Snowman Challenge

I haven't posted a card in a while, been busy trying to keep DH comfortable and making sure he does as the doctor ordered.  I did want to try a new challenge this week, Creative Cutter Room has a snowman card challenge on their blog which ends December 28th.  I just acquired the Cricut cartridge Snow Friends and thought this would be a great way to "test drive" the cartridge.  I selected my image and the accompanying accessories to create my card:

The challenge requirement include:

1. monochrome 
2. border
3. metal

I just had to go with red!  My design paper is from Basic Grey's "Jovial" collection.  My border was made with a ribbon from Bazzil, Cricut "Winter Lace" snowflakes and a red metal jingle bell.  The eyes, nose and mouth were made with a Viva Decor Pearl Pen.

Hope everyone is ready for Christmas!  Thanks for visiting, I love reading your comments!

Sugar Creek Hollow Saturday Challenge

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow and the last one for 2011 as our designers are going to take a well-earned break until the New Year. Our challenge to you this week is to make vintage, shabby chic or primitive THANK YOU cards.  Here is my card:

You have until Friday, December 23rd to submit up to 3 Thank You entries, which will not only put you in the running for our weekly prizes but for our Christmas Blog Candy.


This week one random winner will receive a digi of our choice and a winner's badge to display. In addition, the Design Team will choose one project as Card of the Week and the creator will receive a badge and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot. The winner of the blog candy will be selected on Christmas Eve.


We want to thank all of you for supporting us this year and to send our best wishes for a Happy Holidays - enjoy the time with your family and friends. Be sure to come back to Sugar Creek Hollow on January 7th for the first challenge of 2012 as there are some great ones lined up for you.


Our designers have made some very pretty Thank You cards for your inspiration. To get the details, just click on their names on my sidebar.

We Three Kings

Good morning!  I have a Christmas card to share with you today, after all Christmas is only 11 days away - can you believe it?  I am not baking, decorating or wrapping presents right now.  I am celebrating every day with DH, helping him recover from major back surgery - kinda like his "Gal Friday" and praising God that the operation was a success.  That is my Christmas present this year.  I did take the time over the week to make another Christmas card using Create with TLC's "We Three Kings" and "Christmas Night 3" images:

I employed a little Photoshop again to layer the kings on the Christmas night.  If you don't have a photo editing program that will allow you to do this, you can always print the kings onto the background right with your printer.  My frame was made with my Cricut and I think this really sets off the image.  

Enjoy your Christmas preparations and remember to spend time with the ones you love.

Thanks for visiting, I love reading your comments and appreciate all your support!

Sugar Creek Hollow Sensational Saturday

We have arrived at another Saturday and that means a wonderful new challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow. Since we are fast approaching Christmas we decided to challenge you to make VINTAGE CHRISTMAS TAGS. Your vintage tag can be part of a card or a stand-alone beauty.  Here is my tag card:

My tag was stamped with images from Close To My Heart's "Holiday Wishes" stamp set.  The snowflakes and flourish were cut with my Cricut.


We want to remind you that we are a vintage, shabby chic or primitive challenge blog and when you enter one of our challenges, your creation must fit one of those styles as well as following the weekly theme.


This week one random winner will receive a digi of our choice and a winner's badge to display. In addition, the Design Team will choose one project as Card of the Week and the creator will receive a badge and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.


Don't forget, we also have Christmas Blog Candy for one lucky winner to be chosen from our challenge entries between now and Christmas Eve.


My design team sisters have created some gorgeous tags for your inspiration. If you would like the details just click on their name on my sidebar to be taken directly to their blog.


Thanks for visiting!  I love reading your comments and appreciate all your support!

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #133

This weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on Priscilla's side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.
"YOUR CHOICE OF FOUR SKETCHES THIS TIME"
Due to Priscilla being out of town, we will be posting two challenges together and it will last for two weeks. Have fun and here are MMSC133 and MMSC134 to play with.
Please Note: We will resume the Midnight Madness sketch challenges with MMSC135 in 2012. Stay tuned for some changes coming in the new year! Happy Holidays Everyone!
Winners will be announced when Priscilla returns.

On Dasher, On Dancer

My image is from House Mouse, "On Dasher, On Dancer"  Design paper is from The Paper Studio's "A Country Christmas".

The Perfect Tree

My vintage image is from Create with TLC.  Design paper is from K & Company's "Yuletide" and Basic Grey's "Figgy Pudding".  Diecuts were made with my Cricut.

