Ho Ho Ho~Gift Card Holder w/Peachy Keen Stamps

Good Morning Everyone!!

I can not believe it is Christmas Eve Day....

I hope you all have a VERY Merry Christmas and let the festivities begin!!

I do plan of popping in tomorrow to announce the winner of the

 "Owl Be Home For Christmas" Blog hop prize...

If you didn't get a chance to hop you can still check back to my post HERE for a chance to win a spool of Trendy Twine!! I will keep the comments for that prize open until tonight :)

So for my project today

I still had a few last minute gifts to wrap including making some gift card holders...

I don't care too much for the ones that come with the gift cards so I thought I would make my own

and enter them into this week's 

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge which is 

Anything Goes 

but you have to use Peachy Keen Stamps

I used this stamp set

PK~322 Christmas Tag Minis

And made this gift card.....

What do you think???

I ended up making 2 of these because I LOVE the way they turned out!!

And the best thing about this....it was so easy to put together!!

I used My Creative Time's~ Embossed Gift Card Holder Die

and die cut it with my cuttlebug and Core'dination card stock.

For Santa's belt I just cut a strip of black card stock at 1" and used the buckle from the

witch's hat from SVG Cuts~ Gimme Candy Boxes SVG Kit.

I added some silver stickles to the buckle and then using the sentiments from the Christmas Tag Mini's I heat embossed them with Creative Inspirations Paint~ Deliquesce Black embossing powder!

That was it!

These will be going to 2 kiddo's ages 12 and 15....I hope they like them 

But know at that age it is more about what is inside that counts...Right!!

So that is all I have for today!!

Again I hope you like my gift card!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT Christmas Eve Day!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge~ Anything Goes

Little Scrap Pieces~ Fun Friday "Santa Baby"

DL Art~ Thankful Thursday 

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Simon Says Stamps~ Anything Christmas
Pause Dream Enjoy~ December Celebrations
Sentimental Sundays~Focus on the Sentiment
Stamptacular Sunday~ Emboss Me

Halloween Treat Boxes

Good Morning Bloggers!!

I have a project to share today to link up to a couple of challenges.

With the weather getting cooler and back to school time

drawing closer, I am thinking about my favorite time of the year...

Fall!!

I love the changing leaves, apple and pumpkin picking and of course

Halloween!!

So for my project today I made some treat boxes

that I will fill with goodies to give to my kiddos on

Halloween

Supplies Used:
CardStock~ PTI ~
Vintage Cream, Orange Zest, Smoky Shadow
Designer Paper~ DCWV~
Ghosts and Goblins Stack
Cut Files~ 3D set of 2 Gift Box~
Lori Whitlock Silhouette Store
Fence~
Silhouette Store
Die Cuts~ Cottage Cutz~
Pumpkin Trio
Sentiments and Stamps~ Peachy Keen Stamps~
PK~647 Faceless FallFun
Peachy Keen Stamps~
PK~550 Pumpkin Faces
Extra's~ 3 Girl Jam Crinkle Ribbon~
Witch's Brew
Trendy Twine~
Twisted Lime
White Gel Pen
Cuttlebug~Distress Stripes Embossing Folder

I hope you have enjoyed my project for today!
Thanks so much for stopping by 
and
have a GREAT Tuesday!!!
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Entering this into the following Challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge~ 3D Objects Box it Up

Ribbon Carousel ~ Bump it Up

Die Cutting Divas~ Color Challenge (Yellow, Orange, Purple and Grey)

My Crafting Channel~ SVG Saturday
DL.ART~ Birthday Linky Party
Simon Says Stamp and Show~ Anything Goes

CI Paints Inspired By: The Beach

Good Morning Blogger!!!

(if you are looking for Day 2 of GSS Christmas in July Blog Hop 

click HERE 

or scroll down to the next post)

It is time for another fun

Inspired By Challenge over at

Creative Inspirations Paint!!

This weeks Challenge~

Inspired By: The Beach

 and here is the card I made..

