Christmas Stampin' All Year Long

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Hi friends! Happy Monday to you!!

It's time to get started on those Christmas cards if you haven't already!! It'll be here before you know it!! This week, Vicki of Summerthyme Studio will be hosting our challenge! Can you believe we're on week 32 and each week, we're closer to the holidays and closer to having those cards done! Vicki's challenge this week is to create a card using traditional Christmas Colors-Green, Red and a dash of silver or gold!!! We want to see your best creations. Sounds pretty simple, huh? We hope you'll play along this week! Please comment on today's post on the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog with the link to your project, SCS/PCP or online gallery. We can't wait to see what you come up with! There is a sketch if you need it on the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog but it is not part of the challenge. My camera was not liking all the red, so my pics are not very good today. I may try to re-take them if I get a chance, maybe outside.


For my card this week i used this adorable Penny Black image!! Isn't she cute!! I colored her with my copics, glitter pen, and I paper pieced the packages. I used fun flock on her sleeve cuffs to look like fur!! I used an Inkadinkado stamp for my sentiment and look at these cool clear plastic/acrylic snowflakes!! IRL they are very sparkly!! I used DCWV paper and Bazzill cardstock. To fulfill the silver or gold part of the challenge, I used silver pen to color in one of the shopping bags!! I used the wonderful Sketch Saturday sketch #66 for my card this week. I hope you like it!!





Be sure to visit the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog to see what the other challenge divas have created. I also have them listed on my sidebar. Again, we'd love for you to play along. Just leave a comment and a link to your creation on the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog or if you upload to SCS or PCP, use the keyword CSAYL. Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Be sure to leave me a comment so I can return the favor! Don't forget to come by tomorrow to see what I have to show you.

Stair Step Fold Card

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Stair Step/Accordion Card

Hello Everyone,

Today it's my turn to host Method Monday over at InStyle Stamps!! Yay! We're going to use a Back to School theme for our project today. I went over to Splitcoast Stampers and found this adorable little card. I thought that you would have fun with this as well. Thanks Lynn for having this on the forum! These are the intructions according to Lynn. You can find the instructions and more samples at SCS.

It's called a Stair Step fold or an Accordion fold, depending on the orientation of your project. This would be a Stair Step fold since it's landscape, but this fold can work either way - portrait or landscape.

Cut your cardstock to the size of 10.5 X 5.0 - if you want to stamp on this, now would be the time to do it.

Score your cardstock at 1.25" - 2.5" - 4.25", 6" and at 8.25"

Now fold with hills and valleys (accordion style) making sure that the smallest (1.25" fold) is folded down, as this will be the front of your card) Look at my sample and you will see what I mean.


Now here's the fun part - decorate with anything - punches, cut-outs, stickers - whatever your theme is, just go with it. These cards may be done in landscape or portrait orientation so let your imagination run wild. Thanks for visiting my blog. Please come back tomorrow to see what I have to show you.

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long

Happy Monday Everyone!! It's a Gorjuss Christmas!!
I hope you had a good weekend. Today's challenge over at Maria's Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog is Debbie's Sketch challenge. She gave us a sketch and also added embossed card stock to the top of the card. I would post a picture of the sketch but Blogger doesn't seem to want to post pictures at the moment. I can't get my pictures to upload into this post. UGHHHHH!!!

I made my card using Bazzill embossed cardstock for the red piece and the card base. I used DCWV patterned paper for the bottom. I used this adorable Sugar Nellie Gorjuss Girl and colored her with my copics. You can buy your Sugar Nellies and your Gorjuss Girls at Funky Kits. I cut her out with my nesties and popped her up on pop dots. I also gave her a little present to sit next to her!! I put a cute little pearl at her neck and a cute heart in her hair. She's ready for Santa to come!! I stamped my sentiment using a Sugar Nellie stamp and put stickles and pretty hearts on it as well. I used a white gel pen to put some dots on the scallops and stickles around my Gorjuss Girl too. I used some pretty glittered brads on either side and that's it. I'm not completely satisfied with it, but it turned out pretty cute, I think. I'm not sure if it's the card that's bothering me or the pictures.

