper are from the scrap box.

here is a closer look at the sleigh and deer

I added some stickles to the ripped edge of the snow.

Thanks for stopping by today and remember that this challenge is two weeks to give our U.S. design team members time for Thanksgiving, do come back next Tuesday for a reminder post and more inspiration.

Challenge #99 Christmas and Glitter!!!

It's challenge time at Clear it Out Tuesday the theme is Holiday!! and the holiday is Christmas the stash item is Glitter. Those two things really go together, The sponsors for the challenge are Bugaboo Stamps and Digital Paper Craft.  I am in full swing making Christmas cards so I was happy to make one. I chose some totally cute penguins from Bugaboo Stamps and here it is......

I used the sketch from Stella says Sketch at Catch the Bug challenge Blog.

Here is a close up of the super cute penguins, I coloured them with copics but the hats, scarves and mittens were coloured with spica glitter pens, although you can't see it they are quite sparkly.

Finished inside of the card.

Challenges I would like to enter this in:

Catch the Bug challenge blog Stella says Sketch #318

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you find time to enter your Glittery Christmas projects at Clear it Out Tuesday.

Shopping Our Stash #228 wants you to give Thanks (US Thanksgiving)

Thursday November 26th will be the U.S. Thanksgiving and Shopping Our Stash  would like you to make a project to say Thanks or to make a Thanksgiving card/project. Since I am Canadian and our Thanksgiving was in October I made a "thank you" card. The stamp I used is from CardArt Flower Thank You from Hero Arts.  I'm not even sure it has seen ink before today but it sure made a quick card, or would have except I did some fussy cutting lol.

I layered the image on black then on pink, the flower was stamped, coloured and fussy cut.

I used Brilliance coral ink for part of the image, and added a few pink rhinestones 

I left the inside blank as I will write a personal note.

Thanks for visiting today and for my U.S. visitors have a wonderful Thanksgiving.