In with the New out with the Old

Happy Friday! Here's a card I made for Our Daily Bread's current challenge "In with the New, Out with the Old." You were to use something new and something old on your card.

My something new is the Nesties Label die and the something old is the ODBD stamp set "Flourished Christian Symbols." Actually everything else on the card is old - paper, ink, embossing folder, ribbon and half pearls. :-)  If you're interested in playing along in the challenge, check out the ODBD site.

There's also a challenge at DRS Designs this week to paper piece on your card. You can check out that challenge too. Both are offering prizes!

Until next time,
shelia

Merry Monday Challenge

Even though it is still the first week of January I'm making Christmas cards! I came across the blog "Always Playing with Paper" that has a Christmas Card Challenge every Monday and I've decided to try and play along as often as I can. It's always good to get an early start on those Christmas Cards!!  Here's a link to the site:
http://www.alwaysplayingwithpaper.blogspot.com/2012/01/merry-monday-challenge-1.html

Here is the card I made using this week's sketch challenge.

After I got going on this I remembered our dog chewed up my embossing buddy right before Christmas, so I have some extra gold embossing in some places. I may end up redoing this once I purchase another embossing buddy!  :-)

All stamps are DRS Designs - Ornament 844K, Merry Christmas 346B and Polka Dot background 688P. Everything is stamped in gold and then heat embossed in gold. I used a nestie ornament die and a Martha Stewart border punch. And now my first Christmas Card for 2012 is completed!  Yeah!

Until next time,
shelia

Sketch Challenge at SCS

There's another wonderful sketch challenge at Splitcoast Stampers today. I think the sketch challenges are my favorite challenges at SCS. Here's my card for today's challenge.

We are celebrating my dad's 80th birthday next week while everyone is together in VA for Christmas. Green is his favorite color and he loves cupcakes, so I think he'll like this.

The cupcake stamp is from the dollar bin at Michael's. The Happy Birthday stamp is DRS Designs (250B). I stamped the cupcake on white CS, colored the cake, icing and candle with Copics and then paper pieced the cupcake liner with some DP.  I added stickles to the candle's star flame for some sparkle. The dp is from Hobby Lobby's paper studio and I found the cupcake border punch on clearance at HB too. Gotta love those sales!

Well I have Christmas cookies to bake today and some shopping, so I'd better get going.

Until next time,
shelia

December Birthdays

I hate to say it, but I'm getting tired of making Christmas cards. I never thought I'd hear myself say that!!  I still need to make a few more, but today I took a break and decided to make a birthday card for one of my sisters in law, whose birthday is next week!

DRS Designs has some really cute snowmen stamps and I really like this lovely snow lady. This card is also for the Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.

I stamped the snowflake flurries (168F) in SU Mellow Moss ink on the green cardstock for the background of my card. After coloring and cutting out my snow lady (163L), I added the pink strip with the sentiment (964D) to compliment the colors in my image. The snow lady is popped up with adhesive for some dimension. I added some half pearls to the snow ladies hat and to the side of the card.

Until next time,

shelia

Come Join the Challenge!

Happy December 1st! Can you believe it is December? Christmas will soon be here. YEAH!!  I love Christmas.

Today over at DRS Designs we have a challenge for you to join. Every Thursday there will be a new challenge and there's a prize of new DRS Stamps for one lucky winner!! This week's challenge is stitching, either for real or faux. I chose faux stitching for my card.

The DRS stamps I used are Girl Swirl Holly (887G) and Merry Christmas (364B). I did my faux stitching in red around the holly image, popped it up on green CS that I edged with a punch and added some holly ribbon I found at Hobby Lobby on sale! It's a quick and simple card and I really like the results!!

I hope you can come on over to the DRS site and join in the fun.

Until til next time,
shelia

Joy to the World!

Here's a card I made using DRS Designs new Snowflake Circle Cut Out (827L). I got this idea from Chrissy, another DRS designer. She made a card like this earlier this week and I have totally cased her card. We used our nesties to cut the stamped image into a wreath!  I just love the result.

 I added red nail heads to the wreath and a punched bow. The sentiment is another DRS stamp (864E) which I also used nesties to cut and layer. The background panel is edged with a star border punch. This was a fairly quick and easy card to create and as I said before, I love the result!! Thanks Chrissy for the inspiration!!

Happy Stamping,
shelia

Telescoping Image Challenge

Happy Wednesday! Here's a card I created for the Technique Lover's Challenge on SCS. It's a telescoping image technique.

 I stamped my image twice and colored both with Copic markers. I then cut them out using the two larger square dies with the two smaller dies inside each square. This way I only had to color two images for four layers! After assembling the background, I just attached each square with foam dots for dimension.

I really like the result!! All stamps are DRS Designs:  Girl Swirl Holly (G887) and Happy "Holly" Days (B888). The background is embossed with the Cuttlebug Snowflake folder. I added the striped ribbon and bow and then some scoring lines at the top and bottom to complete the look.

Until next time, shelia