My First Outlawz Challenge Entry

Isn't this little girl just the sweetest little thing? She is from "All Dressed Up Stamps" .  Visit their challenge blog and check out their shop to find more darling digital images like this one.

The filigree background die used on this card  is from Spellbinders.
 The trees and the bunnies are dies from Memory Box and were cut from Pearl paper.
 The purple card stock base was hiding out in my paper stash.
 I used my nearly new, hardly used Prisma-Color pencils and I used "Baby Oil" to blend the colors.

Thanks for visiting my blog today. I hope you will stop back again soon.
Ta Ta For Now,
Kathy

A Card Made With Never Before Used Schtuff

This Christmas card uses a few NBUS or Never Before Used Schtuff and is being entered in the NBUS Challenge #3.
I won a blog candy giveaway and the zig zag background stamp was part of the prize. This is the first time I've used it and I really like it!
The fancy oval is also new. I cut the oval out of pearl paper.
I bought the tree die about a year ago but this is the first time I've used it.

 

I'm also entering the CASE-ing Christmas Challenge #3.

This is the card that I used for my inspiration :

Card by DT member Judy.

 

 

 

 

 

CASE-ing Christmas Card Challenge #2

 This week I'm entering the CASE-ing Christmas Card Challenge #2.

 

This is my card. As you can see I was inspired by the  layered and embossed banners and the large flower.

 

 Card by DT member Pat.

 This is the card that we are to take our inspiration from:

 

Please click on the badge  above  to go to the challenge blog and view all the entries in this weeks challenge. 

I think I'll put a counter on the side-bar to keep track of how I'm doing with this years Christmas cards.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I hope you have a terrific day. Come back again soon.
Ta Ta For Now,
Kathy

 

Christmas Card Challenge Blog

This was the first time in many years that I didn't send out handmade Christmas cards. It wasn't that I didn't have any made but I forgot to pack the box that had all of my cards in it. They are still on my closet shelf in Minnesota. I'm starting this week to make a supply of holiday cards that will be left in Arizona.

This new challenge blog should help me accomplish this.
I found a new holiday card challenge blog "CASE-ing Christmas.

This is the very first challenge for this new blog and here is the card that I made for the challenge.

 This is the card that we are to use as our inspiration card.

Operation Write Home Sketch Challenge #245

It's been a long time since I participated in a sketch challenge over at Operation Write Home.
 I forgot how much I liked using a sketch as design inspiration.

Here's my card for OWH Sketch Challenge #245

and here is  sketch #245

This is the first time I've used my new, large, flower  punch that I bought at my local Hobby Lobby when they had their brand at half price. All of the flowers on this card were punched with that punch. 

The papers used were all from a Hampton Art paper pad "Berry Blast". 

I used a scrap of left over Kraft paper for the tag and the ribbon on it was a snippet left over  from a mini album.  The playground over at Pixie's Snippets Playground  is open for an extended amount for the holidays so I'm going to play there for a second time this week.

Have a great day! 

Kathy

Operation Write Home & Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge

This is the card that I made for this months Our Daily Bread Designs  Challenge.
We are to use primary colors on our card.
 Our Daily Bread Designs sponsors this monthly challenge over  on The Operation Write Home Blog.
ODBD will pay the shipping costs for one box of cards to be sent to our deployed heroes if 25 cards are entered in the challenge and will pay the cost of two boxes of cards to be sent if 50 cards are entered.

I used scraps of white card stock for the embossed background and used some leftover snippets of white for the sentiment label and blue for the sentiment. I'll be playing over on Pixie's Snippets Playground again this month so check out all the other entries HERE.

I am also entering my card in The Loves Rubberstamps Challenge. 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. Thank you to all the new followers that joined my blog in 2014 and I wish you all a very "Happy New Year"!
See you soon.
Kathy

My Mini File Folder Album

This mini album was made using plain standard size file folders from Staples. I think I used three folders to make the album. The page sizes in this album are 4 1/2 inches by 6 1/2 inches.

I will be playing at Pixie's Playground again this week  because the front cover of this album  has letters and hearts that were cut from snippets of paper from my scrap collection and also the paper beads on the twine were made from snippets. 

The following pictures show some of the pages with photo mat inserts.

The papers used for the pages and photo mats are from a 6 inch by 6 inch  designer paper pad by Colorbok  named "Natural Expressions".

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you will stop back soon.
Ta Ta For Now,
Kathy