Joy Clair - Christmas Penguins

Merry Christmas everyone!

I pray that everyone is having a wonderful day celebrating the season with family and friends! I could not resist using this cute stamp set by Joy Clair called Christmas Penguins! It is such a cute set (I know I think I say this about all of Joy Clair sets). This set has a penguin and you can stamp different outfits on the it.
 
There are still a couple of days for you to join the Joy Clair stamps December challenge! As always it is "anything goes" but the design team has an inspirational photo. I hope you will join, one lucky person has the opportunity to win a $25 gift card to the Joy Clair store. You can find all the details here.

Here is my card I created and how I put it together.

I created my background with some distress inks, I then stamped the images and colored them with copics. I fuzzy cut leaves for the tree, adhered three onto the tree and then used foam tape to adhere the other leaves and the coconut. The penguins I stamped and stamped their outfits and used foam tape to pop them onto the card. I finished the card off by stamping the sentiment from the Joy Clair Christmas Penguins set.

Closer look of my card.

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Thank you so much for stopping by, please come back again soon!

Listed below are the products I used. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I have used compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

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Rinea - Peace!

Hello everyone!

I am here again this month with Rinea sharing this beautiful Christmas card. I am using the Foiled Paper Frosted Variety Pack made by Rinea.

My card is a top folding A2 card measuring 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. I die cut three different colors from the Rinea Foiled Paper Frosted Variety Pack, I used liquid adhesive to attach the layers and attached it to my card base. I cut the peace word out of two colors from the Rinea Foiled Paper Frosted Variety Pack and adhered it. I finished off the card by adding some dew drops.

 Closer look

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Joy Clair Stamps - The Reason

Hello everyone!

I am here with Joy Clair Stamps and I am using their newest released stamp from their Bible Journaling line called The Reason. This is such a cute stamp set that is perfect for bible journaling, but I have created a card for your inspiration.

Joy Clair stamps has a new challenge for the month of December.  As always it is "anything goes" but the design team has an inspirational photo that you can use if it inspires you. I hope you will join, one lucky person has the opportunity to win a $25 gift card to the Joy Clair store. You can find all the details here.

Here is my card I created and how I put it together, for your inspiration.

1.  I started with an A2 card,
2.  I cut a piece of cardstock, 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and used distress inks to create a background,
3.  I die cut the next layer with the Marilyn Full Card Wafer Die and adhered it to my distress piece and adhered both to my card base,
4.  I sprayed the layers with gold spray,
5.  I stamped the image and sentiment from the Joy Clair stamps The Reason stamp set,
6.  I colored it with copics,
7.  I die cut the image with a stitched circle,
8.  I used foam tape and adhered it to my card.

Closer look at the card.

Please follow Joy Clair's facebook page, Color by Faith Bible Journaling facebook page, Instagram and Twitter, be the first to hear the news, sales and giveaways! They also have a Pinterest page and Youtubechannel for your inspiration!

Thank you so much for stopping by, please come back again soon!

Listed below are the products I used. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I have used compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

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Kat Scrappiness Blog Hop & Sale to Benefit Coffee Oasis

Hello everyone!

I am here with Kat Scrappiness and they are having a fundraiser and sale in her store to support Coffee Oasis.  Coffee Oasis is a coffee shop/organization located in Washington State that provides help for youth including programs for drug abuse, homelessness, violence and poverty. (You can read more about the programs here).

How you can help Coffee Oasis, with this blog hop Kat Scrappiness is hoping to raise money to help this wonderful organization.  Kat Scrappiness has pledged to donate 15% of all sale proceeds to Coffee Oasis, the sponsors have all donated prizes to give away to all of you blog and youtube hoppers!   The list of bloggers are listed below.  So please visit each blogger and show some support. 

Also, you can also donate directly to Coffee Oasis here.  If you can only donate $1 or $5, it doesn't matter. Every little bit will help a child in need.

Here is my card for your inspiration and how I put it together:

1.  My card is an A2 card,
2.  I stamped the coffee cup and coffee beans from Gina K. stamp set called "Perfect Blend" Gina K. Amalgan ink,
3.  I colored the cups with copics and then die cut the colored panel with a stitched die,
4.  The "Ho Ho Ho" is made by Kat Scrappiness, I die cut it out twice, one with black cardstock and red.  I offset the two pieces and glued them together.  I then colored it with clear Wink of Stella. After it dried, I adhered it to my card,
5.  I stamped the Merry Christmas with white Hero Arts Unicorn Pigment Ink on Gina K. Black Onyx cardstock and cut it out and adhered it to my card.  

