Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Merry Merry Christmas

Merry Merry Christmas 2012
We have started our challenge #57 over at Color Me Creative. Don’t you just love all these colors. The challenge ends on Dec 7th, 2012 at 8:00pm. I’m going to let you in on a little secret our next challenge is a  BIG ONE…. Suzanne has been talking about A HOLIDAY BASH mmmmm what could she be thinking…. She is also talking about BIG PRIZES!!! OMGoodness if you know Suzanne like I know Suzanne when she talks about big prizes and lots of them, remember last year at this time (Christmas is Suzanne favorite time of the year) she gave away so many prizes and there were so many winners. Have I got you excited yet???? Can’t tell you can more but be watching out for our next challenge. I can’t wait…
**Non-Traditional Holiday Colors**

color ANY image ANY way you like but there CAN BE NO RED-GREEN HOLIDAY COLORS USED, WE WANT TO SEE NON-TRADITIONAL COLORS USED in the image somewhere!!  Our sponsor is:

The image I used is called Candy Cane Jingles.
Merry Merry Christmas left 2012
The paper used is from Peppermint Forest stack from Joanns. Added one jingle bell to his hat. The gem stone gift is from Christmas crafts.
Merry Merry Christmas right 2012
The sentiment stamp is from Hero Arts.
Merry Merry Christmas inside 2012
The gold Christmas tree ribbon I have had for a long time and I just love them added a couple of gold snowflakes from Michaels.  Punched out a snowflake. Have an area for the message or a stamped sentiment.
Merry Merry Christmas markers
Copic markers used to color the image. Also used spica colors olive, gold and melon. Gelly roll silver and gold.
Merry Merry Christmas flower
The poinsettia I cut out with the Silhouette Cameo. That was the easiest flower I have ever done.  The center of the flower is Suze Weinberg’s Mini Mosaics.
Merry Merry Christmas sentiment
I did some Faux stitching around the sentiment and the image. These gold corners I have had forever, they are just paper and I have no idea where they came from.
Merry Merry Christmas close up
Thanks so much for stopping by.
 
Challenges:
Thought the Craft room Door-Anything Dec 3 ends
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Friday, November 23, 2012

Christmas Train

Christmas train 2012
I hope everyone the celebrates Thanksgiving had a wonderful day yesterday. My day was wonderful spent with the family. I sorry I’m one day late with my day but I was pretty busy yesterday so I wanted to get this upload right away this morning. I made this for Delightful Thursday for Digital Delight and I’m so happy how the train train out. Also I using this card for The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and for this week the twist is all about “SNOW, FROST AND GLITTER” so we would love to have you join us. Make sure you stop by and see all the wonderful cards all the design team members have created, so much inspiration. These are all the images I used from Digital Delight.
Candy Cane Train (colored)
Candy Cane Jingles (colored)
Magical winter sentiments
              Christmas train right 2012
My card turned out to be so much fun to make my grandson is going to love it. What I did was enlarged the Christmas Train image to the size I thought would work for a size for a card. Them printed at centered it at the bottom of the card stock, then tried printing it out a couple time with typing paper to make I could fold the paper in half. Then when I felt good about that printed the image on card stock. I cut the train out but if the size was fine you could get away with not cutting the train out.
Christmas train left 2012
As you know me, I would have to add some thing in the window and of course Candy Cane Jingles is the perfect and the cutest snowman ever and the sentiment. Then with all the Aleene’s True Snow, Twinklets Diamond Dust, fluff, Diamond Glaze.
Christmas train inside 2012
This is how I did the inside. I had some candy cane paper and add a couple of sparkling Christmas trees and snowflakes (fiskars tiny snowflakes punch)  and left a space open for a message or a stamped sentiment.
Christmas train markers
These are the copic markers used to color the images. Here is a close up of Jingles.
Christmas train close up
Over at Delight Challenges  there is a challenge going on and that is all about using the COLORS RED AND GREEN . 
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So lots of challenge and inspiration. We would love to see your creations. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful week.

Challenges:
Craftroom Door- Anything Goes ends Nov 27
Divas by Design- patterned papers ends Nov 28
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Monday, November 19, 2012

Dear Santa

Dear Santa 2012

It is time for Cards for Men Challenge #24 and it is all about Merry Christmas. Your card must be for a man or a young boy. The challenge begins today and ends December 2, 2012 at midnight. We would love to see your creation. Our Sponsor for this challenge is:

Scribbled Kidz

Scribbled Kidz is all about fun images largely inspired by my family and what they might get up to. They are all hand drawn originals scanned in at 300dpi and saved as jpegs.   If you have any suggestions or special requests please let us know.Please pop along and see what we have to offer.

