Christmas Friends!!

HAPPY WINTER EVERYONE~~~Meet DD Christmas Belle and PB Christmas Mouse! We are having a humongo snowstorm here in NE Wisconsin~~12+ inches. Snowday for me means time for work and of course time for play :D

CHALLENGE ENTRIES:
MMSC31: Follow a sketch
Penny Black: Week 78 Christmas for the Girls!
Simon Says: Let It Snow!
Stamp Something: Glitzy Something!
Cuttlebug Spot: Christmas Gift
Lexi's Creations: A Shaped Card
Whimsy Stamps: Use Die Cuts
Creatalicious: Christmas using snowflakes and lots of sparkle/glitter
Just Magnolia:  Make a card for someone special! I used Magnolia Snowy circle on ornament!!

Today I chose to do an Easel Card. Wow it really was fun and easy! This is the front or top of the card which I used the sketch from MMSC31

Close up of images: Christmas Belle from Digital Doodling and Christmas Mouse from PB Holly Jolly Collection. Colored both with copics and used pearly sparkle jelly glitter on Belle's muff and coat as well as mouse's hat. Crystal lace stickles used on Belle's skates and X-mas red and green stickles used on holly in her hair and the present mouse is offering her. Added stardust stickles to outline image :-) Secured with ribbon. Mouse is popped up with foam tape for dimension and if you look close at font view you can actually see his shadow when I took picture.

Below is a full view of my easel card and the ornament I made to go with the card that I will be giving to a friend for christmas! The ornament is a piece of round chipboard covered with Archiver's cardstock in green and Layered with a stamped image of Magnolia's Snowy Circle glistened with stardust and crystal stickles.  You can barely see it but I dobbered Soft blue ink onto the white snowy circle also.  Belle is slightly smaller in size than on the card but colored and jazzed up the same way :)  Belle is popped up with foam tape.  Threaded the ornament with the same ribbon I used on the card and secured with a metal snowflake slide!! 

Below is the bottom or inside view of card.  BG Eskimo Kisses dp used again (reverse side).  Sentiment punched with SU sizzlets tag and popped up with foam tape for dimension and secured with ribbon.  Added the holly leaf border on bottom as finished follow through :D

Side view of my very first easel card!!!! Very satisfied with results :-)

GOD BLESS

MARY LOU

Doodle Diva's Surprise Gifts!!

Eleven Stamp's- Blog Candy Giveaway Package???
Yes you read it right. Karen is offering all the cling mounted stamps from the first release in one big package! Click HERE for details!!

I WON I WON I WON!! HOW EXCTING TO WIN STAMPS AND GOODIES!!

Here is what I won from Kerry Thank you Kerry for all your generosity!! Best Wishes at Christmas and in the New Year!!

Mrs. Tilly Claus

Hope you all had a Great Thanksgiving!!! I had tons of FUN making this card :D

Challenges:
Digital Doodling #2~~ Use freebie digi image, glittery and sketch from existing challenge Dec 7
Creatalicious #4~~ Christmas including lots of snowflakes and sparkle/glitter (Dec 15)Create4Fun Week 47~~ Sketch below (Nov 28)
Lexi's Creations #1~~ Use blue and silver (Dec 14)
Charisma Cardz ~~ Anything Christmas (Dec 3) Meet Mrs Tilly Claus!! Thank You Wendy for the freebie Image~~absolutely adorable!! Started with Brown Cardstock and used lighter brown for matting. Sponged edges of matting with Tim Holtz tea dye ink. Finished corners using SU ticket corner punch and pierced the matting. The dp was from my daughter~~ added sparkly ribbon and pearls and rhinestones onto the snowflakes.
Close up of Mrs. Tilly. Colored her with copics. Used pearly sparkle gelly glitter on muff and cuffs of coat. Topped buttons and holly leaves and snowballs with stardust stickles. Polar white flower soft for ground snow :-) Outlined matting with stardust stickles also.
Here are the gorgeous snowflakes!! In person they really really sparkle!! They have 3 layers~~used MS snowflake punches and added diamond stickles to the white snowflakes. There are also silver snowflakes using foil paper (hard to see) along with a snowflake crystal topped with a blue rhinestone or a pearl. Added christmas branches using MS punch with dp and foil papers.
Sentiment from SU Teeny Tiny Wishes on dp with matting finished with tea dye ink and stardust stickles. Added snowflakes and christmas branches for a polished look :D
Another view trying to capture the true sparkle and glitz!!!!
Recipe:
Stamps: Digital doodling digi image~~Mrs. Tilly Claus and SU Teeny Tiny Wishes Ink: Copics and Tim Holtz Tea dye distress ink Paper: SU, DCWV matstack and AC Specialty Foil paper Tools: Computer digi, MS branch and snowflake punches, Spellbinders pierceabilities scallopped border, SU ticket corner punch and piercing tool Embellishments: pearly sparkle gelly glitter, Polar white flower soft, stardust stickles, rhinestones, pearls, ribbon and crystal snowflakes