Closer look at the card

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Thank you for stopping by, I hope you were able to help out in some way for the Coffee Oasis and my care has inspired you.  The list of bloggers and youtubers are below, please hop along and leave a comment on each post for a chance to win a prize from one of the generous sponsors.  If you want to see the list of sponsors head over to Kat Scrappiness.

Here is the list of sponsors:

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I am also linking this card up to the Coffee Lover's Blog Hop.

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #214 - Photo Inspiration

Hello everyone!

I'm here with CAS-ual Fridays with a new challenge! We have an inspirational photo for the challenge. I hope you will join in on the fun. I also want to mention CAS-ual Fridays is retiring a bunch of sets which are marked down, if you are interested click here to see them all. Once the set has sold out, they will not be reordering.

Did you know, CAS-ual Fridays picks 10 winning entries who will be highlighted on their blog each Thursday before a new challenge? In addition, there is a $25 gift certificate to the overall winner at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps. If the chosen winner has used CAS-ual Fridays stamps and/or dies as the main focus in the card, that gift certificate will increase to $50. Wow, what are you waiting for? Hop on over to CAS-ual Fridays and link your card to the challenge.

Here is the inspirational photo:

Here is my take on the inspirational photo.  I used some Rinea foiled paper to die cut the CAS-ual Fri-die sleigh.  I then stamped the bow and bell from the CAS-ual Fridays stamp set Sleigh Ride, which I colored with copics.  I finished the card off by adding the sentiment from the CAS-ual Fridays stamp set Sleigh Ride.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you decide to play along! Good luck and have fun!

Life Happens Coffee Helps!

Hello everyone!

I am back again with another coffee related card for the 2018 Fall/Winter Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop!  I am using the Echo Park Paper 6x6 pad and Ephemera called Coffee.  Yep, no stamping, these are the best cards to create.

I used one of the ephemera elements from the pack.  I popped the center piece up with foam tape and framed the frame with black card stock.  I die cut the coffee cup from the Sunny Studio Warm and Cozy die set and adhered it to my card.

I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I have used compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

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It's a Brew-tiful Day!

Hello everyone!

I am back playing along with the 2018 Fall/Winter Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop!  I am using the Reverse Confetti newly release stamp set and die set called Drink More Coffee.

I stamped then sentiment and then I die cut the first layer with Reverse Confetti's Stitched Rays, I inked the edges with Gina K. Designs Wild Dandelion, I stamped the cup and saucer and die cut them out, I then die cut a circle and stamped the sun ray in the circle from the RC Drink More Coffee stamp set, I then used foam tape and popped the coffee cup and saucer onto the circle, I then used foam tape on the stitched circle and adhered it to my card.  I finished off my card by adding some sequins.

I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I have used compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

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Thank you so much for stopping by!

Warm Winter Wishes - COFFEE LOVING BLOG HOP!

Hello everyone!

I am playing along with the 2018 Fall/Winter Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop! If you have never played along, you can find info at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog.  The theme is always coffee, tea or cocoa related items on your card. The hop is from November 30th to December 7th, so there is plenty of time to play along!

Here is my card for the blog hop.  I am using the Sunny Studio Warm and Cozy die set to create the elements on my card.  This is just a fun die set, there are so many different items you can make with the die set.  The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti called Seasonal Sentiments.

I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I have used compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

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Rinea - Merry Christmas Tags

Hello everyone!

I am here with Rinea to share some cute Christmas tags created with the Rinea Foiled Papers.  These are perfect for the gifts that you have to wrap for the holidays!  Can you believe Christmas is just 23 days away?  Have you finished your shopping and making you cards? 

For my tags I am using the Rinea Artist's Packs Variety Frosted and Variety Jolly.  These are beautiful holiday colors and would be perfect for any holiday project you may have! 

Here is how I created my tags:

1.  I die cut all the elements for the tags. 

2.  I used liquid glue to adhere all he pieces to my tag.

3.  For the candy cane tag and the Christmas tree tag, I used dies to create the images, using the Rinea Foiled Jolly paper.  I used some foiled paper in the background so the images would stand out.  I added some rhinestones on the candy cane tag and the Christmas tag along with a snowflake at the top of the tree.  The beautiful blue tag created with the Rinea Foiled paper Frosted I added some snowflakes die cut with the foiled paper.  I added some dew drops in the center of the snowflakes.

4.  To finish the tags off, I added the strings by using foiled paper.

The back of the tags.

Another close look of the tags.

Thank you so much for stopping by, please come back again soon!

