Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone! I wish you all a happy healthy, and prosperous New Year. You probably have wondered where I went. Especially after the Angel tutorial I did. I can't believe it has been so long since I have posted. Anyway, I got sick one week after I started my new job and really struggled trying to get everything done to provide a Christmas for my family. I thought I would show you another one of the reason I haven't posted cards.....this is it! I made this afghan for a very special young lady for Christmas whose favorite color is purple.
You can see my Gingerbread tree here in the foreground of the picture. This took me a bit of time to complete. I am proud to say that I took this picture on Christmas Eve just before I wrapped this up-so I did get it done in time.

Wishing you Joy and Blessings in the New Year.
Bear Hugs,
Carol

Digital Delights - Little Dumpling in Pram

Greetings to all of you. Well I have an announcement to make. When you read this, I will be on my way to my very first day of work!!! After almost two years of being laid off, I finally found a job. I can hardly wait I am so excited. You just can't imagine how hard it was to find a job and how very thankful I am to have this one.

My card today is made with Little Dumpling in Pram and this image is from Digital Delights and you can find it right here. I paper pieced my pram and layered this image three times for dimension. Here is the recipe:

Martha Stewart Edger Doily Border
Martha Stewart Deep Edger Doily Lace Trim
Blue Flower Rhinestones on Wheels
Prima Flowers
Sizzx Flourish Die Cut
Spellbinders Lrg Oval Scalloped and Lrg Oval Die Cuts

Just a little reminder that Wendy is having a sale on Christmas Images so there is still time to get some of these cute images in time for your Christmas crafting needs.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I am hoping to get up another video this weekend with another ornament tutorial and directions for you. It should be fun. I am loving all the Angels I am seeing in blogland made with my template.

New Year's Card with Wine Topper

You just got a last minute invitation to a New Year's Eve Party. Oh my gosh, what do you do. You need a hostess gift and your need one fast. Well, here it is!!! Right at your fingertips and you will be ready to go to the party and impress your hostess with this very cute gift combo.

This is from the new release of New Beginnings called Little Dumplings New Years Girl. You can find her right here. She's perfect for your New Year's paper crafting needs.

For this creation, I used the Cuttlebug Clockworks embossing folder and the Spellbinders Timeless Heritage die for the clock. The champange glasses are a Martha Stewart punch called Flute with Bubbles.Here is a close up of the Wine Bottle Topper. This is so easy to do. Here are the directions:

WINE BOTTLE TOPPER

Cut a piece of cardstock 3-1/2 by 10-3/4
Score at 8"
In the middle of the 2-3/4 " side punch or die cut a 1-1/2 hole for the neck of the bottle.
Cut your designer paper 7-3/4 by 3-1/4
Cut another coordinating Designer paper 7-1/2 by 3
You can use a corner punch to fancy up the edges.
Layer one on top of the other and decorate as desire.


Here are the new releases

Thank you so much for stopping by today. Be sure to stop by the fabulous Design Teams blogs to see how they created some fabulous projects with these images.

Challenges Entered:
Mojo Monday - Sketch
A Crafty Little Place - Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown - Embellish It
Gingerloft - Bows
Paper Cutz - Anything Goes
I Did It Creations - Surprise Me
Paper Cupcakes - Anything Goes
Woodware USA - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes

MMSC82 -Fred She Said Emma with Chickadee

The Midnight Madness Sketch challenges has combined three sketches in this post that will last the WHOLE MONTH of December. We have supplied both the FANCY and CAS sketches for you. In the true celebration of crafting, you are more than welcome to enter as many cards as you like this month.

This Months sketches...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between.
ENTER ALL OF THEM THIS MONTH IF YOU WANT TO!!

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both all month long.

Just have fun and come play with us

For my Midnight Madness Card this week I did MMSC82 with Emma the Chickadee from the Fred She Said Store that you can find here. I absolutely love this image. I cut her out and mounted her on this square spellbinders die cut. The bottom border is the grand lace bordability from spellbinders. The round doily was made with Martha Stewart's corner Deco Shells. The flourish is a sizzx die cut. Everything was glittered with stickles...my favorite embellishment!

This is the inside of my card. I made the small and medium blue poinsettia with the medium and small marvy flower punch and mounted them on the medium and large Martha Stewart Arctic Snowflake punch.

Sadly this is my last card with the Midnight Madness Design team. I will truly miss all my Design Team Sisters and the fun I had as a member of the team. I wish you all the best of luck in your future endeavors.


Here is my card with the envelope I made to go with it.

Challenges Entered
Incy Wincy - Recipe (3 flowers, 2 Papers, 1 image)
Kaber Weekly - Digi Stamp and Sparkle
Little Paper Shop - Let's Get Funky (Funky Edge)
Ooh La La Creations - Christmas Song (Winter Wonderland)
Paper Playtime - Christmas Carol Inspired (Winter Wonderland)
The Crafty Pad - Snowflakes
Gingerloft - Bows
Scrappy Frog - Christmas

Paper Angel Ornament Tutorial

This is a Angel Ornament that I have created from paper. The image you see on this Angel is from the Fred She Said Winter Bird Series Digital Collection that can be found here. The Chickadee image was used for this Angel, but any of the birds would look absolutely lovely on this ornament. This is a lovely gift or hostess thank you item for all those special people in your life. Why not make up a bunch of these for your Christmas tree or display on a stand as a table centerpiece. So many uses for these beautiful Angels.

 NO TEMPLATE NEEDED:
The base is half of  a 7-3/4 inch circle and the arms are half of a 4 inch  circle. The half circles are curled into a  cone shape and glued.  That's it-easy peasy.