Belles 'n Whistles

Hear Ye Hear Ye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 1st will kick-off the start of our Belles 'n Whistles Christmas celebration and Advent Calendar! Holiday projects as well as goodies, goodies, GOODIES are what's in store including a grab bag each day, worth $20 or more retail AND a Belles 'n Whistles stamp each day too! If you're really lucky, you may even win a gift certificate on top of that...whooo hoooo! So you'll HAVE to join us each day in December, through the 25th!

Meet Bigsby

Pixie Cottage Sketch Challenge #3 and Basic Grey Challenge #8~~ Glitz and Bling!!Hi All~~ Meet Bigsby!!! This little cutsey is a dream of illustrator, Karen Johnson who I met at the Stampin Scrappin Expo in Milwaukee. I was a busy gatherer that day--believe me and I loved every minute of it :D Check Karen's artwork out~~or doodles as she calls it :) Silly Bigsby is eating Santa's cookies and milk~~oh no!! Bigsby is a digi image from Karen's Doodles.
I colored him with my copics first and then added black flock and silver glitter to give him a soft, fuzzy and sparkly look. Used Flower soft for his hat~~polar white and russet red. The russet red wasn't red enough for me so I topped it with xmas red stickles. Also used stickles on the holly berries and leaves. After coloring cookies with copics I added a little diamond stickles on the chocolate chips to give sparkle of crystal sugars :D It is hard to see but I did cover milk in the glass with diamond glaze adhesive for a very shiny look and feel!! Used a dobber with SU old olive ink on the platter. Then cut out image and used foam tape to give it dimension on the BG Wassail collection dp which is bordered with MS holly leaf border punch~~so lovely!! That is layered over DCWV holiday metallic green cardstock which was CB with swiss dot folder. They were all wrapped in gold ribbon with embellies and sentiment and then placed on Burgundy textured cardstock.
Close up of embellishments~~ Used red christmas flower brad and I added the lime green stickles to the petals. Branches were punched from EK Success corner punch and sentiment came from a blogging friend (surprise in mail one day)Love it!!! Used MS tag punch and bordered tag with lime green stickles.
Close up of Bigsby and his cookies :D
And another view of the card to try and show all the glitz and bling in different lighting!!!!!!Recipe:
Stamps: Digi Image from Karen's Doodles
Inks: Momento tuxedo black, SU old olive and copics
Paper: SU, DCWV, BG Wassail collection
Tools: Stickles, CB swiss dot folder, MS tag and holly leaf punches, EK Success corner punch and dobber
Embellishments: Christmas flower brad, Black flock, and Polar white and Russet Red flower soft and ribbon

Chocolate Purses

Hello~Entries for Whimsy Stamps and Crafty Angels
For Christmas I had made some chocolate purse favors or gift tag accessories :-)
So fun~~found the stamps at Toomuchfun Rubberstamps at Scrappin Stampin Expo in Milwaukee One purse was stamped with Billiance Cosmic Copper Ink and the other with StazOn Forest Green on BG dp. Added label "for you" using MS punch ~dobbered with ODB cimson ink and fastened with rhinesones. The purses are held closed with ribbon and Scrappin Floss!!
Close up of one of the purses which was fancied up with velvet ribbon, multicolored gem and jingle bell :D Side view to show the chocolate treat inside!!!

