ATS&M# - Addicted to Holidays - Challenge #73

Hello friends.  Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I can't wait for the turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie. YUM!  Going to try a new brussel sprout recipe on the family this year.  There's also a couple movies that start this weekend that I want to see.  Not taking any extra time off from work though so I can save up my time for when my son is home from college for Christmas break (can't wait!).  What's your favorite Thanksgiving meal, tradition or activity? I'd love to hear.

This week at Addicted to Stamps and More! ATS&M Challenge #73 is our new HOLIDAY challenge. The Holiday challenge means we want to see your creations for any Holiday - Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, 4th of July... you get the idea :o).

You might think that I would have chosen Thanksgiving with it being just around the corner, but I just couldn't resist using this darling digital image from our challenge sponsor this week- Deedee's Digis to make a Christmas card.

The other lovely ladies on the ATS&M DT have made some wonderful creations to share with and inspire  you as well.  Please go visit them and say "hi".  I hope that you'll join us this week for ATS&M #73.  Our Top Addict will win a fabulous prize from Deedee's Digis this week.

Updated to add the following challenges I am also entering:

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 187 - Snow White (where white is the main color).

Christmas Cards All Year Round - November Challenge - winter wonderland (snow themed)

52{Christmas} Card Throwdown (52CCT) - Technique Challenge #23

Hello friends, thanks for stopping by! Time for another challenge at 52CCT - a Theme challenge to be more specific :o) This week our hostess Louise has decided she'd like us to try the acrylic block stamping technique.  This is one way of creating a very unique background.  You ink up the acrylic block, spritz it with water and then stamp onto cardstock.  How much and how heavy -handed you are with the inking, misting and stamping, produces a different effect.  See what I mean about unique?  I don't think it's likely that you would achieve exactly the same result each time.  Here's my DT card to share with you this week:

It wasn't exactly the effect I was going for. I wanted a yellow glow (heavenly) but was worried that Daffodil Delight yellow wouldn't show up, so I used More Mustard instead.  And..I think I over spritzed a bit.  I also used a fairly large block and that was a bit challenging to ink it up evenly.  Oh boy - not exactly the heavenly glow I had in mind - LOL.  But, as I sat and looked at it, I decided that it could work for a distressed look. Since I didn't start my card until close to 10 pm, I didn't have time to try again  - so the distressed look is what I went for.  I do like it - it just wasn't what I pictured in my head :o)

Will you decide to join us this week at 52CCT for Theme Challenge #23?  It's a great opportunity to try a new technique and  get one more Christmas card done in time to send to your family and friends?  I sure hope so!  The other lovely ladies on the DT have made some gorgeous samples for you as well (I peeked ahead of the post) - please go visit them and see.    

I am also entering this card in my DT friend Nonni's Christmas Card Challenge #1 - "Let's get Inky" - Stamp a Happy Christmas, where the emphasis is on stamping.  

Non-traditional Christmas card - DD#79 "Black Tie" Week & Let's Get Inky

Hello friends - hope your week is going well.  I'm surprised it's Thursday already - my week has just flown by. A quick post for today to share a card I whipped together last night after seeing something that inspired me.  I'd like to enter this card in the following terrific challenges:

Dynamic Duos #79 

and Nonni's Christmas Card Challenge #1 - Let's Get Inky - Stamp a Happy Christmas

Thanks so much for stopping by today - I'm sure glad that you did. Til next time friends...hugs and happy crafting! D

ATS&M #72 - Make Your Mark - Tumbling Gingerbread Christmas

Oh hello there - thanks for popping in to visit me today.  Time for another great challenge over at Addicted to Stamps and More! Last week you blew us away with all the fabulous entries for our Anything Goes challenge - I think we broke a record for # of entries.  It will be extremely hard to narrow it down to our top 5 for sure. 

Our new challenge week ATSM#72 is Make your Mark.  We want to see you use markers, chalks, watercolors, colored pencils, crayons - some sort of coloring on your creation.  Here's my DT card to share with and inspire you:

Pink is my favorite non-traditional color to use on Christmas cards :o) and I quite like the combo of red and brown with it.  I colored the stamped images with my copics and used a white gel pen for the frosting parts.  Just a couple pearls for candy buttons and then the sentiment. By Jove - I think I'm getting the hang of the CAS concept.  Let me be living proof to you that it can be done - LOL. 

