Winter Wonderland Friendship

If you missed my 

NAUGHTY OR NICE BLOG CANDY post,

please click here!

Happy Holidays

Christmas Card

Happy Tuesday everyone!

It's time again for yet another wonderful challenge at

TOP TIP TUESDAY

Today's challenge is...

ANYTHING GOES CHRISTMAS!!

With our ever generous sponsors..

Who is offering the winner 

4 stamps of their choice!

and

Who is offering a winner

3 digital images of their choice!

Plus,

If that's not enough inspiration,

be sure to check out the amazing inspiration from the

lovely and very creative ladies at

TOP TIP TUESDAY!!

Here's my card

Using the adorably cute and so fun to color image,

Home For The Holidays

from

Robyn's Fetish

Sentiment from Stampin' Up!

It's Snow Time

Card design based on this sketch challenge from

The Pixie Cottage

The tree is made from a twig in the yard and some faux moss.

Additional metal star brads added for decorations.

Side View

This was such a blast to make this card and color with Copics.

Hope you found some inspiration and are ready to join our challenge over at

TOP TIP TUESDAY!!!

Thanks so much for coming by,

I love all your visits!

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Challenges I would like to enter this card into:

Crafting For All Seasons - #13 Textured

Paper Shelter Challenge -  #38 Christmas Fun

ABC Christmas - 'V' is for Vintage (I subdued the colors with brown for a sepia watercolor vintage look)

Bring The Umbrella

If you missed my blog candy post, click here. :)

In The Storms of Life...

The cover to my triple easel card that I found a tutorial for here

and my DT card for 

Make It Monday

Our linky party is open again 

and we can't wait to see your amazing creations!!

Our sponsor for this week is...

Who is generously offering the winner

Prize - $20.00 Gift Voucher

Be sure to check out if you're the winner for this week!

Now it's time for my

Pick Of The Week

(Perfect card after last night's experience...

Woke up and thought there was a poltergeist in my bedroom.  Bed was shaking when my daughter came in and said the house was shaking.  Been through many a tornado, but never an earthquake. Wishing and hoping that all in Oklahoma who experienced the actual epicenter are well and didn't experience too much damage.  The second in two days for them. :(  

So, this card is perfect for well wishes...

This beautiful card is brought to you by

Riette from Red's Card Corner

Friends Bring Umbrellas

I designed this sentiment to match the Tildas'.  

I attempted to watercolor this copic Tilda,

Ummmm, jury is still out on this one, but since it's my first time trying, I'm pretty pleased with it.  Will keep practicing though.

Colored this Tilda with Copics as well, but wanted her bright and shiny with hints of glossy accents on her boots, coat pocket and umbrella.

The image in the window is a picture from the internet when I googled 'storms.'

Well, that's all for me on this post.

Thanks for stopping in and don't forget,

Make It Monday is always Anything Goes,

so hop over and see the INCREDIBLE creations from the DT's and awe us with your AMAZING talent and creativity!

Happy Stamping and Have a Fabulous Day

Lisa xx

Challenges I would like to enter:

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Crafting For All Seasons - #13 Textures

Naughty Or Nice Blog Candy!!!!

The winners post is located here.

Holiday Pay It Forward You Made Me Ink Blog Candy!

Hello everyone!

Well, I finally got it all together and I want to share with you some blog candy that I have been collecting.

My inspiration has come from meeting SO many wonderful crafters over the past few months.  I have been blessed with friendship, generosity, inspiration and truly wonderful gifts.

In the spirit of Christmas, I would love to pay it forward and give back to the crafting community to say THANK YOU 

to all of you who have and or will touch my life in a very positive way.

 To make this my own special twist...

I have created 2 winning prizes.

First Prize

(Naughty)

The entire collection

(angels not included...they're just there for foo-foo decoration)

 Close-up pictures of the NAUGHTY prize

 And more of the NAUGHTY prize

So, as you can see...

it hasn't really hurt if Santa finds your name on the naughty list!

Second Prize

(Nice Prize)

The Entire Collection

Close-up Pictures of the NICE prize 

BUT....

There's MORE!!

If Santa finds your name on the NICE list...

You will also receive this specially made gift just for this candy.

A handmade crocheted matching super soft and gorgeous hat and scarf

designed by my grandmother!

She visits this blog all the time and has truly enjoyed all your wonderful comments and humor and wanted to contribute as well.

So, thank you Grammy for the AMAZING gift...

(It's almost difficult to part with it's so cute!)

 Here It Is...

The BONUS gift for winning the NICE blog candy prize!