I was going for a CAS just because card...I never have enough 

of these cards :)

Supplies Used:

CardStock~ All from my HUGE scrap pile

Cut File~ Beach Umbrella and Sun~

Lori Whitlock, Silhouette Store

Sentiment~ Paper Smooches~

Sentiment Sampler

Extra's~ Creative Inspirations Paint~

Rustic Red, Beige, Buttercup, Denium

Sewing Machine

Cuttlebug~

Divine Swirl Embossing Folder

I hope I have inspired you!

I would LOVE to see you join in on our 

Inspired By: The Beach

Challenge!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a 

GREAT Day!!

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Entering this into:
Jaihart~ Sunday's are Lovely
Creative Cutter Room~ Summer Fun
My Crafting Channel~ SVG Saturday

Catch the Bug Challenge Day~ 4th of July Celebration!

Good Morning Bloggers!!!

It is challenge day for

Bugaboo Stamps over at

Catch The Bug

and

it is also my last day as a Bugaboo Stamps Guest Designer :(

I have had a blast playing with my favorite Bugaboo Digi's and

will miss working with such amazing and talented designers!

So Thank You to the whole Bugaboo Stamps DT...

You guys are amazing!!!

Now this weeks challenge is....

A Holiday/Seasonal Challenge

(4th of July/Summer)

and here is my card....

Supplies Used:

CardStock~ Kraft

Authentique Glory, White

Image~ Bugaboo Stamps~

Fanny Calendar Months~ July USA

Sentiment~ Bugbites~

All Year Round

Cuts~ Stars~

Silhouette Cameo

Extra's~ Copics

Stickles

Star Embossing Folder

I hope you have enjoyed my card!

Looking forward to seeing all your projects!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and 

have a GREAT day!!

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Entering this over at:

The Kraft Journal~ Anything Goes

Jaihart~ Sunday's are Lovely
Jessica's Craft Shaque~ Red, White and Blue
Scrappy Moms Stamps~ Patriotic Pride
Totally PaperCrafts~ Use a Digi
Simon Say Stamp Challenge~ Sporty and or Patriotic
Little Scrap Pieces~ Use a Star

For My Tie~rific Dad..... Cutting Cafe DT project

Morning everyone!!!

It is DT day over at 

The Cutting Cafe

and this week we are sharing projects using Regina's adorable

Shirt and Tie Shaped Card Set

or

For My Tie~rific Dad

and here is what I created

I made a matching gift box and card set

something to give my father-in-law on Sunday

Supplies Used:

Cardstock~ White and Kraft

Designer Paper~Echo Park~

A Boy's Life~ Suave

Cuts~ Gable box~ 

Silhouette File

Tie Cut~

The Cutting Cafe

Sentiments~ For My Tie~rific Dad~

The Cutting Cafe

Extra's~ Distress Ink~

Gathered Twigs

My Creative Time~

Curly Label Die

Cuttlebug

I hope you have enjoyed my project!

Make sure to check out the rest of the DT's projects over at

The Cutting Cafe

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Entering this into the following Challenges:

Jaihart~ Sunday's are Lovely

Celebrate the Occasion~ Father's Day

Craft Your Passion~ Anything Goes

DL ART~ Manly Card

Little Scrap Pieces~ Father's Day

Sentimental Sunday's~ For a Special Guy

More Than Favor's~ Father's Day

My Craft Spot~ Father's Day

The Cuttlebug Spot~ Shades of Blue for Dad

Jay Gee's Nook~ Photo Inspiration

Joyful Stamper~ Inspire Me Friday's

Die Cuttin Divas~ Father's Day

My Sheri Crafts~ Father's Day

E.A.D Designs Blog Hop

Good Morning Bloggers!!


(for my GGS~ 4th of July project click HERE)

It is Monday and time for our 

E.A.D Designs

DT Blog Hop!!

It is also time to welcome June's Guest Designer~

The very creative Donna!

So awesome to have you guesting with us this month!!!

Please make sure to welcome her!!

Now you should be coming from

Jenn's

if not and you just happened to stop in to say hello you will want to start at the beginning hop on over to

E.A.D Designs!

Don't forget to comment along the hop for your chance to win some E.A.D Designs Vinyl!!