Recipe:
Stamps: Too much fun rubberstamp~"purse" and SU Teeny Tiny Wishes~~"For You"
Inks: Memento tuxedo black, Billiance Cosmic Copper, Stazon Forest Green and ODB Crimson
Paper: BG~~Eskimo Kisses Collection
Tools: MS tag punch and dobbbers
Embellishments: Ribbon, scrappin floss, jingle bell, rhinestones and candy bars

Table Pumpkin

Hello~~ Mid week MM Tutorial was hosted by Carol and she walked through making a table pumpkin step by step. It is fabby!!! Took it to the craft fair my daughter and I participated in and it was admired and sold very quickly. Yeah!!! Will have to make more :D Thanks Carol

Spread the Love Blog Hop & Magnolia Down Under

Hello~ Spread the Love Blog Hop is a hop to help spred the love for 11 year old Jaimie Cates, who has been the victim of horrible crime. This hop has been organized to send Jaimie support during this hard time. Click Here for details. My card for Jaimie is a "friendship" card featuring tilda and her puppy. Animals can be such wonderful comfort always!!
Magnolia Down Under Challenge #25 is Distressing.

I used mustard cardstock and the dp is BG Porcelain pack. The dp paper is already color distressed and I added more by using the distressing CB folder as well as tearing the top and bottom border. Popped up the tree stump as well as little Miss Tilda. Stamped saying and then made flower.
Close up of tilda with puppy. I read that Jaimie likes pink and black so I colored with that in mind :DThe flower was created using dp, prima flower and a fancy brad as topper. The base layers of the flower are made using Spellbinders Snowflake and Daisy Head collections.

Stamps: Magnolia tilda with puppy and tree stump, Two Hearts printworks "friendship"

Inks: Memento tuxedo black and Copics
Paper: BG porcelain pack
Tools: Spellbinders Daisy Heads Poseabilities and Papercut Snowflakes Shapeabilities collections, CB distressing folder and Heart Punch
Embellishments: fancy brads and prima flower

Christmas Love Birds

Hello to Everyone~~~
Challenges Entered:

WOJ #53 ~~~ Use Red, cream and one other color
MMSC ~~~~ follow sketch at left
Simon Says ~~~ All that sparkles!! Used glitzy ribbon, shiny red rhinestones and frosted lace stickles on leaves and birds wings
SSHP #05 ~~~ In so many words!! Used script embossing on dp and Rubbernecker stamp saying-- Wishing you Peace, Joy, Love and Laughter.
Stamp something ~~~ Cute and fuzzy somethings!! Oh those lovely winter snow birds!!
SSCC #11 ~~~ Deuteronomy 31:8 "The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged." (NIV) Make something to encourage or remind a friend that God is with them. I focused on God's creation of animals (Birds) and seasons to remind us of his gifts of peace, joy, love and laughter he brings to each and everyone of us daily!!!

I used the WOJ stamp ( winter love birds) Oh so very cute~~~aren't they!!! Stamped them onto white cardstock and colored with copics. Then used dobbers to add soft blue sky and little red to birds breasts ( slightly noticeable in image below). Restamped image and cut out birds and popped them up. Added liquid applique to give a snowy look on branch and birds. Added frosted lace stickles to pine leaves and top of birds wings for sparkle!! Used K & Company DP (Christmas Cheer) and embossed with script CB folder. Sentiments are from Rubbernecker snowflake & Stardust set. Detailed with embellies of green tulle (first time ever used tulle on a card), glitzy~~sparkly red and silver ribbon with buckle and shiny red rhinestones!!

Close ups of these cutie pies and how sparkly they are!!! You can kinda see the red on birds breasts here :D

Dimensional View.

God Bless
Mary Lou

Winter Warmth

Good Morning~~With winter on its way~~BRRRR, I decided to make a card with my new WOJ stamp. Henry Mouse is so adorable!!!! I created for these challenge blogs: Simon Says, Stamp Something, SSHP03, and Creatalicious.

Simon Says is this sketch by Domi!!

Stamp Something is all about sparkle, shimmer, glimmer and shine~~BLING!!!!!!

