Let's Join the Party!

Unruly Paperarts in having a 12 Days of Christmas Link Up Party and this Santa card is one of my entries.  It is vintage-looking Santa from Gecko Galz  which I put on some striped designer cardstock I had stashed away.  I did not make the card completely vintage as I added some modern red flowers, some chipboard letters and a glittery tree.  Drop over to Unruly Paperarts and see all the entries.  You may want to enter also as it is loads of fun.

Christmas Pins

Here are two pins I made for my crafting group. Half of the group will get the poinsettia and half will get a snowman. I used six of the Gecko Galz snowman images for the snowman pins and the poinsettias are red, pink and white. I think my crafting group will feel a little more festive wearing a cute Christmas pin.

I am entering these into the Unruly Paperarts challenge. 12 Days of Christmas. 

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A Christmas Scene

Here is a Christmas Joy snow scene using a digital from Gecko Galz and a couple of dimensional stickers.  The snow was just some scrapbooking paper.

Second Week for a Digital Card

The challenge which is in its second week it to make a completely digital card.  Both the background and the image must be digital.  Here are a couple of ideas from the Design Team. 

Vicki

The beautiful digital Christmas plaid background is from Coosty Creations found on the Stitchey Bear Outlet. The children in the snow is a digital from Lunagirl.  It just happens she is having a challenge on Holiday Children.  As added trim I put a row of red flowers ribbon down the left side.  They resemble poinsettias.  .

 Hazel

This was produced digitally using the lovely poinsettia background paper kindly given by Stitchy Bear Coosty Creations, together with the sweet image and verse that I found for free download from Vintage Fangirl here.

 

Michele

For this tag I used digital background paper by Stitchy Bear designer Coosty Creations and in the corner is a digital stamp of poinsettias also by Coosty Creations.  The poinsettias were colored with colored pencils.  The Santa is a rubber stamp by 100 proof press. I outlined the poinsettia digital stamp and the rubber stamp with black pen.  To finish I added the "no peeking" sentiment, some green stars and ribbon (all from my stash).  I will add a "to" and "from" on the backside and attach this to a gift this Christmas!

Karla

For the second week of "Use a Digital Background and Images", I created another card that is 100% digital. The background papers are called Poinsettia and are by designer Coosty Creations of Stitchy Bear. The lovely image you see is an vintage postcard I found on Pinterest. All the others elements I used to adorn my card are from the internet. Have a magical week and keep playing along with us!

Barbara

For the second week of the challenge I used the same poinsettia image but made it larger and since I like pink poinsettias I coloured them pink, and fussy cut the image out. I also chose the green background digi and layered it on a scrap of shiny pink paper. I needed to add something to the right side so used some gold ribbon and then embossed the sentiment with versamark watermark and detail gold embossing powder

 

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Click on the banner above to go to the site of my sponsor of  this challenge.

 

 

Christmas Joy

Here is a card made for Gecko Galz challenge Christmas Joy.  Have you ever visited the Gecko Galz  Papercrafting Facebook page?    If you haven't, you must as there are loads of posts and challenges on it.  Here is a card I just posted.

Another Card for Thanksgiving

Here is a card using almost the same items as one previously posted,  but I made the card an easel card.  The image is from Lunagirl.  This is a nice card to set on the table.

Christmas Tag

I have made a number of Christmas Tag.  This  tag uses a cover on a throw-away food tray as the base of the tag.  The silver piece was perfect for a shiny background.  The blue is a piece of a Gelli print that I had made previously   The images are from Gecko Galz.  Two rows of silver ric-rack finished off the tag.

Thanksgiving Greetings

Here is wishing everyone a very pleasant Thanksgiving with family and friends.  This card was made for Lunagirl's "Children's Holidays".  My card is a gate card with the Lunagirl image attached to the left side of the "gate".  I think this image is so cute.

Challenge #100- "All Digital-Backgrounds and Images"

I can't believe that this is my 100th challenge.  Time has gone by so fast.  Since the trend is going toward more and more digital work, I decided to have an "All Digital" theme.  This means that all backgrounds and images/sentiments should be digital.  The Design Team would like to see your digital work.  Here is ours.