Ok, the rest is up to you and Santa...

Here are the simple rules:

1.  You don't have to follow my blog to receive this candy.  Since it's a PAY IT FORWARD candy, all are welcome.  However, I would greatly appreciate it if you did, only if you find inspiration in my cards and projects.

2.  You need to enter your information with Mr Linky below.

3.  Only ONE ENTRY per person, please!

4.  Please add a photo of this candy on your side bar to help pay it forward and link back to me.

5.  There is no option to pick which prize you would like.  That's all up to Santa!

So be sure to check back on the 1st of December to find out who the winners are and if they landed on the NAUGHTY OR NICE list.

Best of luck to you all!!!

Big hugs to you all and happy stamping!!

Lisa xx

Good Luck To You

Stamper's Quest Sneak Peek

The holidays are nearing us and over at 

Stamper's Quest

the Artistic Guides have been busily creating 

card, gift, and project ideas for your inspiration.

For example, there's the 

Featured Section

 this month on what is your favorite

 "Go To Stamps?"

I chose humor and here's my card.

If you'd like the tutorial

click here

and check out all the artistic guide's creations.

There's also the section called the

Watering Hole

where each guide talks about something stamp related and creative.

Here's a Hedge Apple from my yard. 

And here are some leaves from my yard that I had a little embossing fun with

Click here if you'd like to see what I did with these for a fall project

and enjoy the other amazing crafts that will give you ideas for holiday gifts, cards and decorations.

Also under the Watering Hole section you can see my article on

Making Your Own Charms

Click here if you'd like to see the step by step tutorial

 Completed Card With Charm

It's all here at

Stamper's Quest

and sooooooo much more!

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

We'd love for you to visit the free online magazine and find some inspiration for the holiday seasons....

there's something there for everyone and the holiday project ideas will continue to post throughout the next couple of months so be sure to check back again.

Happy stamping and crafting for the holidays!

Lisa xx

A Belly That Shook Like A Bowl Full Of Jelly...

It's Story Time

Number 8 milk carton for the really wonderful and

creative challenge (that's a good thing) at

The Funkie Junkie

Here is Linda's fantastic tag #8 for the

12 Tags of Christmas Challenge

With each challenge, Linda asks that you create your own holiday project based on her tags and use what inspires you from the elements that she has incorporated on her tag.

There's still PLENTY of time to do all the challenges!!

WOW...well, I don't need to tell you, she's given me plenty of inspiration to draw from.

I chose Santa, background colors, snowflakes and metal.

Fantastic challenge, Linda and I love that you make me think out of the box!

These are getting progressively more difficult for me, but thank goodness for your ingenious creativity, there is always something new that I can't wait to try.

 Vintage Mickey Santa Book

The carton was inked with Creamy Caramel from Stampin' Up! 

Peace and Joy stamped in Chocolate Chip ink

Snowflake stamped in Versamark and then heat embossed with Winter White embossing powder.

Snowflakes from Spellbinder's Snowflake Wonder and dusted with #664 Super Bronze Pearl Ex and topped with Ranger's liquid Pearl in Platinum Pearl.

 Another Vintage Storybook

 Poor, but fun, attempt at glasses

I thought for the metal portion of this challenge that I would make glasses for each side of the carton.  If you look closely, you'll notice that each book has spectacles placed somewhere near.

Corner Shot of Carton #8

And lastly, 

All the cuteness in a row...

Thanks so much for stopping in today....

Challenges I would like to enter:

The Funkie Junkie - 12 Tags of Christmas Challenge #8

Hope everyone who participates in the Halloween festivities had a wonderful time.

Here's a few parting pictures of our celebrations

.

My son dressed as Sam from Trick or Treat,

lacking the orange (footsie pajamas) but still cute!?

My daughter as the Monster Under Your Bed

She only had the teeth in here, horns not yet added.

Here's the horns

 Close up of his own stitch work for Sam

 My son designed his best friend's costume as well.

This is the Scarecrow from Batman's Arkham Asylum.

  A few un-dead things laying around in the yard

Okay, that's it from me...I'm off to craft.

Happy Stamping to you all...

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Make Your Own Papers or Background

It's a super cool challenge at 

Top Tip Tuesday 

today

as our very own Samantha shows how to make

background paper with Impressabilities!!!

Here's a sneak peek at her tutorial

Be sure to check out the amazing DT's work for the blue team today and join in the challenge of

Get inky making your own papers or background.

 With our sponsors...

Offering 3 Digi's of the winner's choice

And...

Offering 2 Digi Images