Seize the Birthday #4 {Birthday Cake}

It is a busy week, I am so proud that the musical I have been directing is opening on Friday! I have been unable to make cards or blog, and I am sorry I have not been commenting like I usually do! I have directed the show "Oklahoma" and it opens on Friday!!! The cast and crew I am working with is absolutely lovely and dedicated! It has been such a positive experience!!!

This week at Seize the Birthday, we are using the same sketch as last week to create a Masculine Birthday card! Lori Boyd is our sponsor and she has such cute images. I used a small birthday cake from one of her sweet sets and enlarged it, so it was the main focus on my card! 

A special thank you to my talented friend Sherry Eckblad for joining us as a Guest Designer this week!!! We hope you will join us!

Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #47 {Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas}

Welcome to my weekly Christmas card Challenge called "Merry Monday"! Each week, I post a challenge to inspire you to create a Christmas card for your Christmas card stash! I have a design team of 10 lovely ladies and we are all working on getting a Christmas card done each week! This is our last challenge with the talented and inspiring Deanna Dean who has been a wonderful Featured Designer for January! I am a huge fan of Deanna's work, she always inspires! Thank you for sharing your beautiful cards with us Deanna!!

Our challenge this week is a TIC TAC TOE Challenge, where you get to choose any three squares in a row-up/down/diagonally! I chose the bottom row of Designer Paper, Red & Green and Ribbon. This week I had fun inking up another Christmas goody that I purchased for myself while on holiday! It is a Christmas set from My Favorite Things. I admired it this Fall and was so thrilled when I found it! I also used the sweet sketch from the Feeling Sketchy Challenge and the Winter Spirit Challenge at the Ribbon Carousel.

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: My Favorite Things

Inks: Garden Green and Real Red

Papers: SU! DSP in Gumball Green, Real Red, Whisper White and Crumb Cake

Extras: May Arts Ribbon, Maya Road Chipboard Snowflakes, Pearls

Welcome to our Guest Designer this week Anne Hayward!! She won our challenge a couple of weeks ago! Would you like to be a Guest Designer? Be sure to play along, as our weekly winner is our next Guest Designer!

LeAnne Pugliese	Bonnie Klass	Nina Forsyth
Wendy Aungst	Vicki Burdick	Sue Joyce
Sherry Eckblad	Deanna Dean (FD)	Narelle Farrugia
Anne Hayward (GD)	Margaret Moody	Allisa Chilton

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):

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

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

3. Feel free to combine 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 challenge your own!

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

1. Sabrina	2. IRENE	3. Susan B	4. ribbon dreams	5. jaydee	6. Carol L
7. Scrappin Rabbit	8. Joan Jeffery	9. Aileen	10. Sarah Cameron	11. chris v - easily amused	12. Lauren
13. Sandy Mathis	14. Lacey Stephens	15. Kelly Bertram	16. Julie Temple	17. Hazel	18. Kim Badelt
19. Kay Miller	20. LisaJ	21. Erika Clark	22. JoAnn B.	23. shelia	24. fabiola
25. Debbie	26. Sari	27. Donna E.	28. Janet Bagnall	29. Shirley Pumpkin	30. Bananastamper
31. Louise	32. Violet	33. Kirstin	34. Dawn Easton	35. Kristie Goulet	36. Patti Corriere
37. Paula Jennings	38. Kirstin No. 2	39. Kim Evans	40. Kim S	41. Janet Zeppa

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Merry Monday Winners

Another awesome week at Merry Monday!!! Wow, loved seeing all your bird themed creations!!! Once again, it was a fierce vote and the design team chose their favourites for the week.

This week's Top Pick-voted on by the design team is this "tweet" clean and simple card created by:

Kristie Goulet

Congratulations Kristie! We hope you will join us as our Guest Designer for Monday, February 4th. Please email me by clicking the envelope icon at the top of my blog. Be sure to put "Merry Monday Guest Designer" in the subject line and I will email you back all the details.

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.

Be sure to visit each blog to see the winning projects by clicking on the pictures:

1. Karen Aicken	2. Kim	3. Kay Miller
4. Janet Kay	5. Judy May	6. Lisa J
7. Sue C	8. Shelley Germann	9. JoAnn B
10. Dawn Easton	11. Carol L	12. Susan

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Seize the Birthday #3 {Make a Wish}

There is a brand new sketch up this week at Seize the Birthday!!! I loved playing with the sweet little birthday girl that Lori sent to me!!! 

For the rest of January, we are being sponsored by the lovely Lori Boyd over at By LORi Designs! This week she provided the team with some awesome masculine images for our BOY BIRTHDAY CARDS!!!

I inked up my image with Copics and used some fun paper called Lucky Love from My Mind's Eye. We hope you get the chance to get inky and join us this week!

