Seasons Greetings

So I woke up this morning and my first thought was "it's only Wednesday?"  The past couple of weeks have been absolute whirlwinds as I prepare for three different Annual Membership and three different budget approval meetings.   You see by day I am a Community Association Manager and while I absolutely love my work, it is exhausting.  And that's one reason why I love my crafting, exercising and obstacle course racing so much.  It allows me to unwind and just chill out.

 

So today I thought I'd share a card I made for my favorite holiday - Christmas.  Christmas has always been magical for me.  I love celebrating the birth of Christ, being with family and friends, giving gifts, creating all the fun craft projects, and decorating.

 

For today's card I used one of the penguins from the Holiday Penguins file by Marjorie Ann Designs.  On the large ornament I used a snowflake rhinestone sticker I had in my stash.  I love the added bling it brings to the card.

 

For my sentiment I used a variety of stamps.  On the outside of my card I used Simply Christmas from Craftin Desert Divas.

 

On the inside of my card I used the stars from the Christ is Born stamp set from Jaded Blossom.  The sentiment itself is from the Merry & Bright stamp set from My Craft Spot. 

 

And now I'm off to enter my card into the following challenges:

 

Hiding in My Craft Room - Super Scraps Saturday -  Ends October 17th

 

DL Art - October Linky Challenge - Ends October 31st

Autumn Greetings

Can you believe it's the beginning of another week?  I don't know about you but my weekends seem to just fly by anymore.  And how about the fact that we are just 10 weeks (and a couple days) away from Christmas and 6 weeks from Thanksgiving?

 

Speaking of Thanksgiving I have a fun card that I'd like to share with you today.  I created my card using this hoot-iful turkey from the Thanksgiving Hoots file from Marjorie Ann Designs. 

 

My sentiment is from the Hey Pumpkin stamp set from Craftin Desert Divas.

 

And now I'm off to enter my card into the following challenges:

 

Hiding in My Craft Room - Super Scraps Saturday -  Ends October 17th

 

DL Art - October Linky Challenge - Ends October 31st

Cha Cha Cha

Today I have a fun Poopeez card to share with you.  This guy is called cha cha cha.  Just look at his smile that screams fun and his maracas inviting you in for a fun dance.  Now how could you not love this guy?

 

My stamped sentiment is from Jaded Blossom's stamp set titled Mexican Food.  Come on now, how perfect is that?  LOL

 

And now I'm off to enter my card into the following challenges:

 

Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes - Ends October 9th

 

DL Art - October Linky Challenge - Ends October 31st

Hoo - Vamp

I have another fun, quick and easy card to share today.

 

For today's card I used another one of the owls from the Halloween Hoots set.  This time I chose the vampire owl.  These owls are all so cute and if you need a card in a hurry this is a great set to use.  Everyone of these guys piece together very easily.

 

Instead of having a stamped sentiment on the outside of the card I chose to stamp a spider web it the corner.  For this I used one of the stamps from the recently released Halloween Panels stamp set from Jaded Blossom.

Boo Mummy

Today I have a quick and easy but oh so cute Halloween card to share with you.

 

For my card today I used one of the owls from the Halloween Hoots set by Marjorie Ann Designs.  This little cutie was so easy to piece together I couldn't believe it.  And I just love the way he turned out.

 

My stamped sentiment is from the Peachy Keen stamp set titled Trio of Girl Ghosts.  (Unfortunately it's no longer available for purchase.)

 

And now I'm off to enter my card into the following challenges:

 

Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes - Ends October 9th

 

Die Cuttin Divas - Anything Goes - Ends October 5th

 

DL Art - October Linky Challenge - Ends October 31st

Doodles

Thank goodness it's Saturday because that means I get to have a little bit of crafting catch up time.  Of course the very first card I made this morning had to use some of the new Poopeez files that were released from SVG Cutting Files yesterday.  I have been waiting for some new ones for quite a while and I have to say this release really got me excited.

 

Today's card was made using the Doodles and the GhostPoo files.  When I first saw the Doodles on SVG Cutting File's blog I cracked up.  Of course he was painting a pile of crap but I decided to change that out for the GhostPoo so that I could turn my card into more of a Fall/Halloween theme.

 

My background was created using paper from my DCWV Midnight Spell mat stack. 

 

I also decided to try something a bit different and used the ghost panel stamp from the recently released Jaded Blossom stamp set Halloween Panels.  Only instead of stamping in color I chose to stamp with my Distressed Embossing Ink and then used a transparent power.  This gives my ghosts that touch of now you see me - now you don't peek-a-boo feel.  I don't know, I just thought it would be kinda cool to have them hiding in the trees.

 

Close up of the ghosts

 

 

And now I'm off to enter my card into the following challenges:

 

Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes - Ends October 9th

 

SVG Cutting Files - Anything Fall - Ends October 14th

 

Die Cuttin Divas - Anything Goes - Ends October 5th

 

DL Art - October Linky Challenge - Ends October 31st

 

Autumn Decor

Happy Friday everyone and welcome back to another Cardz TV 3D challenge.  This week we are making a home décor project for Fall.

 

For my project this week I chose to make a basket in which to display my cinnamon scented pine cones.  While these things might be a pain having to pick up out of the yard they sure are pretty and nice once they get cleaned up and smell good. The basket is from the SVG Cuts file titled Caramel Apple Pie SVG Kit.

 

My sentiment of choice is from the Cardz TV Stamps set title Just Saying.  I keep finding myself drawn to this particular sentiment. 

 

I also used a couple of buttons and skittles in purple twilight for the center of my flowers.

 

And now that you have seen my project for this week please be sure to check out all of the wonderful creations our design team have created for you today.  Then be sure to create your own home décor project, link up and play along with us.

 

I can't wait to see what you create.