It's New Release Day at Bugaboo Stamps!

Whooo Hooo! Are you ready for a new release from Bugaboo Stamps? Meet Penny Paisley! Isn't she just too cute?! Join us over at Catch The Bug for more eye candy from the talented Bugaboo Stamps DT, featuring this fabulous new release!


My card today features the new release image, Penny Paisley from Bugaboo Stamps. She is colored with Promarkers. All of these bright fun papers are scraps from my stash. The flowers are from my stash, as well. I used green gemstones for the flower centers and to add a little bling. The image has pink gemstones added to her dress, for extra sparkle and shine. The image is mounted with foam mounting tape for added dimension.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #121 Punch It at Pollycraft
Challenge #15 Something Old (papers)/Something New (image) at Paper Creations Ink
Challenge #97 Anything Goes at I Love Promarkers
Challenge #37 Anything Goes at My Mum's Craft Shop
Challenge #88 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Anything Goes at Delicious Doodles
Challenge #166 Anything Goes at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #49 Bling It Up at Pile It On
Anything But A Christmas Card at Sparkles Forum Challenges
Sparkle and Shine at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #173 Anything Goes at Everybody-Art
Challenge #66 Anything Goes at Top Tip Tuesday
PTT#48 Anything Goes at Party Time Tuesdays
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #66 Anything Goes at Scrapbook Sisters
IIC#39 Something New (Bling) at Inky Impressions
Anything Goes at The Craft-Room
Challenge #96 Scraps at Phindy's Place
Challenge #34 Something Old (papers) Something New (Image) at Digistamps4Joy
Challenge #52 Rainbow of Colors (Pink, Yellow, White, Green) at Do You Stack Up
Song Titles (My Girl) at The Poodles Parlour
Challenge #70 Something New (papers) at 4 Crafty Chicks
Something New (image is a new release) at Frosted Designs
Challenge #96 Scraps at Phindy's Place
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #4 Anything Goes at The Scrapbooking Queen

A Celebration Toast

Have you all recovered from the Christmas holidays, yet? Or still are you still celebrating? The DT at Shelly's Images are celebrating with a new image and new challenge, today! Our theme this week is to use Black, Silver +1 additional color and some bling, on your projects! A perfect challenge for those New Year's projects! We have made a couple changes to the challenge rules, though, that I wanted to mention. Starting today, challenges will close at noon (CST) on Wednesday, instead of Thursday night, like before. Also, we are now putting a limit on the amount of entries per person, to make it more fair. We're asking that you enter the challenge no more than 5 times, and as always, each entry must be a new and unique project with no backlinking. There, that wasn't so bad for a change of rules now was it?! We hope you'll still continue to play with us at Shelly's Images! We love having you join us!

And now, let me tell you about my project for today. I'm using this fabulous new image, Special Toast digi set, by Shelly's Images. (Remember that as today's featured image, its available today only for a special price in the store!) The image is colored with Promarkers. I used a clearstar gelly roll pen to add glitter and sparkle to the ribbons and rings, and a clear glaze pen to add shine to the glasses. The fun black and silver star paper is a scrap from my stash, and the silver metallic twine is also from my stash. The blinged flourishes are new (New stock! Used up my stash!) The sentiment says "A Gift For You) and is a peel off silver metallic sticker. I punched with image with circle and scalloped circle punches and mounted it with foam mounting tape for 3D effect.


I am entering this card in the following Challenges:


Challenge #88 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #44 Anything Goes at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #166 Anything Goes at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #49 Bling It Up at Pile It On
Anything But A Christmas Card at Sparkles Forum Challenges
Sparkle and Bling at Sweet Stampin
Challenge #111 For Someone Special at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #87 Anything Goes at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Challenge #66 Party, Party, Party at Crafty Emma's
Let's Celebrate at Squiggle Stamps
Challenge #19 New Beginnings at Crafter's Companion Monthly Challenge
Challenge #121 Punch It at Pollycraft
Sparkle and Shine at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #118 Cocktail Party at MyGrafico
Challenge #15 Something Old (papers)/Something New (Bling) at Paper Creations Ink
Challenge #7 Use A Sentiment at Cutie Pie Challenge
Challenge #173 Anything Goes at Everybody-Art
Challenge #66 Anything Goes at Top Tip Tuesday
PTT#48 Anything Goes at Party Time Tuesdays
Challenge #26 Anything Goes at Bearly Mine Designs
Anything Goes at The Craft-Room
Challenge #101 Someone Special at The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #66 Anything Goes at Scrapbook Sisters
IIC#39 Something New (Bling, New Year) at Inky Impressions
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #66 Anything Goes at Crafts And Me
Ring In The New Year at Paper Pretties
Challenge #25 Anything Goes at Little Miss Muffet
Challenge #70 Something New (bling flourishes) at 4 Crafty Chicks
Challenge #97 Time To Party at Totally Paper Crafts
Challenge #96 Scraps at Phindy's Place
Challenge #15 Flourishes at The Emerald Faerie Garden
Challenge #34 Something Old (papers) Something New (Image) at Digistamps4Joy
Challenge #135 New Year at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #125 New Year at Hanna and Friends
Challenge #26 Celebrations at Crafty Boots
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #4 Anything Goes at The Scrapbooking Queen

Whoo I've Caught The Bug!

