It's been quite a while since I last posted in this blog, but I wanted to have this adorable Christmas card that I made for the Gecko Galz Christmas Challenge. I printed the image on glossy photo paper and the DCWV Christmas paper has silver foil so that it shines nicely.
Here was a card a made sometime ago and just hadn't taken the time to post using a Bugaboo image with prisma pencils and copics. I colored this several years ago when I was on the Bugaboo DT. The sentiment is from TLC, Create.
Patterned Paper: Paper Studio
Cardstock: Bazzil; Recollections
Stamp: Bugaboo - Santa Presents
Sentiment: TLC, Create - Have Yourself a merry little Christmas
Divine Twine
Pom: Creativity
Die: My Favorite Things
Punch: EK Success
Pearls: Recollections
Prisma Pencils
Challenges
CHNC - Ch. 545 Anything Christmas with optional winter fun
Crafty Catz - Ch. 554 Anything Goes with optional Tag, you're it!
Merry Little Christmas - Ch. 35 Anything Christmas
Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 493 - 494 Anything Goes
Dream Valley - Ch. 249 Die cuts and/or punches
Well I'm trying to get my Christmas cards done for the month which is getting harder and harder at this time of year when I am thinking of flowers instead of snow. I have images that I have sitting that I have been wanting to color so I have been trying to get them done. And this one just makes me smile with this cutie. Another Mo Manning image and it reminds me of my son since we have so many squirrels in our yard.
Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye
Cardstock: Bazzil; Recollection
Stamp: Mo Manning - Miles in Winter (see above for direct link)
Border Punch: Martha Stewart
Snowflakes: Paper Studio
Stencil: My Favorite Things
Ink: Distress Oxide - Broken China
Challenges
Mo Manning - Ch. 302 Anything Goes with a Mo image
Cheerful Sketches - April 2021
CHNC - Ch. 537 Anything Christmas with optional snowman/woman/family
12 Months of Christmas Link Up - Ch. 76 Anything Christmas with optional red/gold
Your Next Step - Ch. 161 Sunshine and smiles
CCAYR - April Something that starts with G or H (hat, happy)
ABC Christmas - H & I Icicles
Krafty Chicks - Ch. 554 Christmas
I wanted to get a couple Christmas cards done each month and I am trying to do it yet for March. I had this one colored and put it together. This adorable elf is from Mo Manning and the sentiment is from TLC, Create. For March, I kept it green in color.
Cardstock: Bazzil
Stamp: Mo Manning - see above for direct link
Sentiment: TLC, Create - let Heaven and Nature Sing!
Pom: Creativity
Spectrum Noir glitter pens
Border Punch: Martha Stewart
Challenges
Mo's Digital Pencil - Ch. 301 Anything Goes with a Mo Manning image
Sketch Saturday - Ch 653
CHNC - Ch. 535 Anything Christmas with optional star or more
Christmas Kickstart - Ch. 48 Green Christmas
ABC Christmas - E for Elf
CCAYR - E for Elf
12 Months of Christmas Link Up - Ch 75 Cheers
The past few years it has been my goal to make at least 2 Christmas cards each month and I have done well.....until this year. I'm quite behind in my holiday cards. I have tried to do some cleaning in my craft area and I found this wonderful freebie from Beccy's Place that I colored long ago and had sitting in a pile waiting to be put together. So I played instead of cleaned....again. I dry embossed the background and heat embossed the Tim Holtz sentiment.
Patterned Paper: Sweet Shoppe
Cardstock: Bazzil; Recollections
Stamp: Beccy's Place (see above for direct link)
Sentiment: Tim Holtz
VersaMark
Embossing Powder: Stampendous
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug
Challenges
Christmas Card Throwdown - March Sketch
Beccy's Place Challenge - March
CHNC - Ch. 532 Anything Christmas or optional Father Christmas
CCAYR - March something that starts with e or f (embossing)
CRAFT - Ch. 589
Merry Little Christmas - Ch. 32
Fezziwigs Festive Frolics - Vintage
I decided to make a shaker card for my parents for Christmas. I used a sentiment from TLC Create and a shaker kit from Kat Scrappiness.
Just for a quick update - NO squirrels in my attic, my Dad, brother and son came over last Sunday and found that it was a RACCOON!!! Since it was a lone raccoon it was probably a female since they den alone for the winter since they don't want a male around when they have their babes. She didn't want to leave my warm attic, but with MUCH coaxing from the guys she left. They cleaned up the mess she made, put some new insulation in and replaced the screen on my fan that she ripped out to get in. She tried to come back for several nights which I didn't appreciate and the temperature dropped. So it got quite cold and windy so I'm sure she found a new shelter.
