Dear Santa

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.

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.

Different view.

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

Just a closer look at the sentiment.

Copic markers used to color the image.

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

Christmas Ornament

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.

 

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.

 

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.

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.  

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.

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.

TeaCup Slippy

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

Magical Winter Sentiments

Ornament Pattern SVG cut file

I also want to let you know about The Delightful Challenge that is going on right now.

The challenge is all about being:

~~~THANKFUL~~~

~~~THANK YOU~~~

~~~THANKGIVING~~~

Sponsored By

ALSO...DON'T MISS OUT ON OUR THANKFUL SALE!!!

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.

The other side.

How I did the inside. Left the message area open for a stamped sentiment or a written message.

The copic markers used to color the image.

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

People make the world special

I hope you had a nice week end. Mind was mostly quiet, had the grandkids Saturday and they spent the night so they played some video games and we watched a movie. Sunday after the kids went home I worked on some projects I have started for my mother in law. I’m making her some Christmas treat bags for her friends for at her table. When I get them all done I will take a picture and share them with everyone.

So now at Color Me Creative we have our NEW challenge #56 starting and it is

**All About Kids**

YOU CAN COLOR YOUR IMAGE WITH ANY MEDIUM YOU WANT WITH ANY COLORS AND HAVE ANY THEME BUT ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS HAVE A CARD THAT HAS A CHILD LIKE THEME.

OUR SPONSOR FOR THIS CHALLENGE IS:

Di's Digi Designs

and the prize is

A $10 Gift Certificate to Di's Digi Designs

(Remember winners for prizes are randomly chosen)

I used Mo Manning images for my card the set I used is called Little Mermaid Set and the set comes with all these images. Mermaid Kailani, Mermaid Mairin, tropical fish 1 & 2, sea rocks and the starfish. I had a lot of fun creating the scene and all the sparkles. The paper used was Core’dinations yacht club glitter paper and The Paper Studio water waves paper. The Schell's I added are real ones and I put just a few white pearl in them and on the bottom I added real beach sand.  The tiny rocks are all polished and they look so pretty. First I added diamond accents to make some of the things look wet and to try and make things magical I need to add sparkle so I used Stickles Ice glitter glue colors mint ice, grape ice, lime ice and star dust.

I made pockets in the back to hold the sentiments.

I did make this card as a birthday card but most of all the middle sentiment was special to me. It say “Some people make the world Special just by being in it” and the person I’m going to give this card to is a special one so that sentiment fits perfect. That other one say “Genuine Article accept no substitutes”.

All the copic markers used to color all the images.

Thanks so much for stopping by. These little ones are just so cute. Have a great week. I will be back in a couple of day.

 

Snowy greeting

Happy Thursday to everyone! It is real cloudy here but the weather person says we are going to have lots of sunshine this afternoon and into the week end and the temp is not bad at all it is going to get near 60’s and I bet that is going to be the last 60’s we will see tell April, but I can be proven wrong. Went out and filled my bird feeder about an hour ago and the birds have almost have the feeder half eaten and I love watching, even the little ones I have no idea what they are called but I do have a set of Cardinals and  Blue Jays, they are so pretty. Enough about my birds… My card is for Delightful Thursday at Digital Delight, stop by and see all the wonderful card the design team did to give you lots of inspiration. I’m also using my card for The Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge and the twist is to make a card that has WINGS AND GLITTER on it. Here are the images I used to make my card.

SNOW GLOBE

MUSICAL ANGELS SET

A TOUCH OF CHRISTMAS SENTIMENT SET

I merged the angel and the snow globe together. Punched out some tiny snowflakes and placed them in the globe area. Pearl pen on all 4 corners color green. Add some snow where the angel is standing and some stickles glitter glue diamond around the edges. The ribbon is from Michaels Christmas section.

Just another view.

The inside of the card for the written message or a stamped messaged.

These are the copic markers used to color the image.

Want to let everyone know about the Delightful challenge and the challenge is ~~~LET IT SNOW~~~ Stop by and see all the stunning cards all the girls have created.

The sponsor for the challenge is SCRAPY LAND and the prize is a $20.00 store gift card.

This week and Digital delight is having a THANKFUL SALE going on right now.

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

Fly with me

It is time for Card for Men Challenge 23 - Anything Goes, starts today and ends November 18, 2012.
At this time of year it's nice to break away from the Christmas Cards (or not) and just make a card for the sake of it.  So our theme for this challenge is 'Anything Goes', make a card or project in any style or theme you want.  Just remember it must be for a man or a boy to qualify.
So our sponsor this challenge is My Mum's Craft Shop which is run by one of our old teammates, Kitty.

My Mums Craft Shop is a bricks & mortar and online store. We stock many of the leading brands and specialize in rubber stamping. We have brands including Some Odd Girl, Stamping Bella, My Favorite Things, CC Designs and many more. We also stock a large selection of Dienamics, Memory Box, Sizzix, CC Designs Marianne Dies. We constantly have new deliveries arriving, check out our website for more products - www.mymumscraftshop.co.uk

For my card I used one of La La Land images called Pilot Luka. The paper is from die cuts with a view stack doodling around. Used some fluff around his hat and jacket. Embossed the paper with cuddle bug embossing folder argyle.  Die cut from Susan’s Custom and Card designs called classic corner. Metal dots green. Stampin’ up ticket punch. Martha Steward classic butterfly.

Here is another side look at the card. Sorry I have not been around much but things have been pretty busy for me and I’m trying to keep up with everything. I know things are going to be slowing down pretty soon and that will be good.

This is how the inside of the card turned out for the message or a stamped sentiment.

These are the copic markers used to color the image.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Until next time have a great day. I’m praying for all my friends on the east coast that was hit with Sandy this past week end. God bless you and my prayer are with you.

 

Challenge

Craft room door anything
Lady Anne anything
Forever Friends anything Dec 5