Vintage Sleigh Silhouette Scene

Hello, everyone!  Here I am again today, this time with a Christmas card featuring a freebie image from Graphics Fairy called Vintage Sleigh Silhouette Scene.  I changed the colour to blue before printing. I wanted to play along in Poppystamps Beauty of Winter challenge so I have displayed their Blooming Poinsettia die prominently on my card.

The card base is embossed with Cuttlebug Tiffany.  I added a couple other die cuts (cut from leftover snippets):  tree from Cheery Lynn, and a sleigh from Whiff of Joy that I received for Christmas from my lovely friend Marion (thank you!)  

The sentiment is a clear stamp from Papermania, stamped in StazOn Azure.  I added white glitter all along the snowy parts of the image, tree and sleigh die cuts, and even a bit on the sentiment. Some pearls were affixed to the poinsettia, and I added a snowflake charm tied with white eyelash ribbon.

I would like to support the following challenges:
Craftin Desert Divas Blue and White UE
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Upcycle, Recycle, Repurpose, or Use Something Free (freebie image) UE
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra January AG EU
Christmas Cards All Year 'Round AG UE
Deep Ocean Winter Dreams UE
Die Cut Divas  AG UE

Die Cuttin Divas Picture Inspiration (inspired by colours and winter theme) 2/3

Dies R Us Embossing Folder 1/3
Emerald Faeries All About Bling (pearls, charm, glitter) 3/3
Little Claire's Digi Stamp Challenge Open Theme 2/3
Little Scrap Pieces Show it Off Saturday 1E
Loves Rubberstamps Stamp in any Colour except Black UE
Natalie and Amy's Something New (new sleigh die) 3/3
Papertake Weekly It's All New (new sleigh die) 3/5
{PIN}spirational Photo Inspiration 2/5

Pixie's Snippet Playground Snippets used for all die cuts and sentiment 1/3
Poppystamps Beauty of Winter UE
Scrapy Land AG using Any Die Scrapy Land Sells (Popppystamps, Cheery Lynn) 1/3
Sister Act (Cards Only) AG UE
Sparkle N Sprinkle AG with Loose Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking UE
Stamp and Create Winter Wonderland 1/wk 2/4
Stamping Sensations Dies and Punches 2/3
The Paper Girls Let's Sparkle and Shine 3/3
TOP 3 The 12 Months of Christmas Link-up AG Optional Father Time UE

Winter Wonderland Show us Your Metal (charm) 2/3

Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 4/5

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!

Kiwi Loves You

Hello, everyone!  I'm back again today with another love card!  This one stars one of my kitties - Kiwi!  I just love the look on his face LOL!  This card is made for my sweetheart, Brian, from Kiwi.  Now you know I'll have to make love cards for him from Snowie and Honeydew too, so stay tuned!

There's a fun Washi Tape challenge over at Challenge Up Your Life and I wanted to play along!  I covered a kraft card with love-themed washi tape. I fussy-cut a photo of Kiwi and cut a tiny slit at his paws.  I stamped the heart balloon (Craftsmart) on both white and red cardstock and paper-pieced the red balloon, using a white gel pen on part of the balloon.  The I inserted the end into the slit at Kiwi's paws.  I stamped the scribbled heart (Inkadinkado) in red and fussy-cut. I stamped the sentiment (Craftsmart) in black, fussy cut, and attached to the scribbled heart.  All images were then attached with foam tape. 

I would like to support the following challenges:

1. Challenge Up Your Life Washi Tape 1E C6

2. Crafty Gals Corner Sweethearts 2/2

3. Inspired by Stamping (used colours and hearts theme) UE

4. Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday Love (theme, word, hearts) 3/3

5. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday It's a Guy Thing (card for Brian) 3/5

6. Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 3/5

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!

Love You (Squigglefly image)

Hi, everybody!  Today I am sharing a love card.  This sweet image is by Enid Barnes over at Squigglefly called Kitten.  I wanted to see if I could print a digi onto vellum and I can!  I attached it to the heart dp with heart-shaped eyelets.

