Woodware Challenge -- Anything Goes!

Supplies:  WWUSA "Penguin Fun"; Copics, Kiwi Kiss Textured and White CS

Hi All,

Thanks for stopping by today!  Today's card is for Woodware USA's weekly challenge.  This week it's "Anything Goes"!  So get over to the blog and link up your creation to be entered into the drawing for a prize at the end of the month!  If you use Woodware Stamps, you get an extra entry!  Play every week this month and you'll increase your chance of winning!!

To see Woodware USA  stamps, visit the store here and have a look around!  Be sure to stop in and visit all my DT sisters blogs for more WWUSA inspiration!!

Have a great week everyone! 

Holiday Snow-globe for Cyber Challenges!

Hi Friends!

Did you get out there to grab some of those great Black Friday deals today?!  I heard all about them, but I didn't spend a single dollar!!  It just worked out this year that I am done with my Christmas shopping already!!  In recent years, we've paired down our gift-buying list quite a bit (opting for homemade cards, crafts and/or edible goodies). Our nieces and nephews are in their mid to late teens so gift cards or cash is the way to go for them!  I'm hoping to make a big "dent" in the "homemade" gifts part of this situation over this wonderful lo-o-o-ng weekend!! 

Today's card is designed for this week's Inspiration Challenge over on SCS  as well as several cyber challenges that I've listed below. 

I'm happily hosting the IC again -- THANKS STEPHANIE!! -- so I searched high and low for a website that would hopefully be inspiring to everyone who is busy making holiday cards or gifts this weekend.


The website I chose is "The Country Porch".  They feature wonderful country/folk art items with an "Americana" theme running through everything they sell.  For my inspiration piece, I went with this "Grandma's Quilt Prairie Apron".
 





I kept the color scheme and CAS style and opted for another one of my (cheat!) holiday stickers, a 3-D Snow Globe by KandCompany, as the focal point.  The sentiment is from Verve's "Poinsettia" set and DP is Graphic 45 Vintage Holiday.  The ribbon is from Hobby Lobby.

Thanks to the following crafty challenge Blogs for letting me join in their weekly challenges this week!!  Please check out their links for deets and great inspiration!!

2 Sisters  Non traditional Christmas colors (Kraft, Brown, Rust)
Craft Your Days Away Texture  (Grid EF, Crimper, grosgrain ribbon)
Crafty Emma  Vintage Christmas (Vintage snow globe and village home)
Just Us Girls  3-D holiday embellishments (K&Co Snow globe)
Our Daily Bread Designs - Snowflakes (brown snowflake ribbon)
Character Cafe - neurtral color and glitter / sparkle (Kraft, glitter in snow globe)
Christmas Stampin' - Christmas and anything goes
Crafty Catz (1 entry) - Christmas
Totally Papercrafts - Untraditional Christmas colors (Kraft, Brown, Rust)
Feline Playful (Nov. 27 challenges)

Hope you get a chance to pop by SCS too and play along!  I'd love to see you there!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Easy Chrismas Cards!

Hi All,

Using the same basic, square-card layout, I made all these cards in less than an hour and a half last week!  I was so happy to knock out 6 or 7 of them without reinventing another card every time!  Of course, these are really just "decorated paper" cards, no stamping is happening with these.



The cards all use a variety of holiday DPs from Paper Studio "Heartwarming Holiday" paper pack and My Mind's Eye "Holly Jolly" collection.  The centers are stickers from either K&C Company's "Evergreen Tags" Layered Accents or Layered Stickers.  A few of them I added some red bows or ribbon or a little button here and there.  But I kept them all pretty simple.

I'll be posting the not-so-simple ones over the next couple of weeks!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Thanksgiving Parade of Cards

Happy Thanksgiving Week!

I'm pleased to be able to post my Thanksgiving cards BEFORE Thanksgiving this year!!  I'm usually up late until the last minute getting these things done and don't have time to post them!!  Anyone else out there like that??  LOL!!  So to get on with the "parade"....

First up:

This card is a CASE from Karen Barber's gallery -- I lost the direct link to this specific card, but here's the link to her blog (you'll love going through it anyways!!), it's in there some where!!.  All the products used on this card are SU!




Next:

A super simple CAS card using a Making Memories glitter chipboard sticker, a clear plastic leaf embellishment that I colored with Copics, and 4 small scalloped circles from Cuttlebug that I folded, embossed and then glued together to make the pumpkin.  I sliced very thin green CS to make the vines.  The sentiment is by SU!  Fortunately this won't be going in an envy!  It will be hand-carried to the hostess (my sister) of our Thanksgiving dinner this week!

Next up:

This card is made using new Basic Grey Pyrus paper that I got from Frantic Stamper!!  Oh how I loooove this paper pad!  The sentiment is a chipboard sticker from the same collection and the flowers are miscellaneous Primas that I ran through my Big Shot along with the panel to give a sort of faux "pressed flowers" look.  (And can you see one of my beloved Peel Offs on there that I managed to sneak in!!)




