Thanks a bunch more!

Today I have two changito cards to share with you using the same fun designer papers and stamps from i {heart} papers. Both cards were made for SCS sketch challenges from last week and today...with all the Papercraft Planet Christmas challenges, last week's sketch card never made it onto my blog, although you may have seen it in my gallery.


Matthew thinks that my love of these word/image puns is so corny, but to me they're just too cute! I think Stampendous' Changito the Monkey is so adorable! I used MME's Hello Baby, This is Me, Totally Dotty, along with SU's Sage Shadow and Chocolate Chip cardstock. I also used some red and brown cardstock from a very old paper pack for today's card. It would be fun to make another card or two along with a box for them...wouldn't that be a cute gift set?!

I have been stamping more consistently lately, but I *still* have not finished all my Christmas cards! Eeeek! I am hoping to have some stamping time over the next several days to do some stamp-a-stack style card-making and get them ready to be mailed! I have some gifts that need to be ready for next Tuesday and Wednesday also, so it oughta be a marathon stamp weekend! I'm looking forward to it!

Thanks so much for coming to visit my blog! From here you need to head to Amber's! She has some super blingie blog candy up for grabs until Monday!

A Baker's Dozen!

Today is the last of PCP's 12 Days of Christmas challenges. I really hate to see them come to a close. I have enjoyed them so much and they have added some fun cards to my Christmas and every-day card stashes. I was very happy to be able to combine today's PCP challenge with SCS's Color Challenge for this card.

Season of Friendship is probably my favorite set from this year's holiday mini. It's so versatile! Today I sponged in some clouds using a mask, then stamped the tree in chocolate chip and added some taken with teal snowflakes. PCP's challenge called for 12 embellishments, but there's an extra snowflake here! I stamped the bird in real red, cut it out, and tucked him in the bare branches. The sentiment was stamped in two colors using markers directly to the stamp, and the card was finished off with some punched snowflakes, pretty ribbon, and lots of bling and stickles. A simple design, but I really like how it turned out!

I'm off to the first Christmas party of the season! Blessings!

Harmony!

I have been having so much fun with the PCP 12 Days of Christmas challenges, and I think, so far, this is probably my favorite of all the cards that I've made for them. Y'all know how much I love music! Today's card is very simple, but all the iridescent papers and gold/bronze inks make it elegant, and I just adore how lovely the image is in the first place. I wish I could have captured the shimmer in the photo...maybe I'll try again later in the day to see if I can get a better shot.

I colored Stampendous' Harmony Angel stamp with a combination of prismas with baby oil, gold and bronze gel pens, and markers. This Basic Grey Wassail paper from i {heart} papers is so beautiful, but it was a challenge to color-match! I think that this mix of colors worked out in the end! The sketch is Mojo #64. The muted colors of the paper, the simplicity of the design and the elegance of the shimmery embellishments make this a very serene and peaceful card. I hope you like it!

SNSS Challenge

Over at the Sweet 'n Sassy Blog there was a challenge last Monday to make a cute little tissue holder...I wanted to get mine made and uploaded before the new challenge appears in the morning!

I used a bird from Feathered Friends, colored with Prismas and baby oil, along with some Martha Stewart snowflake punches, SU's photo corner punch, buttons from my button jar, and a Nesties label for the sentiment. The colors (Wild Wasabi and Real Red) were inspired by the tissue package inside, a special holiday edition that I bought at Hallmark printed with green and red snowflakes. Even though it is very simple, I'm pleased with the way it turned out, and plan to give it to a friend who is forever in search of tissues!

Day 10 at PCP

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps is sponsoring today's 12 Days of Christmas challenge over at Paper Craft Planet. The theme is 10 Lords a Leaping, and we were challenged to use a boy stamp on our cards. This fun fella is the scientist from Korin's set, You're a Genius. I stamped him in Palette Noir ink, then colored him with prisma pencils and baby oil. I wanted him to be neon bright and wacky fun! Most of what I used is from deep in the dark recesses of my stash...I have had those dingbrads for over a year! Do you do that? Buy something you just *HAVE* to have and then hoard it forever!?

I am delighted to tell you that I have been given another award! My friend and fellow challenge stalker, Jackie, has blessed me with the Kreativ Blogger Award! I hope, Jackie, that you and Riley (see yesterday's post) understand how honored I am to be given awards by stampers whose work I love and admire and whose friendships I treasure!

I will have the pleasure of nominating 5 of my friends for this award, but right now I am dashing off to take Matthew to meet the church youth for a benefit concert. Please whisper a prayer for a young man named Jacob who was injured in a freak accident several weeks ago. He is a foster child with no medical insurance, and suffered a cervical fracture...he currently has no motion in his lower extremities and also has limited sensation. He needs a miracle...

Nine Ladies Dancing!

