CASE-ing Christmas #24

Happy Wednesday night all!  The work week is now more than half over...yippee!!  Are there any awesome plans for the weekend out there?  On Saturday, my company picnic will be held at Knoebel's Grove Amusement park.  I can't wait!  I've pretty much been going there all my life, but it's fun now to watch my girls enjoy themselves.  Nowadays, I just enjoy the food...lol!

Well onto business...I'm here to share the card I made for CASE-ing Christmas #24, which is to CASE this lovely card by DT member Rocky:

Isn't this a great card?  I love the Tim Holtz snowman inked up with a music sheet stamp in that shade of blue!  Well, I don't have that Tim Holtz die, but I DO have the embossing folder, so that is the focal point of my card:

To bring in the blue, I used Waterfall Stickles to color the snowman impression.  I couldn't find a suitable stamp in my collection for the "25" element on Rocky's card, so I found a Momenta sentiment that I thought fit the feel of the card.  I added a snowflake button, just as Rocky did on her card. 

Challenges:

CASE-ing Christmas #24:  CASE Rocky's card

12 Months of Christmas Linkup:  Anything Goes

The Glory of Christmas:  Snow

CHNC Extra:  Anything Goes

CHNC #233:  Snow in June

Creative Card Crew:  White on white
ABC Christmas:  "L" for lyrics ("Do you want to build a snowman?")  ;)

I guess that's all for this evening...please take care of you and yours until next time!

~Marie~

Take it EASEL-y

All I could think of when I would read this prompt for the current Tiddly Inks challenge is the Eagles' song, "Take it Easy."  Not a bad song to hum while working, lol!  But back to the challenge, here is my card for it:

 

 

I'm getting this linked next to the last minute, but this card has been sitting on my desk in various stages of completion since I read about the challenge!  I used the Wryn Blooms image, and colored her up using various brands of markers.  The easel card is a file from Bird, found here.  I decided to use some Silhouette flower cut files on the bottom inner layer for something different.  I added Cotton Candy Stickles to the outlines, and then glued them back into place.  I made a button embellishment to hold up the easel portion.  Just a simple "Hi!" sentiment and a gem butterfly, and this is done.

 

Linking this up to:

 

Tiddly Inks:  Take it EASEL-y

Crafty Calendar:  Fancy Folds

Papertake Weekly:  Anything Goes

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Please stop in again soon!

 

~Marie~

 

CASE-ing Christmas, and Jingle Belles

Good afternoon everyone!  It's Tuesday, but it sure feels like Monday after that long weekend we had here in the USA.  God Bless all those who have served, and those who still serve in our armed forces.  I know I couldn't do what they do!  Thank you!  My Dad served in the Air Force during Vietnam.  I can't imagine what it must have been like for my mother at the time...living with her in-laws, and raising my brother while Dad was gone.  Anyways...

 

I'm here today to share a card I made yesterday:

 

 

This sentiment is from Recollections.  I figured I really needed some stand-alone sentiments for Christmas, so I stocked up this past season.  I spent some time yesterday stamping and embossing this one and another one from Recollections in the many Christmassy embossing powders I have, so that I can throw together some easy cards.  I used Spellbinders Labels Eight to cut it out and mat it, and embossed the edges of the mat to match the image perfectly.  The embossing folder I used on the base is from Darice, and is called Snowflake.  Simple card!

 

You can also find my card in these challenges:

 

CASE-ing Christmas:  Challenge #21, CASE-ing DT member Pat's card:

 

Jingle Belles:  Let it Snow!

The 12 Months of Christmas Linkup:  Challenge #5, w/optional Christmas critters

The Glory of Christmas:  Challenge #59, Birds or anything goes

CHNC Extra for May:  Anything goes

CHNC #230:  Use die cuts or Punches

Penny Black and more:  Dies and Punches

 

Thanks for stopping by today!  Enjoy the rest of your week!

 

~Marie~

 

 

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~