Another card...

This was another quick card I whipped up with some goodies that were on my table and the best part is that I used scraps!  I used the Crate Paper Snow Day line (the same as the cards from yesterday).  This one does work for the current CCAYR challenge as well!  Played with my new Spellbinders dies too that I got as a treat for myself for having lost over 40lbs now!  Of course, left the stamping until the end and it's not perfect, but neither am I am I'm OK with that and it!  hee hee

Merry Christmas to me too!  I was at Starbucks last night and they have all their new Christmas line in and since my fav drink is an iced one (*yes, even in the fall because I don't really like the taste of warm milk), I decided to get this for myself so that I don't have to recycle all the plastic cups!  Much happier with this!  Now if they would only make some the Christmas syrup flavours in sugar free, I'd be a happy camper!

Well, think that's about it for now.  Nathan is, thankfully, feeling better and bounced back pretty quickly after getting sick the once yesterday and a long nap on the sofa.  I need to go do a few things before going to work tonight. 

Looking forward to tomorrow as well!  Not working, but have my WW meeting in the morning and then taking Kyle to karate.  Going to meet a friend I haven't seen in ages for coffee around lunch and then I'm going to go take a Christmas card class at work rather than teaching it!  Should be a fun day!  Maybe I should suggest dinner out too for all of us... 

Anyway, better run for now!  Have a fabulous Friday!
Cheers,

What? How many days?

Yes folks, it's true! I saw this this morning and thought it had to be wrong. But, nope, it's me that's wrong! It really is only 51 days until Christmas. Now, I have to say that the kids do have their wish lists started already. As much as that's hard to believe, I imagine it'll really help Santa get ready!

So, I had a few minutes to putter here (and I do mean a few!), so I used some bits of paper and whipped up a couple more Christmas cards. Now, I'm afraid they don't work for the CCAYR challenge I posted yesterday, but they're cute. Used the Crate Paper Snow Day line and the chipboard snowflake on the right is from that set too. The one on the left is die cut chipboard on top with a punched snowflake under it.

And this is my poor little munchkin right now! Yes, that's a towel underneath him because he was already sick once and I'm not taking any chances. He said his side was hurting and then when I went to drop him at preschool, he said it hurt and he wanted to come home with me. Brought him home and he was uncomfortable and I could tell not feeling well. He actually fell asleep for a bit and then woke up and was complaining and then it happened! Poor little guy. Always feel so badly for them when they're like that because there's nothing you can do and they feel so awful. I think I jinxed myself though because this morning on Facebook, I posted about my quiet afternoon with the kids at school and Matthew napping! I hope this is it, but we'll just have to wait and see...

Well, better get going for now, but hope you're having a great week!
Cheers,

Christmas Cards All Year Round!

And, yes, it's that time again - another challenge for another month!  Are you ready for the next challenge?  In the month of November create 5 cards that have trees and ribbon.  Easy, right?! 

*Remember if you do 5 cards this month following the challenge, your name will go into a draw for a prize at the end of NOVEMBER! (this challenge CAN be combined with any other blog or forum challenges that you do this month.)

This month the RAK is another great stamp set!

Please upload your cards to your blog, a gallery, or photobucket and remember to give us the EXACT links to see them. You can do 5 of the same cards or 5 different ones (as long as they follow the current challenge) If you do 5 of the same, please show us a picture of them altogether. Thanks!

***Also, if at least 20 people create 5 cards, there will be a second winner!***

Can't wait and see what you create this month! Have fun!

Cheers,

Christmas Cards All Year Round!

October Challenge!

Hi Everyone! The countdown is on...Christmas is just 3 months away. I hope the inspiration at Christmas Cards All Year Round has helped you with all your wonderful Christmas cards.

The October challenge is going to be a card that has stitching (real or faux) and distress the card in some way....anyway you like.

*Remember if you do 5 cards this month following the challenge, your name will go into a draw for a prize at the end of OCTOBER! (this challenge CAN be combined with any other blog or forum challenges that you do this month.)

This month the RAK is another great stamp set!

Please upload your cards to your blog, a gallery, or photobucket and remember to give us the EXACT links to see them HERE. You can do 5 of the same cards or 5 different ones (as long as they follow the current challenge) If you do 5 of the same, please show us a picture of them altogether. Thanks!

***Also, if at least 20 people create 5 cards we'll pick a second winner!***

Can't wait and see what you create this month! Have fun!

Cheers,

Christmas Cards in August!

Yes, it's amazingly the first of August!  How that happened I have no idea!  Being the first of the month, that means another challenge over at CCAYR!

Here's our challenge for August.... Since many of us have had a lot of heat this summer, we're going to cool things down with SNOWFLAKES! Yes, as some of you guessed from the sneaks, your cards this month need to have snowflakes of some kind - in the paper, embellishments, stamping or whatever you like!

