Clean and Simple,,,,,,,,,,,ME???

If you've been reading my blog for any length of time, you can be pretty sure of one thing,,,,,


Holly does not do clean and simple.


Until now.

You may never see this again,,,,,,,,but here it is,,,,a clean and simple card.

And no one is more surprised than I am,,,,,,,no one.

And I love it. Shock though that may be LOL.

I used my new Marianne Creatables poinsettia die to make three poinsettias, some gorgeous MME paper and a JustRite nature's nested sentiments stamp, and she's done.

I almost feel like I cheated. LOL.

I'd like to enter this into the addicted to stamps challenge,,,,theme of CHRISTMAS CARD. You can find this fun, twice a month challenge HERE!

Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoyed!

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas,,,,,

Good afternooon! It's THURSDAY and it's almost over! One more day til the weekend! I have been having so much fun this week making cards, my mojo has really been in high gear,,,I feel badly dumping all these on you, but the more I make, the better I get, so on to the blog they go :)

I have today a card made with the absolutely DARLING image "Snow Day" by Mo Manning,,,,she had it up for 24 hours as a freebie, and I managed to snag it! (then I bought another one LOL, go figure! Oh well, 2 for the price of one, right??)

She's now three dollars (still a bargain) and you can get her HERE!

I colored her with copics, and used a TON of bling and glitter paper,,,,,,,she's really pretty!!!! I also used my nesties AND my new Marianne Creatables straight edge poinsettias that I had to order all the way from Great Britain,,,,fortunately, they didn't take 3 weeks to get here, but that was the LONGEST 12 days of my LIFE LOL. I wanted them badly!

I stamped some snowflakes in silver, because I wanted them to be very subtle, and I think they are,,,,i wonder if you can even SEE them LOL. The sentiment is a JustRite Christmas nested sentiments,,,,I love them, the fonts are always SO gorgeous!

I'm going to enter her in Mo's Thursday challenge, the theme of which is THE GREAT OUTDOORS, and you can find that HERE! She certainly LOOKS like she's having fun in the great outdoors!

I'm also going to enter her in the Stamtacular Sunday challenge. The theme is ANYTHING CHRISTMAS, and she's certainly very christmassy with her gorgeous sparkly poinsettia. It reminds me of how us children would rush outside on Christmas morning if there was fresh snow,,,,,then we'd run back in to open our stockings by the fire place! Who doesn't think Christmas when they see snow?

You can find the Stamptacular Sunday challenge HERE!

so come on over to one or both challenges, and finish up those holiday cards!!!!!

Have a great day, and thanks for looking!!!!!!!!!!

Party Time Tuesdays and Sassy Cheryls!

Good morning! What a fabulous combination,,,,a sassy cheryl image and Party time tuesdays!!!

Today I have another card entry for Party Time Tuesday! They are allowing two entries per person, so I am going to take full advantage of that and post another card. You can find their challenge HERE! It's so much fun, you really should stop by,,,,

Yes, more MME Union Square paper LOL. I'm down to using up scraps of my favorite pieces, AND I wanted to practice my copics with red and black,,,,,,,two tough colors,,,,,,red bleeds A LOT and black is really shades of gray and very little (if any) actual BLACK. The Union Square paper was perfect for practicing. I did a bit better,,,,,,but I'd still like to improve my copic coloring, so practice makes perfect, as they say!

I've used Sassy Cheryl's "Flat Bottom Snowy" again, because it's so darned cute, I just can't stand it. You can find him here!

I've colored him with copics, added some sizzix snow flakes, a Just Rite 2inch square stamp, and a ton of bling.

I'll also be entering him into Sassy Cheryl's SHOW ME THURSDAY that you can find here! You don't HAVE to use a Sassy Cheryl image, in fact, you don't even have to show a crafty project,,,just show what you've been doing! However, when I use Cheryl's adorable images, I like to show her what I've been doing with them. So I hope she likes what I've done with Snowy!

