Xmas card #47

I bought this little puppy last year in the January sales, isn't he a cutie!  Added loads of stickles to the dog's scarf and to the big snowflake, and used clear gloss topped with stickles for the ice.

Sketch from Mojo Monday #166

ABC Challenge - I is for Ice

Craft your Days Away #9 - texture

Stamping Vacation - Start Here Challenge ... Red Glitter

Xmas card #46

ETA: I won the High Hopes sketch challenge with this card!

Wowee, just back from a walk with Ruby there and its soooooooo coooooold!  The wind is coming straight from Siberia!

Almost missed the High Hopes challenge #98 - this week its a sketch, though I misjudged the size of my sentiment and had to stick it to the bottom instead of to the side.
Don't forget there's a new release this week from HH ... link in my sidebar.

Stampin for the Weekend #51 - Winter

One Stop Craft Challenge #108 - Christmas Cuties

Die Cut Dreams Xmas Club #45 - use a die cut

SUPPLIES
Stamp: Snowman from High Hopes; sentiment from Stampin Up
Paper: oldies from DCWV
Accessories: marianne creatible snowflake die; snowflake punch; frosted lace stickles on snowballs; lime green stickles on jumper; red gems 

And finally, just to make you go 'Awwwww' here's some wee pics of Ruby, exhausted after her day playing and rolling in the snow!

Xmas card #45

Ooops, this image was kinda too big for the sketch - I managed to cover up most of my papers and stitching with it!

Sketch from Sketch and Stash #49 (my stash is these little pink brad thingys that I rediscovered when I tidied my goodies last week and they were just perfect for this sketch!)

ABC Christmas: X is for Xmas

Fussy and Fancy - Christmas with no red or green

Totally Papercrafts - untraditional Christmas

Crazy4Challenges C4C65 - use script paper (though I managed to cover most of mine up LOL!)

Stamping Vacation - name that card challenge - Snowy Christmas Wishes

SUPPLIES
Stamp: Snowman from High Hopes; sentiment stamp from Stampin Up
Paper: Dovecraft
Accessories: copic markers; Tonic Studios snowflake punch; marianne creatible snowflake die; ranger glossy accents; smooch illuminate on the panels on his jumper; gold peel off sentiment; martha stewart border punch; blue gems; sewing machine

Kerryann's Birthday card

Oh BRRRR, the snow came ... wasn't very much but enough for wee Ruby to have a good roll in!  She just loves the snow, but it sticks to her wee short legs like balls of cotton wool! 

The garden was awash with hungry birdies this morning too, so I had a play with my fandabby new camera and took this pic of a wee Tit at the very bottom of the garden.  I'll have to read the instructions some day and learn how to use it properly! LOL!

I recently bought a pack of these pre-stamped images from Lili of the Valley ... I love to use their stamps but for some reason I find it so difficult to use these pre-stamped ones!  This card was very 'touch and go' until I stuck the final flower on and added the greeting, but I quite like how it turned out.

A Spoonfull of Sugar #131 - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Cut it out

Charisma Cardz #47 - one for the girls

Marks Finest Papers #31 - add a bow

SUPPLIES
Stamp: Pre-stamped image from Lili of the Valley
Papers: Papermania
Accessories: circular nestabilities; copic markers; martha stewart edge punch; ribbon from stash; plain flowers coloured with copics to match; silver peel off sentiment and letters

Simon Says ... Let it Snow

I'd actually forgotten I had this little snowman stamp that I bought last year until I was looking through my Christmas card stash!  Don't ya just love his little hot water bottle!  He'd definately need it this evening as its really BRRRR ... the grass was crunchy when we took Ruby for a walk earlier and there's talk of snow this weekend!

Coloured with copics and added some gloss and glitter, and there's some silver peel offs for a bit of added shine too.

