Vintage Christmas

 4 challenges inspired today's card...

Jingle Belles // #JB2318 ...A year round Christmas challenge!!  The current challenge is to create a vintage Christmas card.  Kraft card stock and a torn page from a hymnal make for a great vintage card.

ABC Christmas // AUG2023 ...An alphabet Christmas challenge!!  For this challenge, Q is for Quick!!  This was a quick Christmas card because I used an old hymnal, scrap designer papers, and old lace.

Try Stampin on Tuesday // #TSOT621 ...A sketch challenge!!  The TSOT team always throws out an optional twist to their sketch and for this current challenge they asked us to make a vintage card.  This old scalloped lace was perfect for the sketch and vintage theme.

Addicted to CAS // #245 ...A code word challenge!!  The code word for this challenge...HOLIDAYS!!  Christmas is one of my favorite holidays!!

Update:

  What an honor!!  This card was chosen as a "top 3" over on the Try Stampin On Tuesday Blog.  Thanks to the design team for the shout out on my coffee card!! 

And....it also won over at the Jingle Belle's Christmas blog.  Thanks to the Jingle Belles for choosing my card.  Two wins for this card...gotta love that!!  It is a winner!!

Verse of the Day: (courtesy of YouVersion)

Happy 1st Anniversary

 

1 challenge inspired today's card...

TicTacToe Challenge // #tttc223 ...A game board challenge!!  My winning three in a row on this tic-tac-toe game board is numbers, frame it, anniversary.  I made this card for a co-workers first wedding anniversary.  These little love bunnies from the Colorado Craft Company are perfect for an anniversary card.

Verse of the Day: (courtesy of YouVersion)

New Challenge @ Shopping Our Stash

 

Today begins a new challenge at...

Shopping Our Stash // #SOS504 ...A "shopping your stash" challenge with a WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE theme.  Will it be lions, tigers, or bears??  For me it was an elephant!!  I won this elephant stencil back some time ago and had a lot of fun with it when I first got it but it has gotten hidden and forgot.  Also from my stash is the crocheted flower.  A friend made me a whole stash of them years ago and they also got hidden and forgotten.  So this challenge was great for finding things from my stash.  Our new jungle theme is sure to bring out some fun things from your stash, and I can't wait to see that might be.  Hop on over to our blog, check out what the other design team members found in their stash and then join the fun & play along with us.

1 other challenge inspired today's card...

Sketch~N~Scrap // #SNS247 ...A sketch challenge!!  I picked this sketch challenge for today's card because it worked perfectly with my plan for this jungle theme.

Card #2 inspired by 3 challenges...

As You See It // #AYSI306 ...A theme challenge!!  At the beach!!  One of my favorite things about the beach are the shells!!  Here in Florida we have lots and lots of shells!!  It can be so addicting!!

Inspired By Challenges // #IB252 ...An inspiration challenge with an optional sketch.  Neutrals!! Hexagons!!  For today's card I used both the inspiration photo and the sketch.

Festive Friday Challenge // #FF0141 ...An inspo list challenge!!  From the inspo list of 10 items celebrating National Beach Day, pick 3 of those items to use on your card.  For my card I picked texture, pearls, and shells.

Verse of the Day:  (courtesy of YouVersion)

Welcome Baby!!

 

3 challenges inspired today's card...

Just Add Ink // JAI667 ...A sketch challenge!!  This sketch was the perfect starting place for today's card.  I swapped out those two circles for two onesies!!

Just Us Girls // #JUG694 ...A CAS challenge with a BABY theme!!  Clean And Simple!!  Nothing about a new baby is clean and simple but we can make a card that way!!  I love this little onesie die...you can dress it up so cutely with pearls and ribbons.

INKspirational Challenges // #297 ...A word prompt challenge!!  CLOTHING is the word prompt for this challenge!!  Clothing for babies...cutest things ever!!

Verse of the Day:  (courtesy of YouVersion)

Happy BEEday!!

 

2 challenges inspired today's card...

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge // #AHSC539 ...A sketch challenge!!  This sketch was super fun and a great way to use up more of my designer paper stash that I have been hoarding.

