Gingham Quilted Snowflake

Create Along With Us: October 2016

 Hi friends! It’s been a busy time at my house , I 

had 6 of the grandchildren for a few days. I had so much fun

and now I miss them, but boy was I tired. Im ready to go again.

I chose this beautiful card above, from Melissa Phillips

for the inspiration of my tag. 

For my holly leaves I mixed Stormy Sea and Limeade Ice inks

Merry Monday Christmas Challenge

 Papertrey Ink - Tag Sale: Quilted Die

  Papertrey Ink - Quilted: Winter Die

Papertrey Ink - Holly Jolly Die Collection (set of 2)

Thank you for the visit today!

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Christmas Cards all Year Long

Merry Monday #90 {Ribbon or Twine}

Merry Monday’s has its own blog now! Merry Monday Blog

 Not sure if you can see but I added a bit of glitter to 

Santa’s beard and fur.

I am so excited that in the world of card making we can make Christmas cards all year long! How nice is that! I bought this set at my local stamping store and it was half off. Its called Mistletoe Magic from My Mind’s Eye. I like the fifties look of  it! Need to hurry and get this one posted. 

 Thank you for stoping by.

Merry Christmas from Snowy

Welcome to Merry Mondays!

Merry Mondays

I was very excited to learn I won a spot as

 Guest Designer, for this week! 

All you need to do is create a card with an animal on it!

Snowy in his Knitted hat...

I chose this little guy and the sled from Purple Onion Designs His name is Snowy….  Isn’t he so cute! These are from the Stacey Yacula Holiday 2013 collection.  I used my shimmer pens on his hat and sled. Hope you can find some time to play along … I know how busy everyone is this time of year. 

We are spoiled her in sunny California it is going to be 84 out. Although beautiful out I wouldn't mind some cold.

I will be spending the day in Laguna Beach , a few of my sisters and I are going to a Comedy…Nuns are involved! I hear it is great!

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge

 Challenge: Stamp out 2013!

Let it Snow

Week 75: KNIT

Stamps: Purple Onion Designs, Wplus9, Basic Banners

Dies: Lil Inkers Design , Stitched Matts ,Wplus9 Banner  and Simon Says Curved Edge.

Paper : Papertrey Ink and My Minds Eye , Merry Little Christmas

Snowflakes Are Falling

Week 74: SNOWFLAKE

Challenge # 23: Christmas!

Serendipity is the sponsor this week. 

You still have time for the buy 3 get one free!

As you can see, I have many snowflakes on this card!

I love this card in person...

Hi. As you can see I am having a bit of photo issues. 

I was so excited to learn Serendipity was the sponsor this week so I was able to make this one up ahead of time. The snow folder is no longer made .  I also added a bit of glitter. The stamps are:

Snow Bunny

Peace On Earth

Snowflakes and Pearls

Make It Monday #143: Modern Whimsy Style 

With Danielle Flanders This is something I might not have done but I loved the card Danielle made.

FINAL CHALLENGE OF 2013!

You pick the any challenge from last year! 

Must be a new project !

Hi, I hope you are having a good week. For some of us this can be a very busy time of year . I will keep this short for that reason.   The large dotted paper is from Stampin Up, I used Stitched Rectangles from Lil Inkers Deign and the rest is all Papertrey Ink

Thank you so much for stopping by and taking the time to comment.

Signature Christmas. 
Papertrey Ink - Fancy Flakes Die Collection (set of 3)
Papertrey Ink - Doily Details Die Collection (set of 3)

Shape it Up

Welcome to another Serendipity Stamp Challenge.  This week we were asked to make a shape card! So I ended up with card that is almost like a large tag or med. sized card.

Serendipity Stamps Challenge Blog

We have a new solid die to go along with the Owl :

Owl Outline Die FYI

The inside of my card above.

I used two of my favorite Christmas stamps,

 from Serendipity Stamps:For Unto You and Nativity

 I also used my brand new Lil Inkers; Ovals, Memory box; Frostyville Border, Spellbinders ; Heirloom Ornaments and Papertrey Ink ; Holly die. 

