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Happy Thursday, peeps!  I am into Christmas prep up to my eyeballs, so if you don’t see me around, you’ll know why!  LOTS of cookie-making going on here!  I did squeak in a really easy card yesterday, though!  Merry Monday has a candy cane-themed challenge:

and I just happened to get myself a couple of new Christmas gifts, one being a little pack of October Afternoon vintage cutouts!  This one features a couple of little critters on a candy-cane powered sled!  I fooled around with a fun fold so that they would be “sledding” off the edge:

I love these images even more because they’re printed on both sides!  I added an assortment of some fun new papers and a couple of sentiments from Purple Onion and Close to My Heart:

Cassidy helped me pick out the papers….the red snowflake one is her favorite!  All my cards are sent out, so this will be for next year!

We made mint chocolate chip cookies today, and despite my warnings, Cassidy just HAD to try a taste of unsweetened cocoa….she had to wash the taste down with some milk, LOL!

Live and learn!  Enjoy your day!

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Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Arielle has a sweet inspiration photo for us today at the ColourQ:

I wish I had hair long enough to use this comb…isn’t it pretty?  I settled for some popsicles!  Purple Onion is having a birthday challenge, and the only stamps I have from them, besides Christmas, are little seasonal ones.  So I picked out an image that I thought would look good in these colors, which sort of remind me of ice cream, and came up with this little notecard:

I stamped the base of my card with the retired Distressed Dots background stamp in Smoky Slate (instead of Going Gray!) and stamped my popsicles in the same shade, coloring each one with a blender pen and ink:

I wish you could see how cute these are IRL!  The photo doesn’t do it justice!  I added “celebrate” along the bottom of my panel, some speckles with Apricot Appeal and lavished it up with some Dazzling Diamonds glitter!  I mounted it on a diecut tag from MFT, added a MFT diecut button and some scallops from the SU Scallop Border punch.  Finally, some silver ribbon to finish it off!  And the inside, just a simple birthday greeting:

Makes me long for summer…heck, I wish spring would just get here!!  But hey!  I saw  BLUEBIRD out my window yesterday, so I know it is really on its way!!!  Yahoo!!!  So what will you create with these luscious colors?  Share your creation with us at the ColourQ challenge too!

We have a serious tea party going on here!!!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Distressed Dots BG(Ret SU), Banners ( Lil' Inker) , Seasonal Sayings (Purple Onion)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White Notecard, Apricot Appeal, Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana
Ink	Apricot Appeal, Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Silver Ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
Tools	Big Shot, Scallop Border Punch, Die-namics Blueprint 6 Die (My Favorite Things), Dimensionals, Blender Pen

Merry Monday 96

Hi everyone!  It’s another Monday---did you have a good weekend!  We did!  The challenge for Merry Monday this week is to use holly!  What a beautiful seasonal image, right?
  

I found some pretty holly paper in my stash as well as a cute little scene embellished with holly, so I paired them up:

I stamped each image twice on Sahara Sand; once in Wild Wasabi ink and again in Riding Hood Red ink, then colored each one with a blender pen and did some fussy cutting and layering.  I also stamped a separate holly image and did the same thing, layering it under a Riding Hood Red bow:

Actually, the children in the image are hanging mistletoe, but the holly is in the corners, LOL!  This sweet set is retired from Cornish Heritage Farm.  The whole thing is mounted on a gingham-stamped scalloped panel as well.  I had a little scrap of designer paper that I used on the inside too:

And while I was at it, I figured I would go ahead and use another scrap I had to make a second card!  Usually I show you a second card because I didn’t like it and I made another, but this one is not too bad….just using up scraps!!!

Although I do think the sentiment is a little too whimsical for the paper, I liked the words, LOL!

SO…..now it’s your turn to show us your holly cards!  Be sure to check out the Merry Monday blog where you’ll be able to see all the creations put out by the Design Team!  They always come up with the most amazing things!

Mommy “shared” her birthday candles with Cassidy (just ignore the horrible-looking frosting job—it was really quite tasty!) and she did a great job of blowing them out!

Enjoy your day!  I heard there is MORE snow on the way for us tomorrow!!!

