Warm Wishes

Loved the sketch on RAQ's challenge....last week!   Needless to say I'm a little behind, but a great sketch is a great sketch.  Here is my version.

Used Doodlecharms Snowman, cut in layers on white and pearlescent white.  Inked the cheeks and sharpied the face.  He's cut at 3".  The hat is PDDU, magician, cut at 1 1/4" RDS.  Added a strip of plaid.  The scarf is EDPD, cut at 1 1/4" RDS in plaid.  Added buttons.   The background snowflakes are from Winter Woodlands, added gems.  The sentiment is a generic stamp from last Christmas.  Attached some buttons and gem stones, MS snowflakes....and the paper was all scraps.

Little Pink and Green Snowfriend! Cricut Cardz #3 and Frosted Designs

The challenge at Cricut Cardz was to use pink and green on a card........my favorite combo....so this was lots of fun!  At Frosted Designs, you were to use concentric shapes....which I did with the background (rectangles) and the mat (squares).  I used all scraps on this card...yeah!   The snowfriend is cut at 3 1/2" and I just take parts I like from each one.   I've also found that if you cut the hats 1/2" bigger they seem to do better.   His little face is a Peachy Keen stamp (which I forgot that I had......)  Added glitter, and ink, and buttons, and rhinestones......MS punch snowflakes with rhinestones (I didn't wait for the glue to dry....) and a computer generated sentiment.   The mat is embossed with Swiss Dots.

Merry Little Snowmen

Got the new Snowfriends cartridge....couldn't wait to try it.  Love these little fellas, but they are cut at 2" and that is TINY!   Embellished them with pencils, sharpies, chalk, and glitter.  Added a little bling and a fuzzy pompon.   Really want to play with this cartridge a little more.  Snowflake border is MS punches cut on metallic paper with little jewels attached.

Blingy Christmas Elf

Merry Christmas.....well, it's early, I know.   But it's never too early to break out those Christmas scrappins'.  This card is supposed to be based on a sketch (I can never get a card to fit a sketch...   ughhh!).   It is DCWV 2008 Christmas stack patterned paper....trimmed out with those wonderful red "bling on a roll" rhinestones (a Tuesday Morning find....three rolls for $3.....WOW!)    Inside paper is American Crafts Christmas Party, cut into a circle with my MS circle cutter (I prefer that to Cricut circles....they come out "wonky" for some reason...)  Edged the circle with MS snowflakes...white for one version with some glittery sparkle in the middle and red metallic for the other one.  The package and the sentiment were some button tags from my stash.  The elf is PDDU, cut in metallic, at 4".   The details for him are somewhere in this blog under SWAPS or Cool Yule.   He's just the basic cut though with hand drawn face, doodling, and marker made stripes on his stockings!

Let It Snow! Practical Scrappers Punch Challenge

Well, I broke down and finally made a Christmas card.   I wouldn't have....but it matched the sketch challenge on RAQ's card challenge on the Cricut Messageboard....and it used punches which is what Practical Scrappers is using this week....so here it is:   the first Christmas card of 2009.

Used Doodlecharms snowman:  cut shadow on regular and layers in blue metallic....cut brown twigs, cut regular white....and layers white.  All cut at 2 1/2"  Went around the edges with blue and green pencil...then silver metallic ink.  Attached the layered nose (ink, gel pen, and watercolors) googly eyes, inked cheeks, and penciled mouth.  Put on an orange ribbon knotted for a scarf...and a punched heart...and buttons.  The hat is the elf's hat from PDDU....cut at 3" and layered.   The paper is American crafts and it made this sketch easy!   Snowflakes are 2 Martha Stewart punches....layered....and button attached.  Sentiment is computer generated....cut with decorative scissors.....and inked with the silver.

Joy to the World - Sketch Saturday 28 and Cute Card Thursday - punches

Just a cute little "happy card" using the great sketch from Sketch Saturday Challenge 28. I had to reverse the little accent dots to get everything to fit. The penguins are Zooballoo, the paper is the Snowy Day collection (I keep using it!), and the tree is made with the MS branch punch with a double MS snowflake punch for the star. The sentiment is computer generated. Hopefully, this card will bring a little joy to someone!

Cute Card Thursday - Lilac Challenge

Cute Card Thursday had an open challenge to use lilac this week. I love the color! Since I need to make Christmas cards, this is the result. Used DCWV Christmas stack paper with some lilac, purple metallic, and grey metallic cardstock. The ribbon is from Wal-Mart (where else is there?), and the snowman is a die cut from Christmas Cheer. I stamped his face using Peachy Keen's winter assortment and his buttons are from a $1 assortment at Joann Fabrics. I used chalk and ink to finish him. The snowflakces are the MS punch, and pop dots were used behind the snowman and each snowflake.