Another Christmas Card for Fun!

 Another Christmas Card for fun...and for the free paper over at 12 Months of Christmas!  I'm loving this month's paper anyone will receive free just for linking up two Christmas cards.  This is a monthly challenge; so if you miss this month, be sure to check it out again in February.

Inside of Card

Curious about how I assembled this card?  Check out the video below!

Material List

Vectoria Designs Cozy Christmas Papers and Ephemera

Inside:  Vectoria Designs Pumpkin Patch

CTMH Cardstock 

Twine

Ribbon Really Reasonable Ribbon

Faber-Castell Pitt Pen Dark Sepia

Gold Sequins

Adhesives:  ATG, Bearly Art Precision Art Glue, Fabri-Tac

Cricut Design Space: Design and Print Then Cut; shapes

Cricut Access: Inside Sentiment

Cricut Standard Mat Cricut Maker

I'm sending this card off to the following challenges:

FarmQuest Christmas: I have included outdoor items~pinecones, evergreen with country items ~sleigh bells and candle.

Place to Start:  AG

613 Avenue Create: AG

12 Months of Christmas:  AG 

Dream Valley:   2 or More Papers

Christmas (or not) BINGO:  Card marked below

The Holly and The Ivy:  AG Christmas

Christmas Craft Creations:  Glitter & Sparkle (sparkly sequins, candle shining)

Double "D":  Sparkle and/or Shine (sparkly sequins, candle shining)

The Outlawz Festive Fridays:  Christmas

Friendship:  Wintertime

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Happy!

Our new challenge over at Cut It Up is 'This Makes Me Happy!'  Now, what's happier than celebrating a birthday?  On top of that, very few things make me happier than horses; so for me, this card is a perfect fit for this challenge!  

Check out the video below for more details, Cricut Design Space fun, and a look at the inside!

 Come show us what makes you happy at Cut It Up.  Remember to include a die cut!

Material List:

Cardstock from Stash

Stampendous Pearlustre Embossing Powder

Gems from Stash

Twine Really Reasonable Ribbon

Big and Bossy Embossing Ink

Adhesives: Fabri-Tac; ATG; Zig 2-Way; Bearly Art Precision Art Glue

Cricut Design Space: Designed, Printed and Cut from CDS; Offset Feature

Cuts from Design Space: Shapes; Old West; Celebrations; Natilie Thompson; Arts by Nhoreen

Fonts: Bodoni 72; Chip Decor

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade

Cricut Maker

This is off to the following challenges:  

Love to Craft:  AG

Place to Start:  AG

Unicorn Challenge:  Birthday

Paper Funday:  Opt twist - Let's Celebrate (Birthday)

Krafty Chicks:  All Occasions

613 Avenue Create:  AG New Beginnings

Digi Choosday:  AG

FarmQuest General Store:  AG Country

Crafty Calendar:  AG

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday:  AG

Crafter's Cafe:  Fancy Edges  (Fancy cut on horse frame; heat embossed edges on blue mat)

Creative Knockouts:  Lots of Layers

Creative Crafting Uncles:  Happy Birthday

Make My Monday:  Happy Birthday

When you visit the Cut It Up blog, have fun viewing the DT projects. Then be sure to share your project with us ~ don't forget the die cut!

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Christmas Card full of Stash

Christmas Card for fun!  Yes, just for fun...no required challenge, just to play at other challenges!  I have LOTS of old stash on this card...the only new part is the sentiment block I created in Cricut Design Space!  More about that in a later post!

Material List

Digi from Bugaboo (retired)

DCWV Cardstock

Scrap Paper

CTMH Cardstock 

Twine

Adhesives:  ATG, Bearly Art Precision Art Glue, Fabri-Tac

Cricut Design Space: Design and Print Then Cut; shapes; Fonts

Cricut Access: Inside Sentiment

Cricut Standard Mat Cricut Maker

I'm sending this card off to the following challenges:

12 Months of Christmas:  AG 

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Inspired by My Quotes Journal and PoP

 As we meander a Path of Positivity, we are challenging you to create something inspired by Quotes about New Beginnings!  Of course, you can share anything positive you like, the theme is always optional.

Above is a card inspired by the first pages in my new Quotes Book!  I'm using this book as sort of a jumping off place to inspire cards, art journal entries, canvas art, etc.  We'll see what the new year brings!

