Fa La La La La

The September Challenge is up and running at Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge. The theme is Anything Goes, and the twist is: tree. I decided to make a shaker with the Hero Arts Fir Tree Infinity Dies. I backed the aperture with patterned paper with the sheet music for "Oh Christmas Tree" for an added affect. The sentiment is from Happy Little Stapers 

Please head over the to Happy Little Stampers September Christmas Challenge and see what the Design Team Has created for your inspiration. Play with us for a chance to win a $20 coupon to spend at the Happy Little Stampers Shop! Check out all the details HERE. If you use stamps by Happy Little Stampers, and you are chosen as the Random Winner, your prize will be doubled! 

I'm also playing at:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown September Sketch Challenge

The 12 Months Of Christmas Link Up #45 - Optional Theme... Have A Tweet Christmas

The Holly And Ivy Christmas Challenge

The Merry Christmas Challenge

August 15 - September 14

Anything Christmas

'Tis The Season

The Happy Little Stampers April Christmas Challenge has begun. The theme is all Christmas all the time, with an optional twist of JOLLY. Fa La La La La!

I went a little off the beaten path with the look of this one. I created a background with three shades of green Distress Oxide Inks, then stencilled stars over it using Dreamweaver Metallic Gold Embossing Paste. I heat-embossed the sentiment from Stamplorations on a black die cut banner, adhered it to the white panel and added some twine.

Please head over the to Happy Little Stampers April Christmas Challenge and see what the Design Team Has created for your inspiration. Play with us for a chance to win a $20 coupon to spend at the Happy Little Stampers Shop! Check out all the details HERE. If you use stamps by Happy Little Stampers, and you are chosen as the Random Winner, your prize will be doubled!

I'm also playing at:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown March Technique Challenge - Embossing

Stamplorations April Challenge - Focus On The Sentiments

CAS Christmas

Happy New Year! It's time for a new year of Challenges at Happy Little Stampers, and time to start on our Christmas card stashes for next Christmas! Only 361 more days!!! For the January challenge, it's all Christmas all the time with the optional twist is CAS (Clean And Simple). Challenge winner will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the Happy Little Stamper shop! Check out all the details HERE.

I twisted with the gorgeous Altenew Build A Flower Poinsettia and sentiment from Happy Little Stampers Christmas Joy.

Please head over to the Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge and see the fabulous inspiration pieces that the Design Team has created for your inspiration. Get your Fa La La La La back on, and create a Christmas card for your 2018 stash!

I'm also playing at:

Allsorts  Week 447/8 - Seasonal Flowers

Peace

A new month has arrived, and that means a host of new challenges are starting at Happy Little Stampers. The theme of the September Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge is Christmas with an opetional twist of "sparkle". This is my take.

Now, I usually do the twist when a challenge has one, and this time is no exception; HOWEVER, you can not or can BARELY see just how sparkly this card is. I had an awful time photographing it, so I hope you can take my word for it! I am just plain out of gas and frustrated with trying to capture all that sparkle, so I admit it - I gave up.

The background panel is luscious navy with lots of sparkle and shine in it - it's from the December 2016 Hero Arts Monthly Card Kit - gorgeous. The beautiful Memory Box Flowering Christmas Tree is cut from white glitter paper - so sparkly!!!! You can't see that in the pic either. AND the sentiment is embossed in silver which has lots of sparkle and shine... my picture is flat as a board. But I tell you - it is fabulous IRL!!!!! Pinky swear!!!!

Anyway, the HLS Christmas Design Team has created lots of sparkly inspiration for you, so please head over to the Happy Little Stampers September Christmas Challenge and open up the inspiration portals!!! Christmas is only 114 days away here in the New York Metro Areac so get your holiday craftiness motor running. Link up and play with us for a chance to win a gift voucher to the Happy Little Stampers Store!

Pretty Poinsettias

August is already in full swing, and it is time for the Happy Little Stampers August Christmas Challenge. The theme, as always, is Anything Goes with a twist. This month, the twist is to use a poinsettia(s) on your project.

The winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the Happy Little Stampers Shop! Check out all the details HERE.

I went with Paper Smooches Poinsettia and Merry Christmas Wise Dies and some SU Designer Paper that has been sleeping in my stash for years. I used Gold Enamel Dots from Happy Little Stampers for the centers of the poinsettias.

December 25, 2017 is only 143 days away. Please head on over the the Happy Little Stampers August Christmas Challenge and see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. Come play with us and work on your Christmas/Holiday greetings so you can enjoy the Holidays when they arrive!

I am also playing at:

Addicted To Stamps And More #253 - Holiday 

CFC179 - Dies Only

CCC#18

SOS #314 - Countdown To Christmas

Muse: Christmas Visions - MCV83 - CASE Cornelia

Kraft background and top left to bottom right placement of image and sentiment.

Sending You Love & Hugs

A new month of challenges has started at Happy Little Stampers, and today is day one of the July Anything Goes With Dies Challenge. Yes! It's Anything Goes as long as you include die cuts on your project.

