Merry Monday Calm Christmas

Whoosh! It's Monday again.  Merry Monday!

Margaret has given us a color challenge.

The dove image was stamped once on the card front and once on a piece of scrap with Encore Gold ink.  I heat embossed the second image with Gold and cut it out.  After coloring the olive branch with markers, I placed the embossed dove over the image stamped on the card front.  The sentiment is also heat embossed.

I hope you'll join us for Merry Monday this week.

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

I'm so glad you stopped by.

Enjoy!

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Some other challenges I'm entering

Since I used some snippets, I'll go over to

Pixie's Snippet Playground

Thanks for the shout out for one of last week's cards, Di!

Christmas Card Challenges
is asking for CAS Christmas cards.

Completely Christmas
is a new Chritmas challenge
this week it's Anything Goes.

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge
is Spread Your Wings.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Calm Christmas (retired)

Ink:  Encore Gold, SU Marker (Garden Green)

Paper:  Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla

Other:  Gold EP, Square Lattice EF, Trim (stash), Gold Beads (stash)

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Winter Memories

Here's another Christmas card.

I love how my box is starting to fill up again.

Festive Friday

has this great inspiration photo

One Layer Simplicity Challenge

This month is JUST ADD WATER

I used my Aqua Painter and ink pads to color this image.

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Winter Memories, More Merry Messages

Ink:  Chocolate Chip, SU Markers (Garden Green, Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Basic Black, More Mustard)

Paper:  Water Color (Strathmore)

Other:  Simply Scored, Corner Rounder Punch, Gold Bead (stash)

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Butterfly Buttoned and Bowed

Mrs. A's Butterfly Challenge this go round is the 3 B's

Butterflies, Buttons and Bows

I had some bits and pieces laying around that hadn't made it onto cards.

I put them together and here's what I found.

My button is faux.  I hope that's OK.  It keeps it flat for mailing.

But there's still some dimension that I think will regular postage rate.

The card is Sahara Sand not gray but I can't get it to look tan in the photos.

Everything is a snippet so off I go to

Pixie's Snippet Playground

Even the card blank is a cast off.  I hope the design doesn't fall off.

There's a stamping mistake underneath it.

CAS on Sunday

says COLOR ME PRETTY 

use markers/pencils/etc. on your card.

I used markers to color the butterfly.

Shopping Our Stash

says 3-2-1 

Use 3 of something (3 colors of cardstock), 2 of something (2 stamps), and 

1 of something (1 button)

ETA House of Cards

asks for Cute/Shabby with a button

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Best of Butterflies, French Script (retired)

Ink:  Sahara Sand, Tuxedo Black (Memento), SU Markers (So Saffron, Tangerine Tango) I think

Paper:  Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Very Vanilla

Other:  Sweet Buttons Embosslit, Hemp Twine (Michaels)

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Elegant Bird Anniversary

Just a quick share today.

When this bird Bigz die was in the catalog, I wasn't interested.

Then my friend Susan did this beautiful card

and I thought, hmmm.....

When I saw it on the Clearance Rack, I let myself become fully enabled.

It made a perfect anniversary card for my oldest daughter and her husband.

I hope you're having a great week!

I'm so glad you stopped by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Paper:  Pool Party, Whisper White, Smoosh snippet

Other:  Tulip Frame and Square Lattice EF, Fashionable Hearts Embosslit, Adorning Accents Edgelits, Adorning Accents EF, Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon, Basic Pearl

Merry Monday Stitched and Buttoned

It's Merry Monday time again.

Sue chose this fun challenge for us this week.

I used to sew all the time.

 I made all our daughter's and my clothes for many years.

That's in the past.  

My sewing machine is closed up.

Grandsons and open sewing machines don't mix well.

So I've reverted to faux sewing

and buttons.

And I love the way this turned out!

Except that I can't draw stitch lines any straighter than I can sew them!

The little buttons were punched out of scraps with a 1/4" circle punch.  Before I punched them, I used my Paper Piercing tool to punch a couple of holes so they'd look like buttons. This way the card is fairly flat and will mail easily.

The background looked a little bare and none of my embossing folders seemed quite right so I held a ruler on it and "stitched" the basting lines with my Sahara Sand Marker.

The Stitched Mats Rectangle (Lil Inkers) finished it off perfectly.

The Christmas tree stamp was made by Outlines Rubber Stamp Co. which is no longer in business.  I was lucky enough to see this for sale on another blog.  Yay, Monika! I finally used it!

Cuttlebug Mania
gets another visit with the Touchy Feely bit of buttons and twine.
I used my Big Shot for the star and the "stitching" around the edge.

Pixie's Snippet Playground

cuz I used some itty bitty snippets!

I hope you'll join us at Merry Monday this week.

Be sure to check out the rest of the Design Team cards.
They're sure to inspire you!

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Christmas Tree (Outlines Rubber Stamps)

Ink:  Gumball Green, SU Marker (Sahara Sand)

Paper:  Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Snippets

Other:  Stitched Mats Rectangles (Lil Inkers), 1/4" Circle Punch (Wal-mart), Paper Piercing Tool, Big Shot, Star Die (Verve), Linen Thread, Ruler (DH)