Merry Monday #24-{Frosty Greetings}

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! 

Lesley Croghan

For my card I used a scrap piece of Regal Rose designer paper and stamped a retired set called 'Serene Snowflakes" across the main panel. I had no Regal Rose Ribbon so used a small scrap of Pretty in Pink Taffeta ribbon for the ornament style sentiment. I used the 1 3/8" circle punch and the scallop circle punch. My card is very clean and easy to mass produce, I think it might look nice in other colours too...but Regal Rose and Basic Gray were on my mind because of the colours at Dynamic Duos. The design team has come up with some wonderful samples to inspire you. I would also like to welcome Guest Designer Karen Aicken.

LeAnne Pugliese

Nina Forsyth

Wendy Aungst

Narelle Farrugia

Bonnie Klass

Vicki Burdick (FD)

Karen Aicken (GD)

Friday Mashup Challenge #28-A Snowflake is Winter's Butterfly

"Here comes Susie Snowflake, look at her tumbling down! Tap, tap, tapping on your windowpane, to tell you she's in town!"


I love Doris Day and I especially {heart} her wonderful Christmas album. On that album is the song, "Susie Snowflake" and it was always a favourite of mine as a child and still is today! I think snowflakes are one of the prettiest parts of Christmas and on Christmas cards...so this week I am challenging you to make an Easel Card with Snowflakes on it! The design team has come up with some gorgeous samples, I hope you will join us this week and get a little wintery...


Photo by Glory Albin



So here is the "Mashup" Challenge :

1. Make a project featuring "Snowflakes".
2. Or Make an "Easel Card".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create an "Easel Card featuring Snowflakes".

*For Directions on how to make an Easel Card Click Here *

We hope that you will join the Friday Mashup Challenge this week!  Please be sure to visit the other DT Members to see their wonderful creations!

Friday Mashup Design Team

Holly

Kasey

Lisa

Kim

Heidi
Nina -Guest Designer
Michele -Guest Designer

Thanks for stopping by!!!

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Resisting Tiramisu Snowflakes (Stamping 411 Sketch) & Creative Card Crew Challenge

The sketch over at the Stamping 411 is a goodie!  I was inspired to play and wanted to challenge myself with an idea I had floating around in my head.  What if I heated embossed the Serene Snowflakes in White Embossing Powder and then stamped over them in Chocolate Chip Ink with the En Francais Background stamp and then sponged over the snowflakes with Crumb Cake Ink?  An emboss resist technique!  Who can resist Tiramisu! The colours I used look liked a yummy dessert to me! So I am calling this my Tiramisu Technique!

I also made this card for the Creative Card Crew Challenge "Let's Punch It!"  I used the Scallop Border Punch and the Corner Punch to make the edging around the Snowflakes.  The sentiment is punched out with the Large Oval Punch. 

Both my husband and I have been tired lately, I have not been in the usual crafting craze I usually am, which is to make cards everyday!  Our beloved Wonder Dog, Cyrus was recently diagnosed with bone cancer.  He was diagnosed on September 3rd, the weekend before school started.  (That was a stressful weekend!!)  He is our fur baby, eventhough he is 12, he is like a child for us and it has been awful watching him slow down in the past few months.  He doesn't seem to realize that he is unwell and we have him on the many pain killers and other medicines the Vet has prescribed.  These medications do help him.  The past two nights he has been unable to sleep and has been asking to go out.  I think because of Halloween, there are many firecrackers still going off around here and they tend to make him jump!  He hates the noise of them.  Needless to say, we have had two sleepless nights, looking after him.  He has been sticking his wet nose into our faces while we are sleeping.  A wet nose wake up is not always pleasant, especially throughout the night!  So tonight we are both pooped!  My husband is already snoring away in the other room! Poor guy!

As to Cyrus and his bone cancer, he is doing much better than any of us thought he would. I want to thank my pal Jaydee for her kind words in her blog posts about Cyrus.  Here is a photo of our 100lb "baby"!  He loves running on the beach!  There is another photo of him in my right sidebar.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful Thursday!

Smiles,

Clean and Simple Snowflakes

At this time of year, I start planning my Christmas Cards.  I like to come up with some mock ups and get my ideas going, so when I place an order with Stampin' Up, I know just what I need!  I was looking around the challenge blogs I like to visit today and noticed a great sketch at CPS and a fun challenge at Stampin' Royalty which was to Keep It Simple.  So this is what I came up with!

This card was stinkin' easy to make.  I inked up the Serene Snowflakes Set (115438) in Early Espresso Ink and Crumb Cake Ink.  The sentiment is from an old Hostess Set last year.  The sentiment is punched out with the Wide Oval Punch (119859) and is set on one of the tags from the Lots of Tags die (114508) for the Big Shot.  This card could be reproduced in many different colours...can you imagine it in Marina Mist and Night of Navy and Bashful Blue...oh boy!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!
Smiles,
Lesley

Pals Paper Sketch Challenge...again...

This card was made for the Pals Paper Sketch Challenge. I already made a card for this challenge found here, but I was so inspired by this sketch, I had to make one more card! I wanted the next one to be more elegant! The brads I used are gold but they don't show up in the picture. love this little Snowflake stamp from the Patterned Pines Set. I also inked up Peace Love Joy from the All Holidays Set. I LOVE this set and do not understand why I hadn't purchased it earlier! Oh well...better late than never!!!To continue the theme of Snowflakes and to share, I inked up my new Serene Snowflakes Set and did so on non-traditional paper colours. I chose Sage Shadow, Basic Grey and White. The corners of the front panel are punched with my SU! Ticket Punch. I need to use this punch more, I forgot how much I love it! I embossed the sentiment from All Holidays again and embossed one snowflake from the set. The other snowflakes are stamped in Going Grey and Always Artichoke ink. I love how Artichoke and Sage go together!! I am off to write report cards. I have half of mine finished and hope to get a big chunk of them done today.

Happy Stamping!
Lesley :)