Meowy Christmas!!

Popping in quick before the holiday festivities to say MERRY CHRISTMAS!!



(or maybe is Meowy Christmas? LOL)

Wishing you and your families a wonderful holiday!

Christmas Tree Cutie

Happy Friday!!

Poppin' in quick today to share this Christmas Tree Cutie from Passionate Paper Creations & Friends FB group sponsor, Bloobel Digital Stamps!



I finally had the itch to do some coloring last night, and was able to throw her up on a card with some coordinating patterned papers and die cuts from Creative Basics!

Copics
skin: E000, E00, E21, R20
eyes: B63, B66, B69
hair: 100, C3
dress: YG03, YG17, YG25, YG67
blue bulbs/gift: B12, B14, B16
red bulbs/ribbon: R17, R37, R46

Thanks for stopping by... Happy Weekend!

Sweet Dreams Molly

Hello!

It's been a few days since my last post- since the holidays sneaking up on us my crafting has decided to take a bit of an (unplanned) vacation! :(

But I am popping in to share this card, I forgot to post last week... AND to remind you that you still have time to join the FROSTY FEELING challenge over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog!



This is the adorably new Sweet Dreams Molly digi image available from Tiddly Inks!  Love her in her cute onesie pajamas and that giant candy cane!

Will be back soon with more to share! Thanks for stopping by!

North Pole Woods

Hello!

Hope all of you in the US had a wonderful holiday weekend, and everyone else- a fabulous regular weekend! LOL!

I'm sharing a card today over on the LDRS Creative blog that I made combining two of the newest clear stamp sets- North Pole & North Woods!



I stamped and masked the polar bear from the North Pole stamp set and then added the trees to the background. Colored in copics, I gave the trees a dusting of snow- it is the North Pole, right? I die cut the scene using a die from the Fancy Squares & Little Things die set, and finished of the image with a bit of sparkle using a Spectrum Noir sparkle pen. I found some coordinating pine tree patterned paper in my stash, along with the polka dots (I thought looked like snowballs!) using the Basic Stitched flag die also from Creative Basics, pulled everything together with a sprinkling of snowflake sequins and baker's twine and added the sentiment using a stamp from the *HSN exclusive* CandiBean Christmas stamp bundle... there's still some available AND they're on sale!!

Copics: 
polar bear: C00, C0, C1, C3
trees: E35, E37, YG03, YG17, YG67, YG97

Thanks for stopping by hope you have a fabulous day!!

"Deer" friend

Woohoo! Happy Friday!

Starting off this first weekend of November with Passionate Paper Creations & Friends Facebook group's last sponsored weekend of the year with Little Miss Muffet Stamps!

There are some ADORABLE new reindeer digis in the shop and they are the cutest- I want them all!

I colored up Reindeer Greetings first...



After coloring with copics, I die cut the reindeer using a Fancy Rectangles and Layers die by Creative Basics, in addition to another of the same size in green card stock.  I love keeping my cards simple so I just layered them onto a piece of patterned paper and added some wood veneer and sequin embellishments.

Copics: 
reindeer: B24, B26, C0, C1, E31, E33, E35, E37,
red: R17, R37, R89
greens: YG03, YG17, YG67
shadow: B41, 0

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful weekend!

North Pole Greetings!

Hello Happy Friday!!

I'm on the LDRS Creative blog today sharing yet ANOTHER card using the sweet penguin from the North Pole stamp set- I just can't get enough of him... I haven't even inked that adorable polar bear yet!

I stamped & masked the Santa hat on the penguin, colored it in my favorite Copic red combo (R17, R37, R89) and gave the penguin a few strokes of gray to his belly for dimension and some rosy cheeks, and fussy cut him out. I also stamped the sign from the set, added the north pole sentiment, and die cut it with the matching die.

To give my card some texture, I die cut 2 squares using Fancy Square die in felt, with one of those squares I die cut again a little hill using one of the Basic Cutting Edge border dies- tucked the north pole sign behind it and the penguin on top.

The Merry Christmas sentiment is from a special set that will be available *only* on HSN starting October 5th! Stay tuned for more info on that...

To put my card together- I layered my felt scene with a Basic Stitched flag die cut and adhered everything to my card base, with this fun festive patterned paper (from Hobby Lobby).

Thanks for stopping by... I'll be back shortly with another share! :) 

Day 2 LDRS Creative Release

Hello!

I'm back again to share another card I created for day 2 of the LDRS Creative release!

Today, I used the North Pole stamp set along with Creative Basics dies. Check out all the new *stamps* and *dies*...



I used the sweet little penguin from the set, stamped it twice and added some eyelashes to make one a girl penguin ;)!

