Creatures were stirring!

With only 4 more days till Christmas, you should have all your decorating completed (well hopefully), but if not maybe these little guys can help you out.....

I am soooo in love with House Mouse Design stamps!  They stamp so nice and are wonderful to colour with your copics!  The stripe paper is from Michaels Recollection Christmas paper pack, and the red cardstock is Bazill Polk-a-dots.  The Merry Christmas stamp is an old wooden block that I have had for many many years (long before I was scrapbooking and cardmaking) so I am not sure on the brand.

Here is a close up of the little mice....

COPIC COLOURS USED:

Mouse Faces:  E11, E00, E000, E02

Left Mouse:  E47, E44, E43

Right Mouse:  W7, W5, W3

Light Cord:  G29, G28, G07
Rope: R29, R27, R24

Clothes Pegs: E42, E41, E40

Light Bulbs:  R29, R27, R24, R22, Y17,Y15, Y13, Y11

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;
* House Mouse Design - Challenge #109 Warm Fuzzies
* One Crazy Stamper - Christmas/Holiday Challenge

Thank you for visiting today, I would love any comments that you may have. 

Wishing all a Wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year!

Shari

"Olive" the other Reindeer

Only 5 more days till the Big Guy comes to your house with Rudolph and the gang.

I made this card for my very good friend Karen and her family :) and as I was colouring it I started to sing...

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, had a really shiny nose

And if you ever saw him, you would even say it glows.

"OLIVE" the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names,

They never let poor Rudolph, join in any reindeer games....

 SUPPLIES:

Free digi stamp from Little Scraps of Heaven

Spelbinders Nestabilities - Classic Circles & Labels Eight

Papers: BoBunny 6x6 Blitzen Collection Paper Pack

Sentiment Stamp: Stampendous Cling Rubber - Little Christmas

Liquid Chalk by Catseye - Chestnut Brown

 A close up of the cute little reindeer......

COPICS USED:

Reindeer: E27, E25, E23

Hoofs: E29, E27

Antlers & Nose: E41, E40

Ears: E41, E40, R20

Tongue: R20

Bow: R29, R27, R24, R22

Inside sentiment....is from CC Designs "Sparkly Wishes" that I purchased at One Crazy Stamper

I would like to enter this post into the following challage: 

One Crazy Stamper Christmas/Holiday Challange

Sassy Studio Designs Christmas Movie Challange - Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

Top Tip Tuesday - Christmas Projects

I hope you enjoyed this post and fell in love with Olive like I did, Happy and safe Holidays to you and your family.

Shari

A Christmas Story Card for my Honey!

Wow look at me, two posts in one day, whoo hoo!  After you finish checking out this post scroll down to view my "Kraftin Kimmie Christmas Cards". 

For those of you that know my crazy hubby, you know that his favorite Christmas movie that he makes me watch every year is "A Christmas Story", for some reason he thinks it is a "Classic" and funny as all heck!  Must be a guy think I thing!

Well with that being said, I was on a blog (DZ Doodles) and found a free digi stamp of the leg lamp from A Christmas Story movie and knew as soon as I saw it that I HAD to make my hubs a card with it for this Christmas.  I looked into purchasing him the actual lamp for Christmas to put in his Man Cave, but it was way out of our budgeted price range, so the card will have to do for this year, he he he.

A close up of the lamp....

 COPIC COLOUS USED:

Leg: E11, E00, E000

Shoe: C9, C7, C5

Base: E29, E27, E25

Lamp Shade: Y17, Y15, Y13

The printed paper is from this years Michaels Recollection Christmas Paper Pack, the mirrored red cardstock is from my stash and sorry to say I have had it for so long I do not remember the brand name.  I inked the card base and the printed paper with Catseye Scarlette Red and the candy cane ribbon I used was from Michaels.

I am entering this card into the following challenges;
Sasy Studio Design -Christmas Movie challange
One Crazy Stamper Christams/Winter

I hope that you enjoyed this post as much as I enjoyed making this card.  Hope to see you back soon. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! 

Don't forget to scrolldown to my earlier post to see my Kraftin' Kimmie Christmas cards :)

Shari

A Kraftin' Kimmie Christmas :)

Hello blog land friends! Only 6 more days till Christmas and I have just finished all my Christmas cards but still working on tags. 

Today I would like to show you a few Christmas cards that I have made this year using some of my fabulous Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps. 

