Small Scripts of Gratitude

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 355 - Just Bead It.
I used Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 365 for my layout.
I used Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 355 - A Little Bashbul Blue.
My sentiment from Small Script is for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 357 - Boxing Day where we were to make a wintery "Thank You" card for someone.
RECIPE:
Stamps: small script
Paper: white, night of navy, bashful blue
Ink: night of navy
Accessories: Martha Stewart Icicle Border Punch, Bead, ribbon, Cuttlebug Snowflake EF
Techniques: dry embossing

Wonderful Words of Thank You

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 365.
I used Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 355 - A Little Bashful Blue for my color combo and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 357 - Boxing Day for my Thank You Theme.
Not really happy with my end result as it is NOT what was in my head but then my head is full of congestion, cold medicine and spider webs left over from halloween, scary right? LOL.
My dp is from Basic Gray's Marrakech stack.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Wonderful Words
Paper: white, night of navy, bashful blue, BG-Marrakech
Ink: whispering white craft ink
Accessories: Fiskars Button Border punch

Curvy Verses

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 355 - A Little Bashful Blue with glitter as a dessert, love me some glitter and dessert so I played along.
I used the MOJO MONDAY'S SKETCH CHALLENGE # 221 for my layout.
This is also for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 357 - Boxing Day. I was ready to get the gloves on and take it to the mattress until I read on. LOL.
I stamped my sentiment from curvy verses in whispering white craft ink on night of navy cs.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Curvy Verses
Paper: bashful blue, night of navy, WM Snowflake dp
Ink: whispering white craft ink
Accessories: Martha Stewart Icicle Border Punch, MS Snowflake punch, stickles

Country Morning

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 354 - Lucky Calypso Wonder.
I used MOnday's MOJO MONDAY'S SKETCH CHALLENGE # 220 for my layout.
I colored with copics and added some white dots with my white jel pen.
Sorry so short but still not well and off to work I go.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Country Morning
Paper: white, lucky lemonade, wisteeria wonder, dp Lilac
Ink: momento tuxedo black
Accessories: ribbon, white jel pen, copics, dimensionals, circle and scallop circle punches

Snowlglobe Gift Card

I have been MIA for a couple of days sick with a winter cold. GGRRRR.  Friday and most of Saturday was spent between the recliner, couch, and bed. On top of that I had put myself down to work ICU Sat night since they needed help. I did this long before I was sick so when the day approached I was really praying they would NOT need me but as luck would have it I was needed.  The night was quiet thank goodness. Suday was sunday school, church, lunch followed by a short nap and then to church to watch 5 of the grands in a Christmas play. Not much sleep for me until after midnight thanks to my cough.  I will be so thankful when this is out of my system. 

I did find the energy to go to the cave this morning so this is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 356 - Snowglobe and today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 149 - Sketch Inspired and last Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 353 - Cobbler Cake Always.  I stamped the globe on white then folded and cut the gift card in the shape of the image leaving the bottom on the fold. I stamped the snowman, colored with copics, added some white liquid applique then heated it from the back to make it puff up. I needed a gift tag so I stamped the to: from: out of the All Year Cheer II sentiments in cherry cobbler. Hope you like it. Bad as I feel it was fun to make and now off to work I go.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Snowglobe, All Year Cheer II
Paper: white
Ink: momento black, cherry cobbler
Accessories: copics, white liq applique
Techniques: CAS, gift card

My Favorite Pennant Tree

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 353 - Use It or Loose It] where we were to find inspiration from one of our gallery of Favorites. I did not have to look far when I found Kim's darling HOLY NIGHT WITH PENNANTS. I loved how she used the pennant punch to make a tree so that is what I did as well. I used My Minds Eye "Wonderful Winter" dp for the smooth layer and always artichoke for the scalloped layer then popped it up on dimensionals. My sentiment is from Stampin' Up's Many Merry Messages and stamped in always artichoke on vanilla. I have sponged all layers in always artichoke.
My layout is from Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 363 and my color combo is Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 353 - Cobble Cake Always.
Hope you like it and now it is time for work. Happy Thursday all my cyber crafty friends.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Many Merry Messages - SU
Paper: vanilla, always artichoke, crumb cake, cherry cobbler, MME Wonderful Winter dp
Ink: always artichoke
Accessories: SU Pennant Punch, sponges
Techniques: sponge distressing, 3D