Enter one style or both for the next two weeks.
You are more than welcome to enter up to 4 cards during the next couple of weeks.

Just have fun and come play with us!

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Our MMSC132 Gold Star Award goes to...
 11. MsPlum  

 Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...

 3. An  

 8. Barbara G. 

12. karin 

Please grab your award logos from the side bar and display them proudly :)

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Our MMSC132 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
 18. Kathy Curry  

Please contact Priscilla with your info to claim your Prizes!

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THERE WILL BE TWO WINNERS RANDOMLY DRAWN IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS.
Our MMSC133 & MMSC34 Sponsors are....

http://priscillastyles-store.blogspot.com/ 
$10 Gift Voucher redeemable for any digi images in the "priscillastyles" Store
Stop by and check out all the new images!!

 

GC redeemable for digis only

And......

 http://www.digistamps4joy.com

“Digistamps 4 Joy was born in July 2010. What began as a “brainwave” developed into a rather successful journey…  Started by Mel M, and with the help of talented artists and fellow South Africans JenLee, Margy, Sam, Laura and Mel herself, Digistamps 4 Joy was soon reaching an international audience.  Digistamps was a rather unheard of and new craft to many South Africans with most only having access to them if they had a credit card.  Mel and Jen started brainstorming and soon came up with the idea of starting an online store entirely accessible to all South Africans.  Mel having the experience in web and graphic design, and Jen being a wonderful illustrator work together as a team and produce most of the images many people around the world have come to know and love.  Among the many images, you’re sure to find something you like… from fun and whimsical to cute and funny right through to serious and beautiful. Every month a new freebie is available on the website.”
Thanks for visiting!  I enjoy reading your comments and appreciate all your support!

Sugar Creek Hollow Sensational Saturday

Welcome to Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow and a new challenge.


First, I want to announce that I will be leaving the design team at the end of the year.  Designing for Sugar Creek Hollow has been such a joy and I have loved every minute!  I will miss everyone, especially Tracy who was my vintage mentor.  Heide will also be leaving, she is a fabulous designer and will be greatly missed.  Renee will be staying, but scaling back her participation.  Starting in the New Year Renee will become our Feature Artist and will show us all how Recycling and Repurposing are done the vintage way when those challenges come up. These ladies have made valuable contributions to the Sugar Creek Hollow team and have become lovely online crafting friends.


Next, we have three new designers coming on board and they are joining us with their vintage beauties for the challenge this week so you can get a preview of what they will be showing you starting in January.

Give a big welcome to:

Linda Payne from Payne Holler Cards

Peggy Marsh from The Wired Angel

Daniele Haddon from The Musings of a Chocoholic 

Now on to our challenge. With Christmas close at hand, our challenge to you this week is to make CHRISTMAS CARDS IN NON-TRADITIONAL COLORS. Don't forget that we are a vintage, shabby chic or primitive challenge and want you to create in those styles.

We have a lovely new sponsor this week. Please welcome Delicious Doodles who will be providing one random winner with 4 digis of her choice. The random winner will also receive a Sugar Creek Hollow winner's badge to display. The Design Team will also choose a Card of the Week and the creator will also receive a badge to display and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.


Don't forget, we also have Christmas Blog Candy for one lucky winner to be chosen from our challenge entries between now and Christmas Eve.

To inspire you all of our current and our new designers have created some fabulous Christmas cards in non-traditional colors using a couple of the images from Delicious Doodles.  Here is my creation using the image "A Crofter's  Winter":

Card ingredients:

The Paper Studio's "A Country Christmas" design paper

Georgia Pacific and SU cardstock, distress inks, Copic marker

Cricut embellishments and sentiment

Thanks for visiting, I love reading your comments and appreciate all your support!

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #132

This weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.
"YOUR CHOICE"

Here is the card I created for this week's challenge:
Three Kings

I actually combined two images from Create with TLC using Photoshop to come up with my card this week, "Three Kings" and "All is Calm".  My design paper is "Yuletide" from K & Company and my embellishments were made with my Cricut.

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us!

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Our MMSC131 Gold Star Award goes to...
 5. Sarah T 

 Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...

 3. Gro Tjeltveit  

 19. riliska  

 20. mocca22  

 23. Hlora 

Please grab your award logos from Priscilla's side bar and display them proudly

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Our MMSC132 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
 29. Nancy Williams 

Please contact Priscilla with your info to claim your Prizes

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Our MMSC131 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is..

