Ho Ho Ho Mailbox, Recipe Challenge with The Crafty Pad

Making a card for The Crafty Pad today was almost impossible. The weddings continue around here. One more tomorrow in the park. But I digress...for our challenge this week with The Crafty Pad I went for a craft that also allows me to get a start on decorating my home. I've used the "Ho Ho Ho Santa" digital stamp, and you could too. It's available at The Crafty Pad Design Store- along with many, many other cute digital stamps. This week our challenge is a Theme Recipe of 3's - Use 3 papers, 3 brads or buttons, 3 ribbons.

I can put paper on MY mailbox...because I live in Tucson. Meaning, we don't get much rain. On the sunny side of the box (also where traffic passes by) I covered with 12 x 12 Christmas scrapbook paper. (covers my numbers too:) My extra large digi stamp is brightly colored, I did so in my Corel graphics program. I spray glittered everything except the 3 recipe pieces. For the challenge I made 3 little medallions with 3 buttons, 3 ribbons and 3 different papers. I then wrapped dark red organza ribbon around the whole box and tied a 3 layers bow. It's cute.

This is an easy project to do around the house. Any image can be used. To waterproof (a bit) you could spray the project in clear acrylic first. I wish you all a wonderful start to the new holiday season. Merry Christmas!

2 Sisters, Holiday (12/4)
Hiding in My Craft Room, Mix it Up-Holiday (12/3)
Simply Create Too, All About christmas (2wk 12/9)
Little Red Wagon, Christmas Theme (11/30)
Penny's Paper, Tie One On (2wk 12/7)
Stampin' With The Dragon, Anything Goes/Christmas (12/2)

(Well....it's been up a week. It rained. And it's still ok!!!! I sprayed oil based glitter over the project and it's REALLY made the wrapping last.)

Snowflake Card, last visit as GT with "4 Crafty Chicks"

I've been a busy chick. We've had two quickie marriages in the family over the last week. I've been keeping assorted children here and there and I'm pooped. I did manage to create my last card for the "4 Crafty Chicks". The theme for this challenge round is "Snowflakes".

I computer drew the pointed stars and printed them and the labels. For all the points on the snowflake- I punched tiny, tiny flowers and also regular hole punch pieces. I've glued them to the points and covered everything in sugar glitter. (clear fine) My labels are glittered too. I use spray glue in a box. My box is great, I spray all kinds of stuff in it. Seam ribbon is self dyed and wrinkled. I used double tape to make the strip ribbon across the bottom. Pearls all around and a pin too. Last but not least.....gobs of pop tape!

This could be an easy card to reproduce for the many many more I still need to make. I hope you are doing well with your Christmas card creations this year too!
Thanks for the visit I hope you play the challenge at "4 Crafty Chicks".

This card is also entered with:
Charisma Cardz, Snowflakes (12/1)
Moving Along With The Times, Ribbons and Bows (12/1)
Pals Paper Arts, Pearls (12/1)
The House That Stamps Built, Christmas card w/ Snowflakes (12/5)
Inky Impressions, Make an Embellishment (I made the Snowflake) (12/5)
Scrapbook Sisters, Christmas Time (12/5)
Ladybug Crafts Ink, Winter Blues, (12/4)
Ribbon Carousal, Holiday Hoopla, something from a spool, I used old seam ribbon (12/4)

UPDATE: This card won with Ladybug Crafts! Whee! I nearly missed the win because I almost never check for wins under the name "Victoria" when I visit Feline Playful. I'll be changing my ways hereon.

Christmas Card Paper Piecing, Guest Designing for 4 Crafty Chicks

Good day to all! (This post should have come out this morning but life got in the way. I lost internet over night. All is back now, I hope.) Week 3 as guest designer for 4 Crafty Chicks and a challenge for Paper Piecing. I started with a base sketch I used a few months ago and ended up with this cutey.

Everything used on this card is old. The feathers are ancient. My medallian is pretty straight forward, I have this great retro Santa digital image and he was printed in dark red and covered in fine clear glitter. My ribbon is seam binding that I dyed last year. And so everything old is new again. Simple can be sooooo good.

Paper Baby Shoe, 1st Christmas

Greetings! Today I have a paper baby shoe as a 1st Christmas ornament. As a guest designer for 4 Crafty Chicks this month, I was told our challenge will be "Baby". So cool! There ought to be a lot of beautiful card entered! The DT cards are outstanding! I hope you've checked them out and the ladies blogs.

I recently made some felt shoes for my new grandson and I thought the pattern would work for paper shoes too. I've been waiting for the moment to try this out. I've also included the gift box for the ornament. Take any right sized box and spray it white a few times. Go for it being white, but don't worry about really great coverage or drips. Good old glitter will cover and conceal that:) I sized the ribbon first. You need to move fast when you use spray glue! Spray, adhere ribbon then apply glitter. I use the low and wide mouth Tupperware container with a spoon and glitter method. All my heavy use glitters are kept in wide mouth containers. So convenient!

Shoe: pattern, scrapbook paper, cut to 8.5 x 11, printer, scissors, ribbon, tacky glue, stickles, flower

Box: white spray paint, glue spray, round clear glitter, ribbon, flower, decorative glittered scrolls

If you would like a jpeg of this pattern......become a new follower of my blog and email me with your freebie request. If you are already a follower (and thank you very much for all your support) simply email me and I'll send a copy 'round to you too!

