These Boots Were Made for Snowballing

It's Merry Monday time again.

One of the things I always liked about the snowmen in this set was the boots.

and Nina said....

That little snippet of Christmas paper that I used to paper piece his boots

and the tiniest snippet of Glimmer Paper for the snowball will get me into 

Pixies Snippet Playground

Parsnip doesn't have to offer mulled wine twice!

I'm sure all of you are as busy with holiday preparations as we are here.

It's all so much fun though!

I hope you'll have a few minutes to join us at Merry Monday this week.

It will be our last challenge of 2015.

It's been so much fun seeing all your creations

and I'm looking forward to seeing even more in 2016!

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snow Much Fun (retired SU), Oh, What Fun (SU)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Marina Mist, Lost Lagoon, Garden Green (SU), SU markers (Real Red, Garden Green, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black)

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Lost Lagoon, Whisper White,  retired DSP, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer (SU)

Other:  Crystal Effects, Chunky Embossing Enamel (Stampendous), Stitched Squares Dies (Lil' Inker)

Keeping Cool with Snow Much Fun

Summer has arrived with all the heat and humidity.  So I pulled out a snowman to play with.

This was the picture on my January page of one of my calendars.  The more I look at it the more it looks like a giant snowman hanging in the air.  I should have cut his feet out to sit on the top flag.  LOL, I'll send this to someone with a good sense of humor!

I used the sketch from Merry Monday.  There's still time to play over there.

Rudolph days lasts until the end of the month.  Sarn has a delightful card up there and some fun Christmas stamps for a lucky winner.

Festive Friday wants to see a tree on our card.

Winter Wonderland has an interesting challenge

3 snowflakes

2 papers

1 image

3 snowflakes at the top of the DSP (lots in the snowman), 2 decorative papers.  It might be a stretch for the one image, but I'm hoping it's close enough.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe
Stamps:  Snow Much Fun (retired), Lovely as a Tree, More Merry Messages
Ink:  Jet Black StazOn, Always Artichoke, Handsome Hunter (retired), SU Markers (Crumb Cake, Island Indigo, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black)
Other:  Dazzling Details

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you're having a great weekend!

Enjoy!

Snow

Here's another card for the Merry Monday challenge this week.  I had this stamped snowman in the UFO (UnFinishedObjects) box.  I love the way he fit in this sketch.

We had some SNOW last night!  I was so excited!  I turned on the floodlights and watched it through the bay window. How pretty.  There was a little on the ground this morning but it's melting fast. Not enough for a snowman for sure.  But that's OK.  I'm just so happy to see it falling.

Here's Lesley's wonderful sketch.

The Free 4 All challenge at SCS this morning is to use flags or banners on a card.  Got that covered.

I can add this card to the SCS Fan Club's January Christmas Challenge, Christmas Wedding. The snowman stamp is old,  the snowflakes from the Snow Swirled set are new (a Christmas present), and there's lots of blue.  Nothing borrowed on this one.   I know you have to be a Fan Club member to post on this challenge, but I think you can peek in the gallery even if you aren't.

I used some of the Illuminate Watermark ink with the Itty Bitty Backgrounds stamp.  It ended up making the snowman look splotchy.  LOL, kinda looks like the birds have been around too long! But it has a shimmery snowflakes.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snow Much Fun, Snow Swirled, More Merry Messages, Itty, Bitty Backgrounds (retired)

Ink:  Jet Black StazOn, Pool Party, Island Indigo, SU Markers (Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Island Indigo)

Paper:  Pool Party, Whisper White, Island Indigo

Other: Illuminate Watermark Stampin' Pad, Square Jeweled Brad (retired), Kars Snowflake EF (Cuttlebug)

There's still time to make a Christmas card and link it up at Merry Monday.  You have until Sunday noon to join in.

Glad you could stop by!  And thanks so much when you leave a comment.  I really enjoy them!

Enjoy!

Snow Much Fun X 2

Just a quick post to share this Snowy pair!

Here's a closer look

These fellas always make me smile.

I'm going to post these at SCS in the Fan Club Gallery.  The Central Theme this month is Baby it's Cold Outside.

It also fits for the Inspiration Challenge in the Fan Club Gallery.

The snowmen and tree are there if not the blue.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snow Much Fun

Ink:  Jet Black StazOn, Always Artichoke, SU Markers

Paper:  Real Red, Whisper White

Other:  Big Shot, Apothecary Art Framelits, Perfect Polka Dots EF, Movers & Shapers (retired), Modern Label Punch, Dazzling Details

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

Merry Monday Snow Much Fun Again

It's time for Merry Monday.

I think I'm wearing out these cute snowmen!  I hope you're not totally sick of them.

Here's Lesley's fantastic sketch

Just wait til you see what the rest of the DT have done! Fantastic!

Lesley Croghan

LeAnne Pugliese

Nina Forsyth

Wendy Aungst

Narelle Farrugia

Bonnie Klass

Terry Blais FD

I'm also going to take this guy to some other challenges:

Jingle Belles; Dashing Through the Snow
Shopping our Stash;  Emboss It!  (With a retired EF)

I hope you'll join us for Merry Monday this week.  Only 13 more weeks til Christmas!

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe
Stamps:  Snow Much Fun
Ink:  Jet Black StazOn, SU Markers (Real Red, Island Indigo, Basic Black
Paper:  Island Indigo, Whisper White
Other:  Big Shot, Labels Collection Framelits, Finishing Touches Edgelits, Snow Burst EF (retired), Dazzling Details, Cherry Cobbler Baker's Twine

I'm so glad you stopped by.  I hope you'll let me know what you think.

