Wing it

Hi everyone! Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve been in touch.  Although I had a great time in Cuba for our vacation, I have been sick since our return and needless to say, creating was the last thing on my mind.  I am feeling much better now and back to creating and posting.

We have a new challenge for you at Lollipop Crafts this week.  Our theme is Wing it!  So anything that has wings: butterflies, fairies, insects etc.  Make sure you check out our blog.  We are being sponsored this week by Robyn’s Fetish.

 

It has been a long time since I have done a layout…months I am sure.  I was at a crop on the weekend and here is one of the layouts that I did.  I am not sure who the paper is from as this was given to me as a kit while I was at the Great Canadian Scrapbook Carnival.  This is the first picture taken of my son Riley when he was born in 2009.

A new year a new challenge with Lollipop

Greetings! Happy New Year to you all.  As you read this, I am sunning happily on a beach in Guardalavaca Cuba for my annual anniversary trip with my family.

Well the team at Lollipop is back from our Christmas holidays and we are ready to go! This week our challenge is an anything goes, anything NEW challenge! Could be new wedding, new love, new home or in my case for you today a new baby.  I hope you like this week’s card and make sure you stop by our blog to see all the great DT inspiration for you!

This is a Stampin Up image that was send to me in a swap.  The DP is from a stash swap I did in a group on PaperCraft Planet.  The ribbon wrapped one of my Secret Santa gifts and ..ooohh the little bits of bling are courtesy of my new I-rock.  I finally picked one up and am loving it now!  I hope you enjoy this card.

SEE YOU IN A WEEK!

Just some Christmas Cards

Just wanted to share a few Christmas cards that I have sporadically made over the last little bit!

Entered into:

Divas by Design: Merry Christmas

Little Darlings: Christmas

Paper Play: Christmas

Entered Into:

Freshley Brewed: Christmas

My Mum’s Craft Shop: Anything Goes

Entered into :

Crafts & Me: Anything Goes

Friendship Garden: Anything goes with Christmas/Winter/New Years theme (No stamped image)

Charizma Cards: Anything goes

 

I really like these and I hope you do to! The weekend is going to be crazy for me so I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the new year!

Lollipop Challenge #61-Happy Holidays!

Wow! So hard to believe that it is almost Christmas.  We don’t even have our tree up yet!  Best get on that!

So, it’s our final challenge of the year at Lollipop Crafts before the Christmas break!  We are doing a Happy Holidays theme this week.  I have pretty much finished making the Christmas cards for the season.  Just a few here and there for family and friends.

Here is my card for you this week

I had an order to make some humorous Christmas cards for a lady.  I made up about 14 of them for her to choose from.  I printed the image off of the internet and the snowflakes were made using my BG sizzix snowflake die which I just love.  A bit of Velvet ribbon.  The DP is My Mind’s Eye the Merry days of Christmas from a couple of years ago.  Finally cracked that baby open!  A little bit of bling finishes it off.  Make sure you stop by the blog today and see the rest of the DT creations.  We are being sponsored this week by Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps.

 

Entered into these challenges:

Come and Get it Challenge: Red , Green & Your Choice (mine is blue)

Dream Valley Challenges: Christmas

paper Sundaes: anything Christmas

The Squirrel and the Fox: Christmas

CYDA: Snowmen

Crafty Calendar: Cold & Frosty

 

 

 

Just some updates

Hey there! I haven’t been able to do the Tim tags lately.  Just things going on at the home front.  I hope to play catch up soon.  In the meantime, make sure you stop by the Lollipop Crafts blog today to see the Meljen’s sponsor spotlight and the great inspiration pieces we have.

Glitter fairies is having an Easel Card challenge this week so make sure you check it out.

Poodles Parlour will have a new challenge tomorrow so make sure you stop by for that!

 

I hope you are all having a great day….

on a side note, a big shout out to Julia over at Epiphany Crafts!  I guess back in October I won their co-sponsored Blog Hop with Clearsnap and somehow (although this is not surprising) I forgot t0 write it down that I had entered.  Soooo, I didn’t know I won. She sent me an email the other day to let me know to get my butt in gear and claim my prize (she was so much nicer in wording though! ).  So thanks Julia for following up because it is an awesome prize and I can’t wait to use everything! make sure you check out their blog on a regular basis.  They have tonz of holiday inspiration right now and a chance to win a great prize pack from their sponsor this month Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L!