House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge is a site filled with wonderful projects and techniques using House-Mouse & Friends Stamps that include House-Mouse, Happy Hoppers, and Gruffies Images!.  We are not affiliated with HMD. We are just a super enthusiastic group of Stampers who LOVE creating with these Stamps.  We post a NEW challenge every other week on Mondays. We offer great prizes to those who enter projects into our challenges using these stamps. So come visit us to join the FUN and get inspired by the beautiful samples from the TALENTED Design Team here: http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/

One lucky winner will these brand NEW House-Mouse & Friends Stamps!!!!

Thank you for your sponsorship America. It is so cool to see a challenge that has such a warm, giving and family feeling to it. Be sure to stop by and check out their challenges each week, they are a wonderful group of crafters!  Now to our players... break out those House Mouse stamps, dust them off and show us your lovely creations. All images are welcome, but we would love to see these cute  images flood our inlinkz this week!! Have fun with whatever you create for our challenge!!

Thanks for visiting, I enjoy reading your comments and appreciate all your support!

Heartfelt Creations Alumni Blog Hop

It's time for the monthly Heartfelt Creations Alumni Blog Hop and I'm honored to join in with all these talented ladies this month!  If you started at the beginning, you should be arriving here after visiting Clare's blog.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

close-up

card ingredients:

HCPC3425 Elegant Angels

HCPC3427 Herald Angels Background

HC Christmas Cheer Angel die

My Mind's Eye Signature Christmas

I decided to use an emboss resist technique for my background stamp and really liked how this turned out with the sponged on distress ink.  

The next stop on the hop is Carla and I'm sure you're in for a treat!  I hope you will visit all the blogs on the hop for inspiration and be sure to leave comments - one lucky person will win a $25 gift certificate from Heartfelt Creations!  The hop ends on December 2nd and the winner will be announced at noon on December 3rd.
Here is a complete list of designers on the hop:

Dina,  Selma, Karen Taylor, Olga, Tesa, Marsha (me!), Carla, Debbie and Linda!

Thanks for visiting!  I love reading your comments and I appreciate all your support!

Follow Me to the TLC Winter Blog Hop!

Thanks for dropping in, I want to welcome you to the  Create with TLC Winter Blog Hop!  Christmas is right around the corner, and it seems Paulette certainly has the "spirit".  Every designer will be including the image they used as a freebie!  My vintage image is "A Day of Skating":

card ingredients:

The Paper Studio's "A Country Christmas" design paper, Weathered Wood distress inks, Copic markers, ruched ribbon and a Prima pearl center.  My snowflakes and papers were cut with my Cricut and my oval image and scalloped background with  Spellbinder diecuts.

Please be sure to grab the "freebie"!   We'd love to see what you create with this!  Your next stop on the hop is Rhonda.  If you started the hop with my blog, you may want to return to the beginning of the hop at Create with TLC.

Thanks for visiting, I enjoy reading your comments and appreciate all your support!

Don't Miss the Blog Hop!

This Sunday starting at 8:30 PST.  Lot's of freebies too!

Sugar Creek Hollow Saturday Challenge

Good morning and welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow. This week our challenge to you is FANCY FOLDS.  So think outside the box or past the single fold and let us see vintage, shabby chic or primitive cards with fun and fancy folds!  I chose to make a side step dresser card.  I found the tutorial for this here:

side view

My vintage image is from Clearly Vintage and the fabulous mirror is from Create with TLC's "Ooh La La" collection.  I made the fancy cuts with a Spellbinder's die and used brads as the drawer knobs.  For the final touches, I sponged my dresser and mirror with distress inks.

This week one random winner will receive a digi of our choice and a winner's badge to display. In addition, the Design Team will choose one project as Card of the Week and the creator will receive a badge and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.


Don't forget, we also have Christmas Blog Candy for one lucky winner to be chosen from
our challenge entries between now and Christmas Eve.


We are joined by a Guest Designer today, Brenda Brown, who was chosen from the October
Cards of the Week.  Check out all the fun folds created for today's challenge!  Just click on the design team's names listed on my sidebar.


Thanks for visiting, I love reading your comments and appreciate all your support!

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #131

Welcome to another Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge!  This weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us!  Here is my House Mouse creation for this week:
Tumble Wreath

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Our MMSC130 Gold Star Award goes to...
  21. Nancy Brown  

 Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...

 2. An  & 7. An2  

 14. laney   

 22. Grace N  

 27. Mandy  

 35. Kate 

Please grab your award logos from Priscilla's side bar and display them proudly!

