Stempel Spass

For somebody like me, who loves color this is really hard.... I struggled.... but ultimately I liked the outcome: I used the Hero Arts Holiday Wishes,set for the sentiment. I used my favorite Memory Box die - Modern Landscape and a Sizzix Embossing Folder,  I added some Stickles, the sentiment is heat embossed in silver. And those are the challenges I'll put this card in: Less is More  - White Christmas Keep  it Simple  - All is white Christmas card challenges CHNC extra challenge   - anything Christmas And of course this card is going into the  Snippets Playground , since I used left over white card stock for the die cuts and sentiment. Thanks for visiting - hope to see you back soon! Have a great day!

The   52 CCT  challenge has metallic gold and red as requirement - there is only a couple of hours left, so this is going to be a very quick post.... The die cut, stamps and sentiment are all Hero Arts. I added some sequins. The metallic gold paper is from Paper Source. I am also linking this card with the  Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge .

As usual - kind of a t the last minute, I made a crad for the  CAS-ual Fridays challenge#83 , which this time has teamed up with Paulina's 10 minute craft dash . Since New Year is part of the holiday season, I thought this card is just right. The frog is from Sparkles and Sprinkles, the sentiment is Hera Arts. I clear embossed the frog - thinking that would make coloring easier. I used my Copic markers. I masked the "Y" from year, since the Martini glass has a perfect "Y"-shape. My husband however went: "Happy New EAR - what's that?" It took me exactly 9 minutes and 23 seconds to make this card. I also drew inspiration from the ever so clever Ardyth , who used a baby bottle to stand for the "i" in girl. I also submitted this card to the Less is More challenge - the theme is "drinks" and to the CASology #25 challenge  - the theme is "NEW".

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU! I wish all of my followers a very Merry Christmas. I am so honored, that you felt brave enough to become members on a brand new blog! Thank you so much. I appreciate your kind comments - they brighten my day. I hope you continue to like my blog. This card I made for good friends of ours, which somehow escaped my Holiday card list. Thank goodness for New Years - if you are late for Christmas, you can always send a New Years card............Of course I also linked it up with Ellen Hudson's give-away  All stamps are Hero Arts, heat embossed in white. (Dazzling Snowflake, Holiday Wishes). I mixed in a smidgen of Perfect Pearls, which give it a nice glimmer, put it does not come out on the Photo. I put a small gem in the center and some Stickles near the ends of the snowflake.

Finally done with my Christmas cards - time to move on to New Year cards. This one I made for the KIS challenge "Pelzig" , which means furry. The mouse is from stampabilities (Oh Happy Days), the "firework" is a chrysanthemum form Sparkles and Sprinkles and the sentiment is Hero Arts (Holiday Wishes). I colored the mouse with Copics and put Stickles on the firework.   I also linked this up with the Paperminutes Happy New Year challenge.

I made two cards this morning with that cute Santa gnome from Paper Source on a Paper Source envelope. I stamped them on white paper, colored them with Copics and fuzzy cut them. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. The patterned paper of the tree is from Michael's as is the star punch. On one card I put Stickles - can't decide which version I like better....          Here is a video from my son's performance last night at their school's talent show: ENJOY THE SHOW!!!

I recently got this cute snowman die cut set from Papertrey. This makes for quick cards, both with the positive and negative die cut. Here is an example with the negative die. I love how this pairs up with this beautiful Hero Arts sentiment from the large clear set - Holiday wishes I submitted this to the A Blog named Hero challenge #15 http://ablognamedhero.blogspot.co.nz/2012/11/challenge-15-ol-1-2-punch.htm