Celebrate The Joys Of Christmas

My new Altenew Build A Flower: Poinsettia has been patiently awaiting my attention. Today we were blessed with our first snowfall here in New Jersey (Northeastern US). So lovely to have snow when everything is decorated for Christmas. I spent much of the day in my craft room and I finally broke out the poinsettia. I inked it twice in reds then greens. I put it together with a bit of gold glitter paper, a stencil-embossed background and a piece of patterned paper using Freshly Made Sketches #316 for my layout, and this card was born. 

FMS #316

I am also playing at:

SSC167 - Winter Warmth

MCV90 - Any holiday card.

December CAS Mix Up

Stamping + dry embossing with stencil and die cutting. 

I Love You More Than Sushi

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies Challenge is up and running. I decided to take a break from Christmas with this card that I created for my son't 18th birthday. He is a big sushi lover, as am I, hence the theme. The sentiment inside is "I hope you have sushi great day!" printed from my computer.

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

Please head over the the Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies Challenge and see what the wonderful Design Team has created for your inspiration.  Get your creative juices flowing nad make something to share in the gallery!

Merry Christmas

Time Out #98 Home Sweet Home Challenge is up and running. The inspiration is below.

 

I went with a very simple design done with dry and heat embossing. Image and sentiment are done with Stamp Simply Oh Christmas Tree Stamp Set.

Uniko is our sponsor for this challenge. The winner will receive a $15.00 voucher to spend in the Uniko Shop.

Guest Designer for both the challenge and reminder posts is Sarah Gray of Funky Fossil Designs. Sarah has a wonderful style that is sure to spark your imagination, so please do yourself a favor and visit her blog.

Please hop on over to the Time Out Challenge Blog and see what the awesome Design Team has created for your inspiration. Get your craft on and create a card to link up and play along with us at Time Out Challenges.

I'm also playing at:

Less Is More #357 - Red & Green

Double D Challenges - Red and white with an optional pop of green.

CAS Colours & Sketches - Christmas Colors

Muse: ChristmasVisions 90 

ANY holiday card can be linked up.

The Male Room #75

Joy To The World

December has arrived, and it's time for a new set of challenges at Happy Little Stampers. 

The December Christmas Challenge is Anything goes with an optional twist of stencil. 

I went for the twist in a new-to-me way. I used the Inked Stencil Dry Embossing technique that you can check out HERE. For the background, I inked the Hero Arts Festive Star and Bauble stencil with Delicata Golden Glitz ink and ran it through my Cuttlebug. The sentiment is done with Winnie & Walter's In A Word: Joy Cutaway and PTI Luxe Gold Adhesive paper along with part of a sentiment from Impression Obsession Clear Stamps Peace On Earth set.

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

Please head on over to the Happy Little Stampers December Christmas Challenge and check out the gorgeous creations by the Design Team. Soak in some inspiration and create a holiday card and link it up in the gallery for a chance to win!

I'm also playing at:

ANY holiday card can be linked up.

Muse: Christmas Visions #90

Heavy Metal Holiday

Anything Goes

CAS Colours & Sketches #251

Believe

This card was born of items from my new Christmas stash, some experimenting with watercolor backgrounds and my new Kuretake Pearl and Starry paints, and a wonderful combination of challenges for inspiration.

Supplies:
Stamps: Hero Arts Holiday Florals Bold Prints Cling, SSS Believe.
Accessories: SSS Believe dies, SSS Rose Gold Embossing Powder, PTI Banner Die, Kuretake Gansai Tambi Pearl & Starry Water Colors, Fun Foam.
Paper: PTI Limeade Ice, Tim Holtz Destress Watercolor Cardstock, DCWV Foiled Cardstock.  
Ink: VersaMark.

I'm Playing at:

City Crafter Challenge #390 - I Believe In Santa Claus!

WWC147 - Anything Goes

Muse: Christmas Visions #90 - Anything Goes

SimonSaysStamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Jingle Belles - Baby It's Gold (Or Silver Or Copper) Outside

CAS(E) this sketch #249

Christmas Card Throwdown #23 - Pick A Previous Challenge From 2012 or 2013

I chose CCCT23 - February 2012 Colors: Red, Green & Gold

I Can Smell Autumn

It's Thanksgiving weekend here in the US. It is by far my most favorite holiday - all about gratitude and sharing and taking time out to breathe and enjoy. I'm sneaking in with one more autumn themed card before the onslaught of "all Christmas all the time". I did a watercolor wash with autumn colors, added some splatters and stamped this wonderful image from Stampendous Pen Patterned Leaves embossed in gold. The sentiment is from So Suzy. I love the way it turned out.

