Little Darlings - Cold

Hi Everyone, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!  I've been spending some time with my family while we have the week off from school and work and it's been so nice and relaxing. The kids love their gifts from Santa and we've been playing games in our pajamas and dancing to "Just Dance and Zumba" on the Wii.  Yikes! LOL!

I'm afraid I'm late today in posting my challenge card for the Little Darlings Challenge.  But here it is now. Our challenge this week is COLD.  I made a shadow box card using 2 of the LD winter stamps.

I used "Catching Snowflakes" and "Snowy Friends." Adorable images, aren't they?

Details:

Dies - Spellbinder, Magnolia Doohickey Fence
Inks - Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics, Ranger Walnut Stain
Images - LD Catching Snowflakes and Snowy Friends, Magnolia Winter Scene
Papers - Basic Grey
Tools - stickles, ribbon, gold pearls, MS branch punch

Thanks for visiting me today! Enjoy the rest of your Christmas vacation and see you soon! xo

Christmas Eve in Edwin's Town

Christmas is just around the corner and there is so much excitement in my house for the big day.  Children make the holiday so much happier, I can't even remember what it was like before they came along. I only have 1 more present left to wrap and 1 cake to bake and I am all set and ready for Sunday. I hope you are taking time to enjoy the season and not too stressed getting ready for it.  I think sometimes we put so much pressure on ourselves to shop and prepare and stressing ourselves out instead of just enjoying this happy time of year and being thankful for all the blessings we have in our lives.

Anyways, I'd like to share with you a side-step card I made using Edwin's Town, Tilda with Lantern, and Edwin on Christmas Eve. All these images can be found at Magnolia-licious (or special ordered from Magnolia-licious).

I also used the fence Doohickey die and the Memory Box Frosty Border die both can be found at Magnolia-licious. My image was colored with copics and I also used colored pencils for shading and highlighting.  I used some gold pearls to embellish the snowflakes and around my Edwin image.

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Crafts and Me - anything goes
Bearly Mine - anything goes
Papertake Weekly - last christmas card of the year
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - fancy folds/shaped cards

That's it for me today. I am working on another card that I'll try to post before Christmas but if I don't,  I'd like to wish everyone who visits me here at my blog a very healthy and happy Christmas and I'd like to thank you all who take the time to leave me lovely comments. I love and appreciate all of you!

Well I'm off to my kids' school (I am room parent for the 8th grade class) and help them set up for their Christmas party! Take care xo.

Little Darlings - 'Tis the Season

This week at Little Darlings Challenges, our challenge is to make a Christmas card. Is everyone sick of making Christmas cards yet? Not me, no holiday inspires me more than Christmas and today I have this Christmas card to show you using this sweetie from Little Darlings Stamps called Ice Dancer.

I used a few fun MIC digi images for my background that I thought worked really well with this image and they are: Ice Skating Lake, Cold by Light (I cut out the lightpost from this image group), and the Large Pine Tree digi stamps. I cut out and separated most of the images and used some gorgeous Memory Box dies. It might be a bit hard to see the row of houses and pine trees behind my Ice Dancer image.   Here is a close-up photo:

I used cherry ice colored stickles on her dress but unfortunately doesn't look so sparkly in this photo. :(  I colored my image with copics and enhanced the shading and highlighting with prisma pencils.

Well that's it for now, thanks for visiting me today! See you next time!

My Christmas Living Room

Hi everyone! I'm excited to show you my project for the "lots of stars" challenge over at the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog. I had fun making this tabletop decoration. I think I'll make one for other holidays too.  I used a round box lid for the base of my project and created my scene inside.

In this photo above, I used the following images:

Lightning Edwin
Tilda with Teddybear
Cat

In this photo above, I used the following images:

Happy Spring Tilda
Magnolia puppy
Sweat Christmas Dreams text

In this photo above, I used the following images:

Sweet Christmas Tilda
Basket of presents (peeking out behind Tilda)

I made the Christmas tree by cutting out graduating sized stars with my Cricut Expression.  Then I used my scorpal to score the stars so the points would bend down a bit to look more like branches.  Then I poked a hole through the middle of all the stars with a skewer biggest to smallest star to create my tree.  See photos below:

I also used a small spellbinder die to cut out a bunch of gold stars for the tree ornaments and also used some WOC flowers, string of beads, candy cane and star charm ornament from Michael's.