Sketch from 2 sketches 4 you #66

An Oldie but a Goodie #6 - glitter

Simon Says Stamp - Let It Snow

SUPPLIES

Stamp: Little Claire Designs

Paper: Dovecraft

Accessories: copic markers; Ranger Glossy Accents; Diamond Glamour Dust; silver peel off lines and sentiment strip; tim holtz border die; pink gems

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday #77

I haven't been by the What's on Your Workdesk stop for a while, so I just thought I'd share the mess that is my kitchen table!  It usually ends up totally covered in crafty stuff and I end up working in about 4 square inches!  My favourite goodies on the table are the little Pritt glue roller (the last time I tried a roller glue it was rubbish, but this one's really good) and the tub of Aleene's true snow, fabulous stuff!

So this is the wee card I was working on....

Your Next Stamp #30 is to CASE one of their DT members, so I chose this card by Sylvia. 

I kept the red/green colour combo, her gorgeous layout and the little mousey themed stamp.

Easy Craft Projects #26 - snow

Die Cut Dreams Christmas #44 - Christmas anything goes

Marks Finest Papers #30 - have a circle on your card

High Hopes new release

High Hopes stamps are having a new release blog hop on 1st December that you won't want to miss out on.  Pop over to their post HERE for more info.

(I was lucky enough to win their last candy giveaway and there was a huge amount of rubbah came through the letter box that totally sorted my Christmas cards for this year ... and probably next year's too!)

If you're not in, you can't win!
...all the more chances for me to scoop the star prize again! LOL!   ;o)

Xmas card #42

This is the first inking of this little snow dude ... I won all these fabulous High Hopes stamps a while back in a new release candy and its totally sorted my Christmas cards for the year!
Coloured him with copic markers and added frosted ice stickles to his jumper and hat, clear gloss to his skates and loads of glitter to the red snowflakes.

Sketch from Create4Fun #47

One Stitch at a time #40 is to choose a season or event

Stamping Vacation Embellish It challenge - use a corner adornment

Cards for men #24 - Christmas card

Colour combo from SPCC #75

SUPPLIES
Stamp: snowman from High Hopes; sentiment from Stampin Up
Paper: Dovecraft
Accessories: copic markers; ranger glossy accents; Diamond Glamour Dust; marianne creatibles snowflake die; red gems; blue button with coloured dental floss to tie it on; frosted lace stickles

Baby Bear

Brrr, its a bit of a chilly day here, but at least I've managed to shift that horrible cold I've had ... I actually managed to get out to the garden and get a bit of digging and sorting out done.  Thank goodness, I can't be doing with feeling yeuch and having no energy (or mojo!)

Alphabet Challenge this week is D for Doodling (an easy peasy challenge as I love to doodle!)

Charisma Challenge #46 - baby

Your Next Stamp challenge #29 is a recipe ... choose at least 2 of yellow, nesties, or stickles

SUPPLIES
Stamp: bear from Elzybells; sentiment from Shirleys 2 Girls
Paper: Basic Grey
Accessories: copic markers; gold gems; little safety pin; martha stewart edge punch

Xmas card #41

Whoo hoo.. my Christmas card count is in the 40's!  No mad panic this year for me!  (...do I sound very smug ... sorry!)
Paper pieced my snowman's hat and used loads of Smooch Illuminate on his scarf and the red snowflakes. 

Took this unusual colour combo from SPCC #74 - its not one I would ever have thought of using but I love it!

Little Paper Shop #94 is to use a die cut

Wee Memories Saturday challenge #32 - use a little bit of pink

Stamp with Fun #85 - Square

Totally Paper Crafts #43 - snow / snowflakes

Sketch from 2 Sketches for You #66

One Stop Craft #107 - snow people

SUPPLIES
Stamp: High Hopes
Paper: Dovecraft
Accessories: copic markers; marianne creatibles snowflake die; Tonic Studios snowflake punch; martha stewart edge punch; Smooch Illuminate; silver gems.

Xmas card #40

I love this little snow dude from High Hopes, but as per usual my copics aren't co-operating and my mid grey ran out in the middle of this ... grrrrr!  I wish there was a big red warning light on them when they're about to go, so I can get another one ordered in advance!
Added loads of Smooch Illuminate to his scarf and ribbon (?) on his hat and his little scarf is popped up on dimensionals but doesn't show in pic.