We have a new sponsor this week - Fresh Squeezed Stamps.  The tumbling gingerbread men and sentiment are from a set called "Christmas Sweets".  I'm having a lot of fun with this set!  If you are chosen as the Top Addict this week you can possibly pick out this set as the winner gets to select one stamp set of her/his choice.

So... I hope that you will decide to join us for ATSM #72 this week! The other lovely ladies have made some terrific creations to share with you as well - please go visit and say "hi". 

I'm also entering my card in the following challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 2 - November challenge
CAS-ual Fridays (CFC120) and Curtain Call

 

Snowflake Spinner Card

Hello dear friends and followers.  A second post for me today (whoo hoo ) to share a card I made and taught for a workshop today.  We have a group that meets once a month and I always try to teach them a new technique.  Sometimes this means that I'm cruising different sites for ideas as I don't know that many myself.  I found a video on the Stampin Up Demonstrator website by Dawn Olchefske (DO Stampin with Dawn) on the spinner technique and decided to give it a go. I modified what I learned to a Christmas card using a spinning snowflake. Here's what I made (I'll show a few pictures so you can see how it moved across the card):

  

Lots of fun to make and even more to see in motion :o)  Not sure how well it would make it in the mail though, so this is one that I will hand deliver to avoid getting completely squished.

 My card is made using the following (all from Stampin Up):

Word Window punch

Frosty Flurry Stamp set and coordinating Sizzlit dies - snowflake is stamped and cut out twice and glued together so that it has more substance to it.

Snowburst texture embossing folder (retired)

Island Indigo and Pool Party inks

Whisper white, Pool party, Island Indigo - cardstock

dimensionals, glue dots and two pennies.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Christmas Cards All Year Round - November challenge - Winter Wonderland

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #168 - Snowflakes

Divas by Design - Something Snowy

CAS-ual Fridays (CFC120) and Curtain Call 

Well, that's it for me tonight folks - gotta get my tired little self to bed so I can get to work tomorrow.  Thanks so much for stopping by to visit me - I'm sure glad that you did! 'Til next time friends...hugs and happy crafting. D



 

Merry Monday #83, JUGS215 & CCC49

Hello dear friends and followers.  A quick post to share a card I made using my new Fresh Squeezed Stamps set called "Christmas Treats", for the following challenges (I apologize for the poor photo) :

Merry Monday #83

Just Us Girls #215 - Color Challenge

and

Creative Card Crew - Challenge #49 Pearls 

(used pearls for candy buttons on the gingerbread men and the snowflake on the cocoa mug).

Isn't it great how these challenges worked so perfectly together? The Stripes part of the Merry Monday challenge gave me an excuse to open up and use my Strips texture embossing folder :o).  I LOVE non-traditional colors for Christmas cards - and Red and Browns are a great combo.  

Thanks for stopping by friends - I'm sure glad that you did.  Rushing off to go teach a class today - will share the card we made later when I return. Til next time...hugs and happy crafting! D

52CCT - November Recipe Challenge #23

Hello dear friends and followers!  Have you been enjoying Louise's November challenges as much as I have?  I must say that she has pushed me outside of my comfort zone a time or two with her awesome ideas and challenges - and I have really had fun with it.  When I saw the 52CCT Recipe Challenge #23 I let out a HUGE groan... One layer? Only a hint of color? Oh My!  Just didn't know if I can do it. One layer alone strikes fear in my heart - LOL.  But look what I did:

 

By Jove I did it!! I'm so proud of myself!

 

This is my newest stamp set from Freshly Squeezed Stamps - I just love it!  I stamped the jar first and put just the slightest shading around the image with a copic marker (C02). Then I stamped two layers of the candy inside the jar using Primrose Petal and then Gumball Green - how perfect is that ink name for this image?(Stampin Up!).  It worked really nicely with the clear stamps, didn't even need to use my Stamp-M-Jig for the inside.  I did use my Stamp-M-Jig for the sentiment though because I was so excited about how my candy jar turned out that I didn't want to risk a crooked or sloped sentiment.  My bling (Close to My Heart) looks some of the gumballs have escaped the jar, don't you agree?   This is on Whisper White cardstock, but my photo is a bit dark (bummer).

  

Please go visit the other lovely ladies over at 52CCT and see what they have made for your inspiration using 52CCT Recipe Challenge #23.  I hope that you will decide to join us and share your fabulous One-Layer card.

 

You'll be seeing another card early next week from me using this same set - so stay tuned :o)  Til next time friends.... hugs and happy crafting! D