Use it Tuesday #21 - For the Holidays

Hi folks,

As you can see by my left side banner, I was recently selected as a winner on the "Use it Tuesday" challenge blog and asked if I would like to play along with the today's posted challenge - For the holidays.

Well OF COURSE I wanted to play along! I'm still making Christmas cards and have come to realize that my stash of Christmas themed supplies is, well, growing rather diminishing. I must confess, when I set about to make this card, I found that I still have Christmas papers in my stash that I bought at LEAST four seasons ago - maybe even five!

Anyways, here's the card I made with a gorgeous collection of papers named "Mistletoe" from Close To My Heart. These are a little more recent - from 2010! I know, I know. I remember loving these papers so much that I had to buy the Level 2 paper pack, the matching Creative Basics set AND the workshop on the go kit. So.....ummmm, yeah, I have a LOT of these papers still in my stash.  I think I need to learn that just ONE paper pack goes a long way - never mind THREE!!!

Do you recognize Elf Oliver? Uh, huh. This is another of the images that I coloured up a while back except that I switched up his  hair colour for one of our other nephews. I have one more left to go! See, I'm even using up my stash of pre-coloured images!

Now, if you are like me and your stash is growing rather than shrinking, I would encourage you to play along with the Use it Tuesday Challenges. They are on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month and are a great way to tackle your stash!

card details:

• finished size: 6x6 inches on CTMH Chocolate card stock base
• patterned papers: CTMH Mistletoe (2010),
• stamped image: Elf Oliver from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps (Christmas 2010 release). Coloured with Copic Markers.
• stamped sentiment: Verve "Ornamental Christmas" (my first time cracking open this stamp set. It's new to me - bought it a few months back - but looking at the code on it I think it might have been released in 2008).
• layout: Sketch Saturday #185

additional challenges for this card:

• Heart 2 Heart Challenges: Virtual Holiday Card Exchange
• Paper Sundaes #99: Anything Christmas
• Cute Card Thursday #194: Anything Goes 

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you are all having a wonderful day!

Who's been naughty? Who's been nice?

Hi folks,

Well, I sat down a couple of nights ago to sort through my Christmas cards and decide who would be getting which card. And wouldn't you know it, I had not made enough "kiddo" type Christmas cards. So tonight I sat down to colour up some age appropriate boy images for a couple of our nephews.

I did get three images coloured but only finished one card. For this one, I used this week's sketch challenge over at Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps. I rotated the sketch though for my card in order to fit the two text panels.

card details:

• finished size: 6x6 inches
• stamped image: Elf Oliver from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps, coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E93, E30, E31, E35, C5, C7, C9, YG93, YG95, YG0000, R20, R21, 22, R24, R27, E99)
• stamped sentiment: CTMH Believe Workshop Stamp set
• patterned papers: CTMH Believe
• buttons from my stash
• Spellbinders: petite circles

additional challenges for this card:

• Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #140: Anything Christmas
• Tuesday Throwdown #76: Masculine Holiday Card
• Raise the Bar #86: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I'll be making the other two images I coloured (like this one) into cards sometime between now and Christmas so....you will be seeing them  here on the blogarooni at some point!

Thanks for stopping by!  Nighty Night to all!