Joy

I found this beautiful music and holly paper on sale at Hobby Lobby after Christmas last year.

So, I came across this while looking through my paper stash and at the sketch from Pals Paper Arts wondering what I could use for the 3 stripes

I am letting the stripes of the music staff + the red ribbon work for the 3 stripes on the sketch. The base is SU cherry cobbler cardstock. The Joy is Craft Smart stamped in SU real red and the leaves colored green with gel star pen. That is punched out with circle punch and backed with a scallop of the cherry cobbler.
I fussy cut out one of the holly motifs to decorate the message inside which is done via computer.

 

10 min. dash

Cas-ual Fridays Stamps is sponsoring the 10 min. craft dash by Pretty Pink Posh using these colors:

They are awarding a $25 gift certificate. I sure hope I win because I really like Cas-ual Fridays Stamps. I used their Season's Greeting on this card. That little snowflake used for the O is so cute. I accented it with a clear star gel pen.

As you can see, I barely made the 10 min. deadline. That is because when I put the black pearls on for the buttons and lifted the card up, the glue hadn't come off the sheet with the pearls and I had to grab the all purpose glue and do them again. The grey cardstock is SU, red from scrap stash, strips of snowflakes are Washi tape. The snowman is from Tradefish, colored with colored pencils 

Holiday Greetings

This sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches


Is just tailor made for this inspiration picture from Papercraft Star

It was the 3 windows in a row that caught my eye. So I pulled out colors from the picture to use for the 3 vertical strips.
Papers: SU and Martha Stewart
Label: Spellbinders Nesties, SU frames IP, SU large oval punch
Sentiment: The Angel Company
Other: recycled red ribbon, button, Tim Holtz twine.

Golden Angel

I have been starting on holiday cards for my church's bazaar. So with this week's challenge of things with wings at Tuesday Throwdown my first thought was "Angels".

This angel is one of my very first Christmas stamp purchases. It is from Inkadinkadoo. Here I stamped it on SU night of navy with Versamark ink and then gold embossed it. The "glory to God" is from the Angel Company. A transparent gold ribbon and bow completes the card.
Super easy except for the embossing powder that I always seem to make a mess of all over my desk.
 

The Stockings Were Hung...

A quick card and post of Christmas stockings for Mojo Monday sketch

The background DP and sentiment are from SU. The stockings cut out from a scrap of Christmas paper and strung on twine from Tim Holtz. 

Gift Tags

Tuesday Throwdown challenge this week is "anything goes". So I am entering these cute little Christmas gift tags.  All but that lower center are just 2 1/2" x 5" folded in center.
DPs:  blue dotted from Bo Bunny, scrap pieces
Die: Spellbinders snow flakes
Stamps: The Angel Company, Inkadinkadoo
Other: colored pencils, blue gems, Color Box sky blue ink, blue ribbon from Michael's.
I think now I will have to make some coordinating gift bags to tie these onto.

Snowlady

I have had a hectic weekend so really needed craft room therapy today. The Mojo Monday sketch provided a great opportunity.
I guess it is time to break out the Christmas stamps and paper and start on those holiday cards. So here is mine for the day:

This adorable snowlady is from The Angel Company, colored with colored pencils. The green polka dots and the red polka dot paper are from the scrap bin. Happy Christmas is from SU stamped with lucky limeade. The banner is anchored with 2 green gems.

Quick and easy

This sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch

sure does make for a quick and easy card. Love those that go together quickly.

I was looking for something other than a Nesties label for the design part. I spotted this scrap of airplane paper with the planes in rows inside clouds on aqua polka dotted paper. I was able to use a scallop border guide from Creative Memories to cut a the border above the planes. The DP was just kind of fading into the white so a darker border helps it show up better. Since the humps looked better at the top of the planes, I flipped the sketch. The sentiment is from SU.
Even the inside is CAS. I punched out one of the planes with a cloud punch and lined it with another punched cloud from the aqua. The stamped b'day greeting is from SU.

 

Fall Is Upon Us

Where did the summer go? In southern Indiana it is still warm but you can tell days are getting shorter, nights a bit cooler, and some leaves are beginning to show color.
So it is to be expected we begin to get the "fall theme" challenges like the one this week from The Paper Players.

These DPs are from SU. Actually they are reverse sides of the same paper. The burlap ribbon and button are also SU. The leaf is from a wallpaper border I picked up at a yard sale for 50 cents. The leaves are all green so I sponged some gold, orange, and brown on this one.. The sentiment is from SU also.
And, since it is Tuesday, I used this sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches

"Owl" be your friend

Okay, I've put it off long enough. Time to drag out the Christmas stamps and start on those Holiday Cards. I was looking around for a stamp to go with the "best friends" challenge from Tuesday Throwdown and found these adorable owls from Art Impressions

Cuttlebug IP of snowflakes make the perfect background for these owls all huddled together to keep warm. Their hats are colored with colored pencils. The "merry" tag is from SU stamped in Rasperry Ripple and tied on with ribbon. The owls all have such big eyes I added googly eyes for a fun factor.
I tried to get the hat colors close to the color challenge at colourQ