Christmas with a Twist

Yesterday I posted my version of "Holiday Dough" that I made for my family. Here's a card I made for my hubby that is "Holiday Dough" with a twist!

 

 

 The tag with the poem adapted to use with lottery scratch-offs...

 

 

The inside with the lottery scratch-offs...

 

 

The cute gingerbread men from SU's Scentsasional Season were perfect for my card. I loved how it turned out. The twisted card is easy to make and has a big WOW factor. It can be used for giving money or a gift card too. Check here for video instructions for making the twisted card.

Scentsational Christmas

Stampin'Up's Scentsational Season was one of my favorites this Christmas. It was perfect for making the "Holiday Dough" that I saw on Pinterest. Here's my version...

 

 

 Here's a close-up of the bag topper with the poem...

 

 

I made these for my son, daughter-in-law and granddaughters and put them in their stockings. They loved them. It was a fun way to give money.

Party Time!

I am excited to announce that I am a Party Planner aka a member of the Party Time Tuesdays Design Team! PTT is a challenge blog owned by the very talented Jenn Cochran. I've worked with Jenn before on other design teams and I am so happy to be working with her again. If you like doing challenges you'll love PTT . There's a new challenge every Tuesday. Click HERE to hop on over to the blog and check it out. My term starts in January, so be sure to come back join the party with me!

Front/Back Late Birthday

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I did...family friends, food and fun! Speaking of friends, I have the best, most talented group of friends that I stamp with. One of my friends, Gloria, lent me her Art Impression front/back stamps to play with. I made this card for Jane, another of my stamping friends. I think she's received it by now so I can post it. Here's the front...

 

 

 Here's the inside. It's hard to see in the photo, but the window is cut out.

 

 

Happy Birthday Jane...a little late. Hope you had a wonderful day!

A Hoedown Birthday Challege

Happy Birthday Tim!

  

The Hambo Hoedown Challenge this week was to make a project to toast ( or roast!) Tim. Tim is the amazing and zany Hambo illustrator, and husband of owner Monica! For your creation, you had to use any Hambo image, rubber or digital, and create a project that showed:

 

    1) burned edges or soot technique OR

2) checkboard or gingham patterns

 

I used Hambo's rubber image Caveman with the sentiment Back Then. I tried to burn just the edges. One corner burned a little too much, but I liked the shape and it inspired my layout. The Bone stamp in the corner is a discontinued Hambo stamp. To make them stand out more, I used a glaze pen on them. I used the last of my animal print ribbon for the perfect embellishiment for my cave-manly card. 

 



Whoo...

I made this card for a Paper Smooches Trends Watch Challenge.  The challenge was to take inspiration from this image. Follow it closely or use it loosely and think of everything in the woods and all woodland creatures!

To make my card I generated the sentiment on my computer, printed it onto the cardstock, and then added the cute Paper Smooches Owl and Branch digi.

 

I've used this layout before and really like it for a clean and simple look. In fact it's from CAS Challenge 171 on SCS. Here's another card I made with this sketch back in May. It uses Hambo Stamps Skunk and It Stinks.

 

 

Caught a Bug?

This week's Hambo Hoedown challenge is all about CIRCLES.  The challenge is to use the digi Cells or any other Hambo image, rubber or digital, and create a project that incorporates circles.  When I saw the sentiment "Caught a Bug?" with the digi image, I knew what I wanted to make...a Get Well Kit. My inspiration came from a kit made by Carolyn King that I saw on her blog, Kings on Paddington. Here's my version using Cells and circles! 

The outside...

The inside (sentiment from Hambo's digi Doghouse Blues) ...

The kit includes tissues, cough drops, chapstick and teabags, all things to help someone with a cold feel better. Add a crossword puzzle book and/or a paperback book and I'm all ready to cheer up any of my friends or family that are under the weather.