Wintertime Wishes

I'm still playing catch up and today's card is for Power Poppy's Hues to Use from Nov.7. This one had me stumped for a while because of the pink in it. I don't care for pink and so when I'm faced with using it my brain tends to shut down LOL It was actually another crafter who submitted a card for this that inspired me, you can see Camille's card HERE.

I used the digital stamp set Stand Here and then cut it out with my Wonky Stitched frame from Avery Elle. I grabbed my copics that I felt matched these colors and colored my image in. I wanted to add a sentiment across the front but didn't want anything too big so I opted to use a sentiment from the Power Poppy clear set Cozy Cupfuls.

I wanted the berries to be white with a hint of pink so I colored the edges in with pink and left the centers the lighter color. I then went over the centers with a Wink of Stella white pen so when it dries the white will pop more. I used a T5 to go over the green on the stems to give them a darker appearance from the leaves.

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Stamps: Stand Here (Power Poppy digital set), Cozy Cupfuls (Power Poppy clear set)

Paper: Calypso Coral (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Printer Ink, Calypso Coral (SU)

Copics: R0000, R00, R11, R22, R24

G02, G05, G09

T5

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die, Wink of Stella White Pen

Bottlebrush Christmas

 I made this card on Thursday but got busy with my family and completely spaced posting it, ooops!

I'm behind on playing with my favorite challenges so I'm playing catch up with some of them. This card was made for one of the recent color challenge at Power Poppy and their Hues to Use. The colors to use are a plum, olive green and a chartreuse green. I wasn't sure what to do with these colors at first but after staring at all my Power Poppy stamps for a while I went with the Bottlebrush Holiday set. I think this group of trees is so fun!

To bring in the plum I colored in the ornaments with the deep color, and I also tried to go for a plum color with my background paper. I really didn't have anything that color so the red I used is a bit different but I think it still works! The olive green is the trees and the background paper with the brighter green brought in on the garland and some of the ornaments.

If you haven't checked out the Hues to Use challenge you really should! The inspiration photos are always gorgeous and their guest designers always show off some great cards!

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Christmas Greetings for LMMS

Did everyone stop by the LMMS FB page this last week to check out the introduction of the news PDP faces? If you didn't you sure missed some awesome inspiration from some great people! I was really blown away by the samples that were posted and the faces are definitely a must have!

This week it's Inspiration Week over at the LMMS blog and I have a Christmas card featuring a teen too cool for Christmas....it's a digital stamp called Casper Silvermist Too Cool for Christmas and he is part of the Honeycloud Teens series. I've got 3 boys, all grown now, but at one time or another I have definitely seen them act like they were too cool for Christmas :)

Make sure and head on over to the LMMS blog to see what the rest of the DT created and don't forget the Anything Goes challenge is still open, so come play along with us!

Warm Winter Wishes

Happy Wednesday! I'm excited to announce that I've joined the team over at The Merry Christmas Challenge! Anyone who has frequented my blog knows that Christmas cards are my favorite type of card to make so being able to be a part of this team makes me super happy!

My first card as a member of the team is a masculine Christmas card, for a young boy or teen. The great thing about it is it can be used as a Christmas card, a winter card or both, depending on when in the season you want to send it.

After coloring in this older Pure Innocence image I was trying to decide on my frame color. I already had the patterned paper picked out so I needed to tie it all together. I made one blue frame, one brown frame, created the cards and then polled my family and friends LOL Surprisingly it was pretty evenly split...half of them liked the blue frame and half of them liked the brown frame! I ended up making 3 of each color so everyone was happy :)

Are you working on your Christmas cards? Head on over to The Merry Christmas Challenge and play along with us! The theme is always Anything Goes with an optional twist, and this week the twist is "snow". I incorporated that with my boy image holding snowballs. What would you create for a snow theme? Come on over and show us!

Just for You Dahlia

This month at the Power Poppy blog Cindy Lawrence is the host for the Power and Spark Challenge and it's all about portion control. She wants us to use only portions of images, no full images allowed. Pretty fun idea!

I instantly thought of the Dahlia XL image for my card and I decided to use a retired die from SU to create my portion control. I cut out the die first and then stamped the image across it. By doing this the outer side edges of the flower were cut off, leaving the center as the main focus of the card. If I had chosen a smaller die I could take off even more of the outer petals but I really liked how this die looked with the dahlia so decided to keep it as is. 

I colored the image in with some orange copics and then decided to use some orange and black papers for the background to carry the color scheme. I wanted a sentiment on the front but didn't want it to be too overwhelming so I stamped the "just for you" on a strip of white and then cut it to create a small banner.

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Candy cane and Berries

This week at Sunday Stamps we have a color challenge going on. I had to stare at these colors for a bit before my wheels started turning, and I decided to use a new stamp set from Power Poppy for my card.

The set is called Berry Sweet Holiday and I used the orange/red color, the pink and the green on my card.

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us! We'd love to see how you use these colors!

New Faces for LMMS

It's the release that you've been waiting for ... the new and improved Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces is here! These adorable and quirky faces are a fun way to customize your Polka Dot Pals rubber stamps. The clear stamps also make it easy for placement. This set features 32 high quality photopolymer clear stamps of faces and glasses sized for both the large and small Polka Dot Pals.

We're celebrating this release with a grand sale AND we have some fabulous guests that have joined us! Visit each of the four days for inspriation and get your Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces today. Let's celebrate!

During these four days ...

Buy the new Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces and you'll also receive the Little houses clear stamp FREE!

15% OFF all Little Miss Muffet brand stamps
(Check the Make it Crafty section too for some holiday sales)

Lastly, you'll get FREE US shipping on mailable orders over $35.00 or a $5.00 shipping credit for International Order. There's no better time to shop for rubber stamps at Little Miss Muffet Stamps. Oh yeah!

All promos are automatically added to the cart during checkout - no coupons needed!

Get more information at our Challenge Blog or the NEW LMMS FB group!

For my card I used PDP Hannah! I love how the freckles really bring this fun face together!

Make sure you head on over to the LMMS store to check out all of the great new products!