I will enter this project at the following challenges:

Let's Ink It Up - Christmas (no digis allowed)
Magnolia Down Under - lost and found (I  used a kitchen skewer on my tree and a circular gift box lid for the base of my project)
Crafty Ribbons Challenge - traditional Christmas colors



My daughter already called dibs on this one. I'm glad she liked it!  Please visit the beautiful creations from my teammies at the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog and please join in on this months challenge for your chance to win a fantastic prize from Magnolia-licious.  Thanks for visiting!

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Love To Stamp News

Good morning everyone! Just popping in to give you some Love To Stamp news!  Card aker Magazine has launched their own blog and Little Darlings' Stamps is being featured on their new blog!  Also,  Little Darlings is being included in the “Our Favorite Products” section in the January issue of CardMaker currently on sale. Very exciting new for Little Darlings' Stamps!

In celebration of this fun news,  Angie is giving away a bundle of Little Darling stamps to a random commenter on on her blog post at http://www.scrapgirl-angie.blogspot.com/.  The images that you can win are:

Up, Up and Away
Catch A Falling Star
Art 101
Pumpkin Races
Every Stocking Counts

The prize winner will be drawn on December 15th. Hurry on over for your chance to win some sweet stamps!!

That's it for now! See you soon!

TOMIC - Challenge 27

Good morning! Hope you had a great weekend!? Christmas is in the air and today at TOMIC our challenge is to make a shaker card.  So I made a card in the shape of a snowglobe. 

The top part is the shaker part of my card.   I wanted to create a nighttime scene so I could use my Santa and Reindeer sillouette against the moon. Can you see it? I used the polar white flowersoft as my snow so when you shake my card it looks like snow falling.

Details:

Papers: Magnolia
Stamps: Tilda with Cross Stitch Heart, Stone Wall, bird and moon also by Magnolia
Misc.: snowflake ribbon, spellbinder die, flowersoft, copics for coloring

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Just Magnolia - anything goes with option of sparkle
The Ribbon Girl - Christmas project - jingle all the way
Totally Papercrafts Challenge - Let It Snow

Thanks for visiting me today! I hope you liked my card today and can let me know what you think. See you next time!

Little Darlings Sneak Peek

Hiya friends! Hope you all had a terrific weekend. Did you get any Christmas shopping done - ugh I have so much to do and sooo little time. But it's my favorite time of year and I love to decorate for Christmas. I did a bit this weekend but still have more to go.  Anyways, today Little Darlings has the cutest stamps for Christmas/Winter for release.  Here are 2 cards that I made using these adorable images:

This first image is my absolute favorite and is called  Snowy Friends! The papers I used are called Wonderful Winter from My Mind's Eye.

This next cutie is called Catching Snowflakes.  She reminds me so much of my daughter Christina whom you can always find outside during a snowfall with her mouth wide open catching snowflakes too. ;)  The papers I used for this card are by SEI and is called Winter Song.

Well, that's it for today. Thanks so much for visiting. And thank you for any comments you may leave they are always very much appreciated. Have a great day!

Make It Crafty - Coloring white

Good morning everyone! Todays challenge at MIC is to color something white.  I created this card for today's challenge:

I love these MIC background scenes. They go so well with the Magnolia images (especially with my favorite Santa image). This winter scene is called Little Village Scene and can be found HERE and so can those fun chipboard snowflakes.

So I used a few different combinations of copic colors to color various white items on this card.  For my Santa, I chose to use the W's (more specifically they are W3, W1, W00) to color Santa's beard, socks, and fur trim.  For the picket fence I chose the C's (more specifically they are C5, C3, C1, C00). For the snow I again used the C's but also used B000 to change it up. I like this combination best.

Sadly, this will be my last post for MIC. I've decided to step down from the design team due to time constraints and being so busy in my life right now. I've thoroughly enjoyed being a part of this amazing team. My coloring has improved SO much since joining them and I learned so much from Zoe and my other fellow DT mates. Thanks Zoe!! I'll miss you gals!! :'(

Well, that's it for today. I'm off to Christmas shop! Have a great weekend!

Little Darlings Challenge - Thank you card

Hello friends!  It's been quite some time since I last posted. Unfortunately we had an unexpected death in the family and had to leave town for several days. But I am back now and eager for things to get back to normal in my life. 

