You're The Coolest!!

Happy Friday!  I had such great goals to make cards this week and I really made......nothing.  But I got this finished at the last minute!  Yay me!!

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge - #34 Whimsical 
• BYSHC Falling For the Holidays Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #671 Anything Goes 1/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy caffeinated Christmas crafting!  Laters!!

Magical Christmas Wishes

Happy Saturday!!!  It's so freaking hot and I stupidly decided to do some cleaning today (I know, I'm insane) and I discovered a bag of scraps of wrapping paper from last Christmas and that has led me here.  I got this paper with Santa riding a unicorn for my nieces. Isn't it cool?  I knew it would make a fabulous card and it did.

Just a few challenges:

• BYSHC Christmas In July Linky Party
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #7 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - Anything Goes
• DL Art Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #657 Anything Goes 2/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy Christmas crafting!  Laters!!

**ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with The Creative Crafters!!

Happy middle-of-the-month!  It's the fifteenth and that means it's time for a new challenge at Creative Crafters!  As always our challenge is Anything Goes!!!  As it's ten days until Christmas, of course I made a Christmas card!!  I just got this paper and it really inspired me to let it be the star and just bling it up, and I'm so happy that I did!

OMG I love love love LOVE this paper!!

I love allll the bling but those tiny AB pearls around the door might be my favorite.

Just a few challenges:

Be sure to visit the blog, play along with us and check out the other DT's projects as well!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting!  Laters!!

I'll Have a Blue October....

It's the last day of the and so I'm sharing my last card!  It's always sad when stuff like this ends, but it's okay because the Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop will be coming up soon!

Just a few challenges:

• Falling For Christmas BYSHC 2023 Linky Party
• DLArt Linky Party

 

 

• The Most Magical Time of The Year - #13 Anything Halloween or Christmas Goes 5/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy Christmas crafting.  Laters!!!

STAMPtember - Day Twenty-Five - Coffee and Cookies

It's not really fall weather yet here in Michigan but I've really wanted tea and hot cocoa anyway!  So I made this card instead because drinking a hot beverage in hot weather makes me sick.  Literally.

Just a few challenges:

DLArt Linky Party

Classic Design Challenge - #9 Anything Goes

A Perfect Time To Craft - Anything Goes

Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge - #21 Candy or Cookies **WINNER**

Simon Says Stamp Monday - Christmas 1/5

Crafts Galore - #115 Anything Goes 3/3

Paper Dragonflies Creative Challenge - #21 Anything Flies 5/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy caffeinated Christmas stamping!  Heehee.  Laters!!

Taking Christmas in July Literally!!!

Okay, so about two weeks ago, a friend suggested everyone in our little group make a Christmas card with summer colors.

I'm the only one who did it.

I'm not even sure I LIKE the card, but here we are.

90% of my Christmas paper is, you know, Christmas colors.  The rest is pastel.  So I had to make my own background paper and I used a snowflake stamp that resembles a star.  That might be my favorite part.

In general, just a lot of things went into this card.  I just had ZERO inspiration and I didn't want, like, Santa in a swimsuit.  So I decided to make a coffee card, so it would count for that challenge too.  Now for that, it needed a star, but I love stars so that was no big deal.  But the card fell flat with just a star on the cup.  And I didn't like the look of an embossed mug, or of patterned paper (again, wrong colors anyway).  So I added the rainbow out of scraps from a different card.  Do I love it or hate it?  I don't even know.

Just a few challenges:

• BYSHC Christmas in July Linky Party
• Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge - #19 Stars
• DLArt Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #605 Anything Goes 2/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy caffeinated Christmas crafting!!  Laters!!

Crushing Christmas Cards 2023 - May - Non Traditional Christmas Colors

Hi everyone!  I'm excited to share my first DT post for the Crushing Christmas IG challenge!  We have a fun hop going on today, come check out everyone's amazing cards and play with us!!

Just a few challenges:

• Word Art Wednesday - #596 Anything Goes 1/5

Come play with us every month!  Thanks so much for looking and happy Christmas Crafting!  Laters!!

Eat, Drink and Be Merry!!

