Engagement Card for my Niece

Great news from Christmas Eve, my niece got engaged!! She was my last single niece out of  seven. We are all so happy for her and her fiance, both are wonderful people and will make a great team together. So happy for them both...  Oh can't wait to dance at her wedding:0)

PS:  it was so much fun to use rubber stamps , it had been awhile! thanks Dawn for a great afternoon

Card details:Are these two mice not adorable!
Stamp: Tails of True Love by House Mouse Designs, background Heart Stamp from Impression - Obsession
Sentiment: Stampin UP
Paper: Stampin Up Basic Black, Cajun Craze, Whisper White , rust coloured wall paper
Colour Medium: Menento Black ink and Prismacolors Markers
Technique: Rubber Stamping
Die Cuts: Spellbinders Nestabilities classic circles, scalloped circles; Spellbinders Shapeabilities Fancy Tags; Sizzix Architectural Accents #1 and #3; flourishes from Marianne Designs
Flowers: Recollections Floral Embellishments

Challenges entered:

House Mouse Monday Challenge - #109  Fuzzy and Warm -  my two little mice are certainly giving off the fuzzy and warm feelings I was looking for :)
Party Time Tuesday: #48 Anything Goes
Sweet Stamps Blog:  Celebrate - my card is  celebrating the engagement of my niece
The Pixie Cottage: #101 sketch and someone special (my niece)
Cooking it Up with Katie: #86 Anything Goes
MY Mum's Craft Shop: #37 Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Anything Goes
Tip Top Tuesday: #66 Anything Goes

Ross's Card - Outlaws CFC

Ross's Card: For the family of my cousin Ross who passed away Dec 8th, 2011.

Another great image from Outlaws CFC by Anne Fenton. Sandi and and Anne Fenton have  joined forces and  started a challenge over at 'Outlawz' called  Creative Freebie Challenge. The images to be used are from digital  images they have drawn and  believe me, these are some  totally fabulous images!  You are given  two images and if you use at least one of them you then receive two more digi's for the next challenge. For  this, their fourth challenge,  I chose the above  cross image and coloured it  with Prismacolor markers.      I framed the image with a Spellbinders  die called deckled rectangles.
Paper: Digital Paper from Altered Bits, Basic Black for Stampin' UP and wall paper 

Leaves: MS  branch punch

Challenges Entered:

Outlaws Creative Freebie Challenge : Dec 18th - Jan1st: use one of their digis
Tuesday:
Bearly-Mine #26: anything goes
Digital Tuesday #141 - WinterWonderland
Everybody-Art-Challenge #273 Anything Goes
Try it on Tuesday: Anything Goes
Monday:
Pollycraft Monday Challenge: #121 Punch it - I used Martha Stewart  scary branches punch
Whoopsi Daisy Challenge: Sparkle , shine - I have glitter glue on the snow on the  fence cross
Seems a Little Sketchy: Sketch #2

Outlaws CFC1204 - Winter Mail

Another great image from Outlaws CFC by Anne Fenton. Sandi Huggett and and Anne Fenton have  joined forces and  started a challenge over at 'Outlawz' called  Creative Freebie Challenge. The images to be used are from digital  images they have drawn and  believe me, these are some  totally fabulous images! Entering the challenge enables you to receive the next set of images. Every two weeks they will send you two new images. For  this their third challenge  I chose the above image and coloured it with Prismacolor markers, added flocking,glitter glue and stickles.. What a great winter scene! I framed the image with a Spellbinders  die (Labels 5) and for the flourishes I used a Sizzyx die called 'Scribbles Swirls'. The background paper is free digital paper form Stamp TV. The ticket sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps.

