Elzy Sparkles

Here's my card for Sparkle's Christmas Challenge. I do love to play each week, and have gotten quite a bit of Christmas cards done already. This week she gave us a challenge to use stripes on our card. She had a sketch challenge up a few weeks back but due to Trey's Tball schedule, I wasn't able to play, so I used that sketch this week.

I also did Rachel's Cupcake Inspiration Challenge. For her challenge on this card, I pulled the blue as my starting point for the card, the circles on the plate are followed up in the circles on my ribbon and layers of circles on the bottom. I selected this Elzy stamp because of the holly on top of her head, like the flower on the cupcake, and gave her brown hair, from the bottom layer of the cupcake. I didn't overly bling up the card with embellishments because of the clean and simple look of the cupcake.

Gotta toot my horn a second, I was picked as one of her top fives last week! Mine is the bottom card on the right hand side. That's too neat to get two top fives in one week! It's a great feeling knowing other people are enjoying my little creations! Thanks, Rachel!

Supplies: DCWV cardstock, and paper, Elzybells, copics, shimmerz, stickles, nesties, TAC Goodies stamp set, SU Real Red, Ballet blue ink.

Had to add that my friend Barb has some Blog Candy up. She's a real sweet heart, so make sure you go check that out!

Sparkling Penguin

Here is my card for Sparkle's Christmas Challenge. Today it was a sketch challenge, with another one to use five papers, two embellishments, and two stamps. I have used at least five papers, and my two stamps are an Elzybell stamp, and a sentiment from TAC's Tagtid bits. My gifts are cut out and popped up, except the bottom gift, which is just taped on. I colored him with copics, and topped him with stickles. The papers are from DCWV, Christmas stack, SU Cranberry, and Cert. Celery cardstock, and PTI's black cardstock.

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You're A Star!!

I found out about this blog, Pile It On, from Alanna's blog on Sunday. I tend to try to do more than one challenge per card, when I do one, so this was a perfect site for me to discover! So, I checked it out right after posting on Alanna's cute Christmas card. She plays on Sparkle's challenge on Sunday too.

Than came today's card. I peaked on the Pile It On, and flipped around to some other challenges, some that were new to me, and pulled off five challenges on this one card! Woo hoo for me!

I did the Star and Stripes off The Pink Elephant. I cut out my flower and star for Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge. My layout is from Midnight Madness Sketch challenge. Pile It On had thier own challenge, which was three embellishments. I used scrappers floss, ribbon, stickles, glitter, brads, eyelets, and prima flowers. Finally, Spoon Full of Sugar was to use hearts on your card, I used two heart shaped brads on my card. That challenge also made me think of Debbie, who loves to put hearts on her cards. Whew, that was a lot, huh? Had a blast doing that though!

My image is from Sugar Nellie, borrowed it from a friend months ago, and just now colored it. Forgot it was stamped in palette, so I couldn't blend too well, because it bleed in a few small spots. The sentiment is from Elzybells, and is punched out with both SU's word punches. The card stock is Razzleberry, and my paper is from DCWV, winter pack.

Sparkling Elzy and Max

Today Sparkle had a layout for us to use for her Christmas Card Challenge! Love having the layout done for me! I had picked up a bunch of Elzybell stamps in June because of her running some specials. So, I figured I'd use one of those new stamps. Had a hard time picking which one to use. I ran into a problem with her hair line, colored too deep, so I gave the girl some bangs! I paper pieced her jacket. Reminds of something Gabi would totally wear. The more bling the better! I had the snowflake buttons on hand, and they matched the paper from DCWV perfectly!

I swear, you gotta love nesties. They just cut things so nice and perfectly for cards! Makes it so much easier, I kept wondering what I did before I had them, because I sure do use them a lot!

Other supplies:Martha punch, DCWV cardstock, ink from Michael's, copics.

And we picked up a new family member today. We've been waiting to take one home for a few weeks now. I would have taken two, but Paul thought that was a bit much. So, we brought home one today. Trey has named him Maxwell! So, Meet Maxwell! Gonna make for a cute scrapbook page! He's sleeping right now, exciting day for him, I'm sure. We adopted him, so I'm not sure what his breed is, and all that jazz. He's currently a calm little chap, but I'm sure once he's feeling more at home, I'm gonna see a different doggie! The cats are just now figuring out he's here, and thankfully, he's mellow right now! Give them all time to adjust before he's active.

Beautiful Light

Man, Elzybells had this kit up two weeks ago, and I got one. Fast shipping too, ordered on Sat, and had it by Wed or Thursday. That's coming across the pond too! Anyhow, the kit had a bunch of Christmas stamps, one was this light. That light is so pretty! Not sure I can do it justice! (She added another kit last week, and yea, I got it too! I'm thinking I need to avoid her site this week, in case she added another one!) So, I pulled out the light for my card for Sparkle's Christmas Challenge. It's a layout this week too! I'm loving layouts lately! I added some shimmerz to the lamp and one flower, stickles to the candle. I had grabbed the brads on clearance at Target. The paper is from DCWV, Christmas stack from last year.

Other supplies: nesties, ribbon, SU Ruby Red cardstock, PTI black, copics. Copics: C1, C3, C5, R59, R27, G5, G7, G28, Y00, Y02, Y6, Y8, YR23.

Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there today!

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Hang Loose Sketch

Needed a boy card for a birthday party for Trey today. I still have a present to wrap! Grabbed those cute Elzybell's clear boys, and went with the skater dude. I followed the Sketch Saturday challenge, but flipped it. Happy Birthday to Sketch Sat! Kept it easy with embellishments, cuz it's going to a seven year old boy, and not sure he'd really be all that interested! I did topped the skateboard with crystal effects.

Trey got a home run today! Normally, they make you stop at second, but the Coach on the other team told him to keep going. Which I thought was way sweet! He even had the other team back up with Trey went to hit, because he said he was a hard hitter! Made his Momma proud! All Trey could talk about on the way home was how he hit a home run, and got it on one hit! I kept trying to explain to him, that was what a home run was!

Supplies: DCWV Spring stack, SU brocade blue, ruby red, dew drops, nesties, copics, TAC sentiment.

Copics: Eooo, E11, E95, R27, B12, B24, G07, G14, C5, C1, Y08, YG23, E57, E29. Thanks for looking!