First Card Wee Project Details
Stamps	Night Before Christmas (ret Cornish Heritage Farms); Handy Christmas Greetings (Amy R Stamps); Text Basics:  Gingham (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Sahara Sand, Riding Hood Red, Garden Green, K&Co Elizabeth Brownd DP
Ink	Riding Hood Red, Wild Wasabi
Accessories	RHR Pleated Ribbon (un-pleated)
Tools	Big Shot, Narrow Scallop Rectangle Die, Dimensionals

Second Card Wee Project Details
Stamps	Linen (ret SU); Christmas Sentiments (Purple Onion Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Sahara Sand, Riding Hood Red, Garden Green, Naturals White,  K&Co Elizabeth Brownd DP
Ink	Riding Hood Red, Sahara Sand
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Finishing Touches Edgelit, Christmas Words EF (Sissix)

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Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Another ColourQ day, and Arielle has a fabulous one for us…these colors just make me happy!  Here ya go:

There are all kinds of inspirations in this photo aren’t there?  I chose to do something fairly simple, and I think this is one of my favorite cards ever!

I used a little Penny Black image, stamping him on Shimmery White paper and coloring him simply with some Copics.  I added a little tag, a big fat gingham ribbon and a sweet little quirky sentiment, all done on a stitched diecut panel, also of Shimmery White.  Of course, I had to add a little sparkle to his hat:

Isn’t he sweet?  I can’t wait to see what you do with these beautiful, fresh holiday colors….share it with us at the ColourQ blog and be sure to check out what the other designers did as well!  Looking forward to checking them all out!  This is also for the Cue Card at CASology this week:

 

I showed Cassidy how to make a snowman from her homemade playdoh:

She was quite excited to add toothpick arms:

Of course, Grampy had to get in on the fun too:

Enjoy your day!

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Happy Monday, peeps!  It’s time for another Merry Monday challenge, and Lesley has a fun one today:

The chalkboard technique is pretty trendy right now, and I had just the right “subway-style” stamp to use:

I know a lot of tutorials encourage you to sort of smudge the “chalk” to make the chalkboard look more realistic, but I just stamped my words in white craft ink and set it with some white pastels.  Close-up, you can see some smudging, but from here, it looks pretty clean.  This image is fairly tall, so I made my card a tent-style one,  added a nice little diecut mat to the top, where I attached my silver bell, greenery and bow:

Since SU now has the envelope board, it was a piece of cake to make a custom envelope for my extra-tall card!  I have been hoarding a plethora of older 12x12 Christmas paper, so I pulled some out to make the envelope, and now it’s ready to go into my Christmas card stash!  I know that you’ll want to try this chalkboard technique this week, and you’ll want to share it with us at the Merry Monday challenge, found on Lesley’s blog, Always Playing with Paper!  Can’t wait to see yours!

A couple more pictures from Thanksgiving!

Have a blessed day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Holiday Noteblock (Purple Onion Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Riding Hood Red, Brushed Silver, Garden Green, Basic Black,, Whisper White
Ink	Craft White
Accessories	Silver Cord, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding
Tools	Big Shot, CB Snowflake EF, Perfect Polka Dots EF, White Pastels, MS Branch Punch, Bell Die (Lil'Inker), Dazzing Diamonds Glitter

CAS Christmas Stamp Camp Cards

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I am paying the price for this wonderful fall weather with some icky allergy symptoms that have me down low….so today I am just sharing the cards we made earlier this week at my Christmas card stamp camp.  As usual, they are very simple, but still pretty and fun to make:

All stamps are SU except for the last one.  If you need details, EMAIL me, as I am making this short & sweet today!  Hope you understand!

Cheesin’ it up at Pizza Hut!

Enjoy your day!

The Day After

What day is it?  It feels like Saturday or Sunday, not Wednesday!  I hope you all had a wonderful holiday…we did, but now I am suffering from those post-holiday blues…..I just sort of puttered around the house this morning, and finally decided STAMPING would lift my spirits!  Now that I’ve played, I can concentrate on cleaning up a bit!

I needed a special thank you card, so I flipped the RetroSketches sketch 43:

so that I could play with some new goodies:

Unfortunately, this is one time where my MS glitter didn’t look so hot, but once that stuff is glued down, it’s not coming off!

This is also for the Shopping Our Stash challenge 82, which is winter but not Christmas!  I used some pleated and gingham ribbons that have been in my stash a while!

Cassidy got right into the spirit of things yesterday; she actually sat through the entire church service Dana attended on Christmas eve:

and loved unwrapping her gifts on Christmas morning almost as much as playing with them:

Grampy came to the rescue on a particularly tricky package!

We even had snow on Christmas eve!

Have a blessed day!  Any questions, shoot me an email!