Many Merry Messages

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 363 and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 353 - Cobbler Cake Always.
I stamped my sentiment in cherry cobbler on vanilla then cut and embossed with Nesties Rectangle. I cut a cherry cobbler matt then popped the focal panel up on dimensionals.
my dp is from K&Company double sided and I was able to use both sides as they compliment each other, or at least I think they do. Not too good at mixing dp's.
Now it is almost 4am and I have to be up at 5 to got to work. Sleep where art thou?
RECIPE:
Stamps: Many Merry Messages
Paper: vanilla, cherry cobbler, K&Company dp
Ink: cherry cobbler
Accessories: gold cording, Nesties Rectangle
Techniques: dry emboss, 3D

Poinsetta Gift Bag

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 353 - Cobbler Cake Always.
I made another TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 355 - Decorative Bags to help with gifts for next week **eeek** I can not believe it is just around the corner.

I cut embossed vanilla cs with the poinsetta dies and then sponged the inside with always artichoke.

I did 2 leaves in always artichoke then sponged them as well. I cut and embossed Nesties Label 15 in crumb cake cs. The Nesties Grommet Tag was cut and embossed and secured to the crumb cake panel with red brads. The sentiment is from Michaels dolllar bin from yrs ago.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Michaels dollar bin
Paper: vanilla, crumb cake, always artichoke
Ink: always artichoke

Accessories: Nesties Label 15, Nestie Poinsetta, brad

Techniques: Gift Bag

A Snowman Gift Bag

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 355 - Decorative Bags.
This is also for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 148 - "Chill Out" Theme. My first thought was "snowmen & snowflakes".
I missed out on honoring last weeks star so this is also for Sunday's FEATURED STAMPER # 253 - Pegmac71 finding my inspiration in Peggy's HOLIDAY HUGS. I changed from a card to a gift bag, I used some dp with snowmen on it and changed the colors. I just did not want to miss out on Peggy's special honor. Congrats to you girl.
RECIPE:
Stamps: none
Paper: WalMart Holiday dp
Ink: none
Accessories: Martha Stewart snowflake punch, gift bag
Techniques: Decorative Gift Bag

Have A Cheeky Christmas

This is for today's FREE 4 ALL CHALLENGE - Girlie and what could be more girlie than this darling Greeting Farm Image? I have not colored with copics in so long I almost forgot how on this *GASP*
This is also in honor of today's QUEEN FOR THE DAY CHALLENGE # 90 - Nancy Littrel where I loved the striped dp she used in so many of her creations and especially this one where there were multiple colors in herWATERCOLOR WASH NATURE.
I cut, embossed and sponged the inside of the Nesties Ornament for Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 352 - Stencil Love.
My layout is from Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 362.
My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 362 - Very Real & Wild and the button on the end of her Santa hat is for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 354 - Button Art.
I stamped the image in momento tuxedo black then colored with copics after me memory of "how to" slowly started returning. LOL
After coloring I cut the image out and popped it up on dimensionals beside the popped up ornament.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Cheeky Christmas - TGF
Paper: vanilla, real red, wild wasabi, Recollections dp
Ink: momento tuxedo black, real red
Accessories: twine, button, stickles, dimensionals, Nesties Ornament,
Techniques: copic coloring, 3D, Stenciling, button art

A Cardinal Poinsetta Christmas

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 352 - Stencil Love; Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 362; Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 352 - Very Real & Wild; and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 354 - Button Art.
I used my "just received" Nesties Poinsetta and Label 18 for the stencil and a button for the center. I cut the middle size flower in vanilla then sponged the veins and edges with real red ink. The red flowers were also sponged with real red ink as was the Label 18 cut in wild wasabi. Each flower is popped up on a dimensional and the focal panel is popped up also.
My dp is from K&Company. My sentiment is stamped in wild wasabi on vanilla base.
RECIPE:
Stamps: A Cardinal Christmas
Paper: vanilla, real red, wild wasabi, K&Company
Ink: real red, wild wasabi
Accessories: Nesties Poinsetta, Nesties Label 18, red & white bakers twine
Techniques: Stencilling, 3D,

