Cardz TV Sketch Challenge Christmas Theme

Happy Holidays my Crafty Friends. Welcome to the last Cardz TV Sketch Challenge for the year 2016. WOW, where did the time go? Only a few more days until the big celebration when all the little girls and boys find what Santa left them under the tree. Christmas is pretty anti-climatic around here. We are far from all our family and we don't even put up a tree anymore. It was a lot more fun when there were little children at home. Today's theme is a Christmas card using Sketch #10, #11, or #12. I used Sketch #11. One of my all time favorite paper stacks from Recollections was from a couple years ago, called Sugar Plum. Mine is mostly used up, but I was able to salvage a few scraps to make this card. I thought it was perfect because of the little gingerbread men on it. I had to altar my sketch a little because of the pattern on the paper and moved my triangles to opposite sides from the sketch. I used the Cardz TV stamp set called Gingerbread Christmas. I stamped my gingerbread man using Ranger Archival Ink in Tree Branch. To balance out the front of the card I used some enamel dots in the empty corners. On the inside of the card I used a sentiment from the same stamp set and added a few pieces of peppermint candy in the lower corners to mimic the enamel dots on the front.

I'm so glad you stopped by today and as I sign off for the year I wish you the Happiest of Holidays. See you in 2017 with some new sketch challenges.

The Cutting Cafe "Let's Upcycle"

This week The Cutting Cafe Design Team is showcasing projects using recycled packaging. I was very excited about this assignment because I have been holding on to this bottle to make some Gingerbread Spice Syrup for coffee drinks. I found the recipe on Pinterest by searching Gingerbread Latte Syrup. To decorate my syrup bottle I used the Wine Bottle Gift Tag Set-Template and Cutting File. I did have to shorten the tag a bit because this bottle is smaller than a wine bottle. I also had to cut a slit at the hole to slip it around the bottle because the lid of this bottle was too large for the hole to slip over. I used the tag with the pocket on the front so I could slip a cute little gingergirl in. I wrote the directions on how to use the syrup on the inside. I cut her using a die from Paper Sweeties. I added a tag on the pocket that says, "Wishing You A Cup Full of Cheer". This came from the Hot Chocolate Holder Template - Cutting File. I stamped a cute little gingerbread man in the center of the tag, which also came from Paper Sweeties. Now I know you are going to want to see all the fabulous creations from the Design Team to give you some ideas on items you can upcycle into amazing gifts, so make sure you head over to The Cutting Cafe Blog on December 7th to see them all. Thanks for stopping by today.

Cardz TV Sketch Challenge Winter

Hello Crafty Friends! At this busy time of year I hope you can find some time to play along with the new Sketch Challenge over on the Cardz TV blog. This week the theme for the Design Team is a winter card using Sketch #7 or #8. I'm using Sketch #8 and one of Mary's newest stamp sets Winter Cheer. Love the little snowman image and knew she had to go on my card. I say she because I gave her pink earmuffs. As soon as I saw this snowman I thought about using pompoms for some earmuffs. I love how they turned out. I cut the headband of the muffs from pink felt using a circle die. I cut the circle and then ran it through my diecutting machine a second time so the circle die would cut off a thin slice. I have no idea what I bought these little pink pompoms for originally. I think I, maybe, just bought them because they were a package of 90 clearanced to 35 cents. Who could pass up a bargain like that? My patterned papers are from the Lawn Fawn 6x6 paper stack called Snow Day. (It's an older stack and I don't think they make it anymore). You can see the sketch below and you can find all of Mary's sketches on the Cardz TV blog under the Mary's Card Sketches tab. I altered the sketch just a tad by cutting my border strip a bit wider and adding a strip of cute snowflake washi tape. Thanks for stopping by.

The Cutting Cafe Anything Goes

It's time for my second Cutting Cafe post for the month. I love when we get to choose any file for our projects. I've been working on little token holiday gifts for friends and this is one of them. I used the Hot Chocolate Holder Template and Cutting File along with the Christmas All Around Printable Set for my cute Snowman tag. These Holders are so quick and easy to put together you can easily whip them up in minutes, slip in a couple envelopes of hot cocoa mix, add a ribbon and tag and there you have it. These make great hostess gifts or even a little something for a teacher. Head on over to The Cutting Cafe Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team came up with for their projects. Thanks for stopping by.

Cardz TV Sketch Challenge Thanksgiving

It's time for a new Sketch Challenge at Cardz TV. This week the Design Team is using Sketch #5 or Sketch #6. I decided to use #6 because I wanted to use this cute turkey image from Pink & Main and knew it would look best in a circle. I also wanted to use this awesome paper from a paper stack I found in the Target dollar section. It has these beautiful copper embossed papers in it and I fell in LOVE. Have you ever stamped and colored on kraft cardstock? I'm really fond of the look. I used colored pencils for this. So I started with a kraft cardstock base card then added a copper mat and topped it with the pretty copper leaf paper. Then I die cut a copper circle and topped it with my image on a smaller die cut circle. For my sentiment I used Cardz TV Thankful For You stamp set. I cut apart the "Gobble 'til you Wobble" sentiment so I had just the word Gobble, because obviously, my turkey needed to Gobble. I hope you'll play along in the challenge and link up your project at Cardz TV. You can find all of Mary's Sketches on the Cardz TV blog.

Paper Sweeties November 2016 Release Rewind

It's the final day of projects featuring the November Paper Sweeties release. Today I have a shaker card to share. When I saw all the sweet images from the Planner Series Happy Holidays stamp set I knew I wanted to fussy cut the images and add them to a shaker. For my shaker "window" I decided to cut out the Christmas tree shape using the Paper Sweeties Christmas Tree Tag Sweet Cuts. I cut the tree shape out of some green patterned paper then cut the stand, garland and star from white glitter paper. I filled my shaker with lots of sequin bits including Paper Sweeties Mistletoe, Sugar Sprinkles and Strawberry sequins. Then, of course, the red stamped, fussy cut images from the Happy Holidays Planner stamps. I wanted to make sure that they didn't all sink to the bottom of the card so I glued them in place, as well as some of the sequins. Please check out the projects from the rest of the design team using the links below. All this month's products are available in the Paper Sweeties Shop now HERE.

Beth Luetschwager
Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties
Jeri Thomas 
Jill Norwood 

Kathy Schweinfurth

Larissa Heskett
Lisa Bzibziak
Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Michele Henderson
Michelle Bala

Nancy Salkeld

Merry and Bright Sweet Cuts - Paper Sweeties

Sequins - Mistletoe

Paper Sweeties - Sugar Sprinkles Sequins

Paper Sweeties - Strawberry Sequins

Paper Sweeties November 2016 Release Party

Welcome to Paper Sweeties Release Day! Oh my, I am just absolutely loving this adorable Jingle All the Way stamp set and Sweet Cuts. That reindeer is just too cute! I decided he had to go on a snowy scene card. I paper pieced the sleigh that he's pulling and colored him up with Copics. Of course, he had to have a little red nose. I embellished with a red twine bow, jingle bell and a gold sequin for the top of the tree. I added the sentiment stamped in red to finish it off. Catch the rest of the Design Team projects at the links below. Thanks for stopping by and come back tomorrow for a final new release project.

Beth Luetschwager
Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties
Jeri Thomas 
Jill Norwood 

Kathy Schweinfurth

Larissa Heskett
Lisa Bzibziak
Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Michele Henderson
Michelle Bala

Nancy Salkeld

What′s new! Paper Sweeties