Getting my Craft On {Merry and Bright}

Tonight I was in a crafty mood! I went in search of a few fun challenges and decided to get inky! I love the sweet stamps at Totally Stampalicious, they are a Canadian Company which is cool! I am a Canadian too! So there I was looking through some different challenges and I knew I really wanted to challenge myself to make something with lots of layers and embellishments! So I tried my best! Totally Stampalicious has a "Let it Snow" Theme Challenge on this week, so I got out their WINTER BIRD SNOWMAN set and went to work!

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: WINTER BIRD SNOWMAN, Poinsettia and Pine from Flourishes

Inks: Copics, Basic Gray, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Papers: My Mind's Eye, Flourishes Vanilla CS, October Afternoon

Extras: Pearls, Striped Ribbon, Scallop Punch, Sponge, Nestabilities, Stickles

One sketch challenge I always want to try but have not had the chance to play along with yet is the Deconstructed Sketch. I flipped the sketch and used my ribbon as a flag on the side, not down the side of the front panel. I also added pearls right along the bottom of the card. I really loved this sketch and found that it gave me great inspiration! 

I am also playing along with the following challenges

Creative Card Crew - 2W - #24 Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown - #125 Lots Of Layers

Crafty Ann's - 2W, SIO - Week 1, Birds & or Animals (no people or insects)

Some Exciting News {I am on the Design Team for Whimsy & Stars Studios}

Whimsy and Stars Digital and Rubber Stamps

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a design team call for Whimsy and Stars Stamps! I recently have moved on from selling Stampin' Up and have been dreaming of a wonderful opportunity like this, to be able to grow as a crafter!! I am proud to announce that I am on the 2013 Winter Design Team!!! Thank you to Mabelle for this great adventure! Mabelle designs digital stamps as well as rubber stamps. You can find her stamps by CLICKING HERE. 

Thursday, November 29th: Digi Stamp FREEBIE Day! 

From Thursday, November 29th until Saturday, December 1st at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time. You can grab the free digi above! 

Visit Mabelle's blog Whimsy and Stars Stamps for more information!

I made a clean and simple card with this stamp, to match the clean and simple look to the tree! Tuesday, December 4th is the Christmas DT Blog Hop! I am so pumped about this and I hope you will come back and join in the fun! 

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: Whimsy and Stars {Free Tree Stamp}

Inks: Copics

Papers: White Card Base from Flourishes, Echo Park Paper {Season's Greetings}

Extras: Real Red Button, Twine

Isn't that tree adorable! This week, be sure to grab this FREE Christmas Tree Digital Stamp for you to try! It was easy and fun to colour! 

I decided to play along with two challenges:

ABC Challenges - Anything Goes

Creative Stamp Friends - X-mas

Merry Monday #43 {Our Final Challenge for 2012!}

Wow! Here we are, the final Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge for 2012 but we will be back on January 7th, 2013! Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun and to all of our Featured Designers, who came and played and inspired us with their works of art! This week we have an interesting sketch! Go ahead and change up those circles, have fun and be creative! 

For my card,I decided to get out the retired Stampin' Up Stocking Punch and created a traditional Christmas coloured card! I love this paper from Stampin' Up called Be of Good Cheer, it is so pretty and the traditional colours are easy to work with!

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: More Merry Messages

Inks: Cherry Cobbler

Papers: Be of Good Cheer, Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green

Extras: Big Shot, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Vanilla Satin Ribbon, Gemstones

The design team has created some amazing eye candy for you all! We hope you will join in the fun this week! Welcome to Guest Designer Dawn Easton.

LeAnne Pugliese	Bonnie Klass	Nina Forsyth
Wendy Aungst		Sue Joyce
Sherry Eckblad		Narelle Farrugia
Dawn Easton (GD)	Margaret Moody (FD)	Allisa Chilton

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):

1. You must use the sketch and make a Christmas card.

2. Please add a direct link to your blog or to an online gallery.

3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link to your post.

4. Any offensive posts or cards that do not follow the guidelines will be removed out of courtesy to fellow bloggers and myself.

5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!

This linky will close at Noon on the Sunday before the next Merry Monday Challenge.

1. Victoria	2. shelia	3. Donna	4. LisaJ	5. Kathy Stacy
6. Kim S	7. Susan Lankford	8. Lisa Lynn	9. Janet Kay	10. Martha H.
11. Louise	12. SU! with Hayley Kew	13. Karen Marshall	14. Casandra Bennett	15. Rollimaus
16. Patti Corriere	17. Karen Aicken	18. Kim Richardson	19. Rose	20. Maggie Mata
21. Kelly Bertram	22. Paula Jennings	23. Jo Hooper	24. Anna/Oma	25. Patricia
26. Angie	27. Debi B.	28. Violet	29. Studio-Sara	30. Jessica O.

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Merry Monday Winners for Sketch #42

Wow! What a terrific week of entries at Merry Monday! Thank you to everyone who joined in and who made another Christmas card for their stash! The voting from the design team was fierce this week!!!

This week's Top Pick is Vicki Burdick

We hope you will join us as our Guest Designer for Monday, January 7th. I will email you with the information soon!

And our Honourable Mentions were voted on as well, if you received a vote from a design team member, your card and link is below. Congratulations! We hope you will display your badge with pride! If you are viewing this in Google Reader, you may have to visit the blog to see the actual cards that are linked below.

Please be sure to click on each of the photos to see the winning projects!

