98% Nice 2% Naughty...

Hi! In case you missed my guest spot over on Every Day is an Occasion a couple weeks ago- here is a rerun :)

Hello my friends! I am thrilled to be here doing a guest post for my good friend, Jill! My crafty project of choice is doing scrapbook layouts so I have a Christmas layout to share with you today! Here it is:

So I realize that the font in the title can be a little bit deceiving, but for clarification it says: '98% Nice, 2% Naughty' ;) which perfectly describes not only the photo, but my nephew in general! I thought the photo had just a little bit of a vintage element with the old fashioned Santa and the colors, so I found some great vintage-looking Graphic 45 product to complement it. Here are some close ups and additional details:

I cut out this adorable garland from Joys of the Season and added some matching jeweled brads to enhance it a bit.

Here is a better look at the title- I mixed the fonts, and also shadowed all the letters with kraft paper to make them stand out a little from the busy background paper. The stamps and postcards were fussy cut from some of the Graphic 45 papers. I love the vintage look of it!

Here is a closer look at those gorgeous vintage postcards and stamps. On one of them I did try to create that typical stamp border with a hole punch- but it was WAY too time consuming, lol so only one of them has that border on it, but I felt they looked good either way.
I hope you have enjoyed my project- thank you so much for taking the time to look at it! Please stop by Everyday is an Occasion and leave Jill some love!

Guest Designer on Everyday is an Occasion!

Hello my friends!! A few weeks ago my good friend Jill from Everyday is an Occassion asked me to do a project as a guest designer. Jill is about as sweet as she is talented, and her blog is awesome. Be sure to go check out my project on her blog today. Here is a sneak peek of my project...

I hope that whets your appetite enough to go check out the complete post! :)

Robin's Creative Cottage Challenge: Let it Snow

Hi y'all and welcome to another challenge over at Robin's Creative Cottage! This week our theme is: Let It Snow. This week I chose to use Robin's Snowman's Prayer set as there are a lot of fun snow/winter themed sentiments that are perfect for this type of project. For this challenge I decided to do a more vintage style snowman card. Here is what I came up with:

The kraft paper is from Bazzill and the patterned paper is Bo Bunny's Gabrielle collection. I used Joys of the Season to cut the snowflakes and snowman and then inked everything with Bazill ink. I did not cut the layers on the snowman as I planned to ink/draw them in.
I added some of Robin's cute snowflake stamps that are included in the set to the inside of the card to add some interest:

I also added some stickles to parts of the snowflake to sparkle them up a bit. So that's my project for this week, I hope you enjoy it and I can't wait to see all of your snow-y projects! :)

Pile It On Challenge #01 Anything Goes

Hello all! I am so excited to be posting my very FIRST project for Pile It On!! This challenge blog is awesome because it encourages you to enter your projects in as many challenge blogs as you can. That means more chances to win prizes, get featured, more traffic to your blog, etc. etc. So please come and play along with us! This week our challenge is...Anything goes! I had a lot of fun with  my project this week. I got some NEW copics for Christmas and have been going crazy learning the techniques and playing with digital stamping. For this project I used a digital stamp from Dilly Beans. Here is my project:

The paper is from Fancy Pants Winterland Collection. I used a border punch from American Crafts and the following Cricut cartridges: George and Basic Shapes (Circles), Joys of the Season (Snowflakes) and Winter Frolic (title). Here is a close-up of the title:

I used an American Crafts Galaxy pen to highlight some of the words. Here is my Dilly Beans Snow mamma stamp (remember, I am still learning the Copics, lol!)

