Outdoor Seasonal Arrangement

Today along with some Christmas shopping, I filled my front porch urn with evergreen and twig branches I purchased at the market last weekend.



I also added the glitter branches and large ornaments like I did last year.



I do like to decorate outside with seasonal greenery, do you?

Believe

Moxie Fab has been issuing a new challenge called Trigger Tuesdays, you create a card based on inspiration from a photo. I've admired many of the creations submitted on previous challenges and decided to give it a try myself.

Here's the inspiration, a patchwork stocking from Pottery Barn.



And here's my card.




So what do what do you think, does it look like it was inspired by the photo?

Merry

When I saw the challenge at Pile It On this week I just knew I had to play along! I mean flowers and flourishes are just right up my alley! Then I remembered I had this flower swirl stamp by Perfectly Clear Stamps that would fit the challenge perfectly.



I also followed sketch 43 at Card Patterns and used some of My Mind's Eye paper from last year that I had yet to break into! I used my new Raspberry Fizz ink by Papertrey along with their buttons and rustic cream paper. Oh yea, and I added some Stickles too!

Little Red Wagon - Challenge 4

This week Joanne challenged us to use metal in our creation. I'm not sure what she she may have been expecting us to create but I decided to alter a metal paperclip and a metal CD case.

I've used primarily Imaginisce papers/rub-ons plus some trims/buttons from my stash to alter these items.

I envision the paperclip being used as a photo or card holder.

Here's the front of the CD case.

And now the inside.

I've used the CD case to enclose lottery scratch tickets but it could certainly enclose a greeting card or a gift card.

I hope these metal creations inspire you in some way and that you will play along at Little Red Wagon this week. Check out the rest of the team's creations, links to their blogs are in the left column.

12 Tags of Christmas - Day 7 - Take 2

I redid the pic of this tag.......it looks much better now!

12 Tags of Christmas - Day 7

I received my new Holiday Button Bits stamps from Papertrey on Monday and couldn't wait to break into them!

Here's a quickie tag I created that also uses PTI Vintage Buttons.



Unfortunately the colours didn't come out quite right. I'll try again to get a better photo later. I played around with some photo editing at Picnik.com too!

Weekend Scrapbooking

I spent much of this past weekend working on top secret scrapbooked Christmas presents, it was so much fun and they are almost done.

When I was at the Go Scrapping crop on Saturday, I won a prize for my participation in their Bloghop last week. Look at what I won!

Thanks Karen, In A Pinch and Simply Scrapping!

Then I made a couple of make and takes. The first is a card from In A Pinch,isn't it pretty? Its too bad all the glitter doesn't show up though.


The second card was offered by Karen who was sponsored by SEI.Love all the layers on it.




And I completed this project I got from A Little Bit of Pixie Dust.

It is a covered notepad, pretty eh?

A White Happy Holidays

I spent last night scrapbooking and created this card:



I had been thinking about trying this design for awhile and I'm happy with how it turned out.



And it fits the following challenges:

Pile It On - Happy Holidays is a glitter rub-on
Cuttlebug Challenges - use glitter, the Stickles and bling is there!
Daring Cardmakers - use mostly white

12 Tags of Christmas - Day 6

I'm posting this tag as part of the Go Scrapping and Friends Christmas Crafting Bloghop



I made the bow based on instructions Karen linked to at Splitcoast stampers. The instructions were so easy to follow. I ended up creating this bow in about 15 minutes! I think I'll be adding them to all my Christmas presents this year!

A Little Bit of Pixie Dust

When I was at a crop in St.Marys a few weeks ago I picked up some cute card kits from a vendor there called A Little Bit of Pixie Dust.

I made up the cards this past weekend.






Aren't they nice?

12 Tags of Christmas - Day 5

I'm back with another tag! This one is not made from recycled Christmas cards like my others but is made using Papertrey Ink products.



This tag uses the Spellbinders One Label die both of which are stamped with the PTI Vintage Labels stamp. I then used the Christmas Tree from the Winter Swirls stamp set, cut it out and popped it up. The papers used are also PTI, Kraft and Rustic Cream, love this combination!



I finished it off with a bit of bling, PTI twine and ribbon. This tag is one of my favourites so far!

Little Red Wagon - Challenge 3

Dee's challenge at Little Red Wagon this week is to use buttons.

First I created this card using the branch punch by Martha Stewart then added some buttons.



I like it but didn't think there was enough emphasis on the buttons.

So then I thought, well why not create an entire wreath out of buttons, and so I did!


I used non-traditional Christmas colours which I think adds to the charm of this card. I hope you can play along at Little Red Wagon this week, we'd love to see what you create using buttons!




PS: Both these cards use what I call 'Dee" techniques, thanks for the inspiration Dee!

Graphic 45 Cards

Thought I'd share the cards I created from Karen's kit at Go Scrapping.





Karen's designs are terrific and Graphic 45 paper is one of my new favourites!