Die Cut Christmas

I wanted to get a couple more Christmas cards done to link up

with the Beccy's Place A Month of Christmas Cards Challenge.

Today Beccy has a card posted in which she used several die cuts 

and challenges everyone else to do so.

Here's my take.

I used some Cricut die cuts. Some Sizzix originals die cuts

and Sizzix sizzlits die cuts. I threw in some punched snowflakes too.

I added some stickles to the center of the snowflakes

and used a white gel pen to add snow on the trees and the background.

Although it's not a pretty card like Beccy's I enjoyed putting

it together and think it turned out rather cute!

I'm also linking up to:

Winter Wonderland - Dies and Punches
Simply Create Too - Snow, Snow, Snow

Thanks for taking a look!

Season's Greetings

I love the current color combo at Color Throwdown for Christmas cards.

So I decided to combine it with the sketch challenge

at Freshly Made Sketches.

The poinsettia is a free printable from Beccy's Place, which I'm
also linking up to for the Month of Holiday Cards Challenge.
I printed it twice on red card stock, highlighted with a silver paint pen,
fussy cut and layered on top of the DP from DCWV's
Foiled Elegant Stack. The greeting was stamped with a Hero Arts stamp.
I added the silver corner stickers which are from the Paper Studio
and ribbon from Michaels.

Thanks for taking a look!

Santa and Rudolph

 Beccy's Place is running a Month of Holiday Cards Challenge
and there is a different theme each day.
Today the theme is to "Construct a Card"
using pre-colored cut outs, printables or purchased kits.
You should check out Beccy's card. It is beautiful.

But I didn't go the beautiful route. I decided to go with
cute and fun!

I found this Echo Park digital kit by Lori Whitlock called "Christmas Day"

and had a great time printing out each element 

and fussy cutting to create this scene.

I'm also linking up to:

Hiding In My Craft Room - Any Holiday

Try It On Tuesday - Christmas is Coming

Crafting For All Seasons - Tis the Season

Thanks for taking a look!

Wedding Day

I have an obsession with weddings. Always have, always will.

So I decided to make a wedding card using the current sketch at

Tuesday Morning Sketches.

The image of the couple is a free printable from Beccy's Place.
I colored the image with a combination of pencil colors,
 spectrum noir markers and smooch ink and fussy cut.
The purple panel was embossed with a Cuttlebug
border embossing folder. The ribbon slide is from
my stash, can't remember where I purchased it.
I added 3 gems to finish up.

I'm also linking up to:
Card Mania - use a digi
Stampin' Royalty - photo inspiration

Thanks for taking a look!

Snow Globe Wishes

Shaped cards are usually not my thing but I had some fun creating this one

so maybe I need to break out of my comfort zone and do some more!

I wanted to participate in the color challenge at the

Cosmic Colours challenge and felt like snowmen

would go well with the color combo, so when 

I saw the current challenge at Die Cuttin' Diva's was to create 

shaped cards a snow globe came to mind.

I cut the snow globe with the Christmas Cheer
Cricut cartridge. The snow family was stamped
with a Deep Red stamp, colored with pencil colors and fussy cut
I dry embossed the top part of the background,
tore a couple pieces of paper for the snow bank
and added glitter. The 3 blue snowflakes were some
I've had in my stash for quite a while. I used a Hero Arts
stamp for the greeting.

I'm also linking up to:
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Favorite Holiday
Beccy's Place - A Month of Holiday Cards Challenge
Christmas Cards All Year 'Round - No Patterned Paper
Inkspirational - Christmas with a Twist (no red or green)
Sweet Stampin' Christmas - Snow People

Thanks for taking a look!

Rustic Christmas

Okay I'm calling this card "Rustic Christmas" even though

I'm not sure it's really rustic, but it's about as close as I get to being "rustic".

It was inspired by the photo challenge over at

Just Us Girls.

The tree was die cut twice with the Christmas Cheer
Cricut cartridge and layered. I added copper and antique gold brads.
The large ivory panel was embossed with a Darice embossing folder.
Square copper brads were added to the green strips.
The Stickabilities sticker greeting was placed on a label die cut
with a Taylored Expressions die.
And there you have it, "Rustic Christmas"?

Thanks for taking a look!

Holiday Wishes

Here's my take on this week's sketch over at

Freshly Made Sketches.

The ornaments and sentiment were stamped with a Fiskars
stamp set called "Twas the Night Before" and embossed.
The pine fronds were punched with a Martha Stewart punch.
I used black and silver metallic papers from DCWV.

I'm also linking up to:
Beccy's Place - A Month of Holiday Cards Challenge
Inkspirational - Christmas with a Twist (no red or green)

Thanks for thing a look!

Christmas Carousel

I have one last post for today with another holiday card.

This one was created with inspiration from

Tuesday Morning Sketches

and

ColourQ.
The image I used is from
Beccy's Place.

Thanks for taking a look!

Birthday Princess

I needed to get a pink birthday card made so I took a little break

from my holiday card making.