 Challenges Entered:
Outlaws Creative Freebie Challenge:CFC1204: use one of the freebies supplied
Bearly-Mine: challenge 25- un-traditional Christmas card - no red or green
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog: #14 Let it Snow
Digital Tuesday Challenge: #141 Winter Wonderland
Everybody-Art- Challenge: #172 Blue and White
 Going Grey with Scrap-Creations: First Snow
Papertake Weekly Challenge: I'm Dreaming of (fav colour) Christmas - I love blue Christmas cards
Creative Stamp Friends: #40 Christmas Projects

Hooked on Crafts: challenge 14 - Christmas

DT Card for Lexi's Creations Challenge #55- Nontraditional Christmas -no red or green

Lexi's Creations challenge #55 - theme 'Nontraditional Christmas - no red or green'  Dec. 12  thru Jan 7th

Sponsor: Letraset

                                                                  

Win some promarkers

I am again using the  image of Sammy Snowman . I  think he is one of the cutest out there in digi land, he is totally adorable and can be found at 'Fairy Dust Crafts'! The challenge this fortnight is 'Nontraditional Christmas - no red or green'.  Think of the possibilities here, let the creative juices go and come up with a project using any colours you want as long as they are not red or green :0)    I  made Sammy and the sentiment dimensional. I used Spellbinders  Nestabilities 'Inverted Circles'  and their 'classic Scalloped Circle' for the sentiment. I then added a few embellishments and it was done. Quick, easy and fun!

Card details:

Digital Stamp: Sammy Snowman  from Fairy Dust Crafts

Sentiment : Rounded Wishes and Christmas accessories from Doodle Pantry ( I merged the present from the Accessories stamp set into the circle from Rounded Wishes). 

Flower:  Recollections Floral Embellishments

Flourishes: Marianne Designs

Sparkly lilac fern  and background paper from  Micheal's

                                                         

Challenges: 

Creative Inspirations: non traditional Christmas colours

Dream  Valley Challenges:  Christmas

Lolipops Crafts Challenge: #61 Happy Holidays

Paper Sundaes: challenge# 99 anything Christmas

Craft Your Days Away:  challenge #35 Snowmen

Drunken Stampers Challenge:  #80 glittery holiday

Card Makin Mamas: challenge #35 Christmas

Christmas Birdie

Doodle Pantry is the sponsor of the weekly challenge over at 'The Stamptacular Sunday Challenge' and the theme is 'Christmas Glitz'.  Great theme, just use lots of glitter, bling and sparkle. I used two of Doodle Pantry's  digital stamp sets ('Christmas Birdie'  and "Christmas Accessories') for my card.  I merged  the Christmas boxes from the accessories set with the Birdie image to get the picture of a birdie behind presents. I  merged  another smaller box from the same set and placed it in the birdie's wings., then to make it look like he was actually holding it, I printed out a second copy of the birdie, coloured his wing, cut it out,,cut a slit behind the box being held and then slid the wing into the slot. He  now looks like he is actually got a grip on it - lol.   For the glitz I added  Stickles  to the hat trim, the ribbon on  the boxes , the holly berries and the centers of the snow flakes (which look a lot like flowers :).  Flourishes were added as an additional bit of bling.  Go take a look at the challenge and  create a project with a Christmas Glitz focus and win a Doodle Pantry coupon.

Card Details: 

Stamp:  Doodle Pantry's 'Christmas Birdie'  non coloured version;  Doodle pantry 'Christmas Accessories'  

Paper: Stampin' Up,  

Flourish: Marianne designs

Die Cuts: Spellbinders Nestabilities `Lattice Rectangles' and 'Create a Flake or Two'

Stickles 

Challenges entered:

Dream Valley Challenges:  #22 Christmas (ends Jan.7th)

Gingerloft Challenge #30: Winter or Christmas

One Stitch at a Time: # #92 Use a Digi

Paper Sundaes: #99 Anything Christmas

The Squirrel and the Fox: #7 Christmas

2 Sisters Challenge Blog: #69 Christmas

Catch the Bug Challenge: Santa baby

CES Challenge Blog: #65 Traditional Christmas

Welcome Little One

Oh, how I love little ones and the image above  shows why; are they not too adorable for words! Now the little one this was made for is even more adorable  than the above image and she is the great granddaughter of my husband. They diagnosed a heart problem with the little one in the last quarter of the pregnancy. The mother spent the last five weeks with us as our city has a hospital equipped to handle such a problem. I felt so sorry for her as she had to leave her home and our grandson and all her family members to stay with us who she barely knew. She took it like a trooper and I grew so fond of her during her stay. She will make a marvelous mum! Needless to say we had visitors coming and going for the duration. Then on Nov. 20, little girl Allie was born to the joy of all.  She is now back in her home city with her family and will be under  observation for most of her growing years. This can all be done where they live. Sometime good things  happen out of unusual circumstances and the joy to us, besides the health of the little one is we got to know and love the grandson's family in a way we never would have otherwise..