Today's card is for PCP's 12 Days of Christmas challenge...I've had this idea in my head all week, and was surprised to see that it sorta fits today's SCS Inspiration Challenge too. I have other girl stamps that I could have used, but really wanted to have the chance to use this particular image again...it is one of my favorite Halloween stamps and I thought it would be fun to use it for something other than Halloween. I stamped it on shrink plastic, colored it with markers and a white gel pen, then hit it with the heat gun. No matter how old you get, shrink plastic is still fascinating to watch!

I am so excited to tell you that I have received an award! My friend Riley gave me this beautiful Butterfly Award! I am thrilled that she would think my blog is a cool blog, because I think hers is wonderful!

I, in turn, have the privilege of passing the award on to the creators of 10 more cool blogs...most of these bloggers are friends and fellow challenge s/talkers. Some are new friends that I've met in the short time since I've started blogging. The list is in reverse alphabetical order because Wendy just *had* to be first...she's all about butterflies!

• Wendy
• Vicki
• Silvia
• Shelly
• Lorraine
• Juliana
• Judy
• Jami
• Debi
• Angel

Have fun visiting all these fabulous stampers' websites! Thanks for visiting mine!

SNOW! Just kidding!

My friend Wendy and her daughter Amelia hosted today's SCS Limited Supplies Challenge, which was to make something monochromatic using snowflakes...we could use only snowflake patterned paper, snowflake stamps, and a one word sentiment.

Remember way back, when we did these medallions and I was making cards w/ this old patterned paper? Well, that's how long this project has been sitting at the edge of my desk! I started it and got stumped, set it aside and didn't touch it until this morning. Today's challenge simply demanded that it be completed.

I glued a scrap of patterned paper onto a Basic Grey chipboard tag and penned a little dot-dash pattern along the edge with a white pen. Made a huge mess spreading mono multi glue onto some RAK gift white chipboard letters and sparkling them up with dazzling diamonds glitter. I punched a few vellum snowflakes with a Martha Stewart snowflake punch, then added glittery snowflake brads and clear rhinestones to their centers. For the hanger I tied a bow and attached my already made triangle medallion to it with another snowflake brad, and voila! I still have to do something (paper, paint, etc) to cover the chipboard back, but I do think I like it! So glad it finally came together!

My fellow design team mate Lori is hosting today's PCP challenge, which is to use maids a'milking cows for the 8th Day of Christmas...go take a peek! I'm headed back to the stamp room!

O Christmas Tree!

I've been MIA from the card-making world today as we decorated our tree and finished preparing our house for the highschooling homeschoolers' party tonight. We are having about 15 kids over to watch A Christmas Story (we even went and bought a leg lamp ornament!) and exchange gifts. Should be a really fun night!

I'm hoping to stamp most of the coming weekend! Hopefully I'll have something nice to share tomorrow!

On the 6th day of Christmas...

I don't have any geese stamps except for a small one that says *from the kitchen of...* that I didn't want to use for this card! I have to laugh, because when we (the DTs of the companies sponsoring prizes at PCP) were told in advance what these challenges would be, I had prepared a *defense* about my choice of stamps for this challenge. We were to make a card regarding geese, hunting, wildlife, etc., so I decided that my strategy would be to point out the fact that owls are great hunters, and that this particular romantic guy had searched high and low to find his one true love! ;) I thought I was gonna have to work hard to sell my logic.

As it turns out, they posted this challenge differently than they did the original call...they challenged us to use birds, so I don't have to try to convince you that this works after all!

These adorable lovebirds are from a new set, Owlentine, recently released at Tree House Stamps. I used Ashley's recent sketch with some left-over designer paper for my layout, and watercolored the owls...don't you love their blingy eyes and her blue eyeshadow?!

Thanks for visiting! Tomorrow the swans'll be swimming.....

Five Golden Rings!

Paper Craft Planet's daily challenge has me singing this song on a daily basis too! ;) Today's theme was to create a card that has circles or rings. I still have lots of this Basic Grey Wassail...even the striped print has circles in it, so I decided to start with that and make another of Becca's circle medallions to go with it. I put a little bling in the center of the snowflake and in the dots of the vertical stripe to give it a little sparkle. I distress inked the edges of the Mellow Moss medallion in hopes that it would better harmonize with the distressed background...I usually LOVE that look but this time it made the color appear to be Old Olive, and I'm not too thrilled about that but it's too late now! A bow tied with my favorite faux suede ribbon made me feel a little better about it!

If you haven't been playing along, today would be a GREAT day to start! Today's PCP challenge is being sponsored by i {heart} papers, and Kate is giving away some Nesties to today's winner! So go get busy!

Notes:
Stamps: SEI Alpine Frost
Paper: SU! Mellow Moss, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White, Basic Grey Wassail DP
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Inks
Accessories: Mellow Moss marker, May Arts faux suede ribbon, corner punch, bling