Starry Christmas Coffee

Or tea, or hot cocoa.....

This card was a blast!  The tone-on-tone background took a bit of time, but I love how it turned out.

Just a few challenges:

• BYSHC Christmas in July Linky Party
• Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge - #19 Stars
• DLArt Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #605 Anything Goes 3/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy caffeinated Christmas crafting!  Laters!!

Taking Christmas in July Literally!!!

Okay, so about two weeks ago, a friend suggested everyone in our little group make a Christmas card with summer colors.

I'm the only one who did it.

I'm not even sure I LIKE the card, but here we are.

90% of my Christmas paper is, you know, Christmas colors.  The rest is pastel.  So I had to make my own background paper and I used a snowflake stamp that resembles a star.  That might be my favorite part.

In general, just a lot of things went into this card.  I just had ZERO inspiration and I didn't want, like, Santa in a swimsuit.  So I decided to make a coffee card, so it would count for that challenge too.  Now for that, it needed a star, but I love stars so that was no big deal.  But the card fell flat with just a star on the cup.  And I didn't like the look of an embossed mug, or of patterned paper (again, wrong colors anyway).  So I added the rainbow out of scraps from a different card.  Do I love it or hate it?  I don't even know.

Just a few challenges:

• BYSHC Christmas in July Linky Party
• Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge - #19 Stars
• DLArt Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #605 Anything Goes 2/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy caffeinated Christmas crafting!!  Laters!!

Happy Holly Tag

I don't get to make a ton of tags, but omg I had so much fun making this one!  I got to get my inner Tim Holtz on with those holly leaves, and it had been awhile.

Just a few challenges:

• BYSHC Christmas in July Linky Party
• DLArt Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #605 Anything Goes 1/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy Christmas crafting!  Laters!!

**ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with The Creative Crafters!!

Happy middle-of-the-month!  It's the fifteenth and that means it's time for a new challenge at Creative Crafters!  As always our challenge is Anything Goes!!!  I swear, I think I spent ten years making this card.  In the end, it came out really cute and I love it, but MAN.

I think my die cutting machine started smoking with this one.  I used my Diamond Press Marquis for everything but the "crepe paper" streamers and balloon strings.  They both cut better with my Big Shot.  And I tried something different with the balloon strings, I didn't put adhesive on my cardstock and instead used Bearly Art glue.  I approve of how it turned out!

See those cupcakes??  They're about a quarter of an inch each. Assembled.  And they're three parts.  Lots of Coke and Ruffles were involved in the creation of those cupcakes.  And I can't forget my current embellishment tool (I think the one I haven't broken yet is Pinkfresh Studios?), every crafter should have five of them!

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #604 Anything Goes 2/5

Be sure to visit the blog, play along with us and check out the other DT's projects as well!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting!  Laters!!

**Favorite Colors** New Challenge with Simply Create Too!

Happy Friday!  It's a new challenge at Simply Create Too and our theme this month is Favorite Colors!!! My favorite colors are Pink, Purple and Turquoise, and I just got this lovely image set from Angie Blom so I had to use it!

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #603 Anything Goes 2/5

Be sure to visit the blog to see what the rest of the DT created!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

**ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with The Crafty Addicts!!

Hi everyone!!  It's time for a new challenge at The Crafty Addicts!!  I have to admit that July has really snuck up on me and I'm running behind on everything.  Our theme is always 

ANYTHING GOES!!!

I let my nice help me pick out the die and the washi I used for this card.  She loooooves sparkly and shiny things and unicorns.

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #603 Anything Goes 1/5

Be sure to check out the blog and see what the rest of the DT created.  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Happy Birthday America!!

I really do love making patriotic cards.  And since I'm not a kit person, I always hesitate to make these Anna Griffin cards, and I don't know why they turn out awesome!!!

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #602 Anything Goes 2/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

**CHRISTMAS IN JULY** New Challenge with Get Creative Challenge!!

Hi everyone!  It's a new challenge at Get Creative Challenges and our theme is Christmas In July!!  Merry Christmas in a sauna!  I'm dying!  But I do love, love, love this card.  I'd forgotten how fun light up cards could be.

Yeah, yeah it's cute on its own but LOOK!

I cannot believe I took the picture with my nails looking that horrible!!!

So much better without my nail in the photo lol.

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #602 Anything Goes 1/5

Be sure to visit the blog to see what the rest of the DT created.  Thanks so much for looking and happy Christmas crafting.  Laters!!!