Snowmen are fun, right?

I love this Hero Arts Snowman and die-cuts from the Hero Arts Holiday Sayings CL343 set.  There is so much you can do with this set.  Even the snowflakes are from the set.  Just torn paper for the snowy hills.  

I am entering this card in the Oozak challenge, Challenge#9 :: Anything Goes + Red.  Don't you love Oozak?  I do too.

And who couldn't enter the Crazy 4 Challenges?   Just create a card that features a snowman.  You should enter too.  The more the merrier!

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Santa got all torn up, but now he's dong much better

Not sure how vintage he looks, but I like the way this card turned out - like a card found all ripped up, but put on a newer background.  I am entering it into Our Creative Corner's challenge of Santa Claus is Coming!   The criteria is to do work in the vintage style, Santa Claus must be on it and add something red.  The Santa image is downloaded from the blog.  I colored the red with some Copic Toner Gray markers to make if feel more vintage to me.  Also grayed the white and cheeks.  I can't find washi tape around here, but got some craft tape from Michales, which worked out very well.  The red poinsettia strips and the music bars are craft tape.  I cut the base panel from a pad of K & Company Xmas paper I bought a year ago and the colors are just about an exact match for the music craft tape.  It looks like the music was stamped on the background.

Small T Creations is having a give-away

Tone is having a little giveaway on her blog! She won some goodies from Simon Says Stamp recently, including the Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Tall Forest Tree Die. She doesn't have a die cutting machine, so she is sharing the joy instead! :-) So this is what you can win:

Be sure to click on the graphic where you see the days and hours remaining in the raffle offer.

The winner will be announced on Thursday the 22nd of November.

CHNC and Just Some Lines Challenge s

There's always a challenge and I made a neat glitzy kind of masculine Christmas card for the CHNC Christmas card for a man or a boy.  .  I love my new Hero Arts stamps and matching die-cuts (Sizzix), so I grabbed one of my snowmen (have a bunch pre-cut and just grabbed handy stuff to make this card.  I had a leftover background (you can see the reindeer in the background and patched together a card from my table scraps.  I think it turned out to be lots of fun. I used Stickles Xmas Red and then a bit of Distress Stickles Barn Door.  A really nice combo on the scarf and berries on the hat.

Did you know the great gold covered die-cut behind the snow man is recycled gold wrapping paper that I saved and adhered to a recycled folder that had seen its use.  Happy days that Just Some Lines is also having a challenge to reduce, reuse and recycle.

Have fun!

Hero Arts & Target - This was Fun!

I do love the background on these cards and hope it comes out as layering paper or a digi paper.  And who knows, it may be out.

I used the wood block stamp as two separate stamps by using wonderful post-its to cover up the side I didn't want stamped after inking one of the words.  I always get at least part of the stamp inked, so post-its are my protection.   I  glitzed up the card with gems and a great little tree embellishment.  It turned out cute.

Hero Arts at Target? Yep

I checked with my local Target store and they only had two items from the Decorate It line for Target.  It's a small store, so I'll have to find a larger one to see more stock.  I did find one of the sets that I had really liked.  Isn't that a wonderful background?   The first card had to have a glittery red star, so my Red Stickles came out and I applied my Copic marker Lipstick Red (R29) to some of the clear gemstones in the set. I added some lace I purchased Saturday at Hobby Lobby.

On the second card, I turned the stars around and colored them with Copic marker Apricot (YR16) and placed a gemstone colored with the same Copic marker each star.  I like the size of the stamps which are perfect for this space.     Love the trees that come with this set.