I've been a huge fan of Bugaboo Stamps every since I first discovered them and love love love Jodi's images! It's always been my dream to be part of the team and now I finally get to be a part of it, at least for a couple of months! I'm so excited to tell everyone that...

I've been asked to be the Guest Designer for January and February at Bugaboo Stamps!!!

Oh my gosh, I am so darn thrilled! I'm going to have such a blast working and creating with this awesome team!

Come over to visit and check out the fabulous eye candy from the team at Catch The Bug featuring today's new release AKV Ninjas! They're a group of Ass-Kicking, Fist-Flying Fun!


Here's my first project as Guest Designer for Bugaboo Stamps.






My card uses this fiesty new release AKV Ninja image from Bugaboo Stamps. Monochrome Blue was my theme this time, though I added in some papers with silver glittery accents for that little something extra. The image is colored with Promarkers. I used some Stampin Up ribbon and silver adhesive pearls from my stash. The flower is punched with a punch by Martha Stewart, then layered with a button and adhesive pearl for the flower center.


I am entering this card in the following Challenges:


Challenge #38 Anything Goes plus ribbon at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Challenge #121 Punch It at Pollycraft
Challenge #15 Something Old (papers)/Something New (Used new flower punch) at Paper Creations Ink
Challenge #97 Anything Goes at I Love Promarkers
Challenge #37 Anything Goes at My Mum's Craft Shop
Challenge #88 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #51 Stripes at Do You Stack Up
Challenge #23 Anything Goes at Stampin For The Weekend
Challenge #52 Monochromatic and Sparkle at Fussy and Fancy
Challenge #31 Something Easy at Fairy Tale Challenge
Sparkle and Bling at Sweet Stampin
Challenge #166 Anything Goes at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #87 Anything Goes at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Challenge #49 Bling It Up at Pile It On
Anything But A Christmas Card at Sparkles Forum Challenges
Anything Goes at Creative Inspirations Paint
Sparkle and Shine at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #173 Anything Goes at Everybody-Art
Challenge #66 Anything Goes at Top Tip Tuesday
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #4 Anything Goes at The Scrapbooking Queen

Christmas Garland

Wow, can you beleive how fast time is flying by! It's nearly 2012 already! Where does the time go?!

Today marks our last challenge for 2011 at Shelly's Images and our theme is "Celebrate," spotlighting today's featured image, Christmas Garland, which is available here, in the Shelly's Images Store.


My card uses the Sketch at Seems A Little Sketchy for the layout. All papers are from my stash. I used gold glittered brads and a glittery gold Christmas tree as my embellishments. The image has been colored with Promarkers and had glitter and sparkle added with a clearstar gelly roll pen.

Come over to Shelly's Images and help us "Celebrate" by playing along in our challenge this week!



I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #34 Let's Celebrate at Southern Girls
CCH#98 Christmas at The Crazy Challenge
Challenge #22 Red and Gold at House of Gilli
Challenge #15 Something Old (papers)/Something New (glitter christmas tree) at Paper Creations Ink
Christmas at Crafty Boots
Challenge #2 Sketch at Seems A Little Sketchy
Show Your Christmas Bling at Stamping With The Dragon
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #3 Christmas and Winter Wonderland at The Scrapbooking Queen
Show Your Christmas Bling at Stamping With The Dragon
Inspired By: The Holidays at Creative Inspirations Paint
Challenge #37 Anything Goes at My Mum's Craft Shop
Challenge #13 Christmas at Little Darlings
Challenge #16 Christmas Cards at Crafting For All Seasons
Celebrate at Squiggle Stamps
Inspired By: The Holidays at Creative Inspirations Paint
Challenge #173 Anything Goes at Everybody-Art
Challenge #22 Photo Inspiration at The Stamping Boutique
Challenge #141 Photo Inspiration (Christmas) at Cupcake Inspirations

Snow Man Gift Card/Tea Bag Holder

Hello everyone! We hope you've enjoyed our 12 Days of Christmas festivities at Shelly's Images! It was so wonderful to share things with you everyday and to see so many of you playing along with us and joining in the fun!

Now that the 12 Days of Christmas is over, it's time for a new challenge, and back to our weekly challenge schedule. This week, is the ever so popular "Show Us What You Got" challenge! We know it's everyone's favorite and you're all knee deep in Christmas preparation, shopping, baking, wrapping and all that other fun stuff, so we wanted to keep it easy for you this week. You can make anything you want and link it up with us for your chance to win!

Come over and play with me and the rest of the lovely DT girls at Shelly's Images!

Before I show you my project today (and GASP! It's NOT a card! LOL), I want to show you today's featured image at Shelly's Images. Meet Santa's Old Faithful. How cool is this image?! Santa and one of his reindeer! Perfect for Christmas cards, and it is on special, today only, for a special price, in the Shelly's Images' Store. Check out the Shelly's Images Blog for lots of awesome inspiration from the DT using this fabulous image! You will be SO inspired!