1. #31 Kim S	2. #17 Rose	3. #4 Dawn
4. #3 Carolyn	5. #13 Susan	6. #32 Louise
7. #18 Karen	8. #28 Karen	9. #27 Cassandra

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Playing Some Challenges {Holiday Glamour}

Good morning friends! Last night I got my craft on! I have been unable to craft for a week, due to a sore arm, last night I was feeling almost normal and went crazy, making three cards. The other two have been posted HERE and HERE.  This is may be all my crafting for the week but it felt so good to get crafty! I hope you get the chance to craft too.

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: Many More Messages (SU!)

Inks: Midnight Muse

Papers: Silver Glimmer Paper, Midnight Muse, Whisper White

Extras: Memory Box Die and Big Shot

Casual Friday #79

Dynamic Duos #30

Less is More #95

Glamour and Glitz

Free4All#144 at SCS   

Add Glitter

Whimsie Doodles and CAS(E) this Sketch {Feeling Frosty}

I found a new challenge called "Whimsie Doodles" and this month they are looking for any {Holiday Celebration}! I loved their cute freebie and decided to play along! My card is SOOOO clean and simple! I loved this sweet snowman! I am also using the current CAS(E) this Sketch. 

There She Goes Sketch Challenge {Warm Hearts and Wet Noses}

Tonight was the release party for the new There She Goes Stamps. I couldn't believe that I won two of their release stamp sets tonight! I am so excited to play with that new Snowman set! It is adorable! I decided I needed to get inky tonight when I saw their current Sketch Challenge. It is an awesome CAS sketch and so I went CAS with the look of my card! I inked up the adorable Snowy Days stamp set, which I bought because the dog reminded me of our pup Cyrus.

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: Snowy Days

Inks: Copics, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Papers: Flourishes White CS, Kraft from Michael's, Poppy Parade and be of Good Cheer DSP

Extras: Glimmer Paper, Snowflake Punch (MS), Swiss Dots Embossing Folder and Big Shot

Merry Monday #42-{Season's Greetings}

Happy Saturday stamping friends. This past week has been so busy, with report card writing and life! I actually have a sore left arm, not from any heart issues thank goodness (I had that checked out) but because I pulled a muscle in my chest. I am not sure how I do these things. Needless to say, it is painful and I have been favouring it all week. 

This is my Merry Monday card that I made earlier in the week but have not had the chance to post. I wanted to remind you that the Merry Monday Challenge ends on Sunday at Noon (PST).

MDS Monday {Remember When}

Hey! Have you heard? There is a new challenge blog in town and this one is all about using digital scrap-booking  It is called "MDS Monday" and you are welcome to use your My Digital Studio (MDS) program from Stampin' Up or any other digital program you may have.

I saw the awesome layout and decided to play along. I love this photo of my husband with his granny. This was taken in the summer of 2005, we were at a wedding. His granny was a wonderful lady and he was close to her. I wish I had been able to get to know her more. I used some muted colours, so the photo would be more prominent. I love the new MDS 2 program!

Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #42-{Flag it}

Welcome to another week at Merry Monday!  The idea behind this challenge is to get a head start on your Christmas cards!  Each week, I choose one Merry Monday Winner who will then be a Guest Designer for a future challenge!  So get out your Christmas supplies and let's get to work! No card for me this week! The only cards I am making are report cards!! 

Margaret Moody is our Featured Designer and so I am showcasing her card today!

Margaret Moody 

The design team has many festive samples to get you in the holiday spirit! 
Welcome to Karen Day, our Guest Designer this week!

LeAnne Pugliese	Bonnie Klass	Nina Forsyth
Wendy Aungst	Karen Day (GD)	Allisa Chilton
Sue Joyce	Sherry Eckblad	Narelle Farrugia

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):

1. You must use the sketch and make a Christmas card.

2. Please add a direct link to your blog or to an online gallery.

3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link to your post.

4. Any offensive posts or cards that do not follow the guidelines will be removed out of courtesy to fellow bloggers and myself.

5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!

This linky will close at Noon on the Sunday before the next Merry Monday Challenge.

1. Karen Marshall	2. Karen Motz	3. Debbie Marcinkiewicz	4. Sarah Stone	5. Sonia Kertznus - SKdigis	6. Carolyn King
7. Dawn Easton	8. shelia	9. Sue K	10. Kim Richardson	11. Maggie Mata	12. Vicki Burdick
13. Jacqueline	14. Banu H	15. Gina B.	16. Susan Lankford	17. Alyson Mayo	18. Felisa
19. Marika Gabez	20. Rose	21. Cindy Major	22. Correna	23. SU! with Hayley Kew	24. Violet
25. teresa kline	26. kathleen barrett	27. Danielle Vincent	28. Casandra Bennett	29. Robyn Polinsky	30. Sandy :)
31. Kim S	32. Louise	33. Kathy Stacy	34. Studio-Sara	35. Annette C

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Merry Monday Winners

Wow! What a terrific week of entries at Merry Monday! Thank you to everyone who joined in and who made another Christmas card for their stash!

This week's Top Pick is Dawn Easton!!!

We hope you will join us as our Guest Designer for Monday, November 26th. I will email you with the information soon!

And our Honourable Mentions were voted on as well, if you received a vote from a design team member, your card and link is below. Congratulations! We hope you will display your badge with pride! If you are viewing this in Google Reader, you may have to visit the blog to see the actual cards that are linked below.

Please be sure to click on each of the photos to see the winning projects!

#31 Lisa	#15 Aimee	#19 Rose
# 29 Kim S.	#10 Martha	#3 Jennifer B.
#33 Mandy L.	#16 Vicki	#25 Marika

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