Crafty Elves Light - February 2022

The Crafty Elves are on break this month!  We've all got reasons why time has just gotten away from us.  I'm just stopping in to let you know and share one Christmas card.

Cute, right??  I love this cutie pie Rudolph from Whimsy Stamps (it comes in rubber and digital too!) and I had the image partially colored from Copic Bootcamp so I put a quick card together and used a sentiment from AJVD.  I had gotten some panels cut from that pretty plaid paper from Memory Box knowing I wanted to use these colors for my cards this month so I colored the remainder of the image to match.  Next month I'll have more cards using this paper!

Thanks so much for stopping and be sure to come back again next month on the 25th to see what we've got for you!  And we're still playing!  So let's see who won some Happy Mail from last month's post:

Judy!  Send me your snail mail at Bzscrapper66 at gmail dot com and I'll get some Happy Mail out to you!

Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by and left some love last month!  Leave me some this month and you could win some Happy Mail too!

 

Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas - June 2021 Edition

Well!  Meeeerry Christmas!  It's that time of month again and the Crafty Elves are sharing the Christmas Cards we made this month!  Michael, Debra and I along with our guestie (again) Crystal have lots of fun for you (and a challenge)!  We sure hope you enjoy it!

Here's how I was inspired:

I fell in love with this sweet deer from the Silent Night stamp and die sets!  Not to mention all of the other lovely images.  (Psst... it's retiring and on sale in the HB shop here!)  I took a post vaccination mini trip to northern AZ a few weeks ago with my mom and used the weekend to color all of my images for today (except for my last card) including these.  And check out the paper I used today!!  This is a beautiful plaid paper pad from Memory Box and I picked it up at Ellen Hutson here!

I used a lot of the same colors for most of my cards, but a few extra for this one.

I also used this Honey Bee set, Snow Buddies (also on sale and retiring)!  

And check out the Vintage Frame from A Jillian Vance Design.. one of my faves!

And for this one, another one of my fave frames from Rubbernecker Stamps!

I had stamped, cut and colored so many images I had some extras so made a snowman free card using this Photo Frame from AJVD.  And I used snowflakes from various companies and all of the sentiments for the above cards are from a fabulous set from Miss Ink, Seasons Greetings.

I thought I was done with all of my cards for the month and then remembered I had wanted to play along with the current Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Sketch Challenge #11!

I colored up some of the pups from an old MFT set and they were perfect!

So cute, right??

And these are the colors I used for the last 5 cards.

That's me for today!  Now be sure to head on over to my fellow crafty elves places to see what they've created for you for today!

Debra

Michael

Special Guestie Elf, Crystal

And before you leave, I have a winner of some Happy Mail:

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

 Thanks so much to everyone who stopped last month and every other month and thank you for your kind words!  And we're playing again... leave me some love and I may send you some Happy Mail!

Thank you SO much for stopping and hope you'll come again!

 

Miss Ink Stamps - Gelli Plate Leftovers Are The Hippest

Yesterday I was up on the Miss Ink Stamps blog here sharing a card using some panels from a Gelli Plate session and today I'm using some of the "extra" "reject" panels... which I am loving!

I created a Mini Slimline using some new AJVD dies for today and cut one of the layers from a leftover panel and some more bubbles with a Memory Box die.  I also used the leftover panel for my sentiment.

I am so in love with these baby hippos from Miss Ink along with all of the other images and sentiments on this set, Hippo Hooray!

For this one, rather than stamping the seaweed directly onto the panel, I used the images from the stamp set... stamped, colored and fussy cut.

I'm really bad about stating the Copic colors I've used on my projects usually because by the time I am writing up my blog post I've forgotten.  And I do have a few favorite combos, but I got this idea from a friend and I think it will work out just fine!  I will try to always include something like this for each post going forward for those who want to know.  Actually it's a good reminder for me too!

That's me for today!  Thanks so much for stopping and hope you'll come again soon!

 

Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas - July 2019 Edition!

Welcome to this month's Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas!  Debra Davison from Meticulosity and I are the Crafty Elves and we've made a pact to create a Christmas card a week so that when December comes, all of the hard work will be done and we can just mail them out!  We share our makes every 25th of the month and this one is special because we are also participating in an Instagram Hop with our Polka Dot Orchard Teamies to show off some awesome Christmas themed digital stamps!