Okay, now I'm excited to show you today's project! This is my DT week, so it means I can use whatever image I want for my project. I've chosen to use the Snowman set and one of the freebies Shelly has offered in the past, for my project. All images used in my project are by Shelly's Images and are available, now, in her store. I colored my images with Promarkers, of course, because you all know how much I love them!

I made this fun gift holder than can be used for gift cards or tea bags! How cute and fun is this?! I'm sure you could think of other things to put in it as well. (Sorry I forgot to actually put the gift cards in the holders before I took the pics -Duh! Guess I had a brain malfunction but its not the first, and certainly won't be the last! LOL)


This gift card holder is for my brother.

Here is the front of my gift card/tea bag holder. The images have all had glitter and sparkle added with my trusty clearstar gelly roll pen. The sentiment is part of the snowman set, and is punched with oval and scalloped oval punches. The image and sentiment are both attached with foam mounting tape, for dimension. The pockets are held inside the booklet with two heart shaped gold brads, seen on the side spine of the book. I used a couple scraps of ribbon from my stash to hold the book closes, but you can also use thin velcro. I just liked the look of the ribbon.




And a pic of the first set pocket and inside panel. You can see where the striped paper pockets have notches punched out so that the gift card (or tea bag) would be visible if I actually had slid them into the pocket before I took the pics.





A pic of the next pocket, decorated. The center strip of striped paper was not part of my tutorial - I added it after the fact, to hide the prongs of the brads that were used to secure the pockets.




Lastly, a pic of the last page of the booklet, showing where I left a writable space, to leave a personal message for the recipient.






I hope you enjoyed my project! I apologize for the post being so pic intensive, but it really is necessary for you to see how fun this gift card/tea bag holder is!


I am entering this gift card holder in the following challenges:


Holiday/Winter at The Stamping Boutique
Challenge #120 Christmas Fun at Pollycraft
GL30 Christmas and Winter at Gingerloft
Challenge #14 Photo Inspiration at Jay Gee's Nook
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #3 Christmas and Winter Wonderland at The Scrapbooking Queen
Challenge #86 Anything Goes at Cooking It Up With Katie
Cold and Frosty at Crafty Calender
Christmas/Holiday at One Crazy Stamper
Challenge #57 Christmas at Bee-Crafty
Christmas at Bizzy Becs
TPE128 Snowflakes and Sparkle at The Pink Elephant
Tis The Season at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #129 Mega Challenge - Celebrate- at Passion For Promarkers
Christmas Images and Colors at Truly Madly Crafty
Challenge #132 Winter and Christmas at Creative Belli Blog
Challenge #43 Winter Holiday Sentiments at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #21 It's Cold Outside at The Crafty Purple Frog
Challenge #35 Christmas at Card Makin Mamas
Show Your Christmas Bling (Gold brads on sides to hold pages in) at Stamping With The Dragon
Challenge #69 Christmas at 2 Sisters
Christmas at Paper Crafting Journey
Challenge #35 Snowmen at Craft your Days Away
Challenge #65 Traditional Christmas at Crafty Emma's
Challenge #75 Let It Snow at My Sheri Crafts
Let's Celebrate at Squiggle Stamps
CHNC Traditional Christmas at Crafty Hazel Nut's Christmas Challenge
Challenge #92 Use A Digi at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #149 Photo Inspiration (Snowman) at Cupcake Inspirations
Challenge #22 Christmas at Dream Valley Challenges
Challenge #85 Santa's Getting Ready at I Did It Creations
Challenge #7 Christmas at The Squirrel and The Fox
Challenge #172 Don't Look At The Light at Cupcake Crafts
Challenge #97 More Than One Fold at Crazy Challenge
Sparkle and Shine at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #61 Happy Holidays at Lollipop Crafts
Challenge #22 Red and Gold (gold ribbon) at House of Gilli
Challenge #14 Christmas at Hooked On Crafts
Use Ribbon (to close gift card holder) at Paper Pretties
Challenge #12 Christmas at Crafty Boots
Challenge #7 Sentiment at The Cutie Pie Challenge
Challenge #28 Snowflakes at Heartsong Inspirations
Challenge #30 Gift at Fairy Tale Challenge
Glitter at Frosted Designs
Photo Inspiration at Crafty Sprouts
Challenge #16 Family Christmas (gift holder for brother) at Little Claire's Designs
Challenge #68 Merry Christmas at Penny's Paper Crafty
Challenge #141 Winter Wonderland at Digital Tuesday
I'm Dreaming of a (Red and Green) Christmas at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #28 For Someone Special (Best Friend) at Tuesday Throwdown
Challenge #87 Get Booked (Gift Card Holder Booklet) at City Crafter
PTT#46 Red And Green at Party Time Tuesdays
Challenge #100 Anything Christmas at The Pixie Cottage
Anything Goes at The Paper Variety
Challenge #13 Christmas at Little Darlings
Challenge #16 Christmas at Crafting For All Seasons
Challenge # 133 Christmas With Removable Item (Gift cards) at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #50 Christmas at Paper Play
Challenge #50 Winter at Do You Stack Up
Challenge #103 Christmas Song (Frosty The Snowman) or TV Show Inspired at Sassy Studio Designs
4CCC068 Christmas at 4 Crafty Chicks
Anything Goes at Delightful Challenges
Challenge #38 Anything Goes plus ribbon at Really Reasonable Ribbon

Feminine Froggy Christmas

Whooo Hooo! I finally did it! I've completed my final project for the 12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug! I'm so psyched! I love love love Bugaboo Stamps so this was so much fun to do!

