The Pink Christmas Marathon Continues.......

 I'm back with my third card for the Annual Jingle Belles Pink Christmas Challenge.  I had a very good crafting day a it was cold and wet, just crafting weather, although Toto thought is was the best weather to spend as much lap time as she could.  I decided to take advantage of another week at the cottage,  It usually takes me three trips to get everything home. This weekend is #2 trip then I will know if there is going to be a day trip to pick up stragglers.  My card uses another oxide background that was in my stash and a very favourite A2 die.

I haven't decided if it needs a sentiment on the front or not, any ideas?  The birch tree die is from te Frantic Stamper the stag and cat were die cuts in my bits box as I had taken some of my dies home already, birds and deer dies were in that bunch. 

Close up of the critters and the background

I'm entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ I'm Dreaming of a Pink Christmas 

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~~ #40 Pink Christmas

Thanks for stopping by today and do come back I'm sure there is one more in the works.

It's Jingle Belle time again!!

Lauren and Stephanie are asking for "shaped" cards for this challenge, I knew just what shape I wanted to make and it's a Rocker Card.

Sorry for the dark photo but it was way too busy at the beach to try to get near the spot I usually take my pictures and it was also getting later in the day and the sun has shifted off the deck but you can see it well enough. I used the birtch trees die from the Frantic Stamper and the cardinals from a Impression Obsessions die. The background is a oxide distree background I made.

This is the back of the card, the sentiment is from Stampendoous and the deer one of a set of 3 from Impression Obsession. 

I'm adding this (earlier than usual) to

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Get in Shape for the Holidays 

Thanks for stopping by today and have a wonderful day!!

April 22, 2020 it's Earth Day

Today being Earth Day I decided to join the Jingle Belles Rock for their challenge, they celebrate Earth day every year with a Christmas challenge. It was a comedy of errors, first I couldn't find my "recycle" piece, then I did, took a picture of it to show you, then looked for the dies I needed to use, well I really wanted the larger set of IO deer dies but had to settle for the smaller version, ok trees cut, birds cut where did I put that piece of vinyl wallpaper sample? That meant I went back to where I took the picture and pretending to hold the sample in my hand walked back to the other room and it worked I lifted a paper an voila missing sample found.

This is a vinyl wallpaper sample I've had in my stash for a long time, the store is no longer in the Simcoe Mall. I loved picking up different samples of wallpaper and even counter top chips.

Here is what I did with my sample.

The Birch tree die is from the Frantic Stamper, the deer and cardinals are from Impreesion Obsession and the three dies are my very favourite to use for winter scenes, the background paper (didn't have time to make my own) is from a 12 X 12 paper pad I bought at Walmart 

Finished the inside with some extra cardinals, the set of birds has both small and large cardinals, I used the small on the front and the large on the inside.

Here you have my projectd for Earth Day 2020

I'm entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Peace on Earth Day

And because I made a winter scene

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~~ make a Winter Scene #30

So with less than 2 hours left for the Jingle Belles I'd better get moving. Thanks for checking in again today and stay home stay safe stay healthy and craft!!!

Shopping Our stash #275 Three Trees ~~ use Three or more Trees

Happy Tuesday, we closed the cottage this weekend so no more shuttling craft supplies from one place to another ~~ now to get them all back in their places so I can find them. Of course I also have to find homes for all the supplies I brought home, for a while we will have doubles of all condiments in the refrigerator.  On to the challenge at Shopping Our Stash, we want to to use at least THREE trees on your project, you can make a whole forest if you would like to and I think I did.

Birch tree die from the Frantic stamper, Deer, evergreens and Merry Christmas is from Impression Obsession. The background is on of my last pieces of swirly shiny paper bought eons ago. 

the deer are woven into the birch trees and the whole frame is popped up.

Finished the inside with a Stampabilities sentiment and one more tree.

Thanks for spending some time here today and head over to the main blog and check out what the rest of the design team have done. 

What's White all over with a Touch of Red and shakes? A Challenge or two!!!

I love making shaker cards and today's card is brought to you by a pair of great challenge prompts. Just Us Girls ~~ Sequins (I rarely use them) and 52 Week Christmas card Throwdown ~~ White with a sprinkling of Red. I've been hoarding sequins for a couple of years I'm never sure how to use them or how many to put on a card, I'm in awe of people that use them for me it seems the only use is a shaker card. I'm behind on my Holiday cards so I need to get busy an make at least two a week or I won't have enough for mailing. Here is my holiday shaker.

I used Vertical Birch Trees Card Panel from Frantic Stamper Inc. I bought it this year at Scrapfest Kitchener. The cardinals are from another birch tree die that has two cardinal dies from Impression Obssession I love both dies but the card panel is perfect for a shaker but very tedious cutting the narrow foam tape in half as the edges are very narrow. White and a few red sequins used to fill the shaker.

Close up of the sequins.

The base and the backing for the shaker is shimmer cardstock, for the birch trees I used a natural white cardstock The sentiment is from Impression Obsession Inc.

Challenges I'm entering:

Just Us Girls ~ #360 Trend Week

52 Christmas Card Throwdown 

Merry Monday #213 Inspiration challenge (I went with Red and White colours)

Thanks for stopping by and visiting today and since it's Monday have a fabulous week!!!

Banish the Holiday Blues ~~ with the Jingle Belles Rock!!

Friday brought a new holiday challenge at the Jingle Belles Rock which is to banish the holiday blues, that means NO BLUE is to be used. I'm sure it's my fault for making so many "blue" holiday cards the last few weeks. When I saw the challenge I knew what I was going to use, a couple of NBUS dies, one I had for a couple of years. When I packed for the cottage for the long weekend I threw in every die I thought I would use, I had 5 projects and believe it or not I had almost everything I needed except ribbon, corner rounder and some rhinestones or pearls.  So without further chat here is my NON BLUE card.

As you see the shadows are long on the deck of the cottage but the scenery is so much nicer to take a picture on the railing. The die I used is Vertical Birch Trees Card Panel from Frantic Stamper that I bought at Scrapfest Kitchener, the birds are from an Impression Obsession birch tree with birds die and the deer are also from IO as well. 

Of course why would I only cut one set of birds or one set of deer I like having ufos in my stash but of course I used most of what I cut on the card. I love crumb cake and riding hood red together.

I`m entering this in the Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Banish the Holiday Blues.

Thanks for stopping by today, come back and visit anytime.