Stamp:Digi Doodles 'Sleeping Infant'

Challenges:
Crafts and Me: #63 Pearls and Swirls
Divas by Design: #16 Anything Goes
Fab N' Funky Challenges:#101 Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter #42 Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Anything Goes
Anything Goes Challenge Blog #55: Decorative or Altered Corners
Creative Card Crew: Monochromatic
Creative Craft Challenges: Free for All
Party Time Tuesday:#44 Anything Goes

Outlaws CFC1120

Another great image from Outlaws CFC by Sandi Hugget. Sandi and and Anne Fenton have  joined forces and  started a challenge over at 'Outlawz' called  Creative Freebie Challenge. The images to be used are from digital  images they have drawn and  believe me, these are some  totally fabulous images!  For  this their second challenge  I chose the above image and coloured her with Prismacolor markers. What a pretty little girl! I framed the image with a Spellbinders  die (Labels 10) and in the background I used a die cut from Marianne (Doily). The background paper is from the 'Four Seasons 'stack of paper by DCWV. The embellishments are:

Sentiment - digital stamp from Doodle Pantry(Rounded Wishes) with the image of the present  merged into the middle of the circle (also from Doodle Pantry called 'Christmas Accessories)

Flower: die cut from Marianne Designs called Ribbon flower and a punch from EK Success

Leaves: MS  branch punch, and the  flourished vine from Whimsy Stamps.

Challenges Entered:

1. Outlaws CFC1120: use supplied digi

2.. Creative Craft Challenges: free for all
3. Digital Tuesday #139 Go Green - must use a digital element
4. Going Grey with Scrap-Creations: Christmas
5.Party Time Tuesday: #44 anything goes
6. Sassy Cheryl's Stamps: #92 Winter
7. Craft Your Passions #86 Tis the Season
8. Addicited to Stamps Challenge #18: Christmas Card

  

Winter Song Birdies

Doodle Pantry is the sponsor of the weekly challenge over at 'The Scrapbooking Queen' and the theme is 'Christmas/Holidays'.  I think Doodle Pantry's  digital stamp set 'Winter Song Birdies  (Color Dove) is perfect for the theme!  These birdies are so delightful  singing on a perch  with their rosy red cheeks, makes me smile just to look at them.  Why don't you join the challenge this week at The Scrapbook Queen, create a project with a Christmas/Holiday focus and win a Doodle Pantry coupon.

Card Details: 

Stamp:  Doodle Pantry's "Winter Song Birdies Colored Set of Four' coloured version; leaf embellishment in the upper right corner  and the holly on the end of the flourish are from the same stamp only enlarged and cut out,  sentiment from the same stamp set. Note- this set can ordered individually  with only one bird and a couple of sentiments - available as Dove, Wren, bluebirds or mixed - one of each colour. Also available in outline only.

Paper: Stampin' Up, DCWV 'Four Seasons Stack' book

Flourish: Tim Holtz  'Elegant Flourishes'( modified somewhat)

Embossing Folder: Swiss Dots

Snowflake: MS punch and  Spellbinders 'Create a Flake or Two'

Stickles: on the earmuffs, hat trim, holly berries

Challenges entered:

The Scrapbooking Queen -  DT entry only

1. 2Sisters Challenge Blog: #67 Holidays

2. Crazy 4 Challenges : cfc115  create a card/project with some sort of snow on it - I have one large snowflake

3. Hiding in My Craft Room: Mix it Up Holiday

4. Send a Smile for Kids Challenge: Happy Holiday Wishes

5. Sweet Stampin Challenge: Punches or Dies 

6. Totally Gorjuss: challenge #108 Sparkle

7. Cardnadfairy's Digi Days: #22 Winter Wonderland

8. Card Makin Mamas: #34 Sentiments

DT Card for Lexi's Creations Challenge #54- One for the Lads

DT call at Lexi's Creations, we are looking for a some new members for the Design Team. Just add DT to your name when posting  if you wish to be considered!!

