Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas - September 2021 Edition

Welcome back to Crafty Elves for September 2021!  Debra, Michael and I are sharing the Christmas cards we made this month.  And be sure to hang around 'til the end to see if you won some Happy Mail from last month!

Here's how I was inspired:

Awwwwww.... right???  I fell in love with this stamp from Colorado Craft Company called Puppy's Quilt the minute I saw it and it doesn't have to be a Christmas image, but using the right colors and sentiment it can be!  I found the perfect sentiment on an old Lil' Inker stamp set.  The frame is from AJVD and you can find that here if you like it (and psst...there's a sale going on over there for the next few days!)

For my next three cards I used a stamp set from Art Impressions that I love!  It's called Santa Paws and I've used it for my Crafty Elves post before on some mini cards.  This time I used them for these full sized cards:

I got this awesome Fa La La die from MFT Stamps from a local craft store a while ago and decided it made the perfect background shaker for these crooning canines!  It was a quick and simple design.  The background die is retired, but you might be able to find one somewhere if you love it!

Next up is this little guy!

I had a lot of fun adding him to the Joy shaker I made using the Joy Shaker die from Pretty Pink Posh!  I used the Sketch for this month's Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers challenge!  You have 'til the end of the month to play along and you can find the details in the Facebook Group here!  Sketch is below!

I used the sketch for a second card too!  It's a great sketch for using up some design paper scraps.. you know, like the bit of a 6x6 paper after you cut a base panel out of it!

I used two of the pups for this one and they make the perfect pair... one chihuahua is a grump but the golden makes up for it... seems about right!

Here's the sketch:

Before you go to check out what Michael and Debra have for you, let's see who won some Happy Mail from last month's post:

Denise!  Send me your snail mail at bzscrapper66 at gmail dot com!

Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by and left me some love last month!  We'll do it again!  Leave me some love and maybe I'll send you something!

Come again soon!

 

More Colorado Craft Company Coffee House with the CLC

I'm up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog today with a fun fold card!  I've used some more Colorado Craft Company stamps and had a lot of fun creating this one.

I hope you'll join me over there for links and details!

Thanks so much for stopping and I hope you'll come again soon!

 

Colorado Craft Company - Coffee House

I'm up on the blog over at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers with a new challenge and last month's winner!

I'm using this adorable set from Colorado Craft Company that I picked up at Ellen Hutson!

Hope you'll hop on over there and check it out!

I'm also playing along over at Double Trouble Challenge Blog!  It's a Scrapper's Trail Mix... mix and match patterns for lots of fun!  I've mixed up some funky polka dots and stripes (and actually I got lucky and they were on the same design paper from Honey Bee Stamps!)  Also, there's a color challenge twist and you can link up over at Color My Heart Color Dare should you take the challenge!

Thanks for coming and I hope you'll come again soon!

 

Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas - August 2021 Edition!

Welcome!  It's time for the Crafty Elves to share the Christmas Cards we've made this month!  And we have a new elf joining us this time around.  Misty Lavigne is joining us and be sure to head on over to her YouTube channel while you're hopping!  While you're at it don't forget to stop and see Debra and Michael!  Lots of fun and inspiration!  But before you go, stay a while and see what I've for you today:

I had printed this adorable digi from Angie Blom last month and didn't have time to do anything with it then so I colored it up for August.  I added it to an alcohol inked background that I added a snowflake border to using a stamp from Rubbernecker and some alcohol lift ink.  It's a nice flat card great for mailing and I just love that image with the adorable pup driving.  The set is called Joyful Christmas Ride.

These are the Copic Markers I used for that one.

The rest of my cards are using images from an adorable Colorado Craft Company set called Christmas Presents! It's just one of the many adorable Anita Jeram sets over there and I love it!

I love this image from the set with that pup on top of the presents!  I used the birdhouse from AJVD as a dog house and some of the Gingerbread accessories to dress it up!

And for this one I made another alcohol inked panel:

I tried a little alcohol lift on this one too, but it didn't quite workout.  I think I waited too long to buff them... so I decided instead to use the snowflake stencil from CAS-ual Fridays to add some snowflakes with Gina K Glitz Glitter Gel.  I added vellum to the back of the window, and put a few snowflakes behind it and popped the whole thing up.  And then that little patient pup waiting to open his presents... 

When I made the background above and was using the Alcohol ift Ink, I stamped off the snowflakes onto another piece of cardstock for a light snowflake background.  (As you're lifting the ink, there is some ink on the stamp that can then be stamped off onto another panel):

This one is about as clean and simple as I ever get... I added some snowdrops with the glitter gel and then popped up a photo frame over it and added the bunny from the C3 set!

That's me for today!  I hope you enjoyed it and you'll come again soon!  Be sure to head on over to Misty, Michael, and Debra's places!  The links are at the top.  And before you go let's see who won some Happy Mail from last month's post:

Cheryl!  Please email me your snail mail at bzscrapper66 at gmail dot com!

And we're playing again so leave me some love and come again soon!