Oh Holy Night

Hi dear friends...

I'm back to making cards today (and am hoping I made enough tags). That dynamic duo over at Jingle Belles, Lauren and Stephanie, are giving us one last opportunity to show off our Christmas cards and I wanted to join in on the fun. They're also giving us a chance to win a fabulous prize...

... and you have until Friday, December 21st.

Link up Here.

So... I have one ready to enter...

All from My Mind's Eye

All Is Bright collection with white and Pomegranate cardstock.

A French Lace paper 

doily from Hennytj's Boutique and Artisan Chipboard stars from Pink Paislee. These beautiful flowers are from I Am Roses. The "greens" were cut with Alterations Mini Holly and Tattered Pinecone dies. The rhinestones are by TPC Studio.

I want to take a minute

 to thank you all for the encouraging comments you've been leaving... I so appreciate them and your kindness! You girls are the best!

Thanks for the visit!

Hugs!

Linda

My First Christmas Card Of The Year And Something To Go With It

The new Jingles Belles

prompt is a Creature Feature. Do you think this will qualify?...

I have been saying

all year that I had to get started on my Christmas cards, and here it is the end of October and I'm finally getting to it. The purchase of this Artistic Outpost Midwinter stamp set from Linda at The Funkie Junkie Boutique is what finally motivated me to get creating...

As you can see,

I used the cabin scene with the teeny, tiny deer. I also made a tag using the Yuletide Greeting, but couldn't fit it onto my card.

The papers are from

7 Gypsies Lille 8x8 pad, plus red cardstock and a scrap of red gingham. The inks are Archival Jet Black and Vintage Photo Distress. The flowers and skeleton leaves are I Am Roses that were misted with Lindy's Stamp Gang Scintillating Silver Glitz Spritz. The die used for the foliage are Alterations Mini Pine Tree & Holly Set and Spellbinder's Foliage. 

I cut my stamped image

out with Spellbinder's Labels One. Also included is a star button and paper doily from my stash, corner pieces from Momenta, May Arts red burlap string and gingham elastic ruffled ribbon, and natural woven jute ribbon also from Linda's boutique.

Stop over at the Jingle

Belles blog and check out Lauren's and Stephanie's cards as well as all the other entries.... some great inspiration!

I'm entering these challenges:
Fab' n' Funky Challenges - Animals
Fussy and Fancy - Anything Goes
Jingle Belles - Creature Feature
The Crafty Pad Designs - Use An Animal

It's been some time

since I posted some of the Penmaker's work. This one was just too pretty to by pass...

He made it from a

piece of antler and I thought it went beautifully with my deer image... this should sell as a package deal. Hummm... an ideal forming!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs!

Linda

Jingle Belles Wrap Up

The Jingle Belles Blog is

putting the wraps on this year's card challenge of making a Christmas card each week. If you have followed along, you should have nearly fifty cards finished and ready to send. Not so with me... unfortunately! I still have a few to go. Here is one I made this morning...

All white Bazzill cardstock

and sponged with Forest Moss Distress Ink.

The holly was cut with Tim Holtz's

Alterations Mini Pine Tree & Holly Set and sparkled with Rock Candy Stickles. I used another of the Prima Sultan Gems found in the Pixie Dust Paperie "Times Square Twenty 11" Kit. You can still purchase those here at Kirsty's blog.

I used Spellbinder's Labels

Seventeen die, Cuttlebug's Swiss Dots and Textile Texture embossing folders, and finished with TPC Studio's Reel Me In Jewels. You know, I really need to work faster if I'm going to be ready for Christmas. How are you doing?

Thanks for stopping by today!

Hugs!

Linda

Jingle Belles Challenge Win

I can't tell you how glad

I am that I was able to get this card entered at Jingle Belles before the deadline... because it won a $25 Gift Card from E.A.D. Designs. You've got to check them out... Soooo much to see!

Thanks so much to Stephanie and Lauren!

Jingle Belles... Stick-y And Sweet

This is my second post today.

Please scroll down for my first from this morning.

This is rather late... only two

hours until the challenge closes, but I was determined to get this one in after I had seen Amy's card a few days ago. The challenge at Jingle Belles is to use a sticker or several on your card. Here is mine...