Here is another Angel in a different configuration. This is actually the first one I made. I cut out my pieces, ran it through the cuttlebug with the swiss dot folder. I punched the border with the Martha Stewart Corner Gothic Arches punch. Stickles were applied to the bottom of the skirt and the bottom of the sleeves. I glued on a small Christmas bulb for the head, used a pipe cleaner for the halo, and tied a bow and attached at the neck.

This is the snowflake Angel. The spellbinders snowflake die was used for the wings and the Martha Stewart Arctic snowflake punch was for the decoration. I sprayed glimmer mist on the snowflake embossed angel. I glittered all the snowflakes with Martha Stewart glitter.

This one was my attempt at making an Angel that would look antique or vintage. After cutting out my pieces, I used my decorative scissors to cut a fancy edge (yes, those scissors still come in handy even after all the punches and die cuts!), I ran it through the cuttlebug with the Textile Texture embossing folder then sponged on some Rangers Tea Dye ink. I used mica flakes for the glitter around the borders. Martha Stewart Branch and Snowflake punches were used for the decorative treatment at the neck.
This angel is called my "Woodland" Angel-Supplies for this are Martha Stewart Branch Punch and Sizzx Leaves die, Cuttlebug Leafy Branch embossing folder. This was sponged with Rangers tea dye distress ink. The leaves and branches were sponged with Vintage Photo distress ink and diamond stickles applied.
For this Angel, I cut out my pieces, punched the edges with the Martha Stewart Corner Gothic Arches Punch. I used white feathers on my wings and stickles and pearls for the borders.

Challenges Entered
Allsorts - Monochrome
Craft Your Days Away - Texture (On White and Antique Angel)
CES Challenges - Vintage
Mark's Finest Papers - Add a Bow
One Stop Craft Challenge - Christmas Cuties
Our Daily Bread Designs - Snowflakes
Alphabet Challenge - E is for Embossing
The Character Cafe - Neutral Color with Glitter/Sparkle
Christmas Stampin' - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Christmas
Fairy Tale - White
Mami Doodles - Gift Items
Crafty Sentiments - Christmas
Hodge Podge - Anything Goes
Stampinsanity - Challenge Yourself
Crafty Creations - Christmas
Freshly Brewed - Winter/Christmas
Inktegrity - Anything Goes
Creative Belli - R's (Ribbon)
Fab 'n' Funky - Go with the Flow
Gingersnap Creations - Vintage Hue
Anything Goes - Animals
Tuesday Taggers - A decoration
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Christmas Not a Card
Stamps R Us - Sparkle and Scallops
Die Cut Dreams - Anything But a Card
Flutter By Wednesday - Thank You (Can be a Thank you Gift)

Eddie the Elf Table Decoration

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I want to wish you and your family a blessed and happy day. Today is Digital Delights day and I have a cute project for you today that you might want to think about making for your Christmas dinner table. I used Eddie the Elf from Digital Delights that you can find here. This would look just as adorable with Caroling Penny and Santa Bryce as well. In fact, there are many images at Digital Delights that would be perfect on this tree that would make a beautiful addition to your holiday dinner table. You could make a different tree for each place setting.

One of the ideas that I had was to either place it on your dinner plate, bread plate, or wine/water glass. Here is a picture of the tree on the wine glass and it is just adorable. It fits perfectly and looks marvelous as a table decoration.This is a side view to show the 4 layers of the tree. The template for this tree was taken from here. I just used paper instead of fabric. The lace was created with a Martha Stewart border punch. The little light bulbs were strung on a piece of gold embossing thread. I used some stickles to sparkle up the tree. Also, the presents are stickers from the Recollection collection found at Micheal's.So let me know what you think about this project. I would love your input. If you make this for your own holiday decor, please leave me a comment, I would love to see what you made and come to comment on your project. Thanks so much for stopping by!Challenges Entered
Bunny Zoe's - Christmas but not a Card
Everybody Art Challenge - Shapes
Die Cut Dreams - Anything-but no Card
Crazy 4 Challenges - Circles
Mark's Finest Papers - Circles

Deedee's Digi's Just Chillin'

Happy Thanksgiving Bloggers! This is my last post as the November Guest Designer for Deedee's Digis. Are you busy making your preparation for tomorrow? The festivities are in full swing at my house. I just put my turkey in a brine, baked a pumpkin roll, and a graham cracker crust for my pumpkin chiffon pie....are you drooling yet? lol

Today's card was made with "Just Chillin" which you can find here. Just wanted to show you that you don't have to use this image for Christmas only. I needed a thank-you card for someone very special who helped me put up my Christmas decorations this past weekend. She will get a kick out of this card after seeing all the bears I have for Christmas. I just wanted to express my sincere appreciation as what would have taken me a week to do, only took me two days. We even dusted and washed windows!!

Card Recipe
Pink and Green Gingham paper that has been in my stash forever
Copic markers for coloring the bear
Spellbinders Lotus Die
Martha Stewart Deep Double Loop Punch
Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch
Sizzx leaf die
Prima Flower
Stickles

I made the sentiment piece by taking some extra pieces of paper and folding them like a fan and gluing them together. Then I stamped the sentiment and placed it on top. Thanks you so much for having me as the November Guest Designer. I had a great time and appreciated being with you.

Challenges Entered
Double Dutch - Sketch It Christmas Style
Anything Goes - Animals
Artful INKables - Punches and Diecuts
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Anything Goes
Digital Tuesday - Let it Snow plus a digi
Papertake Weekly - Cut It Out
Stamp Something - Something with Thanks