A Merry Little Christmas

I'm BACK ... yup!   The Holiday MOJO is working now and my Christmas cards are coming together.   This is actually one for next year as I ordered a bulk package of the CTMH Pear & Partridge Paper to use.  It's SO Cute!  I really like the birds and the colors.  This card idea is from Patty [LaLatty Stamp N' Stuff].  The idea came from our SCS Blog Challenge Group to pick a card from someone's March Blog posts and CASE.  It worked perfectly for a holiday card and I love how it turned out.  The punch at the top is a $2.99 EK Success Find at TJ Maxx, woohoo! I'm sure I'll be back with more holiday cards to share as I've found several cute sketches this week I hope to try.  

Supplies:   CTMH Paper Pear & Partridge,  CTMH Stamps Pear & Partridge Holidays, CTMH Ink New England Ivy,  CTMH Holiday Assortment Buttons,  

Warmest Wishes

On the 9th Day of Christmas My True Love Gave to Me ... time to craft, LOL!   The Holiday Mojo was working well this weekend and I had a great time getting all of my Christmas Cards done.   There was some GREAT Inspiration Sketches out  as always!  

This card was inspired by the H2H Sketch Challege for this week.  It's been SO long since I've had the chance to play for some of the challenges it felt good to be back!  

Supplies:   CTMH Paper Mistletoe,  CTMH Stamps Perfect Fit Holidays, CTMH Ink Cocoa, Cranberry, CTMH Cocoa Stripped Ribbon, CTMH Holiday Button Assortment, CTMH Hemp, CTMH Sparkles Red

Ho, Ho, Ho!

I've been struggling these last few months to come up with a Christmas Card that I like and want to send.   I found one design and made 10 of those but I usually like to have 2-3 designs and usually send between 25-30 cards.    This year, I had begun to worry because I just couldn't seem to come up with an idea.  What I learned is that I'm a "holiday Christmas Card" Stamper!  LOL!   By that I mean,  once it hit Thanksgiving and my Holiday Mojo was working,  I seemed to find a lot more ideas I liked.   I finished up both my Mom and my Christmas cards and I'm pleased with both.   I just finished 12 of these and they'll be going out this week.    I also have more ideas for next year cards that I'll probably try to get done during this month so I'm good to go now that I know the "secret".   

This fun paper is CTMH 2011 Holiday paper Mistletoe.   I really miss the Creative Basics Packs they used to do with Ribbon but now this year they did a card Workshop on the Go which was similar.  The sentiment - Ho, Ho, Ho! - was cut from the CTMH Cricut Artiste.    More to come!  The sketch is from this week's MOJO Monday #270.  It's also for the H2H Challenge Week #3 of the Christmas Challenge. 

Supplies:   CTMH Paper Mistletoe,  Stamps:  CTMH I Believe,  Ink:  Cocoa,  CTMH Glitter Glitz 

A Walk in the Park

It was a Beautiful November Day and since it was 54 degrees it was just too nice of a day to not enjoy a great walk in the park. Our walk today inspired me for my card this week for the ABC Challenge. This week's challenge is to use Old Olive - Pumpkin Pie - Chocolate Chip. What GREAT colors for this time of year! If you're creating some holiday cards, be sure to join us at the challenge blog for some fun! I hope you have a wonderful holiday week! My card

uses CTMH similar colors - Olive - Sunset and Chocolate. This pretty new stamp is called Bountiful Season. I embossed the image with copper embossing powder. It has been awhile since I've got out the heat gun, that was fun! I'm also showing off my new Dark Chocolate striped ribbon.

Supplies: CTMH Paper Pear & Partridge, Sunset CS, Stamps Bountiful Season, Ink Versamark, Copper Embossing Powder, Dark Chocolate Striped Ribbon, Green Assortment Buttons, Brown Sparkles, SU Top Note Die

Holiday Magic

It's time for the annual "hunt for the P-E-R-F-E-C-T holiday card, LOL! Every year I make several different designs. I go through a process of "no...no....enhhh....maybe....no ... possibly ..... maybe...ok...yes!" It really is a process. Some years it's fun as there are several possibilities and some years it painful as one card after another, is put in the stash and the hunt goes on. It's all good though.

Here is another that's definitely a possibility. I do like this one and will make a few of these to send although I realize I don't have very many green buttons and that's one of my favorite parts of this card.  

This cute sketch was this weeks ABC Challenge Blog challenge for this week. I hope you will have some time to come and play! 

Supplies: All Close To My Heart (CTMH). Paper Mistletoe, Stamps Holiday Magic, Ink Cranberry, New England Ivy, Garden Green, Red Sparkles, Silver Stickles, Silver Ribbon

Meet Beans

I had a GREAT time on a visit to my DS who is off at College.  After they moved there,  they decided to get a pet hamster.   They named her "Beans".  She's a cute little Teddy Bear Hamster.   I used the  Friends that Scrap FTSSC #3 (page 1) to be inspired for this layout.   I used CTMH Olivia for some fun Fall colors for this layout.

Supplies:  Paper CTMH Olivia, CTMH Stamps "F",  CTMH Ink Pear, CTMH Button Assortments - Green,  CTMH Cricut Cart Art Philosophy

ohhhh Scary ...

I'm SO very happy to be back online Scrapping, Stamping and Chatting. My computer crashed just when I started college classes so not only did I stress over getting off to a good start for class, but it really put pressure on for being way behind for work. UGH! Fortuately for me, Tech Support was able to fix my computer and send it back to me. This is my first post for being back.

What better start than MOJO Monday #261. It's even PRIZE week so my fingers are crossed that after all that, maybe I'll win some fun stuff! Enjoy!

 Supplies: CTMH Moonlighting, CTMH Stamps Moonlighting, CTMH Ink Autumn Terracotta, Black, CTMH Black & Grey Sparkles