New challenge over at  Lexi’s Creations   with the theme of  One for the Lads'; challenge will run from NOV 28th - DEC10th, 2011. Thanks to everyone who played along with us for the last challenge 'No Straight Edges'  and hope you will join us for this one - One for the Lads!  The little fellow  I used as the main image is from 'The Stamping Bazaar'  (our guest sponsor). Isn't he just grand, cute as a button. I coloured him with Prismacolor markers and attached him to a Triangle Treat Box I had made out of some Stampin' Up  Card Stock. I had no little treats for the pictures, but one of my stepdaughters was on hand with  Little Latte sweets. As the Triangle box will going to her grand child I promised to have different treats, not coffee related, in it come Christmas time :). I used twine in place of ribbon to  tie the top closed.

Stamps:

Marvin with Candy Cane  from the Stamping Bazaar  

Branches: MS punch  

Die Cuts: Spellbinders  Deckled Rectangles  and Classic Standard Circles

Ticket : Whimsy Stamps

Star/Snowflake: Stampin Up  'Serene Snowflakes': I stamped and cut out the snowflake and placed it on  top of two die cut snowflakes  to create the dimensional star on the top of the box  (Spellbinders 'Create a Flake or Two').

We have two sponsors this week:

Sponsor: FDC Fairy Dust Crafts 

 

Sponsor: The Stamping Bazaar

 Head on over to Lexi's Creations for all of the challenge details AND  take a peek at all the lovely work from the multi talented Design Team while there! 

Challenges entered:

1.2Sisters Challenge Blog:#67 Holidays 

2. Sweet Stampin Challenge: Punches or Dies - I used a MS Punch for the branches and die cuts for  the botton two layers of my snowflake, the round circle in the backgroun and  the rectangle behind the bat 

3.Fairy Tale Challenges: #29 Christmas  I have created a triangle Christmas box

4. Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge #50: Make a Gift, anything but a card

5. Inspire Me Fridays: #34 linky party

6. Jingle Bells: Candy Kisses  

7.OCL93: Cute Critters

8. Totally papercrafts: Challenge 94 Christmas: 

Wishbone Ants

Doodle Pantry is the sponsor  of the weekly challenge over at 'Craft Your Passions' and the theme is 'Fall Colors'. Great theme and with the American Thanksgiving  this week I decided to use the  Doodle Pantry  digital stamp set 'Wishbone Ant's'.  Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends down south of the 49th parallel. Should be a lot of  wish making going on this Thursday!    I remember as child wishing with all my might while pulling on a wish bone, and as a parent  passing on the tradition to my son!  These  small kind of  things make  for fond memories  and are so much fun to do!

November 5 - 24th of this month is the Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge #18  and the featured product is 'Wishbone Ants' It is the complementary digital stamp set you can get by playing along with the  challenge this month.  It will be available for purchase after the challenge closes.

Card Details: 

Stamp:  Doodle Pantry's "Wishbone Ants' coloured version; leaf embellishment from Stampin' Up's  "Autumn Splendor' (stamped , heat embossed and cut out); ticket sentiment from 'Whimsy Stamps'

Paper: Stampin' Up

Die Cut: Spellbinders "Lattice Rectangles'

Ribbon: Michael's

Other: twine, metal swirl, dry wall tape 

Challenges entered:

Craft Your Passions: Fall Colors - DT entry only

Catch the Bug Challenge Blog: Thanksgiving or Thank You 

Digi Design Challenge: Fall Colors

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays: Embossing - My leaf embellishment is heat embossed

Just Some Lines: Tic Tac Toe - I used  embossing for  the leaf, ribbon  (under the scalloped border  at the bottom of the image rectangle),  and die cut (the small scalloped edging on the sides and botton of the image rectangle