This stamp set also comes with the matching die set, which I also used to die cut the penguin couple... I lined up the die with the first penguin and taped it down, ran it through my Big Shot- by placing it to the edge of the cutting plates so the point where the penguin wings met hangs off the edge and doesn't get cut, then did the same thing for the other penguin, and carefully using my x-acto blade finished off the cuts.  I gave them a few strokes of gray copic around their bellies and some rosy cheeks. I die cut a few Basic Pierced Ovals and layered them to look like snowy hills and die cut them all together using the Fancy Rectangles & Layers die, mounted it on some coordinating patterned paper and washi tape background, added some bakers twine a few sparkly accents and called it done!

Copics: 
bellies: C00, C1, C3, 0
cheeks: R00

Don't forget to go to the LDRS Creative blog for more fabulous inspiration and chances to win! AND for even more chances to win- check out the Passionate Paper Creations & Friends Facebook group!

There's even a sale going on... 20% off the ENTIRE SHOP... this week only!!

Very MERRY Christmoose!

Happy Weekend!!!

So excited that it's time for the...


There are some FABULOUS sponsors as there are for every hop! Ginormous kudos must definitely go to Amy & Chaitali (& the fab new design team!) for putting everything together and some amazing inspiration!

I combined forces and am also playing along with MFT's Sketch #258 for card!



I can't get enough of this sweet moose! This was the image that colored up the other day (that was too big for last week's sketch!), but just right for this week's!



I stamped the hot cocoa mug in the same set in Versamark ink, and colored them with colored pencils. I then inked the edges with white pigment ink (Hero Arts Unicorn White). The moose scene is colored using Copics, & I topped the tree off with some Wink of Stella!

Off to do (hopefully) finish off some more Christmas shopping and settle down with a big cup of coffee later to do some hopping!

Holly Jolly Elfy Holiday!

It's time for a new challenge at Tiddly Inks!

Things are starting to get a little more festive around here! (now that there are finally more healthy people in my house than sick- I was outnumbered for a week!) and I've managed to start decorating my house little by little... hoping to pull out the tree today!

Anyway, on to the new challenge, this week's challenge is HOLLY JOLLY!

I used the new Elfy Holiday image for my card...



I LOVED coloring this image- it was so much fun with all the gifts, and of course because it's Wryn and I *LOVE* her! I matched her with some patterned & glittered papers and added some stickles to some wood veneer embellies!

I'm also tossing this into Virginia's View's *last* (hopefully not really the last) challenge, because I really haven't played enough to have it be over! - All about Glitter!



Hope to see you join in the challenge- Check out all the details on the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog!

ChristMOOSE Hugs!

Happy Saturday friends!

I'm slowly finding more time to get crafty since everyone in my house has been sick the last 2 weeks! (yuck!)

But after getting the Merry Christmoose stamp set from My Favorite Things I couldn't WAIT to get that adorable turtleneck wearing moose onto a card! & he was just a perfect fit for this week's new sketch challenge (#257)!


I had colored up a little scene the other night (you may have seen it on my Instagram) but my circle piece was too big for the sketch!  So here is what I did instead...




I stamped the stockings from the set (the mini star is from You're Super) in a random pattern in Versamark ink and highlighted them with a white colored pencil. Oh! I also pulled out some white Fun Flock for the brim & pom pom on his hat. & topped off the Christmas tree with some clear Wink of Stella!

Off to put up the Christmas decorations... Happy weekend!

Reindeer FUN!

Hello!

I'm a little late with my post for Tiddly Inks this week... sorry!

Anyway, I'm back with the newest challenge over at Tiddly Inks! and it's ANYTHING GOES!

Going to make it quick and jump right to my cards- these are both the newbies that were just released...

Reindeer Kisses


and Reindeer Games!



Be sure to check out the details for the challenge and check out the rest of the design team's awesome creations all on the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog!

Happy {Christmas Foxy!} hello!

Hello again!

It's been a few days since my last post- but I'm still here! Coloring behind the scenes and just squeezing in time to put everything together. Things are about to get much crazier as the holidays creep closer too!

Anyway, while doing some blog reading, I came across the new challenge for Paper Smooches!


And the November challenge is GOLD! (I'm not usually a fan of gold.. but it's slowly growing on me, especially with all the fun embellishments and sparkly papers it's hard to resist!)



I pulled out this sweet Chilly Chums set that I surprisingly haven't inked up yet (til now!) and just had to use the lil chummy fox first...



I stamped him on kraft card stock and my original plan was to just use copics, but when I used a white colored pencil for his face and tail, I found that I really liked the texture so I added a layer of colored pencil on top of his body & head- makes him look fuzzy and soft! I added gold with the diecut happy from the Birthday Words die set along with the gold glittered tag & sequins.

Thanks for stopping by! Happy almost Friday!

Cacti Wishes

Hello!

Surprisingly, I was able to get some crafty time this weekend- doesn't usually happen often on the weekends!

