A Merry Christmas to You

Greetings friends!  In between baking and a bit of home decorating this weekend, I played with this week’s Waltzingmouse Sketch.  I love giving the Vintage Ornaments stamps lots of love at Christmas as they will soon be put away for another year.  I took another cue from Echo Park’s beautiful Winter Wishes paper for the colour combo.  White seam binding, jingle bells and bakers twine…no surprise there!  I will confess that I shake my bell cards to hear them jingle!  Such a joyful sound!  We’ve got Christmas Concerts and gingerbread houses on the go this week :)  It’s gonna be FUN! Thanks for stopping by and have a merry day!

 

 

what’s in it?

stamps: wms compliments of the season, vintage ornaments

ink: versafine onyx, su bordering blue, perfect plum

paper: pti white, echo park winter wishes

accessories: spellbinders heirloom ornament dies, bakers twine, jingle bells, seam binding ribbon, pti scallop border die, stitching, gems

This Christmas and Always

Good morning!  It’s baking weekend here when I start the baking for Christmas.  I’ve toned it down over the years so I’m only making a few favourites and a couple of new goodies found on Pinterest :)  Today’s card is for the twelfth and final Jen’s Sketch for You to Try this year.  It’s also the final sketch ever as Jen puts to rest her fun sketch challenge.  It’s been a great ride, Jen!  I was in the mood for a white, silver and blue card with my addiction at the 'mo’, white seam binding and jingle bells :) 

To qualify for all the fun prizes we have to list our year long entries…so here goes! I thought I’d include little pic of each card too :)  Hey, it’s Saturday morning! LOL

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

 

September

October

November

That wasn’t too painful was it?  Thanks for stopping by! We’ve got tickets to the play “A Christmas Story.”  Should be full of laughs!  Thanks for spending some time with me today :)

 

what’s in it?

stamps: pti vintage ornaments, fillable frames #7 stamp

ink: versafine onyx, su bordering blue

paper: pti white, echo park winter wishes

accessories: pti fillable frame die, seam binding, jingle bells, silver cording, silver doily, snowflake EF

Wishing You a Joyous Noel

Good Friday morning dear friends!  I’m the hostess for this week’s Viva La Verve sketch so head over to the VLV Forum for all the deets on this week’s sketch AND to see how you could win $100 in Verve money!  It would be easy to spend with all the fabulous items in the VERVE Store including the items on SALE!! Thanks for stopping by and have a great start to your weekend!

what’s in it?

stamps: Joyous Noel, Treasured Words, Glad Tidings (Verve)

paper: white (PTI), cranberry, moss (SU), Aspen Frost (Basicgrey)

ink: onyx (Versafine), cranberry, sahara sand (SU)

accessories: rounded rectangle and Snowflake Tidings dies (A Cut Above by Verve), border punch (Fiskars), felt, button (PTI), silver cording (SU), ribbon (Michaels), brad (Anna Griffin)

Best Day Ever ~ CASE #120

Hi everyone!  Welcome to another fun week over on the CASE Study Blog!  It’s a new month so we have another fabulous MUSE, Windy Robinson, from Ribbon and Bling (hmmm!! lol) to inspire us!  I loved the paper and ribbon on this first card so that’s what I focused on.

What do you love about this card?  Take a look at the Design Team’s take on this week’s card over on the CASE Study blog or directly on their blogs…and then join in the fun!

 

Wida Miller (Guest Designer)

Amy Wanford

Andrea Ewen

Christina MacLaren

Clare Buswell

Debby Hughes

Iwona Palamountain (Chupa)

Jean Martin

Jeanne Jachna

Maureen Plut (you’re here!)

Teneale Williams

Thanks for visiting :)  Enjoy the rest of your week!

 

what’s in it?

paper: pti white, su sahara sand, crate paper on trend

ink: versafine onyx

accessories: pti ribbon, su silk rose, mme funday wood banner, bakers twine

Verve/Ribbon Carousel Hop

Hello Verve fans! We have a special treat for you today, the sweet Verve Divas have partnered up with the talented Ribbon Carousel Crew to bring you some beautiful eye candy in the form of a joint blog hop! This hop promises to be overflowing with crafty goodness and lots of "loving" inspiration! 

 

Corinna, owner of the Ribbon Carousel, sent us all some beautiful ribbons in whites, pinks and reds to use in conjunction with our Verve stamps. I’ve used some gorgeous pink chevron ribbon that ties like butt-ah!  Pink and gold and white…a new favourite Christmas colour combo! 

We'd love for you to participate and hop along with us...do you know why? It's almost Christmas time and who wouldn't love some crafty gifts just for themselves!

Now, lets talk prizes!   

Hop along with us today and leave some blog love for the Verve Divas and the Ribbon Carousel Crewmates to be eligible to win one of the 2 prizes up for grabs!  We'll select 2 random commenters from 2 randomly selected designer's blogs, so be sure to spread the love around!

The Verve Stamps prize is the ENTIRE November Release…

and the RC prize is a NEW Ribbon Carousel with your choice of knob color! 

Ready to Hop?!

 

what’s in it?

stamps: Star of Wonder, Thatched Banner plain jane (Verve)

paper: rustic cream, kraft (PTI), gold shimmer (Michaels), Woodland Park (October Afternoon), music sheet paper (hymn booklet)

ink: onyx (Versafine), sahara sand (SU)

accessories: Ribbon Banner die (A Cut Above by Verve), chevron striped ribbon (from Ribbon Carousel), sheer ribbon, jingle bells (Michaels), tag die, twine (PTI), doily (Wilton), Petals Aplenty ef (SU),  stitching

November CARDS

Good morning!  I’m up to my eyeballs in getting my Christmas cards finished and into the mail, so I’m filling in the days here with my recently published cards seen last month in CARDS magazine.  This first one was for their sketch challenge so it’s new to the blog. These next ones have been on the blog at various times this year.

Thanks for popping in!  How are your preparations going?  I’ve bought most of my gifts but the big push is those cards! ACK!  Wish me luck!

Merry Christmas

Good morning!  Well, it’s December so yes, let’s start the preparations for Christmas.  For some of us, it’s the first Sunday of advent when we light the first purple candle as we prepare our hearts for Baby Jesus.  When I saw the colours for this week’s colourQ challenge, I thought of last year’s OA Holiday Style paper, but then I noticed all those colours in last year’s EP Holly Jolly Christmas…so I went for that one.  I just love making felt poinsettias so that was a detail must have :)  Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful day :)

 

what’s in it?

stamps: Peace on Earth (Verve)

paper: white (PTI), real red (SU), Holly Jolly Christmas (Echo Park)

ink: onyx (Versafine)

accessories: poinsettia and banner dies, button (PTI), bakers twine (Twinery)