Happy Holidays!

I'm back on this now sunny (and WARM) Sunday afternoon with another Christmas card for 2015:

 

Here's Lenny from Stamp Fairy again, this time sharing a very nice tree with us.  The Stickled tree trio was cut using my Cameo and the 3 Flourished Christmas trees cut file.  The sentiment is from the Signature Christmas set from Papertrey Ink.  Yet again, the dp I used is from the Sugar Plums 6x6 pad from Recollections.  The papers go so well with traditional Christmas coloring, don't ya think?  Here are the challenges where you will also find this card:

 

Christmas at Sweet Stampin':  Cute Christmas

12 Months of Christmas Linkup:  Christmas Critters

The Glory of Christmas:  Birds, or anything goes for Christmas

CHNC Extra:  Anything goes for Christmas

Jingle Belles:  Happy Hybrid Holidays (use a digital image)

CHNC #229:  Use some of your favorite things (Stickles glitter glue, Stamp Fairy image Christmas paper

Creative Card Crew:  Wet or dry embossing (sentiment is embossed with detail black powder)

CHNC Patterned Paper:  Use patterned paper to cover your card

 

I hope you will take some time to check out these challenges, as they always offer great inspiration for Christmas (and other) cards!  Thanks for stopping by, and take care!  :)

 

~Marie~

A REALLY quick one tonight!

It is past my bedtime, but I was so excited about this card coming together that I HAD to come share it this evening:

 

 

Isn't this super duper cute???  I made this card for the challenge at Tiddly Inks:  So Sweet!  I knew I wanted to use this recently acquired digi, Eat More Cake.  Wryn is sooooo adorable!  Along with Mavis, she is my favorite character from the TI lineup.  :)  The mixer card is a Silhouette file I just HAD to have once I finally bought myself a KitchenAid mixer...in this same color too!  Majestic Yellow, to be specific.  :)  I colored Wryn the best I could ( I'm not very good at coloring people).  Her flowers all have some shimmer on the petals, and the icing of the cupcake was topped with Cotton Candy Stickles.  The sentiment is from a random Studio G set.

 

I'm linking this up to the So Sweet challenge at Tiddly Inks, and maybe tomorrow evening I'll find more to add to.  In the meantime, thanks for stopping by!

 

~Marie~

 

Believe...

YAHOO, it's Thursday!  One more day, one more day...lol!  But while it is still today, I would like to share the card I made for the current Merry Monday challenge, where the hostess Wendy has asked for greens, pinecones and the word "believe."

 

 

 

 

Here is my take on it, which is inspired by a card sample in the Pinecone Spray set from Fred, She Said.  I resized the pine cones in Silhouette to better fit the scale of the card, but I think maybe they coulda been a smidge bigger...

Anyway, the rest is pretty simple, the blue paper is from a digital set called Wild Sorbet by Michelle Coleman, and the Believe is from a Christmas set from Cloud9.  I stamped it in Broken China, and also used that ink to distress the edges of the card.  That's all there is to this one...oh wait, I also used Wink of Stella on the "snowy" parts of the pine cone images.  There, NOW that's all...lol!

 

I want to add this to these challenges:

 

Merry Monday:  Greens, pine cones, and "Believe"

Glory of Christmas:  Use a digital stamp

12 Months of Christmas:  Anything Goes

 

Hmmm, that's all I can find this week...thanks for visiting and take care!

 

~Marie~

 

Be Jolly!

Happy Saturday!  I hope you all have had a relaxing day...I know I have!  I even managed to fit in a card for the current Jingle Belles challenge, which is a sketch created by the incomparable Stef:

 

 

And here is my card:

 

 

 

I colored up this adorable Tiddly Inks Mavis image earlier this week.  I'm glad she didn't have to wait very long to find her home on a card!  I LOVE Mavis...she is SO CUTE!  I used some papers from the Recollections Sugar Plums 6x6 pad again, since it was still on my desk.  The sentiment comes from a Christmas sentiment set made by Momenta.  That's about all there is to this card...nice and simple!

