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)

Mmmm! Gingerbread

Good Merry Monday morning!

Our fun lovin' Lori chose the challenge this week.

I used my favorite Gingerbread Man from Rubber Cottage

and stamped him with Whisper White Craft ink on

Baked Brown Sugar cardstock,

then heat embossed.

I quickly colored the buttons and tie with Bendabilities

and his eyes with a Sharpie.

He didn't look quite right so I added some "cracks" with

my Memory Box Scraped Paint Stencil.

(Love this stencil.)

After fussy cutting him out, I plopped him

on a piece of  embossed Whisper White.

I adhered the little guy to another piece of  brown cardstock

and cut around that to give him some extra thickness.

The Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media Challenge is

I've stamped, heat embossed, stenciled, colored with markers and dry embossed.

I hope you'll join us at 

Merry Monday

and be sure to check out all the awesome cards the Design Team has done.

I'm so glad you dropped by!

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Gingerbread Boy (Rubber Cottage), Holiday Snippets (PB)

Ink:  Whisper White, Real Red (SU)

Paper:  Baked Brown Sugar, Whisper White (SU)

Other: White EP (SU),  Blendabilities (SU), Scraped Paint Stencil (MB), EF (Darice),

Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly

and other stuff too.

'Tis the season to be jolly...

and busy!

I made this card a while ago and I'm just getting around to posting it.

I used the sketch at 

Happy Little Stampers Sketch Challenge

and

Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media Challenge

I have stamping with embossing and punching for added texture.

and I see this works for

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

HOLLY JOLLY STAMPING

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Mixed Christmas Messages (HLS)

Ink:  Real Red (SU)

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Whisper White, Real Red, Greens

Other:  Stitched Squares (Lil' Inker), Kars Snowflake EF (retired), Holly Punch, Pine Sprig Punch (both MS), 1/8" Circle Punch (SU), White Gel Pen

Candy Canes and Polka Dots

It's the first Merry Monday in December.

If you've been playing with us all year,

you should be ready to send out those Christmas cards.

 

This week Kreative Kristie chose our challenge.

And the talented Shirley B. is our Guest Designer this week.

I used my favorite candy cane stamp that came from a

Michael's Dollar Bin.

I stamped with red ink on  a snippet of Whisper White, 

then with black on a snippet of polka dot paper.

I fussy cut the bow and pieced on the canes.

Crystal Effects made the candy shiny and 

Wink of Stella gave some shimmer to the bow.

Another polka dot piece behind and a fun sentiment

and I was done.

I'm taking my snippets over to

Pixies Snippet Playground

where Di can't run after us this week. 

I'm sure there will be lots of mischief  fun happening there.

Hope to see your "sweet" cards over at

Merry Monday!

Thanks for stopping by and for all your comments.

I'm sorry I haven't been by to visit  you lately.

  

I hope to have more time to visit this week.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Candy Canes (Michaels), Handy Christmas Greetings (Amy R)

Ink:  Real Red, Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Markers (Real Red, Garden Green)

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), DSP (Retired SU)

Other:  Stitched Mats Rectangles (Lil' Inkers), Crystal Effects (SU), Wink of Stella (Zig), Dimensionals

Christmas Thank you for Happy Little Stampers

The Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge this month is

Please be sure to include the WHAT, WHY and HOW of your favourite technique in your blog post.  Thank you!!

That's kind of like choosing my favorite child which is an impossible task.

So I tried doing a card using a few of my favorite techniques and

this is the best of the lot.

Dry embossing has been one of my very favorite techniques.

I like a lot of white space and texture.

I love my Big Shot and embossing folders!

This is one of my favorite folders.

I also used a punch, which was my favorite technique before I discovered embossing.

Now won't you share your favorite technique with us at 

Happy Little Stampers?

(Make sure it CAS)

If you need inspiration, I promise you'll find it at the site.

The Design Team has done some awesome work to inspire.

Our fabulous Guest Designer is TaeEun.

I love her work.

There are prizes for the winner too.

Our challenge is sponsored by

Winner will receive

I'm entering into

Addicted to CAS

and

Addicted to Stamps #173

HOLIDAY

I'm so glad you stopped by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thinking of You (HLS)

Ink:  Garden Green

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Whisper White, Snippets of Garden Green and Real Red

Other:  Powdered Sugar EF (Sizzix), Holly Punch (MS), Ribbon (Michaels), 1/8" Circle Punch

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted