Mojo card for Beccy's Place

Wow!  I can't believe it's less than 5 weeks to Christmas.  I must get moving on my Christmas cards.  

I've used some  retired CTMH patterned paper and stamps 

and followed today's 

Mojo Monday Sketch #372 to create this card

which I will be entering in the following challenges:

Mojo Monday Sketch #372

Beccy's Place A Month of Holiday Cards - Day 6 Patterned Papers

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If you get a chance, please stop by the Pumpkin Spice Challenge beginning 11/15 and vote for my card.   Please!!!!  I'd love to add their badge to my sidebar!  Thank you!!!!
 

LTSCB Challenge #42 Say It In Color

For the new challenge at Love to Scrap Challenge, the sentiment cannot be in black.  It must be in color.  Once again we have 2 wonderful sponsors, Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet & Sweet Stamps both offering very generous prizes.

I chose a digi from Stitchy Bear's called Snow Corner for my DT card today and printed it on snowflake DP.
I colored the snowman in the corner and added glitter gel to the center of each snowflake in the digi.  The sentiment was cut on the cricut, distressed and adhered to a glittery piece of vinyl from my stash.  Finally, I added just a few gems to the white snowflakes on the DP.  I distressed the edges of the DP, mounted it on blue CS, also distressed, and then adhered it to a white card.

I hope you'll join us for the current challenge at Love to Scrap, check out the projects made by my teamies, 

leave them a little love and 

browse in the shops of our sponsors.

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Today, I am entering this card in the following:
Bitten by the Bug2 Challenge - Anything Goes
Bunny Zoe's Crafts November Challenge - Snow
Card Mania Challenge #60 - Use a Digi   (I used CTMH Artbooking Cartridge)

Dream Valley Challenge #95 - Anything Goes
Make My Monday Challenge - Glitter
Stitchy Bear November Challenge - Anything Goes

If you get a chance, please stop by the Pumpkin Spice Challenge beginning 11/15 and vote for my card.   Please!!!!
 
I'd love to add their badge to my sidebar!

Once the wheels start turning....

it's sometimes hard to shift gears.  I've been working on red hat cards for a class I'm teaching tomorrow.  And I just can't seem to stop.  I have all the cards for Monday cut and packed, but then I came across this digi I had from Bugaboo and now here's another red hat card.  This one I'll save for the next class.  

(Sentiment is a CTMH stamp)

For now, this card is my entry in the following challenges:
A Little Bit Crafty Challenge - CAS
Cards Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes
Ladybug Crafts November Challenge - Bright Colors
Brown Sugar Challenge #120 - Anything Goes
Jo's Scrap Shack Fun Day Friday Challenge #66 - Anything Goes
Just Add Ink Challenge #240 - Just Add Texture (I added embossing, a bow and feathers for texture.)
Polka Doodles Challenge #46 - Clean and Simple
Inky Impressions Challenge #185 - Animals
Craft Your Passion Challenge #239 - Something Beginning with a "b"  (Bear)

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If you get a chance, please stop by the Pumpkin Spice Challenge beginning 11/15 and vote for my card.  
 
I'd love to add their badge to my sidebar!

Thanks so much!

Nutcracker

Quite a while ago, I picked up this free digital image, aptly named Nutcracker, from AJ's Digi Shoppe.   Beccy Muir is having a November Daily Christmas Card Challenge and for Day 14 the theme was Symbols of Christmas.  What would Christmas be without hearing the songs from the well-known ballet, The Nutcracker Suite? (and candy canes, too!)

I cut the green foil and red polka dot paper with Spellbinders dies.  I even used the teeniest die in the set for under the gold brads.  Ribbon was from my stash.  The 'Happy Holidays' sentiment is a CTMH stamp.  And I used markers to color the image.