Each month I draw a name from the visitors who commented the prior month and send out some Happy Mail!  Last month's winner will be announced at the end of this post.  And when you are done here be sure to head over to my Instagram Hop post that begins at 10am EST and follow the instructions there for a chance to win some more!

Here's how I was inspired:

This adorable Penguin from the Penguin Love digi set was just begging to have a Santa Hat on and this one from the Magic of Christmas set was perfect!  The awesome thing about digis is you can resize them so it was easy to make it in just the right size.  I pulled up the penguin and made him the size I wanted and then pulled in the hat and sized it so it would fit on his head.  I then separated them to print because I knew I'd be cutting them out.  I used the beautiful Really Rainbow Christmas papers from Lawn Fawn as well as the Mini Snowflakes.  The sentiment is from an adorable Reverse Confetti set, S'more Love and I layered my papers using some dies from Rubbernecker... these and these!

These images and sentiment are also in the Magic of Christmas set.  And since I printed the sentiment on my laser, I was able to foil it with my Minc.  I used the Lawn Fawn snowflakes and Rubbernecker background dies again.  I used this NEW Rubbernecker Stencil on the top layer and that adorable Santa Hat die from Taylored Expressions.

This one might be my fave... but then you know why that is...lol!  The belt and sentiment are in the Magic of Christmas digital set.  The mug die is from Memory Box and I used a stencil from Paper Smooches for the steam along with some texture paste and glitter.

And my fourth card for this month is this one that I shared a few days ago.  I used digital stamps from The Cutting Cafe and you can find more details on this one here if you'd like them!

Now for the winner from last month's commentors:

Shell!  Contact me at bzscrapper66 at gmail dot com with your snail mail so I can send you some Happy Mail!

Now be sure to head on over to Instagram (after 10am EST) and hop for a chance to win a digital stamp set of your choice!  Head to my Instagram here and look for this graphic!:

Come back soon!

Heart 2 Heart Guestie-Sunny Days

Excited to be guesting again this week over the Heart 2 Heart Challenges!  This week it's all about Sunny Days!  I created this one using the Little Acres Creations February release stamp set, Piles of Smiles!  As soon as I saw this stamp set, this idea started formulating!  And OF COURSE it has a coffee theme... I mean... are you new here??

I started this one using Distress Inks and a Tim Holtz Sunray stencil.  I ink blended my background to look like a sunshiny morning and then added the sunrays using the stencil and some more of the same ink color where I would be putting my cup.  You know... Sunny Days!

Then I die cut the ink blended background with a scalloped die and layered that on top of that beautiful Canary design paper from the CTMH Stargazer paper pack.  And those pretty gold hearts are chipboard and are from the CTMH Springtime Complements pack.

I cut out two more of the same mat in Pear cardstock and then a few grassy layers using Lawn Fawn's grass border dies and layered them over each other at the bottom of the mat.

This stamp set is SO adorable!  Love this pile of friends helping each other to reach the top of this huge coffee cup and get themselves a warm cuppa.  That cute little bear.. he needs one badly.. that cute little teeny weeny cup was a gift from a crafty friend and it's perfect when my little critters want to indulge in some liquid gold!  It's from Memory Box and I love it!

The huge cup is also from Memory box.  I knew I wanted to use these beautiful sunflowers from the Little Acres Summer Blessings stamp set to decorate my cup.  I like that they also fit the Sunny Days theme.. because they are SUNflowers!   And that cute little foxy fox is also from the new Piles of Smiles set.  He's waiting patiently to get his cup filled too.

And this sweet sentiment from the new set says it all I think.  Love this one and the other sweet sentiments on this set.  I think it's gonna be one of my fave sets!

So thanks for stopping by!  Hope you enjoyed today's make and check out all of the beautiful over at Heart 2 Heart Challenges.  Extra wishes that you will support this awesome challenge and play along!  You have an entire month to play along with all of the weekly challenges so lots of time.  The first week was all about awesome Make It From Your Heart sketches.  Last week was True Love and now we have Sunny Days.  It's not too late to play along with all of them!

See you again soon... it's a busy week!