Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #266

Hello...it's Monday and time again for a new challenge at Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #266. This week's inspiration is the Big Guy...Santa himself! I pulled out one of my favorite Santa stamps, it's from Tim Holtz and it is so much fun to use! I hope you will play along with us this week, can't wait to see all your wonderful Santa's! Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy your week!

Simply Create Too - Something Old/Vintage #67

Happy Saturday...just one card to share today and it is for the current challenge over at Simply Create Too #67. I don't do old/vintage type cards well, I spent some time going through all my stamps and finally came up with this sweet old Santa. I just love the sweet look on his face and he reminded me of an old world type Santa. Don't you agree? You have plenty of time to play along...I look forward to seeing all your fabulous cards! My card is also entered in the current challenge at Inkspirational, the challenge is to use pencils or markers. I used Inktense pencils to color the holly on Santa's hat.  Thank you so much for stopping by...enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: Michael's - White and PTI - Pure Poppy

Stamps: Flourishes - Santa, I Believe

Pearls: Doodlebug

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Serendipity #26 - Chalk and CASology #76 - Party

Happy Friday! Having this time off from school, I keep losing track of what day it is, maybe it is a getting old thing.  I have 2 cards to share today, the first one is for the current challenge over at CASology, it has been forever since I have had the time to play along and with this week's cue card "Party" it was not hard to come up with an idea.  

My second card is also for the current challenge at Serendipity and their theme is "Chalk".  I know this technique has been around for some time but I never gave it a try. Happy to say that I love the look and will be making more cards like this one. Thank you so much for taking time to stop by to peek at my cards...Happy New Year!

Ingredients

Party

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Black and Joann's - Silver

Stamps: Propose a Toast

Dies: Propose a Toast and By the Numbers Border

Chalk

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Pure Poppy, White and Black

Dies: Lil Inkers - Stitched Ovals and Holly Jolly

Stamps: Serendipity - Santa

Bling: Stash

Snowflake Trim: Britex

Ink: WP9 - White

Merry Monday's #70 and Seize the Sketch #1

Second post of the day and I have 2 cards to share. The first card is for Merry Monday's #70, I have not played along in some time and fell in love with the sketch and knew just what I would do.  Some time back a sweet friend of mine, Cathy from Empty Nest Crafter was so kind and sent me the most adorable Santa face stamp from Serendipity Stamps, isn't he just the jolliest?  My patterned paper is from Doodlebug and is pretty old, I knew I would find the right use for it some day.  

My second card is for this week's challenge over at Seize the Sketch and in fact it is their first challenge, how fun to be in on the fun the very beginning!  I pulled out a stamp set that has been sitting in my stamp bin for some time, it was fun to play with and added a bit of festive sequins for a bit of bling!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Santa

Solid Card Stock: White and New Leaf

Patterned Paper: Candy Cane Prints and Doodlebug

Stamps: Santa Stationary and Serendipity - Santa face

Dies: Spellbinders - Circles

Jingle Bells: Joann's

Twine: The Twinery

Ink: SU - Real Red

Seize the Birthday

Solid Card Stock: White and Black

Stamps: Grunge Me and  MFT - Journal It - Playlist

Dies: MFT - Cassette 

Sequins: N&T

Ink: VersaFine - Black

A few more cards for today...

Two more cards for today...the first one is for this weeks Merry Monday #55, Tic Tac Toe and I took to the bottom row. It was a quick and easy card to make and I just love the way it turned out.  I think this is the cutest Santa stamp I have ever seen, it was a gift from one of my blog friends, Cathy from Empty Nest Crafter. He is just so jolly looking. 

My second card is for this weeks Retro Sketch #57. It has been a few weeks since I have played along and I forgot how fun it is to take their sketch and turn it into my own.  I am thinking a bit ahead and made my card for Father's Day, my husband loves to fish more than just about anything else so I thought this would be just perfect for him. I used a stamp that is from a stamp class my sister I took what seems like a 100 years ago. She bought the stamp and then passed it down to me, it works great with all of these lures. 