(here's the out of focus shot to show my embossed cs.)

I hope you like my card. Be sure to visit the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog to see what the other challenge divas have created. I also have them listed on my sidebar. It's time to get started on those cards!! We'd love for you to play along, just leave a comment and a link to your creation on the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog or if you upload to SCS or PCP, use the keyword CSAYL. Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Be sure to come by tomorrow to see what I have to show you.

How Cute is Hazel??

Happy Wednesday Everyone!!

Look what I have to share with you today! She is adorable!! What a great image for any occasion. This is a sweet little Nutshells called Hazel with Apples. I just love her!! You can pick her up at Nutcrafters. Think of all the little school projects that she would be perfect for!!

I colored her with my Copics and paper pieced her dress and hairbow. I love paper piecing, it gives such a cute dimensional look. I used my DCWV School stack for the sweet papers. I used a Hero Arts stamp for the sentiment and a grass stamp by Our Craft Lounge. I also used the Pollycraft Sketch Challenge #20, what a great sketch to work with! Along with the sketch, you had to incorporate food or drink into your creation. My food are the apples that are everywhere on my card!! I'll be using this sketch again. I love how she turned out!! What do you think??



Thank you for stopping by today. I appreciate and love the great comments that you leave me!! Some days they really, really help me get through the day!! I also love visiting your blogs and leaving comments for you as well. Be sure to check back tomorrow to see what I have for you. Have a wonderful rest of your day!!

Back to School

Hi everyone! Can you believe I only have about 3 weeks before my daughter goes back to school?? I can't believe it, that's for sure!! It seems like we just got out for Summer vacation. Ack!!

Today I have an adorable InStyle Stamps Anime Digital image for you today. Her name is Janice and she is going back to school!! She is so adorable in her little houndstooth skirt!! Perfect for teacher's gifts, cards and really any other thing you can think of. She is very versatile. I've left the sentiment off because I'm not sure yet what I will use her for.

For my card today, I cut an apple shape and used DCWV school stack papers and ribbon to decorate it. I colored her with my copics and used some Glossy Accents on her shoes so they would look like black patent leather. I cut her out and mounted her on pop dots. I cut the yellow cardstock with my nesties and ran it through the Cuttlebug with the swiss dots folder. So cute!! I like how she turned out. IRL she looks much cuter. My camera didn't want to pick up her hair color and highlights or the shine of her little shoes.




I hope you enjoyed my card today. Thank you for visiting my blog and be sure to leave a comment for me so I can return the favor. I love reading your blogs and seeing your wonderful work. I really appreciate you so much!!

We're Getting Nutty Again!!! Come See!

Monday, July 6th we will be releasing some more new Nutshells and they are way too cute!! You know that we're always looking for cute boy images, well have we got some cuties for you!!!You are going to love them!! If you are new to our stamps, please take a moment and go to the Nutshells blog and see the other members of the DT and have a look at the other previews of the new boy stamps. There is also a blog post that Katie and Colette put up that explains how they named each of their stamps after different nuts (get it Nutshells)!! It's really a cute idea! Click Nutcrafters to go to the store and see our wonderful selection of stamps and other yummies that you can't do without!!.

Now, about my card. This little guy is Guitar Wallie!! How cute is he?? I love this little guy! He's perfect for lots of occasions. I used him for a little boy birthday card. I colored him with my copics and highlighted him with a white gel pen. I used a metallic silver Sharpie on his guitar. I used silver metallic paper for that rocker look and cut some stars using a Sizzix die. I layered everything and then I went to the inside.I printed the sentiment on the computer and cut it with my nesties. I sponged some red ink on the sentiment and added some small stars. I cropped my image with my nesties and colored his hair blue for a fun rockin' birthday card!! I think he turned out pretty cute. I just noticed that it also has a little 4th of July look to it as well!! I used DCWV paper and Bazzill cardstock.

We are also having a challenge on July 6th over at the Nutshells blog to kick off this wonderful release, so be sure to come back and see what I've created for you!! You have to come back before then because I'll be previewing more new images for you!!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog. You are truly so important to me and you don't know how happy it makes me that you come by to look at my creations and leave such wonderful comments. I love reading them and visiting your blogs as well. Thanks for letting me share my passion with you. Many hugs to you!!