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge (Sponsored by The Crafty Pad:) "Cute" (11/17)
Craft Ribbons, Anything But A Card (11/23)
Crafty Sentiments, New Baby (11/13)

White on White, Glitter and Feathers

Greetings, It's Saturday, time for a new challenge with The Crafty Pad. Debbie made a lovely snowman stamp that we are using in our DT cards. The Crafty Pad Design Store is a great place to find digital stamps. Our challenge is #148 White on White. This should turn out to be a great challenge! I hope you all play!

This week I was able to work out a card from all old stuff. Heck the feathers themselves are over 6 years old. Everything else is more like 6 months old:)

To make a fancy, fancy label, I die cut two spellbinders "fancy" labels and one cut of labels 18. Scissor cut the two fancys in half. Tape these four pieces to the back of the punched label. Da Da! Pretty easy huh?

My card background is pop taped to the base card, as layer one. I randomly strip scored the background cardstock. After spraying glue and glittering with fine clear, it gives a little texture thanks to the scoring. My stamped image is clear glittered too. It does make for a difficult photograph of my card, but in person the glittered imaging is charming, like ice and snow. I made the pin from jewelry pieces picked up at Joanns. Just glue to the pin head. Light gray seam ribbon for my bow. A friend noted how nice the bow looks.......sweet kid....there's tape on the back of it to keep the loops where I want them. I wish I could make a great bow. Pearls and feathers make up the rest. The feathers of course mimic snow in a way, but it's also about as close as I'll get to real snow here in Tucson Az.

Well, thanks for stopping by...I always love the visit. Thanks so much! Take care.

This card has also been entered into these fine challenges:
Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge, Texture (11/25)
Fab N Funky Challenges, Mostly White (11/16)

Dancing Sammy the Flower Pick, The Crafty Pad

Greetings, I'm writing tonight from a beautiful southwestern hotel, The Lodge on the Desert, my husband and I are celebrating our anniversary. Last night was a little scary, a wind storm blew through Tucson. These are incredible! Luckily rain came with the night wind. Earlier in the day dust storms ran havoc on the interstate highways of Arizona. We did lose our phone line and I was in want of my computer all day!

So here I am at the hotel, catching up on my posts...like this one for The Crafty Pad Challenge, Paper Piecing. Our team is working with a digital stamp from The Crafty Pad Design Store called Sammy the Scarecrow. There's lot of cute stamps for winter time in there now...go take a peek:) There's prize too! A pack of 5 Grey Promarkers from Crafty Ribbons and Letraset.

My paper piecing this week is a craft that can be suitable for any season. I happen to be using Sammy, but any figure image will work. Locate some "picks", I used BBQ skewers. Print out two alike images of your size choice. Cut out the body of one and the limbs of the other image. Brads work great to connect the moveable limbs. And.......Boom! Quick craft for any occasion!

I hope you enjoyed this quickie. I once made these picks for a party my husband's MG car club was throwing. It was a theme party, Victorian England Christmas. I printed various famous Victorians and two were stuck into the twenty or so table poinsettia's on all of the tables. It was a lovely party too. We went as the Queen and Prince, I am Victoria!

Back to earth, thanks so much for this visit. Try the craft out. This is a good one to do with children too. Peace to All.

This card is also entered in these fine challenge blogs:
Cooking It Up With Katie, Anything But a Card (11/10)

New Guest Designer for "4 Crafty Chicks", Die Cuts Challenge

Wow, I'm busy now. I just took on a month with 4 Crafty Chicks. And indeed it's a CRAFTY place! Please play and visit. Our challenge this week is highlighting the use of our die cuts. The DT examples are gorgeous! Check them out here.

My card is layered like a wedding cake. It must be an inch thick! I dug out discontinued embossed floral papers. (Been sitting on them for years) Die cuts used were Spellbinders, Labels 18, Labels 4, and Fancy Tags. I used a Martha Stewart border punch on the doily layer. Rough, true... have you tried it yet? Cut lots of squares 7", 6.5", 6" etc, for practice with your border punches. Lots of messed up squares when you start out, but keep it up, you'll find the right size and border for doily making. The die cuts layer up beautifully! Yes, I've used lots of pop tape. I remembered a lovely phrase that I printed out before die cutting. Every thing I computer design as a stamp or sentiment I save, and call it a "Vicki Stamp". My personal digital stamp collection is getting huge! Oh goodness I can't forget the cute little butterfly! It's a left over too. She is cut out from scrap paper and covered/heated with UTEE. So she's all shiny and her wings are frozen in a 3-D pose. Too cute. I have a UTEE projects here & here from an earlier post.

I had a ball creating this card! It came together so nicely. Please visit my other creations if you like my style. Always looking for a few more followers. I hope you are going to play at 4 Crafty Chicks this week too!

Thanks again for visiting, Happy Holidays!

This card is also entered in these wonderful challenge blogs:
CCEE Stampers, (keyword CCEE1144) Use Four Embellishments (11/10)
Pixie Dust Studio Challenge, Paper Piecing (11/10)
Shelly's Images, Monochromatic Scheme (11/10)
Flutter By Wednesday's, Thankful/Gratitude & butterfly, fairy or angel
Heart song Inspirations, Embossing and/or 3 or more layers
The Crafty Pad (My Home Girls:) Friendship (11/6)