Merry Monday #64

Happy Tuesday morning!  This is the first Merry Monday of this year that I have the chance to participate in...YAY!!  Here is the sketch for this week:

And here is my entry:

I started searching my stash of Christmas papers for what to use, and came across this one in a pack I bought from the dollar spot at Target some time ago, which I matted on a piece of white.  Then I decided it matched this glitter paper from an unknown source.  I added a strip of white punched with the Dotted Wave punch.  All were inked with a green Studio G ink cube.  The ornament was cut from a scrap of red with a Sizzix die I found at Goodwill.  :)  I added the bling to it for more interest.

Well, I guess that's all for now...

Take Care,

Marie

Hey! Guess what? I made a Christmas card! :)

That's right!  A Christmas card!  I'm so glad to finally get back on track in making my Christmas cards...I'm so far behind this year!!  So here is what I made:



The image is from Bugaboo, and the dp is from the "Merry" 6x6 paper pad from MME.  You can't tell in the pic, but the image is backed by some glitter paper, and the bell is colored in with a gold Gelly Roll pen.  I apologise for the washed out look of this picture.  This is the first time I have taken any pics in my *NEW ROOM!*, and I think I will have to experiment more.  The colors are a little more intense in real life.  I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Jingle Belles:  Tie a Holiday Ribbon

Winter Wonderland:  All Tied Up

ABC Christmas Challenge:  Jingle Bells

Thanks for looking, and I hope everyone in the US is having a nice Memorial Day weekend.  Please remember why this holiday exists...

Take Care...

Marie

I am asking for some halp!

I have a coworker who requested 15 tea party invitations from me, and I have NO IDEA what to charge for them!  Here is a pic of what they look like:

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you!

~Marie~

An overdue hello, and JB:13:06

Greetings to all my friends out in blog-land!!  I hope you all are doing well, despite how winter seems to be hanging on tightly here in the Northern Hemisphere!  I can't believe it is 9 days until my birthday (and this year, Easter), and the COLD just keeps coming!!  BRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

Well, I am hoping that Lauren and Stef will be willing to accept my entry into this week's             Jingle Belles challenge, even though I made it right before my craft area in the hallway was dismantled several months ago...  :)

This card didn't turn out exactly as I had envisioned it, but I really like how it turned out anyway!  I seemed to be having a love affair with craft and white at the time, as I have a couple of other cards following the same color scheme.  :)

While I'm here, I thought I would also share some pics of my craft room how it looks right now...

The last pic is of "some" of my craft stuff all in a pile right outside of the room...trust me there is more in other places in the house (ie. my older daughter's room!). 

Take care until I post again!  :)

Marie

ETA:  I wanna link this up at Christmas Stampin' All Year Long also...Anything Goes.

So excited to have found this!!!

Do you all see the price on this????  $1.97!!!!  For four folders!!!!!  Can you say YIPPEE with me?  Now if only I had the space to create with them...   Soon, soon!!

Take care!

Marie

Happy Friday!

     I'll bet alot of you out in bloggy land are saying that right about now!  For me though, this is my third day in my 3 days off this week  (I got to take my Thanksgiving holiday on Wed.), so tomorrow it's back to work I go.  Sigh.  Oh well, such is life!  I have some cards I made" fairly" recently that have not been shared here yet, so I thought I would do so today!

 

     This one I made after digging thru my stash to see what I had, and I found this tree in a package of goodies I had won from Jingle Belles last year.  Gorgeous, isn't it?  I probably did too much sponging of the snow drifts on this one, but oh well.  Also, I'm not sure if it's really visible in the pic or not, but I sprayed the whole card with a shimmery mist.  The sentiment showed up really well after clear embossing it, which I was very impressed with.  :)

 

     After playing with the trees the Belles sent me, I had to have the die for myself.  This is one of the cards I made with it.  This follows the same layout I used for these cards here.  I sprayed the panels with a green shimmery spray after embossing them, and sponged the edges of the tree.

     This card makes me giddy.  I just looooooove all the glitter on that tree!  :)  These panels are just inked directly on the inkpad.  One more card for good measure.

 

     This one was actually made for a challenge that I missed out on due to not realizing what the time difference was between here and the UK.  I think it was to use 3 punches.    At the time, I was inspired by one of the DT cards to go monochromatic.  Lucky me, I just happend to have some glitter paper that went well with the textured cardstock I wanted to use!  I love it when that happens!  :)

 

     Well, I suppose I have shared enough for today.  I hope you all enjoy your weekend, and get some more holiday stuff checked off your lists!

 

~Marie~

   

 

     

Merry Monday #41

     Hello bloggy folks!  Gotta make this quick, I gotta get ready to go away.

     The candy stamps are from Martha Stewart, the sentiment is from Studio G, and the dp is from the 6x6 Sugar Plums paper pad from Recollections.  I was so inspired by this sketch, that I made another card:

                       

     On this card, the snowflake is from Studio G, and the sentiment is from Recollections.  OK, I gotta fly! 

     ETA:  Forgot to lik this back to Merry Monday.....DUH!!

 

     ETA...again....I just now saw the prompt for Jingle Belles for their last challenge of this year, Christmas Feast, so I'm gonna link this post up over there too!  :)

     ~Marie~