Cup of Cocoa

I'm behind on my Christmas cards and I had this guy all coloured up and ready to go. 

I had forgotten about the cute little tag until my stampin buddy used it on her card, thanks Glenda!

I thought the swirl background worked perfectly with the image.

I've entered this into:
Christmas Stampin' All Year Long: glittery
Jingle Belles: Embossing around the Christmas Tree
Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge: favourite holiday
CropStop challenge: Emboss it
Meljens Designs: anything goes
ABC Christmas Challenge: I is for icy
My Mum's Craft Shop challenge: embossing
Scrapbook Sisters: Gems and glitter

Stamps: Meljens Penguin cocoa, stampin up sentiment
Paper: tempting turquoise, whisper white
Ink: tempting turquoise
Other: prisma markers, diamond stickles, rhinestones, ribbon,

Poinsettia Greetings

Usually when a poinsettia comes into my house it goes eeeeek! and drops all of its leaves, lol! Sometimes I even have to buy another one just before Christmas because the first one looks so bad.

 BUT for some reason, and I am totally amazed by this, I received a poinsettia for Christmas AND its still gorgeous! Its April 2 and my poinsettia is not only alive (!) but still has most of its leaves and is red! So this amazing plant inspired me to create this card.

I embossed the background with Impression Obsession Holly, gorgeous.

I stamped the poinsettia three times and then cut out each layer.

 I always stamp the inside of my cards and back too. 

I LOVE Christmas, lol its never too early to make cards. 

I've entered this into:
Crafty Ann's Challenge: Christmas in March
My Mum's Craft Shop: Stamp it
Simon Says Stamp: anything goes
Crafting for all Seasons: sketch
52 Christmas Card Throwdown: anything goes

Stamps: Stampin Up Poinsettia Greetings and basic backgrounds, Impression Obsession Holly
Paper: real red, cherry cobbler, whisper white, handsome hunter, dollarstore pattern
Ink: cherry cobbler
Other: Prisma markers, spellbinders scallop circles, ribbon, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder, rhinestones, yellow stickles

A Very Merry Christmas

I'm falling behind on my Christmas cards so this is what I worked on yesterday. I know (or am pretty sure) she wasn't intended as a Christmas stamp but after I coloured her I saw the holidays. I have been practising colouring hair and I really like how her's turned out.  

Here's a closeup of her hair. 

I"ve entered her into:

Catch the Bug challenge: sketch

Cute Card Thursday: Anything goes

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge: Let's get digital

Stamps: Bugaboo Kidz girl 'n cat, stampin up sentiment

Paper: cherry cobbler, brilliant blue, whisper white

Ink: bashful blue

Other: cuttlebug snowflake dots and swiss dots embossing folder, stampin up snowburst embossing folder, rhinestones, spellbinders deckle rectangle, MS snowflake punch and snowflake border, prisma markers

Cheers

This card took forever! My husband wanted a card for an employee and friend who's been with the company for 30 years. I made suggestions, he countered with other suggestions, finally we decided on beer...his favourite beer. I've entered this card into:
My Mum's Craft Shop challenge: layer it up

Papertake Weekly challenge: anything goes

Cards for Men: G is for green and glitter

Do You Stack Up: texture

Stamp: Digishack Cheers

Paper: early espresso, whisper white, river rock, confetti cream

Ink: river rock

Other: prisma markers, buttons, crimper, decorative and curly label punches, stickles, ribbon, white gel pen

Beautiful Day

Its the first Friday of the month therefore another Clearly Inspired Challenge and this challenge is things with wings! I've always loved this combination of colours, soft suede, vanilla and early espresso, gorgeous! The stamp and sentiment are both from the set New Butterfly by Clear Dollar Stamps.
You can really see how 3-d it is in this picture. Hop on over and give challenge #33 a try!
I've entered this into:
Ribbon Carousel challenge: anything goes
Papertake Weekly challenge: anything goes
My Mum's Craft Shop: monochromatic
For Fun Challenges: anything goes
Crafts and Me Challenge: anything goes
Stamp Something: must use a digital

Stamps: CDS New Butterfly, Stampin Up French Script, Impression Obsession stitched
Paper: early espresso, soft suede, very vanilla
Ink: soft suede, craft chocolate chip
other: prisma markers, dollar store pearls, button, MS branch punch, stampin up perfect dots embossing folder, classic/scallop oval punches, ribbon, gold stickles,