Across the Miles

It's Wednesday, and time to share our latest and greatest fun challenge at the Fresh Brewed Blog...Across the Miles. It's always at the holidays that we think of those we haven't seen in a long time. Usually it's distance that keeps us from visiting more often so a card is the perfect way to stay in touch and catch up. I used a Fresh Brewed Designs digital image called Santa Snow Buddy - Snow Buddy Rudolph just makes me laugh! The sentiment is computer generated. I pulled together some paper scraps and this card is done. Flat and easily mailable - into my Christmas card pile it goes! You have one more week to play along with our November month long challenge - it's a sketch and you can read all about it HERE.  

Winter Wishes

It's Tuesday and the boys are back to school today...HOORAY!! I've got lots of running around to do, tomorrow is my little Kevin's birthday. Not so little anymore, he's taller than me and is turning 14. YIKES!! But I've always called him my little Kevin and that is what he will always be.

My card today shows off a favorite image of mine...snowmen! And this particulate cutie of a snowman comes from Fresh Brewed Designs and is called Hearts and Stars Snowman. He took me no time at all to color up - used my Copics. Added some fun on his hat with liquid applique. Love to watch it puff up when you heat set it. Kept it pretty simple so Mr. Snowman is the main focus. Enjoy your day and I'll see you back here tomorrow for a two post Wednesday!!

Peace on Earth

You have to check out Love to Create, a fun challenge blog that I am guest designer at this week!! They always have such fun challenges, and I try to play along as time allows. This week's challenge is right up my alley - Non-traditional Christmas Colors.

 Their sponsor this week is Meljen's Designs. You really must check out their store, talk about adorable images.

Imagine how pleased I was when I was able to play along with this sweet snowman image, Christmas Star Snowman. And browns for Christmas??? Of course, after all, this is a non-traditional Christmas challenge!! I used Copics for color, Stickles for sparkle and Glossy Accents for shine. Thanks for stopping by and I sure hope you can join along with the challenge at Love to Create.  

Merry Christmas to You

It's Monday and back to work for some. The boys have one more day off school then it's back to the daily grind tomorrow. We have a new sketch to share at Seems a Little Sketchy. Love the layers so I can use some scraps. Our sponsor is My Grafico.

And here's my card using Santa from the Traditional Christmas Stamps set found HERE. I used copics on Santa and some paper scraps. As you can see, I goofed and put my snowflake embellishment in the upper left corner instead of the bottom. Oh well, maybe you can do a better job than I did at following the sketch!!! Come join us at Seems a Little Sketchy.
   

Pumpkin Pie...YUM!

I do love pumpkin pie...heck, I like most treats made with pumpkin. The only problem is, no one else in my family does. My next door neighbor found this out years ago and every Thanksgiving would send over a piece of pie for me. She has now gone to giving me a whole pie!!! Hard to eat a whole pie so I share with my friends. Looks like these mischievous ants are enjoying theirs, whipped cream and all! This is an image from Doodle Pantry called Pumpkin Pie Ants. I used the color version and some scrap dp. This card is for our Clean and Simple challenge over at The Outlawz...can you guess what the theme is?! Yep, create a CAS card of your favorite holiday dessert. I happened to go with Thanksgiving as my holiday, but any holiday will do. Join us and unleash your inner CAS goddess!!   

Enjoy the Season

Talk about a bitter cold day!! That wind made me simply Brrrrr!! I made vegetable soup for dinner and boy was it yummy. It's done in the slow cooker and the recipe can be found HERE. It doesn't call for it but I add a can of diced tomatoes too.

Staying inside out of the cold gave me time to get some cards made. This one used a Clearly Digi Stamps set called Holiday Nutcrackers. I used the color version as well as one of the digital papers. I followed the challenge over at CAS(E) This Sketch. Check it out cause it's one I will use over and over again. I used the png versions of my image and sentiment so I could merge them onto one panel. It looked empty on the bottom left so I punched a hole and added some ribbon.

I also wanted to remind you of our Clearly Inspired Challenge - Clean and Simple. You still have time to play!

Christmas Cheer

Just wanted to post some cards I've made for challenges over at Stamp TV. It was fun pulling out some of my Gina K Designs stamps. The tree is from Holiday Cheer while the sentiment and papers are from the Merry Little Christmas Stamp TV kit. The challenge was red, green and white.

Again I used the Merry Little Christmas kit for the stamp and paper. The challenge here was to use kraft. Both were a lot of fun to create and are now heading into my pile of cards to mail out this year. I really should get started on addressing my cards, but no, I'll wait till the last possible moment and stress myself out even more!!!! Please tell me I'm not the only one who does that!!