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Happy Monday! The last 4 weeks have just flown by.  It's hard to believe but Christmas is just 6 days away!! Are you all ready? I have just a bit of  last minute baking and I am ready for the big day. Geirge and I do our main celebrating on Christmas Eve. how about you all. Christmas Eve or Christmas?

 This is the last challenge for 2021 at Cupcake Inspirations! Show us your snow people cards!

My card today again features this very old wood stamp from Penny Black. It's fun to pull out mu old wooden stamps. I have so few these days left. How many of you still use wood stamps?

 

 

Here is a song to get you in the mood to make a card for someone special in your life.

Wishing you and your a very Merry Christmas! I will see you again in the new year!!

I snow love you.....

 Today I am reminding you that you have one more week to play along with Inky Paws for 2020! Where did this crazy year go. It felt like it dragged and then flew along. Very weird.

Our last challenge for the year is a cool sketch. So many ways to go with this. 

I chose to use the "Frozen Friends"  and "Snowfall Roundabout"by Newton's Nook  for my card. The husband always gets at least 5 or 6 cards. This will definitely be a winner with him- even if it doesn't feature a teddy bear!!

Hope you are all getting in the spirit and will play along with our awesome sketch at Inky Paws.  We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 Newton's Nook store gift certificate. Our favorite entries from each challenge will be highlighted the following Monday, so all entries have a chance to be featured on the blog.

The deadline to enter today's challenge is  Friday, December 18, 2020 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

Wishing all of you a blessed, peaceful and healthy Christmas and New Year's! See you all in January with new challenges!!

 

Snow days!

Good morning everyone! Who doesn't love a snow day? Unfortunately as a nurse, there are no snow days- it is get your butt into work, no matter how much snow. Lucky for me. Southeastern Pennsylvania doesn't get to many crazy snow storms.

Who knew that the first day of the "Snow Day" theme challenge at Inky Paws, we are expecting our first measurable snow for the year. LOL!!

I took this challenge literally! I loved the snow man standing on his head. It cracked me up!! I used the following products from Newton's Nook. "Frozen friends", "petite snow" stencil and the sea borders dies.

You have the next two weeks to play along with our snow theme challenge at Inky Paws! We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 Newton's Nook store gift certificate. Our favorite entries from each challenge will be highlighted the following Monday, so all entries have a chance to be featured on the blog.

The deadline to enter today's challenge is this Friday, December 13, 2019 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

Red Romance

Happy 2019 everyone!! Wow another year gone. The years just fly by especially the older you get. It just doesn't seem fair. I am looking forward to 2019, I will no longer be in school and I can stamp away to my heart's content. One of the things I want to do is become more involved in challenges and challenge teams. Four years ago I had to step down from all the teams I was on to concentrate on school. That is no longer the case. Woohoo!!

My buddy Mynn from House of Cards (the first challenge team I was asked to be on.) is hosting a new challenge team that is sure to inspire. The Rainbow Card Connection challenges us to use a different color each month.

January's color theme is "red romance". It's funny because red was the theme for all my hubby's Christmas cards this year. I was good to go. My card to inspire you this month uses a very old wood stamp (remember those?) "cuddle in the snow!" from 2005 Penny Black.

I use this stamp every year to make one of George's Christmas cards. 2005- that means he has recieved 13 cards using this stamp!!

Along with the snow couple, I used the sentiment from Pinkfresh's "happy hugs" and My Favorite Things "Merry Christmas circle frame".

Each year I think, how can I come up with another idea, and yet every year I do! Do any of you have stamp sets you use all the time? 

Let's kick off the Rainbow Card Challenge and join in the fun and create a red forward card!! You have all month to play along!

Warm Christmas Wishes

This card fell together quite by accident. Isn't that the best way? I was searching for another sentiment stamp and came across this stamp set from StampinUp and the Christmas sentiment jumped out at me.

Since Swanky Snow Dudes have been my go to set for this years holiday cards, naturally I grabbed them. I stamped the snow flake background from Hero Arts first, then the sentiment and added the snow dudes. A quick and easy and ever so cute card!

Hope you are enjoying the hustle and bustle of Christmas!

Be Jolly!

I don't know about you, but this holiday season has been a whirlwind. I haven't stopped from Thanksgiving and don't see any stopping till December 26th! But heck, isn't that what the holidays are all about, hustling and bustling. My studio time has been my outlet to decompress and relax. My art is what keeps me sane.

This is my first time hosting over at Just Us Girls and I picked a color challenge that is a fav of mine.

I just love reds and browns for holiday cards! The card I am sharing with you today, could so easily be done with blues as you can see, but how fun is the same card done with reds and browns. 

It is fun to make the same card and switch the color scheme. This is something I do quite a bit. 

 

I hope you will take some time over the next week to participate in the color challenge over at Just Us Girls. 

Wishing all of you a peaceful and blessed holiday!

It's the Holiday Season!!

Sorry, I have been such a bad blogger. It isn't as if I haven't been creating. I am on my holiday high, so I am stamping like crazy.  I think it is just I have been creating and not photographing or blogging. I will try to change that as I have a backlog of cards to share.

I went out on black Friday to all the craft stores for some the crafting sales. I got this Martha Stewart punch- 30% off and I just love it!! I have been using on all my cards. It adds that extra special something to the edge of a card. The snow dudes are from a older Paper Smooches set- Swanky Snow dudes. I love the short fat snow dude, he reminds me of me!

On a completely different note, I got a new job. (another reason why the last few weeks have been nutty) I won't be a manager- just a wee indian, so I am hoping to have a life again. After 23 years as an endoscopy nurse, I am moving into the OR as surgical nurse. I am so excited, it has always been a dream of mine to work in the OR and you are never too old to learn a new skill.

Come back for lots more holiday cards to inspire you.