I pulled out some old Basic Grey Figgy Pudding and found this big snowflake sticker and that immediately created this image in my head!  The best part is I have everything I need to make another one too since it was a huge sticker I cut in half!

Check out the blog for all the other design team creations as well.  It's amazing to see how different all the cards are based on the same challenge!

*Remember if you do 5 cards this month following the challenge, your name will go into a draw for a prize at the end of AUGUST! (this challenge CAN be combined with any other blog or forum challenges that you do this month.)
This month the RAK is another great set from SU!


Please upload your cards to your blog, a gallery, or photobucket and remember to give us the EXACT links to see them. You can do 5 of the same cards or 5 different ones (as long as they follow the current challenge) If you do 5 of the same, please show us a picture of them altogether. Thanks!


YOU NEED TO LET US KNOW IN THIS POST WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE 5 CARDS IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE MONTHLY PRIZE.

Cheers,

CCAYR Design Team Intros!

Well, this is just a quick hi!  I've been soooo busy lately and haven't had too much time of my own to make many new cards (the above in from last Christmas!) though I have tons of ideas I'm working on.  Just popping to say hi since it's my day to be introduced on the CCAYR blog today because the design team has been introduced all week!

It's fun because I had a full class to teach on Saturday morning and it was Christmas cards! It was so popular that I'm running it again in August if you're local!  I'm having so much fun designing new cards for Christmas already with some of the new paper that's coming and there's a lot more on it's way! 

There may even be a little random giveaway drawn from any comments here as well, so feel free!  There's the giveaway on the CCAYR blog as well!

Cheers,

PS Will try to post some new crafty stuff and an update ASAP!

Christmas Cards All Year Round!

These cards are from a class I'm teaching this coming weekend!

OK, so I know it doesn't exactly feel like Christmas these days, but we're only 167 days away!  Things have changed a little this month at CCAYR and I'm helping out with the blog and keeping things up and running there for a bit now.  Lesley and I have just announced the new design team and are very excited about things to come! 

We'll being introducing a member of the team each day this week, so come back daily and check things out!

The challenge for this month is an easy one too... Anything goes!  You heard it... make any kind of Christmas cards you want!   We can't wait to see what everyone comes up with.


Leave a comment if you do our challenge! Please only enter NEW CARDS that are made in JULY.

*Remember if you do 5 cards this month following the challenge, your name will go into a draw for a prize at the end of JULY! (this challenge CAN be combined with any other blog or forum challenges that you do this month.)

This month the RAK is another great set from SU!  Plus Lesley'll throw in a couple other little goodies.

Please upload your cards to your blog, a gallery, or photobucket and remember to give us the EXACT links to see them. You can do 5 of the same cards or 5 different ones (as long as they follow the current challenge) If you do 5 of the same, please show us a picture of them altogether. Thanks!

YOU NEED TO LET US KNOW IN THIS POST WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE 5 CARDS IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE MONTHLY PRIZE.

We can't wait and see what you create this month! Have fun!
Cheers,

Christmas Cards in June!

OK, this is a little late, but I haven't had much time or ANY luck with Blogger lately when I do have a little time...

Here's our challenge for June....In honor of summer let's use at least one bright color on our card and a favorite embellishment.  The bright on this is the green, but it didn't photograph quite as brightly as it really is!  For my fav embellishment of late, I used some bling since I've been having fun using it on all kinds of cards!

Leave a comment if you do our challenge! Please only enter NEW CARDS that are made in JUNE.

*Remember if you do 5 cards this month following the challenge, your name will go into a draw for a prize at the end of JUNE! (this challenge CAN be combined with any other blog or forum challenges that you do this month.)

This month the RAK is another great set from SU!  Plus Deanne'll throw in a couple other little goodies.  :0)

Please upload your cards to your blog, a gallery, or photobucket and remember to give us the EXACT links to see them. You can do 5 of the same cards or 5 different ones (as long as they follow the current challenge) If you do 5 of the same, please show us a picture of them altogether. Thanks!

YOU NEED TO LET US KNOW IN THIS POST WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE 5 CARDS IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE MONTHLY PRIZE.

We can't wait and see what you create this month! Check out the link to see the inspiration from the other design team members!  Have fun!

Cheers,

Christmas Cards in May!

Yes, it's that time again...  At the beginning of every month, the new challenge gets posted at Christmas Cards All Year Round.  Here's our challenge for May -

Since April showers bring May flowers, let's use flowers on our cards this month along with ribbon(s) and button(s).

I forgot to post mine earlier, but here they are...
 

Leave a comment if you do our challenge! Please only enter NEW CARDS that are made in MAY.

*Remember if you do 5 cards this month following the challenge, your name will go into a draw for a prize at the end of MAY! (this challenge CAN be combined with any other blog or forum challenges that you do this month.)