I chose this quote:  “Every moment is a fresh beginning.”

— T.S. Eliot

Inside of card

My Journal Entry 

Remember, you may share any sort of artistic medium over at PoP:  writing, cards, journals, scrapbooking, painting, sewing, baking, needle crafts, etc as long as it is positive!  The theme is always optional.  

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 Material List:

Digital Paper from Stash 

CTMH Cardstock 

Cricut Design Space:  Tree of Life from San Naz; Shapes; Font:  Birdside and American Typewriter

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade

Cricut Maker

 Sharing with these challenges:  

Pearly Sparkles:  CAS

613 Avenue Create:  AG New Beginnings

Daisy Chain:  No Design Paper

Craft-alnica:  New Beginning

Ally's Angels:  AG

A Perfect Time to Craft:  AG

Crafty Calendar:  AG

Simply CAS:  optional theme Winter

Krafty Chicks: CAS

AAA Cards:  AG CAS (opt twist of Valentine's Day)

Sparkles:  New Beginnings

Be sure to come over and see 

what the team thinks about our optional twist!  

You can also find more information about entering the challenge!  

Thanks to Scribbles Designs for sponsoring our Monthly Random Prize!

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Lovely Girl Portrait...A Little Pencil Work

Time for some fun at the Worldwide Crafter and Colorists Challenge Blog!  I invite you to come play along with any and all of your creative pieces featuring an image from any designer/artist!  

This challenge is graciously sponsored by the very talented Julia Spiri!  If you are not familiar with her, you can find her gorgeous digis and coloring books at her Etsy Shop.  Please feel free to visit her FaceBook Page and share your Julia Spiri coloring!  Now one more place you might want to visit is Julia's YouTube; you can find some mesmerizing drawing, painting, and flip throughs!!

Material List:

Digi:  Lovely Girl Portrait Daisy

Music Paper:  Familiar Refrain Papers

X-Press it Cardstock

Color Pencils

White Gel Pen Signo uni-ball

Gems

Lace

CTMH Cardstock

CTMH Ink

Adhesives:  ATG, Bearly Art Precision Art Glue, Fabri-Tac

Cricut Design Space: Design and Print Then Cut; shapes

Cricut Access: Daisy Banner from Walk in My Garden; Font-BFC Baking Soda and BFC Flannel Shirt

Cricut Standard Mat Cricut Maker

Sharing with the following challenges:

A Perfect Time to Craft:  AG

Crafts Galore Encore:  AG

Love to Craft:  AG

613 Avenue Create:  AG

Let's Craft and Create:  AG + Penny for Your Thoughts (use a sentiment)

Place to Start:  AG

Gem of a Challenge:  AG Papercrafting

Creative Knockouts:  AG

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends:  AG

Colouring with Pencils:  AG

Alphabet:  U is for Under Something  (Flowers under the portrait)

Dream Factory:  Sassy Girl~ AG feminine, girly, Valentine's Day

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A New Die Cut Design

 Our new challenge over at Cut It Up is 'A New Year!'  The idea is to use something new:  a technique, tool, craft supply, etc.  I'm using a design I created by altering a design from Cricut Access (Wispy Willow) and a shape just for this project!  

Check out the video below about creating the die cut in Cricut Design Space.

How did I make the keychain?  That video is below!

 Come show us something new at Cut It Up.  Remember to include a die cut!

Material List:

Vinyl
Fine Glitter

Acrylic Keychain Blanks

Americana Decou-Page Matte Seal

Deco Art Triple Thick Brush on Gloss Glaze

Cricut Design Space: Designed, Printed and Cut from CDS

Design Space: Horse Wispy Willow Shapes: Heart

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade

Cricut Maker

This is off to the following challenges:  

A Perfect Time to Craft:  AG

Classic Design Challenge:  AG 

Place to Start:  AG

613 Avenue Create:  AG

Crafts Galore Encore:  AG

Crafty Animals:  AG including an animal

Critter Crazy:  AG featuring a critter

Dream Factory:  Cobalt Blue

FarmQuest General Store:  AG Country

Love to Craft:  AG

Moving Along with the Times:  New Craft Item  (Newly created die created in CDS)

Die Cut Divas:  NBUS (Blue glitter!  I ordered a bunch of colors and they have sat unused!  oops!)

