Snowflake 2

 I realized after exchanging gifts with my daughter, I had forgotten to make her a handmade gift. So first I crocheted a cup of cocoa on Christmas Eve night, even added cotton ball marshmallows. It turned out larger than expected, so I went to the Quilling box on Christmas morning, since my hubby and I came up with our financially poor Christmas idea of “Gifts of Christmases Past” where we mess with gifts we received in the past and hadn’t touched in a while. His was a PS4 machine, mine was Quilling also known as Paper Filigree. 

I started on Snowflake #2 from the book, The Art of Paper Quilling. All was going nicely at this point, or so I thought. It ended up sticking to the cork work board, I had to chisel it off. I had little pieces of cork all attached to my beautiful Snowflake. Yeah, I screamed “Noooooo!” In agony. It was also a bit flimsy for sure after trying to get it off that cork. I grabbed a paint brush and some Mod Podge, it stiffened nicely. Then I painted over the cork with Liquitex Basic White paint. Added more Mod Podge where needed and tossed some glitter on that sucker to make it sparkle and  called it done!

I entered into the challenge at

http://intaas.blogspot.com/2022/01/ch-124-anything-but-card.html

Winner announced

I entered into the challenge at 

http://thepaperplayers.blogspot.com/2022/01/pp572-theme-challenge-from-ann.html

Winners announced

Entered the challenge at 

 https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/

Winner announced! 

Celebrate with any theme on Twisted Thursdays!

My card I am celebrating the December birthdays. I am  Using:

 #F 158 It's Your Day

&

Birthday Cake digi Stamps by this months TWISTED THURSDAYS sponsor

http://buyscribblesdesigns.blogspot.com/search/label/Free

Be sure to join the Twisted Thursdays challenges at 

Www,outlawzchallenges.ning.com

The winner was announced. I decided to enter my card in the challenge at

http://lemonshortbreadchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/12/challenge-161-anything-goes.html

Winner announced

Winner was announced. I also entered my card in the challenge at 

http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/

Winner announced. I entered my card in the challenge at

https://thepapershelter.blogspot.com/2021/12/christmas-break-challenge-anything-goes.html

I also entered my card in the challenges at 

https://alessandrasangels.blogspot.com/

Winner announced 

I entered the challenge which ends  Jan 6th, 2022 at

https://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com/2021/12/challenge-12-december-2021-anything.html?showComment=1641185471716#c5057302862507302049

Winners announced

New Years at Sunday’s Songs & Rhymes Challenge

 

I already had this little image stamped onto a card, so I cut it into an oval shape, dabbled a bit of ink around the edges. Colored with Copic markers. Embossed celebrate onto the front and embossed champagne glasses onto a die cut tag. Added two more tags, and some music notes. I also embossed the banner on the mint and the white pieces. Tied the tags together with a gold bow and dropped some sparkly sequins for confetti onto the page. 

The fun theme this week at Sundays Songs  and Rhymes has to do with the New Year so it inspired me to make a New Years themed card. 

Come join us at www.outlawzchallenges.ning.com

I also entered this card at 

http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/

I was chosen as a Top 3 Pick!

Black & White Event on Tuesdays Color Challenge

My second challenge on the Tuesdays Color Challenge team to promote another fun and inspirational 

Color Challenge 

At Outlawz Challenges

This weeks challenge is Black & White + one other color

 Our sponsor for December 

 

 Beccy's Place

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For my card I am using this image from the set called Precious Baby and my extra color is this shade of green. The design team have created some amazing creations this week you should come check them out! 

Come on over and Take It Easy on Tuesdays with us in the Tuesdays Color Challenge at 

www.outlawzchallenges.ning.com 

We hope to see you there! 

Winner Announced Jan 10th. I decided to enter this card in the challenges at

https://alessandrasangels.blogspot.com/2021/12/challenge-53-and-winner-of-challenge-52.html

The Winner was Announced. As well the challenges at 

https://beccyschallenges.blogspot.com/2021/12/december-challenge.html

Wednesdays Sketch Challenge at Outlawz!

