Two Snowmen

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to my blog. 

Today is the start of Crafty Creations Challenge #356

The theme is - Anything Goes

Sponsor - Bugaboo

Image used - Two Snowmen

The snowman image I chose to use is so adorable!!!

I thought he'd look great on a tag. 

So I colored it and cut it out using an oval.

I mounted it on a tag cut from shimmer paper and added some punched snowflakes.

I also added glitter (which didn't show up in this pic)

To add the to/from info, I added a stamped circle to the back of the tag. 

The stamp I've used, I've had forever, and this worked out great on the back of the tag. 

Here's the back of the tag. 

It gives me the capability of adding to/from info 

since I think shimmer paper might be hard to write on.

This stamp is so old and it's from Catslife Press.

but it's still available and its #654F

Please visit the Crafty Creations Challenges site and check out the projects

 the other designers have made.

Also, this challenge will continue until December 19, 

so you have some time to enter your project in the challenge. 

You could be our next winner

I am submitting my tag in the following challenges:

• A Snowflakes Promise  #46- Anything Goes (#150)
• Cardz 4 Guyz  #184 - Snowman (#3)
• Crafty Sentiment Designs  - Anything Goes (#12)
• Creates and Makes  - #17 - Anything Goes (#41)
• Digi Choosday Challenge - #49 - Anything Goes (#9)
• Retarte  #111 - Anything Goes  (#10)
• Always Fun Challenges -  #34 Snowmen (#11)
• AuroraWings Challenge -  #62 ANYTHING BUT A CARD (#5)
• Crafting from the Heart -  ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES (#57)
• Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges -  ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES (#22)
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge -  ICY INSPIRATION (#48)

I hope you’ve enjoyed my project. And I hope you will link a project in our challenge. Don’t forget our theme is always Anything Goes. Thanks so much for stopping by today and check out the inspiration from the other designers by visiting the Crafty Creations Challenge blog.

Have a wonderful week and I will be back soon

Craft-Dee BowZ December Blog Hop

Hi Everyone,
Boy, December is here already!!  Today, Craft-Dee BowZ is hosting their last blog hop for the year!! The time has really flown by for me, how about you??

If you arrived here from Amber's blog then you are in the right spot. If not, then you may want to start at the Craft-Dee BowZ blog to get all the details to be eligible for the giveaway. There will be a prize awarded to one of the commenters, so please make sure to leave a comment at each blog including the Craft-Dee BowZ Blog. Here are the Designers in the hop:

Patti

Brenda

Amber 

Barbara 

Craft-Dee BowZ  (to leave one last comment)

Since this months blog hop celebrates Christmas, you have been treated to all things Christmas.I hope you have seen some things along the way that you will want to try for your projects.

Let me share what I have designed today. I've made an ensemble for the blog hop.

First let me present my card.

This card utilizes scraps of ribbons used as a woven background. I love the look this gives, lots of texture on your card canvas. LOL  The card has a great bow that is a three loop bow. I pulled the loops out to further define the loops and it reminded me of a snowflake of sorts. I then added over the bow knot, a rosette with a snowflake attached to the top. Those were made using vellum. The tree is made using a teabag folding technique and that and the snowflakes are also made using vellum.

Next lets check out a wrapped gift.

I used a a pillow box as the gift box. Using some shimmery card stock means no need to use wrapping paper.And you have to love that. So, all it needed was a bow.

Yummy multi-loop bow

A close up of the 3 loop bow.
The ribbon is 2 1/2" wide and wired on the edges.

This ribbon was so very easy to work with, even though it was wide, and the end result was really a a nice puffy bow. What a great presentation this will make to the recipient.

OK,  lets look at a gift tag.

I made a large gift tag. I wanted to use some larger items and a smaller tag just wouldn't work. Don't be afraid to make things larger than you normally would. I also used some elements that actually stuck out beyond the edge of the tag.That adds to the uniqueness of the design.

I had a bit of the blue ribbon left (from the cards that I made and posted here Sunday and then Tuesday) but definitely not enough for a bow, so I used it for the piece that threads through the hole on the tag.  I used a 1" silver (Oh So Glittery) ribbon that really compliments the tag and the blue ribbon. It looks great with that snowflake sprig of ribbon that I added just for more interest.