For those of you who celebrate have a Merry Christmas!
Patterned Paper: Paper Studio
Cardstock: Bazzil: Recollections
Sentiment: TLC, Create - Merry Christmas Mom & Dad
Punches: EK Success
Dies: My Favorite Things
Sequins: Recollections
Flowers: Hobby Lobby
Challenges
Cheerful Sketches - December 2020
CHNC - Ch. 521 Anything Christmas with optional use "Christmas"
Always Fun - Ch. 194 Christmas
As You Like It - Favorite person to create for family or friend and why (family, they appreciate it when they know that you make it special for them)
Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 470 - 472 Anything Christmas
Fezziwigs Festive Frolics - Last minute makes
Well I used to be a DT member of Tuesday Morning Sketches and I just loved this sketch. So I made a monochromatic Christmas card using some patterned paper and dry embossing the background with stars. I used some die cuts and punches to make this quick and simple card.
Patterned Paper: Paper Studio
Cardstock: Recollections
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug
Die: Sizzix and QuicKutz
Punch: Hobby Lobby
Challenges
Tuesday Morning Sketch - Ch 585
12 Months of Christmas Link Up - Ch. 72 Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown - Ch. 472 Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 470- 472 Christmas
the Sisterhood of Crafters - Christmas/Winter
Scrapping 4 Fun - Ch. 182 Christmas or Winter
Fezziwigs Festive Frolics - Last minute makes
Patterned Paper: Authentique, Paper Studio
Cardstock: Recollections
Stamp: TLC, Create
Sentiment: TLC, Create - Cozy Little Christmas
Ink: Distress Oxide - Old Paper
Poms: Cretivity
Die: My Favorite Things
Challenges
Cheerful Sketches - December 2020
CHNC - Ch. 519 Anything Christmas with optional quick and easy
2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Ch. 45
Crafty Animals - Ch. 45
12 Months of Christmas Link Up - Ch. 72 Anything Goes
ABC Christmas Challenge Y Your Favorite Things (Patterned Paper, Square Card)
Winter Wonderland - Anything Goes
I haven't done much posting, because I have been cleaning my house which I really have neglected for quite some time. I always had an excuse, work, design teams and I just needed to get it done. Now that I have been working from home, it was driving me crazy to have my office be the only clean area. I found cards that I started and just never finished and here is one of them. I had this pre-colored image from Paper Shelter and had some liquid pearls on it. So I put it together with some papers I embossed and distressed and a left over piece of Christmas paper that I don't even know who the maker is and now this is how I feel after doing my cleaning, lol.
Patterned Paper: Unknown
Cardstock: Recollections
Stamp: Santa Collection
Sentiment: Retired Verve digital stamps
Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon
Punches: EK Success
Embossing Folders: Cuttlebug & Sizzix
Holly: Hobby Lobby
Liquid Pearls
Tim Holtz Distressing Tool
Challenges
The Paper Shelter- Ch. 451 A Christmas Card
Dream Valley - Ch. 238 Christmas
CHNC - Ch. 518 Anything Christmas with optional things with wings
Creative Craft Cottage - Ch. 135 Christmas/Winter
Creative Knockouts - Christmas Delight
Scrapping 4 Fun
Well we are getting closer to Christmas and on that frenzy to make those cards. Here is one with a new die cut from Simon Says and I found some gingham ribbon in my stash that I wanted to use.
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey
Cardstock: Basic Grey; Core-dinations; Bazzil; Recollections
Die: Simon Says - Ho (see above for direct link)
Border Punch: Martha Stewart
Ribbon: stash, unknown
Challenges
CHNC - Ch. 515 Anything Christmas with optional add a button/2 or more
Krafty Chicks - Ch. 533 Christmas
Holly & Ivy - Ch. 83
HSS - Ch. 352 Photo Inspiration
Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 464 - 465 Anything Goes
We didn't always celebrate our heritages and diversity is a new concept. My father is born here in the US and so were his parents, and grandparents. However, they settled in an area in Wisconsin where there were people of Polish decent that spoke a dialect of Polish. So when my Dad when to school he knew how to speak this Polish and not English. He went to a one room school house and had to stay in from recess to get extra English lessons. To this day he can not say words with "th" and has even gone for speech therapy.
