Christmas in July?

 Good morning, am so late with my card I just happened to be in the Rogers power outage starting early Friday morning and just reconnecting at 9 a.m. on Saturday so we will have a short post today as it isn't even on the SoSS blog as I type. First the graphic announcing the challenge.

Pretty hunky Santa Edna is entertaining, thanks Lee.

I used one of the Snarky Christmas Cats, coloured, fussy cut and grounded him with a present added them to a snowy scene using up a bunch of scraps as well, The winter sky is a scrap of smooshed background (it had JOY stamped on it so they had a huge snowfall there) Sentiment from the same set.

Close up of the snarky cat showing all my mistakes. He really looks like he is saying What Milk? What Cookies? doesn't he. 

Finished the inside with a couple more presents (the scrap of cardstock was large enough to stamp 3 and the sentiment) no waste. and a Stampabilities vertical stamp (a fav. of mine) I layered the sentiment on the black as it was sitting on my desk, another scrap filled card. 

I will be adding this to:

Show us Your Pussy Cats Challenge ~~ Any Furrything goes. #79

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the MAIN BLOG and see the awesome Christmas in July inspiration the rest of the team have made. 

It's Christmas in July at Shopping Our Stash!!

 Hello crafty peeps, hope your July 1st and July 4th holidays have bee great, lots of sunshine and friends.

At Shopping Our Stash we are celebrating Christmas in July so dust off thos Holday stamps and dies to join us for the challenge. Don't forget to use up your stash while you are doing it. 

My snowman is from Hero Arts and it's one of the first snowmen steamps I bought when I first started stamping, Let it Snow is from Elizabeeth Craft Designs which I cut twice, once in blue and once is very heavy weight white. The patterned paper is old, not sire when I bought it but it was a leftover piece that was left at the cottage from crafting last year. 

Finished the inside with a a couple of stickers I found that were also left over from last summer at the cottage, along with a simple sentiment. 

I'm adding this to:

JIngle Belles Challenge ~~ Stars and Strips for Christmas

Just us Girls ~~ Word Week ~~ Script

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the projects that the rest of the design team have made, just click HERE.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer!!

Now that you are humming that Christmas classic tune on to the card!! My reason for it is two fold, Christmas in July Week long event at Catch the Bug and July Rudolph Days,  Here is my card for Day 7 of the event, 

I used a bugaboo image coloured and fussy cut and place them on the red panel, since it was a colour challenge I added the green plaid background. The Movie Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.

I love this week and had many thought to play along but crafting was not on my radar for last week I am happy to at least have gotten one card done.

I'm entering this in:

Catch The Bug Challenge~~ Christmas in July

Rudolph Days ~~ July

Thanks for stopping by today

Christmas in July at Shopping Our Stash!!

Wow it's our 400th challenge at Shopping Our Stash and do you know what that means? I have blog candy for one commenter. The theme for the challenge was my idea, it sounded like a perfect way to feel cool.  Of course I had mega ideas but settled for Olaf for my subject and a different fold too.

This is the 5 1/4 inch square card when it is closed, Olaf is a digital image from Sassy Studio Designs which I have had for a few years The huge snowflake is from Impression Obsession and is cut first in foam core then in silver.  Joy is stamped and I think it is from Hero Arts.

Here is the card set up as a Triangle Easel card. It is a very easy fold. The snowflake on the base is also from IO and the same set as the large one.

As I mentioned I have Blog Candy to celebrate our 400th challenge I chose a favourite stamp company, House Mouse Designs 

This is a favourite stamp of mine it can be used for any occasion, Christmas, Birthday, Anniversary or just if you want to say Hello with Snail Mail. So don't forget to leave a comment to get your name in the draw.

I'm entering this in:

Jingle Belles ~~ Tic-Tac-Toe 

Top Line ~ Snowman/Glitter/Stamping

Wink of Stella used on Olaf's nose, buttons, eyes and mouth. 

Head over to the main blog and check out the rest of the design team projects and there might be more blog candy from one or two or more of them. Remember to comment here on my blog for a chance to win a cling mount House Mouse Designs stamp.