Casual Fridays and Lawn Scaping {All You Need is Love}

{Supplies}

Stamps: Lawn Fawn {Winter Owl}, Hero Arts {True Love Collection}

Inks: Copics, Memento Black Ink

Paper: Flourishes White Cardstock, SU! Pool Party DSP

Extras: Corner Rounder Punch

I wanted to play along with CAS-ual Fridays Long and Short Challenge and the current Winter Themed Lawnscaping Challenge. This card was quick and easy to put together! I enjoy making CAS cards! All you need is love to keep you warm on a winter day!!! I stamped the owl onto a post it note and then fussy cut the owl out. Then using my post it note owl, I used it to make a mask and double stamped the owl image onto my card stock, so Berta's scarf tails (girl owl) wouldn't fly in the face of Bert (boy owl). My images are coloured with Copics.

 

  

There She Goes Challenge {Blossom by Blossom Sketch}

I saw the sketch over at There She Goes on Monday and I knew I had to play along!!! The sketch interested me with the rounded edges and the split background. I decided to ink up their sweet set called "Blossom by Blossom" designed by the lovely Torico. 

I hope you get the chance to play along with their fabulous sketch this week! I loved it!!!

Supplies Used:

Stamps: There She Goes-Blossom by Blossom

Papers: Pebbles, Kraft, Flourishes White Cardstock

Inks: Copics

Extras: Corner Rounder Punch, Button

Merry Monday Christmas Card Theme Challenge #46 {For the Birds}

Hello and welcome to another challenge at Merry Monday!! I am happy to report that over 40 stampers made a Christmas card for our challenge last week and now they can celebrate that they have one more Christmas card in their stash for next year!! Hooray!

This week's challenge is a Theme Challenge and one that I am so excited about! I love using bird images on my Christmas cards and while traveling this Christmas, I picked up a new Lawn Fawn stamp that I had to have! It had been on my wishlist all Fall and it did not disappoint when I inked it up!!!  It stamped smoothly and was such fun to colour! I stamped the owl twice, stamping it once onto a post it note and then cut it out. Then I masked the Owl so I could created two owls, snuggling together. I used the fun sketch over at Splitcoast Stampers! I used a "branch" in place of the banner!!! I love being able to mix pattern papers and this week I went to town using papers from Carta Bella, Stampin' Up and Simple Stories!!!

The design team has created such pretty and adorable creations to get you into the birding mood!!! Have fun creating your Christmas card!! A big welcome to our Guest Designer Kim Badelt, who won our challenge last week!! Would you like to be a Guest Designer? Be sure to play along, as our weekly winner is our next Guest Designer!

LeAnne Pugliese	Bonnie Klass	Nina Forsyth
Wendy Aungst	Vicki Burdick	Sue Joyce
Sherry Eckblad	Deanna Dean (FD)	Narelle Farrugia
Kim Badelt (GD)	Margaret Moody	Allisa Chilton

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):

1. You must use the weekly challenge to 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 (PST) on the Sunday before the next Merry Monday Challenge.

1. shelia	2. Susan B	3. Jenny Engelke	4. Shelley Germann	5. Sue C	6. Sue C
7. Lauren	8. Megan	9. Kristie Goulet	10. Carol Lucas	11. April	12. Donna E.
13. Janet Kay	14. Carol L	15. Karen Day	16. Louise	17. fabiola	18. Kim Evans
19. Emma H	20. LisaJ	21. Dawn Easton	22. Martha H.	23. Kay Miller	24. Susan Kennedy
25. Judy May	26. Violet Verhoog	27. Gisele	28. Sari	29. Patti Corriere	30. Kirstin
31. Karen Aicken	32. Susan	33. Pat P	34. Tara (Murphy) Bourgoin	35. Sue	36. JoAnn B.
37. Victoria R	38. Joyce	39. Debbie Marcinkiewicz

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Merry Monday Winners

Whew!!! Such an amazing week of submissions, the design team loved visiting your blogs and checking out your submissions!!!

This week's Top Pick-voted on by the design team is this adorable card created by:

Anne Hayward

Congratulations Anne! We hope you will join us as our Guest Designer for Monday, January 28th. Please email me by clicking the envelope icon at the top of my blog. Be sure to put "Merry Monday Guest Designer" in the subject line.

And our Honourable Mentions were voted on as well, and this week we ALL chose an Honourable Mention! 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.

Be sure to visit each blog to see the winning projects by clicking on the pictures:

1. Tracey McNeely	2. Sandra Azzopardi	3. Dawn Easton
4. Tracey	5. Susan Bri	6. Kay
7. Beth	8. Carol L	9. 2. Sarah Stone
10. JoAnn B.	11. Fabiola	12. Donna Eckols

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