Pajama Girls Secret Sister Reveal

Hi my friends.  I'm so late with getting this blog post up, but in my defense, I was getting things ready for Christmas and also doing all those things necessary to get done before travelling.  Yes, I am spending Christmas this year with my oldest daughter and her family here in "sunny" California. 

This year the Pink Pajama Girls blog group that I belong to did a Secret Sister exchange hosted by our wonderful Athina.  Thanks Athina for taking on this project and getting us all our SS.  We were supposed to post on Dec. 19 what we received, but as I said, things were really busy at my house.  Today is Christmas Eve and things are a little quiet here this morning so I thought I'd take this time to get this posted.  My Secret Sister was Nancy!  Thanks Nancy for all the fabulous goodies you sent.

Here are some of the goodies close up.  See this cute Post It Note Holder.  It actually won a prize in a challenge she entered.  I was so lucky to receive the real thing

 I've never been much of a "green" stamper, so I'm really glad that Nancy sent me a variety of green products to use.  I look forward to creating with them.

Nancy knows that I'm a paper hoarder.  LOL!  Such pretty papers she sent me.

What a fabulous way to start off the Christmas season.  Thanks again Nancy for all the fabulous fun things that you sent me. 

Wishing all of my blog followers and fabulous and Merry Christmas and a very blessed and Happy New Year.

Thanks for stopping by.

Snowman Family

Just think - only one more week and it will be Christmas Day!  I'll be so happy to be spending it with my daughter and her family.  I'm just finishing up my Christmas cards and I think I still need to make a few more.  Some of the ones I'm sending are not ones that I made.  Just couldn't get them all done, but hope to do better next year. 

Today it is the last challenge for {Pin}spirational Challenge for 2012. Then we'll have a short break and be back after the New Year.  Our fabulous sponsor this week is Dilly Beans.

The photo for our inspiration this week is

Aren't they the cutest little snowmen heads - and that was the perfect theme for our cards this week.  Here's mine

Materials Used:

• Image - Snowman Family from Dilly Beans
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - Snow Swirled
• c/s - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up Soft Sky
• Designer Paper - Basic Gray - Figgy Pudding collection
• Accessories - Metal Corner - Wild Orchid Crafts; Ribbon - my stash; White Opal Liquid Pearls
• Copic Markers - BG0000; BG11, BG23, BG32; C0; G12, G21, G24; R22, R56; YR02, YR07, YR09; W1, W3 W6

So that's all for today.  Don't forget to check out what the other ladies have been doing over on the {Pin}spirational Challenge. 



Thanks for stopping by!

Fred Bear - Snow Bear - PSC59

Happy Wednesday!  Can you believe we are winding down the year over at Perfect Sentiments Challenge and this will be the last blog post for 2012.  I am so looking forward to the new year and new things - new stamps, new digi images, new paper, new layouts, new challenges.  It's going to be great!

Today's theme for this last 2012 challenge is Anything Goes With Christmas!  So you can make anything you want as long as it has a Christmas theme and Sentiment (on the front of the card).  Our delightful sponsor this week is Shelly's Images and Shelly will give our lucky random winner a free digi of her choice.

 

 This was a perfect challenge for me since I'm still working on my Christmas cards, but hope to get them written up and ready for mailing tomorrow night.  Here is what I came up with this week.

This is Fred Bear from My Favorite Things.  Isn't he so cute and having such a good time outside building his own Snowman Bear. 
Materials Used:

• Image - My Favorite Things - Fred Bear-Snow Bear
• Sentiment - From my stash
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Brocade Blue; Cherry Cobbler; Xpress It Blending Card
• Design Paper - From my stash
• Flowers  and Leaf - Prima
• Accessories:  Nestabilities Large Oval Die to cut out the image and then I used my Magic Matter to make an even larger mat for the image to rest on. The rest of the accessories are all from my stash - ribbon, lace, hat pin, snowflake charm, baker's twine, and gold glitter brad.  I also used some Frosted Lace Stickles on the snowflakes coming down.

That's it!  Pretty simple this week.  I hope to have some more blog posts before the end of the year, but I'll take time for now to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

It's Going Down to 32 Degrees!

Hello my friends, or should I say Brrrrrrr. . . .   Winter has finally hit the South.  It's down in the low 30's this morning and supposed to stay that way for a few days.  Hopefully then our Winter will be over and we can get on with Spring!  LOL!  Can you tell I'm not crazy about the cold weather.

Today I have a fun CAS card for {Pin}spirational Challenge.  Here first is the photo inspiration for our challenge this week.

Some gorgeous sweaters there.  All ready for the Arctic Blast!  To go along with the theme this week, I created this Winter looking card.

No frills; no fuss this week.

Materials Used:
Image - The Digi Garden - Boy in Winter Clothes
Sentiment - Stamping Up - Holiday Tag Team (Retired)
Cardstock - Stampin Up Old Olive; Stampin Up Real Red; Xpress It Blending Card
Designer Paper -  Stampin Up - I Wish Scrappin Kit
Accessories - Cricut - Paper Lace cartridge; Nestabilities - Labels Four Die; Nestabilities small oval die cut;  Fancy Oval Lacy Ovals Die; corner punch; red trim from my stash
Copics Used:  B0000; B21, B24, B26; C0, C2; E31, E35, E37; E50, E51, E53; B22, B24, B29; YG11, YG01; YG63
 Our fabulous Sponsor this week is the Digi Garden 

You really need to stop by her store and see what's the latest in Fall/Winter fashions for this upcoming season.

Then ink up your digis or the regular stamps and play along with us this week.  Sure was dardk when he left for his office.

That's it for today folks!  But stop back and see what the rest of the team is up to! 

