December Guest Designers

We got to see some pretty fabulous work from our November guest designers, but now it's time to welcome our December guests!!

Julie

and

Ellen

My first award!

Yay! I was so excited to find out that I was given this award from Kerrie (aka Kez). It's my first award, Kerrie you're the best!! So here is what you need to do to receive this award:

1. thank the person who nominated you.

2. copy the logo and place it on your blog.

3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.

4. name 7 things abut yourself that people might find interesting

5. nominate 7 kreativ bloggers

6. post links to the 7 blogs you nominate

7. leave a comment on each of the blogs, letting them know they have been nominated.

7 things about me:
1. My favorite colour is purple
2. I studied Criminology in university
3. I LOVE history
4. I come from a big family
5. I don't like cold weather, but I live up north where winter is 6-8 months of the year (yuck)
6. I love "guy-type" movies and shows, like X-men and Smallville
7. I'm not the greatest at prioritizing (play before work, lol)

Now for my nominees:

Alica, Kristina, Tracey, Melanie, Deanne, Jacquie, Jennifer

Sunshine Sunday!

For this week, Sunshine's stamps challenged the DT to create a project with the same image as last week, but use paper piecing. I have to admit that I panicked, as I have only paper pieced once before, however I made the image bigger (the lovely thing about digi stamps) and decided to paper piece the ornaments and the holly leaves, but color the rest. I am quite pleased with how it all turned out in the end! It's hard to tell, but the pink and green papers that I used do have a swirled pattern in them, but it ended up being quite subtle, so I think if I try this technique again, I'll go with more obvious pattern in my papers. I also inked the sentiment with Close To My Heart Baby Pink.

Little Loud Stamps

I was playing around with Photoshop for these pictures and I'm happy that I've figured some things out :) I made these cards for our November grab bag swap (which is somewhat like a card kit swap). These cute stamps are called Little Loud Stamps from PaperWorks.

I also entered these into the following challenges:

Top Card: PaperWorks Sketch Challenge #10
Middle Card: Tuesday Morning Sketches
Bottom Card: StampTV Sketch

Sweet Pea Ornament

I found this wonderful stamp company called Sweet Pea Stamps and they make the most beautiful rubber stamps, very good quality and super reasonable prices. I decided to make an ornament, because I really liked the tutorial Deanne had up on her blog a while back and I wanted to give it a try. I coloured her with Copics and I painted the background with Shimmerz in the Blueberry Cobbler colour. I also used pearls from Basic Grey in the Aqua shades. I also entered this in this weeks Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential and Inky Impressions challenges to make an ornament. This is also my entry for the Inky Impressions DT Call. They have the cutest stamps and I'd love a chance to be on the team!

Copics: E000,E00,E11,E13,E17,E18,E19,E53,C9,G05,YG63,YG67,BG10,BG45,BG49,R20,
RV32,RV34,RV91,RV95,RV99

Sunshine Sunday

Here's my Sunday posting for Sunshine's Stamps. I really enjoyed working with this image and sentiment combo!

Materials:

Copics: C9,C7,C5,C3,R89,R85,R81,YG67,YG63,R29,R24,V17,V15,V12,YR23

BG Pearls

Nesties Ovals and Scalloped Ovals

Princess

Here's another card that I made at the VSN last weekend. I used a digital Image from Sassy Studio Designs. I LOVE their images, they're so pretty :)

Antique Christmas

Here's another VSN card I made. The challenge was to use the "Cracked Glass" technique. I also used the sketch from Card Patterns. The image is from Gina K's Holiday Cheer StampTV kit. I also entered this in the challenge at PaperWorks to make a Christmas card using non-traditional colors.

Sunshine Sinday!

This weekend I had a lot of fun playing over at SCS for their Virtual Stamp Night. There were 14 challenges in total and so far I managed to finish 9 of them :) This is one of my favorites and I used one of Sunshine's Stamps Christmas sentiments for it. I was supposed to make a Baroque style card using White, Cream, Gold and Black, a Border punch (I used a Bordabilities), ribbon and pearls.

On another note, today is the switch over day for Ildi Co's DT! The term 2 team is taking over so be sure to check my right sidebar for a list of the new teams blogs to check out :)

NOTE: A lot of people were asking about the die cut I used, so I thought I'd post it. I used the Nestabilities Labels 7

Holly Christmas

I made this card for one of the challenges over at Virtual Stamp Night on Splitcoast Stampers. The challenge was to CASE a card, change 2 things about it and then add ruffled ribbon and other embellishments. I choose to CASE THIS gorgeous card and I also am entering it into the PMS Sketch challenge for this week. This cute image is from Paper Makeup Stamps.