When they say "Eat, Drink and Be Merry", they meant caffeinated beverages, right?

Right? 😀

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge - #16 Rainbows **WINNER**
• BYSH Spring Into Christmas Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #592 Anything Goes 5/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy caffeinated crafting!  Laters!!

I Made a Christmas card, because it FLURRIED YESTERDAY!!!!

In April.

It flurried.

In April.

Less than a week after it was 80 degrees out....

I know, I know, it's ridiculous to even talk about really.  I've lived in Michigan my entire life and I know what it's about, but....

Nevermind the weather.  I made a Christmas card and it's pastel and pretty and it needs something and I will probably update this post with the new photos when I fix whatever it is that's lacking.

Just a few challenges:

• BYSH Spring Into Christmas Linky Party
• BYSH Christmas Sketch Challenge #32
• Word Art Wednesday - #592 Anything Goes 1/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting!!  Laters!!

Pretty in Pink Christmas

This is prolly gonna be my last card for the hop :(.  Just ran out of time and steam.  But it was fun to throw these together last minute without stopping to die cut, stamp, etc, 'cause I did that earlier this week!

Just a few challenges:

• BYSHC Falling for the Holidays Link Up
• DL Art Linky Party
• Classic Design Team Challenge - #10 Anything Goes
• Leann's World - #55 Anything Goes

Thanks so much for looking and happy Christmas crafting!  Laters!!

Thinking of You at Christmas

If you read my previous post, you know that my Christmas cardmaking plans this last week went completely out the window!  I had these wonderful plans to make a card in each shape and some in strange color combinations and a shaker and--anyway, most of it didn't happen.  But I DID work pastels into this Christmas card AND it's not a typical Christmas card.  It's a Thinking of You card with a Christmas theme.  So at least I did that.

Just a few challenges:

• BYSHC Falling for the Holidays Link Up
• DL Art Linky Party
• Classic Design Team Challenge - #10 Anything Goes
• Leann's World - #55 Anything Goes
• BYSHC Sketch #27

Thanks so much for looking and happy Christmas crafting!  Laters!!

CRAFTmas in July - Day Thirty - A Thrill of Hope

Happy Saturday!!  My second to last card for this Christmas filled month is another non traditional one. I JUST got this shaker card set from Queen and Company, and I couldn't wait to play with it.  I absolutely love this sentiment die, because "O Holy Night" is my favorite Christmas song.

Just a few challenges:

• Queen & Co FB Challenge - Endless Shaker card
• DLArt Linky Party
• Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge
• Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Card Challenge - #605 Anything Christmas Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #554 Anything Goes 2/5
• Jingle Belles Rock - Blue Christmas

Thanks so much for looking and happy Christmas crafting!  Laters!!!

CRAFTmas In July - Day Twenty-Six - Blue Christmas

I have to say that I've never really been a fan of the song "Blue Christmas" but I am often drawn to make blue Christmas cards. I just love the combination of blue and silver don't you??

Just a few challenges:

• BYSHC Christmas In July Linky Party
• DLArt Linky Party
• Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - #604 Anything Christmas Goes
• Pammie's Inky Pinky Challenge - #2230 Anything Goes 2/3
• A Gem of a Challenge - #15 Anything Goes 2/3
• Paper Funday - #43 Anything Goes 3/6

Thanks so much for looking and happy Christmas crafting!  Laters!!

CRAFTmas in July - Day Twenty-Four - Christmas Rainbow

So it's been so hot for days.  We had like seven consecutive days in the 90s and it's just been miserable.  Today it rained, but somehow that made things hotter. I'm not even kidding.

Enough about the weather.  The summer isn't exactly conducive to Christmas cardmaking, but I do like making the Christmas cards and watching the Christmas movies.  I bought this stamp & die set from Simon Says Stamp and I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it.  I'm not entirely happy with the colors I chose, but I think it turned out okay.

Just a few challenges:

• BYSHC Christmas In July Linky Party
• DLArt Linky Party
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #7-2022 Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - #604 Anything Christmas Goes

Thanks so much for looking and happy Christmas crafting!  Laters!!

CRAFTmas in July - Day Sixteen - Striped Merry Christmas!