Retro Rubber Challenge Blog Challenge #101 - Happy Holidays

Hello everyone,

I am here with Retro Rubber Challenge blog and we have a new inspirational holiday challenge.  I hope you enjoyed hopping along with the design team celebrating Retro Rubber's Challenge Blog 100th challenge.  I had fun and the winner of my blog is Alicia from Golden Goddess Designs, please send me a message at didlet@aol.com so I can get you your prize!  In the subject line, please put "RRCB 100th Winner".

If you have not joined our challenges before, the rules are very simple, just use a stamp older than a year and you must include the age (or approximate age) of the stamp in your blog post. Here is the sketch for you to use. I cannot wait to see you take on it.

Now onto my take on the challenge, I was so inspired with the holiday challenge.  I had this paper in my stash called "Snowman and Penguins" by Craft Creations LTD, I bought from White Rose Crafts.  I just had to use it on this challenge.  The stamp I used on my card to stamp the sentiment is by Stampin Up called Wondrous Wreath, it was released in 2014 in the Holiday Mini Catalog.  I believe the stamp set is retired.

My card is a 5 x 5 card, I cut the image from my paper to 4 7/8 x 4 7/8, I cut come of the images from the paper and fuzzy cut it and used foam tape to pop the images on the card.  I stamped the sentiment from Stampin Up's Wondrous Wreath.  To finish the card, I added some dew drops.

closer look at the card.  I added the little penguin and pop it up with foam tape and two of the presents are popped up using foam tape

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you will play along.  You have until December 14th!

Crackerbox with Coffee Loving Blog Hop!

Hello everyone!

I am here with Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps and I am playing along with the 2018 Fall/Winter Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop! Joy Clair is a super sponsor, so be sure to stop over to the Joy Clair blog to see what the design team has created. Also, don't forget to play along with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog hop for your chance to win prizes!  If you have never played along, you have to use coffee, tea or cocoa related items on your card.  The hop is from November 30th to December 7th, so there is plenty of time to play along!

Here is my card for the blog hop.  I am using the  Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps "Snowman Cup".  I stamped and colored it with copics.

These are the current promotions over on Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps.

Thank you for stopping by, enjoy the hop and be sure to come back again soon!

Joy Clair with Coffee Loving Cardmakers!

Hello everyone!

I am here with Joy Clair Stamps and I am playing along with the 2018 Fall/Winter Coffee Loving Cardmakers! Joy Clair is a super sponsor, so be sure to stop over to the Joy Clair blog to see what the design team has created. Also, don't forget to play along with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog hop for your chance to win prizes!  If you have never played along, you have to use coffee, tea or cocoa related items on your card.  The hop is from November 30th to December 7th, so there is plenty of time to play along!

Here is my card for the blog hop.  I am using the newly released Joy Clair stamp set called "Tea Time".  I used watercolor for my background, I stamped and the books and the sentiment and colored the books with copics. 

closer look at the card.

Please follow Joy Clair's facebook page, Color by Faith Bible Journaling facebook page, Instagram and Twitter, be the first to hear the news, sales and giveaways! They also have a Pinterest page and Youtube channel for your inspiration!

Thank you so much for stopping by, please come back again soon!

Joy Clair Stamps - Living Water

Hello everyone!

I am here with Joy Clair Stamps and I am using their newest released stamp from their Bible Journaling line called Living Water. This is such a cute stamp set that is perfect for bible journaling, but I have created a card for your inspiration.

There are still a couple of days for you to join the Joy Clair stamps November challenge! As always it is "anything goes" but the design team has an inspirational photo. I hope you will join, one lucky person has the opportunity to win a $25 gift card to the Joy Clair store. You can find all the details here.

Here is my card I created and how I put it together, for your inspiration.

Here is how I put it together:

My card is an A2 card. I cut two pieces of design paper and adhered it to my card. I cut the top panel with water color paper, I used my water color paints to create my scene. I die cut a piece of vellum and stamped it with versamark and added some black embossing powder and heat set it with my heat tool.  I added some twine to the vellum piece and adhered it to my card with glue dots.

Here is a closer view of the card.

Please follow Joy Clair's facebook page, Color by Faith Bible Journaling facebook page, Instagram and Twitter, be the first to hear the news, sales and giveaways! They also have a Pinterest page and Youtube channel for your inspiration!

Thank you so much for stopping by, please come back again soon!

Listed below are the products I used. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I have used compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

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CAS-UAL FRIDAY CHALLENGE #211 - Shades of Gold

Hello everyone!

I'm here with CAS-ual Fridays with a new challenge! We have a color challenge which is shades of gold. I hope you will join in on the fun. I also want to mention CAS-ual Fridays is retiring a bunch of sets which are marked down, if you are interested click here to see them all. Once the set has sold out, they will not be reordering.