To that end, I'm also going to enter him into the Sassy Cheryl challenge of WINTER this week,,,,nothing says WINTER more than a snowman! You can find this wonderful challenge HERE!

Have a wonderful Happy-Happy-Hump-Day, and I hope the rest of your week goes well!

Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoyed!

Love is in the Air,,,,

Hello!! I hope your week is going well so far. I have another card to share,,,,,,I'm sure I'll get back to doing some last minute Christmas cards, but I'm just feeling "Valentines Day" this week, I guess :)

And, I am LOVING my little 6x6 stack of MME Lost and Found Union Square paper! so many of the papers lend themselves to V-day, maybe that's why I'm in that mood :)

I'm using this ADORABLE image from Sliekje today,,,,,and best of all, ALL her digis are FREE! and she has SO many cute ones! So pop on over HERE to get some darling digi stamps for free!

I've colored the darling birds with copics, matted some Union Station paper, some pearls a stick pin and a bow, a fancy corner embellishment, and I LOVE how this turned out,,,,,,I love red and black together to begin with, but the addition of the beige and a touch of gold really makes it pop, I think. And it's all ready for one of my daughters for V-day!

AND it's all ready for the Party Time Tuesday challenge of ANYTHING GOES this week! You can find this incredibly super fun challenge HERE! Get moving and hurry up because they have some SUPER prizes from FABULOUS sponsors this week!

Hope you enjoyed the card! And thanks for looking!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!!!!

Ok, so I'm a bit early LOL,,,but I've made about as many Christmas cards as I can stand to make (although I'm sure I'll make more later LOL) and I wanted to get a jump start on my Valentines Day cards,,,,,,

This is for the fantastic challenge over at Sugar Creek Hollow,,,,I was SO annoyed to realize that I'd MISSED the last challenge,,,The holiday week had me pretty busy, and I just didn't have time :(

So I made a special effort to join this time, because I truly LOVE this challenge,,,,,,

The theme for this challenge is "Fancy Folds" and you can find this fun challenge right here!.

I decided to use a vintage image that I got on the Graphics Fairy (button on side bar), the Lost and Found Union Square paper (LOVELY reds in this stack!) to make this little candy bar wrapper. It holds a king size hershey bar, and it's so cute,,,,,you just pull the ribbon, and out comes the candy bar! I've attached a little Valentines ticket inside that says FOR YOU, a bit of lace, dicut out of the Union Station paper, and it's finished,easy peasy!. I'm SURE I can find someone to give this little card to!

Hope you enjoyed and thanks for looking!

Pink Christmas!

Good morning! Hope everyone is well rested after the long holiday weekend,,,,,,sometimes it's more exhausting to have time OFF than to go to work!

Today I have a pink Christmas card,,,,I'm pretty much done with my christmas cards, and I'm about sick of green and red LOL,,,

so I thought I'd make this little card for my daughter who ADORES pink.

The image is a freebie from the very generous and talented Elizabeth Dulemba and you can find that here!

I;ve colored it with copics and used some nesties to cut out the image and some snow flakes,,,,,,,a bit of white pleated ribbon, some white sheer ribbon for a bow, a stick pin, and it's such an easy card!

Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for looking!

YES TWO POSTS IN ONE DAY!!!!!

This is my second post for the day,,,,,,,scroll down for the first one :)

I hope you're enjoying these cards, I know I've had so much fun making them,,,,

This is a GORGEOUS Mo Manning stamp called "Sarah at Hanukkah", one of my very favs! It so reminds me of my little granddaughter when we light the menorah! I made it for her, and then liked it so much I made a couple more for friends celebrating Hanukkah,,,,

the paper is some stash paper I used a year or so ago,,,,,,the sentiment is computer generated,,,,,,,and the stamp, of course, is Mo Manning,,,,,,you can find Sarah Here!

a bit of lace for a bow, a prima, stick pin, doily and of course, I colored her with copics,,,,,and she's finished!

Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for looking,,,,,,,,,NO CHALLENGES this time Faint.