Merry Puppy Christmas

 Good morning! Hope everyone is ready for the holiday. Thanksgiving isn't celebrated in the UK but we've embraced it since coming to the US.

My card today is using some of The Little Paper tree's new release, if you know me I'm crazy about my fur babies so as soon as I saw this little guy he was printed and colored:

This little guy and his tree are part of The Sunshine and Bee digital stamp collection Fairy Digital Stamps - He has 2 fairy friends also in the collection.

I printed him and the tree on Stamping card and colored him with my Copic markers. I matted an A7 card base with green mirror card and some festive digital paper. I trimmed my image and matted it the the same green mirror card. Using word dies I cut Merry Christmas 4 times, 3 in white card and the forth in mirror. I stacked these to give dimension.

My image was added using foam tape again for dimension. Finally I added Golden Baubles to the tree as ornaments.

Thank you for taking time to read, If you love what you see you can buy the images at The Little Paper Tree store where they sell lots of crafting goodies. Do You want some discount? Then use SHARON10 during checkout for 10% off your order!

Snow Angels are Fun

Good afternoon! Winter has returned, the temperatures have dropped from what they were around Christmas and we've had more snow. Hey it's Michigan what else can we expect!

It's Thrifty Thursday over at Scrapper's Delights go check out the website for this weeks deals! 

 When we first arrived in the USA and Mollie was able to make snow angels standing up the snow was so deep!

 So I couldn't resist Willy Snow Angel- he's perfect for this time of year:

Isn't he just the happiest little penguin! and I had to give him some snowy dimension so I used a snow writer and added extra glitter:

Head on over to the Scrapper's Delights Store to see all of this week's thrifty offers.

We also have a monthly challenge where you can enter any makes you do

Why not stop by the Scrapper's Delight Facebook page for regular news on and inspiration from my Teamies and keep your eyes peeled on my blog for new releases from them!

Supply list:

8X8 inch white card base - Craft UK

Cardstock - Core'dinations
design papers - Lawn Fawn

Stamp - Scrapper's Delights Willy Snow Angel

Copic Markers

Deco Art Glistening Snow writer and Glamour Dust

Karen Burniston snowflake dies

Dear old Santa

It's the 8th of December, yes we have snow and yes I'm starting to decorate the house. Shopping has been done and my cards are starting to make their appearance.

Today is a new mood board challenge over on the Sum More Fun blog and of course its all about Christmas - All Decked Out:

It"s a great board for this time of year - who doesn't make cards following this theme and if you join in you can win yourself a gift certificate worth $20 

However If you use a Sum More Fun stamp it doubles to $40

 Who doesn't think of  Father Christmas at this time of year. If you've got kids his name is constantly being mentioned.

This leads me to my make I chose the colors of red and green from the mood board:

I love this stamp such a traditional image of Dear Old Santa. I wanted to keep my card simple so I colored him with Copic markers. I then took pieces of green and read card and die cut frames. Using the waste from the green frame I cut it to size and adhered the cut oval over my image. I then added the red frame to the center of the oval. This was then placed onto a 7x5 in card base. I die cut the word believe and some holly. This along with some glittery enamel dots were arranged around the image.

So what are you waiting for head on over to the Sum More Fun blog and join in the fun.

We do have just a few rules which you can find here 

Thank you for stopping by, If you are looking for more inspiration check out my teamies cards on the Blog, FaceBook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Advent tree

Good morning - back to school this week and Mollie is so excited! So am I - I get my days back to get chores done!

Today is my day to showcase a project I have made over on the Riley and Company Blog. When I started making this I didn't realize what a big project it was going to be I have handmade every part of it.

As Christmas is drawing ever nearer I decided to make my advent calendar early 

I started my designing a box using my cameo software and cutting machine and cutting them from kraft card. They started out at 2x2 inch but after working out mats and embellishments I increased then to 2.5 inches meaning the whole thing measures 20.5 inches to top of Santa's hat.

Once I had cut all the boxes I set my cutter back to work cutting the numbers. I then cut 2 mats for each box For the smaller ones I used Riley and Company nesting square dies. I added these and the numbers to the boxes before I assembled them. I formed the shape of a Christmas tree and used red liner tape to adhere all of the boxes together. I stamped and colored enough of the Riley and Company Christmas dress up accessories to decorate each box. These were then die cut using the matching Christmas dress up and Shirt dies. Riley was colored and dressed as Santa and given his place - of course at the top of the tree!

He is holding his box's number of course it has to be THE date!

As it was so tall I chose to photograph it outside rather the confines of my craft room. I know I looked a little odd to photographing Christmas decor in summer so just to give it a bit more of a Christmasy feel I placed it in our fur trees

Now to decide what to fill it with..................

Thank you for stopping by, you can find the stamps I have used over on the Riley and Company store. For more inspiration check out the Riley and Company Blog. Or for more news about what the Moose and his pals are up to head on over to the company Facebook page