It's a little hard to see in the pic, but I also added some stickles around her 'trim' to give a little more sparkle! :)

Here are the challenges I am entering my project in:

Bearly mine Anything goes
Crimbo Crackers Snowflake
Digi Doodles Anything goes
Frosted Designs Something New
Ginger Loft Winter
Little Darlings Cold
Stuck on you Sketches Snowflakes
Party Time Tuesdays Anything goes
Pollycraft punches
The Secret crafter Anything goes
Sparkles Anything but a Christmas card
Stampin for the weekend anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday Anything goes
Meljen's Challenge Blog  blue

Cooking with Cricut Challenge # 63: Sounds of the Season

Hello and welcome to another challenge week over at Cooking with Cricut! Our theme this week is to incorporate music into our project- showcase your favorite Christmas carol, or music somehow into your project.  My project is titled- We Wish you a Merry Christmas- I used one of our Christmas Card photos from last year. Here is my project:

All of the paper/stickers/borders are from KaiserCraft- I actually won this line and have been so excited to finally have a chance to use it.  The paper has a beautiful vintage quality- and I love anything vintage. Speaking of vintage, have you been checking out the 25 Days of Christmas Crafting Fun? Everyday Melin has some BEAUTIFUL vintage clip art that she is giving away for FREE! You must check it out! Anyway, back to my project, lol. I used Christmas Cheer and cut some images with the shadow feature at 1 1/4" from different patterned papers to create the border. Here is a close up of some of those images:

(You can also see most of my boxer, Cash, lol. We have since added another, June, to our family as seen in previous posts). The Merry Christmas portion of the title was cut from Joys of the Season.  I hope you enjoyed my project today. I wish I was able to do more right now, but this broken leg has really put a damper on that. I am crossing my fingers for two long more weeks when I will (hopefully) be told I can finally walk again. Cross your fingers for me too!! Can't wait to see what beautiful music-inspired projects you all cook up, and thanks for stopping by!!

I am also entering this project in the following challenges:
The Paper Variety- project inspired by Christmas Song or Lyrics
Amanda's Crafts and More- A Christmas or Holiday Layout

Robin's Creative Cottage Stamp Release Day 2

Hi everybody and welcome back!! I hope you are enjoying all the great projects featuring the new stamp sets from Robin's Creative Cottage. Today I am featuring the Gingerbread Holiday set. These stamps have lots of cute phrases that would be perfect for holiday gift giving. I chose to make a little gift bag that you could fill with treats to give to a friend or neighbor:

The bag is cut from Plantin Schoolbook. I just pressed the 'fit to page' button and it cut it at 7 1/2". The tag is also cut from Plantin Schoolbook at 3". I then cut a wreath from Joys of the Season.  I used the 'flip' key so that I could use both sides of my patterned paper without having to flip it on my mat. The wreath was cut at 4".  I added some bling to the tag and tied it to my gift bag with some ribbon.  Here is a close-up of the stamp on the tag:

I added some glossy accents to make the sentiment really stand out.

I hope you have enjoyed my project, and make sure to check out all the projects from our talented design team on Robin's blog. And be sure to come back on Friday for our Stamp Release Celcbration Blog Hop for a chance to win one of these fun stamp sets!

Robin's Creative Cottage Stamp Release Party!

Oh my gosh, what a week! Thanks y'all for your patience while I recuperated! Well, I promised some fun things coming up this week, so without further adieu... :)
This week we are celebrating the release of the new stamps from Robin's Creative Cottage. Let me tell you, these stamps are AWESOME. Very high quality, clean stamp image, and SO cute!! I am so excited to finally be able to show you the stamps, and the projects I've created with them! Also, don't forget to join us on Friday for the Stamp Release Celebration Blog Hop! Lots of great inspiration, AND every design team member has a full set of stamps to GIVE AWAY! You don't want to miss it!
For today I am working with the Snowman's Prayer stamp set.  I made this fun snowflake card.

The card size is 4x6 and all the paper was from S.E.I.'s Silver Valley collection. The snowflake 'brads' are actually eyelets from Eyelet Outlet.  The title was stamped with Color Box ink and popped up on glue dots to stand out a bit more.  Here is a close up of the CUTE stamp!

The snowflakes were cut from Joys of the Season at 2 1/2". I inked the edges for definition with Tim Holtz ink, and then stamped the mini snowflake stamp from the collection. Here is some detail:

I really hope you liked my card, and want to head over to Robin's Creative Cottage to see all the amazing projects from our super talented design team. And make sure to come back on Thursday when I will be showcasing the Gingerbread Holiday set, and don't forget the Blog Hop on Friday, with a chance to win a set of these great stamps!!