Sunday, November 30, 2014

Introducing Eli the Elf

Hello, everyone!  I was so excited yesterday when I found a little elf at the thrift store!  Why would this be so exciting, you might ask?  Well, Diana over at DL.ART is having her second annual linky party called Elf Antics and I so wanted to join in! Until yesterday I didn't have an elf so I was tickled pink to find two elves - I have twins - Eli and Elfis!  Today I am introducting Eli!  It was love at first sight for Eli and Kiwi (my kitty).


Why don't you join in the elf fun over at DL.ART's Second Annual Elf Antics Linky Party!  Stay tuned for my introduction of Eli's twin brother Elfis!

Wishing you a joyful day!


Glitter n Sparkle DT - Use Some Snow

Hello, everyone!  It's Sunday, and that means there's a new challenge starting today over at Glitter n Sparkle Challenge Blog! This week our challenge is Use Some Snow. I hope you can join us! I picked an adorable image for today's card - it's called Snowman Block from Eureka Stamps.  I coloured just his accessories and his nose with my Prismacolor pencils as I really like the look of black and white and just a pop of colour for his nose.   I also added clear glitter along his body and the snow.  The block is popped up with foam tape.


For the background I used my Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil with Alene's Glitter Snow and also added white glitter.  I think it turned out great!  There's lots of sparkle although it doesn't show up that well in the photos.


For the snowdrifts I used my Lawn Fawn's Stitched Hillside Borders with some left-over snippets of white cardstock, and added clear glitter all along the tops.  The sentiment is a clear stamp from Newton's Nook Winter Tails.

Please come over and join us at Glitter n Sparkle for our Use Some Snow challenge. We have some fabulous prizes up for grabs again this week, so I hope you'll play along!

I would like to support these fun challenges:
4 Crafty Chicks Die Cuts UE
A Song in Your He{ART} Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 2/3
Aud Sentiments Sentiment for any December Holiday 4/5
Beccy's Place A Month of Holiday Cards UE
Brown Sugar AG 1/2
Bunny Zoe's Snow UE
Come and Get It Snow People 1/3
Completely Christmas AG Something Beginning with S (snow, snowman) UE
CRAFT Christmas Present (the present is snow - it's snowing) 1/5
Craft Your Passion Baby It's Cold Outside 1/3
Craftin Desert Diva's Christmas UE
Crafting for All Seasons Tis the Season 2/3
Crafty Sentiments Use Die Cuts 2/3
Decosse's Dynamite Doodles 12 Days of Christmas Cards Link-up UE
Digi Choosday Christmas Celebrations 2/2
Digi Sketch Die cuts/Punches (T for Theme) 2/4
Digi Stamps 4 Joy Christmas 2/3
DL.ART November AG UE 1/day
DL.ART Thankful Thursday Any Winter Holiday / Alt. Thank You UE
Eureka Stamps Non-traditional Christmas Colours 1/3
Fab 'n' Funky Die Cuts UE
Fussy and Fancy Happy Holidays UE
Get Creative AG Optional Twist Use Glitter 2/3 
Hiding in my Craftroom Freestyle 1/3
Let's Craft and Create Christmas UE
Little Scrap Pieces Show it Off Saturday 1E
Moving Along with the Times Inspired by a Song "Frosty the Snowman" 1/3
My Time to Craft Snowmen 1/
Ooh La La Creations Christmas UE
Paper Creator's Crafts All About Christmas 1/
Paper Pretties Snow Much Fun UE
Pile it On Sprinkle It (Glitter) UE
{PIN}spirational Inspirational Photo (Christmas theme) 2/5
Pixie's Snippet Playground Used snippets for the die-cut snowdrifts 1/3
TOP 3 Scrapbook Stamp Society AG Option Use Glitter 2/3 
Scrapy Land Texture (Lawn Fawn dies sold here) 2/3
Scribble and Scrap Always AG 3/3
Simply Create Too Snow or Use all White 3/3
Suzy Bee's Bloomin AG Keep It Simple UE
Sweet Stampin Let it Snow 1/2
The Corrosive Happy Everything (Any Holiday) 3/3
The Outlawz Twisted Thursday Winter Sparkles at Christmas 1/2
TTCRD AG 2/2
Totally Gorjuss Sparkly Blingy Glittery UE 
Uniko Studio AG or AG with Sketch UE
We Do Doobadoo Get Festive 1/2
Whoopsi Daisy AG UE
Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 2/5

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!

Edited Mar 12/15:  Linking up to STAMPlorations Flash Stencil Linky 

Friday, November 28, 2014

For the Candy Lovers...

Hello, everyone, and Happy Friday!  This is for all of the candy lovers out there!  My bloggy friend Chriss America Real of Scrappin' with Chriss and Lou has asked me to share her candy giveaway with all of you!  She's taking a break from blogging right now due to some health issues but she's offering a generous candy giveaway over on her blog.  Here's a photo of the awesome prize, but you'll have to head over to her blog to find out how to win!  Draw takes place on January 5, 2015, so you still have time to get your name in!  Here's the link.


