Blue, Silver and White Color Challenge at Repeat Impressions

The first Wednesday of each month at Repeat Impression’s blog, The House that Stamps Built, is going to be a color challenge. We give you the color inspiration, and you can make a card using those colors to possibly win a great prize of Repeat Impressions rubber! Here is the color palette chosen this month:

I chose to make a winter hello card with these pretty colors. I started with a silver card base and diecut oval for the “Happy Hello” sentiment. I heat embossed a landscape of snowy pine trees with white embossing powder. Next I heat embossed some sparkly stars in the blue sky and then I created some snowbanks with a stitched die from Lawn Fawn.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at Loves Rubberstamps and Papertake Weekly. 

TTCRD Anything Goes Challenge and New Issue Available!

It’s Tuesday and time for another Through the Craft Room Door challenge. As always the theme is my favorite, Anything Goes! There is a new challenge every Tuesday at TTCRD. I am on Team A and this week is our turn to post our cards. The sponsor this week is Deedee’s Digis and the prize is a $10 gift certificate! 

I had so much fun designing with Deedee’s Digis Snowman Soup set! I made a hot chocolate holder with my envelope punch board from WeRMemory Keepers, then printed and attached all the super cute images from this set. The picture above shows the front, and this is the back. 

Love that poem! Such a cute way to warm a friend’s day!

**Don’t Miss It! The January/February 2015 issue of Through The Craft Room Door magazine is available for your viewing pleasure in the "Subscribers Only Area" of the TTCRD website.  It is loaded with more than 100 pages of with paper craft tutorials, tons of inspirations and projects you can create. Plus free digis, an article by me on Bisters and 9 of my cards! Come check it out! If you do not currently subscribe to the magazine you will need to go to the top of the page and click on the Subscription/Renewals tab. I highly recommend everyone get a subscription to this great on line magazine!**

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Crafty Catz, the Hot Chocolate challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity and the Design Team Showcase.

January/February TTCRD Released and You can play Tic-Tac-Toe and maybe Win!

The January/February 2015 issue of Through the Craft Room Door has been released and I am so proud to have an article on Bisters (with cards) on pages 44-47 and NINE of my cards published on 9 other pages! There are 107 pages of stamping and crafting awesomeness in this issue! The theme is Romance and we have lots of sweet paper craft tutorials, tons of inspiration and projects you can create, including a new Kid Friendly craft section. Our featured digi artist is Paola Jofre of My Whimsical Little World and you can score some really sweet free digis if you are a subscriber.  You can see a sneak peak at this issue by clicking on the video on the side of my blog.

A new feature we have added is a challenge you will be able to play in to maybe win a sweet prize pack and be published in the next magazine. The challenge is a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge and here is the board you can choose your elements from. The deadline to enter this challenge is February 15th.

I chose pearls, design papers and die cut for my card above. For more details on any of  my cards and tons of other great ideas, please visit the TTCRD website and click on the Subscription Tab on the top.

Here are some other cards I am proud to have published in this issue. The theme is Romance and the first card below uses one of the sweet free digis from Paola Jofre.

  

I am proud to be part of this on line magazine and encourage you to subscribe. The tutorials are great and you won't believe how many cards there are in this issue! TTCRD is also looking for more dt members and contributors to their magazine, so you, too, could be published!

I am entering this card in the New Year's Resolution challenge at Open Minded Challenges (mine is to organize and use all my die cuts soon), and the Anything Goes challenge at 613 Avenue Create.

My Favorite Cards of 2014 Part Two

Today I am sharing the rest of my favorite cards from 2014. If you want any details on the techniques or supplies used, just click on the date below the picture.

6/30/14

7/28/14

7/13/14

8/26/14

8/24/14

8/23/14

9/27/14

9/22/14

9/2/14

10/20/14

10/5/14

11/24/14

11/19/14

12/2/14

I think the last one is my favorite of them all. What do you think? I look forward to a new year of creating and sharing ideas here on my blog, in my classes and in my publications. Happy New Year!

Valentines or Love Cards 4 Kids Challenge at SAS4Kids

Happy New Year from SAS4Kids!! It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids! This time our challenge is Valentines or Love Cards 4 Kids.  Create and link any Valentine or Love card for a child and you could win one of our great prizes.

We have three very generous sponsors for this challenge: Doodle Pantry is giving their winner a $10 gift certificate!  DRS Designs is giving their randomly picked winner a $10 gift certificate!  And Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet’s winner gets a $6 gift certificate! TEAM S.A.S will also be choosing their favorite cards for our top three and the winners will receive a blog badge and an opportunity to be a guest design team member on a future challenge.

My first card above features a super cute Leonard Pig digi stamp from DRS Designs. I created a joy fold card and Leonard and his roses were paperpieced on the top fold. This is what the inside looks like (Valenswine's Day from DRS Designs too.)

My second Valentine is a shaker card featuring cute digis from Doodle Pantry called Love Worms. I printed the colored versions of the digis and created a circular shaker top with acetate, mounting tape and a circle cut with Nestabilities. I filled the shaker with sequins and tiny red hearts. I embossed both cards with my favorite candy heart embossing folder from Cuttlebug and added a sentiment from the same digi set by Doodle Pantry.

I am entering these cards in the Anything Goes challenges at Simon Says Stamp and Wonderful Wednesdays. Also entering in Design Team Showcase. 

Wishing You Were Here!

Happy Friday! Karen H. here and I am sharing the card using Crackerbox Palace stamps I made with my lucky sister in mind. She is in Arizona while we in Wisconsin are freezing our rear ends off. I love this fun snow shoveling guy – he looks about as happy as my husband does shoveling snow on these cold cold days. I stamped him on a white card base and cut out a curvy border and around his shovel so you can see the snowflake dp on the inside of the card. I paper pieced his coat, hat and shovel and added a white pompom for his hat. I stamped a little snow and the perfect sentiment to complete the card.

**As a holiday present to you from Crackerbox Palace, all the  stamps  on this card will be 20% OFF for one week! What a deal! **

I am entering this card in the Winter Wonderland challenge at  Inky Impressions and the Wintertime challenge at Hambo Hoedown.

My Favorite Cards of 2014 Part One

Today I am posting part one of my favorite cards I made and blogged this past year. If you want any details on techniques or products used, just click on the date below the picture. Happy New Year!

1/26/14

1/19/14

1/14/14

2/24/14

2/21/14

2/18/14

3/8/14

4/27/14 

4/24/14

4/8/14

4/15/14

5/13/14

6/9/14

6/1/14

Hope you enjoyed my review of  my favorite cards from the first half of 2014. Come back on Sunday for My Favorite Cards Part 2.