Grab a coffee, tea or hot cocoa and sit back and relax.  If you have not yet finished your cards, I hope that you get some inspiration from my cards below :)  Since this post will be a little lengthy I will not be noting the Copic colours I used so if you are interested in a certain card and the colours I used just ask and I will let you know :)

Stamp: Balancing Elf

Paper: BoBunny 6x6 Blitzen Collection

Stamp: Sheppard with sentiment (part of the Nativity set)

Paper: BoBunny 6x6 Snowfall Collection

Stamp: Sophia

Paper: Bazzill embossed poka dots

Ribbon: from Michaels

Stamp: Rudy

Paper: Michaels Recollections Chrstmas Paper Pack

Ribbon: Michaels

Stamp: Santa's Heavy Load

Paper: Echo Park 6x6 Winter Park Paper Pack

 Stamp: Frosty Friends

Paper: BoBunny 6x6 Snowfall Collection

Ribbon: Michaels

Stamp: Eva

Paper: 2010 12x12 Jillibean Winter Collection

Cardstock: Recollections red & cream

I hope you enjoyed my Kraftin' Kimmie Christmas cards! Will be back tomorrow with some other cards I made as well.  Wishing you a very Merrry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Shari

Gift Wrapping Elf

Hello blogger friends!  Sorry to have been away for so long, had some family matters to deal with and was not able to blog or play in my palace.

Today I have a wonderful Christmas card to show off to you.....

And the inside with sentiment......

SUPPLIES USED:
*Stamps: Kraftin' Kimmie Gift Wrap Elf and Interior Christmas Sentiments
* Patterned Papers: Jillybean Soup, Christmas Eve Chowder 6x6 pad
* Cardstock: Creative Memories Green Apple
* 5x7 Card and Envelope
* 3D pop squares
* Stampin Up Jewlery tag punch
* Merry Christmas sentiment for tag
* Ivory twine from the $ store
* Chestnut Brown and Lime Cats Eye liquid chalk
* Copic Markers (colours lissted below)

A close up of the coloured image......

 COPIC COLOURS USED:
* Skin: E11,E00,E000
* Clothes: R81,R83,R85,B02,B01,B000
* Hair: E59,E57,E55
* Tonge/Mouth: R24,R22,W7
* Ribbon Wheel: E59,E57,E55
The present and the ribbon were both paper pieced with the matching patterned paper and cardstock used on the card.

This card was very fun to make and for me it was pretty exciting because I did not use traditional Christmas colours which I usually do, so for that I am proud of myself!!  :)

I hope you enjoyed this post and I also hope to be back real soon with more cards to show you.  Have a great day and I will see you soon.

Shari

Happy Anniversary

On Saturday (November 12th) it was my husbands and my 6th Anniversary.  For the 6th year we headed to Niagara-On-The-Lake and Niagara Falls for the weekend.  We visited many wineries and tasted some amazing wines in both 20 Valley and in Niagara-On-The-Lake - came home with 11 yummy bottles of reds, mostly from the 2007 season as that was the best year for grapes.

below you will see the card I made for my amazing hubby....

SUPPLIES USED:

* 5X7 card and envelope

* Copic paper

* Kraft cardstock (recollections)

* Green patterned paper from my stash

* Stamp- House Mouse Designs

* Stamp - Happy Anniverary (old stamp supplier unknown)

* Creative Memories paper ribbon

* Creative Memories "Love" sticker You Light Up My Life (inside sentiment)

* Chestnut Brown stamp pad (recollections)

* Clear embossing powder (recollections)

* Copic Markers

* Cuttle Bug embossing folder - Divine Swirls

* Spellbinders Nestabilities - Labels 18

The inside......

A close up of the mice....

COPIC COLOURS USED:
* MOON: E43, E42, E41, E40
* GRASS: YG67, YG63
* GROUND: E47, E44, E43, E42
* TAILS, EARS & FACES: E11, E00, E000
* SMALLMOUSE: W5, W3, W1
* LARGE MOUSE: W9, W7, W5

My Wonderful husband bought me roses - pink for my favorite colour, yellow for my favorite roses and red for LOVE :)

and i also got some BLING...with my March birthstone - G E O R G E O U S !!!

Thank you for visiting today, and I will be back soon with some other cards for you to see :)  Comments always welcome, hope to chat to you soon.

Shari

Dad's Birthday

On November 9th it was my Daddy's 62nd Birthday.  My mom runs a craft and painting business and my Dad helps her out by cutting a lot of her wood pieces for her painting classes, so when I found this stamp I knew I was going to use it for my Dad.....

SUPPLIES USED:

* 5x7 card and envelope

* yellow, denim and red star papers from my stash

* 2x yellow star brads

* blue button

* Happy Birthday Stamp

* Best wishes stamp

* Copic Markers (colours listed below)

* Stampaive Stamp - Mr. Fix It by Laurence Collection

 Inside..