Try It on Tuesday:  Winter Blues  (Blue)

Ally's Angels:  AG

Crafty Calendar:  AG

When you visit the Cut It Up blog, have fun viewing the DT projects. Then be sure to share your project with us ~ don't forget the die cut!

Thanks for stopping by!  Make yourself at home and feel free to peruse other posts/pages, leave a comment, and/or check out my Pinterest and YouTube Channel.      

A New Journal inspired by Quotes at PoP!

As we meander a Path of Positivity, we are challenging you to create something inspired by Quotes about New Beginnings!  Of course, you can share anything positive you like, the theme is always optional.

I have chosen to make a new journal for some of my favorite quotes.  I can write in this  book or paste in pictures/clippings, etc.  I might choose to do some art journaling in here...the possibilities are endless.  This is a simple journal and I can use the pages as the year goes on as "jumping off" pages to project ideas.  

I chose this quote from the PoP list of January Quotes:  “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.”

— Brad Paisley

Now I doubt there will be even close to 300 pages...I'll be happy with 24!  

  Check out the video below to see how I quickly put this together using a journal/book from stash!

Remember, you may share any sort of artistic medium over at PoP:  writing, cards, journals, scrapbooking, painting, sewing, baking, needle crafts, etc as long as it is positive!  The theme is always optional.  

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 Material List:

Quote from Brad Paisley (inspired by PoP Challenge)

Journal/book from Stash

Old DCWV Cardstock  The Green Stack

CTMH Black Bursts

Gems from Stash

Ranger Distress Collage Medium

Cricut Design Space:  Font Apple Chancery; Offset 

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade

Cricut Maker

 Sharing with these challenges:  

Crafty Addicts:  AG Papercrafting

CRAFT:  AG

613 Avenue Create:  AG New Beginnings

Classic Design:  AG

Be sure to come over and see 

what the team thinks about our optional twist!  

You can also find more information about entering the challenge!  

Thanks to Scribbles Designs for sponsoring our Monthly Random Prize!

Thanks for stopping by!  Make yourself at home and feel free to peruse other posts/pages, leave a comment, and/or check out my Pinterest and YouTube Channel.    

Anything Goes...So here are the gift cards!

 Time for a new challenge at The Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card-free Zone and the Optional theme is Anything Goes!  So, I've decided to make a Gift Wallet and Gift Cards!

Curious how I put this together or want a closer look at how the gift folio/wallet works?  Check out the video!  

Material List:

Digital Cardstock:  Decosse's Dynamite Doodles Holly Jolly Christmas

CTMH Cardstock 

CTMH Ink

Twine

Sparkly paper from Stash

Adhesives:  ATG, Fabri-Tac, Double Score Tape, Bearly Art Precision Art Glue

Cricut Design Space: Design and Print Then Cut; Offset

Cricut Access: Various images for gift cards; Font A Child's Year

Cricut Standard Mat Cricut Maker

My project is off to the following challenges:  

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends:  AG

A Perfect Time to Craft:  AG

Christmas (or not) BINGO:  Board marked below

Classic Design Challenge:  AG 

Place to Start:  AG

Crafts Galore Encore:  AG

Creatalicious:  AG paper 

Love to Craft:  AG

PaperMinutes:  Something New (New Idea for a quick gift!)

Be sure to visit  Anything Goes in a Card-free Zone 

for all the details about the challenge and 

to check out all the creative inspiration from the DT and participants!

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Celebrations

Happy New Year!

  It's time for a new challenge over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and the optional twist is:  "Celebrations!"  Come play along with whatever you've created!

This is a pretty simple card, so no tutorial on this one!  The confetti was created by making Copic dots all over the page and the sentiment was printed in Cricut Design Space along with the monster trio!  

 Material List 

Monsters:  From Stash...sorry, I couldn't find the artist  :(

Font:  Chalkduster

Copic Markers

Cardstock from Stash 

Adhesives:  ATG; Fabri-Tac

Designed in Pages Program on Mac

My card is off to the following challenges:

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends:  AG

A Perfect Time to Craft:  AG

Dream Valley:  AG

Creative Knockouts:  Celebrations (try again; Linky dn)

Be sure to visit

 The Outlawz Twisted Thursday 

for all the details about the challenge 

and to check out all fun inspiration from the DT and participants! 

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