Golden Christmas brings Holiday Joy

 
Hello to all my blogging friends out their. I do wish you had a nice warm and cozy week end. We have a New Challenge #33 going on at Color Me Creative and it is called “Holiday Joy- in Gold's, Creams, and White”. You can use any image. This has to be a NEW CARD, you can not back link. When you tag your card you need to tag it “SPARKLE”.  Ends on January 5th 2012 at 8:00pm EST.You can upload your card to INLINKZ over at Color Me Creative.
For this Challenge we have LOTS OF PRIZES!! AND A WAY TO DONATE TO A WONDERFUL CHARITY!!
WHAT YOU CAN WIN:
-1 person will win a NEW Provocraft CRICUT MINI machine
-1 person will win a NEW KINDLE E-READER
-1 person will win a $50 Gift Cert. to SCACD
-1 person will win a $25 Gift Cert. to the Paper Temptress
-1 person will win 5 digis from Tiffany Doodles 
and a $15 Gift Cert to 7 Kids College Fund 
and a Gilli Gift Bag 

THESE ARE SOME FANTASTIC PRIZES!!!

HOW TO PLAY:
4 different ways to enter
-Enter up to (2) TWO projects into the link system below by Jan. 5th
-Enter (1) one project into the BookEndz Challenge
-Donate a $3-5 donation to the Charity below for 1 entry
-Donate anything over $10 to the Charity and get 2 entries

OUR CHARITY:

Reading is Fundamental is the charity Suzanne have chosen to sponsor this season.  As you all know Suzanne is an avid reader and it amongst my very favorite things to do in my spare time.  I truly believe that literacy and reading opens up many doors in life for everyone.  Not only can you find joy in books but it opens your eyes to other cultures, places and people that is so worthwhile.  And just the fact that a huge part of life involves being able to read--to get through school, get a great job and navigate through life.  For me teaching children to read early on in life is a MUST yet so many children are not provided with the basic materials to learn to read.  So this charity is a non-profit that provides books to children and opportunities to bring literacy into areas that need it! Their is a place on Color Me Creative where you can donate some money if you would like too.

My image is from Leaves of time.  It is one of their Vintage images. I cut it out with my spellbinders grand labels #23. I rounded all the corners with Fiskars corner rounder. Ribbon is cream and has gold writing. Distressed the edges with distress ink antique linen. My card stock I used is a Pearl cream. The next two layered are from DWCV Holiday paper Package. I used for the corner the punch from Punch a Bunch called corner star and added the stars to look like they are falling down. What she is standing on is Stampin”up Champagne glass glitter. For the flowers I used the mini and small flower punch and the Branch punch from Martha Steward. Pearl Pen color ice white, spica color gold, gold glitter, beedz glass embellishment gold, ice stickles glitter glue.

These are the copic colors I used. E43, E42, E41, E40, YR24, YR23, AND YR21. I do hope you join us. Those are some wonderful prizes. Have a wonderful week. Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs, Patricia

Season’s Greeting

I have a few more Christmas cards I made for this year. I want to share with you and about done for the year making my cards. It’s kind of sad because because it sure went by fast and I guess I’m not tired of making my cards yet. This one was a little work but I just love how it turned out. I thought I would use the tree with a image but by the time I was done it fit on a standard card and I didn't want anything to take away from the tree. The paper is from DCWV 12 x 12 pack. I put in the background 1 1/2 inch snowflake ribbon over the paper and I had some more ribbon in my never-ending Christmas stash. I used all kinds of gems and a few glitter snowflakes.
  
Here is a side view. I used three sizes of punches mini, medium and large. The punch I used is the Sunflower from Punch a Bunch. I a lot of times get my punches from Scrappily Ever After, because she has a lot of punches. I can’t tell you how many times I punched each flower out but it was a lot and I folded them in half and glued the to a triangle I made.
  
I did add some crystal snow to the front to give it some more sparkle.  Yes I would make another one. I do hope you like my tree. Have great week end. Emma is helping me so I can get this done real fast so we can go and make some snowman ornaments. So bye for now.

Hugs, Patricia

Make an Ornament Challenge

Over at The Outlawz Thursday Twisted Challenge is “TO MAKE AN ORNAMENT”. These were kind of last minute ones. I found these tiny bags in with some of Christmas stuff. They are only 2.50” by 1.50” of course I thought how cute these would be as an ornament. The stamps are all from Great impressions. Punched out with the pink leaver Marvy Uchida. I found some Christmas tissue paper. Used some Christmas Tree ribbon and some 1/8” red ribbon to hang from the tree. I had some red Merry Christmas sentiments. That is all it took.

