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Happy Monday, peeps!  I had a whirlwind weekend, on the road here and there and I am beat this morning!  But I did manage to get my Merry Monday card created….only one more week before I say goodbye to my MM teammates, sniff!  Lori’s challenge should get your mojo going:

I have to admit I was a wee bit stumped, but I remembered some Cosmo Cricket papers I had from a long time ago, and a matching stamp set.  The little snowmen are on a field of Blushing Bride…not a typical Christmas card color, so I went to work:

I was originally only going to stamp the snowman, but he looked lonely, so I stamped a green penguin (LOL!), gave them a pieced hat & scarf and set them down on a snowy hill!

I added a little “joy” banner stamped in Real Red with some Soft Sky shading, and the final sentiment was from a retired SU set called Jolly Old St Nick! 

Be sure to check out what the design team came up with….lots of fun creations there this week!  Thanks for visiting today!

Just a few fall photos from around my yard:

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Happy Monday, peeps!  I hope you had a great weekend….we did!  It’s time for another Merry Monday sketch!  I hope you’ll find some time in your schedule to use this to make another Christmas card to add to your supply.  If you’ve not played before, jump right in!  Here’s the sketch from Lesley for this week:

I went super, super CAS this week because I have company coming and I needed to make this QUICK!  I made a tent-topper card (at least that’s what I call it!) using two retired sets, Welcome Christmas and Jolly Old Saint Nick:

 

The card base is  4 1/4” square, and the topper extends just far enough to allow it to still fit into a standard-size envelope.  I stamped the image in Always Artichoke on Confetti White and used my Nestabilities to cut the circle and scalloped mats:

A really simple ribbon embellishment atop some pretty retired SU paper, and it was done!  Hope you find some inspiration in what the other designers have created this week as well….they are BEAUTIFUL!  Check them out at the Always Playing with Paper blog!!

Since I will have company this week, I may be blogging and commenting less frequently, but I’ll be back next week for sure!  Here’s a little Cassidy fix for you, awaiting her piece of “cake” as Grampy cuts it:

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Just a quick post today as we have a funeral to attend.  Lesley’s Merry Monday sketch was perfect for a little piece of DP I already had sitting on my desk:

and here’s my quick card:

Card base is Riding Hood Red, accent is Always Artichoke.  I stamped Santa on textured Very Vanilla and just colored him in with markers and added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter!  Easy peasy!

Thanks for the visit!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for the next ColourQ challenge!

A bazillion toys and she plays with coasters!!!

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Hi everyone!  It’s Sunday and that means a challenge from the Paper Players!  Anne Marie is our hostess today and she’s got a fun sketch for us:

To fulfill my once-a-week Christmas card challenge to myself, I made another card using the Snow Much Fun set (again), and I took the liberty of moving the sentiment because it just fit better with my image:

It’s a little smaller than a standard card, so there is room for the sentiment to extend and still fit in a standard envelope.  The base is Island Indigo with a surprise pop of Calypso Coral for a mat.  His little carrot nose and the brad embellishment help pull the colors together.   Mr. Snowman is stamped in Stazon on Crumb Cake and watercolored and markered and glittered and he is just a happy fellow:

I even glittered up the sentiment a little!

I hope that you will play with the Paper Players this week because we’d love to see your take on this fun sketch! 

Wee Details:

• Stamps:  Snow Much Fun, Jolly Old St Nick
• Paper:  Island Indigo, Calypso Coral, Crumb Cake, Island Indigo Patterns DP
• Ink:  Stazon, Craft White, Pool Party
• Acc:  Polka Dot Brad, Modern Label Punch, Northern Frost Die, White & Black Watercolor Crayons, Aquapainter, Pool Party, Calypso Coral & Certainly Celery Markers, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Dauber 
  

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Happy almost-4th of July to everyone!  I was doing a happy dance when I saw Jaydee’s Paper Players  challenge today—Christmas in July!  Yippee! 

That fits right in with my one-Christmas-card-a-week challenge to myself!  I pulled out a set from last year’s mini that sadly, did not make it into the big catalog…..but I am keeping Jolly Old Saint Nick around anyway:

Can you see all his glittering finery?

Oh, he’s a cutie!  Dazzling Diamonds and Chunky Red Glitter really make him a keeper!  He’s stamped on Shimmery White paper and watercolored with an aquapainter; his hat was stamped on Riding Hood Red cardstock and paper pieced so that no white would peek out from under the glitter.  I loosely used the sketch from this week’s SCS SC339, just changing it up a tiny bit!  It’s a great CAS sketch!  The sentiment is from Four the Holidays, and I didn’t have any red glimmer brads, so I colored a pink one with a Copic marker:

And here’s the inside:

I hope everyone has a safe & happy 4th of July!  Make sure you slide on over to the Paper Players to see what the other designers have created for Christmas this week, and welcome Tui Nathan as our guest designer for this month!

Wee Details:

• Stamps:  Jolly Old Saint Nick, Four the Holidays, Christmas Greetings
• Paper:  WW, Shimmery White, Riding Hood Red, Just Add Cake
• Ink:  Stazon, Peach Parfait, Regal Rose, Bashful Blue
• Acc:  Aquapainter, Glue Pen, White Gel Pen, Glimmer Brads, Copic, Brads, Dazzling Diamonds, Chunky Glitter, Dimensionals