I made a Merry Christmas card using a die cut from Memory Box.
Patterned Paper: A Paper Rose
Cardstock: Bazzil; Recollections
Die Cut: Memory Box; Sizzix
Flowers: Prima
Punch: Martha Stewart
Challenges
CHNC - Ch. 514 Anything Christmas with optional something that starts with "H"
Christmas Kickstart - Ch. 41 Festive Florals
Aud Sentiments - Ch. 263 Anything Goes with a sentiment
CCAYR - November for family and /or friends
Do-A1(1) Kreatives - Ch. 47 Glitter/Sparkle and Christmas
The Holly and Ivy Christmas - Ch. 82
I have been wanting to make at least two Christmas cards per month. With all that is happening in life and the added stresses for everyone, I have been making my cards that have some sarcastic humor. I think that we need to laugh and that is the only thing that we seem to be able to do for fun lately. I got a new stamp set from Whimsy with these Christmas girls and added my own sentiment. Now I think that I will be on the naughty list forever. I actually want to make a red-headed version of this same card and send it to my ex-husband, lol.
Patterned Paper: Paper Studio
Cardstock: Bazzil; the Paper Shop, Recollections
Stamp: Whimsy - Gossip Holiday Girls
Memento - Tuxedo Black
Snowflake: Recollections
Sentiment: Computer generated
Challenges
CHNC - Ch. 514 Anything Christmas with optional something with the letter "H" (horns)
Aud Sentiment - Ch. 263 Anything Goes with a sentiment
CCC Digi Creations - Ch. 120 Christmas is on the way
Creatalicious - Ch. 198 Anything Goes with optional humor
Dragonfly Dreams - Christmas/Winter
Incy Wincy - Color Challenge
Well I am having too much fun being sassy and thinking who I am going to send my naughty cards to. Well when I saw this stamp set at Whimsy I just had to order it right away. I know I know I might be permanently on the naughtly list myself, but it will be worth it.
Patterned Paper: Paper Studio
Cardstock: Bazzil; Recollections
Stamp: Whimsy - Loads of Cheer
Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Distress Oxide - Broken China
Reindeer: Dress it Up
Gems: Michael Richards
Stencil: My Favorite Things
Challenges
Sketch Saturday - Ch. 633
CHNC - Ch. 513 Anything Christmas with optional make your own background
ABC Christmas Challenge - U Up in the air, V - Vixon (on the roof and reindeer on my card)
Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 657 Stamping
Merry Little Christmas
Growing up in Wisconsin and being raised out in the country, we always had lots of pinecones around. Now I love when I go into the craft stores or places where they have them scented with cinnamon. It just reminds me of the large trees from the woods and seeing fresh white snow on them during the winter. I just love this Tim Holtz die cut and it goes perfectly with the HSS sketch.
Patterned Paper: Paper Studio
Cardstock: Bazzil; Recollections
Dies: Tim Holtz - Festive Trims; QuicKutz
Stamp: Tim Holtz - Mini Holidays 2
VersaMark
Embossing Powder: Stampdendous
Pearls: Jolee
Bling: Bo Bunny
Punch: EK Success
Challenges
Hand Stamped Sentiments - Ch. 350 Sketch
Sparkles Christmas - Ch. 117Vintage
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog - Ch. 27
Fab 'n Funky - Ch. 499 Christmas
Simon Says Wednesday Stamp Layer it up
The Holly and the Ivy - Ch. 81
12 Months of Christmas Link UP - Ch. 70 Color Challenge
CHNC - Ch. 513 Anything Christmas with optional make your own background
I got a new die from My Favorite Things and thought that it would make a great Christmas card.
Patterned Paper: Paper Studio
Cardstock: Bazzil; Recollections
Die: My Favorite Things - Stacked Merry; Sizzix - Oval
Sequins: stash
Punch: EK Success
Bling: Recollections
Embossing Folders: Cuttlebug; Sizzix
Challenges
Cheerful Sketches Challenge - October 2020
CHNC - Ch. 512 Anything Christmas with optional add a flower or more
CRAFT - Ch. 573 Anything Goes with optional Christmas
Creative Knockouts - Ch. 372 Embossing Delight
Merry Little Christmas - Ch. 27
Sparkles Christmas - Ch. 117 Vintage Christmas
The Holly and the Ivy - Ch. 81
The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up - Ch. 70 Color Challenge
I got a new Christmas stamp set from My Favorite Things which is perfect for making cards for my Grandpups.