Did you know, CAS-ual Fridays picks 10 winning entries who will be highlighted on their blog each Thursday before a new challenge? In addition, there is a $25 gift certificate to the overall winner atCAS-ual Fridays Stamps. If the chosen winner has used CAS-ual Fridays stamps and/or dies as the main focus in the card, that gift certificate will increase to $50. Wow, what are you waiting for? Hop on over to CAS-ual Fridays and link your card to the challenge.

Here is the inspirational photo:

Here is my take on the challenge.  I stamped the sentiment on black cardstock from the CAS-ual Fridays Merry Stamp set  with versamark and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. The layer gold paper I embossed the edges to match the sentiment.  I adhered the two together and added it to the vellum gold stripe paper.  I added some snowflakes from the CAS-ual Fri-dies Flurry, which I die cut from some gold glitter cardstock.  I finished the card off by adding some gold rhinestones.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you decide to play along! Good luck and have fun!

Rinea - Blessed

Hello everyone,

I am back again with Rinea and Imagine Crafts. I hope you have been enjoying the month long collaboration with Imagine Crafts. If you have not visited the Rinea blog, please do for more inspiration.

I am using the Rinea foiled paper "Earth Tone Variety Pack" on my card.

Here is how I put my card together:

1. My card is an A2 size card, I cut my first layer using the Earth Tone Variety Pack,

2. The next layer I cut and created my background using the Imagine Crafts Firework Product Desert Sand and Pear Tart.  I finished the background off by adding some of my favorite Shimmer Craft Spray Sparkle.

3. I die cut the elements that I used on my card from the Earth Tone Variety Pack foiled paper. I adhered them to my card using the Imagine On Point Glue,

Another look at the card.

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Retro Rubber Challenge Blog - Tic Tac Toe #100

Hello everyone!

I am here with Retro Rubber Challenge blog and we have a new challenge, which is a fun tic tac toe created by our wonderful design team member Jan Clothier! We are changing things up a bit to celebrate our 100th challenge!

Here’s the scoop…play along with our celebration themed tic tac toe challenge!
Hop around to all of the design team blogs and leave a comment! Each team member is offering up some surprise retro (new but older than a year) goodies to one lucky person who leaves a comment on their blog. That means there will be seven winners!
As always, we will be listing the five top picks with the winning pick receiving a prize for this challenge only.

*You do not have to enter the challenge to win but you must leave a comment on the design team blogs in order to have a chance to win!

Here is the blog hop order:

Claire Grantham

Neva Cole
Donna Idlet - YOU ARE HERE
Maria Rodriguez
Jan Clothier
LeAnne Pugliese
Jane Knudsen

If you have not joined our challenges before, the rules are very simple, just use a stamp older than a year and you must include the age (or approximate age) of the stamp in your blog post. Here is the sketch for you to use. I cannot wait to see you take on it.

My tic tac toe is balloons, confetti and cake.  The stamp set I used is by Close to my Heart called "Sweet Birthday Cake" that was released sometime in October 2017.  

Another look at my card. 

Are you ready to play along? Be sure to stop over on the Retro Rubber Challenge blog to get some more inspiration! Thank you for stopping by, you have until November 30th to join the fun!

Joy Clair Stamps - I am so Thankful!

Hello everyone!

It's that time of year when we have so much to be thankful for....don't you just love this image created by Joy Clair Stamps called "Turkey Talk"?  I love how the turkey is pointing at himself and you can use different sentiments in the middle section.

Joy Clair stamps has a new challenge this month! As always it is "anything goes" but the design team has an inspirational photo. I hope you will join, the challenge runs all month and one lucky person has the opportunity to win a $25 gift card to the Joy Clair store.  You can find all the details here.

Here is my card I created and how I put it together for your inspiration.

My card is an A2 card, I cut a two layers and adhered them to my card, I die cut the center layer from a square stitched die and adhered it to my card.  I stamped the image and cut it with my scan and cut and colored it with copics.  I stamped the image again and fizzy cut the center out and stamped my sentiment.  I used foam tape to pop the sentiment on the turkey.

Closer look at the image.

A side view of how I popped the sentiment in the center of the turkey.



Please follow Joy Clair's facebook page, Color by Faith Bible Journaling facebook page, Instagram and Twitter, be the first to hear the news, sales and giveaways! They also have a Pinterest page and Youtube channel for your inspiration!

Thank you so much for stopping by, please come back again soon!

Listed below are the products I used. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I have used compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

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