This is my final project for Day 12 of the 12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug. I did do them a little out of order though.

Even though this is the last one to complete all 12 days, this project is for Day 9, which was to be a feminine card. I think I certainly accomplished that,here!

This card is for my favorite cousin. She loves bling and is a real girly girl.

For this card, I went with a pink and silver color combo because you can't get much more feminine than that! I used the Sketch at Woodware Stamps for my card layout. I used this adorable Christmas frog image from Bugaboo Stamps, (who says froggies can't be pink?!) colored with Promarkers. Glitter and sparkle has been added with a clearstar gelly roll pen. I used a DP with silver metallic edges for the top and bottom of the card. The other two papers are scraps from my stash. The image is punched with a scalloped oval and then matted in pink with a large oval. I added this gorgeous glittery pale pink flower. The leaves beneath the flower are punched with a punch from Martha Stewart. The pink and silver ribbon goes perfect with the papers. I finished the card with silver bling flourishes.

This card just screams feminine!


I am entering this card in the following challenges:



Day 12 (Feminine) of The 12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug
Let's Celebrate at Squiggle Stamps
December Sketch at Woodware Stamps
Santa Baby at Catch The Bug
Challenge #68 Merry Christmas at Penny's Paper Crafty
Challenge #120 Christmas Fun at Pollycraft
Christmas at Bizzy Becs
Tis The Season at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #132 Winter and Christmas at Creative Belli Blog
Challenge #21 It's Cold Outside at The Crafty Purple Frog
Show Your Christmas Bling at Stamping With The Dragon
Challenge #69 Christmas at 2 Sisters
Christmas at Paper Crafting Journey
Challenge #142 Christmas Glitz at Stamptacular Sunday
Challenge #85 Santa's Getting Ready at I Did It Creations
Challenge #172 Don't Look At The Light at Cupcake Crafts
Challenge #61 Happy Holidays at Lollipop Crafts
Use Ribbon at Paper Pretties
Challenge #30 Gift at Fairy Tale Challenge
Glitter at Frosted Designs
Challenge #28 For Someone Special (Mother In Law) at Tuesday Throwdown
Metallics at Stamp-n-Doodle
Challenge #14 Photo Inspiration at Jay Gee's Nook
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #3 Christmas and Winter Wonderland at The Scrapbooking Queen
Challenge #57 Christmas at Bee-Crafty
Photo Inspiration at Crafty Sprouts
Holiday/Winter at The Stamping Boutique
GL30 Christmas and Winter at Gingerloft
Challenge #86 Anything Goes at Cooking It Up With Katie
Sparkle and Shine at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #14 Christmas at Hooked On Crafts
Challenge #12 Christmas at Crafty Boots
Challenge #16 Family Christmas (card for cousin) at Little Claire's Designs
Challenge #50 Christmas at Paper Play
Challenge #50 Unique and Non Traditional at Crop Stop
Let's Celebrate at Squiggle Stamps
4CCC068 Christmas at 4 Crafty Chicks
Anything Goes at Delightful Challenges
Challenge #49 Bling It On (Gemstones, Flourishes) at Pile It On
Challenge #22 Christmas at Dream Valley Challenges
Challenge #38 Anything Goes plus ribbon at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Challenge #50 Bingo (Ribbon, Flowers, Punches) at Ladybug Crafts Ink
Die Cuts Or Punches at Craft-Room Challenges

Jingle Your Own Bells

I've done the Catch The Bug's 12 Days of Christmas out of order a little, but I'm almost finished with all 12 days! Yay! One more to go, after this one!

For Day 12, we were asked to make a project inspired by a Christmas song. Here is my day 12 project for the 12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug. I chose the Christmas song, "Jingle Bell Rock" and used the non-traditional color combo of black, white and red.

I'm using sketch #144 at Inspirational Card Sketches for my card layout. I went with these fun musical papers and the Stella Stockings image from Bugaboo Stamps. I colored her with Promarkers and added texture and shine to the fur on her dress and hat, with white Perfect Pearls. The gorgeous red ribbon with gold metallic thread is from my stash. The sentiment says "Jingle Your Own Bells" and is punched with oval and scalloped oval punches. The sentiment and image are attached with foam mounting tape for extra dimension. I used a pretty, lacy silver doily on the card, as well. The doily is adorned with these cute gold jingle bells, attached with red and white baker's twine.



