The Helpful Elf!

It's time to do yet another Sassy Cheryl challenge, and I have to say I LOVE THIS CHALLENGE! I do a ton of challenges, but it's rare to enjoy myself as much as I do this one,,,,,,I just have to go back again and again!

You can find the Sassy Cheryl challenge HERE!

So the theme is "Anything Goes" again this week, and I colored this little guy not quite knowing what to do with him. Well, today, it hit me! I decided to pull out my Cinch and make a little notebook for my granddaughter (she's five). She loves to color with me and often carries a pad and a pencil with her to "write" things down.

So I fixed one up in a jiffy using a few pieces of chipboard, some paper scraps and Sassy Cheryl's "Noah the Helpful Elf" which you can find here which I had already colored using her favorite colors, tied on some matching ribbon and MORE jingle bells (Cheryl is going to think I am a nut case LOL!)a scrap bit of lace, and she's all done, ready to pop in my grand daughter's stocking Christmas Eve!

I'd also like to enter this into the Stamptacular Sunday challenge HERE! The challenge this week is to create a project using a boy or a man on it,,,,,well Noah, the Helpful Elf is certainly a boy elf! Such cute projects over there, be sure to stop by and try for a prize!

Hope you enjoyed, it was fun, fast, cheap and quick!!!!!! And I think it's adorable too! Thanks for looking!

Up On the Housetop!

Good Morning everyone! I have yet another card for the Sugar Hollow challenge--dots and stripes-- this week,,,,

I tell you what, I can NOT stay away from that challenge. I think I SQUEALED when I found it online LOL. Vintage is probably my favorite style. I love tons of styles, but vintage is what my heart goes to over and over again. Please consider stopping by and participating if you love vintage, shabby chic or primative cards and paper crafts! Here is the link!

Now, on with the card. I used Recollections Christmas Traditions paper pack for this one (I am seriously in love with their paper this year!),,,,,,the red is rich, deep and vibrant! It's just stunningly gorgeous all on it's own!

first I matted with the red, green and gold plaid (stripes) paper onto Kraft card stock, then cut a smaller mat out of the "Up on the House Top" paper and cut the top with a fancy border punch. I then used my Banners 2 to cut some kraft cs into the fancy border shape I've adhered to the top,,,,,but first, I embossed the entire thing in gold embossing powder. I tell you, if you've never tried gold embossing powder RUN, do not walk, to the store and buy some! it's messy as heck, but OH BOY, the sparkle. Unfortunately, I do not think my camera did the sparkle justice!

Then I adhered the negative cut of the border punch on top of that and gemmed it up (bling bling!), coloring my gem dots with copic markers.

next, I embossed (again with gold!) some snow flakes, and set more gems (dots!) in the centers of all the snow flakes and embossed the SEASONS GREETINGS stamp (both the sentiment and the snow flakes are Crafty Secrets stamps).

I printed this gorgeous vintage santa and colored him with copics cut him out with classic circles Large and antiqued it with sepia ink. I embossed some gorgeous branch punch outs with more gold, a fancy gold button and a North Pole ticket, and she's done!

I just LOVE it! It sparkles so much, and nothing is more classy than red and gold for Christmas, I think.

I hope you enjoyed, and REALLY, pop over to the challenge and try your hand at some vintage goodness!

Sweet As Candy,,,,,,,

Good afternoon,,,,,,hope you all had a lovely week and are looking forward to an even lovelier weekend!

I have a card for you today,,,,,,I'm entering it into the "Sweet As Candy" challenge over at the Pixie Cottage. I don't have any of their stamps YET (and how I'd love to have some!) but fortunately, that's not required ,,,,,, I really love how this turned out!

I used an adorable image I bought from The Greetings Farm of two mice sharing a candy cane, and I thought this CERTAINLY went along with the Sweet As Candy theme! Additionally, I used the optional sketch they provided,,,,,,,,,,very very cute sketch! so hop on over to the Pixie Cottage www.thepixiecottage.blogspot.com and check out their challenges! You still have 4 days to enter this one!

The paper is Recollections paper line,,,,,,,,it has tons of really bright traditional christmas paper, and the candy cane papers really matched well with my image.

I used 3 nesties for this one,,,,,,,,,,classic ovals large, eyelet circles, and the flourish from lacy doily motifs, a ton of pearls and bling (which I colored red with my R39 copic to match the outfits on these darling mice!) and I generated the sentiment in my computer and used my Happy Everything tag kit from JustRite to cut it out.

Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for looking!