So I always try to really challenge myself and my creations in these months where I try to share projects every day.  Today I made a card inspired by the color challenge at Cupcake Inspirations.  I'm not usually great with these challenges, but I really like how this card turned out.

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Crafting Happiness - #125 Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #7-2022 Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge
• Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - #603 Use a Die Cut or Punch
• Cupcake Inspirations - #548 Color Challenge 1/3

Thanks so much for looking and happy Christmas crafting!  Laters!!

CRAFTmas in July - Day Five - Pastel Merry Christmas

Ahhh, I'm back to the world of the living!!  That was a TOUGH weekend!  I've got a super fun pastel Christmas card for you today.  3-D embossing folders are EVERYTHING.

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Crafting Happiness - #125 Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Card Challenge - #601 Anything Christmas Goes
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #185 Anything Goes 1/3
• Peace On Earth - #19 Anything Christmas Goes 1/3
• Jan's Digi Stamps - Anything Goes 1/5
• Crafty Catz - #602 Anything Goes 3/3

Thanks so much for looking and happy Christmas crafting!  Laters!!

Ombre Christmas Coffee

So in my last rainbow coffee Christmas blog post, I mentioned that I was loving that theme and working on another card.  I started three, but then it was like I hit a WALL.

I couldn't create, couldn't make anything not suck.

I'm fairly certain this does suck.  But I tried!!  I had issues getting a good photo, too.  One of those days.

Just a few challenges:

• Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge - #4 Rainbow
• DLArt Linky Party
• BYSHC Spring Into Christmas Linky Party
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #4-2022 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #4 Anything Goes
• Crafting Happiness - #122 Anything Goes 
• Word Art Wednesday - #540 Anything Goes 2/5
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #180 Anything Goes 2/3
• Creative Fingers - #229 Anything Goes 3/3

Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting!  Laters!!

A Rainbow of Christmas Coffees

I have to admit that this one started out as a bit of a challenge and by the time I finished it, it was so fun that I'm already working on a second rainbow Christmas coffee card! 

• Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge - #4 Rainbow
• DLArt Linky Party
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #4-2022 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #4 Anything Goes
• Crafting Happiness - #122 Anything Goes 
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #180 Anything Goes 1/3
• Creative Fingers - #229 Anything Goes 2/3
• Word Art Wednesday - #539 Anything Goes 2/5
• Morgan's Art World - #4 Anything Goes 2/3

Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting and caffeinating!  Laters!!

Java Merry Christmas!!

Okay so I'm always sooooo last minute but here it is.  I managed to make TWO similar but different coffee Christmas cards that fit BOTH the BYHS sketch challenge and the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge!

This first card, I really wanted to embrace the HEARTS theme, so I went with springy, Valentiney themed paper and a heart-shaped foam design on my coffee.

Just a few challenges:

• Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge - #2 Hearts **SPECIAL MENTION**
• Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers - Sketch #19
• A Bit More Time To Craft - #147 Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #2-2022 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers - #225 Anything Goes 1/3
• Your Scrapbook Place - COFFEE 1/3
• Word Art Wednesday - #532 Anything Goes 1/5
• Scrapping4Fun - #209 Anything Goes 3/4

Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

**ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES** New challenge with Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog!!

Who says you can't make Christmas cards in 80 degree weather??  It's the first of the month which also means a new challenge with Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog and as always our theme is Anything Christmas Goes.  It's been so very humid lately and my house is covered in pumpkins and bats but I can still get into the Christmas spirit!!

Just a few challenges:

• Classic Design Challenge - #10 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time To Craft - #145 Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #10 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time To Craft Extra - Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge
• Christmas Crafts All Year Long - Something That Starts with S (snowflakes) 1/5
• Word Art Wednesday - #511 Anything Goes 2/5
• Die Cut Divas - Anything Goes 3/4
• Creatalicious - #220 Anything Goes 3/3
• Creative Fingers - #216 Anything Goes 3/3
• Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes 3/3
• Simon Says Stamp - World Cardmaking Day

Be sure to visit the blog, play along and check out all the other DT's awesome creations.  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!