I stamped the Prima doll twice, colored her dress and crown with

smooch inks, fussy cut and layered on her pencil colored body.

The ovals and banners were die cut. I did some dry embossing,

stamped the sentiment and added a little bling!

I'm linking up to:

Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

STAMPlorations - Stamps & Layers
Cuttlebug Mania - Very Girlie

Thanks for taking a look!

Christmas Wreath

I'm back with a card I put together yesterday. I wanted to make a wreath

card which is inspired by the month long challenge going on

 at Beccy's Place.  There's a different theme each day this month

for holiday cards and seeing what's there really gets your juices flowing!

The sketch is from Cardabilities.

I just bought a new Sizzix Bigz die called Ornate Plate

which is what I used as the wreath. The poinsettias are

Paper Studio 3-D stickers. I added some green and red leaf sequins

around the flowers. I used a gold gel pen on the edges of the wreath,

which doesn't show in the picture too well. 

The greeting is stamped with a Hero Arts stamp and cut with a

Taylored Expressions label die and edged with the gold pen.

There's Snow One Like You

I'm still working on Christmas cards so I found some inspiration

for this one at Color Throwdown.

Not exactly what you would expect, color wise, for

a Christmas card but I rather like the way it turned out!

I love this cute snowman digital stamp I got from Beccy's Place.
There's a fun holiday cards challenge going on there all month.
 I've got to get back to making a few more cards!

I'm also linking up to:
Winter Wonderland - Let's Get Sentimental
Crafts Galore Encore - DT Call & Anything Goes

Thanks for taking a look!

Christmas Buddies

I made a card this afternoon using one of my favorite stamps

from Penny Black.

I decided to go with non traditional Christmas colors

using inspiration from Color Throwdown.

I colored the image with pencil colors and used papers from
DCWV's Glitter Basics Stack.
The snowflake came from the button department
at WalMart and I added the gems.
The sentiment sticker is from the Paper Studio.

I'm also linking up to:
Penny Black Saturday Challenge - All Wrapped Up
Christmas Stamping All Year Long - Anything Goes
Beccy's Place - A Month of Holiday Cards Challenge

Thanks for taking a look!

Greetings From the North Pole

When I saw the color challenge for this week over at

Just Us Girls

I knew I wanted to do a holiday card.

So seeing this coloring combo and the sketch at the

Sweet Sunday Challenge 
made it pretty easy to throw this together.

I used North Pole Dazzles from Hot Off the Press
which were backed with white card stock, colored with
markers to match the color scheme and then fussy cut.
The DP also came from Hot off the Press.
The greeting was stamped with a Hero Arts stamp.

I'm also linking up to:
Beccy's Place - A Month of Holiday Cards Challenge

Thanks for taking a look!

Andrew's Birthday Travels

I've created a vintage inspired birthday card for this week's

C Thru the Woods Clear Stamps design featuring the large Andrew stamp.

Andrew was stamped on white card stock, colored with pencil colors

and fussy cut.  I foam tape him to a tag backed with

papers from the Paper Studio's Mirabelle paper pack.

The paper tole die cut is from Hot Off the Press.

I added some die cut swirls cut with a Sizzix thinlits die.

The sun glasses were cut with a Taylored Expressions die.

The large panel was covered with paper from

DCWV's Old World Stack.

I finished up with a sentiment sticker and square brads from Recollections.

I just love coming up with ideas to use all the guy stamps from

C Thru the Woods Clear Stamps.

Be sure and check them out here.

I am linking up to:

Southern Girls Challenge - For the Boys

Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes

Vintage Christmas Joy

I managed to get another Christmas card done this morning.

I think this one has a vintage feel, which is a style I really like

but I don't do very often. I'm usually a Classic/Elegant kinda gal.

Anyway, this is what I came up with.

I was inspired to do a more vintage style by the month long challenge that

is going on at Beccy's Place. She has lots of inspiration with

a different theme and prize giveaways every day.
The Vintage theme is from Day 7.

I used the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.

The papers are from the Paper Studio's Mirabelle paper pack.
The tree and deer stamps and dies are Tim Holtz.
The sentiment stamp is Hero Arts.
The buttons came from WalMart.

I'm also linking up to Jingle Belles - Great Outdoors

Thanks for taking a look!

Chalkboard Christmas

The challenge over at Just Us Girls this week is

to create a card with the chalkboard effect.

I love this look and have never tried it so I thought

I would give it a go!

I used the sketch at retrosketches.

I think I did okay for the first attempt, but may take some

more practice. I wish it would've photographed better.

Anyway as always...

Thanks for taking a look!

I'm also linking up to:
Beccy's Place - A Month of Holiday Cards Challenge

Snow Family Fun

I have the cutest  snowman digital stamp set from
Beccy's Place.
So I decided to use the snow family image to create this
fun holiday card.