The sale this week is: buy 3 get the 4th free through 12/11

Hope you have some time to join us again for this fun challenge! You could win 20$ off your order of 10$ or more.

Please stop by and see what the rest of the DT has made.

Jenny Gropp

Marybeth Lopez

Miriam Napier

Pauline Pollington

Anya Schrier

Jeanne Jachna

Vickie Zimmer

Julie Warner

Karen Amidon

For Unto You

Nativity

Thank You 

The 12 Kits Of Occassions

 Welcome to the 12 Kit of Occasions

 I hope everyone in America had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Happy Hanukkah to all my Jewish friends !

We were blessed to have a houseful and some overnight guest .
 I am so tired….. not complaining just being truthful! 

This months gracious host was Kelly  Gingham Girl! 

 Oh my gosh what an amazing kit Kelly sent out. I could have made a ton of more cards, but I had so much to do for Thanksgiving.

I cannot wait to see what everyone else made with their kits I love the gray , white , black and red! Kelly did most all of the heat embossing and stamping on these cards… Kelly put so much work into this kit, it was almost just assemble and go.

Thank You Kelly!!!

 Everything was packaged so beautifuly. I saved a tiny piece of gingham from the package for the top of my tree below.

I added Jesus is the reason for the season to this card! 

Some of you may know… Max! Well this reminds me of 

Lisa’s dog Max and he LOVES snow!

I am adding the card below to Merry Monday

Merry Monday #86 {Use the Chalkboard Technique}

 Please stop by the12 Kits of Occasions Blog to get all the details.  Kelly is giving away a prize. 

We have a guest stamper as well.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Renee

Tracey

Sharron

Marybeth( me)

Cathy

Christina

Amy

Kim

Kara

Kelly

Jessica

 Joyce

Make It Monday and Merry Mondays

Make It Monday #141: Adding Glitter with Heat and Stick Embossing Powder

&

Merry Monday #84 {Trees with Bling!}

Hi, hope you are having a great week!
 I went to my favorite stamp store in Claremont California( college town and closest thing we have to a New England town,  in my opinion) Well, I was in heaven.  I also noticed wood blocked stamps are coming back in a huge way… at least in the real stores. I do love a wood stamp and a real store. But I will also love my online stamps!

 For this card everything is from Papertrey Ink with exception of the small tree , that is from WPlus9 . 

Thanks for stopping by!

cas-ual Friday’s and Curtain Call's

CAS-ual Friday’s

Curtain Call’s

I couldn't wait to use my new stamps from Purple Onion Designs. A few of my blog friends are designers for this company, that is new to me . I love everything they have made with these new stamps KayM has made some gorgeous cards with these stamps. I placed the order and received my stamps in just a few days. Because the shipping cost less than I paid::::: I received cash back with my order! That was a first for me. I also received a few free stamps with my order.

 Since I am not the best colorer I took out my very old chalk cubes to color and shade the branch. Snowy the bird was colored with my Copic markers.

I hope you enjoy your weekend. 

We have cooled down in one day almost 25 degrees cooler. Nice!

sentiment stamp is from Stampabilities

Merry Mondays

Merry Monday #83 {Stripes, Red, Chocolate with Stars or Hearts}

 This first one is a better picture but look closely and see what I forgot to add: 

My Dark Chocolate tree trunk from Lil Inkers tree. 

Good morning ! 

I want to take a min. and thank you all for your sweet comments. I am very grateful for each and every one of you.

I loved the inspiration photo with the deep red and dark chocolate. For this card…. at first... I used the stacked coffee cups then a different tree.  Then changed it all up again. 

The red and white polka dot is washi tape on cardstock then I made my cuts. The tree is from Papertrey Ink, the stars are from WPlus9,  sentiment is from PTI , frame and tree trunk are from Lil Inkers Design and embossing folder Cuttlegug. ( I don't think they make it anymore.)

Thank You!