Tim’s Tags Days 2-4

So due to Christmas parties and such I was a bit behind in the tags but I am caught up now.

Here is my version of Tag #2 (for the originals head over to Tim’s Blog and check them out! )

I never have everything that Tim uses so some of these are bastardized…

 

Day 3 is really my own interpretation because it really is not a whole lot like the original but I did take a lot of the elements and did they my way

and finally day 4

Christmas time in the city…

It’s such a snowy day here in Calgary today.  Definitely home bound.  I am working on days 2-4 of my Tim Tags which I will be uploading later.

In the meantime……

So CARDS magazine (Northridge Publishing) is having a challenge to make Christmas Cards this week. Last week the challenge was non-traditional colors, so I thought I would just continue on.. I love this. I do this all the time so I want to share a few I created.

This one I did for my stampin up card class.  The stamp is Winter Wilma and I have had it forever! Did a lot of misting with this one…(I’m all about the misting these days)

Entered into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps: Christmas Cards

Come and Get it Challenges: Anything Christmas

Dream Valley Challenges: sparkle (got a little bling and my mists have sparklies in them)

Pan Pastel UK: The great outdoors

Now I had some of that brown paper left over so I created another card using it

I did embossing on this one with my gold embossing powder.  LOVE this will the teal!

Entered into:

Creative Inspirations: Paint..Felt (the snowflake is felt)

Let’s Ink it Up: Christmas

Craft Your Days Away: Buttons or bows

One Stop Craft Challenge: Let it Snow

And lastly

I just love the purple and white with this one!

Entered into:

I Did it Creations: Flowers

Scrappy Frog: use kraft cardstock

Paper Players: Non-traditional Christmas (colors or stamps)

I hope you enjoy these!

And so the 12 days begin

Well scrappers, you know it’s ’tis the season when Tim Holtz starts his 12 Tags of Christmas! Here it  is Season 5 or is it 6..anyway…today is day 1.

So here is the tag that Tim came up with …I didn’t have a lot of what he did, but I was able to ‘improvise’ a lot and still come out with a great tag.  My only ugh is that I think I used a bit too much of the white paint/stickles on the greenery… My favorite part is the banner.  I didn’t have any music stamps so I found some vintage music sheets on the ‘net and printed it off onto some Kraft cardstock and then added some Vintage Photo DI to it.  A little distressing and voila!   Also didn’t have the pinecone die so I used one of my flower dies instead and I think it worked alright

Stay tuned tomorrow for the next one.  It goes live on Tim’s blog in a couple of hours but I’ll be asleep by then   Catch it in the morning…it’s like opening up my advent calendar each day

B is for ………..

Bow!  It’s a new challenge at Lollipop Crafts this week and we (to quote Murray from Sesame Street) want you to bring out your B’s!  It can be bling, bows, boy, blue, brush..whatever you have that begins with the B….  I chose bow.

This card is CAS from one I saw on Prairie Paper and Ink.  She has some great projects and I love checking out her blog.

I finally cracked open my MME DP for this project.  I cut the snowflake out using my Don Juan cartridge on the Cricut and the little peppermint brad I’ve had forever.  The sentiment is an old stamp set I found , the ribbon from the $$ store and used one of my border punches.  I hope you enjoy it!

Make sure you stop by the Lollipop blog to enter our challenge this week and tune in on Thursday when Alanna’s team has the sponsor spotlight for Karber Stamps!

 

Jingle Bells

Hey everyone! I am a day behind for this post.  It’s a new challenge at The Poodles Parlour.  We are being sponsored this week by Glitterbabe Digis! Such cute images!

Here is my card for this week.  I bought these little jingle bells at the $$ store and just had to start using them!

The DP is by MME (The Merry Days of Christmas).  I colored the image with my copics and then cut it out with my nestibilities.  I added some glitter to the wings.  The twine is from Whisker Graphics and then the bell from the $$ store.  I hope you enjoy it!