Christmas Card Challenges - Challenge #13

Good Sunday morning. I got spend a little time in the scrap room this weekend. I didn't get to at all last weekend, so it's been nice getting some creating done.

It's time for my final card as a guest designer at Christmas Card Challenges. I have truly enjoyed working on these cards and working with Stephanie and the design team. This week's challenge is another great one too. The challenge is Music. So many ways that this can inspire.

To create my card, I used the current sketch from Seems A Little Sketchy. Such a neat one this week.


I found that the scraps from my Merry Christmas Echo Park collection were perfect to create a card with a music theme. I should have gotten 2 of these collections. It's one of my favorites.


I am also entering this card into this months challenge at Whimsie Doodles - O Scrap. You are to use only scraps of patterned paper for your card. I only have very small pieces of this set left, so it's definitely all scraps.

Be sure to check out the wonderful cards the design team created. I hope you will create a Christmas card this week. Remember, the challenge is optional at CCC, the card must be new and have a Christmas, holiday or winter theme.

Stew's December Page

The weekend started out crafty on Friday evening. I am still working on Stew's calendar. Friday I created his Friday page. I really hope I finish it this weekend.

For this page, I used one of the February sketches at Boys Rule Scrapbook Kits. I really love their sketches. They have so many details and really make for a great page.


And here is the page. Sorry the photo is so washed out. The colors are much better in person.


I also used this page as my Week 8 entry into the 52 Weeks Challenge at Scrappin'-n'-Chattin'. And I also entered it into the Kraft challenge at SnC, which is to use kraft paper on your layout. The banners are all made from kraft paper that I ran through a crimper.

Birthday Sundaes - Challenge #44

Good Sunday morning again. It's time for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. And Kristie has a great one this week.

This week the challenge is to create a Stair Step Birthday card. I had never even tried this type of card before, so I was quite intimidated. Kristie has 3 different tutorials for 3 different types of Stair Step cards. I chose to create one using her first tutorial, which is from from Splitcoast Stampers.

But before I show you my card, I have to tell you about our sponsor this week. Stamp Fairy is sponsoring our challenge this week.


They are offering 1 lucky winnder a $10 gift certificate to Stamp Fairy. Be sure to check out the really cute images they have to offer.


Stamp Fairy offered the design team a couple of images to use for our challenge. I chose the Birthday Kids 1 image. I printed the image 2 times - once on plain cardstock, the 2nd time on some patterned paper.


I cut the box and the party hat from the patterned paper and glued them onto the image on the cardstock. I cut along his shirt so that it still looks like he's inside the box. I have been wanting to try paper piecing with a digi image for a long time. It sure was fun and I am happy with the way it turned out.

I hope you will give the Stair Step card a try. Make sure to check out the design teams' wonderful work. All of the different types of Stair Step cards are represented. They are all so pretty.

Christmas Card Challenges - Challenge #12

Good Sunday morning. We are having a pretty relaxing weekend. I hope you are enjoying yours as well.

It's time for another fantastic challenge at Christmas Card Challenges. This one was pretty challenging for me. The challenge is - Paisley. I had no idea where I was going to find paisley in a holiday theme.

I searched my Cricut cartridges and found that I had several with paisley images. And last weekend, as I was working on Stew's calendar, I discovered some Christmasy paisley paper in a Doodlebug pack that I had purchased just for the calendars. Perfect.

The paisley cut is from the Cindy Loo cartridge.

I hope you will create a Christmas or holiday card with Christmas Card Challenges this week. Remember, you don't have to follow the challenge. You just need to have a holiday or Christmas greeting on the front of the card. Be sure to check out the awesome paisley cards the design team created.

Stew's April Page

Here is my last post for the night. This page is based on the awesome sketch at The Paper Variety. It's just so versatile.


These photos were actually supposed to be for the May page, but I had forgotten that I had a few photos left uncut, and therefore not in the stack for Stew's calendar. I got a little disappointed that I messed up the order. Stew said he really doesn't care. I said good, because I am not changing them. It's a lot of work.


This is going to be my 2nd entry into the Heart challenge at Scrappin'-n-Chattin'. I really enjoyed our first online crop. I really wasn't organized and prepared for this. I think we may try to do it once a month. If I'm home, I will of course try to participate as much as I can. I will be more prepared next time.

Tomorrow I really have to clean the house and groom Willie, so no scrapping. I have 2 cards to create during the week and the rest of my spare time I am going to devote to getting Stew's calendar completed.

Stew's February Page

I want to share another page of Stew's calendar I created today. This page layout was based on the January 5th sketch at Boys Rule Scrapbook Kits. I loved this sketch, and so far this is my favorite page of the calendar.



This photo is one that Stew took himself. I was at work, but he had the day off. These guys are such posers.


I have I think one more blog post for the night.

Stew's March Page

I have been working on getting Stew's calendar done. I really need to start these in November. I'm about half way through. I want to share the photo part of the March page now.

These calendars are all about the dogs. Since we were having an online crop for SnC this weekend, we had challenges to incorporated into the weekend. I only participated in one of the group's challenges, but I used a couple of sketches to create some pages.

This page was inspired by this month's sketch at The Scrap Room Blog. It's been a while since I entered any projects there. I have to check them out more often.


The photo is one that I used to create Stew's Father's Day card last year. He loved it - Lola, Willie and Harley.



When I get all of the pages finished, I will create a blog post with all of the pages in order. Thanks for looking.