Since Summer is right around the corner and it has been beautiful and sunny here I wanted to make something Sunny and fun

here is what I created....

(not sure why the picture is kinda blurry but if you click on it, it shows up clean)

Supplies Used~

Card Stock~ White and Black

Sentiment~ E.A.D Designs~

Pocket Full of Sunshine Sentiment

Extra's~ Sun Embellishment~Peebles

Twinery Twine~Lemon Drop

Cuttle Bug~Divine Swirl Embossing Folder

I hope you have enjoyed my project!

Now you are off to the very talented 

Judith

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT day!

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Entering this over at:

Jaihart~ Sunday's are Lovely

The Cutting Cafe~ Strawberry Treat Box

Good Morning Bloggers!!

It is DT day for me over at

The Cutting Cafe

and this week we are showcasing the awesome

Strawberry Treat Box

                        This STRAWBERRY TREAT BOX....TEMPLATE CUTTING FILE is approx. 6 inches long. 

                                               The box itself is approx. 4 inches long, 2.25 inches high with a 2 inch depth.

The file comes in the following formats: WPC, PDF AND SVG.

The set also comes with 14 TAGS....

these tags will punch out using STAMPIN UP'S LARGE TAG PUNCH

And here is what I made

Yummy I love chocolate covered strawberries~ usually make them myself but when I went to pull out the chocolate to dip them....I didn't have any

So they are just plain....just picture them covered in chocolate...LOL!

Supplies Used~

Card Stock~  Kraft, Red, Brown, Green and White~
all from my stash of scraps

Cut File~ Strawberry Treat Box~
The Cutting Cafe

Sentiment~ Strawberry Treat Box~
The Cutting Cafe

Extra's~ White Gel Pen

Button

Twine

Cuttlebug~ Swiss Dots and Divine Swirl Folders

I hope you have enjoyed my project!

Make sure to hop over to 

The Cutting Cafe

for lots more inspiration! 

Remember to comment for your chance to win some files!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!

E.A.D Designs Blog Hop~ With Heartfelt Sympathy

Good Morning Bloggers!

It is Monday and time for our 

E.A.D Designs

DT Blog Hop!!

Before I share my project I want to send a HUGE welcome to this month's

Guest Designer~ Stephanie!!

Make sure when you stop by her adorable blog you send lots of love to welcome her!!!

 

Now you should be coming from Jenn's, 

if not and you just happened to stop in to say hello you want to start at the beginning hop on over to

E.A.D Designs!

Make sure to comment all around, including E.A.D Designs  for a chance to win some goodies...plus get tons of awesome inspiration!!

For my project today I unfortunately had to make a sympathy card.

Not only do they break my heart to make....it always seems so very hard to design.

Being on the PTO at my kiddo's school I have the chance to show my work by making birthday cards, posters and all congrats, get well and in this case sympathy  cards. I love being able to design and share my projects and greatly honored when the principal asked if I could send out a card to a former teacher at the school who's husband passed away suddenly.

This is what I came up with...

I used E.A.D Designs~Sympathy Sentiments rub-ons

Card Stock from PTI in True Black, Ripe Avacado and Select White

Frame from the Silhouette Store cut with my Cameo

Distress Ink in Peeled Paint

Divine Swirl Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Ribbon from my stash

and

Brads from my stash.

Now you are off to the very talented Judith

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT day!

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Entering this card into the following challenges:

Carson's Creation~ Embossing

Catered Crop~ Follow the Recipe, used Brads

One Stitch at a Time~ Something New 

(E.A.D Designs Rub-ons....1st time using them!!)

The Pink Elephant~ CAS

ABC DT Challenge~ Anything Goes

"Frosty the Snowman"

Hi Everyone!!

I have my final Christmas card to share to be entered over at The 12 Days of Christmas w/

Catch The Bug Challenge

Today's theme was to use a Christmas Song as your inspiration.

I used Frosty the Snowman and the adorable

Snowman Skates image

This is a very quick and easy card....I colored the image with my copics and then matted it on Scarlet Jewel PTI cardstock.

