Mintay - Merry and Bright Christmas Cards

I know Christmas season is over, but I had this one 6x6 pack of Christmas paper out and open so I decided to use it up. Pad is by Mintay and it's called Merry and Bright and here are the first 3 cards

I used the cut-apart sheets from the pack as focal point and for extra bling I used Nuvo drops, Love from Lizi stripes and Wink of Stela glitter pen.

This card is using a sketch by Paper Craft Crew

I'm also entering this one into 

My Time To Craft Christmas - something beginning with S (sticker stripes, stamped sentiment)

and this one sketch by Freshly Made Sketches

ABC Christmas Challenge - A for Anything Christmas

The Holly and the Ivy - Anything Christmas

 

SS430 House Mouse Exercise - Thank You Card

I made this cutie card using the newest sketch from Sketch Saturday

The House Mouse image was colored with alcohol markers, polka dot paper and gold buttons are from Stampin Up. I also added some stitching  with silver marker

Challenges:
Crafting By Designs - Stitching
{Pin}spirational - inspired by the cute mouse and bright splashes of color
House Mouse and friends - anything goes with HM
Retro Rubber - anything goes - my House Mouse stamp is couple years old, more than 2 for sure - probably more

SOS268 - Mary Had A Little Lamb card

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Mary Had A Little Lamb and we would like to see farm animals on your creations.
I was going through my stash and found this adorable stamp with girl and a little lamb by Whiff of Joy so I took the challenge literally - here is Mary and her little lamb :)

I colored the image with Prismacolor pencils and created the background by sponging a piece of pre-embossed paper (from Stampin Up) with Pickled Raspberry distress ink. Light green card stock is Mint Macaroon by Stampin' Up!, flowers and washi tape are from my stash.

Challenges:
Oh-La-La creations - girlie
Love To Scrap - 2 or more flowers
The Pencil Case - anything Goes
Ellibelle's Let's Color Linky Party - anything colored goes

Mother and Baby card for Sketch Saturday Challenge Blog

This is a card I made for the newest Sketch Saturday challenge, that's sponsored by A Day For Daisies.

I used an image called Baby's Smile - you can find it in ADFD shop here.
and this is the sketch I used:

I used Stampin' Up! cardstock and sentiment and the patterned paper is from an older Martha Stewart pack. Image was colored with Copic markers.

Challenges:
The Sisterhood of Crafters - pretty ribbon
Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon
Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes

SOS267 - Shaving Foam Technique meets Fox Builder Punch

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to try/learn a new technique. I always wanted to try the shaving cream technique, don't know why I didn't, so I finally did it.
You only need a shallow container filled with shaving foam, couple reinkers and several pieces of pre-cut paper. You can make a lot of different looking pieces from one "serving" of foam. Little messy, but fun, fun, fun!

I knew I'll want to use the background with my new Fox Builder punch from Stampin' Up! so I used brown, blue and green reinkers for my background. Sentiment is from Sprinkles of Life stamp set and the leafy embossing folder is also from Stampin' Up!

Challenges:
Sweet Stampin - no deisgner paper
Crafting when we can - use dies and punches
Polkadoodles - something beginning with F - fox
Cardz 4 Guyz - something beginning with F - fox
Retarte - anything goes

SOS264 - Card Sharks/Mice

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Card Shark and we want to see anything card related or made of/with. I was a little stumped by this challenge at first, cause I don't really have any card related stash, but then I remembered this cute House Mouse image I got from a swap ages ago and decided to use it.

I colored it with Prismacolor pencils, used some ages old paper from my stash and a sketch from My Time To Craft.

Challenges:
My Time To Craft - Sketch
Di's Digi Designs - animals acting like humans
Critters and Creatures - anything with a critter