Lunagirl is Having Santa

Lunagirl Moonbeams  is having "St Nick" as their challenge again this week.  This is the second week.

I made a distressed card with my choice of designer paper and inking the edges of this lovely Santa.  The background actually has three papers.  Down the right side are three token squares and at the bottom I used a Spellbinders diecut  on which to place the date

Snow and Snowflakes

Well, we are forcast to have snow the day after Christmas.  It isn't the same as a White Christmas, but I'll take it.  We don't get much measureable snow in Tennessee.  I just love  to watch it fall; I'm like a little kid when it comes to snow.

This card uses Sketch 1 from 2011 from Christmas Challenges with Sketches.  I used numerous snow designer papers.  Also in the layering is a die from Cheery Lynn Designs called Mexican Tile.  This diecut can be used for so many things.  I think it is perfect for a snow theme as it is like a snowflake, so lacey.   In a couple of the corners are dies from Corners F from CLD.  The theme for the CLD this week is Happy Holidays with Layering.   Highlighting the card are a couple of snowflakes from Spellbinders.   These were cut from glitter paper.  The image in the middle is a couple of stamps from Stampin' Up.  It is colored with Copic markers and the glittery snow is Stickles.

The third challenge for this card is Our Daily Bread Designs' Snow and Snowflakes challenge, the theme for my card.  I did not have any of their winter-type stamps so I used the word Blessings from their Christmas Blessings stamp. 

Christmas Greetings

 I am posting a series of Clhristmas Greetings cards for the season and they are for you, my followers and visitors to my blog  who have been so sweet as to leave me encouraging comments about my cards and other projects.  I hope you find one that you really like.

 

This card starts with a white embossed background.  On top of that I placed a doilly from Cheery Lynn Designs in red.  The white scolloped circle is a die cut from Spellbinders.  Down the left side is a strip of green glitter cardstock.  Below the dies is a faux ribbon made from striped designer paper with the red, green and white colors. 

 

I used a Our Daily Bread Designs greeting in the white circle.  To finish off the card, I used flowers and leaves made from Cheeery Lynn's Build-a-Flower.  Even though it doesn't really show, I added glitter to the flowers and leaves to go with the green glitter cardstock as most Christmas cards have glitter or shimmer.

 

I am entering this in  Our Daily Bread Designs'  ODBDSLC133 followiong a sketch and Card Crafters Circle's Challenge 52 "December Celebrations".

Mid-Challenge at Just Some Lines

I have made a card for Just Some Lines' midway Winter Wonderland challenge.  It is a card with a smaller front than the back.  The front has a lattice background that I made using a Martha Strwart punch..  The snowman spinning image was put on a mat of an ornament cut with a Spellbinders.  It laps over the over panel.   I thought the spinning image was perfect for the spinning ornament.  The image was colored with Copic markers.  The sentiment is computer generatored.

Winter Wonderland

It is December and the gals at Just Some Lines are thinking about Winter Wonderland,  Thus they are hosting this as their theme for the challenge the next two weeks.  You will have to drop by and use your favorite Just Some Lines digi and enter the challenge.

 

The card below is my inspiration for the challenge.  I hope you like.  I am also entering this in Christmas Challenges with Sketches' Challenge Sketch# 52 this week.  After following the sketch, I embellished with white glitter snowflakes made with Spellbinders dies.

A Different Color of Christmas

Here is a card I mad in non-traditional colors of Christmas.  In other words there is no red and green.  I made a folded Christmas tree with double-sided cardstock and placed it on the Kiwi doilly diecut made by Cheery Lynn Designs' die.   I am entering this in the Cheery Lynn Designs' challenge "Non-traditonal Christmas Colors".  My greeting is by Recollections and it was placed on a Spellbinders diecut.

Winter is on the Way

Well, we have really had warm weather so far this fall, but now the temperature is falling and all the little squirrels and other animals are getting ready for the cold.  Cold weather means "snow".  We really don't usually get much snow in Tennessee, but making cards about snow in the warm house, suits me just fine.  Here is my first one for this year..

I am this in Christmas Challenges with Sketches.

Words of Encouragement

Here is a card I made today using one of my favorite color combinations....black and white.  I used designer paper on part of the card base and placed my sentiment from Our Daily Bread Designs on white cardstock and matted with black caardstock which were cut from a Spellbinders die.  In the corner is a ribbon buckle by Memory Box.  As additional embellishment I put on part of a 3D flower design.  All the elements are carried by Classy Cards and Such.

 

 

Upcoming Challenges

The Design Team and I are taking a Fall Break fron challenges. The members have been working so hard and they deserve a break.   When we begin again I will be starting something different.  I hope you will like the addition of an "Upcoming Challenges" list on my sidebar.  This way you will be able to plan ahead a little on my challenges.  It will give the date, the theme of the challenge and the sponsor.  Now for today's post.......