Vicki

My background is a from Coosty Creations on Stitchey Bear Outlet.  It was placed on a solid red mat on a white card.  The sentiment is also a digital from Stitchey Bear.  it was placed on a recycled top that came on a  food serving pan which was given to us this week when my husband came home from the hospital.  I made the poinsettia  from diecut pieces.  I send out a lot of sick cards to my church family so this is really an easy one to create quickly.

Michele

The beautiful background digital poinsettia paper is by designer Coosty Creations of Stitchy Bear. The lovely vintage images -- the girl and the birds are by Lunagirl.  The rest is simple, a border, hole reinforcement, ribbon and some distressing. I hope you will grab some digital backgrounds or images and play along with our challenge!

Karla

For the first week of "Use a Digital Background and Images", I created a card that is 100% digital.I used Gimp to make it. The beautiful background paper is called Poinsettia and it is by designer Coosty Creations of Stitchy Bear. All the others elements you see are from the internet. Have a magical week and keep playing along with us!

Hazel

This was produced digitally using the lovely poinsettia background paper kindly given by Stitchy Bear Coosty Creations, together with other digital images that were cropped and adjusted to mount on to the backing which was then faded at the edges.

Barbara

For week one I chose the poinsettia background paper and sized the image fairly small, although it was a challenge to colour. I didn't want to clutter the background up with ribbon, I thought simple showed the beautiful background paper.

Thanks again to Stitchey Bear Outlet for sponsoring this challenge.  Please click on the banner below and check out the site which has many digitals which I am sure you could use.



An InLinkz Link-up

Asian Card

Here is a card I made recently for Lunagirl, but didn't get to post as my husband was in the hospital at the time she had the challenge active.  I love the Asian/Geisha images from Lunagirl and this is one of my favorites.

Second Week of Challenge

The second week of "Here, Kitty, Kitty has begun.  I am afraid I personally have not created anything this time as I have been working with a  very sick husband who had back surgery this week.  I hope next week he will be better.  So, therefore; let's see what the other team members created this week.

Barbara 

I just loved the cute kitty images we received from Stitchy Bear/Barbara Jensen, I used the one for a Birthday card last week and decided this little guy needed a Santa Hat, and I had one from High Hopes stamps (Canadian company) I bought it 4 or 5 years ago and think I might have used it once. I fussy cut the hat and attached it to the image. The wreath is a brad, bought at my favourite little store in Delhi ON, they have the best brads. The sentiment is from a Stampin'up Christmas set. Patterned paper is from a DCWV Christmas and Winter diecut pad.

Michele

It doesn't take much for a cat to be happy -- if they are stretching or rolling around, or playing with their friends or chasing butterflies, whatever it is -- they are at peace.  These are good lessons for their human friends to learn.  I tried to capture that feline joy for this tag,  I used two digital kitty images from our challenge sponsor Stitchy Bear's designer Barbara Jensen.  I printed both on paper from the primavera paper line by itKuPiLLi.  The other background papers are random designer papers from my stash, as are the butterfly stickers.  The ecstasy stamp is from "marked by distinction."  I did additional decorating with my Molotow pens.

Karla

For the second week of Here Kitty, Kitty, I created a bookmark using a digital image from Stitchy Bear/ Barbara Jensen which I colored with watercolor pencils. I layered my kitty on a paper from a kit called Cute Cats and you can find it at Digitally Me.Then I added some flowers, ribbons and a sentiment from Becky's Scrap. Keep playing along with us and have a magical week!

 

Hazel

I've used Stitchy Bear's 'little tiggy tiger' kindly supplied by the challenge sponsor, coloured in copics and mounted on to an offcut of copper mirror card. The paw print ribbon and the computer printed sentiment were also mounted on to other snippets of copper mirror card and everything matted on to some animal print card that I've had for a long time ... just waiting for a 'tiggy tiger' to come along!

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A special thank you goes to Barbara Jensen on Stitchey Bear Outlet for sponsoring this challenge.

Lunagirl Challenge

The theme of  Lunagirl's challenge is this time around is "Asian Art and Ephemera.  If you have a chance go to the Lunagirl site and see the tedpieces of inspiration the Lunagirl Moonbeams have created for you.

My inspirational piece for the Lunagirl theme "Asian Art and Ephemera uses a piece of designer paper as a mat and behind the Geisha  I used part of a Cherry Lynn Design die.  To make the Lunagirl image standout, I cut a black mat to go under her.