Blue Christmas

Welcome to my world and A Merry Christmas to you everyone, that will be here before we know it. It is time for Scrapyland Challenge blog and for now the challenge is make a Christmas card using all dies the Scrapland sells in the store. Scrapyland sells a lot of die cuts. Stop by and see all the amazing card all the designer have made.

These are the company’s they have in the store.

Spellbinders Snowflake Wonder S4-085HL and Contemporary heart Pendants.

Embossing folder from cuttlebug called snow dots, pearl pen ice white. Added some stickles to the embossing folder so it would sparkle.

This is the inside of the card. Added some of the left over from the cuttings of the die.

This is a close up of the die cuts and the large ribbon I have had for a long time.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful Wednesday.

Snowman melt your heart….

Hello everyone! I hope things are going well for you the Holiday Season? It is time for The Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge and the twisted for this week is “FUN IN THE SNOW” 

To all my wonderful blogging friend... I never changed the word verification and I went and checked it and it is still on NO. I do not know what is going on so just it comment and see what happens it should post.

Anne’s digital designs is our sponsor for the month of December, the image I have is called Fun in the snow and you can find her here.

I cut the image out. I found this paper I thought would work really well with the image and I’m sorry I cannot tell you where it is from. It was loss in the container with all my Christmas paper and it had a piece that matched with all these little snowman all around it.

As far as my card it is not going to help it you like anything, the stamps I have had forever and I have a LOT of snowman saying but when I took them off (years ago) the wood I did not mark down who made the stamps (who new them I was going to have a blog) but now I do.

Added some Aleene’s snow, stickles color star dust, the tree was at on time a button and I cut the back off.

The inside I added an unknown sentiment, the unknown snowman paper, unknown green glitter chip board and some glitter dots.

These are the copic markers I used to color the image. This is the close up of the image.

Well that was fast. At least I did not take to much of your time today. Have a good last have of the week.

Homemade…. Eat Turkey!

This is my card for Though the Craft Room Door challenge and I just want to REMIND EVERYONE THE CHALLENHE IS ANYTHING GOES ALL THE TIME! Just in case you forgot. If you do not know what ANYTHING GOES mean let me explain you can enter card/project/ornament/ as long as it is something you created you can enter it. Here is the link you need so you do not need to go looking for it. All you need to do is enter it in the “INLINKS”.  The sponsor for the time is Oak Pond Creations and this in one the Kim’s images and it is called ROOSTER (I think that is a good name for him) and if you like him you can fine him here. Personally I think he is adorable, I do have to tell you I had to look up Roosters on my computer so I could see what they look like. Hey I live in the city, what can I say….. If you have time stop by and check out the other designers creations everyone did an amazing job on their projects. Challenge ends on December 15, 2014.

I’m not good at doing CAS cards but I did want to see if I could do it and I think I pretty much did!

The paper is from Die Cuts with a View (DCWV) Nana’s Kitchen stack. The sentiment was part of the stack. The spellbinder used to cut out the Rooster is called curved rectangles. I do have to tell you I keep wanting to call the Rooster a Chicken, sorry!

Added several glitter dots. Now hope easy is that?

My poor inside, used brilliance ink color orange and several glitter dots but I had to write “EAT TURKEY”, you know how at Thanksgiving time they tell you to eat BEEF, I thought if it said EAT TURKEY that would be funny, well what you think?

These are the copic markers I used to color my Rooster. I wanted to share with you what I did to the ground. I asked my friend (he like to do woodworking to save me some saw dust) and what can I say, a little silly question but he did. So I took the saw dust and mixed with some other stuff I had to make it look like what Roosters would walk in (I think) so this is what I got. Used some diamond glaze to hold everything down and this it what it looks like. It you add just a touch of greens inks it kind of looks like grass.

Here is the close up of the Rooster all colored up.

Want to thank all you beautiful people for stopping by. Hope things are well at your place. Still no snow in Wisconsin (south eastern) I live by beautiful Lake Michigan. So have a super week everyone. Come and join us at Though The Craft Room Door.

Wonderful time of the year!

O do hope you are having a wonderful week end. I want to share my card with you that I made for The Progressive Freebie Group it is listed under Challenges at the top of the Main Page then
you will need to register to play. By sending us an email to outlawzprogressivechallenge@gmx.com with your full name and email address and we will make sure you get your free image. Once you register and get your image and make a card using that image that you are sent each and every month (you will get the image the first of every month) so watch out for your junk mail or something that looks a little different it might be the image and it will come from a different artist each month. You will have a hold month to make your card but remember if you do NOT make a card you will NOT get the next month image. So you need to be on top of this each month. For this month the image is from Simple Betty Stamps she is called Tangled Wednesday.

So this is my card I created for the challenge. If you would like to see what the designer made with their image you can check here.  You still have time to join, right! How long does it take you to make a card?