Sketch from Stamptacular Sunday

High Hopes #97 - one for the guys

Really Reasonable Ribbon #12 is a winter theme + ribbon

Stampin' for the Weekend #51 - Winter

Kaboodle Doodle #44 is a recipe:
1 solid paper
2 patterned papers
3 embellishments (I've used ribbon, gold peel offs and little snowflakes)

SUPPLIES
Stamp: High Hopes
Papers: Dovecraft
Accessories: Ranger Glossy Accents; copic markers; gold peel off sentiment, 'snow' and stars; blue ribbon; smooch illuminate; Tonic Studios snowflake punch

Aunt Cilla's birthday card

This little guy usually only gets an outing for a 'good luck' type card, so I thought it was time to give him a chance on a birthday card!  And I actually managed to do a bit of distressing on my papers - though its only a bit as I find it really difficult speaking as a neat freak (... though I'm only neat on my cards, not in my housework or my work desk LOL!)

Sketch from Creatalicious Challenge #16

A Spoonfull of Sugar #130 - distressing

Our Creative Corner - colour challenge

Papertake Weekly - Autumn colours

SUPPLIES
Stamp: High Hopes
Papers: Daisy and Dandelion
Accessories: Copic markers; silver peel off sentiment / letters; gold gems; tim holtz border die; circular nestabilities; antique linen distress ink; ranger glossy accents on plant pot

Simon Says .... Sparkle! (Xmas card #39)

I hope my sparkle shows up in this card but its such a yeuchy, dark, wet and windy day here I've no chance of getting a decent photo!  On my snowflakes, stars and the little carol book I've added clear gloss and dropped loads of diamond glamour dust into it so its really lovely and sparkly!

Simon Says ... Sparkle

Penny Black at Allsorts November challenge is to make something for Christmas

CES Challenge #12 - Think Pink

Penny Black Saturday Challenge #127 - is to use your favourite things ... so I've used my cuttlebug, my gorgeous snowflake dies, plenty of glitter and my copic markers

Sketch from Sunday Sketch and Stamp #41 (though I tilted my image panel the other direction)

Critter Sketch Challenge #40 - texture

SUPPLIES
Stamp: Carolling duck from Penny Black
Paper: Dovecraft
Accessories: cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder; marianne creatibles snowflake dies; ranger glossy accents; diamond glamour dust; white flowersoft; little stars cut with a wee sizzlits die; Aleenes True Snow

Tag ... You're next!

Stamping Vacation have a brilliant inspiration challenge on till 5th December.  The way it works is that I've made my card based on elements from Denise's card at Stamping Vacation ... I chose her general layout, the buttons, pearls and a border punch. 

Now you have to pick 2 or 3 elements from my card, upload it to your blog saying which elements you used and then link your new card up at Stamping Vacation HERE.  You could pick maybe the colour combo, the snowman, use a tag, snowflake, etc, etc.  Then someone tags you and so it goes on .. at least I think that's the gist of it anyway!
So... tag, you're next! 
(BTW Stamping Vacation have a $25 prize to the store of your choice up for grabs for this challenge)

Other challenges:

Mark's Finest Papers challenge #29 - add a snowflake

Top Tip Tuesday #10 is to use buttons.  My top tip with buttons is one I learnt from Gina K (I think!) and that's to use dental floss to tie your buttons on, and its easy to colour the floss with your copic marker to match your colour theme

One Stitch at a Time #39 is to use your favourite colour ... so I used a load of my favourites here - the turquoise blue, that gorgeous lime green and pink

Crafty Creations #93 - buttons

SUPPLIES
Stamp: Snowman from High Hopes
Papers: Dovecraft
Accessories: martha stewart border punch; marianne creatible snowflake die; copic markers; blue pearls; clear gloss on his nose; silver peel off sentiment

X-mas card #37

I'm still off work but boredom got the better of me this morning so thought I'd have a go at a white-based card.    This cute lil' mousie was one of my purchases at Elzybells, coloured him with copic markers and added some frosted lace stickles at the base to look like ice ... I did have some flower soft there but the black showed through and it just looked like dirty slush so I scraped it off and just went for the glitter look instead!

