Sweet Christmas Wishes

As promised, I am back with my DT post for Daydream Designs!

For today's card, I am using the Sweet Christmas Wishes set, it comes with the cupcake and the sweet sentiment.  I just {love} cupcakes and this one is especially yummy.  I had a great time coloring it (except for discovering my R24 marker is bone dry!!) I added cut apart a second cupcake to add the holly leaves by themselves as an embellishment.

I started with today's Feeling Sketchy sketch and incorporated the following challenges as well:

Created with Love Challenges #7 - Christmas plus a die cut (circles were cut with MFT Die-namics)
The Pink Elephant #164 - Use patterned paper
Christmas Card Challenges #40 - Use 3 of something (2 sets of 3 rhinestones for the holly berries)

And with that, pj day is officially over!  I have to go get cleaned up and then clean up the kitchen before we head to my parents for an outdoor dinner. It's so beautiful here today!  I really enjoyed having some time in my craft room during daylight hours!

Sweet Warm Ups

Good morning!

Today I'm sharing my Day 18 card for the Scrappin'-n-Chattin' 30 day Christmas card challenge. The prompt for that day was "sweets" - a yummy prompt for sure!

I created this card using an image from the Sweet Warm Ups set and the sentiment is from the Sweet Christmas Wishes set, both available at Daydream Designs!

I used this week's sketch from The Sweet Stop. This week was a sketch with a spin - use die cuts or punches. I used my EK Success Scallop border punch and a Spellbinders Ribbon Tag die cut. The "topping" was made using White Opal Liquid Pearls - my first time using them. Love how it looks :)  The paper is from the MME Be Merry 6x6 paper pad.

Here is the sketch~

TFL!

SNC - CCC Day 12

This is my third post for today, please scroll down if you would like to see more Christmas cards :-)

Here is today's Christmas card!  Our prompt was polka dots so I used some fun paper from My Mind's Eye called Be Merry. Aren't the trees with the lil polka dots just so adorable? I think so!

The penguin, speech bubble and sentiment are from the Hero Arts Jolly Christmas stamp set. The card layout was done using this week's Unscripted Sketches #171 sketch. 

TFL!

SnC CCC - Day 3

TGIF!

Here is my Day 3 card.  I read through days worth of challenges before I started creating and was inspired by several challenges in making my card tonight.

First I started with Christmas Stampin' All Year Long's challenge to use "A Pair of 3" and used 3 frogs, 3 patterned papers, stamped the sentiment three times and added 3 gems.  When I was selecting my paper I incorporated Do You Stack Up's challenge to use polka dots. Finally I tore the paper and inked it for 4 Crafty Chick's Distressing challenge.

Supplies~
Stamps: Jolly Christmas (Hero Arts)
Paper: Be Merry (My Mind's Eye)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Creamy Brown (Colorbox Chalk Ink)
Other: copics (YG95, YG97, BG01, R37, RV21), rhinestones (Queen & Co)

TFL!

Butterfly Birgitta

I almost forgot to post this card!  I made it on Wednesday and then life got busy and I saw it as I was downloading the rest of my new card pictures.

This is digi Butterfly Birgitta from CC Designs. Isn't she adorable? I had her colored up for awhile and when I saw the Anything Goes challenge at All That Scraps and the cool sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday, it was a perfect time to make a card to put her on.

and here is the sketch~ loved all the layers! I had so much fun making this card!

TFL!

Supplies~
Stamps: Butterfly Birgitta digi (CC Designs)
Paper: PTI cardstock, So Sophie Clever (My Mind's Eye)
Other: copics, rhinestones (Queen & Co), butterfly punch (Martha Stewart), ticket corner punch (Stampin' Up), embossing folder (Sizzix), Labels Ten Nestabilities (Spellbinders), star dust stickles

Tiddly Inks Challenge #81

I was on a roll last night and made three cards. This is the third one and I created it for the current Tiddly Inks Challenge - Best Friends Forever.  This cutie, Girl's Best Friend, was in my printed files for quite some time. She's thrilled to be colored and on a card now :)  I just love how the doggie turned out!