Dear Santa right 2012

My card for me is really simple. My image is called Dear Santa.  The sentiment is from When the scraps hit the fun. I made a frame around the image with Martha Steward aspen snowflake punch around it measures 5 inches by 5 inches. Punch out the sentiment with 1 1/4 round punch and 1 2/2 scalloped punch. Used some scrap papers around the image, snowflakes and inside. Added Stickles glitter glue star dust.

Dear Santa left 2012

Different view.

Dear Santa inside 2012

On the inside left open for a stamp message or a written message. Punched out on the left side a snowflake #5.

Dear Santa sentiment

Just a closer look at the sentiment.

Dear Santa markers

Copic markers used to color the image.

Dear Santa close up

I added some white to give a look that he is in his PJ. Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful week.

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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Christmas Ornament

pretty little ornament standing 2012

I know! I’m sorry,twice in one day is a lot and I don’t like it either but what can I say.  The Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge has just started and I want to share that with you so you wont miss it. This week the Twist is to make a project or a card using punches or die cuts. On my project I used punches, I created an ornament. I will try and walk you thru how I made it but I just took my punches out and this is what I got.  I decided to take a picture of the punches I used, I hope this will help you. I really have to tell you this is so easy to make it is unbelievable.

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From the top left to the right, large green one is Marvy Uchida 3 1/2 inch can be scalloped or not (does not matter) punch 1, black one stampin up 1 1/4 scallop punch 1, stampin up ornament punch out 5 them in one color and punch 15 in another color , on the left is a company out of business but I wanted you to see the shape kind of leaf shape punch 5, Marvy Uchida 3/4 punch 1 and Marvy Uchida 1 inch punch 1.

This is what the back looks like. As far as colors you can use what ever color you want.

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Punch out 1- 3 1/2 (or any large circle punch), Punch out 5- ornament glue (mine are green)them over the edges of your circle punch.

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now punch out 12 ornaments , 3 of them for each section. as you can see there are 5 sections and fold them in half.  Put one face down and glue the two other ones to each half of the flat ornament.  Now take the other sides that are not glued and glue them down in-between  the other 5 ornaments (mine are green) you already glued down. Punch out 5 of the punch that is kind of leaf shape and fold in half ( I cut the ends off that I inserted in the middle).  I have Tim Holtz Rosettes die cut so I made one rosette and used the 3/4 to hold the back and the 1 inch for the front. I found the snowman embellishment but you can add anything. I glued him to the 1 1/4 scalloped circle. The green material I had in my scraps you can use anything netting and folded it over and glued it in between . Add some Christmas ribbon to hang it up with.  

pretty little ornament sitting 2012

This is another one I started to make, I’m not quite finished with it yet but I did it the same way. I hope you are not totally confused now… If you try and make it and have problems let me know and I will help you or just email me and I will get right back to you.

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Have to go watch the kids tonight.  Kurt and Jessica have classes to go to but I will be back a lot later. I have great evening.

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TeaCup Slippy

Teacup Slippy 2012
I’m so happy that you have stopped by. Over at Digital Delight we have a SALE going on.  Delightful Thursday there are some wonderful cards being displayed to help you get some inspiration. The design team have created some outstanding cards and projects this week. We would love for you to stop over and see all the creations. My creation is an Ornament card with TeaCup Slippy he is just adorable and I used The Ornament SVG cut files with my Silhouette Cameo and it was so easy to create my card.
Teacup Slippy (colored)
Magical winter sentiments

Ornament card SVG cut file
I also want to let you know about The Delightful Challenge that is going on right now.
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Teacup Slippy right 2012
Christmas tree paper and I had some tree ribbon (my sister-in-law sent me last year). Added some layers and of course snow (fluff), found some Christmas lights and a flower for the top.
Teacup Slippy left 2012
The other side.
Teacup Slippy inside 2012
How I did the inside. Left the message area open for a stamped sentiment or a written message.
Teacup Slippy markers
The copic markers used to color the image.
Teacup Slippy close up
Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day.
 
Challenges
Craft room door Challenge #44 Anything ends Nov 20
Tuesday Alchemy Challenge #40 Anything goes ends  Nov 19
Divas by Design Challenge #61 Anything goes Nov 21
Little Red Wagon Christmas Card Challenge #159  ends Nov 21
Pennys Paper Crafty Challenge #102 ends Nov 20
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