This is a card I made for ODBDSLC121 Our Daily Bread's Shining the Light Challenge "You Leave Me in Stitches".  I love working in blue and white.  My card has a blue base with a white border made by a Martha Strwart punch.  The Our Daily Bread image is as Bible verse from Psalm 48 which has been placed on a lighter blue mat with stitching.  As embellishment I chose  a flourish by Cheery Lynn Designs which I enhanced to fit the space and a white rose made with a Spellbinders die.  I am also entering this in Cheery Lynn Designs' challenge Stitch It Up.

Roses From My Garden

Since my current challenge is dealing with a garden, I decided to make an extra flower card.  Also,Cheery Lynn Designs is having a challenge with the theme Roses so this card is for it as well. Also, this card is for ClassyCards and Such who is having a challenge with the theme Glitter ( CNS10).  I used the French Lattice (Small) which is carried on both of these site.  I took two sizes of a Spellbinders label and cut out a frame and then adhered it to the lattice die and trim the extra off.  This made a insert for the label which I think is very effective.  Cheery Lynn dies are wonderful and everytime I look at them I see another I wish I had.  Beverly at Classy Cards and Such carries just about all the dies and she has such a quick delivery of your order, that you won't believe.

The Cheery Lynn challenge has roses as the theme; therefore I used a large rose with a number of buds in the corner.  Classy Cards has glitter as their theme this time, thus the glitter on the wings of the little pixie.

The cute little pixie?  Well, she is a wonderful image from Just Some Lines.

Do you need something to drool over?  Well, just go to the three sites mentioned above.

We're Friends

Here is a card I made for Beverly's Classy Cards and Such.CCNS04 Embossing Folders Challenge.  I took a piece of designer cardstock and used the Dots embossing folder and highlighted it with Tuxedo Black from Momento.  I really like using this particular folder as it givess texture without destroying the design in the cardstock.

The image in the corner is "Friends" from Just Some Lines.  Isn't this cute?  Can't you image two girlfriends leaving from school the last day before summer vacation.  They are arm on arm dreaming of what they are going to do during the summer.  The image, which is colored with Copic markers, is cut and placed on a Spellbinder Nestabilities diecut.  Both the die and the embossing folder are carried by Classy Cards and Such.

If you have a chance drop over to Just Line Lines store and check out the other great images there.

Christmas is in the Air

I am really getting in the mood for Christmas.  We are running a little slow at decorating at my house this year as we  usually do it Thanksgiving Day.  However,  today we are going to pull the boxes from the garage.  You can imagine how many there are as I have all my stuff from 49 years of collecting.  I still have the first angel I bought the first year we were married  Would you believe she is in almost perfect paper mache  shape after 49 years!

I hope to post a couple of cards today.  The first one is a card using an image from CS Design.    You will find this card on Art with No Boundaries.  Chris has a great challenge going.  It is Red and Green.  Go and take a look at her blog and see the inspirational projects of her design team.

My card uses one of the winter images and I also put one of the Christmas sentiments on a Spellbinders diecut.  The fringe was made with a Martha Stewart punch and I inked the larger of the two Spellbinders mats with a gold painter's pen.   I used Copic markers for coloring.  The background paper is a piece of recently purchased Christmas paper.

Additional Transparent Inspirations

Ok ladies, don't be intimated with the title of this challenge.  As you can see below at the DT inspirations that your entry does not have to use a complicated technique to be a part of the challenge "Be Transparent".  You still have a whole week to enter.

Vicki

I wanted to make a window for my sample this time.  However, I didn't want to put it in a card as that is where most people put their windows.  I put mine in a tag.   

I started my tag by using black cardstock and embossing it with an embossing spider web folder.  I then highlighted it with white ink.   Next came the window.

The window was cut with a Spellbinders die and then I covered it with a plastic sheet.  Afterward I placed the image behind the plastic.  The image is little Priscilla from CS Designs.  She was colored with Copics.  Her hair is decked with Fall leaves and she carries  a pumpkin and a spider.. 

I finished off the tag with a ribbon of rafia and a couple of stickers in the spider web.          

Valerie

Hi, Here's Valerie.
I have printed the row of houses (Hampton Art Stanps) onto a scrap of transparent packaging materal using Stazon black, and made a blue window frame round it, to make it look like the view out of a window.

Petra

You might ask where is the transparency ... I know, it is not easy to spot because of my photographic skills or the lack of! The little bird sits behind a transparent window. For my little wall hanging I reused an old Kraft window envelope and layered it on patterend paper (Echo Park and Prima Marketing). the stamped images are stamps from Stamper Anonymous and Kaisercraft.

Ocean Waves

I love this sentiment.  It is from CS Designs, a digital stamp company.  The starfish which are part of the digital are colored with Copic Markers.  A small pearl was placed on top of a couple of them to give them dimension.  The waves are an embellishment I found on sale in a discount store.  They are dimensional also and the foam on the waves are highlighted with glitter. The bubbles and shells are also part of the embellishment.

