Day 7 The Shape of Christmas...

At Simply Betty Stamps, our challenge is to make a Christmas coffin! Sounds kind of funky, but actually, it was really quite fun! Here is where you can get the template for the coffin treat box! http://www.marthastewart.com/265416/coffin-treat-box
This is what I came up with! TFL!
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Simply Betty Stamps- Teen Scene- Christmas- "Mistletoe Couple"
Cricut Cartridge- Happy Hauntings -Banner, pg 47
                              Flower Shoppe, Poinsettia
                              Paper Doll Dress Up- Tree, pg 73

Day 6- La la la, la la la....

We are on day 6 at Simply Betty Stamps challenge, the Twelve days of Scary Christmas! I have to say, I was sooo excited to win day 5's entry! :) The prize is a never released digi of an image that won't be released until March of next year! Pretty amazing stuff Betty has coming out next year! You won't want to miss it!
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Here is Betty's version of Jingle Bells turned into Scary Bells:

Scary Bells

“Crashing through the night,

With a horrid mangling sound,

Clang each heart with fright,

To terrorize the town.

Bells from belfries ring,

Making spirits rise, 

The freaky tones like voices moan throughout the midnight skies!

Oh!

Scary Bells, Scary Bells

Ring your ghostly call

Oh what fun it is to scream and terrorize us all. Ah!

Scary bells, scary bells,

With your manic sound,

When you toll the spirits roll from six feet underground!

Scary Bells, Scary Bells

Ring your ghostly call

Oh what fun it is to scream and terrorize us all. Ah!

Scary bells, scary bells,

With your manic sound,

When you toll, the spirits roll from six feet underground!

 

 This the ingredients for this ornament! TFL!

Provo Craft- Divine Swirls embossing folder 

Spellbinders- Scalloped Circles 

Cricut Cartridge- Happy Hauntings

House, pg 36

Hand, pg 47

Grave 2, pg 63

Tree, pg 67 

T'was The Nightmare Before Christmas!

Over at Simply Betty Stamps, we are challenged to include, Skeleton heads, Monsters, or sweet little kids dreaming of such wonderful Horrors!  We are to give this Christmas poem that cute, but creepy SBS twist! 
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"T’was the Nightmare Before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was peaceful, not even a mouse.

The stockinga all hung by the  chimney with care,

When opened that morning would cause such a scare!

The children nestled and all snug in their beds

Would have nightmares of monsters and Skeleton Heads!"

Simply Betty Stamps- The Coquettes "Hamlet"
Spellbinders- Labels Eighteen
Cricut Cartridge- Joys of the Season
                              fireplace, pg 55
                              stockings, pg 54
                              tree 3, pg 64
Happy Hauntings- 
                              skeleton head, pg 39
                              frame 3, bats, pg 40
                              headless horsemen, pg 45
                              ghost, pg 47
I used a stair step fold to make this card! TFL! :)

My Sheri Crafts Challenge # 75- Let It Snow!

This week at My Sheri Crafts- create a card/project with snow on it (snowflakes, snowman, snowballs, snow-covered trees, etc) http://myshericrafts.blogspot.com/

I chose to make an easel card! I just fell in love with this Ready for the rain Rosie stamp! Even though it says rain, I felt like she looked like she could also be stomping around in the snow with snow boots on too! Isn't she such a cutey! :) I made this card for My daughter and her family for Christmas! They love the outdoors whether it is sunshine, or cold outside! It just seemed to fit them perfectly! TFL!
Scrapy Crafts- Stamp-ede- Ready for the rain Rosie stamp
 Stampabilities- Merry Christmas stamp
Winter Woodland cartridge-  Branch 1, pg 38
                                               Rabbit, pg 58
The Paper Studio- Wonder Snowflakes paper
Spellbinders Borderabilities- In Spades Border
Provo Craft- Divine Swirls embossing folder
Stickles- Crystal
Gel Pens, pearls, ribbon, and glitter for the trim of her outfit!

This is my favorite time of the year! I can't wait to see what you all come up with! Happy crafting! :)
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Day 4 Deck The Halls With...

