4CCC-121 {Make Your Own Patterned Paper} & December SFYTT & CQC165

 Hello everyone!  It's a quick post from me today - there is WAYYYY too much stuff to do around here.  My family arrives this weekend and I am NOT ready!

This week's challenge over at the 4 Crafty Chicks' is being hosted by Tamie and she wants you to make your OWN patterned paper.  You all know how much I love my 6X6 paper pads so this was REALLY a challenge for me.

I pulled out one of my new SU! two-step stamping sets, Reason to Smile, and got to work combining the final SFYTT sketch for this year with a Colour Q combo from a few weeks ago:

Here are links to all of my SFYTT cards for this year - glad I got to play along:


Thanks for stopping by today - ENJOY the next few days!  If you happen to have some down-time, we'd love to have you join us at the 4CCC!

  

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Happy Sunday, everyone!  Are you all getting excited about Christmas?   Things here have been kind of nuts around here with work and Christmas shopping and trying to get as much done ahead of time as I can for the big day.  I *think* I'm doing pretty good but, golly, you should see my lists!

So, it's time for another fabulous Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge and this week's has a few more layers which was fun for me to do because I tend to gravitate to the CAS sketches.  I used to joke that if a card didn't fit in an envelope, it probably had enough layers and embellishments!  So, here you go:

I pulled out one of last year's TCP Christmas sets, "Best Fishes," and got to work:

I also used the Color Throwdown combo from a few weeks ago:

All of the fabulous Sweet Sunday Stampers have inspiration for you, so please stop by and say hello to:

Dana White

Dawn Easton (taking a break this week)

Jackie Pedro 

Karen Giron 

Karen Motz 

Lori Tecler 

Lynn Put 

Sarah-Jane Kalé 

Tracy Clemente 

Vicki Burdick 

... and our super-duper guest stamper, Danielle Lounds!

That's it for me today - we'll be back after Christmas with our final sketch for 2012...can you believe how quickly 2013 has come?  Enjoy the next couple of weeks and Happy Holidays to you and yours.  :)

 

4CCC-120 {You're Invited}

Welcome back for another challenge with the 4 Crafty Chicks!  This week, I'm your hostess-with-the-mostest  and I've got a fun challemge for you.  This time of year is filled with parties so I want to see your invitiations to the festivities!  You could also make an invitation for a birthday, wedding or baby shower - you decide. :)

I decided to go CAS (something I'm embracing much more these days) and make an invitation that could be used for a birthday party or even just a casual get-together between friends...

This sketch from RetroSketches was perfect:

If you need some more inspiration, please don't forget to visit the rest of the Chicks' blogs - I know they"d love to have you stop by. :)  See you on Sunday for a new Sweet Sunday Sketch!

 

4CCC-119 {Snowmen}

 Boy oh boy!!! It's December and Christmas is quickly approaching! Are you ready?  Are you one of *those* people who finish their shopping in JULY or are you the last-minute type?  I am definitely the latter - I have good intentions of starting and finishing early but just don't seem to get around to it...

Our first 4 Crafty Chicks' Challenge this month is brought to us by Leanne and she wants to see some SNOWMEN...one snowman or a whole bunch of snowmen - that's up to you. :)

For my card I used a Mojo Monday sketch from a few weeks ago, some old SU! DSP and a Taylored Expressions stamp that had never seen ink! EGADS!  Can you imagine???  The horror, I tell ya...

 As always, I really appreciate you all taking the time to stop by and see what I've been up to - enjoy the rest of your week...and get some shopping done!  :)

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YIPPEE!!!  It's December!!!  I can hardly believe it is here already and there are only 23 days until Christmas - I have soooooo much stuff to do between now and then.  We're hosting my family this year so we'll have 6-8 additional humans in the house plus *possibly* FIVE extra dogs!  I am really looking forward to it but the next few weeks are going to be extremely busy.  I haven't even started the Christmas shopping, we have to finish painting and getting the guest room ready so my nieces have somewhere to sleep and the list goes on...work, school, gym and somewhere in there I suppose I need to eat and sleep!

But right now I'm comfy and cozy in my craft room with my Christmas tunes cranked and I think that's where I'll be for the rest of the day trying to get a bunch of DT stuff done for this month.  I know everyone is busy this month but we'd love it if you joined us for a fun sketch over at Sweet Sunday Sketches sometime over the next two weeks.  It's another stunner that is super-simple to make CAS...and quick:

I decided to leave the sketch just as it is and use a very simple sentiment from a MFT Pure Innocence set I found in my box...never inked...*sigh*

The color combo is from this week's CR84FN Color Challenge:

All of the fabulous Sweet Sunday Stampers have inspiration for you, so please stop by and say hello to:

Dana White 

Dawn Easton 

Jackie Pedro 

Karen Giron 

Karen Motz 

Lori Tecler 

Lynn Put 

Sarah-Jane Kalé 

Tracy Clemente 

Vicki Burdick 

... and our amazingly talented Guest Sweet Stamper, Lisa Henke!

Thanks for stopping by today - have a wonderful week!

4CCC-118 {Crazy Egg - Ornaments}

It's the fifth Thursday of the month and you know what that means...it's CRAZY EGG Challenge time over at the 4 Crafty Chicks' Challenge.  This time around we started thinking about Christmas and have decided on a theme of  "Ornaments" for this crazy egg challenge - interpret as you may...ornament paper, dies, even make your very own Christmas ornament.

For my card, I used MME "12 Days of Christmas" paper decorated with ornaments and then complemented it with The Cat's Pajamas' "J*lly H*liday" stamp set.  And, as usual, I come in *just* in the nick of time with Jen's Sketch for You To Try for November:

Don't forget about the prize package up for grabs if you play along with us over at the 4 Crafty Chicks...Tamie's got some fun stuff for you to win.  Thanks for stopping by - see you on Sunday for a brand new Sweet Sunday Sketch.  Enjoy the rest of your week!
 

4CCC-117 {Tropical Destination}

Hello, hello, hello!!!  Thank you for stopping by today to check on the new 4 Crafty Chicks' Challenge.  This week Lori is the hostess extraordinaire and since it has been somewhat chilly around these parts, she wants to see some cards/projects inspired by a tropical destination. 

When I went looking for some paper and stamps to make my card, I realized that my choices were rather limited.  Eventually I found a sentiment from an AmyR Stamps set as well as the shell from one of the Pure Innocence girlies that I figured would work perfectly together - who doesn't search for shells on the beach when they are on holidays?  An old 6x6 paper pad from Cosmo Cricket, "Salt Air" was discovered and used  - I love how the shapes on the paper mimic the shape of the shell...

I also used this week's RetroSketches sketch:

That's it for me today - I hope you will play along with our "tropical destination" challenge.  If you can't go to the beach, why not imagine yourself there while making a card?  :)  Later, gators!