You Can Almost Feel the Snow

Hi everyone! Well, it's official. Wreath on the door, presents ready to be wrapped, snow on the ground, singing Christmas carols...it's feeling like the holiday season. Are you ready for Christmas?

If you have your holiday papers and stamps out, be sure to enter this week's CAS-ual Fridays Challenge--trees.

I went with a Christmas theme for this week's challenge:

As soon as I saw this patterned paper from the Silent Night collection, I knew I had to use it. I simply resized the digital paper, added the sentiment from One Little Bird, and printed it. To make the trees more prominent, I added some coarse glitter.

I did one of my new favorite looks on this card: white on an off-white or cream base. I love that subtle look! Here's a close-up:

The winner of this week's CAS-ual Fridays Challenge will win a gift certificate to Ellen Hutson.

You can link up your projects HERE. I hope you'll play along!

Have a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies

Cardstock: (Vintage White) PTI; (Premium Matte Photo Paper) OfficeMax

Patterned paper: (winter scene from Silent Night) Nancie Rowe Janitz at Jessica Sprague

Digital element: (sentiment from 12 Days) One Little Bird at The Lilypad

Going Vintage

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great week! We've been busy at home helping our daughter with school projects. She has to do a presentation on Argentina. Most kids are doing PowerPoint presentations (second grade, already??), but she chose to make comic strips. ha ha Yep, totally my kid!

I'm on the Glitz Design blog today for One Buck Wednesday. This week, there are two Glitz deals at Jessica Sprague--the Vintage Blue paper pack and the Vintage Blue element pack. These papers have such pretty shades of blue and gold.

Here's what I made:

I started with the bird/music layering paper from Vintage Blue and added the "LOVE" element over it. I simply printed the paper in the background, stitched, and inked the edges.

I thought the center panel seemed a little too plain, so I added a glue border and rolled it in gold glitter. I wasn't going for a perfect border (yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking to it). Here's a close-up:

If  you'd like to buy the Vintage Blue (on sale today only!), head over to digital store. You can also see the rest of the digital DT's projects on the Glitz blog.

Have a great day! Thanks for stopping by!


Supplies
Cardstock: (Kraft) PTI
Digital element: (bird/music, sentiment from Vintage Blue element pack; patterned paper from Vintage Blue paper pack) Glitz Design
Glitter: (gold) Martha Stewart
Ribbon: (sheer navy) May Arts
Button: Bazzill

A Birthday Wish

Hi everyone! Today, some of the Girl Fridays at CAS-ual Fridays are having a blog hop for Michele Gross's birthday.

Michele is such a nice, supportive, and generous person. She's a doll! I'm thrilled to be participating to wish her a happy birthday. :) If you would like to start at the beginning of the hop, you can start at Leigh Ann's blog:

Leigh Ann

Sanketi

Alice

Kelly

Jingle

Lorena

Lindsay

Sylvia

Deb

Jocelyn <--You're here!

AJ

Pamela

Angie

To celebrate, I made a little ray of sunshine:

For this hybrid card, I started with a digital journaling card from Designs by Dani and stamped a digital sentiment from Hero Arts. I printed the image twice and fussy cut the sun to add a little dimension. Isn't the sun cute?

I printed some digital gingham papers from the same collection and stitched around the edges. Easy peasy. Here's a close-up:

The Ink Squad girls from CAS-ual Fridays are also hosting a blog hop for Michele! Is she loved or what?! You can follow along with them too: Dana, Karen, Kelly, Laurie, Lynn, Michelle, Piali, and Virginia! 

Next on the hop is the fabulous AJ. Thanks for stopping by!

Peace on Earth

Hello, hello! For all my American friends, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I'm back from a trip to Hershey, and had a blast. Well, maybe not the work part, but it was great seeing my mom and oldest brother and visiting the Hershey Factory. The chocolate upon chocolate was cool and yet almost absurd--very Wonka-ish (minus Slugworth). Of course, I loved how over-the-top it was.

Now the countdown to Christmas is on. To get into the holiday spirit, I wanted to share a card that was published in the Paper Crafts Magazine's Card Design Handbook:

This little guy cracks me up! This card is all-digital. I started with a Splendid Fiins' digital journaling card (the stick figure and speech bubble), enlarged it, recolored the background, and created my own sentiment.

I wanted to mention that I have a link to my Twitter and Pinterest accounts on the sidebar. You can click on the Twitter to see Elvis in my craft room (you know you want to see him!).

If you haven't had a chance to link up yet, The Play Date Cafe two-week challenge ends on Tuesday night. You can see the post HERE.

Thanks for looking! Have a great week!

Supplies
Cardstock: (white) PTI
Digital element: (journaling card from Blah Blah Blah Journaling cards) Splendid Fiins at Jessica Sprague
I used Photoshop Elements to make this card