SHABBY ELEGANCE

My last creation for the evening is a Christmas card.  The challenge this week at the Shabby Tea Room was to use Aqua and Brown with a Silver element.  Merry Monday at Always Playing with Paper was to create an elegant Christmas card.  At Critter Sketch Challenge the theme was snowflakes and for Incy Wincy you needed to pop something up.  I used the required colors, both which were printed with snowflakes.  My silver element is an angel whose wings are popped up.  Oh, and there was a sketch I based it on from Dutch Dare.  

The Color Palette:

The sketch:

My card:

Sweet Dreams.  See you back here tomorrow with more new creations!  Thanks for stopping by.

HAPPY SUNDAY!

Happy Sunday!  What a good day I had today.  First church then teaching the teen Sunday School class.  Today I did art journaling with them incorpoating scripture.  They had a lot of fun.  It is so good to be able to share creativity.  Then I had a nice nap, some prayer time and went to a great woman's meeting.  Came home, had dinner and created a card for the following challenges:

I used this sketch from Critter Sketch challenges:

ABC Christmas - A is for Animals - penguin

Die-Cuttin Divas - Penguins - the penguin is a stamp.  My diecuts are the white rectangle that the penguin is stamped on which is the center of a Sizzix frame and the snowflake which is a Sizzlets die.

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Christmas in January

Here is my card:

Hope that you enjoyed stopping by and that you too had a Happy Sunday!

CYAO OF THE WEEK!

Yes, it's that time already.  Time for another Paper Secrets CYAO challenge.  For this week's challenge there was a sketch by Decontructing Jen plus we had to include three of the following:

 *transparency *chevrons  *corrugated paper/cardboard  
*washi tape  *hand/machine stitch your edges  *Thickers

I started by putting a layer of silver patterned paper, then I cut some red glitter paper in the shape of a tag.  I topped that off with a doily, a piece of transparency stained with alcohol inks, a circle of corrugated, a strip of washi tape and a sentiment.

And here it is:

Thanks for stopping by!

IT'S TIME FOR CYAO AGAIN!

Here we are again - time for another week of Paper Secrets CYAO challenge.  

This week's challenge was to use this sketch:

plus three of the following:

*heat embossing *transparency  *pearls

*grungeboard/grungepaper  *washi tape  *machine stitching

For my card this week I used hunter green paper.  I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment onto this.  On top I used some gold cardstock with more of the green for the smaller boxes. I stamped and heat embossed my dove on white paper and fussy cut it. The swirl is grungeboard which I painted with a gold dauber.  I added three metallic pearls and a bunch of stickles.  And that was all three!

Here's the outcome:

Thanks for stopping by.  I should have more Christmas cards coming during the week!

CHRISTMAS BLOG HOP

Welcome to the Christmas Blog Hop. 

Today you will get to see more than 15 wonderful Christmas projects - cards, layouts, mixed media pieces. 

You should have arrived here from Teresa at http://freshandrenewed.blogspot.com  

If by chance you just came by to see me please be sure to go back and start with our Hostess, Ashley at http://thebloghopprincess.blogspot.com to get the skinny on blog candy and sponsor prizes.

For my project today I opted to make a simple card. I used a sketch from Always Playing with Paper, Merry Monday #1 and some chipboard for the Creative Card Challege over on Colorful Creations.

Here's the sketch I used:

and here is my card:

Now it's time for you to hop on over to visit An'Jenic at http://anjenicgibson.blogspot.com

In case you get lost anywhere along the way here is the complete lineup:

Ashley - http://thebloghopprincess.blogspot.com 

Marji - http://www.fstampaholic.blogspot.com/ 

Beth-  http://motherandaughterdesigns.blogspot.com/

Cindy- http://www.cindys-greencricut.blogspot.com/

Teresa- http://freshandrenewed.blogspot.com/

Paula - http://preciouspagesbypaula.blogspot.com/

An'Jenic-http://anjenicgibson.blogspot.com/

Sandy - http://simplycraftycreationsbysandys.blogspot.com/

Sam-  http://scrappingwithpirkie.blogspot.com/

Elaine - http://ExpressionsByElaine.blogspot.com

Christine- http://hotberrydesigns.blogspot.com/

Amanda - http://a-prata-design.blogspot.com

Liz Mullen- http://scrapiliciouslife.blogspot.com

Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com

Anita~  http://www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com  

Hope that you find all the inspiration you need to get your Christmas projects rocking! Thanks for stopping by!

ANOTHER ROUND OF CYAO!

Well, the challenges are certainly getting harder on Paper Secrets CYAO!  For this week we had this great sketch:

on which we needed to do 3 from the following list:

*music sheet pattern/pages *epoxy stickers  *velvet 

*dry embossing  *paint  *hand/machine stitching

I struggled with deciding which 3 to do and finally ended up with music sheet patterned paper, velvet patterned paper and dry embossing.

and now it's nearly time for bed so I will wish you all sweet dreams.  See you again soon!

CYAO TIME AGAIN!

We had a week off last week but we are back again with Paper Secrets CYAO!  And this week it really was a challenge for me.  There was a great sketch but to pick 3 of the following items was rough...  

 *brackets  *woodgrain/whitewash  *1" thick+ ribbon 

*dry embossing

*glossy accents  *2+ handmade flowers

Here is the sketch:

I ended up going with a background page which I dry embossed, a 1" thick ribbon and I added glossy accents covering the circle that my sentiment is stamped on.  In addition to the requirements there is some patterned paper and 2 poinsettias.

Here is my creation:

Hope that you have enjoyed this peek at another of my seasonal cards.

INCY WINCY WEEK THREE!

Back again for another week as Guest Designer at Incy Wincy.  This week's images are from the Stamp Fairy.  I thought this little teddy bear was just the cutest!  The theme of the week was Hip to Be Square so my creation is square.  I used a solid green cardstock for my base and a pretty mint green patterned paper for my inner square which I inked the edges and then mounted my fussy cut image.  A stamp and some pretty red ribbon and it was all done.

Isn't he the cutest?  Thanks for dropping by!

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN!

As soon as I saw the sketch for this week's CYAO I knew exactly what I had to find in my stash.  

Here is the sketch for this week:

and the rest of the challenge is to use 3 of the following:

*grunge board/grunge paper  *ribbon  *punch

*hand stitching  *stickles/liquid pearls   *vellum

I knew that I had Webster's Pages paper with a Santa coming in a parachute. As it turns out I not only had paper with it but fabric ribbon.  The ribbon was the perfect size (and of course it also met one of the 3 requirements!)  Next I used some contrasting paper and punched a border (requirement #2 - punch!)    I was stuck on what to use for my last requirement.  I went in search for my box of grungeboard and went thru the sheets looking at all the elements.  I decided that I could use some of the stars (requirement #3!)  After I put the on I decided they did not have enough pizzazz so I got some rock candy stickles and coated the grungeboard.  (extra credit requirement!  LOL!)

And finally, here is my card:

Hope you are enjoying your weekend and I am so happy you stopped by to say hello!