From Our House To Yours Centre Step Card

Hi Crafty Friends,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Tracey Farr our challenge hostess for the month finishes off her month with one last challenge.

Wreaths - Tracey just loves the look of wreaths, she says there's just something about them that appeals to her eye. So our challenge this week is to put a wreath on your card, any style or theme you like.

I created a christmas themed Centre Step Card using Divinity Designs Center Step Card with Layers die set. For my card today I omitted the layers and stencilled bricks direct to the base of the white card to create the look of the house.

I added some glittery snow to the base of the card using the snow/dirt border from Elizabeth Craft Designs Adventure Edges 2 die set. I die cut this from white cardstock that had Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape on the front and covered the adhesive with Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter.

I then used Elizabeth Craft Designs Christmas Door die set to decorate the front of the card. I love this die set, it has everything you need to create a front view of a house scene. Of course the wreath which I needed to add for the challenge, is adhered to the door.

For the inside of my card, I added another snowy hill along the bottom of the card. I also added a large Christmas tree to the left side of the card using dies included in the Sleigh die set.

To finish off the card I added two sentiments "From Our House To Yours" and "Merry Christmas To You & Yours". Both sentiments are from a long retired Waltzing Mouse Stamps stamp set, as I wanted to include the "From Our House To Yours" on my card.  I believe ECD has a similar sentiment included in their "Joyful Wishes" stamp set but as I don't have that set I used what was on hand. I have linked to the ECD version below in case you are interested.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Amy Ottmers

Karen Ostergard

Kathleen Adams

Maryann Einam

Rebecca Ednie

Tracey Farr

Nicky Foden

Supplies:

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Christmas Cottage - Waltzing Mouse Stamps (retired)

Engaged!

Hi everyone,

I needed an Engagement Card to give to my nephew and his fiancée so this is what I came up with.

The Lattice background is a cut file from Waltzing Mouse Stamps, love the details in this! The happy couple are from Crafter’s Companion.

Stamps: Congratulations Set – Crafter’s Companion; Anthony (ring) – Hanna Stamps; Engaged (Wedding Essentials) – Flourishes

Paper: Cream; Burgundy

Other: Black Ink; MFT Die-namics Circle Stax; Oval Punches; Art Deco 2 Cut File – Waltzing Mouse Stamps; Rhinestones; Foam Tape; Copics

 

Christmas Gift Box

Hi everyone,

It’s time for another CHF challenge over on the Cornish Heritage Farms Blog .

This week it is my turn to host the challenge and the challenge is Christmas Boxes or Bags. You can either create a box or bag from scratch or decorate one you have purchased.

As you can see I decided to create my box from scratch. I used my Sizzix Eclips and a SVG template I found online for a Three Kings Square Box.

To decorate my box I used Cornish Heritage Farms Rummage Bin Night Before Christmas stamp set. I am having so much fun with this stamp set that I can’t stop using it .



I stamped the snowy scene 4 times and cut them out so I could attach one to each side of the box. I also stamped out the sentiment “From Our House To yours” and added it to my ribbon at the top.



Want to play along???? If you would like to play along with us of course we would love to have you! AND - if you do, you could win a $10 Gift Certificate and a Winner's Badge to put on your Blog!

To play create a card using CHF images. You can use either CHF digi or rubber stamps to create a card or project.... anything you like as long as the stamps are Cornish Heritage Farms. (Yes, they can be older stamps.)

Once you have created your card/project come back here and place a comment with a link to your card/project to this post so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword CHF15. We can't wait to see what you create!

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Design Teams blogs today so see what they created for this challenge.

• Anne Harmon
• Cindy Haffner
• Kristine Reynolds
• Michele L
• Steph Ackerman

Stamps: Rummage Bin Night Before Christmas – Cornish Heritage Farms

Paper: White; Blue; Red

Other: Blue Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Red Ribbon; Sizzix Eclips; Waltzing Mouse Stamps 3 Kings Box Square SVG File; Foam Tape; Copics

Christmas Crackers!

Hi everyone,

Well there is only one sleep now til Christmas … well for those of us down here is Australia anyway

Each year for the past thirty odd years I have been creating my own Christmas crackers to use on Christmas Day … today I am sharing the ones I created this year. My daughter selected the paper which is just wrapping paper she found in a local chain store.

The ornament on the front of each cracker is from Waltzing Mouse Stamps. I stamped the ornaments in different colors to match the paper used on the crackers.

Deck Those Halls!

Hi all!
It’s challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. This week's challenge will be our last challenge for 2011 as we all want to take a little time to concentrate on family and friends during the holidays. Of course we will be back on 5th January to start another year for fun challenges, hope to see you here too!

This week I am the am the challenge hostess and I am challenging you all with Christmas Ornaments …. Create something Christmas Ornament related it can be a card or a 3 D project.

A few month’s back I purchased this Vintage Ornament stamp set from Waltzing Mouse Stamps, so I have been wanting an excuse to use it, this week’s challenge gave me that excuse .

Don’t forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Charlene Merrick

Cindy Haffner

Joanne Grzelak

Shirley Quarry

Tosh Leyendekker

InLinkz.com

Stamps: Vintage Ornaments – Waltzing Mouse Stamps

Paper: White; Red; Green; DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Red Ink; Spellbinders Heirloom Ornament; Spellbinders Poinsettia Die; Whimsy Stamps Christmas Ticket Sentiments & Die; Bells; Sewing Machine; Seam Binding Ribbon; Red Brads; Foam Tape

Be Merry & Bright!

 

 

Hi everyone and happy Monday!!!!!!

My card today uses a sketch from Waltzing Mouse Stamps new Sketch challenge blog …. this one is from a couple of week’s ago (WMSC1). Seeing I have a growing number of Waltzing Mouse stamp sets I thought I would play along.

I mainly have their nestie friendly sets right now (I might have to correct that hehe) so I had to make do with what I had. This is now officially my second Christmas card for the year!!!!! 2 down … how many more to go … now that is scary hehe!

Stamps: Little Box Labels; Seasons Of Love - Tags; Vintage Labels No 5 – Waltzing Mouse Stamps

Paper: Cream; Red; Green

Other: Olive Ink; Red Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Scallop Square Nestabilities; Holly Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Red Brad; Poinsettia Flower; Foam Tape

Just For Mother’s Day!

Hi all,

My card today is for a recent sketch challenge held by Waltzing Mouse Stamps …. I thought it was a fun sketch and seeing I had purchased a few stamps from there I decided what better excuse to use them then this hehe! I love that some of their stamps work with the nestabilities dies.

Stamps: Vintage Circles, Small – Waltzing Mouse Stamps; Sentiment – Print Blocks

Paper: White; Red; Brown; DP

Other: Red Ink; Brown Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Scallop Circle Punch; Buttons; Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape

Going Crackers!

Happy Sunday everyone!

Well I am starting to cross off those jobs that have to be done before Christmas arrives. One of those jobs that I do every year is make and decorate my Christmas Crackers.

This year I cheated just a little as I purchased plan gold crackers and then decorated them how I wanted. I used Waltzing Mouse Stamps “Seasons of Love” stamp set … I love how these match the Spellbinders Nestabilities!

Here is another view of the crackers all together … hard to take a good picture of them in the basket so you could still see the crackers … but hope this one is ok!

Recipe:

Stamps: Seasons of Love – Waltzing Mouse Stamps

Paper: White

Other: Black Ink; Red Ink; Circle & Star Nestabilities;