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!