So today I would like to share this card that I made for our new challenge at Little Darlings.  The challenge is to make a thank you card.  So I made this Christmas thank you card using this lovely image called "Every Stocking Counts." 

I hope you'll join in and play along with us this week at Little Darlings. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving! Take care.

CMC Copics Challenge Guest Designer

Good morning! Today I'm thrilled to be a guest designer at the CMC Copics Challenge Group. Their sponsor this week is Michele Perkett and their challenge is "colors of the sea and sparkle."  They sent me this lovely mermaid image, her name is Harmony.

I embellished this card using ribbon from Joanne Fabrics and these fabulous chipboard pieces from Make It Crafty to look like seaweed. The dragon flies are also chipboard found at Make It Crafty. I colored the chipboard with my copics to make them pop a little. I also used Robin's Nest drops for bubbles on the seaweed. I added a bit of "sparkle" on the flowers and water with diamond stickles.

I hope you like my card today and can let me know what you think. Thanks so much for visiting!

Little Darlings Challenges - Silver Bells

Our challenge this week at Little Darlings is "silver bells." You can interpret this anyway you wish. I chose to add silver bells on my card.

I used my spellbinder grand die to cut out the shape of this card. I was inspired to try these shaped cards by Angie who made this beautiful card here using a different die.

My image is called Decorating the Tree and can be found at Love To Stamp. I colored this gorgeous image with my copics and added extra highlighting and shading with my prisma pencils.

I hope you can play along with us this week at Little Darlings! You don't have to use a Little Darlings image but if you do, you could win a $20.00 Love to Stamp merchandise gift voucher. If you use any other stamp, you could win a $10.00 merchandise gift voucher.

Hope you can come play with us! Have a great day!

Guest Designer at Sunday's With Crissy

Hi everyone! Today I'm super excited to be a guest designer at Sunday's With Crissy. I've been a fan of Crissy Armstrong for a long time and love her rubber stamps and digi images and when she asked me to be a guest designer I jumped at the chance.  So the theme this month for Sunday's With Crissy is to use non traditional Christmas colors and make a Christmas card.  So this is what I made:

I know that splash of red that I used is a traditional color but I used very little. My card is primarily blue and white and I added several pearls to the Spellbinder snowflake diecuts that I used.  My papers are SEI and the sentiment and image both came from Whimsy Stamps. You can find the Season's Greetings sentiment  HERE and Valerie's Gift rubberstamp HERE.

Copic colors I used here are: BG18, BG15, BG13, BG11, BG10, C7, C5, C3, C1, C00, R24, R22, R20, E11, E00, E000. I also used some colored pencils for added shadow and highlight.

Thanks for visiting me today! See you soon!

Magnolia-licious Challenge - blue and silver

Hi everyone! Hope you had a great weekend?  I am really suffering today with back pain, I spent my weekend raking piles and piles of leaves. So me with my heating pad thoroughly enjoyed that xtra hour of sleep due to the time change on Sunday LOL! 

Well, it's time for another challenge at the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog.  Our color challenge this week is blue and silver.  I made an ornament for todays challenge:

I think I'll make a bunch of these with my kids this month to hang on our tree. My girls love coloring in the Magnolia images and they are perfect for making Christmas ornaments, don't you think? This new Sweet Christmas Dreams release is so cute and I can't wait to color every one! This image is called Tilda with Snow Heart and she can be found at Magnolia-licious.

I found the little crystal snowflakes in the beads section at Michaels and the snowflake buttons are from Joanne Fabrics.  I used spellbinder dies, diamond stickles, silver wire ribbon from Michaels, and my image is colored with copics of course.

Thanks for visiting today! Have a great day!

Magnolia Noah's Ark & Kenny K/MIC Stair Step Card

Hi there everyone!  I just wanted to share with you a couple cards I made in the past that were published.  My first card was in a past issue of Magnolia Ink magazine.  I worked pretty hard on it and wanted to share it with you here. I used several Magnolia animal images and a Make It Crafty background.

Next up is another stair step card I made for the Whimsy Stamps Online Magazine that was published a little while ago using Kenny K and Make It Crafty images.

I loved making these scenes and I hope you enjoyed looking at them and would love to hear what you think. Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!