Two Quick Christmas Cards

Two quick and almost identical Christmas cards! I found these lovely little cards for October Afternoon at Archivers this past weekend! I knew that they would make super fun Christmas cards...just love the old Dick and Jane books!

I hope you are all making merry and keeping the stress down! Hang in there and enjoy the moments!

Card Details:

Stamps: Winter Tots (snowflakes) by Woodware USA

Paper: Basic Black by Stampin' Up; DSP by October Afternoon

Ink: Silver Encore

Accessories: ATC cards from October Afternoon; EK Success border punch; Red gingham ribbon by SU

Sugar Creek Hollow Blog Hop--Christmas is Coming!!

Good morning and thank you for joining us hErE at Sugar CrEEk Hollow for our Christmas Blog Hop. WE arE going to play thE "SEcrEt Word" gamE today. You will nEEd to collEct a lEttEr at Each blog and thEn post your answEr at thE last stop.

WE will bE awarding a $25.00 gift cErtificatE to onE lucky winnEr!

I am sharing with you today two of our nEw Christmas Digi Stamps Entitled
"Christmas Sentiments" and "Christmas Cardinal."

Here is the order of the blog hop today! Don't forget to collect your letters!

Tracy, Owner
Joseline, DT Coordinator
Mary
Marsha
Nancy
Sally
Kelly
Stephanie
Cec
Sharon
Renee
Joni
Lisa
Donna
JulieMegan
Ms. Plum
Heide
Dawn, Guest Designer
Sugar Creek Hollow Blog
Sugar Creek Hollow Store

Thanks for stopping by today!! Enjoy the blog hop!

Paper Piecing, Penguins, and Possibly...

The most glitter and bling EVER!!

This week’s challenge for Woodware USA is to use GLITTER and BLING in your creations. Well, sometimes I feel like I came out of the womb destined to be glittery! And, the way I find little specks all over my house, I think that I still haven’t lost my glitz!

I have used the adorable set—Penguin Fun for my card today, and it is a fun one! I also coupled it with some marvelous Christmas paper from My Mind’s Eye. I’ve also greatly distressed as many edges as I could! We hope that you will join us and play along!!

In addition, I am entering the above card into two challenges this week:

• Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #86
• Christmas Card Challenge Week#42

Next, I have my card from last week’s challenge—paper piecing. My usual day to post was this past Saturday, but I decided to just run the two together. If I could have paper pieced the girl’s skin, I would have. Everything else is paper-pieced using Green at Heart by Basic Grey. I just love that paper, and I was able to use my scraps on this one! The cardstock colors are Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry by Stampin’ Up. I used an EK Success border punch and some SU ribbon and punches.

A close up of my paper piecing frenzy...please excuse the smudge! In my haste, I didn't look closely at my fingers!

A Little bit of the holiday spirit!

It seems like my sparse posts have involved a lot of Christmas cards. Well, there is a reason for this. I do this raining cards thing as part of a Magnolia group, and I have to use Magnolia images to make the cards. Since most of my Magnolias are just stamped images of Christmas or winter themed ones, these are what my cards turn out to be!

I did have fun playing with my nesties on this card. I couldn't wait to finally get my hands on the curved rectangles!! I love them, and they are perfect for making a card this size!! The image is Alva, who is just darling! I love the Magnolia stamps...maybe it is because they are super cute or from Sweden, I don't know!

Thanks for sticking by me in my seeming stamping rut! We are up to our eyeballs in getting estimates for a kitchen remodel, so my mind has been elsewhere. Luckily, I don't have to deal with my daughter going to kindergarten...that's next year! I'm slowly getting back into the swing of things!

Card Details:
Stamps: Alva by Magnolia
Paper: Ski Slope, Choc. Chip and Old Olive by Stampin' Up
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Nesties Curvy rectangles; Hodgepodge hardware by SU; Choc. Chip ribbon; Cuttlebug Embossing folder
Copics: E00, E02, R20, Y11, Y21, E31, E33, G21, G24, G28, R32, R35, R37, R24, R27, R29

Christmas in July!!

Just a quick post today...still trying to get back into my stamping groove! I just walk into my craft room and stare at the stuff! YIKES! I hate it when that happens. I've been trying to get the rest of my house in order, so everything else has taken a bit of a back seat! I have also been taking a break from the computer...very little blurfing and commenting, so I am sorry! I'll be better soon!

This card was for my stamp club swap this month, which was a Christmas in July theme! I just love the Snow Swirled set from Stampin' Up. It begs to be embossed, so I unearthed my embossing supplies and went to it!

Card Details:
Stamps: Snow Swirled by Stampin' UP
Paper: Night of Navy, Bashful Blue and Bashful Blue DSP by Stampin' Up
Ink: Silver Encore; Versamark
Accessories: SU Oval and Scalloped Oval punches; SU Navy organdy ribbon; SU Winter White EP