A die-cut sentiment was added using words from Tattered Lace Everyday Sayings and I threaded some embroidery thread through two of the eyelets and tied it in a multi-loop bow.

I would like to support the following challenges:

Crafty Gals Corner Sweethearts 1/2

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper January UE

Cuttlebug Mania It Takes Two (two die-cut words for sentiment; two eyelets used for embroidery thread) 3/3

DL.ART January Linky AG UE 1/day

Inspired by Stamping (hearts theme) UE

Little Claire's Digi Stamp Challenge Open Theme 1/3

TOP 5 QKR Stampede Cupid 1/3

Send a Smile 4 Kids AG 4 Kids 1/3

Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday Love (theme, word, hearts) 2/3

Sister Act (Cards Only) AG UE

RANDOM WINNER Squigglefly AG UE

The Crafter's Cafe KISS 1/3

Winter Wonderland Show us Your Metal (metal eyelets) 1/3

Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 2/5

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!

Guest Designer at Uniko Studio

Hello, everyone!  I am delighted to announce that I am a Guest Designer at Uniko Studio this fortnight!  I hope you will join our challenge!  The theme is Love and Friendship - perfect for your Valentine's Day cards - or Friendship cards!

I decided to go with the friendship theme, and my new Uniko Studio stamps arrived just in time! I was excited to ink up my brand-new English Country Garden - Butterflies clear stamps that I won last month! I heat-embossed the large butterfly in Egyptian Gold, fussy cut, and added three gold sequins. The photo doesn't show all the sparkle, but it looks fabulous in person!

For the card base, I stamped the small butterfly repeatedly on a black panel using Brilliance Galaxy Gold, wrapped gold thread around the panel, and layered it onto gold cardstock, which I then affixed to a black card.  I die-cut the Hello (Savvy Dies) in the same gold cardstock and also cut three other Hellos in black and layered underneath to give it some dimension. Lastly I added the word friend with my Dymo Label Maker.

Thank you to Uniko Studio for inviting me to be your Guest Designer! I had fun! Check out my awesome GD badge!

I hope everyone will head over to Uniko Studio to see the inspiration by the Design Team. Our Love and Friendship challenge lasts for two weeks, closing on Friday, January 30, at 8 a.m. GMT.  I hope you can play along!

I would like to support these fun challenges:

1. Crafty Calendar What's New (new Uniko clear stamps)  3/3
2. Die Cut Divas AG UE
3. djkardkreations Darnell's NBUS Challenge #3 AG C5 3/3 (NBUS item is Uniko clear stamps)
4. Fashionable Stamping Something New (new Uniko clear stamps) 3/3
5. Vintage Stamping with Flonzcraft New Year, New Stash (new Uniko clear stamps) 3/3

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!

Throwback Thursday - Challenge #5

Hello, everyone.  I'm back again today to participate in Bibiana's Artsy Craftsy Throwback Thursday challenge.  Why don't you come over and play along!  To join, simply revive a past project on a new blog post.  I had fun looking back at my old cards! There are plenty of duds that I would just as soon forget, but I have a lot of favourites too!

The optional theme for Throwback Thursday Challenge #5 is Valentine's, but remember it's just optional.  I went with it anyway!

Here's a card I made almost a year ago.  It's still a top pick to me!  I love the layout I used, the colour combo, papers, ribbon, hearts, and especially the adorable image!  If this card looks a bit familiar, that's because it made it onto my 5 Favourite Cards of 2014 post.

To see the original blog post in January 2013, check it out here.

Thank you, Bibiana, for inspiring me to look at my old cards!  I always enjoy it! This is the fifth Throwback Thursday challenge and I've been playing since #2. Bibiana has a wonderful blog with tons of inspiration and tutorials - you won't be sorry you checked it out!  And I don't think I mentioned it yet, but there are prizes too!  The challenge is being held monthly now and according to the linky, you have another 25 days to play along.

Artsy Craftsy Throwback Thursday

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!

