Wow. Making a card just for fun! What is that? :)

Today we have been just hanging out around the house - trying to recover from the festivities. Sadly, we aren't quite finished as some of the family on my side (who are 3 hours away) fell ill the morning we were supposed to drive to visit! Yikes. We've had to postpone until everyone is better. So, we were home today unexpectedly and took advantage of that by doing NOTHING. Seriously. We had some errands to run and didn't get out until 4pm. :D Of course, it was storming all morning, so that was part of our excuse.


I wanted to play along with the current Lawnscaping Challenge - once I saw it was still active for Christmas cards and I had received a new stamp in the mail from the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. :)






I paper pieced this cute little fox and adhered him on a card base I had sponged with MFT Blue Yonder ink over the Tim Holtz Fair Isle stencil. I had fun trimming all these little pieces from scrap papers and was much happier with the result than my original colored and hand-trimmed image.   (Boo) As I watched a documentary about the 1990's (thoroughly depressing after an hour or so of that!) I trimmed and glued and was happy as a little songbird.

I stamped the sentiment using Milo's ABC's and then added the twine and Peace, Love, & Joy sequins.

I'm also playing along with (CAS)E This Sketch and Less Is More "Homespun" challenge.




I hope everyone had a lovely holiday and are able to enjoy some much needed downtime.

Thanks SO much for stopping by to visit! I hope you will come again soon.

God Bless,
Mandy

I John 3:18  NKJV  (New King James Version)
     "... let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth." Pin It

Merry Christmas from our house to yours! I hope you are enjoying time with family, relaxing, and having fun.


I wanted to share again some of my favorite Christmas cards from this year --

God Bless,
Mandy


Galations 3:26  NKJV  (New King James Version)
    "So in Christ Jesus you are all  children of God through faith"








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I'm excited to be posting my first card created for my new Design Team assignment over at ABC Christmas Challenges! Since I've found this blog, I've loved to play along with the themes: Christmas cards all year long - with the challenge theme inspiration changing each week with the letters of the alphabet. I think it's a lot of fun.

This week the theme is Z - Zoo Animals and the sponsor is Bunny Zoe Crafts.

 

 

 

 

 
I've made my card using WPlus9's Party Animal set and MFT's Jingle All the Way stamp set (I love to combine sets when I can).






I added a pattern paper strip from Basic Grey's Juniper Berry 6x6 pad and a strip of Teal Shimmer Tape from CTMH. I sponged Blue Yonder ink over the Large Grid Stencil by MFT behind the die cut & colored images After adding the sentiment banner to ground the images, I added the sequins and tiny veneer heart.


I am also playing along with the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges - Christmas  , Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge - Die Crazy, and CASology's Merry challenge this week.

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit! Please do so again soon. :) And don't forget to pop over to ABC Christmas Challenges to join in the fun.

 

 

God Bless,

Mandy

 

Isaiah 40:5   NKJV  (New King James Version)

    "And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it together."

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Wow. Another week has gotten away from me. I'm sure everyone feels this way. The Piglets had half days at school every day but one, so that translated to very little productivity for me. Ha. It feels like it's been forever since I've posted, but it was just a few short days ago.

I wanted to share one more I made playing along with the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. Today is the last day! It's been fun to hop along with all the other coffee and card making addicts.

I used the Cup of Kindness free digi set from Verve Stamps. It's such cute images and, as a font junkie, it's got some yummy fonts. (Middle Sister would understand this. We have a font problem. We fully admit it.)

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This week is a beautiful color challenge:

I used my new Basic Grey Juniper Berry 6x6 pad, My Favorite Things Calm & Cozy Chevron 6x6 pad, and Lawn Fawn's Snow Day 6x6 pad to paper piece the trees from Paper Smooches Warm Hearts stamp set. The trees are gold embossed on the cardstock panel and then again on each patterned paper. I then trimmed out each tree and layered it over the set on the main panel. I used Prismacolor Pencils to color in the trunks of each tree. The sentiment, from Paper Smooches Christmas Sampler, is stamped in WPlus9 Coconut Husk.

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I'm doing a late post tonight. Not like me. Everyone's in bed and I'm usually right there with them. :) But, after a busy day, I thought I might enjoy sharing in some bloggy time with a few gift tags I made yesterday for my own gifts. I've been making personalized Christmas note cards and a dozen gift tags for gifts for all the Piglets teachers. The Princess was sick all this week, so I've totally procrastinated and not finished the last few tags I need so she can take in her gifts. The Sultan took his in last Monday. I was so proud of myself for sending them in early so they would have them in time to use before they wrapped gifts, etc. Now, I'm still behind the eight ball. I do it to myself all the time! You know what they say, "Procrastinators unite! (Tomorrow)".

These tags are going on some coffee mug gifts I'm planning to make my Dad and brother's-in-law. I had a fun idea for them and hope to get them made this week. Oy. I'm sensing a pattern here. I've already listed several things tonight I plan "to do" this week. And, The Piglets have short days at school Tuesday - Friday! Yikes.



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It's another week over at PDE Linky Party where it's always Anything Goes. ANY kind of crafty projects are welcome: home décor, crocheting, sewing, paper crafting. And since it's anything goes - no excuse for not playing along! Please come check out the fun each week and link up to share your crafty goodness.

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This is my second post of the day. To see my post for Addicted To Stamps Challenge #115, click here.

Hello!

I have some fun news - I'm joining the Design Team over at Christmas Card Challenges! I'm super excited. Christmas cards are my favorite to make and I don't seem get tired of them. I've enjoyed playing along with this challenge blog for quite some time and I'm thrilled to join in as an "official" member.

We're starting over with a new year of making cards for Christmas. Working on them all year long will help with the stress of Christmas holiday mayhem. I, for one, get myself in a pickle every year somehow, no matter how much I promise myself I won't let it happen again. :)

Here is the inspiration for our first challenge:



I played around again with my Birdie Brown Jingle All the Way stamp set.




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I'm super excited to say that I'm joining the sweet Design Team over at the Addicted to Stamps Challenge blog! I'm going to have the most fun playing along with everyone this term. :) Can't wait to get started.

And, with that, I'll share the card I made for my first DT assignment -- a Christmas challenge!

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