Use that Stash!

Happy Friday! Don't you just love Fridays? 
Today is the start of a brand new challenge at
Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges!

Ch#48: Forgotten Stash

Create any type of project using some of your Forgotten Stash.

Starts: Friday, November 30rd 12:00 am EST

Ends: Thursday, December 6th, Noon EST

Winner (chosen by random.org) Announced: Thursday, December 6th late afternoon

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Prize: 1 Stamp Set of the Winner's Choice

Here's my project I created for this challenge:

I just love that song, Baby it's cold outside and this Santa Baby snow woman reminded me of that!  Me, I love the hot weather but I don't have any control over the snow that will undoubtedly end up covering Ohio sometime this year.  

This fabulous sassy babe is Santa Baby and she's from Fresh Brewed Designs.  Isn't she something?  Love her and Heather is absolutely fabulous over there!  She's colored with my copics and I've added some white Flower Soft and Stickles to her hat and dress and on the ground around her.  The flowers, papers, gems and lace are all from my stash, but I've had the flowers a while and totally forgot about them!  Come on and show us your stash!  

Hope you enjoy her and can't wait to see what treasures you have lurking in your stash!

Christmas With A Twist for Elphine House Australia!

I am so excited to participate in my first Elphine House Australia Design Team Challenge!  Elisabeth Bell's sweet, adorable illustrations just speak to my heart and I'm so thrilled to be presenting her images to you again and I can't say enough good things about Helen and Lew!  They're fabulous and totally rock!  Oh, and the design team is so talented and welcoming!  It's great to be around some old friends and making new ones!  Yep, I'm probably over the top but I love these images.  I can't wait to have you join our challenge of Christmas With A Twist and that means taking an image and use non-traditional colors with it.  I decided to use Danny Boy Christmas Gifts and think he's so stinkin cute!

Christmas presents are so fun to wrap.  There's something about the gorgeous paper, the shiny, sparkly ribbon, and the unknown of what's inside the box.  My girls used to love to help wrap presents and Nichole still does!  The day after Christmas, she goes shopping and scoops up on all the deals on paper, bows and boxes.

This cutie pie is colored with copics and cut out with Nestabilities.  I added some Sticikles to his cap and the ribbon and bows and touched the edges with Distressed Inks.  The snowflakes were made with Martha Stewart punches and covered with fine glitter.  The papers are from DCWV's Artic Wishes Paper Pack and the gems are from my stash.

I just love him and could eat him up!  Can't you just see this sweetie being so excited to help with the Christmas wrapping?  Just love his pj's!  We all get new pj's every year for Christmas and I'll bet his have that same, new smell to them.

I love how the snowflakes came out.

Here's a peek on the inside.

You can see the band I made with a Martha Stewart edger punch.

Judy, I mixed things up a little bit and added some snowflakes to the inside!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my twist on Christmas colors.  I hope you'll stop by our blog and show us your non-traditional Christmas palette!

My Grafico for Tuesday Throwdown and Emma Gifts of Love

I do love every other Tuesday because that means I get to do a project for Tuesday Throwdown!  This week we are being sponsored by My Grafico!  They have some fabulous images and you can find out all the details on the Tuesday Throwdown Challenge blog.  We are challenging you to use extra layers and I tried to pour them on!

I love gift giving and how pretty little girls are when they get all dressed up.  I fell in love with Emma Gifts of Love from Elphine House Australia and had to ink her up and use her!  She could be any one of my three girls when they were young or my three granddaughters on any holiday.

I colored the gorgeous butterfly from My Grafico and the beautiful Miss Emma with copics and used my nestabilities for the frame and oval.  I had to give that holiday dress some Stickles to make her sparkle and also added some to her present.  I stitched around my layers and added a gorgeous embellishment from Close to My Heart.  I used some distressed inks to the edge of Emma and to the inside and I made the flowers and added the branches from a Martha Stewart punch.  The lace and pearls are from my stash.  I love this gorgeous paper from K&Company.