The sentiment was stamped using Black Memento Ink using Joy's Life~ Wintery Puns stamp set and that too was matted on Scarlet Jewel PTI cardstock.

I ran a piece of black cardstock through my cuttlebug using the snowflake (?) folder

Attached all the layers and TaDa..

A card was born :)

Very simple and very easy.

I have been working on a surprise project that I hope to share really soon with you all.

I am so super excited about how this turned out...

Details up here soon :)

That is all I have for you tonight

I will be back tomorrow!

Have a GREAT night!!

Happy Sunday!

Hi everyone!

I hope you all had a great weekend!!

I know I did :)

Today is my birthday and I did everything I love....relax, hang out with the family and craft.

A perfect Sunday!

(except the Buffalo Bills played like CRAP and lost BADLY!!)

Anyways my husband asked for some wedding cards for the people at work.

I had one on hand and made another today

This is a very simple card.

I used the Wedding cartridge for my cuts

PTI cardstock in Plum Pudding

Cuttlebug swiss dots folder to emboss

My Creative Time~ Many Greetings Stamp set for the sentiment

and

pearls to embellish alittle.

I hope the happy couple likes it :)

So that is all I have for you tonight....

have a happy Sunday and I will see you back here tomorrow!

A Sneak Peak at Bugbites New Stamp Set~ Mistletoe

Morning Everyone!

I am so super excited to share this adorable stamp set preview with you for Barb over at Bugbites

She has done an amazing job with this set and I know you will all LOVE this set....I know I do :)

I have made a few cards using this set and I will share them over the course of the next few days...leading up to the release of Barb's 2 new sets this week.

Here is my first card using the Mistletoe Stamp Set

I made another shaker card! They are so much fun to make and I love the extra detail it adds to my card.

The stamped image is from Peachy Keen Stamps PK~M17 "Snow Much Love"

I colored the image with my copics,

C5,C10

E47

YR14

R39

For the shaker I used seed beads in clear and a baby blue. (my kids had a blast shaking this card)

The paper is baby blue and white card stock which I embossed with my cuttlebug snowflake folder.

I have an adorable mini snowflake punch that I punched out 3 snowflakes and used my irock to add some bling to the centers.

The sentiment is the cutest isn't it!?!?!

I knew when I saw it exactly what I wanted to do with it :)

I love how this all came together and love the fonts Barb used for this set.

I hope you enjoyed my card and will hop over to Bugbites to see the other designers sneak peak project.

Thanks for stopping by and I will have another preview on Tuesday.



Whimsical Wednesdays Challenge #17~~ Humor LOL!!

Morning Bloggers!!

It is time again for another Whimsical Wednesday Challenge.

Ready for this one....Challenge #17 is...

"Sense of Humor"

For this challenge you must include something funny, whether a funny photo or image and/or include some wording related to humor such as laugh, giggle, chuckle, funny, hysterical.

You get the picture...right. Lets make the DT laugh :)

So alittle background before I share my LO.

I posted awhile back about going to a birthday party with my son and the party having Nickle City Reptiles as their entertainment.

Not only do the kids LOVE seeing all the animals that Jeff brings...the adults LOVE listening to how funny Jeff is.

I attached a video link so you can see a small glimpse at how funny Jeff is.

He goes around locally and does birthday parties, the fair and school events~~ BUT~~ he also is a pretty regular Late Night with Jimmy Fallon guest.

Cool huh...so for my LO I did one of "Rockey" ~  the American Alligator

When Jeff brought Rockey out it was not funny :)

The kids were excited but screamed also. Not many of us get to see an alligator up close.

It just so happened that Rockey was in the mood to perform that day.

Doesn't it look like he is smiling?

The letters were cut with my cricut from Cuttin' Up and I added some white gel pen doodles

This picture cracks me up...LOL.. it really looks like he is laughing :)

Crazy that Jeff was able to put Rockey on his back and tickle him....actually I think he was just rubbing his belly but it looks like he is being tickled.

I added a couple of info circles as my journaling using my 2" circle punch.

I inked around the outside with coffee bean pigment ink.

