Coolest People Christmas

Christmas is just a week away!

Are we all ready?

I still have gift wrapping and baking to do!

But, before I get on to those tasks, 

I thought I would share one of the cards I made for

Polkadoodles.

I've used one of the new digis from the 

Theo Penguin Winter Snowy Days Collection.

Hello Theo Penguin

 This is such a cutie and he can be used for any occasion!

I colored with pencils and fussy cut.

The background includes papers from

10 Classic Winter Papers Set 1 Theo Penguin.

My card base was die cut.

The sentiment is from

109 Winter/Christmas/Birthday Greetings Sentiments.

It  was printed and die cut.

I added some snowflake gems.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great Holiday Season!

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Linking up to:

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes

A Place to Start - playing Happy Holidays twist

Dream Valley Challenges - ATG

A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge - ATG

Classic Design Challenge - Happy Holidays

Critter Crazy Challenge - ATG w/featured critter

613 Avenue Create - Any Winter Holiday twist

Molly's Joy

Hi there!

I started coloring up this little cutie a few days ago and

didn't get around to finishing her until last night. 

This morning I got to thinking and remembered I had a snow globe die.

I thought she would look super cute on a snow globe shaped card.

I stamped some trees on the background, 

did a little inking, added some snow banks and

splattered a little white paint for a snow effect.

I love the way this little card came out.

This is Molly's Joy from

Conie Fong Art & Design.

The digi was colored with Prismacolor Pencils and fussy cut.

Glitter glue was added to the "JOY" banner Molly is holding.

I die cut the "Merry Christmas" sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!

I so appreciate you all!

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Linking up to:

A Place to Start - ATG w/Twist Happy Holidays

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Cute Christmas

Dream Valley Challenge - ATG

A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge - ATG

Ally's Angels - ATG

Classic Design Challenge - ATG

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - ATG

Pearly Sparkles Challenge - Christmas

The Four Seasons Challenge - Anything Winter Goes

The Creative Crafters Challenge - ATG

Crafty Calendar Challenge - ATG

613 Avenue Create - ATG w/twist Any Winter Holiday

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - ATG

Creative Fingers Challenge - ATG

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Challenge Recognition

Winter/Holiday Memory Dex Cards

Hello there! I'm here today with my latest project created for Clear Scraps!

This time around I decided to play with the Vintage Acrylic Memory-Dex Dividers and I’ve also used some Chipboard Punchout Embellishments.

I decided I wanted to add a little something more to the background of the clear dividers, so I pulled out the 6 inch Swirl Stencil and some white metallic texture paste.

A pallet knife was used to spread to texture paste over the stencil onto the dividers. Be sure snd remove the protective film.

This is what I ended up with.

While waiting for the texture paste to dry, I chose some patterned papers to use with a die and which chipboard embellishments I wanted to work with.

I die cut 1 piece of patterned paper for each divider. Also die cut a piece for each out of a white snowflake paper for the backside. This is done to cover up the adhesive used on the front.

Adhere the patterned papers to the fronts.

The white paper is added to the back.

The chipboard pieces were painted with white acrylic paint as a base coat.

I added clear glitter glue to the skate chipboard piece and colored the skate blades with a silver metallic marker. Some twine was added as laces. A dimensional snowflake sticker was added with a greeting/sentiment from some HunkyDory die cuts from my stash.

The mitten chipboard was colored with markers and little glitter glue added for my 2nd divider.

I added more HunkyDory pieces and some twine.

My third divider was decorated with a sweater chipboard piece colored with markers with a tree sticker added. More HunkeyDory pieces were added.

This really was a fun project for me! I hope you like it!

You can find more Clear Scraps inspiration 

by following on social media

Clear Scraps Blog

Clear Scraps Facebook

Clear Scraps Instagram

Clear Scraps Pinterest  

Merry Christmas Cat

It's Thursday and I'm sharing my latest project for

Pajama Crafter Stamps!

And I've, once again, used a sketch to create my card.

Sketches are fun to use and you can put your own "spin" on them

to come up with a card that is truly unique.

I used one of the images from the High Five Stamps and 

2 stamps from the Prickley Pear Holly Jolly Christmas stamp set.

