Recycle For Christmas

It's time for another challenge at Catch The Bug! We want to see your recycled items on your projects! Wow, another recycle challenge! How cool is that?! As always, there are awesome digi prize packs up for grabs, from Bugaboo Stamps! Come play along with us, for your chance to win!

For my card, I've decided to get an early start on Christmas! My card uses the image, AKV Winter Fairy - Skates, from Bugaboo Stamps, colored with Promarkers. All papers are from my stash. My recycled item is a white ribbon recycled from an old organza gift bag. How's that for repurposing?! I also added a handmade bow, made from blue and white polka dotted ribbon.  In the top corner is a handmade flower, made of patterned paper and secured in the center with a blue metal brad.  My sentiment is punched with circle and scalloped circle punches.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

4/1 4/28 Anything Goes at My Craft Creations
Challenge #63 Die Cuts or Punches at Pile It On
Challenge #258 Pastels at Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog
Pastel Colors at Crafty Ribbons Challenge
Challenge #118 Anything Goes at 613 Avenue Create
Clean and Simple at Incy Wincy
TPE#293 Pastel Colors at The Pink Elephant Challenge
CHNC Extra April at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge 2
Challenge #256 Anything Goes at Craft Your Passion
Challenge #16 Anything Goes at Not Just Cards Challenge
Child's Play at Cards In Envy
TTCRD 4/7 - 4/13 at Through The Craftroom Door
Anything Goes at Clear It Out Challenges
Challenge #84 Handmade Flowers at Creative Card Crew
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #101 Things With Wings at Deep Ocean Challenges
Challenge #146 Anything Goes at Loves Rubberstamps
Challenge #11 Things With Wings at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Crafty Hazelnut's April Patterned Paper Challenge
Challenge #137 Photo Inspiration (Xmas Shopping, Polka Dots) at PINspirational Challenges
Challenge #80 Anything With A Die or Punch at Fan-Tastic Challenges
VSC#33 Anything Goes at V's Sweet Ideas
CHCNS #224 Add Texture at Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge
Flights of Fancy at The Crafting Cafe Challenge
Anything Goes With A Handmade Bow at Craft-Dee Bows
Challenge #264 Ink It up at I Love Promarkers
Challenge #222 Anything Goes at Penny's Paper Crafty
Christmas at Crafting By Designs
Challenge #28 Anything Goes at Inspiration Destination
Challenge #14 Any Holiday at Crafty Gals Corner Challenges
Challenge #368 Bonny Blues at Cute Card Thursday
R#221 Texture at Crafts4Eternity

Show Me An Ornament, Mr Elf!

I hope you all love freebies, because it's Freebie Friday, at Bugaboo Stamps! *Cheers* Today, the freebie is this cute image, AKV elf ornament.  Remember, there is a new freebie every friday! Available all week long, for you to snag - For Free! So hurry over to Bugaboo Stamps to get this week's freebie for your very own! Want more freebie friday inspiration? Come see us at Catch The Bug for more  inspiration using this week's Freebie Friday image!

Another Christmas card, today, for your inspiration.  I went with traditional Christmas colors.  The image is this week's friday Freebie, AKV elf ornament, from Bugaboo Stamps, colored with Promarkers. All glittered papers are from my stash. I used metallic christmas bulb buttons, recycled from an old Christmas Sweater. Across the bottom, I used two candy canes. Cute, aren;t they?! The sentiment is from Sentiments 4 You. punched with circle and scalloped circle punches. I've used a clearstar Gelly Roll pen to add glitter and sparkle to the ornament on the image.  Green stickles were used to add colored sparkled to his santa hat.



I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #113 Lots of Layers at Paper Make Up Stamps
MIM #165 Anything Goes at Make It Monday
Challenge #231 Christmas Cheer at All Sorts
Challenge #104 Christmas Cheer at A Gem Of A Challenge
Happy Holidays 4 Kids at Send A Smile 4 Kids
Challenge #44 Anything Goes at 613 Avenue Create
Challenge #23 Inspired By A Song (Here Come Santa Claus) at Hobby Cutz
CHNC#49 Bling It Up (Glitter and Metallic Bulbs) at Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
Glitter at Just Inspirational
Challenge #193 All That Glitters at I Love Promarkers
Anything Goes at Crafting By Designs
Challenge #232 Christmas at C.R.A.F.T
Anything Goes With Glitter at Sparkle N Sprinkle Creative Challenges
Challenge #64 Winter at Deep Ocean

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

What An Angel

I'm back with another card for you, today! Still working on those Christmas cards! While I'm here, I want to tell you about the new challenge starting today, at Daisy's Doodles. The challenge this fortnight is "Aww What An Angel/Something sweet, with a sketch, which I've followed on today's card. Sketch challenges are my favorite, because they show me different ways to lay out my cards, that I may not have thought of before! Come on over to Daisy's Doodles
and play along with us for your chance to win some awesome digi images!

