Uh-oh!!

Oh my. I had SO much to do yesterday, getting ready to travel to my daughter's for Christmas! I thought I'd be smart and schedule my Impression Obsession designers' challenge to post early, so I wouldn't have to worry about it yesterday. Well, I have a well known technical disability (lol); I must have done something wrong, because when I checked this morning, I found that it didn't post! So, I'm posting it today.

This card was created to fit the following additional challenges: Monday's Cuttlebug Spot's challenge is to do a winter card, the Wednesday Cuttlebug Challenge is glitter, the Cute Card challenge is "swirly girl"), the Project Tuesday challenge is to create an easel card, the Creative Card Crew challenge is to create a Christmas card, the Pick Three challenge is also all about glitter. [My three are: colour an image in glitter (see the ornament), outline an image in glitter (see the ribbon), and doodle with a glue pen and cover in glitter (see snowflakes)]

Of course, this first card is done using some of the wonderful Impression Obsession Christmas stamps, paired with an old favourite winter time Cuttlebug embossing folder, and using a Spellbinder's swirl die.

Please take some time to drop by the other Impression Impression designers' blogs, they've created some beautiful things! You can see the links right there in my sidebar. By the way...do you know you could win a $25.00 gift certificate for Impression Obsession stamps? If you create your own white card with IO stamps, and upload it by December 5th at midnight, and you could win! All the information can be found here.

The Friday Alphabet Challenge is to create something with a house. Here's my glittered Thomas Kinkaide easel card to meet that one.

I'm posting some other cards I've created for Christmas as well...just for fun. I've used a lot of hand stitching and beading for my Christmas cards this year, combining some with stamping. It's always nice to use different techniques.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! I'll stop by your blog too. :)

Challenges...

Well, like everyone else, I've been busy with Christmas preparations lately, and blogging has taken a back seat. Next week, I'll be travelling to my daughter's, to spend Christmas with her, my son, and the four grand-boys, so blogging will be sparse till the New Year.

However, this week's Created by Hand challenge is quilting. I did this easel card with some old scrap papers, and used a Quietfire Design sentiment stamp

Although it's not for the challenge, here's another card I did with a Quietfire Design stamp. It's fun pairing my favourite Christmas beading pattern with my favourite Christmas Quietfire Design stamp! Isn't that calligraphy gorgeous!? This is the first year I've managed to get all my Christmas cards completed on time since I retired! What FUN!

Thanks so much for visiting today!

Quietfire Stamps...blog hop Thursday WINNER!!

Well, from the number of crafters posting on each Quietfire Designer's blog during Suzanne's first ever blog hop;
I think y'all must like her stamps as much as WE do! (lol)

The random winner from my part of the hop is another Suzanne!
"Suzanne C," wrote:

"Stunning! As always... Love the card it is oh so elegant! The candles are beautiful and I think they need the pop of color from the ribbon! :)"

An e-mail has gone to the winner, and a copy to the boss-lady of Quietfire Design.
Thanks so much for your comments, and keep playing...MANY more stamps to be won yet!!

Shake it shake it shake it!

Today the Impression Obsession designers are sharing shaker cards with you! I used the large circle Shake-It ™ pouch with this beautiful gold embossed snowflake stamp. I love these shaker pouches! They're self adhesive, come in several shapes and sizes, and are oh-so-so-very easy to use!

I added Kaisercraft pearls to the snowflake, then sprinkled some of Barbara Trombley's Vintage Glass Glitter, made from real glass, on the inside of the shaker pouch. Then I carefully aligned the circle design over top of the pouch, and this is the result. This meets the Saturday Secret Crafters challenge this week too...seasons! The "Saturday Surprise" theme is "more than one..."so I used several snowflakes here; the current "Cute Cards" challenge is "Teen Terrors" (I have a thirteen year old young friend who loves all-things-snowflake!).

I used the Let it Snow stamp from this clear stamp set, stamped with Coal Black Versafine Ink and clear embossed with Ranger Clear Super Fine Detail Embossing Powder on a panel cut with Labels Six Nestabilities dies.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you'll have time to stop by the other designers' blogs too...they'll give you some fabulous inspiration! The links to their blogs are on my sidebar to the right. And don't forget...YOU too can play in the challenge to win a $25 gift certificate for some FABULOUS IO stamps!

Design team goodness!

One of my very favourite aspects of designing for my wonderful women bosses is CHRISTMAS! Today, I have several things to share with you.

These candles were done for the first ever Quietfire Design Team blog hop. I love love LOVE Suzanne's beautiful hand calligraphy, and since I am not similarly talented, it delights me that she makes her magic into rubber stamps for us to use. If you like her work, you really MUST enter her fabulous...and very generous... contest!

There are GREAT rubber stamp prizes being offered throughout the week. Here are the rules:

On EACH blog (see the daily list below) please leave your comment in the comments section for a chance to win a daily grab bag of Quietfire Design Rubber Stamps.

A name will be chosen randomly from the list of comments on each blog entry and the name of the winner will be posted on that blog the following day. Then hop on over to the next blog on the list to see the fabulous art work done with Quietfire stamps and to leave a comment to enter the drawing for that blog.

