A2Z Pop i Up Challenge for December

Hi there, I'm making some cards as gifts and lots of people are into coffee.  I thought I'd add some macarons to go with the coffee.  Help yourself.

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Please join us in this months "Make it Pop" challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp AND, if you used Hero Arts, a $20 gift card to our Hero Arts store. Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month

The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. If you're looking for a Hero Arts product you don't see in store, use the Request Custom Order button from with-in the shop.

Supplies:

• Hero Arts digital kit Caffeine Fix at A2Z Scrapbooking.
• Hero Arts Spiral Stencil at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Elizabeth Craft Designs dies - Macarons
• Yum stamp is unidentified,
• Vagabond die cut machine

Lots of BRRRRRR

Check out the Die Cut Divas blog for December's challenge.

Looking at my card, can you guess?  It's BRRRRr Winter time in the U.S. and lots of places are turning cold or are COLD.  I can see snow across the valley to the mountains after it snows.  That's close enough for me.  I can go see the snow when I want, play in the snow when I want, and have a jolly good time in the snow when I want.  It doesn't have to get up close and personal all the time. 

Check out the December 1st post for sponsor and challenge.

Close-up

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs Sprig with Berries at Dies R Us  (unfortunately mispelled as Prig with Berries

Elizabeth Craft Designs Brrrrr at Dies R Us  (cut twice and layered)

Elizabeth Craft Design Stitched Rectangles at Dies R Us
Graduated colored panel is from a 12" X 12" paper pad from Michaels 3 years ago
Nuvo Crystal Drops in Berry Red and Woodland Green
Sprig is cut from a metallic green paper from my scraps
Vagabond die cut machine

Die Cut Divas' November Thankfulness Month

Time for a new challenge and non other than A2Z Scrapbooking is the Die Cut Divas' sponsor. 

The A2Z Scrapbooking store<carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags and more. Proceeds from the A2Z Scrapbooking store benefit Celiac and Behcets disease foundations.   If you’re looking for a Hero Arts product you don't see in store, use the Request Custom Order button from with-in the shop.

Here is my last card for the challenge of Thankfulness,   I used the digital Holiday Houses  for my Thank You card.  I took liberties with bluebirds in the winter.   I used a blue card base and built snow mounds with a die-cut.  I guess Santa is late in delivering packages or else he's late getting home.

I am loving those Nuvo Crystal Drops, used white (Simply White) on the roof and chimney top with a drop of Red Berry on the door knob. If you look closely, I hope you can see the Wink of Stella on the top and bottom mounds of snow panels.  On the bottom panel I used the White Wink of Stella and then the Clear.  I used only Clear Wink of Stella on the top mound and the windows.  

Supplies:

Please check out Die Cut Divas to see all the Divas' cards.

Hero Arts Holiday Houses Digital Kit at A2Z Scrapbooking

Hero Arts Santa's Sleigh - out of stock

Nuvo Crystal Drops Red Berry and Simply White  (looks like White is sold out at this time at A2Z)

Elizabeth Craft Designs Beach Edges (to me they looked like mountains)

Memory Box Marshmallow Clouds

Memory Box Flying Birds (2013)

wink of Stella (white and clear)

Vagabond die cut machine

Hero Arts Holiday Houses and Tree-Mendous trees

Getting ready for Christmas?  I am and I have to think of different ways to give gift cards to some of the people on my list, such as my sons and granddaughter.    I have used the Elizabeth Craft Designs die cut sled die with Hero Arts Tree-Mendous and Holiday Houses digital kits for some really cute cards, in my opinion.

Join in on the Winter challenge at A2Z Scrapbooking.  I have several photos of the cards I worked on for my kids.

I used a 12: X 12" pattern paper for the card (not very flashy, but the inside is where the card shines.

This is the inside of two of the four cards I made.  The blue pool reminds me of  southern California in the winter, when it's still a bit chilly for us northern Californians to frequent out pools, though I did swim in an outdoor pool here in Sacramento at American River College (nice and heated).  A lane leads up to the door and a Ho Ho Ho sentiment with a place for a note finishes the inside off. .I just love using that Nuvo Crystal Drops white (I'm using the Simply White and I see the A2Z Scrapbooking store has sold out of their white Nuvo. at the moment.  The bottles go a long way.

Inside of two of the four houses I made .

Close-up of the blue house and blue inspired Tree-Mendous tree.