This is the one I had planned to make. Angel for this year. I made some last year and my granddaughter loved them so much I was going to make her another one for this year.

Carol who is the creator of these lovely Angels has a video on Youtube on How to make these lovely Angels. If you would like to stop at her blog I’m sure she would love to hear from you on how much you like her beautiful Angel. If you would like to see some of Carol’s creations you can click here and it will take you to see what she has done.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great week end.

Hugs, Patricia

Old Time Christmas/ Blog Hop 2011, Cards for Men

Greeting everyone and welcome to Cards for Men 2011 blog hop. This is our Anniversary #2, and time keeps going on. Believing that two years have gone by Donna the creator of Cards for Men with Shirley and myself  have been here from the start and we have had a lot of fun and it has been wonderful getting to make great new friends so we are looking forward to another years of making great card for Cards for Men Challenges. I do hope you join us just like last year we have all kinds of fantastic prizes from 12 of our wonderful sponsors for you to win at every blog you stop at you can win a prize so leave some love and all prizes will be chosen at random.org.
You can find all the details out about the blog hop over at Cards for Men Challenge #25,our challenge ends on December 18th and the theme for the challenge is “2” or “TWO” interpret it how you will. (two cards, two images, pairs,twin set, gift set whatever). We also have a WORD you need to FIND SO HERE IS MINE “NEW” I do not want to make it hard for you to find it.
If you came from Jen’s blog you are in the right spot but if you just happen to stop by Jen’s blog is the first blog, I’m going to put all the blogs here so if you get lost just come right back and you can get started again. So you will need to go to Shirley's blog.
Jen
Patricia (that’s ME) 
Shirley 
Donna 
Sandra 
Tracy 
Alan http://www.aswcrafting.blogspot.com/
Mandy 
Michelle 
My sponsor for my blog is “Fresh Brewed Designs” and Heather has so kindly donated 3 images for you to win.
 

The winner will be random drawn on December 19.
 
I did color my images with copic markers. The first picture is for the stocking with the green bow and the second one is for the stocking with the red bow. I also used Spica Pens colors red, olive, gold, baby blue and melon.

My images are from Leaves of Time, these are free images calls the image Dec98c. I love their images because they have a vintage look and I think they are stunning. I distress the edges with Vintage Photo ink. I also tried to make the background look like a quilt so I sewed around all the blocks. I cut the stocking out with Spellbinders labels #10. Red gems and green gems. My flowers I made with a loom I made for myself.
I do hope you like my cards. Thanks for stopping by and I hope your week end was wonderful. Now with Cards for Men our challenges do not start again until January 2012. So all my Cards for Men follower and everyone else Have a wonderful Merry Christmas and A Healthy, Wealthy, and Joyous New Year for 2012!!!!

Love to all, Patricia

Sleigh Ornament

I hope everyone is having a great week end. We have another challenge going on at The Outlaws, Paper a la Mode Challenge. So you need to create a Holiday Tree Ornament Project and the challenge ends Dec. 9th. My sleigh is a Sizzix die so all I do is cut it out first with cereal boxes and them I cut it out with Christmas paper and glue them together and assemble. You can fill the sleigh with what ever you would like and they make great ornaments.

Hugs, Patricia

Rock and Roll and more

I have created some cards for Stamper Quest and I would like to share them with you. This is one for a challenge we had to do with the theme “The Serenades”. So of course it had to do with something to do with music. This is what I came up with. If you would like to see how I made the card just go to Stamper Quest and their is article on how I made my card.

Then I did another card for a challenge called “Favorite to go Stamp” at Stamper Quest. I picked this stamp. All the information about my card is over at Stamper Quest

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This card was a sketch we need to make. Again if you would like to see it you would like to go over to Stamper Quest.

I do hope you enjoy my cards. If you can stop by Stamper Quest Magazine and see what some of the other artists have done. They have great ideas and wonderful cards to see.

Hugs, Patricia

Warm and Cozy

Over at The Outlawz for Twisted Thursday we have a new Challenge going on called “All Wrapped Up”, this is a recipe card you need to have bright Christmas paper, a Tag, Ribbon or Bow. Ends December 7th. You need to color you image with mixed medium. I colored my image with Prisma Color Pencils. My image is from Sugar Nellie called “Warm Winter Wishes”. For my shopping bag with the tag that is a die cut from Taylors Expressions, most of their dies you can get stamp set to match their die cuts. Behind the shopping bag I cut out Bangle Chain Trim from Martha Steward. The flowers on the bag I used a petal mini punch and mini snowflake from Bunch a Bunch. The Spellbinders Labels 1 to cut out my image. The tiny Merry Christmas stamp is from The Angel Company. The Christmas trees is ribbon that my wonderful sister in law Georgianna from Texas sent me and I just love them.

