Authentique Paper, Hampton Arts, Penny Black - another Holiday card made

Are you all frantically working on completing your holiday cards like me - I need to clean up my ara so we can eat dinner down here so I need to start cleaning soon.  Picture BIG MESS.

Authentique Paper has a sketch challenge on their blog for the month of December.  I decided to put my spin on the sketch.  Of course, when I do a sketch - my spinning sometimes goes way out of control.  I do like the final result though and I know the recipient will appreciate it also.



For fun and excitement today I plan on cleaning my refrigerator - I know - don't be jealous of me plus I need to head out soon to the post office to mail out some lumpy holiday cards.  Hope you have a creative day. 

Card recipe:
Sketch - Authentique card blog
Paper - Authentique - 6 x 6 Wonder
Snowman stamp - Hampton Art
Sentiment - Penny Black
Snowflakes, pearls, muslin from my supplies
Ink - Colorbox Chalk Ink

Hero Arts New Release and Operation Write Home

How exciting - one of my cards was in a Hero Arts blog hop - that is pretty special.  Hero Arts designed three sets in partnership with Operation Write Home.

The set I have used is CL584 All the Time.  A wonderful set of stamps and not just for Operation Write Home - the two clocks are very versatile along with the sentiments.

I have used We R Memory Keepers paper on my card along with using Spellbinders to cut out the star and heart.  I wanted my card to be patriotic. 

Stay tuned I think there is more fun to come.

Inkadinkado and Echo Park Paper Company

Got one more card made last night for the holidays - a friend had a sweet little weiner dog so I try to maker her cards like this sometimes. 

The stamp is from Inkadinkado - one that you can buy for a $1 or $2 - depending on where you buy it.  I stamped it on patterned paper and colored it with Copics.  The paper is from Echo Park Paper Company - great Christmas grouping of reds and greens.  An SRM Sticker added the finishing touch to my card along with some ribbon like twill tape.

Everyone have a wonderful week end.  Day off work tomorrow to do some playing. 

Echo Park Paper Company and SRM Sticker

Echo Park Paper Company has a contest to make a holiday card and send to them - this is the card I am sending to them.  I have made this design before.  It is a smaller size and I enjoy making this size.  This little snowman stamp has been in my collection for years - glad I could get him out and use him again.  I added an SRM Sticker for the sentiment.

Everyone enjoy your evening.

Oldie Moldie Monday

Oldie Monday - show some love to your older collection of paper and believe me I have lots.  I just went and grabbed one of my must haves (6 x 6 pads) from Basic Grey.  I then grabbed a sentiment stamp I had gotten on clearance at Michaels and there is the base of my card.

There is a challenge on the Operation Write Home blog Stars and Stamps to make cards with just sentiments on them.  I do believe these qualify.  ODBD is sponsoring this challenge - for each 25 cards entered in the challenge in the month of December - they will pay for a box of cards to be mailed overseas to our heroes.  Last month we got enough cards to mail two boxes - hopefully the same thing happens this month - you can only enter once though. 

Isn't this stamp fun - I got it for about $1.50 at Michael's on clearance.  This is the first time I inked it up. I really do like it and I popped those buttons on to add a little extra embellishment.

Please go dig into your old paper - it is still beautiful - and show it some love.

My Mind's Eye Sketch, SRM Sticker and Hero Arts

Frantically working on my own personal Christmas cards - I would like to get some in the mail this week.  I hope.

I have two cards I am sharing today.  Both cards are made with the "12 Days of Christmas" collection by My Mind's Eye.  I liked it so well I have bought two 6 x 6 pads - I do believe I have lost my memory when it comes to buying 6 x 6 pads.  Good thing I really like this paper.  Maybe I should look for some embellishments that match.  (Insert smile).  My Mind's Eye has a card sketch for the month of December and this card is based on their sketch.  Fun sketch.  You can do so much with circles - maybe I will make another one later one.  I used my Hero Arts stamp set that has the coordinating die cuts for the snowman.  I stamp him and then cut him out and add to my circle and trim off the excess snowman.  Good way for him to lose a little weight.  It seemed a little naked so I had to add a little bow to the design.  Plop on a great sticker sentiment from SRM Stickers and I have one more holiday card made - it is going to a family with three children.

The second card is basically a smaller version of the other card shape using a very old snowman stamp I have.  I cut the image out so it looks so cute sitting on the mat.  The snowflake I found in clearance - it is suppose to be something you scatter on your table - not me - they are perfect for card embellishments.  I added a little bling to the two snowflakes.

Everyone enjoy the remainder of your day.  Packer game to watch later in the day and the Wisconsin Badgers are heading to the Rose Bowl and are the first time every - Big 10 Champions.  If only the UW Madison men's basketball team could have beaten Marquette.  UW Whitewater won their quarter final in their quest to return to the Divisoin 3 championships.  Go Warhawks.

My Mind's Eye, SRM Stickers and Unity Stamps = Holiday Card

Good afternoon - good news - I survived my cold - now I need to kick it in gear and get some things done for the holidays.  Of course, I am still working on my holiday cards.  I now have another one done in some non traditional colors. 

The paper is from My Mind's Eye - their Christmas collection from this year.  fun colors.  The stamp is by Unity Stamps.  I colored it with Copics.  It is hard to tell from the picture but I chalked the white on the image so it is a lovely shade of pink.  Breaks up all that white.  There was some great patterned paper in the collection that I could have stamped on - maybe the next card I make with this paper.   I added some bling to the card also.  It is also hard to see but everything on the stamped imaged is outlined with a Stardust pen.  A great sticker from SRM Stickers finishes off the card.

The card design is from Cardabilities. 

Everyone have a wonderful day - I hope you are accomplishing lots.