Channel your inner Elvis...

"I'll have a blue Christmas without you, I'll be so blue thinking about you, decorations of red on a green Christmas tree, won't be the same dear, if you're not here with me..."  LOL  I'm sure most of us have this song or some other Christmas song going through ours heads often during this time of year.  Heck, I bet there are those of us that have Christmas music in our heads 24/7, 365!  :)

 

Anyway, I want to share one of my recent creations with you:

 

 

 

 

I've been making banners for work for the last 2 weeks, off and on.  I'm making a total of 14 for the people I work nearest to, to decorate their work stations a bit for the holidays.  I've tried to create one for each person according to their favorite colors, and whether they preferred snowflakes or holly.  I wish I had started this task sooner!  I have 6 of them completely finished, and all the rest are in different stages of completion.  I have to say this is one of my favorites!

 

I'm adding this to the following challenges:

 

Completely Christmas:  Anything Goes w/a twist, use something with an "S"

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra:  Anything Goes for Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper:  Anything Goes as long as project is covered with patterned paper

Sparkles Christmas:  A Blue, blue Christmas

Papertake Weekly:  Anything Goes w/a twist, make a gift or decoration for Christmas

Crafty Calendar:  It's all about Christmas

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Take care!

 

~Marie~

 

 

 

Season's Greetings

Happy Sunday!  I'm back to share another Christmas card:

 

 

This was not my original plan for this card, but it still turned out OK.  I got some Ranger sticky embossing powder that I used for the sentiment and added a Recollections glitter that best matched the glitter paper.  I'll have to try this again with other stamps, as I had some trouble getting this to look right.  Speaking of the glitter paper, I used the MS Punch Around the Page snowflake set around the edges.  The white layer underneath that is embossed with the Swiss Dots embossing folder.  Not a very exciting card, really, but it sure does sparkle!  :) 

 

I'm adding this card to these challenges:

 

Winter Wonderland:  Let's Get Sentimental

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra:  Anything Goes for Christmas

Holly Jolly:  Color Choice - Monochromatic

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge:  Getting Ready for Christmas (there's a tiny ornament hanging from the "S" in Season's)

Completely Christmas:  Anything goes w/a twist:  Embossing (the sentiment is heat embossed, and the white layer underneath the glitter paper is dry embossed)

Penny Black and More:  Anything Goes
Christmas Stampin' All Year Long:  Anything Goes

 

 

Thanks for stopping by, and take care!

 

~Marie~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silver Bells...

Hello to all my fellow bloggers/card makers!  I hope your Saturday went swimmingly!  It's COLD here in PA, but Chad and I went to a Christmas parade this morning anyway.  Of course, the day also included a visit to Michael's to get some crafty goodies!  :)

 

Anyway onto the purpose of this post...my card:

 

I think this card came together quicker than any other card I've made in a while!  I rearranged the elements of the a2 Christmas bell card Silhouette file, and designed this in Silhouette Studio; first printing the words out, then cutting the bells and mat shape in the Cameo.  Su-WEET!  I absolutely LOVE everything I can do with the Cameo and the free software!  Then I just layered it onto a piece of silver glitter paper from American Crafts, and adhered it all to the 5.5 x 5.5 card base.  DONE!

 

I'm adding this shiny card to the following challenges:

 

Winter Wonderland:  Let's Get Sentimental

Merry Monday #135:  Christmas Bells

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra:  Anything goes for Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas challenge:  Getting ready for Christmas

Holly Jolly:  Color choice (monochrome)

Crafty Calendar Challenge:  All About Christmas

 Christmas Stampin' All Year Long:  Anything Goes
 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

~Marie~

 

Sparkly and Sweet Patches

Good afternoon everyone!  I'm back today to share another cutie-pie Stamp Fairy image on a card:

This fella is named Patches, and isn't he holding a HUGE candy cane??  LOL!  He's my second favorite bear from Stamp Fairy.  The patterned paper is from the Recollections Sugar Plums 6x6 pad, the red glitter paper is from American Crafts, and I used Candy Cane Stickles on the red stripes of the candy cane.  I also dabbed a little yellow Stickles on the stars.  The sketch is from Papertake Weekly, #78...why did I not find this blog earlier??  Using an already designed sketch makes it so much easier for me!