COPIC COLOURS:

* BEAR - E47,E44,E43,E42

* SHIRT - R29,R27,R24

* PANTS - B99,B97,B95,B93

* TOOLS - C7,C5,C3,C1,C0,Y17,Y15,Y13,R27,R24

* PENCIL - Y17,Y15,R35

* SUSPENDERS - Y17,Y15

* GROUND - C3,0

It was really fun making this card for my Dad, I hope you enjoyed seeing it :)

Shari

My Day with Kimmie and the Krafty Girls

My 2nd post of the day, Oh my what has gotten into me, he he he.  Be sure to check out the first post below this one too :)

On October 16th I went to St.Thomas to spend the day with Kraftin' Kimmie and the Krafty Girls at their 2nd annual Krafty Day.  As you can tell from most of my posts on this blog I REALLY REALLY like Kraftin' Kimmie stamps! Check out Kimmie's store at http://www.kraftinkimmiestamps.com/ and see what stamps she has.

I wanted to share a couple pictures with you that I took and also a picture of the 4 make and takes that we were able to make that day.

The first picture is of Kimmie and her Krafty girls....

The next picture is of Annie and she is one of the stamp artist (and my favorite)....during the day we got to watch Annie paint and draw some images, she is so talented!

Below is a picture of the four make and takes we did, they were so fun and all were using the NEW stamps available at Kraftin' Kimmie.....one is a card, one is a gift card holder, one is a bookmark and one is a tag.

 I am looking forward to going to Kimmie's Krafty Day again next year!  Thanks for coming by to see me and I will see you soon.

Shari

30th Anniversary

Just this part week two of our good friends celebrated their 30th Anniversay, wow!  My husband and I are celebrating our 6th tomorrow,30 seems so far away, can not wait to get there too :) Our friends are a very "Cool" couple so they deserved a very "Cool" card......

SUPPLIES USED:

* White cardstock (recollections), used one full 8.5x11 sheet folded in half to make the card

* Red cardstock (recollections)

* Black cardstock (recollections)

* Silver cardstock (recollections)

* Baby blue cardstock (recollections)

* Creative Memories "Everyday" patterned paper

* Catseye Scarlete Red pigment ink

* Glossy Accesnts (for the windshield and headlights)

* Kraftin' Kimmie stamp - Danny

* Kraftin' Kimmie stamp - Joannie

* Cricut Cartridge "Nifty Fifty" for the car

* Creative Memories "for those we Love" vellum sentiment

* computer generated sentiment for front of card

* Copic Markers (colors listed below)

* Sakura Glaze Pen

Inside:

A closeup of the coloured images...

COPIC COLOURS:

* SKIN - E11,E00,E000

* HAIR, DANNY - E29,E27,E25, JOANNIE - YR24,Y26,YR21

* JACKET & SHOES, DANNY & JOANNIE PANTS - W9,W7,W5

* PANTS, DANNY - W7,W5,W3

* GLASSES, DANNY - W7,W5,C5,C3,C1 (Love the mirrored look of these glasses!)

* SHIRT, SHOES, LIPS & HAIR CLIP - R39,R37R35

* EYES -B45,B41

* EYESHADDOW - RV00, RV0000

Hope you enjoyed the card, till next time :)

Shari



Nafiza's Birthday Card

My friend Nafiza is having a birthday on Sunday and I wanted to share her card with you :)

The supplies I used were;

* A2 Card / envelope

* The cupcake printed paper is from The Greeting Farm

* Expresso Bazzil cardstock

* White lace ribbon (source unknown)

* Dew Drops (6)

* House Mouse Designs stamp

* $1.50 Sentiment stamp from Michaels for the inside

* Spellbinders Ovals & Scallopped Ovals

* Chocolate Brown Catseye Liquid Chalk

* Copic Markers

Here is a pic of the inside:

A close up of the colored mice;

Copic colors used;
* Big mouse: FACE, EARS, TAIL & BELLY - E11, E00, E000, R20
                    FUR - C7, C5, C3, C1
* Little mouse: FACE, EARS & TAIL  - E11, E00, E000, R20
                       FUR - W7, W5, W3, W1
* Cupcake wrapper- E49, E47, E44, E43
* Cupcake frosting - R85, R83, R81
* Candle - YR67, YR63, YR61, Y19, Y15, YR18
* Ground - YR67, YR63, YR61, E44, E43, E42, E41

The Make a Wish stamp is an old stamp I had in my cupboard and I stamped it with Versa Mark and embossed it with pink

I hope you enjoyed this post and I hope to be back soon with another card that I made for my friends 30TH Anniversary.

Shari