Enjoy!

Merry Monday More Snow Fun

Wow, can you believe it's week 30 of the not so new year?  And I have a snowball throwing snowman this week for the Merry Monday challenge.  Watch out!

Here's Lesley's wonderful sketch.  I knew right away what I wanted to do with it.  I flipped the sketch again to make this guy and the sentiment work.

I randomly stamped some snowflakes with Whisper White craft ink on Crumb Cake.  The snowman is stamped with Jet Black StazOn and colored with markers.  Then I added some Dazzling Details around the edges, on the snowball and the ground under the snowman.

Have you seen the More Merry messages set yet?  It's fantastic and there are four sets of sentiments.  Not only the outside sentiments but some forthe inside of the card too.  This one fits in the largest of the Bitty Banners Framelit die.  I adhered it in the middle and flipped up the ends just a bit.

Check out the rest of the Design Team cards.  They're fantastic!

Lesley Croghan

                      LeAnne Pugliese (off this week)

Nina Forsyth

Wendy Aungst

Narelle Farrugia

   Bonnie Klass (me)

        Debbie Henderson (FD)

    Beth Beard (GD)
Mikki Sarkisyan (GD)

I hope you'll join us at Merry Monday this week.  Christmas will be here before we know it!  And it's going to be sweet having most of those Christmas cards already made!

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snow Much Fun, More Merry Messages

Ink:  Whisper White, Jet Black StazOn, Cherry Cobbler, SU Markers (Cherry Cobbler, Basic Gray, Tangerine Tango

Paper:  Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler

Other:  Bitty Banners Framelit Die, Dazzling Details

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I really appreciate your comments and I love going to visit you and be inspired!

Enjoy!

Merry Monday Snow Much Fun

It's Merry Monday time again.  I'm really enjoying seeing my box of Christmas cards grow.  Here's this week's card....

Here's Lesley's sketch

I flipped it so the snowball rolling bird would fit right.  I love all the stamps in this set, but I think this one is my favorite.  He just looks so happy!

I pulled out some decorative paper.  I still have some little pieces left.  I'm glad that Stampin' Up! has so many pretty Christmas papers this year because I need to restock.

I hope you'll check out the cards from the rest of the design team.  I've been seeing some awesome cards from them all week.  It's such an honor to be among them.

Lesley Croghan

LeAnne Pugliese

Nina Forsyth

Wendy Aungst

  Narelle Farrugia

                Bonnie Klass (that's me)

                       Vicki (Featured Designer)
                   Cindy (Guest Designer)

And I hope you'll join us in this challenge.  It's really fun to get a head start on those Christmas cards and I love Christmas any time of the year.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! (unless otherwise noted)

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snow Much Fun

Ink:  Jet Black StazOn

Paper:  Whisper White, Island Indigo, DSP, Real Red

Other:  1 3/4" circle punch, Nestie (Spellbinders), Modern Label Punch, Mover's & Shaper Die (retired), Snowflake punch (from the $ store bin), Basic Rhinestones.

I'm so glad that you stopped by and I appreciate your comments.

Enjoy!

Merry Monday Snow Birdman

It's time for the Merry Monday challenge and Lesley gave us another great sketch....

I'd been waiting for a sketch where I could use this tall snowman with his bird friends.

I did a bit of coloring with markers and he was finished in a jiffy.

The snowflake was die cut with the Northern Frost Decorative strip die (retired).  I used some Multipurpose Adhesive Sheet, adhered to Whisper White, before cutting.  When I removed the liner on the other side, it was easy to get Dazzling Diamonds to stick to it.  A drop of Dazzling Details gave the center a bit of color.


Be sure to check out the other Design Team cards

Lesley Croghan

LeAnne Pugliese

Nina Forsyth

Wendy Aungst
Narelle Farrugia

And check out the wonderful gallery entries too.  It was really hard to pick a favorite last week, but such a treat to be on the design team and to enjoy all the entries.  Won't you join us this week?

All suppies are Stampin' Up!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snow Much Fun

Ink:  Jet Black StazOn, SU Markers (Real Red, Garden Green

Paper:  Real Red, Basic Black, Whisper White

Other:  Big Shot, Northern Frost Decorative Strip Die (retired), Lace Ribbon Border Punch (retired), Multipurpose Adhesive Sheet, Dazzling Diamonds, Dazzling Detail

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Enjoy!

Very Merry Birdie Tree

Another Merry Monday challenge done.  Want to see it?

Well, I hope you can see it.  This isn't the best picture.  Maybe this will be better.

Or maybe not.

Here's Lesley' sketch for this week.

There's still time to enter so you might want to check it out.  There's some pretty cards in the lineup as well as the inspiration cards.

All supplies are Stampin' Up!

Card Recipe
Stamps:  Snow Much Fun, Short and Sweet
Ink:  Jet Black StazOn, Garden Green, SU Markers (Garden Green, Always Artichoke, Real Red)
Paper:  Whisper White, Real Red
Other:  Blender Pen, White Gel Pen, Dazzling Details (Clear and Cherry Cobbler), 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" Circle Punches, Big Shot, Square Lattice EF


Boy, this week has gone by fast.  I hope time will slow down over the weekend.

I'm so glad you could stop by.  I really enjoy your visits and I love to go over to your place and see what you have been up to.

Enjoy!