Saturday, August 17, 2013

Happy Halloween card

I adore this Newspaper Owl stamp from Hero Arts and decided to make a halloween card featuring this cutie!



I will be making more halloween and fall cards now -- I just ordered some goodies from a few places so I will be playing with those! I can't wait!

Ingredients: HA Newspaper Owl; PTI Tiny Treats Halloween (hat), Halloween Prints pattern paper, Mega Stack #4; MFT Spider Web Words

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Moxie Fab - Holiday Food & Treat Wrap Challenge

I love making treat holders/party favors for the holidays. For this Moxie Fab challenge I decided to make a treat box (with a monogram) that will hold some candy.

I took pics of the front and back/side so you can see the stamping I did on the treat box.





Ingredients: MFT Scalloped Treat Box; Hero Arts Happy; WPlus9 Simple Snowflake; Doodlebug North Pole pattern paper; American Crafts thickers

Holiday Cheer card for CAS on Sunday Challenge #14

The current challenge at CAS on Sunday is "Tag it" - I love tags and decided to make another christmas card (I promise you'll see something besides christmas soon). I paper pieced the scarf and part of the hat on my little snow dude. I was inspired by the card I have pinned here.






Ingredients: Paper Smooches Swanky Snowdudes, Christmas Sampler, Hang Ups, Shadows; PTI Tag Sale #5, pure poppy ribbon; MFT Sentiment Strips 2; Doodlebug North Pole pattern paper

B Merry, Be Jolly card

I created a christmas card for this week's My Favorite Things's Wednesday Stamp Club Sketch Challenge as well as for the Moxie Fab Holiday Card Challenge. I have wanted to try a die cut window for a while and this was the perfect opportunity!





Ingredients: MFT Gift Card Greetings, Snowflake Doily, Sentiment Strips 2; Paper Smooches Christmas Sampler; Doodlebug North Pole pattern paper

PTI Make it Monday #128 - Stamping Random Background Patterns

This week's Make it Monday challenges us to create a random background pattern - I used tiny stamps like Ashley used in her example. I decided to make this a Christmas card as well (I am really getting a head start this year - yeah!).





Ingredients: PTI Shape Up Snowman Accessories and Die, Tag-Its #8; Paper Smooches Christmas Sampler; Doodlebug North Pole pattern paper

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Card for Festive Friday Challenge #14

Now that Summer Card Camp is over I can get back into my other favorite challenges and the current Festive Friday challenge is an element challenge -- Candy Canes!  Here is my card inspired by candy canes:




Ingredients: PTI Winter Snow Globe; WPLus9 Simple Snowflake; Doodlebug North Pole pattern paper; Ranger Rock Candy Glitter; washi tape (unknown)

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Happy Birthday Card

I made a card for this week's My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club Sketch Challenge.  I adore MFT's clean and graphic styles and awesome dies so I put them to good use:






Ingredients: MFT Die-Namics Happy Birthday, Die-Namics Sentiment Strips 2 (I cut it twice to get it smaller), Jumbo Fishtail Banner Stax; Simple Stories pattern papers; Mama Elephant Modern Borders; Studio Calico Mr. Huey's Calico White Spray Mist