Showing Santa Love for Jingle Belles

I was so excited when I saw the current challenge over at the Jingle Belles blog....they want us to "create a card featuring Santa, Mrs. Claus, Elves, Reindeer ... any denizen you might find at Santa's North Pole abode.".

We looooove Santa in my house, he is a big part of our Christmas celebration and I knew right away what set I was going to use....the Santa from the Jolliest Time of the Year set (retired). I just love this Santa image, so whimsical and fun! It's hard to see but there is glitter on Santa's hat, coat cuffs and on his jacket.

Head over to the Jingle Belles blog and check out all the great inspiration from the DT and the great cards submitted!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Jolliest Time of the Year(retired), Itty Bitty Backgrounds(retired)

Paper: Baja Breeze, Real Red, Whisper White, Candy Cane Christmas DSP

Ink: Baja Breeze, Real Red, Basic Black, Bashful Blue, Going Gray, Pink Pirouette,More Mustard,  Black StazOn

Accessories: Real Red Ribbon, Dazzling Details, dimensionals, sponge

Sympathy for Sunday Stamps

This week it was up to me to come up with the color challenge for Sunday Stamps and so I chose 3 of my favorite SU colors.....Daffodil Delight, Old Olive and Pacific Point. I just love these colors (and remember, you don't have to use SU colors, you can use anything close to these ones!), they are so pretty.

Unfortunately I've needed a lot of sympathy cards lately so I decided to make another one as a 'just in case' card. I like CAS cards to begin with but when it comes to sympathy cards I especially like them plain so I didn't do a whole lot in terms of embellishment other than the ribbon. The strip of Pacific Point is embossed and the edges of all layers(other than the main image panel) are sponged with their respective colors.

I sure hope that you'll head over to the Sunday Stamps blog and check out all the great inspiration from the rest of the design team! We'd also love to have you play along with us!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise stated):

Stamps: Apothecary Art, Loving Thoughts

Paper: Old Olive, Pacific Point, Whisper White, Polka Dot Parade DSP

Ink: Black StazOn, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point

Accessories: Big Shot, Framelits Labels, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots EF, Old Olive ribbon (retired)

Merry Christmas for Sunday Stamps

I'm a day late with my Sunday Stamps post. Just another week and a half and I'll be back to working nights and no more crazy schedule interfering with my stamping time!

This week at Sunday Stamps Joan has a great sketch for us! I'm in a Christmas mood(when am I not!) and so I pulled out a set I just got, Chock-Full of Cheer, to work with. I just love the mittens in this set so I decided to make those my main focal point. The DSP is out of the holiday catalog and is called  Snow Festival, lots of great patterns in this one! I embossed the ovals with the Snow Burst EF to give them a little more pop and then sponged the edges with Soft Suede.

Make sure you head over to the Sunday Stamps blog to check out all the other great projects from the rest of the design team and then why don't you play along with us? We'd love to see what you do with this sketch!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Chock-Full of Cheer, Wonderful Winterland

Paper: Baja Breeze, Soft Suede, Whisper White, Snow Festival DSP

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green, Soft Suede, Versamark

Accessories: Big Shot, Snow Burst EF, Small Oval Punch, Whisper White Ribbon, spomge, dimensionals

Christmas in July for Friday Mashup

It's the end of July and for most of the US this summer has been the hottest on record. Here where I live its been the coldest July on record, and I love it! I love the cold and I love Christmas so for today's Friday Mashup challenge I decided to do a Christmas in July theme. I love making Christmas cards all year long, they are actually my favorite card to make! You can also make a project and decorate the inside if it, make it just as pretty as the outside or you can mash it up and do both....make a Christmas card and decorate the inside of the card also! I cant wait to see what everyone comes up with!

1. Make a project "For Christmas."
2. Or Make a "Greeting Card & Decorate the Inside."
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Christmas Card & Decorate the Inside."

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Winter Memories

Paper: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Watercolor Paper, Festival of Prints DSP

Ink: Black StazOn, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Real Red, Gumball Green

Accessories: Aquapainter, Blender Pen, Big Shot, Lacy Brocade EF

Tradtional Green for Jingle Belles

It's the second week of the challenge over at Jingle Belles and since I went with red last week, this week I am going with green! Green is my favorite color(I just adore Forest Green) and I am really liking SU's new In Color Gumball Green. It was the perfect color to use with a new Christmas set coming out in the holiday catalog(which goes live Aug.1). I love trees, I love the Christmas carol 'Silent Night' and I love the color green, so this card came together pretty quickly for me! It's hard to tell in the picture but I used Vanilla paper for the background pieces with accents of Early Espresso.

Make sure you head over to the Jingle Belles blog and check out all the great cards made for this challenge!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Evergreen

Paper: Gumball Green, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Be of Good Cheer DSP

Ink: Gumball Green

Accessories: Big Shot, Snow Burst EF, Nestabilities Scalloped Ovals Small, Early Espresso Ribbon, dimensionals

Thank You for Sunday Stamps

It's time for another Sunday Stamps challenge and I'm actually on time this week with my card. Someone call Mike Wallace! :)

This week its a color challenge using the colors Soft Suede, So Saffron and Riding Hood Red. I used a hostess set called 'Four Seasons' that's in the new catalog. I just love this set!

These colors remind me of fall so I grabbed one of the images that is a bit on the summer side, but can also be changed a bit by using a fall color scheme.

Make sure you head on over to Sunday Stamps to check out all the great inspiration from the rest of the design team and then play along with us!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Four Seasons, Itty Bitty Banners

Paper: Soft Suede, So Saffron, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White

Ink: Soft Suede, So Saffron, Riding Hood Red, Versamark

Accessories: Big Shot, Itty Bitty Banner Framelits, Lacy Brocade EF, Square Lattice EF, 2 3/8" circle punch, 1" circle punch, So Saffron ribbon(retired), dimensionals, sponge

Summer Fun with Friday Mashup

It's time for another Friday Mashup challenge and since its still Friday in my neck of the woods I am getting it in on time :)

This week Heidi is our hostess and its all about summer fun mixed with a sketch! Here in Alaska we're well into our summer, with school registration already happening and school getting ready to resume Aug.16. Right now the wildflowers are in full bloom and my yard is covered with fireweed, a beautiful flowering plant that is also used to signal the onset of winter here. Legend says that when the top flower blooms(it flowers from bottom to top) there are only 6 weeks until winter. Needless to say I am always on the lookout for that last flower, as I am a winter loving gal! However, I do enjoy sitting in my yard, watching the birds and just enjoying the peace of my yard during the summer so that's why I used this image from the new SU hostess set 'Summer Afternoon'. I just love this set and had to have it the minute the minute I laid eyes on it.

In light of the tragic events in Aurora CO today I also think the sentiment from this set speaks volumes: "Nothing is worth more than this day- Goethe". My thoughts are with the community of Aurora and all of those touched by the horrific tragedy in CO.

1. Make a project with "the Sketch."
2. Or Make a project w/ a "Lazy Summer Day theme (under the shade of a tree/ biking / Swimming / Sitting in an Adirondack chair)."
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project w/ the "Sketch & the Lazy Summer Day Theme."

 The pink flowers are fireweed: