Sweet treats

Who doesn't like a sweet treat during the holidays. I love hard candy, that you can either suck it until it is completely dissolved or you can go all in and crunch it up immediately till it's gone. Which one are you? I am a sucker myself!!

 Today starts a new challenge at Christmas 24. Today's theme is "sweet treats". What's your favorite Christmas sweet treat?

Today's card features the "Merry Shapes" stamp set from Concord&9th. Good news this stamp set is on sale at Concord&9th for $5.40. This is 70% off the original price!

You have two weeks to sweeten things up at Christmas 24!

Classy Christmas

Today starts a new challenge at Christmas 24.  We are looking for trees and ornaments. 

 I went classy with my card today- a bit unusual for me. I like cute and whimsical generally.

My card uses an old Clearly Besotted stamp set that unfortunately is no longer available. 

This CAS, quick and easy card came together seamlessly, especially with these sentiment strips from Simon Says Stamp.

You have two weeks to show us your trees and balls at Christmas 24!

That blessed night

 

Penny Black has line of stamps that have the best price point. They were around $8.00, but have recently gone up to $9.00. Still a good price. "Blessed Birthday" is one of these self contained inexpensive stamps. This stamp was always sold out and it wasn't till after Christmas I was able to get it. 

This week Christmas 24's theme is "Christmas Night". Christmas Night conjures up the thought of our first Christmas and the night of the Savior's birth. Today's card was a no brainer.

My card tip today is I stamped Bethlehem and fussy cut it, leaving a white border. I them went in with a copic marker and colored the cut edges with a marker that matched my background. This is a good tip for putting die cut images on darker card stock. See this blog post which includes a video on this technique.

You have two weeks to share what Christmas night means to you at Christmas 24. I can't wait to see what you all create.

Reindeer friends

 

Today starts a new challenge at Christmas 24. It's a fun one for me, because it involves critters! I love my critter stamps and always am on the look out for some new ones.

Today's challenge is all about reindeer. I took a bit of poetic license along with some whimsy and pulled some wanna be reindeer critters. After all what critter wouldn't want to be a reindeer and be part of Santa's team!

My card today uses two new stamp sets. "Peace, Love and Paws" from My Favorite Things and "Meowy Catmas" from Simon Says Stamp.  I added some bold snow flakes and this CAS card was complete.

 

Of course you need some musical inspiration and who better than Burl Ives!

 

You have till the first of the month to play along with our "reindeer" challenge at Christmas 24!

Home for the Holidays

 Hi everyone! Today starts a new challenge at Christmas 24.  Today we are featuring a sketch.

The challenge gave me the opportunity to use a new stamp set from Ellen Hutson called "Merry Little Christmas".

You have till the end of March to show us your holiday sketch card at Christmas 24! I can't wait to see what you do! 

Be merry

Christmas 24 is hosting a new challenge. One that is near and dear to my heart.

Cute animals!! I was laughing because of of my teamies left a post that she had to search her stamps for a cute animal. I had astruggle trying to decide which cute animal stamp I was going to use!!

These are my Christmas critter sets. This isn't even my other occasion critter sets. Critter sets are probably at least 50% of my stamps!

My card today uses Clearly Besotted set which I cannot seem to find, so it might be retired. Let me know if you come across it.

You have two weeks to show us your cute critter cards at Christmas 24!

 

I am dreaming of........

 

Welcome 2021 at Christmas 24! It is a whole year of new challenges to get you started on next year's Christmas cards. I will tell you come the past December, I was so happy to have the stash of Christmas cards from the Christmas 24 challenges to get me started.

Today's challenge could be a tough one for some of you. White on white. I have to say,I make quite a few white on white cards. it is the essence of CAS to me. the trouble is photographing them. LOL!!

Today's card I just went though my stash for dies and embossing folders that I thought would work. I encourage you to do the same.

I decided today to supply a bit of musical inspiration, Even though I do not listen to Christmas music after the 25th, I will make an exception to inspire you all!

You have two weeks to play along with us at Christmas 24! Let's see your best white creations!

What's your pleasure?

What's Christmas without a fun holiday beverage. What's your pleasure? A  creme brulee latte, an a big cupof bourbon spiked eggnog, or like me a marshmallow topped hot chocolate. Holidaya are bout festive food and drink.

Which is our last challenge for the year at Christmas 24. If you have been playing along, you should have 24 cards in your holiday stash.

Today's card features this sweet set from Papertrey Ink called "merry mug". 

You have the rest of the month to play along at Christmas 24. Wishing all of you a very merry and sweet Christmas!!

Ho Ho Ho

Six weeks till Christmas!! Where has the time gone? Have you been playing along with us at Christmas 24? if so, you should have a big pile of holiday cards to get you started this year! I know I have a huge pile!

Today's challenge is Santa!  Yes "I know him!! I know Santa!!!" What classic holiday movie is that from. Share with me in comments. It is favorite of mine!

Today's card uses a bunch of old stamp sets. The Santa is from Paper Smooches "Santa Paws". It is so sad that Paper Smooches has closed shop. Their cute whimsical images started my love for all things critter! If you really want this stamp set, Amazon has it, but it will cost you!

 

You have two weeks to play along with us at Christmas 24. Lets see your most creative Santa cards!

3D Christmas

 

I am a card maker. I have always been very upfront about that. I like- no correction, I love making cards. I have dabbled in all kinds of paper crafting, but it always comes back to cards.

So today's challenge at Christmas 24 had me reaching back to some oldie but goodie crafts I have done. My favorite has always been glitter balls. They are quick, creative and fun to make. You can keep them simple or embellish like crazy.

Here is a link to how to make glitter balls. How you embellish them is up to you. I used a snowfake building die from reverse Confetti that is no longer available.

You have till November 1,  to create your 3D project at Christmas 24!. I hope I see some glitter balls!!