I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Christmas at Paper Crafting Journey
Day 12 (Christmas Song Inspired -Jingle Bell Rock) of The 12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug
Let's Celebrate at Squiggle Stamps
Santa Baby at Catch The Bug
Challenge #49 Something Old (Stella LOL! And items from my stash) at Do You Stack Up
Challenge #102 Christmas in Non Traditional Colors (Black, White and Red) at Sassy Studio Designs
Challenge #49 Music Is All Around Us at Crop Stop
Silver (Doily) and Gold (Jingle Bells) at Stamp, Scrap And Doodles
Challenge #69 Christmas at 2 Sisters
Challenge #14 Photo Inspiration at Jay Gee's Nook
GL30 Christmas and Winter at Gingerloft
Challenge #85 Santa's Getting Ready at I Did It Creations
Challenge #97 Black And White at Sketchy Colors
Challenge #120 Christmas Fun at Pollycraft
Christmas at Bizzy Becs
Holiday/Winter at The Stamping Boutique
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #3 Christmas and Winter Wonderland at The Scrapbooking Queen
Challenge #57 Christmas at Bee-Crafty
Challenge #22 Red and Gold (gold jingle bells) at House of Gilli
Challenge #12 Christmas at Crafty Boots
Challenge #21 It's Cold Outside (Bundled Up Like Santa) at The Crafty Purple Frog
Tis The Season at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #68 Merry Christmas at Penny's Paper Crafty
Challenge #132 Winter and Christmas at Creative Belli Blog
Challenge #75 Bell Or Ornament on Papercraft Star
Challenge #61 Happy Holidays at Lollipop Crafts
Challenge #172 Don't Look At The Light at Cupcake Crafts
Sparkle and Shine at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #7 Sentiment at The Cutie Pie Challenge
ICS144 Sketch at Inspirational Card Sketches
Metallics at Stamp-n-Doodle
I'm Dreaming of a (Red, Black, White, Silver and Gold) Christmas at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #17 Rock 'N Roll at Here Come The Boys
Christmas at Crafts And Me
Challenge #100 Anything Christmas at The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #36 Cute and Funky Christmas at My Mum's Craft Shop
Challenge #13 Christmas at Little Darlings
Challenge #16 Christmas at Crafting For All Seasons
Challenge #14 Christmas at Hooked On Crafts
Die Cuts Or Punches at Craft-Room Challenges
Humorous at Craft Us Crazy

Stella Fills In For Cupid

Can you beleive I've done a card other than a Christmas card?! LOL! I've got another card for you for the12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug. They didn't say we had to do Christmas cards for every project - Just that we include the specific theme for each project.

This is my card for Day 11, in which we're supposed to incorporate plaid. I used this opportunity to get my friend's valentine card finished, way ahead of time, so I went with masculine non-traditional valentine colors.

My card layout is uses the Sketch at Skipping Stones Designs. I've used this fun Stella image from Bugaboo Stamps. Stella is colored with Promarkers. The image has had glitter and sparkle added with a clearstar gelly roll pen. I used sheer blue ribbon in strips across the card. The striped and plaid papers, ribbon and gemstones are all from my stash. Stella and the sentiment have been attached with foam mounting tape for dimension. The sentiment says, "I'm Filling In For Cupid... Deal With It" and is punched with oval and scalloped oval punches.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Day 11 (Masculine) of The 12 Days of Christmas at catch The Bug
Let's Celebrate at Squiggle Stamps
Challenge #92 Use A Digi at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #104 Glitter and Bling at Pixie Dust Studio
Challenge #49 Something Old (Stella LOL! And items from my stash) at Do You Stack Up
Challenge #96 Anything But Christmas at Totally Paper Crafts
Glitter at Frosted Designs
Things With Wings at Sweet Stampin'
Challenge #139 Anything But Christmas at Corrosive
Challenge #151 Send A Smile (Valentine's/Love) at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #39 Make It Shine (Glitter) at Mami Doodles
Challenge #172 Don't Look At The Light at Cupcake Crafts
Sparkle and Shine at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #61 Happy Holidays (Valentine’s Day) at Lollipop Crafts
Challenge #7 Sentiment at The Cutie Pie Challenge
Sketch at Skipping Stones Designs
Challenge #49 Bling It On (Gemstones) at Pile It On
Humorous at Craft Us Crazy

Stella's Telescoping

Time, again, for another card for the 12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug. This is a new card style for me and my first attempt at a telescoping card. I'm loving this card style! So much fun to make and not too bad for my first try.

This telescoping card is for Day 10 of the 12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug.

Above, you can see the pic of the card before its opened. I apologize for the quality of the photo. I used gold metallic cardstock on a couple of the circles and the glare caused it to turn out green in the photo. I even tried different camera settings and tried taking the pics from a top down angled view and it didn't help much.

I made this card for my friend, for the holidays. He's a martini kinda guy so he'll love it. I used a non traditional color combo of black and gold.

I hope the blogs who have the red and gold challenges won't count me out of the running on this one, due to picture quality. I swear its really gold metallic cardstock!