Just a side view. I added some snow flakes from tim a tree sections of Hobby Lobby. I almost forgot added some Styrofoam Fluff that I made to the Penguin hat.

Here is a close up of the Shopping bag and of the image.
I do hope you join us. Have a great day and sending warm wishes to everyone.

Challenge:

Though The Craftroom Door-Challenge #15 Happy Holidays

Hugs, Patricia

Ice Queen

 

We have a new sponsor over at Color Me Creative for our challenge #32, It is Simply Betty Stamps. She has some adorable stamps at her site to choose from so if you get a chance stop by and check them out. The challenge for this time is Milti- Colored Hair/Non Traditional Hair Colors. My image is called Ice Skate Sally. You also can win a package of Cryogen cardstock.

Here is a close up of my image and these are the copic markers I used. The paper I used is from Core’dinations by Darice navy pearl. Martha Steward punches Snowflake and Chain trim. Lace light deco border from CherryLynn designs. Pearls by Say it with Bling.
Thanks for stopping by. Have a nice week end.

Hugs, Patricia

Joy of Christmas

Hope everyone had a nice week end. Mine was very nice. Their was 8 of us all girls friends that got together on Sunday at 11:00am and we made Christmas card all day long, I did not get home until about 11:30pm we had a great time. It was a great day and had lots of fun.
This is my card I made for the Card For Man challenge. I used Whimsie Doodles images called “reindeer range” and “deer friend”. The stamped sentiment “Merry Christmas” I used is from Rubbernecker. The challenge is FANCY FOLDS. I did for my card what is called “Stair Step Fold Card” and you can fine the tutorial here.

Start Date: 21 November 2011
End Date: 5 December 2011
Theme: Fancy Folds
Sponsor: Whimsy Doodles
website: http://www.whimsiedoodles.com/index.html
Logo:

Blurb: Whimsie Doodles is so excited to be sponsoring the new challenge! In March of 2009 Melyssa Connolly, artist and owner, began turning her whimsical hand-drawn images into digital files for sale online. Whimsie Doodles' digital stamp line features images that range from cute little boys and girls, to punny stuff, and everything in-between. We enjoy sharing lots of samples on our company blog, where we also post challenges and tutorials.
Prize: $10 gift certificate

I cut out a couple of tree’s from my Spellbinder die cut. I was inspired by some of my stickers that I found and thought they are so perfect for this card. The Penguins and the candy canes are from Recollections Dimensional. Diamond Dust for some snow from Flora Craft. Punch is called Linked Trim from Martha Steward. I burnish the edges with Brilliance with Brilliance sky blue and stamped the sentiment with Brilliance Mediterranean Blue.

I did color my images with copic markers. I also found some ribbon I had that had some Penguins on it so I woven it in and out on the punched linked trim and that is how it turned out (Not sure if I said that right).

Have a super week.

Hugs, Patricia

Cold Outside

We have started our weekly challenge at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge and for the week it all about Shapes and Snowflakes. Remember for this challenge you can use prisma pencils and/or other mediums of your choice including alcohol ink markers such as Copics and Promarker. However there is a twist, you are only allowed to have 50 percent alcohol inks on your images.
Other mediums can be anything from dye inks, distress inks, chalks, heat embossing, water colored pencils, crayons, etc. Prisma's can be ANY colored pencil, it doesn't have to be the Prisma color brand. This week we would like you to create a different shaped card (no standard 4.5 x 5.5 sized cards). AND for a twist we want you to include at least one snowflake on your project. Challenge ends on November 23.

Now for my card I really do not know of their is a name for my card. I have been calling it a stand up card. I do not know where I got the pattern but it is very simple. My two images are from Mo Manning and they are called Christmas Lamp and Charlie Caroling. The paper I used is from Die Cuts with a View. Sentiment stamp is from Great Impressions. Snowflakes are from the trim a tree sections of Hobby Lobby.

This is how I close the card up. I punched out a band with Martha Steward punch and slide it up the bottom so it holds the card closed. When the card is closed the size is 6.50 X 4.25. I hope you join us at Twisted Thursday over at the Outlawz. Have a wonderful week end.

Mo Manning- Challenge #109 Winter ends Nov 22

Hugs, Patricia