Fairy Fun  Fridays: #66 anything fall

Patti's Creation Design Challenge #33 : Birthday or Thanksgiving - mine is Thanksgiving

Crafty Purple Frog: #28 use orange

Southern Girls challenge #32 - embellishment bingo I used:, twine or string,  punches and heat embossing

  

DT Card for Lexi's Creations Challenge #53 - No Straight Edges

Oh I do love this image of Sammy Snowman, I used him for the first card I made as a Guest Designor  for Lexi's Creations. I think he is totally adorable and he can be found at 'Fairy Dust Crafts'! The challenge this fortnight is 'No Straight Edges',  isn't that a great theme, I certainly think so because it lets me make one of my favourite type of card  - a round easel ! I don't know if you can tell but I made Sammy dimensional which makes it pop in real life:) I used Spellbinders  Nestabilities 'Beaded Circles'  and their 'classic Scalloped Circle' for the card. I then added a few embellishments and it was done. Quick, easy and fun!

Lexi's Creations challenge #53 - theme 'No Straight Edges'  Nov.14  thru Nov. 26th

Sponsor: Letraset

                                                                  

Win some promarkers

Challenges: 

Catered crop: Follow the Recipe - I used red and green colours,  an image with a winter scene  that also contained  hollies & berries and a Christmas sign.  The tools I used were die cuts  with scallops. The main technique was  layers.

Christmas card Challenge 2011 #50:  Deck the Halls - I have the holly

Paper Sundaes #95 use digital image

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #138 Punch It - use a least one punch and die cuts allowed

2 Sisters Challenge Blog:#65 Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss #106 Christmas Traditions -I have the holly and ivy . a Christmas snowman and the Merry Christmas sign

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #108 use a digital

Little Claire's Designs #15 Shaped Cards 

Christmas Ornament

I love this image of a Christmas ornament  by Sandi Huggett, isn't it grand!  Sandi Huggett and Anne Fenton have  joined forces and  started a challenge over at 'Outlawz' called  Creative Freebie Challenge. The images to be used are from digital  images they have drawn and  believe me, these are some  totally fabulous images!  For  the first challenge they have a variety of Christmas images you can download  AND if you make a card with at least one of them, enter it into the challenge, they will give you  additional three or four images in the next 2 to 3 weeks.  These are two very talented ladies so it should be  a lot of fun. I coloured the ornament with Prismacolor markers, added some stickles  and used a Sakura Gelly Roll pen on the poinsettia leaves to give some sparkle to the card, just does not show up very good in the picture.
 The ornament is dimensional as is the snowflake flower. I made the flower using holly leaves from a Stampin' Up set called  Sleigh Ride, and by punching out some snowflakes from several MS punches.

Challenges entered:
Creative Freebie Challenge 0utlawz - use one of the free digis supplied for the challenge
Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge - Texture
Fabulous Friday Challenge : Embossing - I used dry embossing
Floweret Stamps #8 Christmas cards
Totally Papercrafts  #92 the theme is Victorian - I have used a very Victorian type ornament
Wags' n Whiskers Stamps: #67 Christmas theme
Delightful Challenges: snowflakes

Deck the Halls

This is a different type of Christmas card for me, but I thought I would give it a go!    It is certainly not a traditional Christmas card  but the theme is Christmas. This gal reminds me of dance hall girls of old and I am sure they celebrated  the Christmas season too!

I used a Sassy Studio Design digital stamp called 'Steampunk Vivian', framed her in a Spellbinders Nestabilities  die cut (labels 20) and put it all on a  5x 5 card base. I used Spellbinders 'Grommet Tags' for the sentiment .

Embellishments: Holly branches from Stampin' Up's 'Sleigh Bells Ring' stamp set (stamped .coloured, and cut out), Martha Stewart branch punch and the flower from 'Floral Embellishments' by Recollections.

Challenges:

Sassy Studios Designs: Christmas Challenge; create a card using a Christmas Carol as the theme - I choose Deck the Halls .