Anyway, here is a pic of the card once its opened:




I used metallic red and gold cardstocks to make my 3 circles, then used black papers with silver star prints and silver swirls for the next layers. The center layer on each are the images and the sentiment. I used the Cutting system from Creative Memories, to cut all the circles. The circle layers are held together with black and white polka dot brads. The images are from Bugaboo Stamps and are colored with Promarkers. I added glitter and sparkle to the images with a clearstar gelly roll pen. I tried to color the stella martini glass image to reflect that Stella is sitting inside the martini glass.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Day 10 (Masculine)of The 12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug
Let's Celebrate at Squiggle Stamps
Telescoping Holiday Card at Stamp-n-Doodle
Santa Baby at Catch The Bug
Challenge #102 Christmas in Non Traditional Colors (Black and Gold) at Sassy Studio Designs
Challenge #96 Anything But Christmas (New Year's) at Totally Paper Crafts
Glitter at Frosted Designs
SNSDC32 Tea For Two at Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge
Photo Inspiration at Crafty Sprouts
Silver (Stars) and Gold (Metallic Cardstock) at Stamp, Scrap And Doodles
Challenge #139 Anything But Christmas (New Year's) at Corrosive
Challenge #151 Send A Smile (New Year's) at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #39 Make It Shine (Glitter) at Mami Doodles
Challenge #19 Shaped Cards at Bunny Zoe's Crafts
Eat, Drink and Be Merry at Totally Stampalicious
Challenge #22 Red and Gold (gold cardstock - sorry the light makes it look green in the pic since it's metallic) at House of Gilli
Tis The Season (For New Year's, Too!) at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #172 Don't Look At The Light at Cupcake Crafts
Sparkle and Shine at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #61 Happy Holidays (New Year’s) at Lollipop Crafts
Challenge #7 Sentiment at The Cutie Pie Challenge
Metallics at Stamp-n-Doodle
Die Cuts Or Punches at Craft-Room Challenges
Humorous at Craft Us Crazy

Christmas By Candlelight

Are you all sick of seeing Christmas cards, yet? I know, I know! Luckily for you, I'm almost finished with mine! (nothing like last minute cards, right?!)

This is our Free Week at Daisy Doodles, so we get to choose whatever we like. Since I'm still in Christmas Card mode, I chose this gorgeous Christmas candles image to work with.

This card is for my mother in law, who's very relgious, hence the spiritual yellow DP.

The image is from Daisy Doodles and is colored with Promarkers. I went with a non traditional pastel color combo for this one, and a clean and simple theme. I added glitter and sparkle to the image with my clearstar gelly roll pen and finished the card with this fun pennant/bunting/banner put together with green baker's twine.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #120 Christmas Fun at Pollycraft
GL30 Christmas and Winter at Gingerloft
Challenge #14 Photo Inspiration (Colors) at Jay Gee's Nook
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #3 Christmas and Winter Wonderland at The Scrapbooking Queen
Challenge #86 Anything Goes at Cooking It Up With Katie
Challenge #16 Anything Goes at Divas By Design
Challenge #51 Photo Inspiration at Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge
Challenge #86 It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas at Raise The Bar
Challenge #1 Celebrate at Chocolate, Coffee and Cards
Challenge #39 Make It Shine (Glitter) at Mami Doodles
Christmas/Holiday at One Crazy Stamper
Challenge #57 Christmas at Bee-Crafty
Christmas at Bizzy Becs
Tis The Season at Creative Card Crew
Christmas Photomontage at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #68 Merry Christmas at Penny's Paper Crafty
Challenge #99 Last Minute Cards at The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #129 Mega Challenge - Celebrate- at Passion For Promarkers
Challenge #132 Winter and Christmas at Creative Belli Blog
Challenge #35 Christmas at Card Makin Mamas
Challenge #69 Christmas at 2 Sisters
Holiday/Winter at The Stamping Boutique
Glitter at Frosted Designs
Christmas at Paper Crafting Journey
Let's Celebrate at Squiggle Stamps
CHNC Traditional Christmas at Crafty Hazel Nut's Christmas Challenge
Challenge #142 Christmas Glitz at Stamptacular Sunday
Challenge #92 Use A Digi at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #149 Photo Inspiration (Green and Yellow Christmas) at Cupcake Inspirations
Challenge #22 Christmas at Dream Valley Challenges
Challenge #85 Santa's Getting Ready at I Did It Creations
Inspired By: Non Traditional Colors at Creative Inspirations Paint
Challenge #7 Christmas at The Squirrel and The Fox
Holiday Spirit at Dude Time Doodles
Christmas With Sparkles at Creatalicious
Photo Inspiration at Crafty Sprouts
Challenge #16 Family Christmas (Card for mother in law) at Little Claire's Designs
Challenge #172 Don't Look At The Light at Cupcake Crafts
Sparkle and Shine at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #61 Happy Holidays at Lollipop Crafts
Challenge #93 Clean and Simple at Karen's Doodles
Challenge #12 Christmas at Crafty Boots
Challenge #7 Sentiment at The Cutie Pie Challenge
I'm Dreaming of a (Green and Yellow) Christmas at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #28 For Someone Special (Mother In Law) at Tuesday Throwdown
CAS Christmas at Paper And Such Online

Buckle Me Up a Santa Claus

Time for another card, again! This one is for Day 7 of the 12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug. The challenge is to take inspiration from the posted photo. I used the colors and the pine from the photo.