Here's a close up of the beautiful brass embellishment.  Love says it all, don't you think?

Here's a sneak peek of the inside with the side view.

Isn't she just the prettiest thing?

Here's the inside.  I love this butterfly on the paper.  All shiny and fabulous!

Hope you enjoyed your visit here today!  Make sure to stop over at Tuesday Throwdown and see what my fabulously talented designing team buddies have to inspire you with.  Make sure to join our challenge and show us your layers!

Underwater Scene, Syrena, and Happy Birthday to my baby girl!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday.  I know I did!  I missed my girls but got to spend the day with my Mom, sister and nephews and their families.  I simply adore being around them and know how very blessed I am.  Today is not only Fabulous Freebie Friday over at the Sassy Studio Designs Paper Craft Planet Group, but it's my baby girl, Nichole's birthday!  Happy Birthday, honey!  

When Nichole was little, she fell in love with The Little Mermaid.  Ariel was and is still her favorite princess.  When I was asked to create an underwater scene for this Friday's Freebie, I knew exactly what I wanted to do, especially when I saw that it fell on Nichole's birthday!  This one's for you honey!

I love this underwater scene and think you can use it for so many things!  I added Syrena from Sassy Studio Designs  and colored her like I could see my Nichole as a mermaid.  I colored everything with colored pencils and added some Stickles to the starfish and sand dollars.  I added some Glossy Accents to the bubbles and then sprayed Goosebumps on the background scene and Syrena.  Then I attached her with some pop ups and added some gems from my stash.  The flowers are from Recollections and the branches are from my Martha Stewart punch.  I ran the border through my cuttlebug Devine Swirls folder and sanded it with a nail file.

Isn't she just gorgeous?  I love Lindsay's designs!

Here's a view of one side.

Here's the other side.

I added a few gems on the inside. Make sure to head over to the group to pick up this gorgeous scene and to leave my Fabette sisters some love.  Remember this freebie will only be available for 24 hours.  Don't miss it!

The Joy of Giving Release from Sassy Studio Designs!

Sure hope you all have enjoyed the first day of our fabulous Joy of Giving Release for Sassy Studio Designs.  Haven't my designing sisters done a fabulous job with these wonderful images? I love our theme of vintage or shabby chic!  Sometimes that's right up my alley!

Christmas is my all time favorite time of the year.  It's the time we celebrate the birth of Jesus, when we celebrate our families, get to let our minds and hearts be childish, when we can believe that anything is possible.  I'll admit I still believe in Santa Clause and that reindeer can fly.  I love the thought of the North Pole being a total toy factory and filled with elves.  I've always been blessed with being around people who have unlimited generosity of heart and love and played into those magical thoughts.  When I got married, we tried to create a magical atmosphere around our home and the holidays for the girls.  One of our traditions was making a mix we called Reindeer Feed.  We took oats, glitter, and sequence and would give each girl a bag to sprinkle outside on the snow or lawn to make sure the reindeer could find the house and give them a snack while they were waiting on Santa.  Reindeer are really special to me during the holidays so I was thrilled when I was asked to present my take on Reindeer Pin Up!

Isn't she just gorgeous? She's colored with copics and Spectrum Noir markers, has gold Smooch on her jungle bells, some stickles on her tail and front and some glitter and Flower Soft on her costume and boots.  The papers and clip at the top are from my stash, the poinsettias are from Prima, the button and hatpin are from Basic Grey and the pearls and lace are from my stash.

This is the entire card.

Here's the side views of the inside.

Since I've been showing the insides, I can't let this one go by!  I love the bright, vintage glass balls and I remember these boxes.  What wonderful, shiny ornaments used to come out of them.  

 Make sure to leave a comment and then to stop by the Sassy Studio Design blog to get all the details on the great opportunity to win some of our release images!  I sure don't want anyone to miss out on the opportunity of the magic of the season!  So fly over and check out all the details!