Skating Snowlady!

Happy December First!

Since it's the beginning of the month, it's time for another new Challenge over on the One Crazy Stamper Blog! The Challenge theme is Christmas / Winter. Click HERE to go to the Challenge.

For my card I am using the High Hopes Stamp called Skating Snowlady. Today I am using a 5.5" x 4" card base so not a lot of room for a ton of design elements, which is nice for a change. I am using Silver Wink of Stella on the skate blades and Baby blue Stickles on the hat, mitts and button. A few matching YNS Gumdrops and a bow tied with 3 ribbons finishes it all off!

On the inside of the card I used the High Hopes Sentiment called "Holiday All Year". 

Copics Used:

Snow lady: C1

Cheeks: R01

Nose & beak: YR04

Skates B000, Silver Wink of Stella

Blues: B37, B39, B99

Reds: R35, R37, R39

Greys: C1, C2, C3, C4, C6

Outline W1

Here are the Challenge Details / Rules:

-You can use any Image you want except Digital Images.

- You have all month long to join in our challenge.

- You can enter up to 5 times.

- Only new projects, no back linking to old projects.

- You must link the OCS blog in your entry post.

- Following the OCS blog or Facebook page is appreciated

This month you have the chance to win 2 unmounted High Hopes Rubber Stamps of your choice from One Crazy Stamper just for playing our Blog Challenge.

I hope you'll play along with us this month! Thanks for stopping by and....

Happy Crafting!

Supplies:

InLinkz.com

Elf On A Shelf?

Happy Saturday!

There's such a craze with "Elf on the shelf" lately! I think it's so cute and fun to do and wish we would have had that when my kids were little! High Hopes "Painting Elf" reminds me of the shelf elf!

These milk cartons are from Michaels and I got them on clearance last year! What I did was make some red and green paper strips with my paper shredder to put inside and then stashed a little gift inside. Then I just decorated the outside and added the Painting Elf with some foam squares.

It makes a cute little box for a different type of gift wrapping!

Copics Used:

Skin" E00, E11, R20

Reds: R53, R37, R39

Greens: G28, G29

Browns: E43, E44, E47

Yellows: Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Blues: B24, B26, B28

Greys: C1, C3, C5, C7

Orange: YR04, YR07

Thanks for stopping by today! I'm off to do some Christmas decorating this weekend!

Happy Stamping!

Supplies:

InLinkz.com

Christmas Recipe Swap!

Howdy All!

I recently participated in a Christmas Recipe Swap! It was so much fun. My friend the lovely Natalie hosted the swap and made it fun for all with little giveaways along the way. You were given a name and mailing address and it was up to everyone to create a decorated 4x6" recipe. The only requirement was it had to be mailed by November 22nd! It will be fun to see how everyone interrupted their decorated recipe cards! 

Since I love making cards, I decided to make a decorated card to hold my recipe. I am using the super cute Polar Pals from Art Impressions called "Polar Skaters", "Sitting Polars" and "Polar Phil".  I decided to use paper from the Echo Park Hello Winter Collection. I love the blues and it's non traditional colour theme! I used some glue and glitter to add some sparkle to the tree and pond. I decided to use part of a cotton ball to replicate some snow on the ground too! Sometimes you just have to think out of the box LOL. The sentiment is from High Hopes Stamps and is called "Dot Warm Winter Wishes".

I cut out a little "pond" for the bears to skate on and added some glitter to it to hopefully make it look like ice. I also used clear Wink of Stella on all the bears shirt stripes as well as the red items.

Copics Used:

Bears: C1/ cheeks R01

Shirts: BG11, BG23/ BG72, BG75

Reds: R22, R24

Present: BG000

Skates: Silver Wink of Stella

Eyes & nose: Black Gel pen

On the inside I used some Spellbinder Corner dies to hold my recipe in place. I printed off the recipe using my Silhouette machine. So much neater than my handwriting!

Once you remove the recipe and put it in your recipe box, you are still left with a card that can be reused if you want. The sentiment on the inside is also from High Hopes and is called "Holiday All Year". I put a little foam square on Phil's head so that it can be glued down once you remove the recipe. I also included an extra envelope just in case you want to send it to someone!

I sure hope my "secret recipe pal" enjoys my decorated recipe! And hopefully this will be a new recipe for her to try as well! This was such a fun swap to do! Thanks Natalie for the wonderful idea!

Happy Stamping,

Cheri 

Supplies:

InLinkz.com