Addicted to Stamps & More // #ATSM453 ...A theme challenge!!  The theme for this challenge is BIRTHDAYS!!  How about a happy BEEday card!!  

Verse of the Day: (courtesy of YouVersion)

Welcome to the Jungle

 

3 challenges inspired today's card...

{PIN}spirational Challenges // #304 ...A Pinterest inspired challenge!!  Birthdays & Animals!!  Let this Pinterest photo inspire your card...dogs may be in this photo, but when a birthday party has a jungle theme you use jungle animals on their card.

Color Throwdown // #ctd757 ...A color challenge!!  Gray, aqua, and green...oh and there are jungle animals in the photo!!  So yes,  I will use my rhino stamp!!  Welcome to the jungle!!

Addicted to Stamps & More // #ATSM453 ...A theme challenge!!  BIRTHDAY!!  Yep it is a jungle party and we are celebrating!!  

Verse of the Day: (courtesy of YouVersion)

Live Life In Color

 

2 challenges inspired today's card...

Freshly Made Sketches // #FMS600 ...A sketch challenge!!  And a huge celebration...600 challenges!! Yahoo!!  Now that is something to celebrate!!  Here's too "living life in color" and providing great sketches for us to do so!!  I started my blog in 2008.  Have been playing along with FMS since I found them...many, many challenges over the years!!

Cupcake Inspirations // #CI676 ...A cupcake inspired challenge!!  For this current challenge we are looking at the colors turquoise, red, and yellow.  And because I have a cute rainbow stamp I included the rainbow element on these cupcakes.

Never Before Used Schtuff // #53 ...A "never been used" challenge!!  The little mini drop down stamps (raindrops, stars, and hearts) from my rainbow set have never been used!!  Until today they have never been inked up!!  They add so much character to the rainbow, so glad that I finally got them inked up.

Verse of the Day: (courtesy of YouVersion)

HELLO!!

 

3 challenge inspired today's card...

Global Design Project // #GDP408 ...A CASE challenge!!  For this challenge we are CASEing a card creaed by Emma Goddard.  I love her big letters spelling out HELLO and I decided to go with a floral theme like she did with my embossed designer specialty papers as the background for these jumbo floral printed letters.

Time Out Challenges // #TOC245 ...A "colorful" challenge!!  These printed jumbo letters are all kinds of colorful...like do they even go together?!?  Why, yes they do!!  Packaged together for a colorful array of letters to make colorful words!!

Never Before Used Schtuff // #53 ...A "never been used" challenge!!  These punch out letters were in my stash from my scrapbooking days and not a single letter had ever been punched out of these 12 x 12 sheets.  So for the first time ever these letters are making their debut!!

Verse of the Day: (courtesy of YouVersion)

Life Is But A Dream

 

3 challenges inspired today's 1st card...

Try Stampin On Tuesday // #TSOT620 ...A sketch challenge!!  The optional twist for this sketch was to add a sentiment.  I decided to add my sentiment in the landscape rectangle.

Double Trouble Challenge // #145 ...A Thing 1, Thing 2, and Thing 3 challenge!!  Thing 1 wants to see some GORP...you know some "good ole raisins & peanuts.  Scrappers GORP means a mixture of patterns...you know dots & stripes!!  Thing 3 wants you to use the sketch from TSOT along with the optional sentiment twist.  Thing 2 wants to make sure you link your card to both challenges sites.

FarmQuest Challenges // #FQCB34 ...A theme challenge!!  BOATS are the theme for this current challenge!!  I love this whimsical boat stamp from VERVE stamps...I am not sure why but it always makes me smile.

3 challenges inspired today's 2nd card...

The Paper Players // #PP654 ...A CAS challenge using bugs!!  Don't Bug Me!!  Fireflies are the one bug that really doesn't bug most people...a bug that brings smiles & laughter!!

Less Is More // #LIM490 ...A color challenge!!  ORANGE!!  Perfect for a starry night filled with fireflies!!

Stick It Down Challenge // #AUG2023 ...A sketch challenge found on FaceBook!!  The challenge just recently moved from a blog format to a FaceBook page...check them out!!

Verse of the Day: (courtesy of YouVersion)