Christmas Stampin' All Year Long

Happy Monday Everyone!!! I hope you had a wonderful weekend!! We start school full time this morning so we are back to our early AM routine! (ugh)

This week Vicki is the host for our challenge. She wants us all to use the spotlight technique for our projects! Highlight part of your image by stamping it twice and layering it! Here's a great Tutorial to show you how!

For my card I used this adorable Hero Arts snowman image to try out my technique. I think he worked pretty well!! I used yummy K & Co. paper and an Inkadinkado stamp for the sentiment. I colored my image with copics and used Martha Stewart chunky glitter for my snow. I used the Sketch Saturday sketch #63 for my layout. I tried to keep it simple so that my image would really shine. I'm used to a lot of embellies, so I feel strange not adding a bunch of stuff to my card!!!

This was a fun challenge and 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!!

Butterflies and Buttons

Hi all!! It's Flutterby Wednesday and I have another cute card for you. Have you played along yet?? What are you waiting for? Make a card that has a butterfly on it and if you upload it to PCP or SCS use the keyword FBW. That makes it easier for us to find your wonderful creation. This week we used butterflies and buttons on our cards.

I'm pretty sure Danni has some blog candy coming soon, so you might want to check out her blog to get all the details. Be sure that you check out my flutterby sisters to see what beautiful work they have done this week. Their links are on my sidebar.

I've had this stamp for awhile but haven't inked it up. Poor little flutterby!! Well it's been inked now and here's what it looks like.

I love how it looks with this pretty Bo-Bunny paper. I LOVE this paper, so yummy!! I stamped my butterfly on white cardstock with Memento and colored it with my Copics. I also used my glitter pen to give it a little bling. the stamps on the inside of my card are Hero Arts. I also colored part of my flourishes in with my Copics and used my glitter pen. I mounted my stamped image on pink and green cardstock and put cute little tiny buttons in the corners. I tied ribbon around and tied in a knot. Simple but sweet.

I hope you like my card as much as I enjoyed making it. I appreciate you visiting my blog. Please leave me a comment so I'll know you came by!! I'll meet you back here tomorrow for something else cute!! Bye for now!

Princess Anya finds her prince??

Hi everyone!!

Happy Friday to you!! Wow, did this week fly by. I have to say that the snow we got was so beautiful. Today it went away. Now the ground looks messy and muddy!! It's funny how we can go from being 20 degrees one day and 60 degrees the next. No wonder our sinuses are dying!!! Brittany enjoyed the snow as well. Since we never get snow she is not very experienced with snowman building, but she built the cutest little snowman!! I took a picture of her with her wintery friend.

Today's card is Princess Anya from The Greeting Farm. She is so sweet with her pink gown with Shimmerz on her crown, dress and wand. The background stamp is from Alota Rubber Stamps and the frog is a Hero Arts stamp. I love this little scene. Princess Anya is standing outside the castle waiting for her prince and up hops this little frog. I stamped the building onto white cardstock. I stamped the frog and used pop dots to pop up the frog and Anya. I colored Anya, the frog and the castle with my copics. I used chalks to make the pretty blue sky. I punched the edges of the strips of paper to make it look like lace.

Sorry about the short post but I have to go work on some other projects. Thanks for stopping by my blog and be sure you leave a comment so I know you were here.

Recipe:

Paper: Bo-Bunny

Stamps: The Greeting Farm, Hero Arts, Alota Rubber Stamps

Other:copics, edge punch, Shimmerz, chalks

It's Flutterby Wednesday Again!!

Hi Everyone!!!

It's Flutterby Wednesday again and our challenge for this week is to use blues and purples on our cards. You can play along with us by simply making a butterfly card using blues and purples and let us know that you did by tagging your PCP or SCS gallery entries with FBW45. We want to see your creations so be sure to try our challenge and if you've been playing all along, we hope you're having as much fun as we are!! Please be sure to check out our entire team and leave us some love!! You can find all of our links over on my righthand sidebar. You can also find our links on Danni's blog.


Now onto my card!! I made my card this week using a Stampin Up set called Merci. This is a cute set with an adorable sketch butterfly. I kept my card simple so that this image would really stand out since I stamped it in a lovely purple ink.

I used Three Bugs in a Rug DP in really pretty purples and teal blues. I cut our my butterfly with my square nesties and inked some Hero Arts flowers with the same purple ink I used to stamp my butterfly and sentiment. I used blue dew drops in the centers of the flowers and on my sentiment block as well. I made a slit in the spine of my card and tied the pretty blue and brown ribbon on to finish off my card.

I hope you like my card for this week. I would love to hear your comments so please leave me some love if you stop by today. I really enjoy reading everyone's comments. I would also love to have some more followers, so if you want me to tell you when I update my blog, please be sure to sign up today. Be sure you come back tomorrow to see what I have planned for you !! Thank you for stopping by. I really appreciate you.


Recipe:
Paper: Three Bugs in a Rug
Stamps: Stampin Up
Ink: VersaMagic
Flowers: Hero Arts
Other: Ribbon May Arts, Dew Drops by the Robin's Nest, ink dauber, nesties

Lily the Fairy

Happy Thursday to you!! Depending on where you live, it's a cold Thursday!! I wanted to share my Lily the Fairy card. I just love this image from Pink Cat Studio!! She is perfect for lots of occasions. My daughter is in love with this little fairy!

For my card I used some beautiful Cloud Nine glittered paper-perfect for a fairy! I colored her with my copics and cut her out with my nesties Label One set. My sentiment was cut from the scalloped round circle nestie. I embossed the blue and purple layers with my Cuttlebug. One is the swiss dots folder and the other is the birds and swirls folder. The flowers are Imaginisce.

And here's a closeup of this little cutie!! IRL her face is not orange, I promise!!

I hope you like her. Thanks for stopping by today to take a look. Please come back and check out my little corner of the crafting world tomorrow!

Recipe:

Pink Cat Studio Image

Copics

Paper: Cloud 9, Bazzill

Stamp: Hero Arts (sentiment)

Dies: Spellbinder Nestabilities

Embossing: Cuttlebug

Other: brads (K & Co), flowers (Imaginisce), Memento Ink

Bye for now, Cathy.