Christmas Santa

 Hello Friends, today at Peace On Earth we have  a pretty
inspiration board that has a somewhat vintage look.
But, you can create anything as long as it's Christmas themed!

I always try to go with our mood boards as close as I can
so on this one I let the upper left big Santa face inspire me along with the colors.
Years ago I purchased these BIG stickers (1986), yes I've had them that long,
from a local Apple House that my sister, my mom and I myself used to go to for
lunch, they had the best grilled green olive/cream cheese sandwiches, plus a cute gift shop
which is where these stickers came from. These were so large that I had to make A6 cards
not my usual A2.  I decided to make three using all three stickers instead of putting them away for another 20 years.  I had some pretty vintage color papers  from P13 Cozy Winter that
looked good with the kraft card bases, so all in all these are pretty simple cards
using just the papers and big stickers!

Card #1:

Card #2:

Card #3 

Christmas will be here soon, come and have some holiday fun with us!

Santa Gift Card Holders

Hello friends, it's time to get those pretty designer papers out
you have been neglecting for so long and join us at
Love Those Pretty Papers challenge!

Our OPTIONAL theme is SANTA!!
But you can WOW us with anything as long as we see
those pretty papers being used!

I made these Santa money/gift holders using a die from
Art Impressions and LOTS of scraps of my pretty Christmas papers,
LOTS (the entire backs) more of these papers show on the back then they do the front
but I already had them bagged before I got pictures of their backs
but I think you get the idea!

Anything Goes:

Being the 'season' I created a second Christmas card
using some pretty papers from Mintay Winterland.
The die cut is Tutti Designs Poinsettia corner and the
large and fun sentiment is The Ton's Styled Christmas Sentiments.

I hope you will come and play with us at
Love Those Pretty Papers and show us what you have,
we can't wait to see it!!

More Fun

 Our OPTIONAL theme at Simply Clean & Simple is
Reds and Greens
but you can create anything as long as you keep it CAS!

I used the cutest My Favorite Things stamp set
Christmas Safari.  This set has the 5 cutest little Christmas critters
you have ever seen and two fun sentiments.
I crimped a scrap piece of holiday paper and used a Cheery Lynn Banner
for the sentiment and a Tutti Designs Banner for the image.
It has a bit of 'sparkle' as I used a
silver stardust pen on the scooter.

We would love to see YOUR CAS designs at
Simply Clean & Simple challenge!

All Is Calm

 Hello friends, happy December.
We are at our last Word Power challenge for this year.
We are an anything goes challenge where your SENTIMENT
takes center stage!

Last year (and probably this year too) I have been taking advantage
of the fun Spellbinders Warehouse sales.
I purchased this Betterpress sentiment for a mere $1.00
and used it in my hot foil Glimmer machine.
I love that the Betterpress dies can be used to hot foil,
makes them twice as useful!
Background paper is from the Paper Studio's Woodland Wonderland.
I added one of my homemade Spellbinders Poinsettias.

If you have some center stage sentiments we certainly would 
like to see them at our Word Power challenge, come on over!!

Flurries Forecasted Challenge

 Today I am joining the last bi-weekly challenge for the year
at Art Impressions and the theme is Flurries Forecasted!

I am showing my second round of one of  these super cute
 Snowmen gift card holders (the Santa gift card holders will

 be on my blog in a couple of days)
It also takes the Envelope GCH set to complete.  I made lots of these
to give to my grands for Christmas (20 grands and 11 greats),
I didn't put gift cards in but money,

it holds that just as well.

Aren't they just the cutest?  Nothing says snow flurries like a cute

snowman.  We had more then flurries here during the Thanksgiving
weekend, we had two feet of snow!!

Christmas Wrappings

Hello friends, today we have a super fun theme for our challenge at
DOUBLE D and it is
CHRISTMAS WRAPPINGS.
It includes all the items mentioned below and we have a
festive mood board for inspiration too! 

(Christmas bows, ribbons, tags, packages,
xmas designer paper counts as xmas wrapping paper
just have fun with it)

I am almost embarrassed to admit this but I purchased this fun 
Wrapped In Love die/stamp set during their 2023 release
and this is the first time I have used it.
There are lots of stamps and dies to this set and it came together pretty easily.
I had die cut all the pieces then went to bed and made this card the next day,
but several of the pieces had disappeared overnight, where did they go, does that happen to you?
So I just used what was still there  Crazy isn't it?
This will be a fun set to use with the holiday paper scraps too!
Edited to add:  This is a The Greetery stamp and die set!

Come over to Double D and join our Christmas Wrappings challenge, 
we would love to have you!

Entering the following challenges:
Die Cut Diva's .... Christmas/Winter
Simon Says Wednesday .... Dies

Happiest of Birthdays

 Well, here we are at the last Triple B challenge for the year
and we have this almost all black and white elegant inspiration board for you.
Our challenges are the THREE B's, meaning you can make anything in any colors
as long as  you use butterflies, blooms or birds, one, two or all three.

I used a new to me Memory Box die I purchased in 2024 for the first time
called Blue River Butterfly, I even like the name let alone the pretty die.
I had the embossed inked panel in my 'spare parts' box and die cut a Tutti Designs oval
from it for my butterfly to 'land' on.  The sentiment is from Close To My Heart that
I stamped in Versamark then heat embossed with SNS black EB powder.
I love the bold look of the embossing and need to do that step more!

I wish you could see this in person as it is such more intense and beautiful!

Come on over and join in our last TB challenge for the year!