Thursday, October 25, 2018

Ho Ho Ho Keeping Christmas

October 25, 2018

WOW!  Only 2 months until Christmas!  Time to get started on your stash!

I am honored to be a part of the Keeping Christmas Inspiration Blog Hop.  


It's time for this month's installment of Keeping Christmas with The Challenge Design Team!  We will be sharing Christmas creations on the 25th of each month!!!

The whole idea is to have some Christmas cards and projects in our stash ready to go for December 2018!

So hop along and be sure to visit each blog. 
There is a lot of inspiration and ideas to get your creative juices flowing!

Kelly Lunceford
Lesley Croghan (off this month)


I had a lot of fun creating these four cards.  

My base cards are all a shade of green.  The paper was in my stash, so I am not sure what the correct color is.  I cut four white backgrounds using the Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die.  


  
Next, I used white paper and sponged Cracked Pistachio, Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry, and Salty Ocean 
Distress Oxide inks on four different pieces.  I used the Ho Ho Ho Die from My Favorite Things and cut the words out of each color of distressed paper.  



I mixed the colors to create the cards.  This was a super quick way to make four fun cards!.

 I hope these make your smile! 

Thanks for stopping by!  Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts.  I love to hear from you!

The hop is hosted by the fabulous Kelly Lunceford's blog, so head over there to start from the beginning.

ENJOY the blog hop!  I hope we inspired you to make a few cards, too!

HUGS!
Claire
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Sunday, October 21, 2018

Witch Way To The Candy? SS190

October 21, 2018

 It's time for a new challenge at Sunday Stamps!!

 We have a fabulous sketch for all of you!  This sketch is perfect for any type of card.  We can't wait to see your creations! 



Challenge Guidelines
  • Feel free to use any brand of product you have. 
  • Please Link up a new project created for this challenge (no back links). 
  • Feel free to combine our challenge with up to FOUR other challenges.
  • We reserve the right to delete any links that do not adhere to challenge rules.
  • Please provide a link to us or use the graphic above in your post. 
  • Have Fun!!!
                     The Challenge will end Friday, November 2nd 2 6 p.m. EST

My card is created on a black card base.  I added a layer of Lemon Lime card stock.  I found this cat DSP in my stash for the next layer.  The black rectangle is embossed with a bat embossing folder for texture.  I used rectangle stitched dies to cut a frame out of the lemon lime card stock.  The little cat is from the Simon Says Stamp Frightful Fun stamp set.  I stamped the image with Memento black ink and fussy cut it for my card.  I colored the image with Copic Markers and added Wink of Stella for shine.  A few grey enamel dots were added for fun! 


Don't forget to check out all the amazing projects from the Design Team.  

  Sunday Stamps Design Team
Claire Broadwater (me)
Teresa Kline (taking a break)

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!  Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!
HUGS!
Claire


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How Do You Like Them Apples? PP415

October 21, 2018

 It's Sunday and time for a new challenge at The Paper Players!

 Our amazing Joanne is the hostess this week and she has a fantastic Clean and Simple Challenge for all of us!  She wants us to use apples!  Fall is the perfect season for apples, so we can't wait to see what you create!  Just remember it is a CAS week!


I have hundreds of stamps, but can you believe this is the only apple stamp I could find!  I have always loved this stamp set be SugarPea Designs.  The A Bushel & A Peck set is still available and on sale right now!  You can change out the items in the basket for different occasions, too!  This little girl makes me smile.  I stamped her with Memento Black ink and colored her with Copic Markers.  I fussy cut her for my card.  The little sign stamp is in this set and the fun sentiment, too.  I thought this would be perfect  to thank one of my grands teachers!  I struggle with CAS, so I hope Joanne will think I am clean and simple with my patterned papers and white space.  I found these patterns in a pack of school papers in my stash. I did not add any embellishments.  That is such a challenge for me!  LOL!  I added a lemon lime circle cut with the Zig Zag  circle stitched die from SugarPea Designs.  Wink of Stella was added for shine.  I also added some details on the apples and her teeth with a white gel pen.  


Looking for some inspiration?  Make sure you check out all the blogs of the Design Team Members.

 Create a NEW paper, or digital, project.

                                                
Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us. 
  1. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
  2. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL.  Entries linked to more than 3 challenges, including ours, will be deleted without notification!
  3. Have fun!

All stamping products are welcome.  Thank you for joining us at The Paper Players!
Thanks for stopping by my blog today!  Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!

HUGS!
Claire


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