Holiday Wishes

 Hello friends, it' our LAST challenge this year at Double D
and we have a theme of 
Christmas Trees
with a mood board for inspiration.

I created my last card for the holiday season using
the Sizzix three layered Folk Tree stamp,
one I acquired when they had one of their mega sales.
I stamped it in three different Altenew inks
Grass Field~Shadow Creek~Mountain Pine
then die cut it with a Tutti Designs postage die.
The sentiment is from Hero Arts and stramped with Gina K Designs Cherry Red.

I would love to see you over at Double D
and while there take a peek at all the
beautiful trees from our design teams!

Two Old Bats Reminder December 2024

Hi All, we are halfway through our challenge at Two Old Bats
and have a crazy fun inspiration/mood board
keeping in with the season even though we are a HALLOWEEN themed challenge
you can still have some seasonal fun!! 

The snowmen kind of inspired me so I went with silly ghosts
drinking their wine!  The entire stamps used, sentiment included is from
Art Impressions Fright Night set, aren't they just too CUTE!!
Their wine was colored in with glitter markers to add a little sparkle.

Aren't these the happiest ghosts you have ever seen?  They remind me of
Ghostbusters!!

Come and have some spooky fun with us at Two Old Bats!!

Entering the following challenges:
Halloween & Other Occasions .... Halloween 

Beautiful Blossoms December Challenge

 Hello friends, it is our last monthly challenge at
Beautiful Blossoms this year and we have a pretty
mood board for inspiration but you can create anything as long as
you focal point is floral! 

Being December is a busy month I kind of went the easy way with my card
by using a Concord & 9th  Sweet Bee  stencil and simply stenciling it in a teal
and pink color. A die and stamp set is also available with this set but I chose
not to use it this time, but you will certainly see it show up on my blog at some point
if you haven't already!
I used all Altenew inks for the stenciling and the sentiment is from Tonic.

We would love to have you join us over at Beautiful Blossoms, 
 take a break for all that Christmas hullabaloo and have some floral fun with us!!

Peace On Earth Challenge #78

Ten days until Christmas, yikes, do you have your cards done?
Hopefully you have been playing along with our challenge all year long
and have plenty of cards created by now, but if not there is still time
to join our last Peace On Earth challenge for 2024! 

We have a fun inspiration board but you can create anything as 
long as it is Christmas themed!

I went entirely simple with this card letting my
Mintay Merry Little Christmas paper pad do all the work.

I added a Pretty Pink Posh Holiday sentiment and a few
Pink Fresh Studio Dixie Dust Glitter Drops to finish it off.
These papers make the most gorgeous cards and are
great for times like now when Christmas is so near!!

Hope to see YOU over at 
Peace On Earth, there is still time!!

Merry Christmas

Hello friends, we have a new challenge theme at
Can You Handle The Pressure
where our challenge is all about embossing folders!
The theme is OPTIONAL but you have to use an
embossing folder to enter.

We also have a fun prize to one lucky random entrant and it is:

I used the same folder for my card plus an Organic Linen folder

from Altenew..  I embossed the Poinsettia folder on a die cut arch
from Spellbinders.  Funny thing is I had intended to cut the next size
arch to place under the embossed one (which I think I would of liked better)
but forgot my intentions and instead

embossed a complete panel for underneath, geesh, sometimes I
wonder where my mind is!!
A Hero Arts sentiment was stamped with Gina K Designs Cherry Red Ink
and a few gold half pearls were added.

Get those embossing folders out and come on over to
Can You Handle The Pressure!!

Santa Cupcake

 Hello friends, at The Sisterhood of Crafters
our challenge theme is 'CHRISTMAS'!
Pretty darn easy for this time of year!

I pulled out a cute and fun never been used before
Cottage Cutz Santa Cupcake die.
I have to say this little 'rascal' was picky but also fun to make.
The Cottage Cutz dies when completed are always so worth it to me,
I think they are adorable with all the fun details!
I die cut him from all white card stock scraps then colored each piece in
with Copics.  The pretty papers came from
Echo Parks 2023 Have  Holly Jolly Christmas 6x6 pad,
one of newest and favorite Christmas pads! 
I placed on a couple Tutti Design ovals.
I wasn't sure about adding a sentiment on the outside
so I simply left it off!

Head on over to The Sisterhood of Crafters
and have some 'Christmas' fun with us!!

Entering the following challenges:

Try It On Tuesday .... Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Christmas With The Cuties .... Cute and Christmassy
The Cutie Pie Challenge .... Cute Christmas
Halloween & Other Occasions ..... Christmas
If You Gave A Crafter A Cookie .... #199 December

Sparkling Holiday

 Hello friends, it's a new month which means it's once again time
for our newest challenge at Love Those Pretty Papers
with an OPTIONAL theme of Christmas but you can use any pretty
papers you want as long as they are mainly the focus!

If you are familiar with Mintay papers then you know how
beautiful they are and several papers within the pad can easily make
'stand alone' cards just by adding the paper a few small details.
The paper I used is from their Winterland pad.
A few Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflakes were added that I topped with some sparkle by adding
some scrapbookdotcom silver glitter  'pops of color'.
The sentiment is Hero Arts.

For my anything goes card, I pulled an old pad out that I am trying to use up
from My Minds Eye Fine and Dandy Girl (2011).
I popped up (slightly) a piece of white card stock then cut a piece 4"x3"
designer paper for the front. I die cut a Freida Leaf
(not sure of the maker as it was a die given to me from a friend,
maybe Memory Box ?)
The sentiment was created on my Betterpress using the
Always and Forever plates and dies.
Just a simple card but I like it and a great way to use up some of those 
'old' papers!

I hope you are enjoying our newest challenge, I know I sure am
as it 'forces' us to get out those pretty papers
and actually not hoard them but USE them!!

Hope to see YOUR pretty papers over at Love Those Pretty Papers!!