Sketch from Splitcoaststampers SC306

ABC Xmas - W is for Winter Wonderland, with the added option of a white theme

Crazy 4 Challenges C4C63 - Christmas Card

Die Cut Dreams Christmas Challenge #43 - snowflakes

SUPPLIES
Stamp: Elzybells (now closed)
Accessories: Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder; snowflake ribbon brad; circular nestabilities; gold peel off sentiment; copic markers; diamond ice stickles

Xmas card #36

This wee card was inspired by Winter Wonderland's challenge of Winter Sports and by Stamp TV's colour combo STVCSP1 of red, turquoise and white.  I won this little skiing dude a while back at High Hopes blog so he was just perfect!  Coloured him with copic markers, added some sparkle and gloss, and a bit of smooch illuminate to his scarf. 

A Spoonfull of Sugar #129 - snow / snowflake

Sketch from Helen's Friday challenge #2

Paper Sundaes challenge #44 - pick your sundae toppings from punches, ribbon, embossing and the colour blue ... I've used ribbon and blue

Wee Memories Saturday challenge #31 is to use up some of your old designer papers ... my DP is definately at least a year old (possibly two!)

SUPPLIES
Stamps: 'Ski Bum Snowy' from High Hopes; sentiment from Stampin Up
Paper: Dovecraft
Accessories: Aleenes True Snow; copic markers; Ranger Glossy Accents; Diamond Glamour Dust; blue gems; nestabilities; stars from little sizzlits die cuts; black stickles on his nose; snowflake sticker from stash

Wesley's fishy card...!

I was asked to make a card for a guy who's into deep sea diving ... and me with my sick mojo!  Deep sea diving? Nope!  Couldn't think of a thing, except there's loads of fish down there!!

So I stamped loads of little fishies in the BG with versamark and then embossed circles over everything in sight!  Paper pieced the big fish and added highlights of Smooch Illuminate ... not sure if this works or not!

Sketch (sort of) from Splitcoaststampers Sketch Challenge #306, though I had to add an extra circular bit for the age as I couldn't figure out where else to put it

Fab'n Funky challenge #48 - going round in circles

Crafty Cardmakers - dry embossing

Colour Throwdown #118 - though I didn't have any of the soft suede shade so had to use a darker brown

SUPPLIES
Stamp: Big fish from Stampin Up 'Fishy Friends'; no idea where I got the little fish from
Accessories: Ellison circles embossing folder; googley eyes; smooch illuminate; circular nestabilities; blue gems; silver peel off numbers, letters and greeting

Xmas card #35

ETA: This card was spotlight of the week at the Sweet Stampin Challenge!

I'm still feeling yeuch today, but managed to get this card finished that I'd started earlier in the week.  Coloured my little snowman with copics and added some smooch illuminate for a bit of shine.

Caardvarks November challenge - use holiday die cuts (I used the marianne creatible snowflake dies)

Stamp and Create #7 - Tis the Season

Sweet Stampin - snowflakes

SUPPLIES
Stamp: High Hopes
Paper: Dovecraft
Accessories: copic markers; smooch illuminate; circular nestabilities; marianne creatibles snowflake die; gold peel off sentiment; blue gems; martha stewart border punch

LOTV beautiful bouquet

ETA: I won Moxie Fab World's Tuesday Trigger with this card!

Aaaaatishooo!  Cough, cough!  I've got the dreaded lurgy ... (well OK its a head cold) but my mojo's sick too, so this is just a quickie to upload this card I made earlier in the week.

Lili of the Valley #73 - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday #138 - Anything Goes

Took the colour for my bouquet from Moxie Fab World's Trigger Tuesday

CES Challenge #11 is Forever Autumn - so I used the nice oranges, greens and yellows of the autumn leaves (though we had a good storm the other night and most of the trees at the bottom of our garden are now naked!)

Top Tip Tuesday #9 - colouring with copics.  My top tip for colouring with copics is to use some good cardstock, makes blending the colours sooo much easier ... at the minute I'm using the card from Lili of the Valley and I LOVE it!

