An Outhouse Christmas!

HI!  I'm so excited to be Guest Designer at Love To Create Challenges this week!!!   This week's challenge is Anything Goes and is sponsored by Rick St. Dennis. I was gifted with this ADORABLE image called Outhouse Noel, so I made a fun Christmas card:

I loved these burlap flowers I found at Hobby Lobby.  Apparently they are the store's brand, as I couldn't find any company name on them.  I used some "board" paper, also from HL and cut a chunk of burlap for accent.

Inside, I added a couple of scraps of the burlap to make it look like it goes all the way across.

The sentiment I just typed on my computer.

Isn't that a fun one?!?  I really enjoyed this digi!   "THANK YOU" to the team at Love to Create for the honor of having me as GDT this week and also Thank You to Rick St. Dennis for the image!

 I've entered this card here:

Milk Coffee Challenge - hand colored image
Creative Moments - celebrations
Pile It On - Special Occasions

Owl as Turkey Thanksgiving Card

Hi!  I hope you all are prepared for the COLD weather that we are expecting this week.  Sounds like a good time to stay in the craft room to me!

It's time for a new challenge at My Sheri Crafts today!  Sandy is hosting the challenge this week and she chose a theme of "It's Turkey Time!" - add a Turkey to your card/project."  I recently purchased this cute little Silhouette cut of "Owl Dressed As a Turkey" with this challenge in mind.  I think he's adorable!

I was a little disappointed though, that I couldn't get my machine to cut him out after printing.  I kept getting the message "Registration Failed".  I thought that meant it couldn't read the registration marks because the black ink was getting low, so I put in a new cartridge and the ink was nice and dark, but it still failed.  Any ideas from anyone????  So, I cut him out by hand.  Then I used a black marker around the edge.  I found this scrap of paper in my stash. I don't even know where it came from but I thought it was perfect for him!  I added an oval in a brown, marbled paper (another scrap) to help separate the ginghams a little bit, then popped him up with foam dots.  A little bit of orange burlap braided ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon with 3 brown flower brads and there you go!

 I stamped a pretty "Happy Thanksgiving" inside, inked the edges, distressed the front a little with brown and he's ready for the holiday!

Please go over to My Sheri Crafts and check out all the great projects there, then join us!  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you at MSC!

I've entered this card here:

Open Minded Crafting Fun - Fowl of any kind

Moccasin Christmas Card

It's Thursday and that means a new challenge at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday!  We are sponsored this week by

STITCHY BEAR

http://www.stitchybearstamps.com/shop/

Challenges in our Twisted Thursday group are always Anything Goes with an Optional twist!  This week the twist is "Add a Button".

I used their image "Merry Moccasin" to make this card:

The paper is from The Paper Studio, one of their Christmas pads and I embossed it (you have to look pretty close to see it!) with a free embossing folder that came with my last issue of "Card Maker" magazine!  The image had two feathers in it, so instead of coloring them, I glued real feathers over them!  The image is colored with Spectrum Noir markers

I popped the image up, to add some dimension, along with the texture from the feathers and 3 metal buttons from my Mom's button box.

I'd love to have you join our Twisted Thursday group at The Outlawz! You do have to become a member to join in the challenges, but it's free and you get welcomed by the designers!  There are new challenges every day of the week and lots of great sponsors and prizes.  Come join in the fun!


I've entered this card here:

My Craft Spot - use metal
Delightful Challenges - use patterned paper

"Bringing Home the Tree" round card

It's Team A's turn to post at Tuesday Throwdown!    We are sponsored by the amazing "Robyn's Fetish" and our theme is "Shaped Cards"!  A SUPER fun theme!!!

I used RF image "Bringing Home the Tree" for my scalloped circle card:

This circle is a Cricut Cut from "Elegant Edges".  I made two of the base images and welded them.

The image is colored with Spectrum Noir markers, glittered and a little red ribbon from my stash!
So come on over and join in the fun with your Shaped Card!!!

This card entered at:

Catch the Bug - Anything goes
Fantabulous Cricut - anything goes
A Random Fan - red, white & green
Creative Card Crew - Christmas Joy

Baby Congrats Easel Card

It's Thursday and that means a new challenge at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday!  We are sponsored this week by

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LeeHIllustrations 

Challenges in our Twisted Thursday group are always Anything Goes with an Optional twist!  This week the twist is "Make an Easel Card".

Lee generously gave us this digi to used and I made a card for my niece:

I wanted the teddy bear to look fuzzy, so I used the "dot"technique with Spectrum Noir markers.

The scalloped oval is a cut from the Cricut Easter 2010 cartridge, then the other ovals were cut with  the Creative Memories system.  The airplane and banner are from the "New Arrival" cartridge and the sentiment stamp is from Pink By Design.  I love that stamp because it's a pretty script and small enough for these little cuts.  

Do you ever find that you've bought something you were just sure you would use a lot, so you bought several colors of it?  Well, several years ago those little safety pins in white, pink, blue, green and yellow......this is the first time I've used any of them!   Oh well.....I've got 'em if I need 'em!

Anyway, come on over to The Outlawz and see all the great inspiration from the other Designers and join us for a chance at some great prizes!  

It's A Teddy Bear Halloween

It's Halloween time over at My Sheri Crafts and Peach is hosting our challenge this week with the theme "Black Magic - Create a Halloween Project".  Well, my project doesn't really remind me of "Black Magic", but it is for Halloween!  I got the Teddy Bear Parade cartridge a while back and finally got to use it!

I used a little scrap oval from the cut to put on his nose because I figured he would have painted his nose orange for this costume. :-)  "Boo" is cut from the Disney Pixar cartridge and I added a piece of black ribbon from my stash to finish it off. 

Have a safe and fun Halloween!

Christmas Lantern card

Hello All! 

This week's challenge at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday is Anything Goes with the Optional twist of Anything Goes!  We are sponsored by

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LeeHIllustrations 

 I have a quick Christmas card to share.  This sweet digi is a freebie from Beccy's Place and I've used it several times.

I colored the ribbon on a second image, cut it out  and popped it up for some added dimension.

 This shot shows the shimmer of this great paper from My Minds Eye.  

Supply List:

My Minds Eye shimmer paper                Beccy's Place -digi            Celebrate It Ribbon
IRock gems                                           Just Rite-sentiment             Spectrum Noir markers
Spellbinders - diecut

I hope to see you at The Outlawz!