Valentine Candles

Welllll....I've been on vacation ALL week and finally got to spend a little time in my craft room on Friday!  I made some candles for Valentine's Day that I took to my Flea Market booth.  I hope someone takes a shine to 'em!  

This last one really isn't a Valentine candle, but I still like it!  

Thanks for looking in!

I'm entering these in the challenge at:

 Crafty Friends - anything goes

Hiding In My Craft Room - any holiday

Accidentally Tried a New Technique!

 So I was using the sweet freebie from the Freebie Progressive Challenge over at The Outlawz to make this easel card.  I thought I would stamp the sentiment on a red die cut I've had in my "leftover" stash for awhile and I used white chalk ink.  It really didn't show up so I re-inked my stamp with black and stamped it again.  I didn't see it at first, but then I realized I had made kind of a shadow stamp with the white!  You can just barely see it in this picture, it mostly shows up by the flourish at the bottom:

Here is my card:

 

The beautiful paper and the outside stamp are freebies from Cardmaking and Paper Crafts magazine.  The inside stamp is from Touche'.  I just LOVE freebies, don't you?

Thanks for stopping by!

Anything Goes This Week!

Hello!  Today starts a new challenge at Tuesday Throwdown and it's Anything Goes!  Our sponsor this week is
                                           

I've used some freebie stamps I received with my latest issue of Cardmaking and Paper Craft magazine to get started on my Christmas cards:

Lots of embossing powder this week!  The embossing folder I've used is also a freebie from the magazine I received a couple of months ago.

This is the stamp set I received.  There's lots more playing to be done with this set!

Sending Christmas Wishes

I had some time to play with the cute image I got from the Freebie Progressive challenge over at The Outlawz this month.  I have had it colored for a little while but just got my card made and posted to the challenge in the nick of time!  The cute image is from Di's Digis.

I've colored the image with Spectrum Noir markers and added Buffalo Snow for dimensional snow and glitter on the little mouse's Santa hat.

I really did get this done in time for the November challenge, but every time I tried to upload my images, my computer would just wink at me at sit there!  Here it is a week later and finally SUCCESS!

Snowmen Tag

Hello!  I hope you had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving!  There is always something to be thankful for!  Today I am thankful for a new, fun challenge at Tuesday Throwdown.  We are sponsored this week by the awesome  and our theme is "Make a Tag"

I used the cute "4 Snowmen Tag" from Bugaboo:

I found a tag diecut that I had left from a previous project, which is a Cricut cut from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More, a scrap of Christmas paper, a fun candy cane brad and some cute ribbon.  Oh, there's a paper doily in there, too.  I love using up scraps!  (Cause I have way too much of them crammed here and there!)

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you over at Tuesday Throwdown!

Snowflakes Are Fragile Frame

Hello Everyone!  Today I have a frame to share with you that I made for our challenge at My Sheri Crafts.  Our theme this time around is "Winter - anything that makes you think of winter".  I always think of snow and I love snowmen, so this was a no brainer for me!

I found this sweet saying on the internet, author unknown, and loved it!  I know this is hard to read in the picture, it says "Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but look what they can do when they stick together."

The fonts are Elizabeth and Cricut Font.  I made my background paper with a rubber stamp and white embossing powder.  The snowman is a Cricut cut and this frame is a $1 find at a yard sale.

 

 I added some simple snowflakes, also Cricut cuts, from white glitter paper.

Of course I needed some snow, so I put in some "Buffalo Snow Flakes" at the bottom.  A few flakes are drifting around, though!

It's really hard to get a good picture of these frames because of the glare and reflection, but I love how this one turned out!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll pop over and join us!

I've entered this project here:

Aud Sentiments - anything goes with a sentiment
Classic Design Team Open Challenge - anything goes
Crafting From The Heart - anything goes
Crafting With An Attitude - anything goes
Creatalicious - anything goes with optional use a sentiment
Creative Moments - anything goes
Eclectic Ellapu - Pinks Team - anything with a bow
The ABC Challenge - "T" is for "Three" - (3 diecuts, 3 word in white vinyl, 3 techniques- embossing, diecuts, vinyl)

Baby Moon Shaker Card

It's time for a new challenge at Tuesday Throwdown !  Our sponsor this week is   

and our theme is "Add Pearls or Gems"!  Now who doesn't love that theme?!?!?!

I've used our sponsor's image "Baby Moon" to make a shaker card.

 The image is colored with Spectrum Noir markers and I added a paper doily with the center cut out to frame the hole.  I tied a triple bow  and added a few gems.  Inside I've used pink pearl mini beads.

Inside I've used two Cricut label cuts and a poem stamp from Stampendous and Congrats stamp from Stampabilities.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll hop on over to Tuesday Throwdown to check out all the gorgeous inspiration there, then join in the fun!