For today's project I'm using this fortnight's challenge sketch, and this adorable angel image from
Daisy's Doodles. She's colored with Promarkers. All papers are scraps from my stash. The angel has had glitter and sparkle added with a clearstar gelly rollpen. I printed the angel three times then did fussy cutting around each one and layered them on the card with foam mounting tape for dimension.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Holiday/Winter at The Stamping Boutique
Challenge #28 Christmas With Sparkle at Creatalicious
Challenge #120 Christmas Fun at Pollycraft
Challenge #68 Snow Angels at Wags 'n Whiskers
Challenge #34 Christmas at Pattie's Creations
Challenge #29 Christmas at Fairy Tale challenge
Anything Goes Christmas at Stamping With The Dragon
For Someone Special at Crafty Purple Frog
Christmas at The Poodles Parlour
GL30 Christmas and Winter at Gingerloft
Challenge #14 Photo Inspiration (Colors) at Jay Gee's Nook
Challenge #21 Sparkle at Dream Valley Challenges
Anything Goes at Crafty Boots
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #3 Christmas and Winter Wonderland at The Scrapbooking Queen
Challenge #44 Anything Goes at Party Time Tuesdays
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #16 Anything Goes at Divas By Design
Challenge #42 Anything Goes at The Paper Shelter
Challenge #33 Merry Christmas (No Animals) at Digi Stamps 4 Joy
Challenge #85 Lots of Sparkle at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #181 Christmas Carols (Hark The Herald Angels Sing) at Rainbow Lady's
Challenge #101 Christmas With Sparkle at Sassy Studio Designs
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 (christmas)at Chocolate, Coffee and Cards
Challenge #163 Photo Inspiration (Christmas) at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #138 CASE A DT Member (Linda – Christmas Theme) at Corrosive
Christmas/Holiday at One Crazy Stamper
Challenge #57 Christmas at Bee-Crafty
Christmas at Bizzy Becs
Challenge #139 Go Green at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #146 Photo Inspiration at Crafty Creations
Challenge #33 Merry Christmas (No Animals) at Digi Stamps 4 Joy
Holiday Card at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle
Music at Frosted Designs
Challenge #139 Photo Inspiration (Christmas) at Cupcake Inspirations
Challenge #39 Make It Shine (Glitter) at Mami Doodles
Challenge #91 Be Square at One Stitch At A Time
Week #91 The Magic of Christmas at The Shabby Tea Room
Challenge #14 Cut It Out at Paper Make Up Stamps

Snowball Fun

Are you ready for another Christmas card? Be ready, because you're going to be seeing lots of them, now! I went with non traditional Christmas colors, for this one.

For my project today, I used this cute penguin by Bugaboo Stamps. This little cutie is colored with Promarkers. I've used the sketch at Sweet Stop for my card layout. The non traditional colored papers are scraps from my stash. I used this awesome ribbon from American Crafts to add that something extra. The white patterned paper is actually glittered cardstock. I also added glitter and sparkle to the image with a clearstar jelly roll pen, so there is lots of sparkle on this one!


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


SSS133 Sketch at The Sweet Stop
Use Metal (Black flat adhesive metal discs) at Divas By Design
Challenge #38 Christmas Fun at The Paper Shelter
A Very Sparkly Christmas at Delightful Challenges
Challenge #94 Get Started! Make A Christmas Card at The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #90 Glitter and Glitz at I Love Promarkers
Challenge #124 Day At The Zoo (Penguins) at Passion For Promarkers
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Challenge #127 Family Activities (Snowball Fights) at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #27 Sparkle at The Crafty Purple Frog
Challenge #95 Animalistic Christmas at Fun With Shapes And More
Challenge #22 Use A Digi at Papercrafting Journey
Challenge #66 Black With Ribbons or Pearls at Wags 'n Whiskers
Challenge #8 Christmas Cards at Floweret
Challenge #14 Christmas at Little Claire's
Challenge #35 Christmas at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Young At Heart at Crafty Boots
Holiday/Winter at The Stamping Boutique
Challenge #70 Recipe (1 ribbon, 2 stamped images, 3 black metal dots) at Alota Rubber Stamps
Challenge #156 Three Is The Magic Number (3 colors: pink, white, black, 3 black metal discs) at One Stop Craft Challenges
Challenge #60 Film (Happy Feet) Or Song Inspired at Crafty Emma's
Challenge #64 Ribbon at Two Sisters
Non Traditional Christmas Colors at Jelly Park Friends
Challenge #80 Fall or Winter at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Winter Wardrobe at Crafty Calender
Challenge #80 Christmas/Winter at I Did It Creations
Challenge #37 Christmas at Mami Doodles
Challenge #167 Textalicious (Text on designer paper) at Cupcake Craft
CCH#92 Something With Wings (Penguin) at The Crazy Challenge
Anything Goes at Heartsong Inspirations
Anything Goes at Totally Stampalicious
TSG129 Holiday Projects at There She Goes Clear Stamps
Go Dotty at Squiggle Stamps
Challenge #136 Anything Goes at Digital Tuesday
PTT#41 Bling It On (Sparkle) at Party Time Tuesdays
Christmas at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #74 your Favorite color combo (Pink, black and white) at Tuesday Throwdown
Challenge #59 Anything Christmas at Top Tip Tuesday
Challenge #18 Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow at Crafter's Companion Monthly
Sparkle And Shine at Stamp-n-Doodle
Weather Related at Ellephantastic
Challenge #12 Holiday Wishes For Kids at Paper Creations Ink