I made this card for my cousin - She loves bling.

My card uses the Sketch at Seems A Little Sketchy. I love love love this sketch! My image is from Bugaboo Stamps and colored with Promarkers. I mounted this cute santa on a scalloped circle with foam mounting tape. He's had glitter and sparkle added to his beard and the tree, with a clearstar gelly roll pen. The mix of papers make this a fun card. I used a silver ribbon slider, a fun green and silver metal brad and some sparkly gemstones to embellish the card. The ribbon is from my stash.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #1 Sketch at Seems A Little Sketchy
Day 7 Photo Inspiration) of 12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug
Challenge #84 Your Favorite Embellishments (Gemstones, ribbon slider) at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Holiday Card at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle
Challenge #68 Punches or Dies at 2 Sisters
Challenge #138 CASE A DT Member (I CASEd Linda's card, using the red, green and white color combo) at Corrosive
Challenge #16 Anything Goes With Ribbon at The Ribbon Reel
Challenge #11 Anything Goes at Crafty Boots
Cut It Out at Paper Makeup Stamps
Challenge #93 It's Santa at Sassy Cheryl's
Challenge #39 Make It Shine (Glitter) at Mami Doodles
Christmas at Bizzy Becs
Holiday/Winter at The Stamping Boutique
Challenge #28 Christmas With Sparkle at Creatalicious
Challenge #57 Christmas at Bee-Crafty
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #3 Christmas and Winter Wonderland at The Scrapbooking Queen
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
Christmas Photomontage at Simon Says Stamp
GL30 Christmas and Winter at Gingerloft
Challenge #68 Merry Christmas at Penny's Paper Crafty
Challenge #99 Last Minute Christmas Cards at The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #120 Christmas Fun at Pollycraft
Challenge #132 Winter and Christmas at Creative Belli Blog
IIC#36 Use Ribbon at Inky Impressions
Holiday Spirit at Dude Time Doodles
Challenge #35 Traditional Christmas at My Mum's Craft Shop
FaLaLaLaLa (Here Comes Santa Claus)at The Paper Variety
Challenge #74 Photo Inspiration (Tree) at Papercraft Star
Tis The Season at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #74 Photo Inspiration (Tree) at Papercraft Star
Challenge #14 Photo Inspiration (Christmas) at Jay Gee's Nook
Challenge #104 Glitter and Bling at Pixie Dust Studio
Challenge #127 Last Minute Christmas at Moving Along With The Times
Challenge #55 Christmas Bingo (Glitter, Tree and Silver) at Crafty Ann's
Challenge #21 It's Cold Outside at The Crafty Purple Frog
Challenge #123 Winter Cards at Hanna and Friends
Challenge #182 Trees and Baubles at Rainbow Lady's
Challenge #38 Bow at Timbroscrapmania
Challenge #14 Bling It Up (Gemstones, Brad, Ribbon Slider) at Paper Creations Ink
Challenge #57 Christmas at Bee-Crafty
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #3 Christmas and Winter Wonderland at The Scrapbooking Queen
Holiday/Winter at The Stamping Boutique
Challenge #49 Bling It On (Gemstones, Brad, Ribbon Slider) at Pile It On
Challenge #14 Photo Inspiration (Christmas) at Jay Gee's Nook
Christmas Images and Colors at Truly Madly Crafty
Glitter at Frosted Designs
Show Your Christmas Bling at Stamping With The Dragon
Challenge #8 X-Travagant Christmas at Delicious Doodles
Challenge #85 Clean and Simple at Phindy's Place
Photo Inspiration at Crafty Sprouts
Christmas at Paper Crafting Journey
Challenge #86 Nature (Christmas Tree) at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #49 Something Old (Santa Claus And bling from my stash) at Do You Stack Up
Challenge #16 Family Christmas (Card for cousin) at Little Claire's Designs

Holiday Cheer

I'm on a roll, again! Watch out! LOL


Here's another project for the 12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug. This one is for Day 5, in which we were challenged to use gold on our project.

This one is for my husband.

I apologize for the shadow on the card. I took several pics and this is the best I could get, due to all the bright gold on the card, I think.

