Pink Christmas

Happy week before Thanksgiving!

I have a Christmas card to share with you all today...

A pink Christmas Card.. My mom will love it I'm sure as she LOVES

all things pink!

I won this cute as a button Stampendous stamp a few weeks ago from

Designed to Color

and I thought this was the perfect time to use it!

Aren't those elves just so adorable???

I wanted to add the stars but could not for the life of me figure out how to make them

a banner... Finally I just popped them on with pop dots and added the twine behind them... It turned out cute right??

For the Heart I die cut it and then I used my new

Distress Stains to make the pretty mottled background, I stamped

the "merry christmas" with my staz-on black, and added a start inside the heart as well..

The December is a Tim Holtz embossing folder and again the heart was a die cut!

I'm following along with a number of challenges with this card

Bearly Mine Challenges: Pink Christmas

By the Cute and Girly: Twinkle Twinkle little star

Crafty Sentiments Design: Christmas

Cute Card Thursdays: Starry Night

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge: Anything Goes

Tuesday Alchemy: Anything Goes

Diva's by design: Anything goes

31 Days of Halloween: Day 11

Only 20 more days till Halloween!!! 

Yeah!?!?

I have been having so much fun creating something new for Halloween every day, 

I know this post is almost into tomorrow, I have just been super busy!

So... without further ado, here is a fun Halloween Tag that I made!

I'm following along with a Christmas tag challenge, and you will see that Christmas tag

shortly! But for now, I'll just slap this post up so you can see the pretty tag!

Do you like??  here are some close ups

Fun and can definitely be used to decorate around the house!

Hope you've had a fabulous day!

Entering this into:

Pennys paper crafting challenge: Anything but a Card

Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Dies or Punches (the heart is a die cut)

Paper Crafting Journey: Add some Bling

Marking things off my list

I rescently wrote a 35 before 36 list, (no I haven't shared it here)

One of the things on my list is to keep in better touch with my long-distance friends

I made this card in attempt to make a start at that!

The image is from the super talented Krista Smith from Saturated Canary

You've seen her work on my pages before! 

Her new challenge is to use Polka Dots, so I did my very best to polka up everything!

Even the little ribbon which was all black, I added white dots using my white gel pen

Here is the close up of this this pretty little fairy

I added some "clear" glitter glue to her wings to make them stand out

I cut her out using my Big kick die cut machine and a Spellbinders Oval nestabilities

On the black oval I ran it through my cuttlebug embossing polka dot folder

Now for the butterfly!  I'm so excited to share this butterfly with you all!!!

She is made out of a dryer sheet!

YES, I said a dryer sheet!  You wanna know how??  I will not take credit for this one.. I found this

fab tutorial on youtube here

It's hard to see, but the butterfly is actually see through! 

I even threw some extra dryer sheets in with my blankets tonight so I'll have some more to work

with this next weekend, ha!

I also added some stitching along the edges, and along the sentiment too!

I can't wait to send this beauty off to Florida! 

Entering this card into:

Crafters Cafe: Stitching Faux or real (mine's real!!)

Pile it on: #36 For Princess

Pennys Paper Crafting: #92 Sew Charming

Divas by Design: #51 Friendship

Saturated Canary: #25 Polka Dots



Blog Candy and an Altered Purple Present Box

Happy Wednesday all!

Hubby and I just got back from a super relaxing mini vacay up to Prescott

We did some hiking, some swimming, and some sight seeing...

And I spent zero time in the studio!!  It was a fab night away, and we definitely 

need to do more of those! 

Don't forget that the new challenge blog kicks off this weekend, and you all are going

to LOVE all the fun things this super talented design team has come up with!

Please check out the site over at http://anythingbutacard.blogspot.com 

Carla has been so generous as to share some Candy with you all!!!

 MMMM looks yummy!  So hop on over and check out the site, and get your anything but a card

projects ready!!!

And speaking of anything but a card, I have a Present box to share with you today....

I made it using aluminum tape,  Plum and eggPlant alcohol inks, embossed Pretty Swirls,

and a Punched tag! Ok, Ok, are you sick of the P's?? That's the challenge over at Pile it on Challenge

It's just a cute bracelet Present that we picked up for Hubby's mom as a thank you for watching our 

Puppies while we were out of town!

Entering into: 

All Sorts: It's a gift

Penny's Paper Crafty: Sparkle and Shine 

Pile it on Challenges: I spy something with a P

simple card

Just a quick card I made the other day...

I wanted to try coloring this new SC digi,

and while I'm not super happy with the coloring, I think the card is cute and simple!

Plus I tied the bow myself... (I'm very proud of this bow!)

It's little and dainty, and has a tiny rhinestone in the middle! 



Entering this card into:

Penny's paper craft challenges: sketch challenge