Big On Christmas

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 362.
I used the colors from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 352 - Very Real & Wild.
I substituted a button for the ornament on the "O" for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 354 - Button Art.
I am not sure if I have ever used this set or not but it worked for me today. I love that I found the exact size button in the color I wanted. Whoo Hoo. I used copics to color the letters and my 3 different dp's are all from Recollections Happy Holidays stack. Have I mentioned how much I love Recollections dp?
Now off to work.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Big On Christmas
Paper: vanilla, Real Red, Recollections Happy Holidays
Ink: momento Lady Bug Red
Accessories: dimensionals, copics
Techniques: Button Art, 3D, copic coloring

A Buttony Christmas Tree

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 352 - Very Real & Wild.
This is also for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 147 - Ways To Use Twine where I have used my red & white bakers twine as garland around my tree.
I saw soo many fabulous and creative creations from Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 354 - Button Art that I had to do another. I did manage to find enough buttons but not all in the same color so I had to mix it up a bit. I think it gives the tree more pizzaz, what do you think? LOL
Anyway after adhering all of those buttons to some wild wasabi cs I decided to trim around the tree rather than a square panel so I did the same with some real red cs for a matt.
My dp is from Happy Holidays pack from Recollections. Man do they know some dp. I love me some Recollections.
That is it for now, see ya tomorrow for another day in the life of a challenge junkie ;)
RECIPE:
Stamps: none
Paper: wild wasabi, real red, recollections - Happy Holidays dp
Ink: none
Accessories: red & white bakers twine, buttons, more buttons
Techniques: button art

Snowflake Button Tree Topper

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 354 - Button Art. Not sure if I did this correct or not but I punched 5 snowflakes from my Fiskars punch, glued each one together, then made button holes and threaded some silver twine for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 147 - Twine.
I CASED this SNOWFLAKE WONDER for Friday's QUEEN FOR THE DAY CHALLENGE # 89 - Wendy2512.
I inked the snowflake embossing folder and the swiss dots EF in pear pizzaz then embossed them in my cuttlebug with white cs for Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 351 - Friend of Faux (aka Cuttlebug the Negative effect from a previous TLC).
I used last Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 351 - Krafty White Pizzaz for my color combo. I stamped the small snowflake images from a stampin' up set called "Snow Globe" in pear pizzaz on white and crumb cake on crumb cake for panels 2 and 3a & 3b. The dp is from a sheet of MME I had left over.
Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend and ready for another work week cause that is where I am headed now
RECIPE:
Stamps: Snow Globe
Paper: whtie, pear pizzaz, crumb cake, MME dp
Ink: pear pizzaz, crumb cake
Accessories: snowflake punch, hole puncher, Pendant Punch, dimensionals, Swiss Dot & Snowflake EF, cuttlebug, stickles

For A Friend

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 351 - Friend Of Faux where we were to ink an embossing folder then run some cs through a pressing machine. This was also done for TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 160 - Cuttlebug - The Negative Effect, a TLC which I love and use frequently so it was a pleasure to use it again today.
My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 351 - Krafty White Pizzaz.
My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 217. I used some dp from MMY and matted it on pear pizzaz for my base then used some crochet ribbon for the horizontal and vertical strips. My focal panel is from the Cuttlebug Folder "FRIENDS" inked in pear pizzaz then embossed on white cs and matted on crumb cake.
Hope you like it and hope everyone has a fabulous Thursday.
RECIPE:
Stamps: none
Paper: white, pear pizzaz, crumb back, MME dp
Ink: pear pizzaz
Accessories: ribbon, button, cuttlebug, Friend EF
Techniques: Cuttlebug - The Negative Effect