 

Today I joined in the fun on Wednesdays at The Outlawz challenges! It is another great sketch challenge! I am trying to clean out my scrap bin, so I am using scraps I had, plus I had this image from Newtons Nook already colored from who knows when. 

 Sure hope to see you in some of the challenges at Outlawz Challenges!  

I decided I was not happy with my card. So I covered the area with a die cut stamped balloon.

 Much better now. 

The Winner was Announced. I decided to enter my card in the challenges at 

http://yourscrapbookplace.blogspot.com/2021/12/december-challenge-with-paper-shelter.html

 

Blog Candy!!

       

https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/12/creative-fingers-blogcandy.html

Be Mine…

 

Hello friends! 

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!

My husband and I came up with a tradition for these financially difficult Christmases. We call it “Gifts of Christmases Past”, that is where we play with gifts we received in the past when we were able to afford more to give than our love to one another. For him it was dusting off the PS4, for me it was Paper Filigree,  also known as Quilling. I made a Snowflake. It is drying but I will show you all very soon. 

Today I am here to share the card I made today. I had this flower embossed in my stash for years. I was waiting for the right card to use it on, I never had the right one, so I cut it up, corner punched the corner embossed designs and added them to a new card design using this cute image from Oddball Art Co by Lizzy Love. I probably had that large heart in my stash even longer, topped it with some cute heart stickers I received from a Pen Pal friend. The sentiment I bowed the paper out to lift it off the page more, punched the scalloped oval, and heart then using the insert from a box of Dove Chocolate I received for Valentines last year, I punched out the words to make a sentiment. 

Adorable digi image from Oddball Art Co. by Lizzy Love

Now I need to decide what challenges I would like to enter my card into. 

The Winner was Announced. I entered my card in the challenge at

And I also entered this card in the challenge on Festive Fridays at

Www.outlawzchallenges.ning.com

The Winner was Announced. How could I pass on entering my. Card at

https://thepapershelter.blogspot.com/2021/12/christmas-break-challenge-anything-goes.html

Crash Your Stash

 

I do hope you are having a very Merry Christmas! Today I want to tell you about Crashing  that stash and joining the challenge at www.outlawzchallenges.ning.com

My stash crash is of this die cut dirt bike rider. I made a card for a friend of my daughters using the dirt bike rider, and I had to use this part too, nothing can go wasted if you ask me. 

The Winner was Announced. I also entered this card in the challenge at

http://blog.dare2bartzy.com/tag/challenge/

Anything Goes on Mondays Greetings Challenge!

 

Hello again! Happy Christmas Eve!

 Today I am showcasing this little cutie from My Besties. I entered this card this week in the Monday Greetings challenge at www.outlawzChallenges.ning.com for their Anything Goes Challenge. I bought the design papers at a garage sale and couldn’t wait to use them, they came with the Bingo and party hat imagewhich is perfect or my birthday themed card. 

The Winner was Announced. I also entered this card in the challenge at

http://bestieschallenge.blogspot.com/2021/12/december-challenge.html

Freebie Progressive Challenges at Outlawz!

Hello there! I do hope if you like to make scrapbooks, or dabble in paper crafts that you will come join us at The Outlawz Challenges! We are a wonderful dedicated crafting community. Now to my card. I whipped up another card using this months freebie image from MMedell Illustrations. 

 The music paper is from Decosse’s Dynamite Doodles. 

This card I entered into the Freebie Progressive Challenge at www.outlawzchallenges.ning.com

 

The Winner was Announced on January 3rd. I entered this card in the challenge at 

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2021/12/frantic-stamper-in-december-could.html

Day 1 Festive Fridays at Outlawz Challenges

 Hello friends and followers. It is such a busy time of year but I have managed to get some crafting done and this week I am showcasing this adorable image I received from the Kit And Clowder Advent Calendar Giveaway. Isn’t she cute! She is from All Dressed Up! 

https://www.kitandclowder.com/

I decided to enter this card in the Festive Fridays Challenge at

  www.outlawzchallenges.ning.com

The Winner was Announced. I made Top 3!  I entered the card in the challenges at

https://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com/