It's a Boy (Just Some Lines image)

Hello, everyone!   Today I've made a baby card!  Brian's nephew and his wife are expecting a boy next month so I wanted to be ready.  I went with a shaker card - these have become my favourite card to make!  The adorable image is called Sweet Dreams Baby Fairy from Just Some Lines and I coloured it with my Prismacolor pencils.

I used my Nellie's Multiframe Rectangles to die-cut the shaker frame.  The patterned papers are from Dollarama (very old stash items).  I attached the patterned paper for the frame to cardstock before I die cut to provide strength.

Inside the shaker I added lots of tiny silver stars, blue and green sequins, and some baby-themed confetti (new purchase from the dollar store).  It includes a baby bottle, tiny safety pins, and yellow duckies - so cute!  I stamped a small sentiment in two of the corners:  Congratulations at the top left, and It's a Boy at the bottom right.  I don't make a lot of baby cards and don't have many baby sentiments, but these were in a clear stamp set from Impression Obsession - Sentiments 1.  I stamped them in Ancient Page - Aegean Blue.

I would like to support these fun challenges:
Die Cut Divas AG UE (frame was die-cut using Nellie's Multiframe Ovals) 

TOP 3 Just Some Lines Facebook Group AG 1ERed Carpet Studio New Year's Eve (stars on image and star sequins in shaker; new item is baby confetti inside shaker) 2/3
Red Carpet Studio Two Faces of January (two stamped sentiments, two patterned papers) 1/3
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday It's a Guy Thing (baby boy) 2/5

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!

Purrfect Day (Paper Smooches stamp/die)

Hello, everyone! One of my crafty goals for 2015 is to make more men's and boys' cards.  I really struggle with them so I tend not to make as many.  Then every time there's a male birthday, I have to scramble to make a card.  So this year I want to get a few made ahead.

Here's my attempt at a masculine birthday card.  I made this inky background yesterday while I was playing around with my new Distress Inks!  I used Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo, and Brushed Corduroy, using the same technique as yesterday's card.

I am using my new Paper Smooches Nine Lives stamps and dies.  I decided to play along in Paper Smooches SPARKS Picture Perfect challenge (see inspiration photo below).  It's the first time I've played over there, so I'm excited about it!  I coloured the kitty with my Prismacolor pencils.  The image and sentiment were stamped in Brilliance Coffee Bean.

At the top of my card I added some stencilling with embossing paste and glitter using a Dreamweaver Stencil called Bare Trees.  Dream It Up has a birthday challenge this month so I'm linking up there as well.  I followed the sketch over at Sketch Saturday (see below) so I added some ribbon and trim to fit the design.

I would like to support the following challenges:
Allsorts New and Cute (new Distress Inks, new stamps/dies) 2/3
Card Mania Make it Sparkle 3/3
Crafty Calendar What's New (new Distress Inks, new stamps/dies)  2/3
Cute Card Thursday What's New (new Distress Inks, new stamps/dies) UE
DL.ART January Linky AG UE 1/day

Dream It Up Birthday UE
Fashionable Stamping Something New (new Distress Inks, new stamps/dies) 2/3

Hiding in My Craftroom Super Scraps Saturday (scrap of white used to stamp and die cut; the twine bow is a scrap) 2/3
Loves Rubberstamps Stamp in any Colour except Black UE
Natalie and Amy's Something New (new Distress Inks, new stamps/dies) 2/3

Paper Smooches SPARKS Inspiration Photo

Papertake Weekly It's All New (new Distress Inks, new stamps/dies) 2/5
Penny Black and More Stencils, Masks, Embossing Folders 2/3
Pixie's Snippet Playground Snippet of white used to stamp and die cut; the twine bow is a scrap 2/3

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday It's a Guy Thing 1/5

Simon Says Stamp Monday Inky Background 2/5

Sister Act (Cards Only) AG UE

Sketch Saturday Sketch #343

Sparkle N Sprinkle AG with Loose Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking UE

STAMPlorations Stamps and Ink 2/3

The Paper Girls Let's Sparkle and Shine 2/3

Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 1/5

Vintage Stamping with Flonzcraft New Year, New Stash (new Distress Inks, new stamps/dies) 2/3

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!