Here Comes Santa!

Happy Monday, everyone!  I hope you had a good weekend....the weather was FABULOUS yesterday, warm, no humidity, just gorgeous!  I had time to make a couple of Christmas cards; this one is for the Jingle Belles' challenge of Here Comes Santa:

At the end of the season last year, I snagged several cute Cottage Cutz dies; this one is called Santa Reindeer Border.  I also snagged a Graphic 45 pad at a thrift store while on vacation, so I put them both together with some Tranquil Tide cardstock and ribbon to make this quick, easy card!  All the papers are from the Graphic 45 pad; I diecut a stitched scallop border with a Pretty Pink Posh die and added a little ribbon accent:

And I just love the vintage feel to these papers:

I stamped some sentiments from last year's Stitched With Cheer set on the inside:

And yes, I celebrated my birthday on Friday---thank you to all those who sent cards as well as wishes!  I'll post them on my blog soon!  Cassidy got up bright and early (can you see how foggy it was?) to give me my present, which was a huge coloring book of birds along with some colored pencils!

Of course, she had to test out the pencils as well as the book, even before her breakfast!

That is SOME owl!

Thanks for dropping by today, and have a blessed day!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Stitched with Cheer
Card stock & Papers	Tranquil Tide, St Nicholas DSP (Graphic 45)
Ink	Tranquil Tide, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories	Tranquil Tide Ribbon
Tools	Big Shot, Santa Reindeer Border Die (Cottage Cutz, Scalloped Stitched Die (Pretty Pink Posh)

TSOT300 Vintage Santa

Hi everyone!  It's Tuesday and it's time for Try Stampin' on Tuesday!  This week I created the sketch for the challenge:

and I think this might be my one of my favorite cards ever!  I found this music and vintage Santa in my "vintage" file...I had printed it out for another project but never used it....and now I can't find the source, so I can't even re-create it!  Maybe a reader can help me out!  Anyway, here we go:

  

I do know the plaid background is from a Crafty Secrets CD that I purchased several years ago; I mounted everything on a Crumb Cake card base; added some Garden Green pinked edges and some greenery diecut from a Tim Holtz die:

I thought they complemented the holly in Santa's beard!  And I added a couple more berries on the inside, along with a sentiment from Stitched with Cheer:

I hope you'll play with us this week....I am sure some of you still need to create some Christmas cards!  Share your creation with us at the blog or on our FB page!

Some silliness from my little pumpkin:

Have a blessed day!

Cable Knit Projects

Happy Friday, peeps!  No challenges today, but I was inspired by my friend Michele when I saw her mitten post here.  (She is SO creative!)  Instead of a mitten, I thought I would make a couple of projects using the Cable Knit embossing folder...and the first one is a little hat:

I drew a hat pattern, cut two hats from white cardstock and embossed one with the EF.  I embossed another smaller piece and trimmed it along a cable to create the bottom portion of the hat:  

I watched this video (it's long and the tutorial is towards the end, but it's a great video) to show how to create a fold at the top of a shaped card, and then I added a Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper "pom pom".  I created it by punching a 7/8" scallop, then adhering it to a scrap, turning it a wee bit and repunching it:

I didn't have cute little greenery like Michele did, but I cut some diecuts from the Pretty Pines thinlets instead.  I made a little banner with a sentiment from Flourishing Phrases and added some holly from Stitched with Cheer: 

 

And surprise...I added some Warmth and Cheer DSP on the inside to create a little pocket for a gift card!  I adhered it right along the very edges with Tear 'n Tape:

 

I added a sentiment from Stitched with Cheer and it was all done!  Just make sure when you assemble it that you measure the length; if your pompom extends too far, you won't be able to stick it in an envelope!  And while perusing Pinterest in the wee hours of a sleepless night, I saw gazillions of Ugly Christmas Sweaters, so I did this one, just for fun!

It's hard to see, but it's mounted on a white "t-shirt", and his bells are cut from gold foil!  Even DH knew what it was!!

December 1 meant that Cassidy got to set up her Advent Calendar!  Dana told me she was up at 5am, and she told her to go back to bed, LOL!  6:15 and she couldn't wait any longer:

A wee little bit of candy to go with the bedhead!

Enjoy your day!

MM475 Jar of Cheer

Happy Wednesday, all!  This will be quick, as Thanksgiving eve is upon us and I have a flurry of things to do!  I chose the Mojo Monday sketch for my Christmas card today:

It's kind of sad that I have SO MUCH STUFF that pretty papers like these get forgotten...but then I get happy when I "find" them again!  These are the This Christmas Specialty papers, and they are so pretty with the new Jar of Cheer set:

I stamped the jar in Smoky Slate and everything else in Basic Gray, then used my aquapainter and inks to color in the ornaments and greenery.  It's too bad you cannot see the shimmer from the Wink of Stella pen...it looks really pretty IRL!  I added a bow from Jar of Love, stamped in Cherry Cobbler, because I thought it looked better than the striped bow that came with the set.

I stamped a sentiment from Stitched with Cheer, also in Basic Gray, right on the DSP and used a Cherry Cobbler banner to fill in the letters a wee bit:

I usually find coloring in images that large a bit tedious, but it was very relaxing today!  I need relaxing because I will be going full steam ahead today!  Thanks for popping in!