 Betty at http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/ challenged us to, "Wreck your Halls with Spooky Garland, or Wreck your own Cards with Christmas/Halloween decor!  Anything goes, just make it Christmas Spooky"!
I decided to make this Haunted  House Christmasy for the Hall! 
I decided I don't have the patients to make one of these, lol! Takes a really long time and too many small pieces! Love how it turned out though! :) I hope you like it!!! :D

Happy Hauntings- Cartridge- Haunted House pg 73-99
                                                Grave 2- pg 63
                                                Ghost- pg 37
                         For the Hand- Frame 10- Layers 1 shift pg 47
                                               Skeleton- pg 29
Paper Dolls Dress Up- Costume, Mummy- pg 49
                                       Santa Hat- headwear, and Beard- accesories1 pg 72, and
Joys Of The Season- wreath 1- pg 66

Day 3 Wicked Wreaths!

Day 3 at Simply Betty -the challenge is all about wicked wreaths! I went wickedly cute, lol! I just love Betty's stamps and wanted to center one of her stamps in the center of my wreath!
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Simply Betty Stamps- Seasons Greetings Lola
Spellbinders- Scalloped Circles
Martha Stewart- Branch Punch
Dimensional Flower Punch
The Paper Studio- Cream Sheet Music
                             Vintage Green Omate
Andrea Victoria- Tan Polka Dot paper

Oh Christmas Tree!

Day two of 12 Days of Scary Christmas over at http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/! This challenge everyone is to create a scary Christmas tree of some sort! I have to say, I have been having way to much fun with all of this! Mixing Christmas and Halloween has been quite adventure for me, lol!

The Paper Studio- Merry Christmas on Black
                               B & W Intricate Swirls
                               Scrap paper
Spellbinders- Dahlia
Simply Betty Stamp- Miss Betty Burton
(The deer I just hand did)

Nightmare Before Christmas!

Over at http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/ they have a challenge where you have to make a Nightmare Before Christmas scene, song, quote, or anything really Christmas-ish! How fun is that!!! :) I decided on making a door hanger! Although, right now I have it hanging on a lacy curtain for the picture! I had to go online to hunt down an image of Jack Spellington! Anyway, I had a lot of fun making this project! TFL!
Happy Hauntings cart- Frame 3, pg 40
Spellbinder- scalloped circles, and labels 10
Paper Studio- wood grain embossing folder
Martha Steward- snowflakes
Christmas ribbon, white gel pen,and jingle bells! I used fishing line string to hook the bells on with!

My Sheri Crafts #74- Decorate for Christmas!

This is my FAVORITE time of the year! I love everything about Christmas!!! For the next two weeks at http://myshericrafts.blogspot.com/ it is all about decorating for Christmas! What is requested is that everyone create a Christmas ornament or decoration! I decided to make a Christmas window display look! I hope you like it!

The candied tree is a Styrofoam cone! I used T-pins to stick the life savers on with! Then I just added my ribbon bow, and wallah! Now my kids that are all grown up can actually eat the candy when they get a craving for life savers, lol! The 3D trees are from Winter Woodland- pg.73! I just embossed them with my Divine Swirls embossing folder!
My little treat box-
Paper Studio- Christmas Dotted Stripes (paper)
                        Jolly Holiday Scrapbook Kit
Spellbinders- Lacey Ovals
Cricut Lite- Jolly Holidays Tree 2, and Elf 2

Now it's your turn to show us what you made! I can't wait to see what you have created! :)
Hugs!
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Thank you!

My Son and DIL had a baby girl on Nov 21st! My grand baby was hospitalized because she had swallowed poop sometime while she was being born! It turned into an infection, and her respiratory rate was extremely fast! She had to have a UV light put on her because she ended up with jaundice due to lack of nourishment! Needless to say, baby Aurelia is doing real good now! She still has to be on the antibiotics for a few more days, but she was wheeled in to be with Mommy and Daddy today and is out of NICU! Praise Jesus!
Anyway, my dear DIL requested for me to make a thank you card for all the nurses, and doctors that helped make their stay at the hospital very pleasant, and helped make their baby girl well again! This is one of the cards I have made for her to hand out!

