Another fun side step card..........

I love this little penguin digital stamp.  I think it's adorable.  I colored them with watercolor pencils & used a blenderpen. 

I submitted this card to the following challenges.  Thanks for all the great challenges.  Happy Holidays.

All Sorts Challenge Blog - Free and Easy - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew Challenge - Anything Goes

A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge #133 = Merry Christmas

Top Tip Tuesday - christmas

Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog #30 - 'Anything Goes'

Incy Wincy Designs - Challenge 72 - use NON-TRADITIONAL Christmas colours

A sidestep Christmas card.........

This is such a fun card.  Everyone I have ever sent one to has raved about it.  And.................it's really, really simple to make.

 Love it.

This card was submitted to the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge Blog - 'H' is for hat

Penny's Paper Craft Challenge Blog #44 - 'Merry Christmas'

Freshly Brewed 2 Week long Challenge 27 - 'Merry Christmas'

4 Crafty Chicks - 'Snowmen'

Creative Belli Challenge #106 - Christmas Embellishments/Papers

Incy Wincy Designs - Challenge 72 - use NON-TRADITIONAL Christmas colours

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Challenge #89 Sparkling Christmas (plus digi)

Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog #30 - 'Anything Goes'

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge--Show Us Some Snow!

For anyone interested, there is a great tutorial for making a side step card at Creating Cards with Andrea.

Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season.

Merry Christmas to all.

A trifold Christmas card. A super fun cards to make.

I think the trifold card is truly one of my favorite cards to make.  I have a rediculous passion for paper and love having the opportunity to use such a variety of designer paper on one card.  These cards are attractive, unique & fun to make.  The ovals were cut using my Sizzix Big Shot with Spellbinders Nestabilities.

I love card challenges and this card was submitted to the following challenges.

Alphabet Challenge Blog - 'H' is for hat

Crafty Cats Weekly Challenge #63 - Your Choice

4 Crafty Chicks - 'Snowmen'

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #44 - 'Merry Christmas'

Freshly Brewed 2 Week long Challenge 27  - 'Merry Christmas'

Creative Belli Challenge #106 - Christmas Embellishments/Papers
Digital Tuesday Challenge - Challenge #89 Sparkling Christmas (plus digi)

Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog #30 - 'Anything Goes'

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge--Show Us Some Snow!

For anyone interested, there is a great tutorial with instructions for making these fun cards offered by Splitcoaststampers.

Thanks for stopping by.
Happy Holidays.

Christmas cards and flowers...............

I totally love challenges. They inspire me to try new things. They encourage me to use and combine colors I might not consider trying. I love to see what others have done while participating in the same challenge or how they interpreted the same sketch. Sometimes the results surprise me. Sometimes the results are even amazing. Most of all, challenges are fun.

My new passion is paper flowers.  That's what I have been doing for the past several evenings. I love creating them.  The possibilities are endless.

I decided earlier this evening I really need to get to work on my Christmas cards.  I have several done but will need a few more.  I started visiting my favorite blogs looking for challnges I could have fun with while creating my Christmas cards.  I also wanted to be able to use my flowers.  I was really pleased to find several.  There were several 'Anything Goes' challenges this week.  Those are always fun.

Here is my first creationusing my flowers while making a Christmas card.

The bird is a digi stamp colored with watercolor pencils blended with a aqua-painter. The flowers are torn paper flowers.  You can use paper or cardstock to make them.  I love 'em.

I'd like to thank Gabi at 'Such a Pretty Mess' for the fantastic and easy to follow tutorial for these great flowers.  I love her blog. 

I submitted this card to several great blogs. 

Christmas Cards All Year 'Round -- Card size other than the norm.  Must have gold, silver, crystal or pearl.

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge -- Use purple & Silver.

Totally Gorjuss Challenge -- Christmas

Paper Romance -- Handmade flowers

Alphabet Challenge Blog -- 'V' is for vintage.

Charisma Cardz Challenge #38 -- Anything Goes

Crazy for Challenges -- Bling

AiFactory -- Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs -- challenge #61-- Anything Goes

Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog -- Make your own flowers

Tellen's Place Designs -- Bling!!

Delightful Challenges -- Make it Sparkle

Happy Christmas card making.

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'Just my Sketches' March card challenge

This is my card for the March 15th. 'Just my Sketches' card challenge. This challenge is generously hosted by Deanne Burton of Newfoundland.

This challenge is a little different. Each month Deanne posts sketch challenges for two scrapbook layouts and two cards. She also lists the titles and lyrics for five songs. The challenge is to choose a song and then tie the song in with the sketch while creating your card or layout. You can use the song title, theme or a stanza from the song. It adds a new spin on the scrap/card challenges. It's fun.

This cute 'Barnaby the bunny' stamp came from Digital Delights by Louby Loo. I colored him in with watercolor pencils. He's a cutie.

The song I chose is 'More Beautiful You' by Jonny Diaz.

This is the sketch.

and......my card.

The inside.

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Christmas Cards All Year 'Round--March challenge

Here are the five cards I submitted to the 'Christmas Cards all Year 'Round' March challenge. This challenge was hosted by Deanne Burton.

I absolutely love this monthly challenge. It motivates me to get my Christmas cards made early and it's always fun.

This months challenge was to create five Christmas cards that were predominantly green and also includs a snowman. The green is for St. Patrick's Day in March.

All five cards were completed by March 19th.

Thanks again, Deanne, for a fun challenge.

StampARTic Sketch Challenge for March..

This is my card for the StampARTic online magazine March sketch challenge. I love sketch challenges. They inspire me to have ideas that wouldn't otherwise occur to me. I love to see the projects other cardmakes and scrappers create following the same sketch. There were some really beautiful cards done for March.

The stamp I used is called, 'A Tasty Read.' It's a digital stamp designed by Elisabeth Bell. I love it. She is my favorite, favorite stamp designer.

This sketch was especially fun to work with. It offers the opportunity to use a wide variety of embellishments in one sketch. I used metal flowers, ribbon, punches, foam squares and more. The sketch was created by Marianne of Norway. Thank you Marianne for a truly fun sketch.

Card Patterns challenge card for sketch #7

This is a neat sketch from Card Patterns. It's #7. They put a new one out each Friday. The deadline to get your cards in is the following Friday at 11:59 p.m..

I especially like this one. I'm going to save it to make more. I tied the larger flowered piece on with the ribbon so it is removable. It could be saved and used for a bookmark.

Here is the sketch.

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day.

My first card challenge

This was alot of fun.

This sketch was drawn by Deanne Burton in Newfoundland. She posts her sketches at her blog called A Scrap Addict's Sketches. This is a really fun place to visit.

This is her Lucky, Friday the 13th. sketch.

I think this is a great sketch with lots of options for plans and ideas.
It can be made into a scrapbook layout or a card. The choice it up to each participant.

I used three colors of cardstock, one type of designer paper, watercolor paper, stamps, watercolor pencils and a blender pen.
It's simple, but I think it's nice. This card is going to cardsforheroes.org as a Any Soldier card.

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