All That Scraps Wednesday Challenge - A Treat Holder

Something fun to give anyone who loves coffee!! A gift card holder in the shape of a mug (made something like this years ago in a class I took and have loved this idea since then!!). The paper is from Little Yellow Bicycle, Wonder Wishes is the name of the line. I colored her with my copics naturally. Her hair is E41, 42, 43, 44. Skin is E50, 51, 21 and R05 for her rosy cheeks. Her coat is YG61 and 63. Her hat is paper pieced and I added some YG91 to give some shape to her hat. I also added some flocking to her hat and her colllar on her coat. Her boots are E42 and 43. The cute image is from C.C. Designs and she is Sweet November Tess - I think she is adorable and is good for all winter long!!!

Good to be here and do a post as I have been so crazy busy lately...... if I am not back before Christmas, I do wish you all a Merry Christmas and all the best to you bloggers in the New Year!!!

All That Scraps Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Well this may be my shortest post ever as far as words go..... here it is Thursday and this should have been up yesterday ...oops!!! Too much going on right now.... thanks to Lesa on the All That Scraps team for letting me part of the team.... I do promise to have way more to say next time. The stamp set I used is called Reindeer lights from C.C. Designs at All That Scraps - love this cute reindeer!!!

All That Scraps Wednesday - "Thankful"

Well it has been a very busy few days around here..... but I did sneak in my card for this week with All That Scraps. The theme this week was "giving thanks", well since we had our Thanksgiving already here in Canada, I looked until I could find the right sentiments with C.C. Designs, Amy R sentiments so that I could make a Christmas/winter card to give to a friend and let her know that I am thankful for her. A bit of a twist but worked for me and hope it works for you too!!

The paper I used is from Bo Bunny's Snowfall line and it was so fun to work with!! Love those 6x6 pads for cards :)

The image is Swiss Pixie Through the Night from C.C. Designs, I paper pieced her hooded coat and then colored her with copics. The sentiment on the outside of card is Amy R Christmas Card Greetings sentiment and the inside is Amy R Friends sentiments. I used the MFT dog tag die-namic for the sentiment on the outside and a Spellbinder die for the inside.

.....anyways back to one of the things keeping me very busy a new 8 week old rescue puppy that we adopted ..... LOVE HIM!!!!   Bye for now...................

All That Scraps Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes with Birthday Theme

The challenge this time is "Anything Goes ....with a birthday theme" so I colored up this cutie, Spring Kiki La Rue and added the sentiment from C.C. Designs, Birthday Sentiments set. Please come join us for this fun challenge and play along with the team... speaking of the team be sure to hop over to the Challenge Blog and see what the talented ladies have for you this week.
A few more details for my card .... I used a few different die-namics that are made by My Favorite Things and Christine carries them in her on-line store at All That Scraps, Leafy Flourish, Oval Decorative Doily and Upsy Daisy Flower. The papers that I used were a mixture of MME paper pads that I had pieces of - great to use all the pieces!!!
Copic colors used were: RV29, 32, 34 and BG11, 13, 15, 18 and E21, 50, 51 and R05 and Y23 and YR21, 24, 31.
Hope you join us!!!

MFT Guest Designer Challenge - "Bling it On"

 Another fun "guest designer" challenge from one of my most favorite companies, My Favorite Things (loving known by card makers and scrapbookers and crafters as MFT for short if you have not been to their web site as soon as you have finished here you need to check it out!!)  Every month there is a contest on their forum at Splitcoast stampers for some very fortunate lady to join Kim's awesome design team at MFT for a month and play along with them AND you also receive $200 in new products!!!!!  (do I want to win some day?...... are you kidding of course I want to win!!) But you really should also hop over to Splitcoast stamper's and see all the amazing entries that come in - WOW!!! The challenge this month is to "bling it on" - now almost every girl likes bling of some kind so that is a very fun challenge to give us!

I decided to use this challenge to make a birthday card for my mom, as her birthday is coming up real soon, I wanted the card to have some fun bling and also be classy and feminine for her as she is a special lady!! I like decorating the inside too and love using the stamp from the outside on the inside as well, so this time I stamped with distress ink and then used clear embossing powder so help it stand out.Also added some bling inside the card too!! For this card the paper that I used is from Melissa Frances and also Fancy Pants. I had so much fun using the die-namics on this card, on the front I layered up a couple of the borders to make the bottom edge and then added a row of mini pearls from my stash. On the side of the card I added some pearl flourishes from Kaiser craft and also a few of their great rhinestones on the butterflies and in the corners. Don't you just love that oval doily behind the flower - one of the newer ones :) For the flower I stamped it twice and cut it out to give the flower more depth at the center.

The fabulous MFT products that I used were as follows (and if you click on the words it will take you right to the page where you can find these great stamps and die-namics too):
Stamps:  More Essential Elements
              Inspired By Flowers 3
Die-namics: Oval Decorative Doily
                   Faux Crochet Border
                  Simple Scallop Medium
                  Layered Labels
And yes there were a few copic markers used on this great flower: B0000, 000, 00, 02, 04 and G21, 24, 40, 82, 99 and E44.

Hope you enjoy and come play along with this great company and check out all the awesome entries that come in too!!

MFT Wednesday Stamp Club - Sketch #42

 Here is the sketch for this week.

 See her standing in the snow - must be here in Calgary in the winter!! And did you see her fuzzy boots and hat?  (Cozy..hmmmm)

Oh I am so excited about using the sketches to get Christmas cards going!! Very fun with this sketch to choose the papers and figure out which paper should go where... :) So this little cutie is called "Flurry of Love" from MFT - I like her wind blown hair!! Shocking as this week I only used two MFT die-namics on my card, Snowflake Trio and then inside I used Simple Scallop Medium border. The paper is a mixture of Echo Park, Season's Greetings and jillibean soup, Christmas eve Chowder. I colored her up with copics and paper pieced her coat. I added white Fun Flock to her boots and hat to make them fuzzy and then used Stickles for the falling snow and White Flower Soft for the snow she is standing in. Added a bow and some Prima crystals and that is it.

Please leave a comment - love to hear from you!!  Come and play along these sketches are always fun :)

Wednesday Eye Candy for All That Scraps

Wanted you to be able to see her glittery wings - I think they are fun!!

 Okay this week at All That Scraps it is a sketch to play with - come and check it out and see what the other girls on the team have made too!!

I used the new Swiss Pixie Baby Jesus and Angel stamp from C.C. Designs - so cute!! I used the Cool Highlight ultra fine glitter from Glitter Ritz on her wings and a couple dots on her halo too.The circle behind her is cut with the High Tea Doily from My Favorite Things. I colored her up with my copic markers using:

E40, 42, 43, 44 for her hair and manger, her dress is BG70, 10, 32 and her face is E50, 51, 21 and RV32 for her cheeks, band on her dress is RV32, 34. I did airbrush around her with RV000 but as I brightened up the photo that does not show as much. The sentiment on the inside of the card is an AmyR Christmas card greeting set from C.C. Designs for All That Scraps. ( I do love how these sentiments stamp so clear)

Getting goiug good on the Christmas cards - how about you??