This card is being added to these other challenges as well:

 

Papertake Weekly:  2 or 4 legs

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra:  Anything Goes for Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas challenge:  Keep it flat (able to put thru the mail w/out extra postage)

Sparkles Christmas:  Christmas Candy

Cutie Pie Challenge:  Festive Furry Friends

Creative Card Crew:  Christmas Joy

 Crafty Calendar:  All About Christmas
 

Thanks for taking the time to stop in...Have a great day, and hug your loved ones!

 

~Marie~

Barry the Bear is visiting!

Hi and happy Wednesday!  It feels like Monday to me, as I was off Monday and Tuesday...anyway I'm here to share another cute card with you all:

 

I actually made this card before the one in my previous post, and I liked the Papertake Sketch #45 so much, I used it again!  This image is also from the now closed Stamp Fairy digi store, and his name is Barry.  He is my favorite Stamp Fairy character!  I don't know what exactly it is about Barry, but he is so adorable!  I think Barry and his little robin friend are gonna build a snowman!  Again, I used Snow Tex and glitter together for lots of texture and sparkle:  LOVE IT!  

 

I'm going to enter this card into the following challenges:

 

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra:  Anything Goes for Christmas

Jingle Belles:  Great Outdoors

Completely Christmas:  Anything Goes w/a twist:  Let's see some Blue!

Papertake Weekly:  2 or 4 legs
Creative Card Crew:  Christmas Joy

 The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog:  Festive Furry Friends

 

Thanks again for stopping by!  Take care, and hug your loved ones today!  :)

 

~Marie~

 

 

 

Holly Jolly BINGO

Good Sunday morning!  I just have a few minutes to type up this post, as I have to get ready to leave shortly.  I wanted to share this card with you:

 

I used Papertake Sketch #45 for this one, and an image from the recently closed Stamp Fairy shop.  This is George.   It looks like he and his little birdie buddy are ready to sweep some snow from the sidewalk!  I used Snow Tex for the first time on this card, and I like it!  I really like that you can add glitter to it while it is still wet for the shiny effect...not that you can tell here!  I'm entering this into the current Holly Jolly challenge of BINGO, using the line down the middle:  Texture, 2 designer papers, and punches.  The texture is from the Snow Tex, the 2 designer papers come from the Jack Frost 6x6 pad from American Crafts, and the snowflake punches are from Martha Stewart.

 

I have to get going now, but I will be linking this to other challenges later on.

ETA:  And the other challenges are:

Winter Wonderland:  Frosty the snowman
Christmas at Sweet Stampin':  Snowpeople
Jingle Belles:  Great Outdoors
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra:  Anything Goes Christmas
Completely Christmas:  Anything Goes w/a twist...Let's see some blue!
Squirrel's World:  Snow-Vember
Creative Card Crew:  Christmas Joy

Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to hug your loved ones!

 

~Marie~

Golden Christmas

Good Thursday evening everyone!  I'm here tonight to share a card I *was* making for the Winter Wonderland challenge, but didn't get to link it up in time.  But I'll share it anyway:

I've always admired gold and white cards made by others, but this is the first one I've made.  I rather like it!  The image and sentiment both come from the Nativity Christmas set from Stampendous. It's a great set I bought at Michael's a few weeks ago.  I started with a 5.5 inch square card base, then layered gold shimmer paper, a corner punched white layer, a piece of sparkly and sheer wired ribbon, , then my image panel, mounted on a scrap of white that I embossed the edges of with the same powder as the image and sentiment.  I learned that from Jennifer McGuire!  Lemme show you a close up of the sparkle in the embossing powder:

Pretty, isn't it?  The photo still doesn't really do it justice.

Challenges I'm adding this to:

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra;  Anything Goes

Holly Jolly:  BINGO/Tic Tac Toe  (I used the top row, ribbon, texture, glitter)

Completely Christmas:  Anything goes w/a twist; add a sentiment

That's all!  Thanks for stopping by...take care and hug your loved ones!  :)

~Marie~