The rub ons are from DCVW~ Safari Kids

Here is my alligator from Create a Critter. He is too cute not to put on this.

I embossed him with my Tiny Mosaic cuttlebug folder.

So there you have it :)

Do you think this is funny?!?!

Hope so and hope you will join us this week over at Whimsical Wednesdays  for our "Sense of Humor" challenge.

Remember you have 2 weeks to enter. Don't forget to check out the other DT's LO's. I know they are all so funny and so very inspirational.

Thanks for stopping by!



Birthday Card~~Sketch and Embossing

Afternoon Bloggers!

I have a card to share with you as well as a reqest.....For the request, if you could please find the time to pop over the the Papercraft Star blog and vote for my card. It is #1. I would be soooooo appreciative :)
Thanks bunches...you have till 6am tomorrow to vote.

Next I have a card to share that I made for 3 challenges.
Birthday Sundaes , 365 Cards and CropStop.

For the Birthday Sundaes challenge we were to use wet or dry embossing and the 365 Cards challenge was a sketch. CropStop's challenge, twice as much fun is to use 2 embossing folders in your project.

The background paper is from Jillibean Soup and the rest is from my scrap. The Circle I cut at 3" using George and Basic Shapes and the cake is from Simply Charmed cut at 2.5"

I embossed the circle with my cuttlebug and a birthday folder and the icing~divine swirls, flames~~herringbone.

The sentiment is from fiskars stamps.

That's all I have for now....remember if you haven't entered my 300 follower giveaway you have until this Friday~June 17th to enter :)

Now off to make dinner and then to play some ball....Have a GREAT night everyone :)

It's a Linking Party :)

Hi Bloggers!!

Guess what?!?! It is still raining here and will be for the entire week! I had wanted to get so much done outside, my husband took the week off to work on the garden and we can do NOTHING outside :(

Hoping for a break to at least do alittle planting but it is not looking too good.

So instead we are cleaning the garage..sounds like fun right?!?! Needed to get done for sure!

Anyways I made a card to "Celebrate" this fun linking party!

Alex over at You Had Me at Craft has been working so hard to get this fun linky party together and I can't wait to join in!

This is my card I made for today

I used the free SVG file

Cheryl's Sweet Treats Mini SVG Collection

and cut the cupcake and the banner from the set.

It is a pretty simple card and was very easy to put together!

I stamped the sentiment from the Fiskar's Birthday Stamp set

Used my cuttlebug-- Divine Swirls to the "frosting" and my crimper for the wrapper.

Everything is up on foam dots for alittle extra dimensions.

So I hope you like my card for today and if you get a chance hop over and visit Alex and link up!

I can't wait to hop around, visit the other blogs linked and find some more great inspiration!

It's Time for Another Whimsical Wednesday Challenge

It is that time again....A new Challenge over at Whimsical Wednesday.

This weeks challenge is to make a Birthday LO with any kind of Embossing.

My nephew is turning 1 in July and he just LOVES monkeys.

This 12 x 12 LO was made just for him and once he has his birthday I will put the pictures in and give it to my sister.

 So I used paper from Recollection-I believe-It came from Michael's and was purchased a while ago for this purpose..to make something cute for my little nephew.

 I punched 2" circles and used 1 of my favorite tools..the cuttlebug to emboss each circle with the herringbone folder. They were all inked with coffee bean pigment ink.

On another of my shopping quests I found Tim Holtz grunge board letters on clearance. They came in handy for this. I inked them all with fire brick, frayed burlap and vintage photo. It really brought out the embossed stripes that were already on them.

They were placed on foam dots for extra dimensions.

I put 2 photo mats on this. Both are 4 x6 mats and both were embossed with the Swiss dots folder.

The monkey was a svg file I recently found and he just seemed to fit so nicely in this space.

I am really happy with the way this LO turned out. I hope my sister likes it also!

So now that you have seen my project, make sure you head over to the Whimsical Wednesday blog to see the other DT's projects and to link your birthday LO.

Good Luck and thanks for stopping by. Hope you play along with us this week.

Remember you have 2 full weeks to participate :)