Cute Card Thursday Challenge #86 - Glitter Me Silly / Stamping Bella - Wild Card

Well here's the unvailing of my Christmas Cards for everyone. I found this little image from Stamping Bella called Snowfight. I saw a card done by a few of the Bella DT members and fell totally in love with it. Isn't she to die for. I also fell in love with the paper by Basic Grey called Eskimo Kisses. This particular pattern from the set, Village, is very hard to find, and I don't think there's a store within a 50 Km radius of my house that has any left. LOL. I am now on the hunt for more as I don't have enough to make all my Christmas cards. UGH! I colored my image with 2 colors, peach and the teal. I used puff paint on the fur of her snowsuit and sprinkled it with glitter before puffing it. This makes the glitter adhear to it better. I used some Martha Stewart Snow and glued it onto the bottom to give it some dimension. I found a matching ribbon and ran it down the side. I have found this amazing glitter paper, not sure who makes it, but it's completely covered in glitter. I used my large snowflake punch and punched out a snowflake. I put a teal sugar coated brad from Doodlebug in the middle. Hope everyone likes it, and acts surprised when they get it. I'm off to a scrapbooking retreat this weekend so this is why there've been few post from me lately. I've been cutting and stamping like crazy for the past week or so. All this hard work will mean that I just have to sit and glue all weekend. I should come back with at least 120 christmas cards done. I'll share on Monday,
Hugs xx
Carolyn

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #32 - A Sketch

This week at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge we have a sketch to follow. This was a really tough one for me. I had to really think out of the box. Here's our sketch:I rotated the sketch and made it look like Christmas Ornaments that were hanging. I love some of the design teams cards that they have produced. I wish I'd had them before me to get my Mojo rolling. I used some Basic Grey paper that I had with the same shaped ornaments on it, and colored with my Derwents and mineral spirits to match. This week we have a fabulous prize from:



Here is the prize:


Man I would love to win this one, I love C.C. Design. Thanks for joining us at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge.
Hugs xx
Carolyn

Some Christmas Cards

Well I was so taken with Nicole Heady's October release that I had to order everything needed to make these wonderful cards. The stamp set is called "Holiday Button Bits". It is perfectly made so you can incorporate buttons into your cards. I just loved these 2, so I had to make them up right away. I stamped my swirls on the Santa card with my Great Impressions background stamp of winter swirls using my Versa Mark stamp pad, and then glittered some of them. I used my Tombow markers to color Santa and the Snowman so I could achieve good, rich colors. Every other product is from Papertrey. Hope the weather is great for you all this Tuesday.
Hugs xx
Carolyn

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #84 - Midnight Margaritas

Well a dismal Monday here in Ontario. We had some sun this afternoon, but it didn't last too long. It is now 4:30, and starting to look more like 6:30. Our temperature has been dropping, so it sure seems like a great week for a warm fire, and a Margarita. This is my card for Cute Card Thursday's weekly challenge. This week it's Midnight Margaritas. Now that Halloween is over I am totally in Christmas mode. I begged hubby to put up the lights on the weekend past, but he's in put away the fall stuff mode. UGH. I just took down all the Halloween decorations, and believe me I had a lot up, and was asking him to get down the Christmas tree. I could make Christmas last all winter. Here is my entry into Cute Card Thursday. I used one of the fabulous Stamping Bella stamps "Christmatini" I used some holiday paper I had downstairs, colored my image with my Derwents and mineral spirits, accented with a couple of bobbles from Stamping Bella and tied it with some lime green polka dot ribbon. I used some red glitter to color the swirls on the ball. Have a great day, and I hope it's warmer where you are.
Hugs xx
Carolyn

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #31 - Friendship

This week over at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge we are making a card or project for a special friend, but the catch is that you must design your own background paper. I embossed flowers on my paper to go with the theme of flowers that I started on this card. I used 2 quilt sets that I had from Nicole Heady called Quilter's Sampler and Quilter's Sampler Additions. I love these sets as you can design whatever quilt you want. I mounted the squares together to form a quilt, and inbetween each corner I used embroidery thread and made french knots. I used my scalloped punch from Martha Stewart to create the lacy look and accented it with some polka dot ribbon and a flower. I used the sentiment about Friendship from the set as well. I thought the buttons sewn with the same embroidery thread added the homemade look to my card. Join in with us this week as we have 2 fabulous prizes: the first one is donated from Liza and is a Cuttlebug Snowflake Embossing Folder,
and our second prize is donated from Doodle Street by Cassandra and is one digi-image of winner's choice. Hope to see your creations this week. Pop on over to the rest of the DT on my sidebar and check out their beautiful creations.
Hugs xx
Carolyn

Just Magnolia #29 - Monochrome

Happy Halloween to all. I hope that everyone had a safe evening. Over at Just Magnolia this week the challenge is to make a Monocromatic card. That is using different shades of one color. I decided to use my last little Magnolia Halloween image as I now have to pack them away until next Halloween. I colored this lil' devil with my Derwent pencil crayons and blended with mineral spirits. I used my circle nestabilities and put the cream colored circle through my Cuttlebug with Swiss Dots. The paper is October Afternoon. I had a little ribbon that they sent as a little gift when I placed my last order over at Ellen Hudson's shop, so I used it to make a cute little bow. The hat pin is from Making Memories.
Hugs xx
Carolyn

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #25 Distressing / Magnolia-licious Clean & Simple

I was able to get this card done for 2 challenges. Magnolia Down Under this week is asking for distressed looking cards, and Magnolia-licious wants clean and simple cards. This little Tilda is from the Halloween collection from Magnolia, and I'm sure is supposed to be a little witch. To me she looks like Cinderella, tired and weery taking a break from cleaning the floor after those evil stepsisters. LOL. I distressed around the card with my sandpaper but it didn't show too much, so I distressed the image with Tea dyed Distressed Ink. I kept it simple for Manolia-licious by not adding too many layers, and boy was it hard holding off on the embellishments. The flowers, the buttons, the brads, the charms, the withdrawl. Thank goodness this is only for one week. LOL. Hope you like my Cute and Simple Distressed Card.
Hugs xx
Carolyn