Dutch Dare Card Challenge: #138 punches and dies

Digital Tuesday: #136 Anything Goes -  (2nd entry for me)

Papertake Weekly: First Christmas  card of the year challenge for PTW

Tip Top Tuesday: #59 Anything Christmas Goes

Cards for Men: Challenge 23 - It's Nearly Christmas

Daisy Doodles Creative  Challenge:#46  Anything Goes with a Digi

BJ's Card

My friend and stamping buddy Dawn has three wonderful son's . The middle son moved out a little while ago and I have been planning on giving him a little gift ever since. He not only moved away from the nest, but to another city and has bought a home and gotten a new job. Lucky Calgary to have such a new citizen. This Kenny k stamp doesn't really look like him but it gives off the vibe of jubilation  a young man must feel at the start of a new life and going out on his own. Good Luck  and all the best that life can give BJ. 

Stamp: Grove Dude by  Kenny  K

Ticket stamps: Whimsy  stamps (these ones were blank and I wrote in the sentiment)

Paper: certainly celery, whisper white by Stampin' Up, blue weathered bacground paper  from Stamp TV's free digital paper ; navy background  wall paper

Embellishmnets: button from stash, Epoxy Stickers by Recollections

Challenges :

Bearly Mine Challenges #23 : One for the Boyz

Digital Tuesday:  challenge #136 Anything goes

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges: #46 Anything Goes

Heart Song Inspiration:#23 - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations: Anything Goes

Kenny K Krafty Girlz Challenge#68: Celebrations (mine is celebration a new job and home for a young man.

Paper Sundaes: challenge #94 rectangles - mine has lots of rectangles from the card base to the images frame and the background papers. Even the 'tickets' are rectangles:)

Twelve days Of Christmas - Doodle Pantry Blog Hop

Gift tags

DOODLE PANTRY BLOG  Hop - Nov. 5th  thru 9th

 Welcome to my portion of the   DOODLE PANTRY  blog hop!

Have you have enjoyed your Twelve Day's of Christmas blog hop so far, I know we  are enjoying your visit and aren't the images fantastic! Hope we have given you loads of ideas. If you have arrived here from Vicki's blog you are right on track:)  If not and you wish to participate, go to the Doodle Pantry Blog which  has all the details and  is the start of the hop.   When finished your visit here at Gilby's Corner  (Glenda) you need to visit Sharon!

 Note:  to enter the blog hop you must must enter your url and name/email in the special LINKY  in the Doodle Pantry Blog hop post to be in the draw for prizes.  Depending on the number of participants  there will either be 5 or 8 winners (1-50 = 5 winners ; 60 and up = 8 winners). Winners receive each a $10.00 coupon from the Doodle Pantry store.

It is not necessary to leave a comment to win one of the prizes, but all comments are appreciated :0) AND not only that,  but two lucky commenters  will be selected from all the comments left on two of the Design Team Blogs for a $15.00 gift coupon . Who those two blogs are is anybody's guess !! 

The more comments the more chance to win!

Stamp Set: Twelve days of Christmas by Doodle pantry. This is one great set and the possibilities of what can be done with it are so varied (as I hope the hop has highlighted).  I am always needing  gift tags so I  decided to display that option. I left a few without ribbon as I decided I needed some without  just to tuck under some of my more larger bows ( I use some pretty large ones) on my gifts. Perfect!!! To see this set and all it has to offer go here!

Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge # 18

Please check back at the Doodle Pantry Blog site  for the Doodle Pantry #18  Nov. 5th challenge:

• DPDC#18 - must use a Doodle Pantry stamp to receive one stamp free for participating. The free stamp this month is 
  Wishbone Ants. There will be two winners chosen by random.org for a $15.00 coupon for the Doodle Pantry Shop.

Challenges Entered:

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge:  #107Anything Goes

Mami Doodles: Digital Stamps: challenge 37 - Christmas

Sweet'n Sassy Digi Challenge:#27 - Christmas/Holiday Theme

4 Crafty Chicks: challenge #62 Die cuts

Charisma Cardz - Cutsey challenge #44

Crimbo Crackers: challenge #1 - Anything Goes

PaperCrafting Journey: Challenge #22- use a digi - all the images in the 12 days of Christmas are Digi's.

Southern Girls:Challenge #31 - inspired by a song