 

The one thing I love about this stamp is that on the snowman, if you look closely, it has the words,"to God's glory" stamped on it! I just love it! Here is what I used to make this card! TFL!

The Paper Studio- Soft Swirls- Green

Cream Sheet Music

Peony Flower- Spellbinder-Branch 2- MS punch

Quickutz- Flourish Frame

Paper Studio embossing folder- Wood Grain

Table Scatted- Red Snowflakes

My Sheri Crafts Challenge # 73! Be Thankful!

What a wonderful challenge we have going this week at  My Sheri Crafts!
This weeks theme is "Be Thankful"! There is so much to be thankful for!!!

I decided to make a middle stair step fold card! I just love making fold cards! It is one of my favorite things to do! The challenge is to make a Thanksgiving themed card, or something to do with thanks! What better way to represent Thanksgiving than with Pilgrims, turkey, and pumpkin pie!
I used DCWV -The Halloween and Fall Stack paper. I hand drawn and cut out the pumpkin. I also used my copic markers to color the Pilgrims in with! I hand stitched around the center, and inked the sides with my Tim Holtz inks! Thank you for coming and visiting my blog!!!!
Stampabilities- Pilgrim boy, and girl stamps.
Cricut Cartridge- Create a Critter- Turkey pg. 71
                              Paper Doll Dress Up- Pie pg. 63
Spellbinder-Lacey Ovals                    Pendant Lattice- I used the pop outs for the sides of the pie
Here is how to make a middle stair step card!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sfEcyuMFu0&playnext=1&list=PLCE34ECCD7CD64E29&index=33

I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!!! The challenge runs for two weeks! Happy Crafting!!!
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My Sheri Crafts Challenge # 72! All About Sports!

This week at My Sheri Crafts the theme is all about sports! I really had to sit and think about this one! Even though football is in season right now I just couldn't get inspired to make a football card! The weather is starting to change, not so hot here anymore in Texas, and that gave me an the idea to make a winter sports card! :)
This is what I came up with!

I used the pop up card fold to make this card! The first picture shows how it folds up to send to someone, and then you pull and it opens up to reveal the rest of the card! TFL
Cricut Cartridge- Everyday Paper Dolls- Winter Boy- pg 37
                             Winter Woodland- Snowflake 4- pg 35
                             Trees- pg 37
Provo Craft- Divine Swirls embossing folder
Paper Studio- Vintage Blue Snowflakes

I can't wait to see what all of you come up with the next few weeks at My Sheri Crafts! :)
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Warm Thoughts!

I am learning to play around with my copic markers! The hair seems to be the most difficult for me, but I keep plugging away at it!

I used the twisted easel fold to make this card! I think spellbinders are becoming one of my favorite things to use on a card! :) I just love them!!! A friend of mine sent me these papers so I am not sure where they came from? Some kind of a pack I am sure! TFL
I used the Whiff of Joy stamp
Spellbinders- Dahlia for the flower- Pendant Lattice, and Beaded Circles for the center, and Labels 10 for the bottom sentiment
MS punch- Branch 2
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My Sheri Crafts - The Great Pumpkin - Challenge #71

I am so excited to have been asked to come aboard My Sheri Crafts DT! It is a very happy day for me!!! :) Doing the Happy Dance!!!

This weeks theme is The Great Pumpkin. I decided to make an accordion fold for this card. I just love the little House Mouse playing dress up for Halloween. Thank you so much for stopping by!
Cricut Cartridges: 
Storybook for the BOO
Happy Hauntings - page 57 - Mouse 2
Paper Doll Dress Up - page 49 - Spider

I used the Paper Studio - Crock Texture - Cuttlebug embossing folder on the BOO
I used Paper Studio paper- Bats on Orange, and Boo! Beware!

Now it's your turn! The challenge runs for two weeks starting today, the 15th. Looking forward to seeing everyone's projects! Happy Crafting!!! :)
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Winnie the Pooh

My niece is pregnant and just found out she is having a boy! I am so happy for her! She absolutely loves Winnie the Pooh ever since she was a little girl! So... I just had to make her a Winnie the Pooh card! :)

This is a triangle shaped fold card. I of course used my Winnie the Pooh cart. :)
Owl, page 44, Hive page 60, 100 Acre wood sign page 56, and sleeping Pooh and moon on page 20.
I used my Back to basics pack of paper. TFL

Think Pink!

