Celebrate The Season

Hi there! 

I just looked at the calendar and got a shock. Did you know that it's just about 14 weeks til Christmas?  OK, I know I know - I can hear you saying "Don't remind me".  But  I'm just saying..............    LOL

Hey, it's time for the next challenge over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends. 

The sponsor for this challenge is AMB Illustrations
Hope you check out their great selection of digi's

The prize will be  - 2 packs from their store

The theme is always Anything Goes

Let me share my project and I hope it gives you some inspiration. 

I decided to use Cute Reindeer.  
he's adorable, isn't he??

I imagined that this reindeer was out in a forest so I stamped a pine tree forest to look like a background and added some die cuts for additional interest. 

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps: Digital - AMBillustrations - cute reindeer stamp set; Rubber - Stampscapes - Pine Tree, Pines and Rocks, Hero Arts - Holiday Ribbons (old, old stamp set) Paper/Card Stock: Blue CS, Dk. Green CS, Med. Green CS Ink: Memento - Northern Pine Dies Used: Sizzix - Large Pine Tree, Tim Holtz Sizzix- Woodlands Accessories: Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

I am submitting this card in the following challenges:

• A Bit More Time to Craft  #76 - Anything Goes(#16)
• A Perfect Time To Craft #9 - Always Anything Goes (#137)
• Animal Friends Challenge  #66 - In the Woods(#20)
• Classic Design Team Open Challenge  Always Anything Goes (#106)
• Crafts Galore Encore  #55 - Always Anything Goes (#120)
• Crafty Animals  #18 - Always Anything Goes (#71)
• Crafty Girls Creations Challenge  #50 - Always Anything Goes (#60)
• DL.Art Linky Challenge  September - Anything Goes  (#119)
• Happy Little Stampers Christmas  September - Anything Goes + option : Tree (#24)
• LeAnn’s World 101  #6 -  Anything Goes (#18)
• Love to Craft  #26 - Anything Goes (#141)
• Love to Scrap  #113 - Anything Goes (#111)
• Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog  #2 - Anything Goes (#74)
• Morgan's ArtWorld Open Challenge  September - Anything Goes (#88)
• Paru's Card Making Challenge  September - Anything Goes (#43)
• The Creative Crafters  #8 - Anything Goes (#8)
• The Merry Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes (#12)
• World Wide Open Design Team Challenge  Always Anything Goes (#12)

I hope you enjoyed my project.
Don't forget to submit your project in the challenge.
 I'd love to see what you've been working on. 

Thanks for visiting my blog today, 

and I'll be back soon sharing another fun 
and creative project. 

Welcome to my Garden

Hello Everyone
Are you ready for Christmas?? No?!? Me either. But I will get there!!

I am shocked at how fast the time has gone 

since my last project for Lil Patch of Crafty Friends. 

A couple of weeks really flies by, doesn't it??!! 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends

has 2 sponsors for this challenge

The first sponsor is Emerald Faeries

 Their prize is 2 images

The 2nd sponsor is 

AMB illustrations

Their prize is 2 packs from the store.

There is a funny story that I have to share about this card.

The project was to use the digital image from Emerald Faeries 

AND a digital paper from AMB illustrations. 

Well, as soon as I saw the image I knew exactly what I wanted to have my project look like.

So I made the card and photographed it and was getting my post here done extra early.As I was looking at the pic's it dawned on me that I did not use any digital papers from AMB illustrations. 

So back to the drawing board. LOL

 I made a totally different design, making sure to use a digital paper from AMB illustrations.

Here is my project with my cute faerie and one of the beautiful papers from AMB illustrations

I just love that faerie sitting on that snail. And my vision had him close to a mushroom. 

OK let me share the 1st card I made and this is the one in which didn't a digital paper. 

This one is a dome card and again that cute faerie is in a mushroom forest, 

right where I had envisioned it,

Well, today you get 2 cards for the price of one. LOL.

Hope you like both of these designs. 

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Digital - Emerald Faeries - Boo & Snookie                  Rubber Stamps - Art Gone Wild Catherine Scanlon -                      Fungus Amongus 3 (on the 1st card above),                   Fungus Amongus 5 (on the 2nd card above) Paper/Card Stock: (1st card above)Brown CS White CS, Digi paper design - AMG illustrations - Christmas Evergreen Papers (2nd Card above) Shimmer CS - Bronze, Blue, White CS Ink: India Ink - Black, Distress Oxide - Fossilized Amber Dies Used:  (Card 2) Spellbinders Circle, Square  Accessories: Spectrum Noir, Outline Sticker Borders.

• Crafting-With-Friends  - No.57 - Anything Goes (#25)
• Colour Crazy Challenge -  No.50 - Anything Goes (#11)
• Emerald City Crafts Challenge Blog -  No. 6 - Anything Goes (#38)
• Jo's Scrap Shack - No. 219 - Anything Goes (#22)
• Polkadoodles – No.50 - Anything Goes (#15)
• Simply Papercraft - No. 53 - Anything Goes (#100)

Thanks for stopping in today. I will be back soon.

Have a "Beary" Christmas

Welcome Back!!!

The latest challenge over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends has just started. Hope you can join in the fun. We'd love to see your creation.

Theme - Anything Goes

Digital image I am using - Merry Berry Bear

Prize - 2 packs from the store

Sponsor - AMBillustrations

I thought this bear was so adorable and decided to show him off 

standing in the woods feeding the birds

I cut a panel and stamped a few pine trees to give the background that woodsy feel.Next I stamped the image on a separate piece of CS, colored it using colored pencils and gamsol to blend the colors. Next I fussy cut it out leaving some CS at the bottom attached to the bear for a snow effect.  I added glitter to the bottom of the image and also colored the sky with Distress Ink Oxides to kind of look like a sunrise and then added some glitter in the sky to look like snowflakes. Then I popped the bear up on the panel and added a sweet sentiment. 

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Crafty Friends Challenge - Add a Sentiment  (#16)
• Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Anything Christmas Goes - optional theme: Use Some Blue (#22)
• Di's Digis Designs 2W, 3E,SIO Things with Wings, Tails and or Feathers  (#4)
• Imagine That! Creative Playground  November - Anything Crafty Goes (#23)
• Scrappers Delights  -November - Anything Goes (#37)
• Colour Crazy Challenge   - No.46 - Anything Goes (#24)
• Crafting-With-Friends -  No.55 - Anything Goes  (#33)
• Crafty Catz -  No. 393 - Anything Goes (#53)
• Creative Fingers -   No. 141 - Anything Goes  (#28)
• Emerald City Crafts Challenge Blog -  No. 5 - Anything Goes (#64)
• Jo's Scrap Shack- No. 215 - Anything Goes (#27)
• Polkadoodles -  No.46 - Anything Goes(#15)
• Simply Papercraft - M, Last Fri - No. 52 - Anything Goes(#164)

I hope you’ve enjoyed my project. I'd love to see you link a project in the Lil Patch of Crafty Friends challenge. Don’t forget the theme is always Anything Goes. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and we’ll see you soon!