Hope you're feeling better soon, Chriss!  I miss seeing your crafty creations! Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!

P.S.  I have my own candy!  I'm celebrating 200 followers - Yay!  Help me celebrate! My candy is here. So far only 18 crafty friends have entered - I will draw the winner on December 1 - so keep your fingers crossed!

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Peaceful Nighttime Scene (Impression Obsession products)

Hello, everyone!  I hope my U.S. friends are enjoying their Thanksgiving festivities today!  I was back in my craftroom this morning and made another holiday card.  I enjoy playing in the challenges over at IO Blog and this time their theme is Christmas greetings.  I keep trying to win over there so maybe this will be my time! If not, you know I'll just keep trying LOL!  So today I used all Impression Obsession products.


I decided to make a nighttime winter scene with silver and gold.  It looks fabulous in person but so difficult to get a good photo!  The trees are IO's Birch Trees DIE079-U and the buck is from IO's Deer Trio DIE080-N set.  The snowbanks were hand-drawn and hand-cut and I sponged on Black Soot Distress Ink.  For the sentiment I heat-embossed Season's Greetings A5488 in Egyptian Gold. I think a vertical sentiment adds some interest. The metallic cardstock was in my stash and I believe it came from Dollarama.  I wish they'd get it back again - it's actually quite nice.   



Today I am entering these fun challenges:

  1. IO Blog Christmas Greetings UE C5
  2. Party Time Tuesday AG 2/3
  3. ShowCASe Your Style  Gold Black Silver White UE
  4. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday AG 2/5
  5. Sister Act (Cards Only) AG UE

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!


P.S. I'm celebrating 200 followers with candy!  Help me celebrate! My candy is here. So far only 16 crafty friends have entered - I will draw the winner on December 1 - so keep your fingers crossed!

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

2 Christmas Cards (Beccy's Place / Rick St. Dennis images)

Hello, everyone!  I finally had some time in my craftroom today and I made two Christmas cards. Before I share them, I would like to extend a very warm welcome to my 3 lovely new followers - Nana Rogers, Cara Malmrose, and SiskiyouSou - so happy to have you join me!

My first card features an adorable Gingerbread Man from Beccy's Place Gingerbread Set.  Have you been playing along in Beccy's Month of Holiday Cards Challenge?  I've been lucky to win over there a couple times and this set was one of my wins!  I couldn't wait to get him coloured and onto a card! He is just so cute!  I coloured him with my Prismacolor pencils, fussy-cut, and added red gems to his buttons.


I started with a stitched rectangle from Simon Says Stamp that I won there last month (thank you!).  I used my Taylored Expressions Tag Stacklets 1 to die-cut a tag from a snippet of Lawn Fawn dp left over from a previous project.  Then I doodled stitching around the edge with my white gel pen and added a piece of brown rikrak that I found at a thrift store a few years ago.  The polka-dot organza ribbon is from a prize I won at Crafty Ribbons (thank you, Ali!) and this was a left-over snippet.  The sentiment is an old wood-mount stamp from Plaid and I stamped it in brown on a La-La Land stitched banner and added a red metallic snowflake. The burlap ribbon is from Michaels and the glittery red ribbon and sequins are from my stash. All of my die-cuts were cut from leftovers/snippets.

Now for my second card, I used a precious kitty from Rick St. Dennis called Little Bits of Christmas Kitten that I won earlier this year from a challenge that Rick sponsored (thank you!).  I coloured the little sweetie with my Prismacolor pencils and fussy-cut.


The dp is from BoBunny and the embossed yellow paper is from my stash.  The sentiment is an old wood-mount stamp from Plaid and I stamped it on a white snippet and then hand-cut the fishtails on both ends.  The gorgeous red die-cut was one of my birthday dies and it's called Whirligig Circle from Memory Box.