My Paper is from Kaisercraft Dear Santa collection. Added a doily

This is just a closer look at the memory die cut called winterland tree. On the bottom I added some Aleene’s snow. I punched out a few snow flakes with a tiny punch.

This sage I made a couple years ago and I have a couple left. So added it on top of the Christmas ribbon.

The inside of the card.

These are the copic markers I used to color the image.

Here is the close up of the image.

I hope you can join us but if not this month we will be have 1 starting on January first and if you would like to join us then all you need to do is send the email to outlawzprogressivechallenge@gmx.com with your full name and email address and tell us you would like to join and on January 1th we will send you out the image and it is a cute one. We have some wonderful sponsors for the year. Come on!!! Join us…. After you do that you will need to join The Outlawz and we are a great group of crafters. After that look up and see CHALLENGE on the top middle and fine Progressive Freebie challenge and come on over and join in. You only need to do this once.

the SCACD Holiday Inspiration Day

Today is a special day at SCACD it is A Holiday Inspiration Day and several of us got together and thought we would use some of the amazing digital images Susana has in her store that the artist Carmen Medlin has done. The image I have is called Winter Guardian. When I seen this one I just fell in love with her but there are several I really love. Plus she is having a SALE going on right now. So stop by SCACD store and see what is going on. Susana also has a Blog with all kinds of inspiration on it.

Spellbinder grand nestabilities scalloped, I cut out several of the sizes. Folded them in half. The paper was from my stash. This is really not a card it opens up as you will see and you can hang it on the wall. I explain about the stickers below but I used 3 trees and 5 gifts and several of the stars.

I used some Brilliance ink color white around the edges.

If you would like to stop by and see what the other designer created here are their blogs
Alaine
Roni
Susan
Kathi
Penny
Nikki
Alex
Kim
Patricia
Donna
 

I added some of Aleene’s true snow and a hold lot of Martha Steward crystal fine glitter. This is the project open up and the way it would look on the wall.

These are the copic markers I used to color the image.

Here are some little closer pictures of the image. I added pear pen color ice white to the background. Some flower gems in blue to the trees. Very tiny white pearls to the button of her dress. I do hope you can see that it is a little 3D, everything is raised. I colored my image first and them I added the crystal fine glitter until it was smooth and them colored a little over what I already colored.

These are the stickers I used, they are from Starform transport glitter #3216. I put the stickers on white card stock and cut them out. The gift packages I put on blue and a peach color and cut them out.

I hope you enjoyed my project. Hope you can stop and see some of the other projects. Have a wonderful day.

Cold Winter

Burrrrr, that sounds like a cold title. But it is time for Scrapy Land challenge#7 and the challenge this time is ANYTHING GOES, using any brand of die that Scrapy Land sells so stop by and check out all the brands Srapy Land sales. The challenge started today and it ends December 17th. If you want stop by and see all the wonderful cards and projects the designers have created over at the blog. The first thing I did was create by background. I used Brilliance inks pads these are the colors yellow, orchid, beige, orange, 0live, ivy, sky blue, mediterranean blue.

Once I have my colors together I pounced out a 1 inch circle Eclipse paper (it is for masking) and place my sun/moon about where I wanted it to be. Them I always start with my real dark colors for the visional line you would see in the far background, I use a straight piece of paper, using the brilliance ink mediterranean blue for the far sky line and the ivy for the the ground line. You can also make your own sky  templates, just take a piece of paper and tier it across kind of up and down. Using your template you can create all kinds of different shapes in the shy. You do need to remember to take your Eclipse paper off and what I get is a big white spot so I try using some yellow, orange, sky blue to fill that in. 

Once I had added enough color to the shy, I picked out a couple of stamps, using them for the edges and I wanted to add some birds. Some times I add some white to the leaves that’s kind of nice because it give the leaves some detail. My stamps are from Stampsscapes, I love Stampscapes stamps they have some amazing ones that can help you create all kinds od scenes. So I want to us these die cuts Impression Obsession die079-U that is the Trees and Impression Obsession die0810-N deer. So if you would like to check at the store you can go here. 

I cut the trees out and I added some C01 to the open area on the birch trees and them I added some stickles star dust for some sparkle. No real reason why I cut the deer out in white, I guess I just wanted to. Added Aleene’s true snow on the ground area and some diamond dust from Twinklet’s. As you can see I did not do much with the inside. Just sponged around some of the edges.

I hope you have had a nice day. Here is Wisconsin today it was nice sunny day and we have no snow but I sure we will have some for Christmas. How you doing with you shopping? Did you go out on Black Friday? I stayed home with the grandkids and we made cookies. Found out yesterday Isaiah (grandson) will be coming home for Christmas this year, can you believe he is a junior in high school this year and I just found out that he has just got his 2 degree in black belt, I so proud of him. No girlfriends yet, I tell him keep it that way but he has been asked to some dance they have coming up that the girls ask the guys. Well have a nice evening. Take care and be safe. Oh I wanted to say if you have any questions let me know. I will do a tutorial on the Tent card for you several of you have asked.