Tis The Season To Be Jolly!

Hello! I hope everyone is having a fantastic day or evening, wherever you may be! I had a chance to FINALLY sit down and get to work on my Christmas cards. I'm also entering this in Our Creative Corner's "Create a card or project with a Holiday Theme, Christmas or Hannukah" and The Fresh Batch sketch challenge. I used my Stamps and Smiles "Tis The Season To Be Jolly" stamp set for my whole card! I love that I was able to use one stamp set to complete it and not having to jump from set to set. I paper pieced Jolly's scarf and mitts. I think he turned out pretty darn cute!

"Joy!" - OCC Challenge

This week's challenge on Our Creative Corner is a really fun one! Create a card or a project inspired by your favorite holiday book or movie. You'll have to make sure to hop by OCC to see what the design team came up with! I love Christmas and seeing as I just got all my stamps from Stamps and Smiles new release, I decided to go with Frosty The Snowman! I had a lot of fun putting this one together. I actually used 2 different stamp sets. I then thought it would be fun to add fun flock to his scarf, mitts and nose and of course, had to add all that glitter to the snowflakes (Martha Stewart punch)!

Stamp Sets:

• 'Tis the Season to be Jolly
• I Love Snow

Have a fun day everyone!

Tea Bag Holder ~ OCC Challenge, Yummy Color Combo!

This week over at Our Creative Corner Challenges, they have a Color Combo challenge!! Reminds me of Neopolitan Ice Cream! Colors are light pink, hot pink, white and chocolate chip! I wanted to do something different, so I went and checked out Project Tuesday and found a cute project called Project Tuesday - A Tea Bag Holder. How cute is this project!! So I incorporated my little stamped image from Stamps and Smiles and matched it to a paper pack from CTMH and voila!! This is a gift for someone, but I'll have to tell you at another time as this 'person' chk's out my blog! LOL! Want to try one yourself? Click the link to Project Tuesday and you'll find everything you need as well as amazing samples from the PT Design Team!

EDIT: I can now tell you who I gave this to! My aunt is getting married on Oct 11 and she has been working very hard to make it all come together in a very short time. We've all been helping out as well. So, I thought it was time for her to sit back, relax and enjoy a hot cup of tea. I also now have an order for these little guys as well! I'm going to mix and match and make some for tea, some for hot chocolate etc. Stay tuned for more samples!

STAMP: "Cuppy Love" from Stamps and Smiles

PAPER: "That's Amore" from CTMH

RIBBON: Stamps and Smiles

EMBELLISHMENTS: Glitter and fun flock from CTMH

Happy Birthday (OCC and FBW Challenge Card)

Wow, 3rd post today! I'd say my creativity has returned!! I've actually had some time to play last night and today. This card is for 2 challenges...

1. Our Creative Corner - Sketch Challenge
2. Flutterby Wednesday - Create a birthday card with a butterfly or fairy on it

So I thought I would incorporate both challenges into one card! I'm really happy with the way this one turned out. I haven't done a pocket card in AGES, so I had alot of fun with this one. I hope you like it too. Well, I am off to sit outside and try and finish my latest "Shopaholic" series, "Shopaholic & Baby". I'm almost done!! If you haven't read this series and are looking for a good humor book, you have to check them out. They're fantastic!

"The Ones We Love" OCC Challenge!

Good morning!! Here's a little sneak peak at one of the new paper packs from CTMH called "Twitterpated". This is from the level 1 and I absolutely love it!! You can also purchase the matching dimensional elements seen on my page. This is also my entry for this weeks Our Creative Corner Challenge, which is NEW In-Colors! More "Twitterpated" pages to follow so stay tuned!

Happiness ~ SASSC26 and OCC Color Challenge!

This week I was able to combine 2 challenges into one card. This week is a sketch challenge over at The Fresh Batch and on Our Creative Corner, it's a color challenge! We had to use shades of purple and could also use a neutral color. I used my little image that came in my goodie bag from Stamps and Smiles. I just love those cupcakes!!

STAMP: Stamps and Smiles
PAPER: Paper Garden (CTMH)
EMBELLISHMENTS: Purple glitter (CTMH) and Paper Garden Stickease (CTMH)

Happy Birthday!

Is this little guy adorable or what?? He's so cute and so fun to work with! I entered in a sketch challenge over at The Fresh Batch and I won!! So I got my goodies in the mail last week and this little guy, Carl the Cupcake, was in there. I couldn't wait to play! So, this is my entry for this week's sketch challenge on Our Creative Corner. You can find more of these little cupcakes at Stamps and Smiles. They're all so cute!

STAMPS: Carl The Cupcake (Stamps and Smiles) and Stem Sayings (Stampin' Up!)

PAPER: Daydream (CTMH)

EMBELLISHMENTS: Glitter (Martha Stewart), Daydream Stickease (CTMH), Paisley Embossing folder

Just A Note - 2 Challenges!

Good morning! Looks like we may finally be getting our summer here in Ontario. Apparently everyone else has been getting the really hot weather! This is my entry for this week's Stamping Bella sketch Challenge and this week's Our Creative Corner "Triple Play" challenge. We had to choose 3 embellishments out of 6 choices. I chose ribbon, brads and bling! I also paper pieced "Billboardabella" (outfit), one of my favourite techniques!

STAMP: Billboardabella (Stamping Bella) *comes with sentiments*

PAPER: Stamping Bella

EMBELLISHMENTS: All CTMH (ribbon, brads and bling)

Stamping Bella AND OCC Challenge!

Good morning! Well, we're halfway through the week already, which means new challenge entries! This entry is actually for 2 different challenges. The sketch challenge is from this week's Stamping Bella challenge and you can find it here. If you'd like to play, you have till 5pm EST Thursday, July 16th to enter and all you have to do is email your entry to Emily. Over at Our Creative Corner, this week's challenge is 'Pet Parade'! So I was able to incorporate both challenges into one card and I'm glad because I don't know about you, but it's awfully busy in the summer months. I wanted to add a little texture to my card, so I did both the dogs in Fun Flock.

Thank you to Nancy and Hannah for letting me stamp these cute little dogs! They actually stamp together, but I cut them to separate them.

STAMP: Stamping Bella (sorry, I can't remember the name!)

PAPER: Stamping Bella

EMBELLISHMENTS: Dollarama

When Life Deal's You Lemons...OCC Sketch Challenge

This is my first time entering Our Creative Corner's OCC Challenge. This week it's a sketch challenge. I turned mine around to accomodate the stamp I wanted to use. I thought it was so cute! The sentiment is from Stamping Bella and of course, the mice are House Mouse!

STAMPS: SENTIMENT (STAMPING BELLA), MICE (HOUSE MOUSE)
PAPER: MICHAELS
CUTTLEBUG: SWISS DOTS EMBOSSING FOLDER
EMBELLISHMENTS: CTMH RIBBON AND GLITTER