Day 2 - My Creative Time 121st Release!

 No doubt after seeing the ideas from the design team, you have come to 

realize this will be a great week!

I loved the sneaks so much from today, I had to make two cards!

First off a clean and simple:

This card features an image from yesterday's peaks, but I had to use the adorable stencil ( which is the freebie to the first 25 shoppers on Friday) to make the coffee stain and steam!  

OMG!  I love it and you will also!

For my second card I got to dust off my Copic  markers!

This coffee leaf image is stunning even without color, but I just did a little shading (after I googled 

what a coffee leaf was supposed to look like :))

The sentiments are from the sets we featured on Monday so you can see how beautifully

they stamp and die cut!

I know the rest of the team will knock your socks off!

***SNEAK PEEK GIVEAWAY***

We will be giving away the sets we are showcasing each day to ONE lucky winner! ALL winners will be announced on my blog on Friday during the blog hop.   All you have to do is leave a comment on each of our blogs! You are REQUIRED to comment on EVERY SINGLE blog in order to be considered a winner! VERY IMPORTANT, please leave a way for us to contact you w/your comment just in case "YOU" are the lucky winner~! 

Thanks for stopping by and I will see you again tomorrow!

Cathy

My Minds Eye paper collection!

Hi all! I’m very excited to share with you a new set of cards that I’ve completed today. These are created from a 6 x 6 paper pad from My Minds Eye. The touch of gold adds an elegance to these cards. I was able to get 32 cards out of this paper pad which I am thrilled with that number. It was well worth my time to get that many top quality all occasion cards. I did a quick video so that you can see each card up close. Stay tuned for video #2 where I explain the process I go through when I’m making this set of cards. 

Here are two of the cards from this set!

Both using Cardztv stamps!

Here is the prep video showing you how I prepared for making

these 32 cards!

Thank you for stopping by. 

If you are enjoying my posts, please leave a quick message.  I'd love to hear from you.

Cathy

Where has the time gone???

I cannot believe that today is

Christmas Eve!

We have church choir practice

at 6pm so I didn't have a lot on

the schedule for today.

I did need a few boxes

that I will use to give the gift of CASH

to my grands!  LOL!  Unfortunately

as they have become older, it has become harder

and harder to buy for them.  One of them wants

to buy tractor parts - I mean seriously - here's the money!!!

I used a cut file from Lori Whitlock to create these cute

little gems and cut them with my Air 2.  I inked the edges of

my SU Designer papers, used various ribbons and a die cut

to finish off my project.

Totally cute and reusable!

I will be using this cut file again and again!

I could not believe that I have not posted

since September!  I promise I've been busy in craft room

but just haven't posted.  At the risk of boring you, I will post

a few pics below of some recent projects!

Well it's time for me to jump in the shower

so I will leave you for now!

I do want to give you a challenge before I go.

After Christmas my craft room is FILLED with partial

pieces of paper, multiple stamp sets and dies just lying

around.  I take time and create at least 10 more Christmas

items before I put them away.  This will give me a head

start on next year and I will use some of the items that

now look like trash!  In 2019, I'm taking it one step

farther in that I will be creating 6 Christmas cards a 

month so I will also be ready for Christmas 2019.

Hopefully this will allow me to enjoy the holidays with

a little less stress!  Since I used a lot of my Copic colored images

I will also be stamping many and taking time in January

to color!  I LOVE to color!  Maybe the snow gods will

even bless us with a little snow so I can watch the snow

fall while I color!

If you chose to join me on my Clean up Challenge, let

me know in the comments!  It will be fun to see what you create!

Also, if any of you want to post your Christmas cards

each month on FB, please tag me!

I'd love to see your creations !

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Mimi

More Fun!

Another awesome afternoon of card making!

I have a fun shaped card to share with you today.

I have a new Die-Namics die

and I just had to try and create

a cute shaped card!  I love it!

The stamped images are from Sizziz.  I used my

Copic pens for coloring the images. 

There are a set of dies that come with the

images but I wanted to put them on an entire white

card.  I love how the stitched die cut

frames my art!

Now that I have tried this shape - I can see

many more cards in my future!

Thanks for stopping by!

Cathy (Mimi)

Cardztv 3D Challenge - 3 Small Tags!

First let me begin by saying

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I hope you all had a wonderful time with

family and friends and that you felt

the abundance of God's blessings.  My

husband and I spent the day with my oldest

son, his wife and two boys.  It was a great day!

I can get used to NOT being the hostess for all these

holidays.  It felt great to go to someone else's home

and share in the chores and cooking.

My DIL Carrie did a wonderful job

on the food and preparations for this

special day.  I'm so lucky - she is AWESOME!

Now onto the newest challenge

from Cardztv!  I love tags and I was

really excited when Mary announced this

was our challenge.    I never used to make

tags, but recently have found that I can create

them and have as much fun as I do

in making cards.

Here are my three tags!  Love them!

I found a shape in the Silhouette store and I 

wanted the shape to be curly at the top so 

it would look like a hat.

I also used the fill page feature and cut

out an entire sheet of 12x12 paper of these tags.

To finish off the tag, I glued another tag

on the back to hide all of the twine I wrapped

around for the hat.  I like the finished look

I am having a hard time uploading videos so I 

took a few pictures as I was creating the tags.

I used painter's tape and masked each tag

from where I wanted to create the colored

hat.  The next two photos show how

I used the new Tim Holtz mini distress inks

to color the hats.  BTW - I love the little

inkers!  I can see myself using these

now instead of the bigger ones.

You also see a "craft mat" that I have my tags

taped on.  This mat makes it so simple

to ink and clean up the mess!

Who doesn't love Peachy Keen Stamps????

I like the bigger sets so I can choose the

size I need based on what I'm creating.

I picked out three different snowman faces

to create my tags.  I then colored the nose with

my Copic markers and used chalk on the

eyes and nose.  I love the dimension.

I used two sets of Cardztv Stamps

SNOW DAY & CHRISTMAS JOY

I love how you can mix Mary's

stamps together!

Here again are the final design.  I had to add

some sequins!  Love the sparkle.

Thanks for stopping by!  Join us in this 

challenge for a chance to win a set of 

Cardztv Stamps.

Dates: November 28 - December 11

I can't wait to see your creations!

Mimi