I would like to support these fun challenges:
A Gem of a Challenge Kraft + One Other Colour (red) UE (first card)
A Song in Your He{ART} Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 1/3
Art by Miran AG 3/3
Aud Sentiments Sentiment for any December Holiday 3/5
Beccy's Place A Month of Holiday Cards UE
Clear It Out Theme Winter Wishes/Stash Use a Snowflake (first card)
Craftin Desert Diva's Christmas UE
RANDOM WINNER Crafting for All Seasons Tis the Season 1/3
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper AG with Patterned Paper UE (second card)
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Christmas Preparations (baking) (first card)
Crafty Sentiments Use Die Cuts 1/3
Cuttlebug Mania Sentiment and Snowflake 1/3 (first card)
Decosse's Dynamite Doodles 12 Days of Christmas Cards Link-up UE
Digi Choosday Christmas Celebrations 1/2
Digi Designs For or With Kids 1/3
Digi Sketch Die cuts/Punches (T for Theme) 1/4
Digi Stamps 4 Joy Christmas 1/3
DL.ART November AG UE 1/day
Fab 'n' Funky Die Cuts UE
Get Creative AG Optional Twist Use Glitter 1/3 (first card)
Hiding in my Craftroom Any Holiday 2/3
Inspired by Stamping IBSIC#88 Sketch UE (second card)
IBSIC-#88---Sketch
Jingle Belles Christmas Feast (gingerbread man) (first card)
Let's Craft and Create Christmas UE
Ooh La La Creations Christmas UE
Papertake Weekly Take Your Pick - Ribbon and/or Lace 1/5 (first card)
{PIN}spirational Inspirational Photo (Christmas theme) 1/5
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/141581982011016964/
Pixie's Snippet Playground Snippets used for all die cuts 2/3
QKR Stampede Bling it On 2/3 (first card)
TOP 3 Red Carpet Studio Julie and Julia (gingerbread cookie) 1/3 (first card)
Rick St. Dennis Sparkle and Glitter November Progressive Challenge (second card)
Robyn's Fetish Use a Digi 2/3
Scrapbook Stamp Society AG Option Use Glitter 1/3 (first card)
Scribble and Scrap Always AG 2/3
Sparkle Forum Christmas Christmas Candy (gingerbread man) 2/3 (first card)
Stamp and Create Ribbons and Bows 1E/wk 4/4 (first card)
Stamping for Pleasure Sarn's Rudolph Day 1E
Sweet Stamps Blog Bordered Sentiment 1E
That Craft Place AG 2/3
The Corrosive Happy Everything (Any Holiday) 2/3
TOP 3 The Kraft Journal Leftovers (ribbon and all die cuts) (first card)
The Outlawz Monday Greetings AG 1E
The Pink Elephant AG UE
TTCRD AG 1/2
Totally Gorjuss Sparkly Blingy Glittery UE (first card)
Uniko Studio AG or AG with Sketch UE

Whoopsi Daisy AG Ue
Winter Wonderland Let's Get Sentimental 3/3
Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 1/5

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Glitter n Sparkle DT - Tag It

Hello, everyone!  Before I share my DT project, I would like to welcome my two newest followers - Crafty-Stamper and Cazzy - so happy you joined me!  And she's not a new follower, but thank you to Spyder for joining me on Bloglovin'!

It's Sunday, and that means there's a new challenge starting today over at Glitter n Sparkle Challenge Blog! This week our challenge is Tag It. I hope you can join us! My tag features the adorable Snowman Globe from Scribbles Designs - I love this image!  I coloured it with my Prismacolor pencils, using non-traditional colours this time, and added Liquid Pearls for the snow.  Then I fussy-cut and popped up with foam tape.


The sentiment on the snow globe is a clear stamp from Papermania.  I used several die cuts here: tag from Taylored Expressions Tag Stacklets 1, icicles border from Impression Obsession; mittens from Cheery Lynn Christmas Knick Knacks; Happy word and Oriental Loop Border from Tattered Lace. As always, I use my leftovers/snippets for my die cuts - I don't waste anything!  I added some Kaisercraft lace, tied with twine, and a snowflake button from my stash. The gorgeous dp was in a prize I won last month.  

Please come over and join us at Glitter n Sparkle for our Tag It challenge. We have some fabulous prizes up for grabs again this week, so I hope you'll play along!

I would like to support these fun challenges:
4 Crafty Chicks Make it Sparkle (glitter borders and mittens) UE
Art by Miran AG 2/3
Aud Sentiments Sentiment for any December Holiday 2/5
Brown Sugar Use 2 or more colours 2/2
Bunny Zoe's Snow UE
Cheery Lynn Non-traditional Christmas Colours (Used mittens from Christmas Knick Knacks) 1E
Come and Get It Winter Theme 1/3
RANDOM WINNER Craftin Desert Diva's Create a Tag or Use a Tag UE
Crafting by Designs November AG UE
Crafty Catz Winter Theme 2/3
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper AG with Patterned Paper UE
Create Something Catchy Christmas Tags UE
Creative Moments AG Make it Sparkle (glitter borders and mittens) 3/3
Crimbo Crackers Buttons (snowflake button) UE
Dies R Us Anything Christmas 3/3
Divas by Design Snow 2/2
DL.ART November AG UE 1/day
DL ART Thankful Thursday Anything Christmas, Alt. Thank You UE
DRS Designs Inspired by Colour UE
Hiding in my Craftroom Any Holiday 1/3
Inspired by Stamping IBSIC#88 Tags UE
IBSIC-#88---Tags
Let's Craft and Create Christmas UE
Little Scrap Pieces Show it Off Saturday 1E
Pixie's Snippet Playground Snippets used for all die cuts 1/3
QKR Stampede Bling it On (sparkly borders and Liquid Pearls) 1/3
Robyn's Fetish Use a Digi 1/3
Scribble and Scrap Always AG 1/3
Simply Create Too Snow or Use all White 2/3
The Corrosive Happy Everything (Any Holiday) 1/3
Totally Gorjuss Sparkly Blingy Glittery UE
Tuesday Throwdown Christmas Tags 2/3
Winter Wonderland Let's Get Sentimental 2/3
Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 5/5

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!


P.S. I'm celebrating 200 followers with candy!  Help me celebrate! My candy is here.


Craftin Desert Divas