It's a Flutterby Shape Today!

Happy Flutterby Wednesday!!

I hope today finds you well and that your week is going smoothly. Our challenge this week at Flutterby Wednesday is actually a free week!! Yay!! The only things that you have to do to make your card a Flutterby Wednesday challenge card is to use a butterfly or a fairy image on your creation. Just remember, it has to have a butterfly or fairy to qualify.This is really a great week to participate!!

Our Featured Stamper this week is Chris. She is super talented so be sure that you stop by her blog and leave her some luv!! Our Guest Designer is the uber talented, super sweet Cindy Haffner!!! YAY!! Once you visit her blog, you'll know what I'm talking about. Her creations are so wonderful and her blog is so full of inspiration! A true talent, that's for sure! Welcome to our little Flutterby family Cindy!!

Now onto my card. I made this card using a template that I found on one of the magazine websites but I was so smart, I cut it out and didn't put the magazine name on the template, so I'm not sure which one it came from. I'm pretty sure it was Papercrafts. I will see if I can find it again and I will post it as an edit later on. Sorry! I just thought it was cute!

I used the DCWV Spring Stack for my card. I used my nesties to cut a little label for my sentiment. I chalked the label so that it would not show so brightly. I added stickles on the butterfly front of the card and dew drops as well. I drew little antennae's on the inside of my card for her head. I think it turned out really cute. I used an Inkadinkado stamp for my sentiment. I used my Scor-Pal to score the fold. I hope you like it.

This was a really great challenge. We'd love to see you play along this week! Just make your project using a butterfly or fairy. Remember, it must include a butterfly or fairy. If you post to SCS or PCP be sure to use the keyword FBW so that we can find your beautiful creations.

Be sure to visit Danni's blog to see any other details. Be sure to check my sidebar and visit the other Flutterby divas to see their wonderful creations.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I love reading your comments, they mean so much to me and so do you!! Those of you who follow my blog hold a very special place in my heart and I thank you so much! Be sure to come back this afternoon or tomorrow to see what I have to show you!! Have a wonderful day!

Spend the weekend InStyle!!

Happy Sunday everyone!! I hope your weekend is going well. If you have a 3 day weekend, even better!!

I told you I would share my daughter's award's day news with you. For those of you that don't know, my daughter is in the 3rd grade and we had awards day this week. I am proud of her whether she wins an award or not, but she actually brought home the Computer Award out of her class of 22 and she brought home an award for being on the Principal's Honor Roll for the ENTIRE year!!!! Yay, Brittany!! She also won an award on Field Day. She took home 3rd place in the egg carrying contest!! lol (the old egg on a spoon, remember) Out of 300 something students, that's pretty good!! So there you go.

Ok, onto business! I wanted to share a card I made using InStyle Stamps Anime image Mike and Jessie. Aren't they just the cutest ever? I know I say this every time but these images really are so versatile and fun to use. You could use this image for birthdays, get well, congrats, thinking of you, thanks, you get the picture! It's perfect for any occasion.



For my card I paper pieced Jessie's dress and boots with Die Cuts with a View Spring Stack paper. The rest of the image is colored with my copics. My sentiment stamp is by Stampendous. I used Bazzill cardstock and the glittery paper is from the DCWV Glitter Spring Stack. I highlighted with my white InkEssentials gel pen that I got from Susana's Custom Art and Card Design. My flowers are Primas and the brads are Making Memories. The ribbon is Bo Bunny. I used this week's Stamps and Smiles sketch challenge for my card layout. Yay I got a challenge done this week!! They have the greatest sketches and the cutest stamps. You should check them out.

Don't forget, we have our InStyle Stamps blog hop this Friday. Woo hoo!! I'll have more information for you soon. I hope you enjoy my card. I'm glad you stopped by to visit and I hope you'll leave me a comment. I truly do love reading your comments, they mean so much to me! I'll be back on Monday with something else to show you, so be sure you come back to visit!! Have a wonderful rest of the weekend!!