SSHP03 is to make a scene!! I made a winter warmth scene :D

Creatalicious is to use scraps and create your own flowers in which I made snowflakes instead :D

This is Henry Mouse from WOJ making Hot Cocoa in his large teacup so he can share the warmth of winter with his friends :-) I followed the sketch by Domi at Simon Says challenge blog and Added lots of bling such as sparkly ribbon, glitter dots, Foil snowflakes, and used the silver copic spica on bottom edge of teacup and also to dazzled up Henry's ears, cheeks and tummy!! Hard to see this in the photos :o Colored the image with copics. The dp and foil paper was in my scrapbox and I don't even know what co.?? Used MS snowflake punches to create snowflakes out of SU blue paper and teeny tiny flakes for centers are punched on AC Specialty Foil paper. Then placed a blue rhinestone in center. Designed corner of dp with MS snowflake corner punch and used the tiny stars to brighten Henry's thoughts :D The image of Henry and the snowflakes are all popped up with foam tape. Detailed using glitter dots and on the ribbon the snowflakes are silver so I popped up a felt fusion snowflake with rhinestone center!! Love this card and hope you enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Close up of Henry Mouse and the snowflakes!!!!!!

Recipe:

Stamp: WOJ Henry Mouse with large teacup

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, copics, silver copic spica

Paper: SU, AC Specialty Foil Paper and ?????

Tools: Spellbinders circle and scalloped circle nesties, MS snowflake punches and corner snowflake punch

Embellishments: Glitter dots, rhinestones, ribbon, felt fusion snowflake

God Bless

Mary Lou

Baby Boy Card!

Hello there~ I had time to play today and decided to use the gifts I received from Terri E's blog candy. Thank you Terri!!!!!!!!! I found a bunch of paper and embellies to make baby cards which I do not have very much of. The challenges I followed are: MMSC #23 sketch and SSCC #8 ~~ challenge #8 is to make a baby card or project.
Here is my card!!!
The dp paper and embossed sayings are Marcella By K. Several spellbinder nestibilities and EK Success and MS border punches were used. All the elements were popped up with foam tape and this was the first card that I restamped the image and cut out puppy to give him added dimension :D I love how it turned out!! Hard to see in photos :( Finished by adding ribbon, ric rac, buttons and rhinestones.
Close Up Image of Sugar Nellie Bedtime Stories~~ they are sooo cute!!!!!!!! Finished inside of card. Thanks for viewing ~~ hope you like!!!
Recipe:

Stamps: Bedtime Stories from Sugar Nellie
Inks: Memento tuxedo black and Copics Paper: Marcella By K and SU
Tools: Spellbinders nestibilities and EK Success and MS border punches
Embellishments: buttons, thread, rhinestones, ribbon and ric rac

Welcome Baby!

Hello~ SSCC #8 Kathy chose the scripture Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..." (NIV) The challenge is to make a baby card or project. Enjoy and thanks for visiting my blog!!!!!!!!!
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The finished inside:

Recipe:

Stamps: Gorjuss Girl from Sugar Nellie

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics, SU Markers
Papers: SU, MS and DCWV dp
Tools: Spellbinders nesties, SU border punch, Fiskars border punch, MS butterfly punches,
Embellishments: button, and ribbon from my stash.

Thank You Tilda!!

Just Magnolia week 26 has a sketch challenge by Mina. The sponsor is Dies to Die for. The prize they are offering is two Magnolia stamps and a pack of Prima pearls/gems.

Stamp Something has a color challenge ~~ Brown plus something!! And for the lucky random winner, iCopic has generously donated a set of Copic Ciaos!!!!
Cupcake Craft Challenge #60 The theme is "Thanks a bunch"

Here is my Miss Tilda thank you card :D

The finished inside:
Recipe:
Stamps: Tilda holding Tag and SU "Teeny Tiny Wishes"
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black and Inkssentials Opaque white pen
Papers: SU and Making Memories Paperie "Mocha"
Tools: Fiskars & EK Success border punches, Spellbinders Labels 1 & 4, Spellbinders Pierceabilities ric rac border and MS butterfly punch
Embellishments: Large grommet, MM brad, Heart buttons, Hemp twine, rhinestones, yellow stickles and ribbon