I'm playing at:

City Crafter Challenge Week 389

Cards In Envy - It's Only Paper

Grateful

There's a new Inspired By Words challenge up at Time Out Challenges with a theme of gratitude. 

Challenge #97 runs from Thursday, November 23rd to Wednesday, December 6th. The challenge is sponsored by STAMPlorations. Winner will receive a gift voucher to the STAMPloraions Store. Check the Time Out Blog for all the details.

Our awesome Guest Designer is Izzy of Izzy Scrap. She is a wonderfully talented designer, and you are sure to be inspired by her works.

Please head over to the Time Out Challenges Blog to see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. Create something based on our inspiration and play along with us. I can't wait to see how you are inspired by these words...

I'm also playing at:

Stamp Ink Paper #126 - Grateful, Thankful, Blessed

Cards In Envy - It's Only Paper Card Challenge

CAS-UAL Fridays - CFC187

The Sisterhood Of Crafters - Give Thanks

Welcome Baby

Tag You're It #77 Cgallenge

CASology Week 274 - Tiny

As I was looking through challenge blogs for inspiration, I decided that the combination of these two would work beautifully together. 'Nuff said.

Chestnuts Roasting

I was digging deep into the black hole of my stash today, and I ran across this wonderful SU background stamp that I have had forever... then I found this wonderful stamp set (Subway Series Holidays) from Fresh Squeezed Stamps which is sadly no longer in business. I looked at some challenges for inspiration, put them all together, and this is what happened! 

I'm playing at:

Merry Monday #264

Kraft and Red

Typography Theme

Create cards that have LETTERS or WORDS as the focus of the card. 

Christmas Card Challenges #25

Are You Yeti?

Time Out Challenge #96 is up and running. The challenge is to CASE this gorgeous card created by Michele Ferguson of I Card Everyone.

I decided to use the layout of Michele's card with ink blending and the sentiment on the diagonal. I  changed the theme to Christmas, and stamped my sentiment rather than die dutting and stacking it. Some time ago, one of my dear Time Out teammates, Jill Vickers, gifted me this adorable MFT stamp set called BB Beast Friends. I decided it was high time to pull it out and go to work on my creation. I stamped 3 of the beasts on Nenah Solar White card stock, colored them with Copics, and arranged them on the masked, DOX-inked background. Since the little guy holding the present had his head tilted, I set the one with the cuppa a little off to the left on top of him. I hope he doesn't fall off!!! LOL. I stamped the punny sentiment on the diagonal, and mounted the white panel on Gina K Red Velvet base layering card stock.

Happy Little Stampers is sponsoring this challenge. Challenge winner will receive a $15.00 gift voucher to spend in the Happy Little Stampers Store.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very creative Bobby of Bits and Pieces. Bobby's blog is full of creative and inspiring cards. We are so pleased to have Bobby as our Guest Designer. Not only do we find her cards inspiring but Bobby has supported Time Out for a long time and we thank you Bobby for this. We urge you to check out here blog here.

Please hop on over to the Time Out Challenges Blog and see what Michele and the DT have created for your inspiration. How does Michele's card inspire you? I am looking forward to finding out.

November Sunflower

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies November Challenge is up and running. I used some things from my snippet stash for this one. This gorgeous sunflower die cut was sent to me by a blogger friend Barb Ghigliotty quite a while ago. I finally inked it up with some distress inks and mounted it on textured card stock. The frame was a leftover from another project. The two went together beautifully for this card.

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

Please head on over to the Happy Little Stampers November Anything Goes With Dies Challenge and check out the wonderful projects the Design Team has created for your inspiration. Get out your dies and die cut tools and play along with us!

Be Good

It's November, and time for a new set of challenges from Happy Little Stampers. I'm here with the November Christmas Challenge which is, as always, anything goes. This month's optional twist is "tag". I pulled out a Waltzingmouse Stamp set called Around Christmas Time and combined one of the images with Papertrey Ink's Tag Sale #4 die, cut from brushed silver card stock. I added some punched pine branches and an ornament hanger (paperclip). My tag is mounted on an embossed white panel, which is then mounted on a Real Red card base. The glitter bow is die cut from Pretty Pink Posh's Twine & Bows die set.

Head on over to the Happy Little Stampers November Christmas Challenge,  check out the fabulous inspiration from the Design Team, and play with us. The challenge winner will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the Happy Little Stampers Shop! Check out all the details HERE.

I'm also playing at:

Merry Monday #263

Muse: ChrismasVisions 88

Inspired By All The Little Things #71