I printed the image on white card stock, colored with
smooch ink and gel pens and fussy cut.
The greeting is part of a digital set from
Daydream Designs
called Christmas Wonder Sentiment Set.
I printed it on the white background and then embossed with
a Paper Studio embossing folder.
I popped the snow family with foam tape.
The snowflake base is a Dazzles sticker layered with
the white plastic snowflake from WalMart's button department.
The DP is Recollections.

I'm linking up to these challenges:
Beccy's Place - A Month of Holiday Cards Challenge
Winter Wonderland - Frosty the Snowman
Freshly Made Sketches

Thanks for taking a look!

Christmas Horn

I've realized I have to get back in the mode to get the number of

 Christmas cards made that I set out to do at the beginning of the year.

I can't believe it's November and Christmas will be here before we know it.

So I have this one inspired by the sketch at

Tuesday Morning Sketches

and the color combo from

 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown.

The horn stamp is from DRS Designs.
I stamped it 3 times, once on cream colored card stock,
(the horn was colored with a gold gel pen)
then on green and red and paper pieced.
The frame was cut with a Paper Artist
Lacy Labels die from Hot Off the Press.
The cream card stock was embossed with a
Darice embossing folder.
The ribbon, sticker greeting and gems are from my stash.

I'm also linking up to:
Beccy's Place -A Month of Holiday Cards Challenge

Thanks for taking a look!

Birthday Wreath

It's not verify often I do a post in the middle of the week

but I received th Flower Wreath set of digital stamps today from

Beccy's Place

 and wanted to use it to make a card for a couple of challenges.

I used the word for the week at

Just Us Girls

and the sketch from

retrosketches.

I did some coloring, fussy cutting, embossing and

added some Dazzles border stickers and pearls.

Thanks for taking a look!

One Last Halloween Card

Ok, I know we're past Halloween but I had one last card I created for this year.

It's one of those situations where I brought cards to some of my co-workers

on Friday and realized I should've brought one more for someone who was

off on Friday. So she'll get her card tomorrow. 

(Did I really just admit that! I must be an awful person.)

I've become obsessed with the Prima Doll Stamps.

So I thought I'd make this one a witch inspired by the

papers from DCWV's Fall & Halloween Stack

and a stamp set I have from Graphic 45.

I stamped the doll on white card stock, colored with Spectrum Noir markers

and fussy cut, as were the hat and broom.

I cut around the sentiment from the paper stack and

glued it on another one of the printed papers.

The border was punched with one of my favorite Fiskars punches.

I think, now I'm gonna have to get back to those Christmas cards so

I don't find myself in the same kind of situation as above!

I'm linking up to:
colourQ #265
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Halloween
Southern Girls - Get Wordy

Thanks for taking a look!

Singing Snowmen

I recently won some digital images on the

Beccy's Place Challenge (thank you Beccy!)

and couldn't wait to get started using them on some more Christmas cards.

The sketch is from the current challenge at

Tuesday Morning Sketches.

I love these singing snowmen! This image was already colored

so I dug out some papers I thought would work well with the green

music book. The stamped sentiment is Hero Arts. The pale green background 

panel was embossed with a Darice embossing folder. The printed papers 

are from DCWV's 6x6 Basics Glitter Stack.

I had the Dazzles snowflake stickers in my stash. I put them

on white card stock and fussy cut. I used some of the Dazzles innies

on the embossed snowflake background and finished up with green gems.

Thanks for taking a look!

Cowboy Dan

This morning I have a card I created for

C Thru the Woods Clear Stamps

featuring the Cowboy Dan stamp.

Dan was stamped on white card stock, colored with pencil colors
and fussy cut.  The background was done with a combination
of things. The sky was dry embossed with a Darice cloud embossing
folder and then sponged with blue ink. The barn is a digital image
and the horse and rope came from a sticker set from the Paper Studio.
I stamped "Howdy Ma'am", which comes with the Dan stamp, on a tag
from a free Paper Wishes download.

Be sure and visit the
C Thru the Woods Clear Stamps
blog and check out all the boys stamps and creations
by the design team!

I am linking up to:
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz- Anything Goes
4 Crafty Chicks - Anything Goes

Thanks for taking a look!

HOC November Challenge

Hello all! It's a new month and that means a new challenge at

House of Cards.

This month we have a sketch challenge going on.

Use the sketch to create a card in any style you choose.

As always you have all month to link up

and be sure to check each week and see what

the different design teams came up with.

My card is in the Classic and Elegant style.

I decided to use some of my Dazzles stash for this one.

Here are some close ups.

I took 3 different sizes of the stickers and backed them with

 red and black card stock and fussy cut.

Then I layered with foam tape.

I used a Sizzix embossing folder for the main panel

and a Darice embossing folder for the red border.

The oval was cut with Sizzix framelits dies and the

swirls I added were cut with a Sizzlits die.

The greeting is a sticker I placed on a 

Taylored Expressions label die and I finished by

adding the jewell dazzles on the embossed areas.

I'm also linking up to:

Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

Thanks for taking a look!