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 Hope you’ll join in our monthly challenge so you can have a shot at the digital stamp of the month set. Remember you no longer have to use Hero Arts to participate in our monthly challenges, the winner is randomly drawn for the digi prize…and if you do use Hero Arts products on your project, you could win the digi set AND $20 to the store! The Design Team will also be choosing their top three favorite projects from the challenge each month and award them a cool TOP 3 blog badge.



The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. If you're looking for a Hero Arts product you don't see in store, use the Request Custom Order button from with-in the shop.

• Hero Arts digital kit Holiday Houses
• Hero Arts digital kit Tree-Mendous
• Various Copic markers (windows of houses is Y08) 
• Elizabeth Craft Designs Sleigh Gift Card Holder Pop-up (used because it is a die made for a gift card):
• Elizabeth Craft Designs Labels & Circles (label and pool on inside of card)
• Vagabond Die Cut Machine

Card Chain Challenge time

I sent my CCC card to Helen in Ohio and she has received it.  I had fun with a  Tim Holtz stamp and matching die set.I have always loved these birds and I finally purchased the stamp and the die set.  I just have not had the time to stamp and cut them, before this month.  It really was so much fun. 

I colored and cut several cut items on this bird.  The wing is a separate die cut and the eyes/beak is a separate die cut piece, cutting one eye and an eye and beak together.  It's pretty darn cool.

I used some of the Elizabeth Craft Design "Through the Lens" papers because they are so cool too.

Supplies:

• Tim Holtz Crazy Birds (stamps and dies)
• Elizabeth Craft Designs Through the Lens (Metal)
• copic markers 
• Vagabond die cut machine
• Nuvo Crystal Drops (Midnight Blue and Ripened Pumpkin.

Seasons' Greetings with a Modern Tree-Mendous Feel

I think everyone is getting ready for the holidays and I'm no different.  I wanted a slightly modern twist so I used the Tree-Mendous digital kit from A2Z Scrapbooking.   

Without further ado:

Very simply done, but I like the angular lines on the background and the trees.

This close-up shows the simplicity and colors I used.

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Hope you’ll join in our monthly challenge so you can have a shot at the digital stamp of the month set. Remember you no longer have to use Hero Arts to participate in our monthly challenges, the winner is randomly drawn for the digi prize…and if you do use Hero Arts products on your project, you could win the digi set AND $20 to the store! The Design Team will also be choosing their top three favorite projects from the challenge each month and award them a cool TOP 3 blog badge.



 The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations.

Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. If you're looking for a Hero Arts product you don't see in store, use the Request Custom Order button from with-in the shop.

• Supplies:
• Hero Arts Tree-Mendous digital kit at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Nuvo Woodland Green Gloss Crystal Drops at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Nuvo Red Berry Gloss Crystal Drops at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Elizabeth Craft Designs Stripes stencil
• Distress Oxide Cracked Pistachio
• Stamp is from an old Hero Arts stamp, but any Hero Arts holiday stamp would work like the Holliday Animals set here

A2Z Winter Challenge - Holidays

Be sure to visit A2Z Scrapbooking to enter the monthly challenge for November.

With digital images, you can enlarge or decrease the size according to your need.  I printed two houses and adjusted the size of one to a bit larger size.  I'm happy with both of them.  These cards were super easy to make because the background is part of a paper pad with varying shades of colors.  I bought two pads a couple of years ago because I knew I would want more than one paper pad.  That is so true.   I really enjoyed making a couple of scenes with the houses.

Don't you love the icy snow?

My second card has a wonderful sky and some snowy ground with icy snow on the roof.

I used a smaller sized sentiment with the larger house and a different color in the windows.

My cards are at A2Z Scrapbooking here.

Are you on social media? We are! Please join us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook? so you don't miss any fun promotions or new challenge announcements!







Hope you’ll join in our monthly challenge so you can have a shot at the digital stamp of the month set. Remember you no longer have to use Hero Arts to participate in our monthly challenges, the winner is randomly drawn for the digi prize…and if you do use Hero Arts products on your project, you could win the digi set AND $20 to the store! The Design Team will also be choosing their top three favorite projects from the challenge each month and award them a cool TOP 3 blog badge.




The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. If you're looking for a Hero Arts product you don't see in store, use the Request Custom Order button from with-in the shop.


 Supplies:

• Hero Arts Holiday Houses
• Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles  (Hero Arts has the Postage Stamp infinity dies)
• Nuvo Crystal Drops Simply White (A2Z has Nuvo Crystal Drops in the store)
• Hero Arts sentiment (wood block out of stock for a couple years)
• Copic markers in yellow and on orange yellow
• Vagabond die cut machine