While the potatoes are boiling on the stove, I am submitting this card to the following challenges:
Brown Sugar Challenge #120 - Anything Goes
Beccy's Place Challenge - A Month of Holiday Cards
Die Cut Divas Challenge - Holiday Spirit
Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge - Anything Goes 4 Kids
We Do Doobadoo Challenge #19 - Christmas
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe #202 - Bright Colors
Crafty Catz Challenge #255 - Christmas is Coming
Left of Center Creative Challenge #54 - Polka Dots
Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #106 - Winter Holiday with Ribbon
Crafty Ribbon Challenge #106 - Christmas with Ribbon
Incy Wincy Designs Challenge #33 - Stripes

Autumn Jar

It's mid-November and we're well into autumn.  I finally worked my way all around the house, clearing flower beds of annuals, removing bulbs that would freeze, and trimming dead flowers from perennials.   (Yesterday we got our first bit of snow and now those same beds are all white.)  With Thanksgiving just 2 short weeks away, it's time to use this Bugaboo digi image, Autumn Jar.

Truthfully, I forgot I had this image and accidentally came across it when looking for the Jar Digi I used for yesterday's card.

I added a simple, give thanks, to the card with a CTMH stamp.

The image was hand colored with markers, die cut and encircled by a bit of faux stitching.

I am entering this card in the following:

Dream It Up Challenge - Thankful and Thoughtful

Milk Coffee Challenge - Hand Color Image

Sassy Studio Designs Challenge - It's Beginning to Look Like Fall

Crafting by Designs Challenge - Give Thanks

Digi Stamps 4 Joy Challenge #104 - Preparing for the Holidays/Fall

The House That Stamps Built DCC#115 - Time to Give Thanks

Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - Thank-ful

Kraftin Kimmie Stamps Wonderful Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday Challenge #45 - CAS

{Pin}spirational Challenge #128 - photo inspiration

Cards in Envy Challenge - Pumpkin Patch

Love to Create Challenge #141 - Anything Goes

The Pink Elephant Challenge #276 - CAS

Glitter N Sparkle Challenge #110 - Autumn Colors

Great Impressions November Challenge - Thankful Thoughts

Di's Digi Designs Challenge - Colors of Autumn

Pumpkin Spice Challenge #90 - Anything Fall


If you get a chance, please stop by the Pumpkin Spice Challenge beginning 11/15 and vote for my card.  I'd love to add their badge to my sidebar!

Candy Jar

My it's a dreary day here, temps in the 40's, no sun.  I thought about putting a pot of soup on, just for the smell and extra warmth.  But I've decided to bake an apple cake instead.  It can wait, though, until after I get this card posted. 

With a red hat card class scheduled for Monday, I decided to use this month's digi set, Jars of Cheer, from Imagine That Digis by Kris to see if I could put a 'red hat' spin on the image. 

Out of the 4 jars in the set, I chose the uncolored jar of peppermints so I could use the red + purple colors for which red hatters are known.  I also printed the colored image and fussy cut the bow to add  to the jar.  Doesn't that bow look like it's glitter paper?  What a fantastic colored digi!!!  The scalloped punched sentiment (1 of 6) is also from the digi set.  And the little red Santa hat is a store bought embellishment.

You'll find this card entered in the following challenges:

Imagine That November Progressive Challenge - Pick a Jar, Any Jar

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #285 - Christmas

Milk Coffee Challenge - Hand Color Image (I used markers to color the peppermints.)

Digi Sketch Challenge - Theme: Food

Through the Purple Haze Challenge #67 - Punch or Die (I've used a punch.)

A Gem of a Challenge #132 - Paper Piecing  (The bow was fussy cut and pieced.)

Simple Christmas Card + CTMH Workshop 11/11/14

The current sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge led to the creation of this card:

(I've used some retired CTMH papers and a CTMH sentiment.) 

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Craft Your Passion Challenge - Something beginning with a B  (banners)
Squigglefly Challenge 4514 - Make a Christmas Card
Take Heart Ideas November Challenge - Anything Goes with CTMH products
and, of course,
Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #81

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Here are the cards we made yesterday at Joyce's CTMH card workshop.  Those CTMH cricut cartridges help make some awesome cards!  We don't need to do much stamping any more.