The layout of the card was based on a sketch from Digital Tuesday's challenge a few weeks ago. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Girl's Best Friend from Tiddly Inks, sentiment from Scrappy Mom's Raining Cats & Dogs

Paper: Copic Xpress Blend It cardstock, MME Stella & Rose Gertie

Other: copics, prima flowers, Queen & Co pearl

TFL!

Midweek Magnolias #2

I have been wanting to play with my Magnolia Stamps, so I looked through all of the current Magnolia challenges and found a sketch from a newer challenge blog called Midweek Magnolias.

Here is the sketch~

 

and my take on it~ I found this cutie in my stamped image pile, not sure of her name.

Supplies~

Stamps: Tilda from Magnolia Stamps, sentiment from Color Me Happy by My Creative Time
Paper: MME Stella & Rose Gertie
Other: copics, prima flowers, Queen & Co. pearls, MFT Oval Open Scallop Doily

TFL!

Flutter By Wednesday x2!

Oh happy day, it's Flutter By Day and it's also Leap Day! How you will you spend your extra day? I'm working and then I hope to craft tonight!

After taking off last week due to no mojo, I have two creations to share today. I had hoped to finish more but I ran out of time.  I finally got my desk and chair cleaned off. I spent hours coloring on Sunday!  It's been months since I touched my copics to color a full image...it was rough going at first but I think I'm back on my game :-)

Anywho, this week's Flutter By Challenge is an open one - just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation!  If you play along you have a chance to win a prize from the fabulous Susana of Susana's Custom Art and Card Design.  Susana so kindly sponsored the team with stamps to use this week - thank you Susana! Click {HERE} to enter your creation and find links to the rest of the team to see what they created.

I received the Fairy Good Hair Day from the Victoria Case Fairylicious Collection. Isn't she adorable? It took me two attempts to color her but I am pleased with how she turned out.  I paired her with some new Bo Bunny Ambrosia paper also from Susana's store. There are lots of new papers there, I did leave some for the rest of you to buy, he he :)

Here is my 2nd creation using last week's inspiration challenge. I finished it Friday night but didn't have much time to blog over the weekend.  It's also for Week #8 of the 52 Week Challenge, I've managed to still get a page a week done even though I haven't shared them all here.  For this layout I used various pieces from the My Mind's Eye Lost & Found collection and the sketch I used from Sketch Inspiration.

This is the first page that I've scrapped for my wedding album. I can't wait to scrap more of the photos!

Thank you for fluttering by today :-)

52 Week Challenge - Week #3

I put my 52 Week Challenge layout together tonight...took me what seemed like forever LOL! 

I knew I wanted to use this sketch from Artful Delight (designed by our SNC leader Abby!)

I finally decided to scrap some pictures from this past Christmas and it's the first time I got to use my new printer! My friend Suzy got an awesome printer and since she loved it, I decided to use a gift card to get my own. No more running to the pharmacy for just a picture or two to scrap!

All supplies except the kraft paper and Thickers are from the October Afternoon Holiday Style collection. Initially I wasn't going to get any but one day I went to the LSS and they had it in stock - it just jumped into my basket, I swear!  I also got those cool stitched Thickers that day - I think I need more even though I only opened the package tonight. The kraft paper is MME Funday and I took it from my Artful Delight January kit. I like that it has a light pattern to it so I could still journal on it and it broke up having so many busy patterns. 

It's supposed to start snowing overnight! I hope to get some good pictures tomorrow to scrap!

PMS Release Day Blog Hop!

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My card today features one of the new Color Kids - High Five. She is such a cutie and she comes with this fun sentiment!

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Sketch Used - TE145

Supplies Used-

• Paper Makeup Stamps - Color Kids: High Five
• My Minds Eye -Vanity Fair
• Copic Xpress Blend It paper
• Memento Tuxedo Black ink
• Colorbox Aquamarine chalk ink
• Nestabilities Labels 8
• Kimbee's Designs crinkle ribbon