Snowmen Melt Your Heart

 Happy Monday, peeps!  I have a fun little Christmas card using a really old Lizzie Anne stamp:

The Inkspirational and Little Red Wagon challenges both feature snow, and Hand Stamped Sentiments has a color challenge:

I stamped the snowmen in Misty Moonlight and colored them in with Blends, then added some glitter:

After diecutting it with the Nested Stitched Label dies, I mounted it on a Misty Moonlight cardbase which was stamped with some snowflakes from a retired SU set, and embellished it with some Old Olive ribbon and glimmer snowflakes.  Here's the inside:

I'll add it to my stash for next year!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Punch (ret), Snowmen (Lizzie Anne), Compliments of the Season (Waltzingmouse)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Misty Moonlight, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer
Ink	Misty Moonlight, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Craft White
Accessories	Old Olive Ribbon, Dimenisonals, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Nested Stitched Labels Dies, Blends, Snowflake Dies (Shady Lane)

Sparkling Snowflakes

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  I have another Christmas card today to show you….I still haven’t sent mine out yet, but I’m working on it!  This is for three challenges:

• City Crafter Challenge is “Glittering Snowflakes”

• Try Stampin’ on Tuesday has a sketch and a “Joy” theme:

• and finally, the Kraft Journal has a “White on White challenge! 

So here is my snowflake-y, sparkly, joyous white and kraft tall card:

 

I know the word “joy” isn’t there, but the musical piece is “O Holy Night” (from Crafty Secrets’ Vintage Christmas CD), and happiness and peace certainly bring joy!  My glimmer paper snowflakes float down amidst some pretty white sequins, and I have stamped my Crumb Cake card with various retired SU snowflakes!

I had some pearls just right for the centers of my snowflakes, and they matched my sentiment stamped in Early Espresso!  I added some EE ribbon and I have another for my soon-to-be-sent stash!

We began our cookie-making yesterday, and Cassidy was quite helpful…this is the first time I let her take the butter out of the paper, although she just couldn’t keep her fingers out of the butter itself.  Of course, my motto is “Everything is better with butter” so I guess she gets it honestly!

She liked the batter too…and the chocolate chips….well, you get the picture!  We had lots of hand-washing going on!  Thanks for visiting today!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Itty Bitties, Christmas Punch, The Snowflake Spot, Star-Studded Season
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Parchment Paper, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper
Ink	Early Espresso, Craft White, Creamy Caramel
Accessories	Early Espresso Ribbon, Pearls, Sequins
Tools	Crafty Secrets Vintage Christmas CD, Big Shot, Make a Snowflake Dies (Taylored Expressions), Small Heart Punch, Dimensionals

Merry Monday 23

 

Happy Monday, peeps!  It’s time for Lesley’s Merry Monday sketch challenge!  Use her sketch every week, and soon you’ll have lots of cards for the Christmas holidays!  Here’s our sketch 23:

I finally broke open the pack of Be of Good Cheer DP that I received and I kind of went overboard with it!!!

This is a bit of a departure from my normal style, but I just couldn’t help myself---the prints and colors of this paper are so fun to work with!  I used a retired tag image from Christmas Punch, stamped twice; once in Cherry Cobbler and again in Gumball Green, and then cut out the hat and adhered it to the tag.  I mounted it on a circular base of Gumball Green and added some cool Gumball Green stitched ribbon and a glimmer brad:

Of course, he had to have some “snow” of Dazzling Diamonds glitter!!!  My sentiment is from Four the Holidays, which I am sad to say is retired as well!  I hope that you’ll be able to play with us this week over at Always Playing with Paper, which hosts the Merry Monday challenge, and peek at the other creations as well!

I don’t have any Cassidy photos today---but I did snag a few pix of a snapping turtle at my neighbor’s pond.  (Sorry, I know that’s not as fun as Cassidy!)   Every spring we usually see one; sometimes it comes all the way across our yard, down across our stream, across the road, and eventually makes it to his pond:

 

 

As soon as he saw me coming, he plopped in the water so fast, I couldn’t get another shot. Although judging by the grass “skirt”, it may be a “she”!!!  Maybe next year!  Have a happy week!