I'm submitting this card to the following challenges:
The Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes
Crafty Boots Challenge - Christmas
Daisy Doodles - Anything Goes
Fashionista Challenge - Winter
Forever Friends - Christmas Cards
Hooked on Craft - Christmas
House of Gilli - Anything Goes
Kaboodle Doodles - Use Red
Lollipop Crafts - Happy Holidays
Love to Create - Anything Goes
My Grafico - Anything Goes
Paper Playtime - Christmas Colors
the Crazy Challenge - Christmas Time
The Cutie Pie Challenge - Cute Christmas
There's Magic in the Air - Snowman or Anything Christmas
UnstampaBelles - Christmas

Cozy Winter Mindy - PSC58

Hello my friends and Happy Wednesday.  The week is half over and that means only 2 1/2 more weeks until Christmas VACATION!  Can't wait.  Will be spending it with my oldest daughter and her family this year.

In the meantime I do have another card for you today and this time, I got it all right!  LOL!  I do want to thank all of you for your kind words on my card from yesterday if you left a comment. This week's theme is Let it Snow.  You can create your card with any sentiment of your choosing, but you need to incorporate snow into it somewhere, a snowman, snowflake, snow!

And our sponsor this week is Meljen's Designs and she also provided us with digi stamps to use for our projects.  I'm using one of hers called Cozy Winter Mindy.  She's so adorable. Just click on the link there where the store name is and it will take you right to her store.

 The winner this week will get to choose 4 free digis from the store.

So, here's my card for this week.  Doesn't she look cold.  So glad I became a Southern Belle and got out of the frozen North. LOL!

Materials Used:

• Image - Meljen's Designs - Cozy  Winter Mindy.
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - So Many Scallops
• Ink - Stampin Up - Cherry Cobbler
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Cherry Cobbler; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Basic Gray Figgy Pudding Collection
• Accessories:  Stampin Up Scallop Punch and 1 1/4" circle punch; Stickles - Frosted Lace; Ribbon - My Stash; Martha Stewart - white flock;
• Copic Markers:  B0000; B12, B21, B34, B41; C0; E31, E35, E37; E50, E51, E53; R01; R21, R39, R89; R81, R83, R85; YG11, YG6, YG63

That's all for today.  Thanks for stopping by.  I'm going to enter this one into the following challenges:

Can You Digi It? - Baby It's Cold Outside

Everybody Art Challenge - Christmas
Oldie But a Goodie - Christmas (Scallop Punch, sentiment stamp)
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
The Stamping Boutique - Holiday Cards
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
Tip Top Tuesday - Anything Christmas Goes

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Winter
Lady Anne Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafty Boots Challenges - Anything Goes
Critter Sketch Challenge - Christmas Anything Goes
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges - Anything Goes
Eureka Stamps - Winter Wonderland

Forever Friends Fortnightly Challenge - Glitter and Sparkle
Hookedoncraft Challenges - Christmas
Lexi's Creations - Christmas
Lollipop Crafts - Happy Holidays
Love to Create Challenge -  Holiday Cheer
My Craft Spot - Merry Christmas
Ooh la la Creations - Spots & Dots
Paper Playtime - Christmas Colors
Paper Pretties - Use Ribbon
Tammy's  Scrapin Corner - Anything Christmas
There's Magic In The Air - Sparkle

Let it Snow

Happy Tuesday!  Its getting closer and closer to Christmas.  How are you doing with your shopping?  I've got about half of mine done and should finish up within the next day or two.

In the meantime it's time for another {Pin}spirational Challenge.  I have to confess that I messed up with this one.  You'll see when I show you the inspiration photo and then my card.  Here is the photo that we were to use as inspiration.

Gorgeous isn't it!  And I had really planned to do a blue/silver card for the challenge.  I love those colors together.  So how did I get this card?????

Do you see any blue or silver on this card?   Me neither.  < sad face >  I just must say that it's been a crazy week and I totally pulled the wrong image to use for my card and decided just to go with the Christmas theme and not the colors.  So here we are.  One of my girlfriends did tell me she thought it was the best Christmas card I made this year.  < smile >

Materials Used:

• Image - Let It Snow - Daydream Designs
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - Snow Swirled
• Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up; Primrose, Pear Pizazz
• Designer Paper - from my stash
• Accessories:  Liquid Pearls; Flower - Michael's; EK Success Fibers; Fiskars paper edgers - Cloud
• Copic Markers - B0000; R22, R23, R29; YG03, YG11, YG61; YR15, YR68

Our fabulous sponsor this week is QKR Stampede.  You must stop by their store and check out all the fabulous rubber stamps and digi stamps they have.

I hope you'll take some time to get inky and play along with us this week.  Check out our blog at {Pin}spirational Challenge and see what the rest of the Design Team has for you.  Get inky and get creative!  You could be the winner this week.

That's it for today.  Hope you have a fabulous day!

I am submitting my card to the following challenges:

ABC Challenges - Holiday Cards With Bling
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Winter
Lady Anne Challenges - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Snow
Crafty Boots Challenges - Anything Goes
Critter Sketch Challenge - Christmas Anything Goes
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges - Anything Goes
Eureka Stamps - Winter Wonderland
Forever Friends Monthly Challenge - Anything Goes
Forever Friends Fortnightly Challenge - Glitter and Sparkle
Hookedoncraft Challenges - Christmas
Lexi's Creations - Christmas
Lollipop Crafts - Happy Holidays
Love to Create Challenge -  Holiday Cheer
My Craft Spot - Merry Christmas
Ooh la la Creations - Spots & Dots
Paper Playtime - Christmas Colors
Paper Pretties - Use Ribbon
Tammy's  Scrapin Corner - Anything Christmas
There's Magic In The Air - Sparkle