We had some insanely cold temps and 30-40 mph winds the last few days....my patio was covered with leaves because they had blown off the yard onto the patio!  So Cassidy decided to slide down the cellar door into the leaves....silly girl!

This is what is known as "wind-blown" hair!!  Enjoy your day!

SIP74 Clean and Simple Christmas

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  It's time for another Stamp Ink Paper challenge; check it out:

I seem to be making only Christmas cards lately, but it is the season!  I know that ice skates are more of a "wintery" embellishment, but I just couldn't help using these little diecuts for my CAS card:

Now I know my card looks a wee bit wobbly, and that's because the base is SU's Kraft cardstock, which is a nice brown color, but is thinner than regular cardstock, and is coarser, so the ink stamps a little differently on it.  But I do love the country look of it!  I cut some banners from some Christmas DSP from last year, added some snowflakes from Christmas Pines and a sentiment from a past Paper Pumpkin kit.  The diecuts are from Impression Obsession, and I colored them with red and black markers and a Zig Painty silver marker.   And check out the sentiment I stamped on the inside...I used a hint from Ann Willis to ink up my stamp in Versamark first, and that seemed to help, at least this time...I got a beautiful clear image!!  I did use SU's Basic Black, that seemed to work better.  At least the black sentiment draws your eye away from the snowflake booboo I made, LOL!  Thanks, Ann!

Sentiment is from  Christmas Pines; snowflake from Stitched with Cheer....these two sets seem to be on my desk constantly!!!

I hope that you'll play along with this CAS Christmas card challenge....it's always good to add to your stash!! And the others' cards are great too...check them out!

Cassidy loves to give gifts and she will take toys from her own stash to give to her classmates when it is their birthday!  I am not quite sure what the kids think when they get slightly-used items, but so far no one has complained.  And she is adamant about giving them something!  Yesterday, she had three birthdays....one that was a week or so ago and she missed, and two coming up. My dad got a whole stack of Golden books at an auction, and we have read all of them, so she picked out three she thought would be good matches for the recipients, and she wrapped them up:

Enjoy your day!

Paper Players 321 Sweet Treats

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It's time for a color challenge at the Paper Players, with Laurie as our hostess!

I was thrilled to see this color combo, because it let me play with SU's pretty Presents and Pinecones DSP....which I resisted getting for a while, but so glad I gave in!  I chose to make a couple of treat boxes and a simple card:

We'll start with the card!  I was really just sort of playing around with the leafy images from Foxy Friends, thinking about how they could be turned into a wreath, and it didn't turn it too badly, so I went with it!  I curved the larger frond into a semi-circle and stamped it in Emerald Envy, then added the smaller frond over top in Mint Macaron.  I added a few red glimmer paper  embellishments (Pretty Pines thinlits) and the last little red pearls from my Stitched with Love card kit.  Final touch was a red bow, some speckles (Itty Bitty Backgrounds) and a sentiment from Christmas Pines:

Next up is this adorable triangle treat box!  I just love this and it is easy to make.  I found the directions HERE.  I made my box with Mint Macaron and Presents & Pinecones DSP and liberally decorated it with embellishments from Pretty Pines, some offset Stitched Shapes circles, a banner (Oh What Fun) and some beautiful Emerald Envy ribbon:

Check out those double-layered pinecones in Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper!

And here's the inside (no candy yet!), which I decorated with a sentiment from Oh What Fun:

Finally, SU has these cute little clear treat boxes, so I simply wrapped some polka dotted DSP from a couple of years ago around the center, added a sentiment and some holly (Stitched with Cheer) and filled it up with some mints:

I wrapped the top with the Candy Cane Lane baker's twine and added some of the little bells SU has in the holiday catalog...another level of sweetness!

I hope you'll play along with our fun holiday colors and be sure to check out what the other designers created at the Paper Players!

Well, it finally happened!  After hanging by a thread, Cassidy, with the help of some gum, lost her other front tooth:

I've been singing "All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth" all weekend long!  Enjoy your day!

FMS262 Ho Ho Ho

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Boy, this week is just whizzing by....way too fast, too!  Jen's cute FMS sketch caught my eye yesterday:

I had gotten this Jolly Friends set mostly for the Santa hats and accessories....I wasn't real keen on the elf and Santa faces, but I forced myself to stamp Santa and do some coloring:

Santa was stamped with Memento ink on heavy white cardstock and colored with an aquapainter and some Blushing Bride ink; then I added some Calypso Coral for his cheeks and a wee bit of Smoky Slate as a shadow on his beard.  I punched out his hat with some glimmer papers and mounted it all on a Mint Macaron DSP stitched circle.  The sentiment is from Oh What Fun; the striped piece is from Presents and Pinecones, along with a wee sliver of Cherry Cobbler.   I added a star near the sentiment as well as on the inside:

The holly jolly sentiment is from Stitched with Cheer; the holly is from Oh What Fun.  And I think this IS a fun card!

Tuesday was such a beautiful day...didn't feel like November at all!  After we voted, since Cassidy had no school, we played at the park next to our township building for almost two and a half hours! There were so many kids there, she had a really good time!  After we came home and had lunch, we played outside some more!  And acted silly:

Enjoy your day!