Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas - November 2021 Edition

Welcome to the November 2021 Crafty Elves Post!  Every 25th of the month my crafty friends, Debra and Michael and I share the Christmas cards we made that month!  With the holidays, I needed some really easy but cute cards and I made a shaker from some new dies over at AJVD and a Carta Bella paper pad from a previous season and decided they were perfect for today!

No coloring and a quick and easy shaker!  Just paper and dies!  I used the little picture cards from the paper pack and filled my shaker with some snowflakes and a few clear sequins and colorful beads.  For this one I used a sentiment from the AJVD Let It Snow stamp set.

Didn't even need to add a sentiment for this one!  The sentiment is one of the picture cards!

I love this cutie pie picture card and added some snowflakes and a sentiment from the Cool Friend stamp set!

And another one where the picture card IS the sentiment!

And this is the one I made first that inspired the rest of my cards for this month and if you'd like a little more detail of how I made them, you can visit my post here!

I've got one more for you!  I didn't make this one this month... in fact I made it a while ago!  But Miss Ink Stamps is having a Winter Release and they are releasing a Limited Edition stamp set from a prior season, Snow Couple!

Tomorrow, Friday, November 26th, you'll find more New Release inspiration along with giveaways and a sale!  Be sure to check it out!

Thanks so much for stopping!  Now be sure to head over to Debra's and Michael's places to see what they've created for this month!

Now let's see who won some Happy Mail from last month's post:

Celeste Goff!  Email your snail mail to me at bzscrapper66 at gmail dot com so I can send you some Happy Mail!

We're playing again!  Leave me some love and I'll pick a name next month to send some Happy Mail to!

That's me for today!  Hope you'll come again soon!

 

Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas-March 2019

Welcome to the March edition of Crafty Elves!  My bloggy friend Debra Davison (of Meticulosity) have vowed to create a Christmas Card a week for 2019 so that when Christmas comes, all of our cards are done!  We're sharing our makes on the 25th of each month!

I'll tell you... it's tax season for me and if I can push through this next two months I've got it made!  And I made it this month with the help of some awesome design papers and quick and easy cards!  Here's what I have for you:

So I decided to use the comfy cozy Echo Park/Carta Bella Cabin Fever papers... between the papers and the journal cards, four of these cards went together in about 45 minutes!   And then I wanted to do one really special card for you this month and it just so happens Michele over at CAS-ual Fridays has just released a die set called Huggable Critters and when I saw the journal card with the "Bear Hugs" sentiment on it... I knew right away what I was going to do!

I used some papers from the Cabin Fever paper pack to cut out all of my pieces... including that cool brown sweater pattern I used for my bear and that pretty plaid for my Coffee Cup! 

 I originally had the handle tucked under the bear's paw, but I wanted it to be like he had his paw inside the handle.  It wouldn't fit, so I cut the handle and sliced his paw a big to have it go into his paw... you know, as if some of his fur was going around the outside of it... I think all in all it looks pretty good and I love that the handle can show!

I mean a bear sized mug would definitely be more like a Bear Hug in a Mug, don't you think??

Now for a quick look at the rest of my cards for this month:

To add a little special to these, I used some dies and embossing folders and I'm really pleased with how they turned out.  In addition to the journal cards, I used some of the stickers from the pack and some popup tape and of course a few sequins on each one!

I LOVE this paper pack!  The papers are heavy and textured and so beautiful!

That woodgrain with the snowflakes... as you can see... is one of my faves!

Not to mention the large quantity of plaid...lol!  And then one more look at my Huggable Critter:

I'm playing along with the Cute challenge over at Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge!

Gosh I LOVE this new die set!  If you haven't checked out the new release inspiration at CAS-ual Fridays, I highly suggest  you head over there after you check out what Debra has created for you today!

Oh!!  And the winner of some Happy Mail from February's post is:

Sue D!

Sue, please email me your snail mail address at bzscrapper66 at g mail dot com so I can send you your Happy Mail!

Thanks everyone for stopping and I'm gonna do it again!  Leave me some love and I'll pick someone to send some mail to and announce it in my April Crafty Elves post!

Check out today's CAS-ual Fridays Release post here!