 

I'm entering Mavis into these challenges:

 

Jingle Belles:  Merry SKETCHmas

Merry Monday:  Use a cat or dog

CHNC Extra:  Anything goes for Christmas

Winter Wonderland:  Twinkle, twinkle (all sparkly and bright).  The white parts of her hat and dress were coated in diamond Ice Stickles, and the holly berries on her dress were done with a red Gelly Roll glitter pen.

The Glory of Christmas:  Use a digital image

Papertake Weekly:  Cute as a button

Creative Card Crew:  Sentiment

12 Months of Christmas:  Anything goes

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

~Marie~

 

 

Just a quickie this evening!

Happy hump day!  I'm here to share a card I finished this evening:

 

 

Isn't this just the cutest little doggie?  He is a Tiddly Inks image, and can be found here.  The layout of my card was taken from this card.  The papers are from Recollections Sugar Plums 6x6 pad, and are all matted with kraft card stock.  I used Prismacolor and some Crayola markers to color the image.

 

Adding this to these challenges:

 

Merry Monday:  Use a cat or dog

Glory of Christmas:  Use a digital image

CHNC Extra:  Anything goes (Christmas)

CHNC Patterned Paper:  Anything goes covered with patterned paper (of course!)

CHNC # 225:  Something with "F"...Furry dog?  ;)

Sparkles Christmas:  Kraft card

Papertake Weekly:  Cute as a Button (one or the other, or both!)

Creative Card Crew:  Sentiment

 

I think that's it!  Thanks for stopping by my blog this evening, and take care!

 

~Marie~

 

 

 

Some texture, some trees, and saving some too...

Happy Friday folks!  Here we are at the end of another work week....whew, we made it!  Two days of freedom from the daily grind, and hopefully some time spent relaxing (aka, crafting!).  I would like to share 3 cards I made last evening with you today:

 

 

 

 

In keeping with tradition, the ladies at Jingle Belles are asking us to reuse and recycle for the next couple of weeks, in celebration of Earth Day on April 22.  All 3 of these cards were made using bought Christmas cards that were sent to our family last season.  Also, the ladies at Holly Jolly are looking for trees on our projects, so I made sure I looked for cards containing said items.  Lastly, Hazel is still asking for some texture, for the next hour or so anyway!  The middle card especially fits the bill here.  Once I had all the images cut down to what I wanted, the rest of the cards just seemed to flow together!  LOVE IT when that happens, which isn't often...lol!

 

Anyway, here are the links for the challenges I'm entering:

 

CHNC:  Texture

Holly Jolly:  Trees

Jingle Belles:  Joy to the EARTH for Earth Day

CHNC Extra:  Anything Goes for Christmas

Sparkles Christmas challenge:  Use Kraft card (third card base is kraft)

Papertake Weekly:  Words, words, words

Creative Card Crew:  Add a sentiment

12 Months of Christmas:  Anything goes

 

Thanks for stopping by, and take care!  :)

 

~Marie~

 

 

 

 

It's a blizzard!

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  One day closer to the weekend!  Tonight I'm sharing this card with you:

 

 

Some of the elements may be hard to see due to the all-white theme, but trust me, all that glitter is gorgeous IRL!  I used layers of Recollections white card stock, alternated with white glitter paper.  The scroll-patterned cut out is one of Bird's free cut files, and can be found here.  I so love her generosity of talent!  I had a bit of a difficult time trying to find a font my Cameo would cut without ripping the paper, but this one seemed to do "fairly" well. 

 

I'm entering these challenges:

 

Winter Wonderland:  White on White

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra for April:  Anything goes

Craftyhazelnut's  Christmas Challenge:  Add some Texture

Papertake Weekly:  Words, words, words

Crafty Calendar:  Add a Sentiment

12 Months of Christmas:  Anything goes w/optional color challenge

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today...Take care!

 

~Marie~