The stamped images were colored with Prismacolor pencils and fussy cut.

The sentiment was die cut with Christmas Words with Shadow Die.

Thanks for stopping by and, if you haven't give sketches a try!

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Linking up to:

SUYP Cat Challenge - ATG w/ cat as main feature

Krafty Chicks Challenge - Christmas

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Christmas

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes

A Place to Start - ATG/Twist Happy Holidays

A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge - ATG

Pearly Sparkles - Christmas

613 Avenue Create - Any Winter Holiday

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Challenge Recognition

Crafty Gals Corner Blog Hop

Hello there!

It's time for this month's challenge at

Crafty Gals Corner!

We are also having a Blog Hop this month!

Please see info at the end of the post with how

to follow along and be eligible for some fabulous prizes!

The theme for this challenge is: 

~ Anything Goes w/optional twist - Make it Merry ~

Our challenge sponsor for this challenge is  

Beccy's Place

Prize ~  $10 Gift Certificate

My DT card was created with

Candy Canes Digital Stamps

I printed the image and colored with Prismacolor Pencils before fussy cutting.

My background is just simple white card stock with 3 strips of colored card stock.

The sentiment was die cut with a Gemini die.

I added 3 red pearls.

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Crafty Gals Corner 10th Anniversary Celebration Blog Hop

In addition to our regular challenge, we are also hosting a Blogiversary Blog Hop! 

This marks 10 years that Samantha got challenges, sponsors and 

some WONDERFUL ladies together, to inspire you with beautiful crafty creations.

Now this would not be a celebration without some prizes, right? 

Well, we do have some wonderful prizes offered by Crafty Gals Corner and 

also from some of our wonderful sponsors, for this blog hop. 

 All you have to do for a chance to be win a prize is to leave some love on our teammies' blogs.  

So come hop along with us, have fun, and good luck!
Please follow the blog hop schedule below,  and if you get lost you can just hop on back here :)

Billie
Cathie
Christopher
Jeanie
Judy V.
Judy Mc.
Kim
Lena
Rae Ann

Our AMAZING sponsors for this blog hop are:

     

Colour of Love

Prize ~ 1 Digi of your choice

Dr. Digi's House of Stamps

Prize ~ 1 Digi of your choice

Mirtillamente Craft Shop

Prize:  1 Digi of your choice

Moondrea Designs

Prize ~ 1 Digi of your choice

Pattie's Creations

Prize: 1 Digi of your choice

The Paper Shelter

Prize: 1 Digi of your choice

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Linking up to:

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes

A Place to Start - ATG/Twist Happy Holidays

Dream Valley Challenge - ATG

Inspiration Station - the colors and candy cane are my inspiration from the photo

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Challenge Recognition

Winter Wendy Believe

 Hi there!

I put a card together today and had to share!

This one was done with 

Winter Wendy

from

Conie Fong Art & Design!

The digital image was printed, colored with

Prismacolor Pencils and fussy cut.

I created a background with some glitter and metallic card stock.

Snowflakes and snowflake borders were die cut, as was the sentiment.

All dies used are from Crafter's Companion.

I added some clear gems to the 3 individual snowflakes.

Be sure and visit Conie's Etsy Shop for this digi and a whole lot more.

Also, I hope you'll join us over on Facebook at

Conie Fong Art & Design Group.

We'd love to see your creations using Conie Fong digis there!

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Conie Fong now has a You Tube Channel where she teaches drawing simple images 

in easy step-by-step drawing tutorials.

Draw with Conie You Tube Channel

Also, we invite you to join the Draw with Conie Facebook Group.

You'll find info on new videos there and inspiration projects from the Design Team. 

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Christmas at Polkadoodles

 Happy Saturday!

It's time to provide some inspiration for this month's

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge!

Challenge theme: ANYTHING GOES

It's all about Christmas for the Design Team's inspiration this week!

I made a card using the

Oh Deer Gingerbread Cookie Digistamp Bundle.

These bundles are great, as they have everything 

you need for holiday crafting!

I used one of the cute images and colored with pencils.

It was fussy cut before adding to my card.

The backgrounds done with 2 of the included papers and

one of the sentiments and the pre-colored tree.

I hope you join us!