Quit "monkeying" around and say you'll be mine!

To see my card/project for the 3rd annual TGF Blog hop go here, or scroll down.

A bit of fabric and an image and a Valentine sentiment...and that's the ingredients for this next card.  I've used this silly monkey from Mo's Digital images.  It's hard for me to make Christmas cards when Christmas is this Sunday, huh? 

Challenges:
Mo's Challenge Blog- Fabric of our lives
Try it on Tuesday- Anything Goes

TGF 3rd Annual Blog Hop- Interactive Santa & Sleigh

I am participating in the TGF 3rd Annual Blog Hop.  It is exciting, there are 65 entries and i hope i get to meet some new hoppers! 

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TGF is giving away two Grand Prizes that they will draw for the participant's creations, a random hopper will ALSO win the ENTIRE upcoming January Release!   It is so AWESOME.

We were to chose from 2 themes, Holiday or Non-Holiday.  

I've chosen Holiday, and my creation is called an "Interactive Santa & Sleigh" card and is below:

To see the next blog hopper go here or back to the TGF blog here.

If you are a more of a visual crafter like me you can see my youtube video at my channel here.

What i did:

1. used my Scal2 program to cut out the card base by bringing it into the program and selecting "outline" and welding a left side to a right side.

2. stamped, enlarged the sleigh from the "Clear Christmas Stamp Set" to fit the card base and flipped it in PhotoShop so the card would open right to left . 

3. also stamped the Santa from Christmas Sweeties.  Colored both images in and used some sparkle pens to high light areas. 

4. Cut out both stamped/printed images. I allowed a white space around the sleigh because of the details and cut right on the line for Santa.

5. Cut a piece of Baker's twine and attach it in between the sleigh and the front of the card. 

6. Sew down the sleigh to make a pocket for Santa to sit in by stitching just inside the sleigh on the presents, make sure you have stitched the baker's twine into the seam.

7. Attach the other end of the Baker's Twine to the back of Santa's hat and attach the Santa to a piece of black paper and cut a shadow around him.

8.  Ta DA..you have an interactive Santa that sits in his Sleigh that anyone would love...especially the kids!  (You could also tuck in a gift card or cash behind Santa.)

This card and other cards are available at my Etsy shop here.

Challenges:
Bunny Zoe's Crafts challenge- Fancy folds/shaped cards
Crafty Boots challenge- Christmas

"Holly"day Kisses Card

I could kick myself, i colored this image last week with the intention of it going into the Tiddly Inks' "Ooh La La theme" Challenge, only to find out that when i finished coloring it, i missed the deadline.  arghhh! 

I always set up my schedule to be a day early so i don't miss....but what was i thinking waiting the extra day.  So i am back on my schedule and thought i'd use the image this week. 

To be honest with you, I like it better for this Tiddly Inks' "White Christmas" challenge anyway....LOL.

I also used one of my favorite blog's called "The Sweet Stop" sketch for this week, (i flipped the sketch on it's side) which is shown below:

What i did:
I used the image  Halloween "Sugar Angel" found here.  I turned the bat wings into "holly leaves".  I like lots of texture, so i used a pattern paper and dry embossed some paper.  I added the heart gems to the "holly-leaf" kisses.  My other great find this week was my border punch that punches out tiny snowflakes...and to think i was looking for a small snowflake punch!  I "sprinkled" some snowflakes throughout my card as well by using those small snowflakes....i had fun with those snowflakes and you will see them on other cards this week. :)

Challenges:
Tiddly Inks Challenge- White Christmas
The Sweet Stop- Sketch 139

Happy Birthday...Boys Only

Challenge over at TGF Farm Fresh Challenge blog is Boy's Only.  I've decided to use this cute Boy w/his presents.  I am also following the sketch at "Sketch Saturday".

 

Here is the card i made using the above sketch.

Challenges:
Sketch Saturday- sketch
TGF Farm Fresh- Monday/Funday (Boys Only)

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas Day 4- Greeting Farm Style

I bet you thought i forgot about making these Tim Holtz tags...nope...just had a lot of holiday stuff going on so i couldn't get them finished.  I've been making two tags per style.  I try to make one similar to the original design that Tim made and then one w/a digital image/stamp that i like. :)
I am making a video for most of the tags and they will be loaded to my You tube channel here with instructions on how i made these tags.

Here is the tag that i tried to make similar to Tim's:

And this is my Greeting Farm version:

Challenges:
TGF Farm Fresh- Retro-Fresh Tag

Brand Spanking New Blog Challenge

Yes, isn't it exciting????!!  My good friend, Pauline, has opened a new challenge blog called, "The Card Crafter's Circle".  I am on the Design Team..woo whoo!

The challenges will be weekly with a different sponsor each week, that means awesome prizes!

This week's awesome sponsor is, Bugaboo Stamps...and i am a fan of these stamps! They come in jpg. and png. format and i've done a tutorial using her stamp here.  The winner this week gets their choice of 7 stamps!!!

 

Here is the card i created using "Christmas Brat Girl Elf" and the "Present".

I did some paper piecing, but no png layering on this card, i hand cut the pieces and placed the elf on top of the presents.


PS...There is a 50% off sale going on at Bugaboo Stamps...i am just saying. :)

Happy Birthday, Holly!

My daughter's birthday is on the 20th of this month.  She is our oldest and has 4 children (our only grandchildren so far :)  When this stamp came out, it was a "must have".  For this challenge from TGF challenge blog we were asked to "case" the card below:

This is the card i made:

Challenges:
TGF Farm Fresh Challenge- Friday-Spyday