I used the PWC183 Sketch at Paper Pretties for my card layout and went with another Christmas card, in non traditional colors. My image is from Bugaboo Stamps and is colored with Promarkers. I've used a few different colors to color her skin. Since she's partially sitting inside the glass, I've tried to reflect it in the coloring, by making the parts in the glass lighter. This is my first attempt at this, so I hope it looks okay. The image is punched with a scalloped circle, then I added black sponging to try and tone down the white and make the colors match. I used gold metallic twine from my stash. I added glitter and sparkle to the glass, to make it shine, with a clearstar gelly roll pen.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Day 6 (Use Gold) of The 12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug
PWC183 Sketch at Paper Pretties
Challenge #123 Non Traditional Christmas Colors at Incy Wincy
Challenge #14 Bling It Up (Gold Glitter Brads) at Paper Creations Ink
Challenge #57 Christmas at Bee-Crafty
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #3 Christmas and Winter Wonderland at The Scrapbooking Queen
Holiday/Winter at The Stamping Boutique
Challenge #39 Make It Shine (Glitter and metallic gold paper) at Mami Doodles
Challenge #84 Your Favorite Embellishments (Twine) at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Holiday Card at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle
Challenge #68 Punches or Dies at 2 Sisters
Challenge #120 Christmas Fun at Pollycraft
Challenge #14 Non Traditional Christmas Colors at Emerald Faerie Garden
Challenge #26 Christmas For The One You Love at Sparkles Forum
Challenge #37 Silver (Stars on DP) and Gold (DP and metallic twine) at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Challenge #54 One For The Lads at Lexi's Creations
Challenge #11 Anything Goes at Crafty Boots
Christmas Photomontage at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #68 Merry Christmas at Penny's Paper Crafty
Challenge #99 Last Minute Cards at The Pixie Cottage
GL30 Christmas and Winter at Gingerloft
Challenge #132 Winter and Christmas at Creative Belli Blog
Holiday Spirit at Dude Time Doodles
Tis The Season at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #127 Last Minute Christmas at Moving Along With The Times
Challenge #55 Christmas Bingo (Red, Green and Gold) at Crafty Ann's
Challenge #102 Christmas in Non Traditional Colors at Sassy Studio Designs
Challenge #38 Bow at Timbroscrapmania
Challenge #22 Red and Gold (paper and twine) at House of Gilli
SNSDC32 Tea For Two at Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge
Glitter at Frosted Designs
Challenge #85 Clean and Simple at Phindy's Place
Show Your Christmas Bling at Stamping With The Dragon
Christmas at Paper Crafting Journey
Photo Inspiration at Crafty Sprouts
Challenge #129 Celebrations at Passion For Promarkers

Milk And Cookies For Santa

I know you all must be sick of me by now, but here I am, yet again! LOL

I have another card for you, from my attempt to complete the The 12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug. This card is for Day 8, with the theme "Cookies and Milk." I struggled with this one a little at first because I don't have any Bugaboo Stamps images with cookies or milk. I did find this fun image though.... And then it came to me..... I'll make my own cookie! (Again, having to get creative and think outside the box! LOL)

I used the Sketch at Stamp With Fun. The image, from Bugaboo Stamps, is punched with a circle punch. I colored her with Promarkers and then sponged around her with brown ink. Then, I punched out brown circles and cut them down, placed them on the circles image, to make the it look like she's on a big cookie! I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and I feel like it looks quite a bit like a cookie! The dark red ribbon is from my stash. I used gold glittered brads to add some sparkle, shine and bling. The papers are all scraps from my stash. I decided not to use an added sentiment, since the red DP has Merry Christmas written all over it.

The image/cookie is attached with foam mounting tape for dimension.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #140 Sketch at Stamp With Fun
Day 8 (Milk and Cookies) The 12 Days of Christmas at Catch The Bug
Challenge #22 Red and Gold (Gold Glitter Brads) at House of Gilli
Challenge #60 Dark Red, Chocolate and Cream at Lollipop Crafts
Challenge #123 Non Traditional Christmas Colors at Incy Wincy
Challenge #16 Anything Goes With Ribbon at The Ribbon Reel
Challenge #14 Bling It Up (Gold Glitter Brads) at Paper Creations Ink
Challenge #28 Christmas With Sparkle (Glitter Brads) at Creatalicious
Challenge #57 Christmas at Bee-Crafty
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #3 Christmas and Winter Wonderland at The Scrapbooking Queen
Holiday/Winter at The Stamping Boutique
Christmas at Bizzy Becs
Challenge #39 Make It Shine (Glitter) at Mami Doodles
GL30 Christmas and Winter at Gingerloft
Challenge #84 Your Favorite Embellishments (Pearls) at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Holiday Card at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle
Challenge #68 Punches or Dies at 2 Sisters
Challenge #138 CASE A DT Member (I CASEd Jennifer's card, using the red gingham paper) at Corrosive
Challenge #14 Photo Inspiration (Christmas) at Jay Gee's Nook
Challenge #120 Christmas Fun at Pollycraft
Challenge #11 Anything Goes at Crafty Boots
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
Tis The Season at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #77 Celebrate The Season at Tuesday Throwdown
Challenge #68 Merry Christmas at Penny's Paper Crafty
Challenge #99 Last Minute Cards at The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #132 Winter and Christmas at Creative Belli Blog
Challenge #49 Bling It On (Silver Glitter Brads) at Pile It On
IIC#36 Use Ribbon at Inky Impressions
Challenge #55 Christmas Bingo (Gold, Red and Green) at Crafty Ann's
Challenge #102 Christmas in Non Traditional Colors at Sassy Studio Designs
Challenge #38 Bow at Timbroscrapmania
Glitter(Gold glitter brads) at Frosted Designs
Christmas at Paper Crafting Journey