Hope you saw something that caught your eye, maybe a design that you can use on something you want to make.

I am the last designer in the blog hop, so don't forget to leave a comment here and then stop back at the Craft-Dee BowZ blog to make one last comment and you are done and you will be in the running for the prize of your very own Craft-Dee BowZ tool. Thanks for taking the time to hop along with us today.

By the Way, Craft-Dee BowZ will be announcing the new Design Team for 2014 on Sunday so you might want to come back Sunday for the news.

Hope you have a very Merry Christmas!!

Every Artist

Hi everyone and welcome back!!!And welcome to my new followers, too.

Recently I mentioned how orange is not one of my fav colors. LOL Well I guess I might have to eat my words.You'll see in a minute!! Now I guess that means I can wear those orange pants, but I am going to limit my wearing to Halloween. Otherwise I might be mistaken as an orange Popsicle. LOL

OK let me share a quick little project I made. And it has shades of ORANGE!!!, OH MY!!! imagine that. Well after all it's fall now!! LOL

I made a tag and it started out as white CS.  Next I stamped the verse and the image and then I sponged on all of the fall colors (.See, orange is in that tag.)  Next I cut a few leaves using vellum. I sponged inks made my bow and put it all together. I photographed it and was writing this post and I looked at those leaves and decided they needed something. Well you know what that means, time to add something to finish those leaves off. I got out some glitter and defined the veins and it was just what was needed. You be the judge.

Here is the same tag and the only thing I did was to glitter the veins on the leaves.

Those leaves look like leaves, now. 

Here are the items I used:

inks: Memento- Cantaloupe, Desert Sand, New Sprout, Morocco, Olive Grove, Peanut Brittle, - Distressed Inks - Fired Brick

CS: White, Vellum

Spellbinders Dies: S4-158 Sunflower Set Two & S4-157 Sunflowers Set One (leaf from each set)

Stamps: Unity - Imagine It ( DD-706)

Sponge Dauber

Glue pen

Glitter - Sparkle N Sprinkle  Parisian Mist glitter - G1037

Ribbon ( from my stash)

Bow Making tool - Craft-Dee BowZ

Well thanks a lot for stopping in today.Have a great week!!

Time for the Cornish Heritage Farms Challenge

Hi Everyone

It's time for the next CHF challenge. The current challenge is being hosted by the ever talented Lisa. The theme she decided on is Birthday Card or Tag. Well I decided to make my tag into a birthday card. 

Here is what I came up with:

and here is the inside

I used the Time To Stamp set from the Rummage Bin. 

Love this set!!!

As I was trying to get this tag design together I spied one of the new stencils ( a bunch of gears) that I recently purchased and I thought would fit right in with the timepiece theme, so I sponged that on the front of the tag. Next I  used a gear punch for the copper colored gears and stamped and embossed the quarter piece of the clock. Since this set really isn't specifically about a birthday, I improvised a little. I printed the word "It's" on to CS then stamped the word Time, from this set, underneath. On the inside of the tag/card, I used my computer to print out the rest of the sentiment and then cut it out using a Spellbinders Labels Die.The half circle below the sentiment is also from this great set as well.

Want to play along????

If you would like to play along with us of course we would love to have you! AND - if you do, you could win a $10 Gift Certificate and a Winner's Badge to put on your Blog!

To play create a card using CHF images. You can use either CHF digi or rubber stamps to create a card or project.... anything you like as long as the stamps are Cornish Heritage Farms. (Yes, they can be older stamps.) 

Once you have created your card/project come back here and place a comment with a link to your card/project to this post so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword CHF04. We can't wait to see what you create! 

Don't forget to check out the Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team's card on their blogs. 

*  Anne  *  Barb  *  Barbara (You are HERE) *  Cindy  *
*  Dawn  *  Debbie  *  Deneen *  Dianne  * Frances  *  Holly *
*  Jacqueline  *  Kris  *  Kristine  *  Lisa  *  Michele  *  
*  Petra  *  Steph  *  Vicki  *

Thanks so much for stopping in today. Have a great holiday and see you soon,