Please upload your cards to your blog, a gallery, or photobucket and remember to give us the EXACT links to see them. You can do 5 of the same cards or 5 different ones (as long as they follow the current challenge) If you do 5 of the same, please show us a picture of them altogether. Thanks!

YOU NEED TO LET US KNOW IN THIS POST WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE 5 CARDS IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE MONTHLY PRIZE.

We can't wait and see what you create this month! Have fun!
Cheers,

Christmas Cards in April!

OK, so it's the first again and reveal day for the Christmas Cards All Year Round blog!  I so need to catch up on some blogging, but we'll start with this!  I can't tell you how wonderful it feels to be puttering with these throughout the year rather than doing them all at one time.  I feel ahead of myself in this department at least...

Here is the challenge for APRIL...

Since spring is here, make a Christmas card with at least ONE soft pastel color on it. (could be baby blue, soft pink, pale yellow or pale green).

This was a line of paper from Imaginisce that I HAD to have and then has never used, so it was fun to break into that!

This and the next two cards were done with papers from Basic Grey from this past season.  I added glitter to all of these - on the tree I popped up above, on the tops of the trees and houses in the card below and then all over the Slice Machine cut snowflake in the following card.

I used a light blue card base in this one and the one above as well for something a little different that my usual cream or white!

If you took my All Occasion Cards class in March, you'll recognize this design!  It was a quick one to do with some scraps!

Please upload your cards to your blog, a gallery, or photobucket and remember to give us the EXACT links to see them. You can do 5 of the same cards or 5 different ones (as long as they follow the current challenge).  If you do 5 of the same, please show us a picture of them altogether. Thanks!

YOU NEED TO LET US KNOW IN THIS POST WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE 5 CARDS IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE MONTHLY PRIZE.

We hope you enjoy creating Christmas cards this month! Tell your friends about our blog and have them join in on the fun too!

Happy April Fool's!!
Cheers,

Scrappy Goodness!

OK, so is it just me or are other people having this problem with loading pics.  It only wants to load in this orientation and no matter what I do, I can't flip it?!  Weird!

So, I have some gift certificates from work that I have been "saving" for all the new CHA product once it started rolling in and it certainly has been lately!  I finally got a few things last night.  Look at all that lovely new paper and I love the new Cuttlebog embossing folder with the stars - perfect for boys.  And, of course, the always practical refill for the adhesive I recently got.

Of course, I still have a stash of things at work I need to get and I know there's more coming.  The hard part is the picking and choosing.  Well, and then there's finding the time to actually use it which is a whole other story!

This was posted at the beginning of the month, but better late than never - the new challenge at the Christmas Cards All Year Round blog!  The challenge for the month of March is to use mostly green on your card and ...snowmen!

Leave a comment if you do our challenge! Please only enter NEW CARDS that are made in MARCH.

*Remember, if you do 5 cards this month following the challenge, your name will go into a draw for a prize at the end of MARCH! (this challenge CAN be combined with any other blog or forum challenges that you do this month.)

Please upload your cards to your blog, a gallery, or photobucket and remember to give us the EXACT links to see them. You can do 5 of the same cards or 5 different ones (as long as they follow the current challenge) If you do 5 of the same, please show us a picture of them altogether. Thanks!

YOU NEED TO LET US KNOW IN THIS POST WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE 5 CARDS IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE MONTHLY PRIZE.

We can't wait and see what you create this month! Have fun!
Cheers,

February Challenge for CCAYR!

OK, so today is the day for the new monthly challenge at the Christmas Cards All Year Round blog.  The challenge for this month is to create a Christmas card with at least three hearts on it since it's the month of love!  Here are the couple of cards I did for the challenge.

Leave a comment on THIS POST if you do our challenge! Please only enter NEW CARDS that are made in FEBRUARY.

*Remember, if you do 5 cards this month following the challenge, your name will go in a draw for the prize above at the end of FEBRUARY! (this challenge CAN be combined with any other blog or forum challenges that you do this month.)

Hope to see some of your cards!
Cheers,

New January CCAYR Challenge is Up!

This was a quick card I did as part of a card tag for WeScrap last month with the fabulous MME Colourful Christmas line of paper and accessories.

Some of you saw that I made the Christmas Cards All Year Round team last month, so I wanted to share that the first challenge of the new year is up!  I know you feel like the season just ended and you want a break, but if you do 5 cards this month - any cards - you'll be entered to win this...

Please upload your cards to your blog, a gallery, or Photobucket and remember to give the EXACT links to see them.You can do 5 of the same cards or 5 different ones (as long as they follow the current challenge) If you do 5 of the same, please show us a pic of them altogether. Thanks!

You need to let them know in THIS POST when you have completed the 5 cards to be eligible for the prize.  Good Luck!

Cheers,

I made the team!

Yes, I had posted earlier that I was applying for the design team for the Christmas Cards All Year Round Blog and I made the team!  You can check out the announcement HERE!  Congrats to everyone that I'll be working with!

Cheers,