Again, I was able to use an image I colored a few days ago (from Kathy Racoosin's 30 Day Color Challenge) and put it on a card!

For those of you that don't know- I live in sunny Arizona, in a desert, so when Hero Arts came out with this cactus stamp set I knew I had to have it! AND then they came out with a holiday version with cacti decked out in Christmas lights! Since I haven't been able to get my hands on it (yet), I decided to create my own Christmas cacti!



I stamped the cacti in green distress inks and colored with copics, I used the string of lights from Lawn Fawn's Baah Humbug to make them 'festive'! I'm pretty happy with how this turned out... can't wait to decorate some more! ;)

I'm entering this card into the Hero Art's October Holiday Cardmaking challenge!

Thanks for stopping by... will be back soon to share more cards!

Christmas in August?

Can you believe it's only 4 months away??? (YIKES!)

I'm not sure about you, but I LOVE Pinterest! So much fun projects and inspiration. That's where I found the inspiration for the photo we used for our Christmas card a few years ago... (still finishing that 2013- I can see the light! LOL)

My son (Cayden) received the Little Tykes Coupe car from his cousins and he absolutely loved it- and STILL does! I tied my 3ft artificial Christmas tree to the top to take a photos for our card.  It took a lot of goldfish snacks to keep him in the car long enough for me to snap photos! This first layout is just a few of the many "outtakes"...



and this is the facing page with the final photo on the Christmas card we sent out!



Thanks for stopping by... Happy Friday!

I'm off to polish off some more layouts!

Christmas Tags!

Just popping in to share some Christmas gift tags I made for my nieces, nephew, & son!

Elena drew and shared this adorable kids in pajamas that I thought would be perfect for the kids in my family! And one of my most favorite things about digis is that you can resize them to any size you need! I resized them roughly from oldest to smallest and colored them in their favorite colors...













Again, I used the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched tag die and attached them to the gifts with washi tape so they could keep them.

I also made this cute tag to put on a gift for a friend- I just love these cute Lawn Fawn critters!



Thanks for stopping by!

Snow Much Joy!

Popping in quick to hope you all are having SNOW MUCH JOY this holiday season...

Christmas is just a few days away... are YOU ready?

This cute snowman is...



Happy Tuesday!

Happy Winter...deerie!

I found some free time to play today & thought this Lawn Fawn Critters in the Snow could use some inking...for the 1st time!

I had this idea to have little ornaments hanging from the sweet deer's antlers, I just had to make it happen! & Perfect timing for another entry to the Merry Christmas challenge @Lawnscaping! (I made another one here...)

I paired up 2 of the sentiments from the same set- "happy winter" & masked off the "hello deerie" for a cute greeting. Added some sequins and twine & called it done!

Thanks for stopping by!

Merry Lil' Owl!

Can you believe it's exactly ONE WEEK until Christmas?  I most definitely can't, I say it all the time, but I'll say it again, this year has flown by! Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet?  I think I'm officially done as of today- now to just get it all wrapped! (where's that wrapping fairy when I need her?)

Anyway, I finally had a chance to play with some stamps that were screaming to be inked...

This sweet little owl from Lawn Fawn had been hiding in my stash- glad I found him *before* Christmas! ;) and just in time to join in on the Lawnscaping "Merry Christmas" Challenge!

Paired up with this Christmas Banners & Messages set from Hero Arts, I kept my card pretty simple with a few diecuts & sequins!

Thanks for stopping by!

Paper Sweeties December Release Rewind!

It's here! It's here! Release day at Paper Sweeties!!

Popping in with one final peek at another card I made with the Snow Time & the matching Sweet Cuts!



I thought it would be cute to have the little snowman peeking out form the side instead of centered :)

I also paired my card with some sentiments that I masked and stamped to make a new message, I used part of the sentiment from Homemade from Love along with the "Christmas" stamp from the Happy Holidays set! 

Please be sure to swing by to see more inspiration here...

Amber Kroening

Annette Witherspoon

Char Cundy

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties

Julie Tucker-Wolek

Larissa Heskett

Lysa Rohrer ** You are here!**

Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala

Mynnette Kitchen

Nancy Penir

Happy Shopping! :) 

Paper Sweeties December Release Party!

Time for another day of Paper Sweeties sneak peek!

With all the layers I put into my first two cards (here and here...) I decided to keep today's card super CAS! :)  I used the 2nd release from this month- Snow Time, and with some simple masking, I stacked the presents for a fun look.



Check out the rest of the team's blogs for their FAB creations!

Amber Kroening

Annette Witherspoon

Char Cundy

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties

Julie Tucker-Wolek

Larissa Heskett

Lysa Rohrer ** You are here!**

Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala

Mynnette Kitchen

Nancy Penir

Thanks for stopping by! Tomorrow is RELEASE DAY!