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Our MMSC130 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
  11. Marlene (cards4u) 

Please contact Priscilla with your info to claim your Prizes!  

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Our MMSC131 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is..

House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge is a site filled with wonderful projects and techniques using House-Mouse & Friends Stamps that include House-Mouse, Happy Hoppers, and Gruffies Images!.  We are not affiliated with HMD. We are just a super enthusiastic group of Stampers who LOVE creating with these Stamps.  We post a NEW challenge every other week on Mondays. We offer great prizes to those who enter projects into our challenges using these stamps. So come visit us to join the FUN and get inspired by the beautiful samples from the TALENTED Design Team here: http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/

One lucky winner will these brand NEW House-Mouse & Friends Stamps!!!!

Thank you for your sponsorship America. It is so cool to see a challenge that has such a warm, giving and family feeling to it. Be sure to stop by and check out there challenges each week. The are wonderful group of crafters :) Now to our players... break out those House Mouse stamps, dust them off and show us your lovely creations. All images are welcome, but we would love to see these cute  images flood our inlinkz this week!! Have fun with whatever you create for our challenge!

Thanks for visiting, I enjoy reading your comments and I appreciate all your support!

Sugar Creek Hollow Saturday Challenge

It is Saturday and we have a really fun challenge for you at Sugar Creek Hollow this week. We want to see a vintage, shabby chic or primitive card or other paper-crafted project that features a RECIPE CARD. The recipe card can be shown either on the front or inside of your project and the recipe itself should be a family favorite that has been passed down over the years.  Well, that being said, my recipe has been passed down for a few years, it is a favorite I obtained when I joined Weight Watcher's a few years ago:

I don't cook as much as I did when my children were living at home and we like quick and easy meals most of the time.  After all, when you're retired you never have any time to yourself!  I have passed this on to several friends and to my children.  This is so yummy on those cold winter days!  You could easily add some other vegetables to make this ever heartier.


We hope you will join along with our fun challenge this week!  If your recipe isn't easily read from the photo of your project, then we would ask that you detail it in your post. It would also be great if you could show a photo of the finished recipe. Your recipe can be of any type and we would love to hear the story behind it. Soon your family's favorite could become someone else's family favorite so thanks for sharing.


This week one random winner will receive a digi of our choice and a winner's badge to display. In addition, the Design Team will choose one project as Card of the Week and the creator will receive a badge and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.


Don't forget, we also have Christmas Blog Candy for one lucky winner to be chosen from our challenge entries between now and Christmas Eve.

Thanks for visiting my blog, I love reading your comments and appreciate all your support!

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #130

This weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.
"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us!


Here's my creation for this week's challenge:

I chose this gorgeous House Mouse stamp "Choir Practice", LOL!  I think I'll take it with me to choir tomorrow night!  My image was colored with Copic markers and distress inks.  My design paper is "A Country Christmas" from The Paper studio.  My poinsettias were made with Spellbinder's Layered Poinsettia die.

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Our MMSC129 Gold Star Award goes to...
 8. Sandee 

 Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...

  7. Gro Tjeltveit 
 15. Sue Drees  

 17. An  

 25. Lorraine A 

 27. April 

Please grab your award logos from the Priscilla's side bar and display them proudly!

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Our MMSC129 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
9. Annette 

Please contact Priscilla with your info to claim your Prizes!  

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Our MMSC130 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is..

House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge is a site filled with wonderful projects and techniques using House-Mouse & Friends Stamps that include House-Mouse, Happy Hoppers, and Gruffies Images!.  We are not affiliated with HMD. We are just a super enthusiastic group of Stampers who LOVE creating with these Stamps.  We post a NEW challenge every other week on Mondays. We offer great prizes to those who enter projects into our challenges using these stamps. So come visit us to join the FUN and get inspired by the beautiful samples from the TALENTED Design Team here: http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/

One lucky winner will these brand NEW House-Mouse & Friends Stamps!!!!

Thank you for your sponsorship America and a special thank you to Sue Drees for donating these wonderful stamps. It is so cool to see a challenge that has such a warm, giving and family feeling to it. Be sure to stop by and check out there challenges each week. The are wonderful group of crafters :)
Now to our players... break out those House Mouse stamps, dust them off and show us your lovely creations. All images are welcome, but we would love to see these cute  images flood our inlinkz this week!! Have fun with whatever you create for our challenge!!
Thanks for visiting, I enjoy reading your comments and I appreciate your support!