Zipper card

Hello all.

Today I have a little bit of a different kind of card to show you.

I used

"Ice Skating" (#7902) from

QKR Stampede to make this card

along with the Merry Christmas

which I don't know where it is from.

I colored the penguin with FlexMarkers,

The background is some blue from my stash which is

covered at the bottom with some vellum to create the ice for the penguin to skate on.

I got a new die, which is very cool.

Its a Jillian Vance Design made by Spellbinders.

See that little mountain and valley type line in front of the penguin?

I know it's hard to see in the picture, sorry!

That is a kind of zipper and when you pull the tab that the penguin is

adhered to, it opens and reveals what you have put underneath it.

I didn't want to open this one, the one below is a practice to see about placement under the zipper.

I love this zipper die

 and think I will be using it for all kinds of fun cards

in the future.

Thanks for stopping by today, leave a comment if you will.

Come again soon!

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

 

Eureka! Stamps Challenge

Hi! 

It's time for another challenge from Eureka! Stamps

This week the theme is "Christmas Spirit"

You can find all the particulars on the

Eureka! Stamps Blog

For my card I used

"Star Tree" (#17105) 

from Eureka! Stamps.

I stamped the image with VersaMark ink

then brushed on some gold mica powder

which is also available through

Eureka! Stamps

I layered the image onto gold velum,

 then onto a white card base.

thanks you for stopping in today.

I hope you have been inspired and will join the challenge.

Leave a comment and come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

 

Eureka! Stamps

Santa with balloons

Hello everyone!

Today I have another one of the Christmas cards that I have made.

I'm getting close to done and that's a good thing, considering how close Christmas is getting and I should really get them sent out.

For today's card I used

"Santa Balloon Holder" (#ES5603)

"Christmas Balloon" (#ES16402)

and

"Oval Balloon" (#ES201)

These images are available through QKR Stampede

as well as sister company Eureka! Stamps

I used rubber stamps, but these are also available in digital format, which makes it easy to size them how you want.

I colored them with FlexMarkers then fussy cut them.

I used a bit of gold thread as the balloon strings.

Thanks for stopping by today.

I hope you have been inspired in some way

and that you are farther ahead on your Christmas cards than I am.

Come again soon!

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

QKR Stampede Challenge

It's time again for a QKR Stampede challenge.

This week our challenge is all about snow.

"Snowmen, Snow Angels, Snowballs, Snow Fun"

All the particulars are on the QKR Stampede Blog.

For my card I used 2 images from QKR Stampede

"Sledding" (#9602) and

"Skinny Snowman" (#13813)

The sky was colored with Distress Ink

The images were colored with FlexMarkers and fussy cut.

For the snow hill, I cut a piece of white card stock and covered it with a thin layer of Frosted Lace Stickles then adhered it with foam tape.

The little girl is also adhered with foam tape.

This give the card some dimension.

I hope you have been inspired in some way and 

that you will join the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Come again soon!

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting! 

You light up my life

Christmas is so close and I'm still not done with my cards.

Almost, but not quite.

Here is another one that I made the other evening.

I used "Skunk and Lights" (#10901) and

"You Light" (#10903)

from Eureka! Stamps

With these images all that needs coloring is the string of lights.

I used FlexMarkers.

Easy peasy.

Thanks for stopping by today.

If you haven't finished your cards yet and don't have the image you want, pop into the Eureka! Stamps Store and pick out something.

I used rubber stamps for my images, but they are also available in digital format. Digital makes it easy to resize and print as many as you need quickly.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Wrapping fun!

Last Saturday was our Christmas Crop at

My Happy Place

We decided to have a "My Favorite Crafting Things" party.

Each person was to bring 3 gifts, all the same, spending $5.00 on each.

When it was your turn to hand out gifts, you'd pull 3 names from the "hat" and give the gifts to those people.

Once they opened the gifts you explained

why you chose the thing/s you did.

Each person went home with 3 different gifts.

We had such a great time at our corp.

There were lots of smiles and laughs.

 

One of the blogs that I follow faithfully is

Older and Wisor

I have been inspired by Rebecca.

She has tons of wonderful ideas for

"Pimping Yo' Presents"

Below are pictures of the people who took home the gifts that I took and the gifts I wrapped using the inspiration from Rebecca.

I hope you will pop on over and check out her fabulous idea and I hope you like what I did to "Pimp My Presents" 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping today. 

Please leave a comment and let me know

which of the gifts you like the best.

Come again soon!

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

All That Glitters Challenge

One of the blogs that I follow faithfully is

The May Arts Ribbon Blog

They have some fabulous projects and a post every weekday.

Each month there is a challenge and this month I was chosen to participate in the challenge.

Our assigned theme was

"All That Glitters"

(this link will take you directly to the post with all the entries)

We had to use 4 of the ribbons offered in our projects.

I chose to make a variety of gift card holders.

Here is what I did.

I know there are a lot of pictures, so I'm not going to write a lot,

but I will put links at the bottom for a couple tutorials that I wrote up as guest on another blog and I'll try to do a couple tutorials for the other ones at a later date, as they can be altered to work for other occasions.

I hope you'll pop over to the May Arts Blog and take a look at all the entries.

Here are the links for those tutorials:

Now that I have the link I realize that I didn't make one with this design, but here it is anyway.  LOL!

And here is the tutorial for the "twisted" card.

 

Thanks for stopping by today, leave a comment if you will.

Come again soon!

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!