Treat Bag for Christmas and I have a WINNER

```I have had some wonderful comments about my Countdown to Christmas card and I thank you all so much~~~.  I did for Cards for Men Challenge as we are celebrating our 3rd year anniversary and for today is Shirley’s day to show case her card you have tell 11:59pm to stop by her blog and leave some love, to win the prize on Shirley’s blog. The Days of Christmas will end December 14 11:59pm. So make sure you check Cards for Men challenge blog each day to fine out who is show casing there card each day. You need to comment at the blog to win the prize.

I’m so excited about who the winner is, it is some one that comes to my blog all the time. She has been a follower of mine for a long time. OK I want to tell you my treat bag are made from envelopes and you can use any size you have. My mother-in-law asked me to make some for her quilt making club, she is having a small Christmas party for the group at her home sometime in December. I did send them off to her the first of December so she has them. The winner lives south west of me where it stays pretty nice in the winter time. Oh yes my mother-in-law lives in Kansas and it is pretty nice there also. My blogger friend Vicki had showed me how to make these treat bags on her blog awhile ago and I want to share with you her video on how to make these.

Here is Vicki video if you would like to stop over and tell Vicki how much you like her video her link to her blog is right here.

So everything you need to know about the treat bags is on the video. Now again about the winner of the prize. Oh wait a minute I wanT to tell you who is on day three and that is Michelle and if you want to go over at Michele’s blog she will be telling you who the winner is from my blog. But I will do that, in a little bit.

I do how you like my treat bags.

This is the comment my blogger friend left me on my blog. She is the sweetest things.

Oh, wow, Patricia--this is sooo awesome! Such a cool countdown card! I love, love, love it--fabulous coloring, wonderful colors, love the design, love all the fun bling, die cuts, & flowers! Thank you so much for the card directions. I was wondering how to make a side stepper! :^)

When I stop at her blog I always leave feeling hungry and I feel like I have read a book… Does anyone know someone like that????

Her blog address is       http://9hawksandadragonfly.blogspot.com/

~WINNER~  Could her first name be PENNY.! ~WINNER~

The images are from Leaves of Time.

These are the copic markers that colored the images

Thanks so much for stopping by. Penny give me shout. Remember to stop at Cards for Men each day and see where you are to go for the next prize. Good luck everyone.

 

Challenges:

Thought the craft room door- anything goes

 

Days of Christmas

It’s our 3rd anniversary at Cards for Men Challenge blog and we have done something special every year to say thank you to all our followers, participants and sponsors. We have enjoyed seeing all your creations and have been inspired thought out the year and I hope you have been inspired by our created cards as well. This year we are having a special “DAY OF CHRISTMAS” event which will run from today until 14th of December. Each day a different team member will host the event and demonstrate a quick Christmas card/project. Make sure you pop on over to Cards for Men challenge blog and see who day it is. Their will be different sponsor each day and different prizes to be won. You need to leave a comment each day on the team members blog so pop over to find out who’s the host for each day and don’t forget, you have to be in it to win it!

I have day 1, so please leave a comment and tomorrow you will find out who wins my prize. The prize is a $10.00 voucher.

I have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started card making about 4yrs ago when I bought my daughter a card making kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with likeminded people.

I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself.

This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art. Long may it continue!

I have seen so many countdown to Christmas cards, I just had to try and make one. They said all you need to do is use the side step card so that is what I did and this is how mind turned out. I used Mo Manning image called Taste of Winter. Used my Zutter and bind it all.

 

The paper is from Heidi grace designs. Pearl pen color light blue. Stickles glitter star dust. Brilliance ink sky blue. Archival Versafine Majestic blue.  Star gems and blue gems. Spellbinder exquisite circles.

The roes are from Wild Orchid Crafts. Punch bunch twig.

You should be able to right click on the side step card and save it to you computer, this is the pattern I used to make mine.

Copic marker used to color my image.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope your week end was nice and have a super week.

I will tell the next person is Shirley for tomorrow.

Spirit of Christmas

I hope everyone is have a nice week end, staying warm. It is really nice here in Wisconsin, some of you might think that is cold but it is in the 50’s this week end and that is not normal here so we will take it and even into the week it is going to be mild with no snow. I’m sorry I’m a little later telling you about out challenge at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday for this week out twist is WINTER FRIENDS. The image I choose to do is from Wee images and it is called Angelica. This card is called a Triangle Joyfold card. I seen it at a blog and I just loved it but they had no directions, so I spent some time on her blog and tried to figure out the directions. I did not write anything down but I did take all kinds of pictures so if you would like to try and make one you should be able to follow. If you know where the directions are you could let me know.  I started with 6x6 card.

Distressed edges with festive berries and brushed corduroy. Add pom pom for the snowballs and fluff for the snow. Aleene’s true snow.

Die cuts classic corners from Susana’s custom art and card design. Cherry Lynn designs lace light deco border. The paper I used is core’dinations red carpet.

I made my bow with the bow easy. Used some diamond glaze, glamour dust, diamond dust. I did some faux stitching.

The sentiment is from PSX (Personal Stamp Exchange), out of business now.

This sentiment is from hero arts.

Copic markers used to color the image.

Thanks for stopping by.

Challenges:

Marker Pop- Challenge #12 Deep Red ends Dec 18

There’s no place like home.

Welcome to Delight Thursday at Digital Delight. Stop by and see all the wonderful cards the design team members have created. I was looking though some of my saved tutorials and to my surprise I came across another tutorial from Whiff of Joy and they did another Paper Bag so of course I had to make it. So this my creations. Gift Paper Bag and you can find the tutorial on how to create it at Whiff of Joy from Nov, 2011.

Christmas Fireplace

Christmas Kids

A touch of Christmas Sentiment

All the pictures are to show you how the bag looks in different ways. You have a magnet that holds the top closed.

Aleen’s true snow, diamond glaze, diamond dust. Fiskars tiny snowflake punch. Gems blue, clear and  brown. Green Trees ribbon. The papers are from Die Cuts with a View holiday Collection.

Side view.

Close up of the kids.

The other side of the Gift Bag.

Stickles glitter glue black diamond, orange peel, yellow, green and xmas red.

The little cat is a button.

These are the copic markers used to color the images. The spica pens olive, melon, lipstick, sky blue, lemon, orange, baby blue,

We would love for you to join us at Delightful challenges, right now the challenge is Festively Floral (add Floral) and sponsored by Digital Delight. There is a sale going on at Digital Delight right now so stop by and check out all the wonderful images.

I hope you like my creation. Thanks for stopping by.

 

Challenges:

Little Miss Muffet- Tags and Gifts Challenge #49 ends Dec 10
Simon Says Stamp Challenge- Anything goes ends Dec 5
Divas By Design Challenge #63- Glitter & Sparkle ends Dec 4
Tuesday Alchemy Challenge #41 Anything goes ends Dec 3

Merry Merry Christmas

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:

Digi My World

The image I used is called Candy Cane Jingles.

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.

The sentiment stamp is from Hero Arts.

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.

Copic markers used to color the image. Also used spica colors olive, gold and melon. Gelly roll silver and gold.

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.

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.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Challenges:

Thought the Craft room Door-Anything Dec 3 ends