When the grand announcement is made, the winner needs to ontact suzanne@quietfiredesign.com to claim the wickedly FABULOUS grand prize...so stay connected!
Here is the list of participating blogs...visit each one of them to see their wonderful Christmas work!

Monday, Nov 16th - Yogi Grunwald

Tuesday, Nov 17th - Kristy Christopherson

Wednesday, Nov 18th - Kim Prince

Thursday, Nov 19th - Deborah March ...right here!!

Friday, Nov 20th - Suzanne Cannon ...our leading lady and purveyer of all things beautiful at Quietfire Design!

Saturday, Nov 21st - Wanda Hentges

Sunday, Nov 22nd - Becca Feeken

Monday, Nov 23rd - Monica Black

PLEASE NOTE: You need to take note of every rubber stamp used on each designer's blog. At the end of the blog hop, go back to Suzanne's blog and list all the stamps used this week on everyone's cards to win a fabulously wicked, wickedly fabulous...GRAND PRIZE.

Now, here are my candles:

These are so easy to create, and they make lovely little gifts for dinner parties and such. I stamped the sentiments on tissue paper with black StazOn ink, cut closely around the stamped image, and positioned it on the candle. Then I wrapped ordinary waxed paper tightly around the stamped image, and waved my heat gun over it, which causes the wax to melt around the image. Then you simply peel off the waxed paper, and voila! It looks like your image is stamped directly on the wax candle. Then, of course, you decorate to your heart's content. These particular candles are not meant to burn, but will just be used for Christmas decoration.

Stamps used for this project are:

Hold on to the spirit of Christmas

Merry Christmas snowflakes

Now I need your opinions here! I showed these to my dearly beloved, who said "Mmmm, nice dear, but you shouldn't add the ribbon." So... if you decide to leave a comment, please do tell me what you think about the ribbon (lol)! Positive or negative...no problem...really!

Now here's another project I created for our Quietfire blog hop. I LOVED this textured paper, and knew exactly how I wanted to use it as soon as I saw it! I created an easel card, and used some die-cut snowflakes.

I used a gold embossed Silent Night stamp for this card. I like that this stamp comes in two sizes...so versatile...and I LOVE all those decoratice curlicues...so festive for the holidays!

So, that's it for my part of the Quietfire Design blog hop. Thanks so much for visiting; I hope you've enjoyed your journey so far...let us all know what you think.

Hopefully, you'll have a little time to visit another post I'll be creating soon...about another designer challenge!

HAPPY CREATING!

BLOG HOP...PRIZES!!

Aaaahhh...we're getting into the Christmas spirit with Quietfire designers!

Hoping to provide some inspiration for your Christmas creating, we're doing a Quietfire Design Blog Hop!!

There are GREAT rubber stamp prizes being offered throughout the week.

On EACH blog (see the daily list below) please leave your comment in the comments section for a chance to win a daily grab bag of Quietfire Design Rubber Stamps.

A name will be chosen randomly from the list of comments on each blog entry and the name of the winner will be posted on that blog the following day. Then hop on over to the next blog on the list to see the fabulous art work done with Quietfire stamps and to leave a comment to enter the drawing for that blog.

When the grand announcement is made, the winner needs to ontact suzanne@quietfiredesign.com to claim the wickedly FABULOUS grand prize...so stay connected!

Here is the list of participating blogs.

Monday, Nov 16th - Yogi Grunwald

Tuesday, Nov 17th - Kristy Christopherson

Wednesday, Nov 18th - Kim Prince

Thursday, Nov 19th - Deborah March ...right here!!

Friday, Nov 20th - Suzanne Cannon ...our leading lady and purveyer of all things beautiful at Quietfire Design!

Saturday, Nov 21st - Wanda Hentges

Sunday, Nov 22nd - Becca Feeken

Monday, Nov 23rd - Monica Black

NOTE: You need to take note of every rubber stamp used on each designer's blog. At the end of the blog hop, go back to Suzanne's blog and list all the stamps used this week on everyone's cards to win a fabulously wicked, wickedly fabulous...GRAND PRIZE.

Intrigued? Curiousity piqued?

Ready-set-GO!!

Coming up for air!

Aaaahhh, it's been a week since I've been in my Happy Room...I've been down with the flu from HELL. However, recovery is here, and I played with paper yesterday for the first time since my last post. So, challenges...always a favourite way to pique my creative curiousity! This week's Created by Hand challenge is to use beads. Over at Secret Crafters, they want us to use a seasonal theme, and the Charisma Cardz Craft Challenge this week is "Merry and Bright."

This first card is done with the new Webster's Pages Christmas paper collection, which I just LOVE! It has such a beautiful Victorian feel, with those beautiful roses. I added Swarovski crystal beads to the front as red berries, and small self adhesive pearl beads to the trim just underneath the punched edge. Interestingly, these gorgeous papers are featured on this week's Moxie Fab World site...go over and see them all, they're STUNNING! I used a Quietfire Design Merry Christmas stamp here. I love how Suzanne's beautiful calligraphy enhances this simple design!

Here's another Christmas card, hand stitched and hand beaded, with a stamp from an Inkadinkado Christmas set.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! I'll stop by your place too!