Hang in There

Happy Monday! Only 10 more days until Christmas! Maybe you're feeling like this little fella. lol

There's a new challenge at Love to Scrap called "When Nature Calls." (Feature something on your project that's found in nature-living or inanimate). The sponsor is Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet with a $10 gift certificate prize to the lucky winner!

I chose this image called Hang in There from Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet. Isn't he precious? The sentiment comes with the image. Bonus!

I colored him with Copics (W1,3,5,7, R01) and added a black pearl to his nose.
I dusted off Stretch your Imagination and Doodlecharms to cut the tree and leaves with my Cricut. The butterfly is a punch. The paper is from Paper Studio's Little Safari paper pack that I found on clearance at Hobby Lobby.

Thank you for looking and have a great day!

Last One

It's Friday! This is the last day of the Holiday Chaos Challenge at Catch the Bug. This has been a really fun challenge. I love using my Bugaboos. The theme for today is Clean and Simple. This image is called Marshmallow-Snowman-candycane. 

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!

Challenges:
Catch the Bug-Clean and Simple
CraftyCatz-Last Minute Christmas
Brown Sugar-Red, White, Green
Crafts4Eternity-Christmas

Christmas Critters

Hi! Today's challenge at Catch the Bug is Christmas Critters. This image is Little Penguin Winter-decorate the tree.   Such cute little penguins!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Challenges:

Catch the Bug-Christmas Critters

Holly Jolly Christmas-Anything Goes
Crafty Cardmakers-Snow
Love to Create-non-traditional colors
Artisitic Inspirations-Snow
Milk Coffee-Christmas with non-traditional colors

Humorous Challenge

Happy Wednesday! I'm still working on cards for Catch the Bug's Holiday Chaos Challenge. Today the challenge is to make a humorous card. This image is called CandyCane Critters-cow and is perfect for a funny card.  Look at that expression! She's colored with Prismas and I was in such a hurry to get the photo before it got too dark that I forgot to use the mineral spirits to blend the colors. I cropped off the side of the sentiment, too. It gets dark too early!!!!!!

Challenges:

Catch the Bug-Humorous Christmas Card

Tuesday Throwdown- Family Christmas

Crafter's Cafe- Christmas

Recipe Challenge

Hi!  I thought I was all done with my Christmas cards and then Catch the Bug  started their Holiday Chaos Challenge. Fun! This is Day 4 and it is a recipe challenge: 1 image, 2 of something, 3 of something else.

The image is AKV Winter-Sled + 2 googly eyes + 3 snowflakes.
I saw some cards posted at Catch the Bug with googly eyes and thought they looked so cute. She's colored with Prismas . I got a little heavy handed with the pink on her face. Poor baby looks chapped, but she's having fun. The snowflakes are Cuttlebug cut from a foam sheet. I love using foam for snowflakes. They cut beautifully, are thick,  and have an adhesive backing so they're really easy to stick down.

Thanks for looking. Have a great day!

Challenges:
Catch the Bug-Recipe Challenge
Crafts 4 Eternity-Winter
Brown Sugar-Winter
Artistic Inspirations- Anything Goes/Snow
Tuesday Throwdown-Family Christmas
Holly Jolly Christmas-Anything Goes

Color Challenge

It's Monday and time for Bugaboo's Day 3 of Holiday Chaos.It's a color challenge:

I used French Hen  and tried to get all the colors either in the paper or the coloring. 

Thank you for looking and have a great day!

Challenge:

Catch the Bug- Color Challenge

JJ-again

Happy Sunday!
It's Day 2 of the Bugaboo Holiday Chaos Challenge and it's a sketch challenge:

This image is JJ Christmas Cheer-Merry Christmas . She's colored with Copics. I love that Glossy Accents make her boots look like patent leather. 

Thanks for looking. Have a great day!

Challenge:

Catch the Bug-Sketch

Holiday Chaos

Hi! Hope you are having a good weekend.

Catch the Bug is having a challenge called Holiday Chaos. It's 7 days of challenges with lots and lots of prizes. The theme for Day 1 is "Sparkle and Shine".  I used JJ Christmas Cheer-Deck the Halls.
Nobody can rock the granny glasses like JJ. I'd love to have all of the JJ stamps!

She's colored with Prisma pencils and has glitter on her shoes and top, Rain Dots for the holly,  silver heat embossed barrettes, Glossy Accents on her lips, glasses, and the candy cane die cut. A sparkly snowflake, shiny ribbon, gems in the corner (one is crooked in pic, but fixed now) , and glitter paper makes this one sparkly and shiny. I think I got carried away!! lol

 The sketch is from the challenge at Sketch Saturday.

Thanks for looking. Have a great day!

Challenges:
Catch the Bug-Sparkle and Shine
Sketch Saturday- #339
Craftyhazelnut's-Bright Colors
A Gem of a Challenge-Anything Christmas
Little Miss Muffet- Anything Goes
CRAFT-Christmas
Penny's Paper-Crafty- Favorite Color (Red)

Bobblehead Elf

Hi! I had to pull out my Christmas stuff to make one more card using Bugaboo's Bobble head Elf. 
The sketch is from Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.

            

Thank you for looking. Have a great weekend!

I'd like to enter these challenges:

Holly Jolly Christmas-Christmas Elves

Penny's Paper-Crafty-Use your favorite color (RED)

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2-Sketch 36

Little Miss Muffet- Anything Goes (w/ Bugaboo image)

CRAFT-Christmas

Crafty Hazelnuts-Santa is on his Way

Polar Bear Hat

Happy Friday!  Christmas is only 3 weeks away.! 

I finally finished this little polar bear hat. I made all the pieces last winter, but couldn't make myself put it all together until this week. I made it using a free pattern from Repeat Crafter Me. She has tons of free crochet patterns on her site. Great directions and tutorials, too. 

Thanks for looking! Have a great weekend!!

Love to Scrap!

 December is finally here!

Besides Christmas I am also excited to be a new  DT member for the Love to Scrap! Challenges.

The rules are simple: Follow the theme, make something handmade with stamping, no back linking before the challenge date, 3 entries allowed per challenge, and you must link back and mention Love to Scrap. Simple!

The current challenge is called Shape Shift! Your project must be a shaped card.

I made an easel card using Eleanor and Pickles Lighting Fun  from Lacy Sunshine. Isn't she cute? and I love that frog! She's colored with Copics and I added Glossy Accents to her glasses, but it doesn't show in the photo. The pearls were white, but I read that they could be colored with Copics, too and it works! The tree and image border have Stickles added and I used a Wink of Stella pen on the light bulbs.  The snow on the fence is Snow Writer.

I hope that you'll check out the challenge at Love to Scrap!  and play along with us!
Have a great day! :)

I would like to enter these challenges:

Penny's Paper-Crafty-Anything Goes

Love to Create- Get In Shape

Brown Sugar- Anything Goes

Lacy Sunshine- North Pole