SUPPLIES
Stamp: Lili of the Valley
Paper:
Accessories: copic markers; orange gems; martha stewart border punch; stickles (in the centres of some flowers); bow easy

Sweet'n Sassy hop winner

Hope you all enjoyed the Sweet'n Sassy blog hop!  I had a lovely poinsettia image to give away to a lucky blogger and used the random.org thingy (but couldn't figure out how to save the picture so you'll have to trust me!)

True Random Number Generator


Min: 1

Max: 50

Result: 11

Powered by RANDOM.ORG

So that's you Pattie!  Send me an email and I'll get your digi off to you

Sweet'n Sassy Blog Hop

Happy 3rd Birthday Sweet'n Sassy Stamps!

Thanks for joining us on Sweet 'n Sassy Stamp's Birthday Blog Hop! 3 years ago today Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps "opened for business" with just 4 clear stamp sets being sold on a simple blog. Since then SNSS has grown to over 100 clear stamp sets and hundreds of digital stamps!  Congratulations Korin and everyone at Sweet'n Sassy ... here's to many, many more successful years!

I was a member of the SNSS digi DT back at the start of this year and I'm so pleased that Korin's celebration hop includes past and present members of the DT (.... there's over 30 amazingly talented ladies participating in today's hop!)

You should have hopped to me from Roxie, but if you didn't start at the beginning (or if you get lost),  hop back to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Blog and pick up from where you left off.... there's a prize at EVERY stop on the hop so you really won't want to miss anyone!

Your next stop is Christi, but before you go, would you like to win this gorgeous Poinsettia digi I've used? - just leave me a comment and I'll pick a random winner on Friday 12th Nov.  [giveaway now closed]

Enjoy the rest of the hop!  (...only a couple more stops to go!)

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Card details:

sketch from Cheri at Stamptacular Sunday #84

Colour combo from Fab'n'Funky challenge #47 - kraft, lime and pink

Sir Stampalot's November challenge - Christmas Traditions

Image: December Poinsettia Digital Stamp from Sweet'n Sassy
Papers: Dovecraft
Accessories: loads of pink gems; snowflake eyelet; copic markers; gold peel off sentiment; martha stewart border punch

Xmas card #33

So today's good news (after my snowflake punch disaster!) is that I rediscovered this fab Sugar Nellie snowman stamp when I was rooting through my Christmas stash.   I used some little snowballs (from a candy win ages ago) as the baubles on their hats and I embossed the bottom red panel (and then managed to cover most of it up with my image/ ribbon!)

Sketch from The Sugar Bowl #47, with the added challenge of using ribbon and bows

Paper Sundaes #43 - Let it snow

Stamping Vacation - Get the Music in You Challenge - use the words of Winter Wonderland to inspire you ... so I've incorporated the sleigh bells and the snowman

ABC Christmas challenge - W for Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland - sing a Christmas Carol

Stamping Vacation - Lots of Paper challenge - use paper with snowflakes on it

CRAFT #75 - dry embossing

SUPPLIES
Stamp: Sugar Nellie
Paper: Dovecraft
Accessories: copic markers; cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder; gold jingle bells; gold metallic stars (from Tescos); orange stickles on their noses; little snowballs for baubles; gold peel off sentiment

Xmas card #32

Well its definately easier to be making Christmas cards when its a cold day and all the Christmas deccies are appearing in the shops (rather than like me slogging away in the middle of summer!)  I had planned to have some little snowflakes instead of the bow here, but ... sob, sob ... I was a bit over ambitious in punching some heavy-weight cardstock and jammed and broke my punch!
 

Sketch from Unscripted Sketches #80

Top Tip Tuesday #8 - Christmas inspired

Charisma Cardz challenge #44 - with love at Christmas

One Stitch at a Time #38 - Winter Wonderland

Critter Sketch challenge #38 - Christmas

SUPPLIES
Stamp: Little Mouse from Elzybells (now closed)
Paper: Dovecraft
Accessories: copic markers; black stickles on little mouse's nose, clear stickles on mistletoe; snowflake ribbon brad; gold jingle bells; gold peel off sentiment