Ingredients - all PTI unless listed

Santa

Solid Card Stock: White

Ink: Fine Linen and SU - Real Red

Stamps: Santa Stationary and Serendipity - Santa

Bling: Doodlebug

Fish More

Solid Card Stock: White and Spring Rain

Stamps: WP9 - Fish More and A Muse Artstamps -Lots of Circles (thanks Robyn)

Dies: WP9 - Fish More

Ink: Spring Rain, Orange Zest, New Leaf, Lemon Tart and Harvest Gold, SU - Real Red and VersaFine - Black

Twine: Stash

Fishing doo dad: my husbands tackle box

Waltzingmouse Christmas Card Challenge - March 2012

This month's theme is to make a Christmas card using blue and brown paper.  Neither of these colors are in my 10 ten favorites to use but when paired together, what an awesome combination.  I used WMS Santa's Coming to Town for this card and this is one of my top favorites of WM stamp sets, I just love the cameo of Santa, and I even glittered the buttons, so festive.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients

Card Base and Envelope: Club Scrap

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Spring Rain and Ivory

Stamps: WMS - Santa's Coming to Town

Buttons: PTI - Spring Rain

Glitter: Hero Arts



Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #74 & CAS-ual Fridays #29

I am pretty new to WMS but have fallen head over heels in love with them.  This will be my fourth card made for one of their challenges, this one is a sketch challenge.  I only own two WM stamp sets, one Christmas and the other is a background set.  Both are just beautiful but really limit the cards I can make for these challenges.  Good thing it is Christmas season, so I am safe for a little while. 
My favorite stamp from Santa's Coming to Town is the Santa cameo and I have used it every chance I could. I also love glitter and made my own red sparkle letters using Quikutz dies and then ran them through my little Xyron, sprinkled them with glitter and there you have it! It makes a bit of a mess but well worth it in my opinion.  So here is my Santa card...thanks for taking a peek!

This card is serving two different challenges, Waltzingmouse and CAS-ual Fridays.  I love it when I am able to get one card made for two challenges, such a fun bonus.

Ingredients
Card Stock: PTI - Pure Poppy and Fresh Snow
Printed Paper: PTI - Candy Cane Prints
Ink: VeraFine - Onyx Black
Dies: PTI - Doilies and Quikutz - Chocolate ABC's
Glitter: Martha Stewart
Bling: Martha Stewart

Cards that Care

I decided to make some Christmas cards to donate to Cards that Care and wanted to make something that would be fairly quick and easy to assemble. These cards will go to the elderly who are in nursing homes.  I cased my own card, one I made to Halloween that I used Waltzingmouse stamps for.  I love the idea of the cameo and this one of Santa is just too sweet.  Thank you for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Santa's Coming to Town and Off Beat Backgrounds
Ink: VersaFine - Onyx Black
Buttons: PTI
Card Stock: CM - Red
Printed Paper: Christmas Prints
Bling: unknown source
Ribbon: PTI - Fresh Snow

Well it has been a long week...

I had intended to make this a very productive week with some card making but by Monday afternoon I could feel a migraine starting and it lasted for about 4 1/2 days.  I had made a few cards to post but just never really felt up to it. So finally headache free and after a fun day at our school/church rummage sale I am ready to post the cards I made last week.

The first card is one for a girlfriend of mine who turned 62 this past friday.  I had planned to post it to the CAS-ual Fridays challenge but that never happened. Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Paper: SU - white
Printed Paper: Cosmo Criket Mini Deck - DeLovely
Dies: PTI - By the Numbers
Stamps: PTI - Big Birthday Wishes
Ink: VersaFine - Onyx Black
Flower: Prime Fairytale Roses - Buttercup

The next card is one I made for Christmas and just love how fun it is.  Last Christmas my mom had used these little santa hats on gifts, so I made sure to save them all.  I knew at some point I would find a use for them and here it it.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Paper: Creative Memories
Printed Paper: Doodlebug - Christmas Pack
Santa Hats: My mom
Dies: PTI - Dress Form and Fiskars - Snowflake
Stamps: PTI - Signature Christmas and It's Offical
Ribbon and Lace: Britex Fabrics
Ink: VersaFine - Onyx Black and SU- Real Red