My card is a CASE of Cathy Zielske's (CZ Design) Polygon Watercolor Magic card for which she posted a tutorial on her blog HERE. I used Winnie & Walter's Cover Model: Multifaceted Cutaway for my project. Instead of spraying the back of the die cut with adhesive and gluing each watercolored piece into place, I cut a piece of Stick It the size of the die, peeled away the covering on one side, and adhered it to the back of the die cut. That created a glued surface for the watercolored cut outs. I ran the completed panel through my Cuddlebug, peeled the backing off, and adhered the whole inlaid die panel to my card base. 

The sentiment from SSS Sending And Wishing is embossed with white EP and die cut with Fishtail Flags from My Favorite Things.

Please head over to the Happy Little Stampers July Anything Goes With Dies Challenge to see what wonderful inspiration the Design Team has for you. Get your dies out, create a project of your own, and share it in the HLS July Anything Goes With Dies Gallery for a chance to win a $20.00 gift voucher to the Happy Little Stampers Store! You can check out the challenge details for the Anything Goes With Dies Challenge, and all of the other Happy Little Stampers Challenges HERE.

Magical Christmas

A new month of challenges has started at Happy Little Stampers, and today is day one of the July Christmas Challenge with the theme of Anything Goes with an Optional Twist of Die Cuts.

I broke out the October 2016 Hero Arts Monthly Card Kit that has been waiting patiently for some love since I got it. It's full of stamps and dies to create wonderful Christmas scenes. I went for the snow globe and made a shaker card. I used a sentiment from Happy Little Stampers Christmas Joy set to complete my magical Christmas scene.

Please head over to the Happy Little Stampers July Christmas Challenge to see what wonderful inspiration the Design Team has for you. Get your Fa La La La La on, create a Christmas project of your own, and share it in the HLS July Christmas Gallery for a chance to win a $20.00 gift voucher to the Happy Little Stampers Store! You can check out the challenge details for the Christmas Challenge, and all of the other Happy Little Stampers Challenges HERE.

I am also playing at:

Die Cut Divas - Christmas in July

Stamp Ink Paper - Christmas In July

Merry Monday - Christmas In July

Christmas Card Challenges #16

Silent Night

The Happy Little Stampers June Christmas Challenge is now live. The theme is "Anything Goes" with an optional twist of "Tree".  Challenge winner will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the Happy Little Stampers Shop! 

Check out all the details HERE.

For the twist, I went the route of palm trees in Concord & 9th's Holy Night Dies set against a sky made with distress inks and Mr. Huey's Opaque White Color Mist. The star is cut from white glitter paper and accented with white Sharpie.

The Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge Design Team has created some wonderful projects for your inspiration. Please click HERE to see what they have come up with and leave them some love. Then get your Merry on and  play with us!

I am also playing at:

Merry Monday #251 Monochromatic Blue

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

   

Just Us Gorls #395 - Die Cuts

    

Masked Poinsettias

The May Christmas Challenge is up at Happy Little Stampers, and this time the "twist" is masking. I did the twist, and here is what I came up with. I masked the panel on the left on Bristol Paper, embossed the (Happy Little Stampers) poinsettia  images with white EP and colored them with Zigs. "Merry" is die cut, stacked and inlaid. I really love the way this one turned out.

Do go over to the Happy Little Stampers May Christmas Challenge, check out the wonderful DT creations for some inspiration. Stay on top of your Christmas card-making by entering your Christmas creation, with or without the twist, in the HLS May Christmas gallery. 

Challenge winner will receive a $15.00 credit for the Happy Little Stampers Store.

I am also playing at:

CAS Watercolor Challenge
Poinsettias

The Paper Players Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge
Bottom horizontal row-Pink, Leaves and Flower

Creative With Stamps Challenge #14
Poinsettias

Supplies Used

Stamps - Happy Little Stampers Christmas Joy, Winnie & Walter The Big, The Bold and the Merry

Ink - VersaMark, VersaFine Onyx Black 

Paper - Strathmore Bristol, Gina K. Pure Luxury Black

Accessories - MISTI. Winnie & Walter The Big, The Bold and the Merry Dies. Ranger Multi Medium Matte Glue, Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers, Zig Watercolor Brush

HLS December Christmas Challenge

Time to play the last Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge of 2016 where the theme is WREATH.

Click HERE to link to the challenge.

This challenge is sponsored by


This is my take.

These days, I am consciously trying to dig way deep into my stash and fish out things that I have never, rarely, or can't remember when or if I used, and combine the old and the new. This card really is a perfect example of combining old things barely or never used, and new things.

OLD: Wreath Wood Mounted Stamp by Inkadinkado. White Flower Soft (Snow), Glossy Accents, Hero Arts Tiny red rhinestones.
NEW: Happy Little Stampers Christmas Joy Stamp Set, Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers, Tim Holtz Brushed Pewter Distress Mica Spray, Silver Wink Of Stella.

Please put on some Christmas Music, head on over to the Happy Little Stampers December Christmas Challenge, check out the fabulous inspiration the Design Team has for you and play with us! Link up for a chance to win $15.00 to spend in the Happy Little Stampers Shop.

I am also linking this card to:

Kylie Purtell and Friends 12 Days Of Christmas Cards Challenge

Challenge #97 - Christmas