Next, my over-the-top card:

Sometimes, there's nothing you can do to "save" a card, no matter how many flowers and doo-dads you stick on it!!!  This card was evolving and changing even as I posted it.  Now I just want it to go away!!  :)  

And finally, my Thanksgiving Do Over:

 

I made this altered tin "card" last year for a DT project.  I never really finished it because I didn't like how it came out.  So this year, when I pulled out my Thanksgiving box of crafting goodies, it was in there, so I sat down and re-did all the parts I didn't like.  I'm ok with it now and so it's going in the mail to mom and dad this year!

This is the inside of the top of the lid.  The hardware piece in the center is keeping the little flap closed.

 

 Little flap open...

This is one side of the accordion "card" that is tucked inside the tin.   

This is the other side:

And that concludes this year's Thanksgiving Card Parade!!  May your own Thanksgiving Day bring you and your family peace and blessings as you gather together to thank God for His many blessings!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Woodware Challenge Card #2

Woodware USA "Penguin Fun" set

Happy Monday My Friends!

I've buried my head the last couple of weeks to get my Thanksgiving cards done and about 25+ Christmas cards done so far!  Whew!!  I'm needing at least another 25 or so more that I know of right now!  Turns out I'm doing a lot more "paper decorating" than stamping on my cards this year (using tons of embellishments, die cuts, chip board, etc.) but it's making the load a lot lighter!  All week this week I'll be posting what I've made so far so I hope you'll come back to visit!!

Meanwhile, today is the second Woodware USA Challenge!!  This week you're invited to join us in making a one-layer card!  Post your creation over on the Woodware Blog to enter the drawing for a prize at the end of the month.  If you use Woodware Stamps, you get an extra entry!  Play every week this month and you'll increase your chance of winning!!


To see Woodware USA  stamps, visit the store here and have a look around!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Baby Bear!

Hi All,

Here with a quick post of a couple of Christmas cards I made using the same basic sketch.  For both cards, I embossed the images with SU! Copper (retired) EP, punched the border with EK Success large Scallop border punch and tied off my ribbons by wrapping them with a coordinating button.

 This image and sentiment on the card above are from the Woodware USA set called Polar Bears!  The DP is "Heartwarming" by The Paper Studio.

The image on this card is from "Celebrate the Season" by Recollections.  I added a Making Memories super sparkly "Shimmer Florish" brown chipboard piece as an accent.  The DP is from the Basic Grey Blitzen collection.

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Winner! Blog Hop #2 with Woodware Stamps!

Update -- Thank you to everyone who hopped along with us this week!! 

The secret blog was this one!  From the comments left here, Random.org chose #12. So, our winner is  Karen Gale  who said "Love how you made the wreath! Very creative!"

CONGRATULATIONS KAREN!!  Please email Nancy at mattandnancybush@yahoo.com, with your snail mail address to claim your prize pack!!

Thanks again for playing along everyone!!  Hope to see you Monday over on the Woodware USA Blog so you can join us for the first of our Weekly Challenge!!

Hi Everyone,


Today is the second ever Woodware USA Blog Hop!  Hop along with the Design Team for a chance to win a Woodware Stamp set and an assortment of extra goodies!!  The Design Team is featuring some of the newest released sets, holiday cards, and inspiration for you using Woodware stamps.

Here's all you need to do to win!!

Pay a visit to each of the Design Team's blogs and leave a comment by Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST.  One of the Design Team's blogs has been tagged as our "secret blog".  Everyone who leaves a comment on that particular blog will be entered into the drawing -- but!! -- you must have left a comment on each blog and the Woodware USA Blog to be eligible!  A winner will be randomly selected from the commenters of the "secret" blog!!


So lets get you going!!

 

My card uses the set called "Jewel Garden".  I selected one of the boughs of flowers and pears from this fantastic set and stamped it 3 times in a circle to create the wreath.  I embossed it with Gold EP then colored it in with Spika glitter pens.   It's adorned with mini holiday doo dads, dew drops and sparkly leaves!    




Here's the DT Links List to visit:

NANCY

PIALI

ANNE (You are here!)

HARRIET

KERRY

RACHEL

DAWN
WOODWARE USA BLOG!

Have fun and good luck with the contest!!  I'll see you over at the Woodware Blog!!

By the way -- starting next week, the Woodware USA Blog will be hosting weekly challenges to give you more chances to win!!  (Hint: For the challenges, you have even MORE chances to win if you use a Woodware USA stamp!)

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Jesus is the Reason!

Happy Sunday Everyone!

Here's my card for the Featured Stamper Challenge over on SCS this week.  Congrats to Tobi (aka Jazzytobi), well deserved!!  I chose her "CASDT09FALL01" card to case!!  A perfect CAS design for a holiday card that you want to make multiples of!

I kept her layout but used materials I had on hand to create my version.  (SU! Kraft CS, Craft White ink and Striped Ribbon.   Sentiment by Stampabilities.)

Wonderful inspiration Tobi!  Congratulations 

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!