As a final touch I did a little faux stiching on the Spellbinders Nestie

Another Week for Portraits

You have one more week to enter  my challenge which is being sponsored by Stampsmith Art Rubber Stamps.  Below is some more inspiration.  So get to your crafting supplies and enter my challenge "Portraits".

Vicki

This is one of my first  stamps  I bought it a number of years ago.  The plate was labeled Chix Art Beauties.  After stamping, I used three sizes of a Spellbinders die to frame the image.   The framed image was placed on a mat of designer paper. The floral arrangement in the corner was made with a couple of Spellbinders to create the scrollwork.  I accented the scrolls with some triple-layered flowers.  A small acrylic greeting, "dream", sits in another corner.

Petra

A Different Portrait

This time I did something completely different - no stamping at all but I used some of my own photos. My I introduce you to Nele .... she is a rescue dog from Egypt and belongs to my brother. He took her a few years ago and now she is quite an old lady but absolutely lovely and adorable. And this is my tribute to her.

I printed the images in a black frame and mounted them on various layers of corrugated and black card and Dovecraft paper. The sentiment is cut from the patterned Dovecraft paper and glued to a corrugated nestabilities cog whereby the edges of the cog are slightly distressed with black ink. The finishing touches are some little doggy buttons, button thread and ribbon knots from my stash.

Green and Clean

Here is a quick card I made for DigiDarla's challenge "Green and Clean".  The greeting is from an unknown stamp.  Of course the image is from DigiDarla.  I did not use any particular technique on this card.  However I did use a Spellbinder Nestie.  Embellishment is a couple of flowers from my stash.  I used Copic markers for coloring the image.

I am also entering this in Gingersnap Creations' Color of Money challenge.

Challenge #13 - Is It Spring Yet?

I know by now everyone is asking "Is It Spring Yet?"  Well the answer is "yes".  At least it is in blogland.  This is the theme of our challenge the next two weeks.  Anything and everything "Springy"  is acceptable.  How about some flowers, sunshine, raindrops, and of course we can't forget the birds and bees.   

Alpha Stamps

I  have a wonderful sponsor for this challenge.  It is Alpha Stamps.  They carry an extensive  supply of collage supplies, rubber stamps, stickers, and charms as well as brads, eyelets and tags.  You will have to check them out.  Just click on their name above to visit their site.

Now, almost anything you create will probably qualify.  The rules are short and easy.

1.  Be a follower on my blog.

2.  Post my challenge on your site.

3.  Link directly to your entry and not to your entire blog.

Ok, let's get crafting some feelings of Spring.

Below are some inspirational pieces.

Krisha

Alpha Stamps provided the picture that inspired this card. Having studied art history (many, many moons ago)I loved all that were on the sheet, but this one was my favorite one. I did stamp over the picture as some people are apposed to nudity, myself I consider it art and has been art for centuries. The picture was trimmed and layered onto a very dark blue cs, then onto a mullberry that has gold run through it. (LOVE, LOVE this stuff). The collumn is from TPC stamps, the sentiment and flowers are from Inkadinkado. Is it spring yet? cause Girls just wanta have fun.

Micihele

My creation is all about traditional spring themes: flowers and bunnies. what can I say? I love them. first of all I'm obsessed with the millefiori technique from technique junkies. it is the springiest technique I've ever tried! and bunnies give you an awfully cuddly feeling. this card is on designer paper by basicgrey, with bunnies cut out from a twisted papers vintage image. the "joy" letter stamps came from pixie press, the flower from hero arts and the spiral is by connor's collectibles. I hope you are feeling springy too. If not, this challenge will surely help get you in the mood!

Barbara

I am so looking forward to spring. For my card this challenge I used an image from a collage sheet provided by our sponsor, Alpha Stamps. I thought the beautiful woman looked so lovely and springlike there among the foliage and flowers. To accentuate the feeling of spring, I added one of my favorite butterflies from Heartfelt Creations and used various shades of purple or lilac, such a wonderful spring color. The border die cut is a Spellbinders die. The background stained glass stamp is also from Heartfelt Creations. I think that the sentiment, from Club Scrap, is really uplifting and hopeful.

Vicki

I don't know how many of you are old enough to remember Tiny Tim who use to play the Uke and sang "Tiptoe Through the Tulips", but I thought about it the whole time I was working on this card.  However, I am not using tulip; I am using pansies.  My card has a top layer of cardstock on which I used the Faux Barnwood technique.  The main images (the dancer and the group of pansiers) are from my sponsor, Alpha Stamps.  The saying is from Moonlight Journey.  The ring the girl is dancing through was made using two scalloped ovals from Spellbinders.  The oval frame itself was made from a background on an old calendar.