When I saw Kirsty's post this morning

I remembered about the challenge. Between laundry and picking my granddaughter up at school and a dozen other things I was able to make this card using my fabulous "Snow Shoe" Kit from Pixie Dust Paperie.

If you're quick, you still have

time to enter.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs! 

Linda

Oh Christmas Sketch, Oh Christmas Sketch at Jingle Belles

This week at Jingle Belles... 

Guest Star Designer Kirsty Vittetoe, 

creator and lead DT of City Crafter Challenge Blog has created this awesome sketch...

to challenge us!

So, I have responded with this card....

a good portion of which is made from the supplies

in Kirsty's Pixie Dust Paperie Kit from last November named Snow Shoe.

The bird and cage were cut with the Tim Holtz

Caged Bird Alterations Die from Sizzix. The bling is Recollections.

Hope you like it and will join us for this challenge. 

One cardmaker will win a $15.00 gift certificate (via random draw) to The Pixie Shop. Kirsty is also offering some special deals exclusive to Jingle Belles, so be sure to check them out...

along with the Snow Shoe Kit.

Have a Happy Day!

Let It Sew

This week at Jingle Belles, the challenge

is to make a Christmas card incorporating sewing... hand-stitching, by sewing machine or even faux stitching by using a pen, a stamp or rub-ons.

So... here is my take...

Warning: These are NOT your traditional Christmas card colors...

but they go nicely with the Jingle Belles logo, right?!!!!!

As promised, I am using the La Dolce Vita Kit again.

I thought these DPs all blended perfectly together: Glitz Love Nest - Damask, Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology - Darling Doilies, American Crafts Classics - Wizard of Oz, and Sassafrass Sweetly Smitten - Pen Pals. 

I cut black cardstock and Darling Doilies DP with

 Spellbinders Lacey Circles dies. Popped them up with 3-D foam squares and glued on a fancy brooch I purchased from an Etsy shop. Added some MS punched Oak Leaves that I had misted with Cotton Candy Pink Starburst Spray from Lindy's Stamp Gang.

I used Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Squares, cutting

both white chipboard and Pen Pals DP. I glued them together leaving a bit of the chipboard show for a shadowed effect.

The sentiment is from my computer held with a

Tim Holtz Memo Pin and paired with a bow of seam binding ribbon. 

Hope you like my non-traditional Christmas card.

I just had to show you the Penmaker's latest 

creation, since the color matched every thing else on this page.

It's made from an acrylic blank called...

can you believe this... Fairie Garden. A perfect complement to all the other fairies and gardens (paper that is) that I've shown the last few weeks.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

The Ghost of Christmas Present

The new challenge at Jingle Belles comes from 

Clare at Miscanthus Crafts. She has given us this recipe of things to include in our cards...

1. as white as a ghost

2. a present

3. a bow or knot

4. a touch of traditional Christmas colors

and here is my take...

The cardstock is American Crafts Forest. A scrap of white cardstock was

used for the frame that I cut with a Sizzix Die, than ran it through a Provo Craft Textile Texture Embossing Folder. Another scrap I edged with a Martha Stewart punch and the tag was made with a Nestabilities Label Seventeen and inked with Ranger's Brushed Corduroy. A bow of Pixie's Cotton Bale Seam Binding Ribbon with a vintage button.

Have a Happy Day!

The Holly & The Ivy Challenge At Jingle Belles

If you're familiar with Jingle Belles you

know that their challenge each week is to make a new Christmas card, and in their words, thus avoiding holiday mayhem. Well, I am waaaayyyy behind, having made only two cards. I started out making a card to enter in the challenge and discovered I hadn't any Christmas foliage of any kind. I then found a stamp set in the top of the closet I had yet to use. Two of the stamps were holly! Yahhh for the good guys! After much trial and error, I came up with this...

I took my photos and since I had already posted once, I set everything aside. 

Well, this morning when I showed the Penmaker my card, he said the one side was unfinished looking. Since I had so much trouble with the dog gone thing in the first place, I agreed and got everything back out. Now what to do... more holly, I guess!

So I stamped holly, cut holly and glued holly until I thought it finally 

looked better than the way before. Added just a touch of Stickles Clear Rock Candy to the tips.

Now I'm happy! Can't say the same for the Penmaker...

the poor man... He bought some expensive wood to make a pen for a friend and has had everything go wrong that possibly can. If he ever finishes it, I'll show you the results.

Have a Happy Day!