My new Altenew Build A Flower: Poinsettia has been patiently awaiting my attention. Today we were blessed with our first snowfall here in New Jersey (Northeastern US). So lovely to have snow when everything is decorated for Christmas. I spent much of the day in my craft room and I finally broke out the poinsettia. I inked it twice in reds then greens. I put it together with a bit of gold glitter paper, a stencil-embossed background and a piece of patterned paper using Freshly Made Sketches #316 for my layout, and this card was born. 

FMS #316

I am also playing at:

SSC167 - Winter Warmth

MCV90 - Any holiday card.

December CAS Mix Up

Stamping + dry embossing with stencil and die cutting. 

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies Challenge is up and running. I decided to take a break from Christmas with this card that I created for my son't 18th birthday. He is a big sushi lover, as am I, hence the theme. The sentiment inside is "I hope you have sushi great day!" printed from my computer.

The winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

Please head over the the Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies Challenge and see what the wonderful Design Team has created for your inspiration.  Get your creative juices flowing nad make something to share in the gallery!

Time Out #98 Home Sweet Home Challenge is up and running. The inspiration is below.

 

I went with a very simple design done with dry and heat embossing. Image and sentiment are done with Stamp Simply Oh Christmas Tree Stamp Set.

Uniko is our sponsor for this challenge. The winner will receive a $15.00 voucher to spend in the Uniko Shop.

Guest Designer for both the challenge and reminder posts is Sarah Gray of Funky Fossil Designs. Sarah has a wonderful style that is sure to spark your imagination, so please do yourself a favor and visit her blog.

Please hop on over to the Time Out Challenge Blog and see what the awesome Design Team has created for your inspiration. Get your craft on and create a card to link up and play along with us at Time Out Challenges.

I'm also playing at:

Less Is More #357 - Red & Green

Double D Challenges - Red and white with an optional pop of green.

CAS Colours & Sketches - Christmas Colors

Muse: ChristmasVisions 90 

ANY holiday card can be linked up.

The Male Room #75

CAS Colours & Sketches #251

Muse: Christmas Visions #90 - Anything Goes

SimonSaysStamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Jingle Belles - Baby It's Gold (Or Silver Or Copper) Outside

CAS(E) this sketch #249

Christmas Card Throwdown #23 - Pick A Previous Challenge From 2012 or 2013

I chose CCCT23 - February 2012 Colors: Red, Green & Gold

It's Thanksgiving weekend here in the US. It is by far my most favorite holiday - all about gratitude and sharing and taking time out to breathe and enjoy. I'm sneaking in with one more autumn themed card before the onslaught of "all Christmas all the time". I did a watercolor wash with autumn colors, added some splatters and stamped this wonderful image from Stampendous Pen Patterned Leaves embossed in gold. The sentiment is from So Suzy. I love the way it turned out.

I'm playing at:

City Crafter Challenge Week 389

Cards In Envy - It's Only Paper

There's a new Inspired By Words challenge up at Time Out Challenges with a theme of gratitude. 

Tag You're It #77 Cgallenge

I was digging deep into the black hole of my stash today, and I ran across this wonderful SU background stamp that I have had forever... then I found this wonderful stamp set (Subway Series Holidays) from Fresh Squeezed Stamps which is sadly no longer in business. I looked at some challenges for inspiration, put them all together, and this is what happened! 

Merry Monday #264

Kraft and Red

Time Out Challenge #96 is up and running. The challenge is to CASE this gorgeous card created by Michele Ferguson of I Card Everyone.

I decided to use the layout of Michele's card with ink blending and the sentiment on the diagonal. I  changed the theme to Christmas, and stamped my sentiment rather than die dutting and stacking it. Some time ago, one of my dear Time Out teammates, Jill Vickers, gifted me this adorable MFT stamp set called BB Beast Friends. I decided it was high time to pull it out and go to work on my creation. I stamped 3 of the beasts on Nenah Solar White card stock, colored them with Copics, and arranged them on the masked, DOX-inked background. Since the little guy holding the present had his head tilted, I set the one with the cuppa a little off to the left on top of him. I hope he doesn't fall off!!! LOL. I stamped the punny sentiment on the diagonal, and mounted the white panel on Gina K Red Velvet base layering card stock.

Happy Little Stampers is sponsoring this challenge. Challenge winner will receive a $15.00 gift voucher to spend in the Happy Little Stampers Store.

Please hop on over to the Time Out Challenges Blog and see what Michele and the DT have created for your inspiration. How does Michele's card inspire you? I am looking forward to finding out.