Over at My Sheri Crafts, this week is think pink for breast cancer awareness week. I used a center step fold to make this card. TFL! Here is the ingredients I used:
                  Paper- Paper Studio- B&W Intricate Swirls
                             Paper Studio- Pink Gothic Stripes
                  M S Monarch Butterfly Punch              
                  Dress- Spellbinder- Scalloped Circles
                             EK- Retro Flower Punch
                             Sizzix Sizzlits- Scribbles Swirls
                             Stampabilities- Bright Pink Ink Pad
                             Stampabilities- White Ink Pad
                 Pink Ribbon, White Ribbon, and White Pearls
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Beautiful Birthday!

Hmm, I must be on a trend not using my cricut, lol! I did like how this card turned out though! It is one of my favorite color combos! :) Anyone who really knows me is probably wondering (where's the red), hee, hee, hee!

Fall Harvest

I only used my cricut for the the thing the pumpkin sits on! I used my storybook cartridge for it! The pumpkin and the bird I made free hand! :)

Origami Christmas Tree

The minute I saw this Origami Christmas tree I just knew I had to make it!!! I love the layered look of it! There is a warm feel to this card which I love too! It looks so much better in real life! Youtube it! :)

Pop Up Halloween Card

Sorry the picture is a little dark! I used my Happy Haunting cart for this one!

You're In My Thoughts And Prayers!

I am so loving my new Dahlia spellbinder I just bought! I just has to make another card using it! :)

Sunflowers!

I saw something like this on youtube and just had to make it!  :) Hmm, no cricut on this one, but I did use my dahlia spellbinder, and a couple of punches for this card!

Halloween pop up Fold!

Ok, I loved this pop up fold cut so much that I wanted so badly to make a Halloween card, lol! I used Happy Haunting cart!

Christmas Fold Box!

Me and my fold cards, lol! Any time I see a new way to fold a card I just have to try it out!

It's A Boy!

I made this card for Peachy G. Lamb. She is on maternity leave from being a DT member at http://myshericrafts.blogspot.com/. She is due any day now, if she hasn't had the baby already!?!? I don't happen to own any baby cartridges so I made the onsie and bib by hand!

Guess Whoo???

I haven't been able to go on my blog  forever! I kept getting error 405 popping up every time I tried to sign in. :(  Anyway, I am back, lol! I scrap lifted this card idea from Joann Valderama over at Skipping Stones Design. I saw the card and just had to try and recreate it, lol!

Christmas Card!

I don't know if you can tell by this picture, but the center part is open, and you can see the inside of the card!

Give Thanks!

I wanted to make a fall-Thanksgiving card. i just love my Tilda stamps, and anytime I get the chance to use them I will! :)

Gobble, Gobble!

This here Tom the Turkey is from Create a Critter cart. He looks to well dressed to be eaten, lol!

Trick or Treat!

The mouse and spider are from Happy Haunting cart. I just love the little house mouse dressed in a Halloween costumes!

For my 3 year old grand daughter

Our three year old grand daughter reminds me of Boo on Monster's Inc! I thought this was perfect to make for her for her third birthday! I used The Best Of Pixar cartridge for her!

Just because

I made this card using one of RAQ's challenge sketches! It is a bright, cheery card! Usually they aren't all that easy to make for me for some reason! I kind of like how this one turned out!

Oh happy day! :)

I just love this little guy!
My son just surprised me and got me The Best Of Pixar cartridge just because he felt like it! I couldn't wait to use it! :)

Thank You

For a friend that went way far above and beyond! Here is a thank you card for her! No cricut on this one!

Birthday!

For my Grand Daughter's first birthday! :) I used create a critter for the cupcake, and used the joy fold cut to make the card!

Guy Card

Guy cards are usually hard to make! I made this card for my Dad for his birthday! The only cricut I used on this card is the center! I used stretch your Imagination!

Happy Easter

Here is a Easter stair step card I made! The bunny is from Winter Woodland cart! The duck is a die cut that I have!