Winter Wonderland

Hi, everyone!

I'm taking a break from my Bugaboo Birthday Week cards today, but please scroll through the week's posts to visit the cards I have made and the wonderful games and challenges that are going on over at Catch the Bug! We'd be so honored to have you playing along with us this week to celebrate Bugaboo's 3rd Birthday! :0)

I recently purchased some Cottage Cutz dies; these are my first CC dies, ever and I fell in love with them when I saw a card that Kittie Kraft posted a while ago. The dies are Mountain Lodge and Trees & Rustic Sign. I have to say, I had a booger of a time with some of the tiny cut-puts on the Mountain Lodge die! I was 'losing my religion' for several hours, and through six different cut attempts! I did manage, though, and have put together this card for todays post:

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There are tons and tons of layers on this. I used a stair fold card base, and lots of pop dots! I added some 3D Glittering Paint for my "snow" on the trees, roof, chimney, steps, and on the torn top of my snowy, crimped layers.

Here are some additional images, some different angles and close-ups. And, as always, clicking the image will enlarge it for better detail views. :0)

Here's a front view, at a higher angle than the first photo.

This view shows the card base folds, and you can see many of the layers from this view.

A close-up of the lodge and trees. The lodge die puts some pretty embossed details into the pieces: cobblestone for the chimney, lines for logs on the home, some pretty dimension on the trees.

I can only ream of a white winter this year, it seems. SC has had incredibly warm temperatures, so far (as have many areas in the country). The days of Michigan winters, where I grew up, are behind me, but I think that's okay: I can always make cards like this and not have to deal with the frigid temperatures that go along with the pretty snow. lol! It is nice to think that some day I will head to a mountain lodge to stay for my holidays, but for right now.....I'm happy right here. :0)

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you've enjoyed my card, and that you choose to browse some of my other posts! If you like my work, please follow me, and leave a comment with your website info so I can return the favor! :0)

Happy Crafting!

This card has been entered into the following challenges:

Always Something Creative - Winter

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Cold & Frosty

Crafting for All Seasons - Something New(dies)

Crafts And Me - Something New (dies)

Crafty Sentiments - Winter Fun

Creative Card Crew - Snow & Ice

Creative Moments - Monochrome

Eureka Stamps - Layer It Up & Let It Snow

Freshly Brewed - Anything Goes

Make My Monday - Die Cuts/Punches

Papercraft Star - White on White

Papertake Weekly - Baby It's Cold Outside

Sisterhood of Crafters - Winter

Squigglefly - Winter Theme

The Crazy Challenge - No Designer Paper

Tuesday Alchemy - Winter Wonder Photo Inspiration

Whoopsidaisy - Monochromatic

BINGO Saturday Challenge at Catch the Bug

It's Saturday, which means a new challenge over at Catch the Bug today! We are hosting our monthly B-I-N-G-O Card Challenge! 

Without further ado , here is this weeks Catch the Bug 

Bingo Card:

Isn't this BINGO Card the coolest?! So many choices!

You may choose three squares: horizontal, vertical, or diagonal!

I chose to a horizontal column of requirements for my card this week (Pearl, Bugaboo Image, and Sentiment). 

My card features one of the Bugaboo Stamps Snowman images! This little cutie is the Snowman Patches. I love this little guy's shape: it reflects the shapes of snowmen I made as a kid, much better than a triple-stacked one! lol!

 It, and the other great Snowman images, are available in the Bugaboo Stamps Store! Hop on over and check them out!

For my card, I used my Martha Stewart PATP Snowflake punches. I am trying hard to use my supplies, and quit looking at all the "new" stuff that has come out for purchase this fall. I seem to be running to the store for "something" way too much, lately! lol! I'm sure hubby will be happy to see me use my stash supplies, too. :0)

I added some Stickles Glitter Glue, Icicle,  around the snowflake borders. To apply it, I kept a light squeeze on the bottle while I gently swirled it around the punched openings. I also added the Stickles to my snowflake punches. These were punched from two EK Success punches, and one Martha Stewart punch. I added the white pearl in the middle. All of my layers are adhered together using pop-dots. I like to use the Stampin' Up dots, as they are just a bit thinner, and don't add too much bulk to the card when I multi-layer with them. :0)

My sentiment is something I printed from my PSE program.

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Supplies Used

Stampin Up whisper White Card Stock

Martha Stewart Punches - PCATP Snowflakes, Medium Snowflake

EK Success Punches - Large Snowflakes (Sorry, I can't remember the specific name of each)

Pop-Dots

Stickles Glitter Glue, Icicle

PhotoShop Elements

So, let's see your card this week! Pick your BINGO daubs (you can go horizontal, vertical or diagonal), whip up your project and head on over to enter it into the Mr. Linky!

By entering your project, you could win up to TEN Bugaboo images!

Head on over to Catch the Bug to play along!

Please check out the rest of the Design Team goodies while you're there! These peeps are filled with talent, full of good tips and ideas......and loaded with eye-candy-inspiring ideas! I am so honored to be part of the group!

<=====Their blog links can all be found in my left sidebar! :0)

Pick up this cute Bugaboo image, and others, over at the Bugaboo Stamps Store, and make sure you also jump over to the Catch the Bug Challenge Blog: it's where you can find out all the lastest "dish" on what challenges are happening and what other challenge sites that Bugaboo is sponsoring (more chances to win some free Bugaboo!). It's also where you can check out all the other fantastic DT projects, including the OBG (Oldie But Goodie) stuff, the ABC (Anything But a Card) items, and the Tuesday New Releases......plus so much more!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

If you enjoyed your visit, please consider following me ======>>

This card has been entered into the following challenges:
ATC's & Cards with Attitude - Anything Goes
Avadares - Anything with a Digi
Card Makin' Mamas - Happy Holidays
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge - Bling-tastic
Crafty Ann's - White on White
Emergency Crafters - Deck the Halls
Guylou's Inimitability - Let it Snow
Jingle Belles - Anything Christmas
Pattie's Creations - Christmas Card
Pause, Dream, Enjoy - Snow
QKR Stampede - Snowmen, Snow Angels, Snowballs, Snow Fun
Raise the Bar - Let it Snow
Sparkle & Glitter - White Winter
Stampin' for the Weekend - Let it Snow

A Beautiful New Release from Bugaboo Stamps

It's Tuesday.......time for a Bugaboo Stamps New Release! Jodie's been hard at wrok on some great images, and this Roses Block is just one of them! 

You ever have a certain image you have to work with, and it just isn't your typical style so you fear you are going to put together a "monster" card? Well......the block images are usually the ones for me that give me that. "Oh no.....what am I going to do with this?!" feeling. I usually stare at them until the very last day my card is due for the team. lol! I am proud of myself for pushing to finish this one ahead of time, though. I made myself work with it a whole two weeks in advance! :0)

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Materials List

Stampin' Up Card Stock

Cuttlebug Victoria Embossing Folder

Sentiment Printed in PSE

MS Punch 3 in 1 Butterflies

Cheery Lynn Mini Fanciful Flourish Die

Prima Flowers

CTMH Brad

CTMH Rhinestones

Stickles Diamond Glitter Glue

Pop Dots

Pick up this, and the other new release images, over at the Bugaboo Stamps Store, and make sure you also jump over to the Catch the Bug Challenge Blog: it's where you can find out all the lastest "dish" on what challenges are happening and what other challenge sites that Bugaboo is sponsoring (more chances to win some free Bugaboo!). It's also where you can check out all the other fantastic DT projects, including the OBG (Oldie But Goodie) stuff, the ABC (Anything But a Card) items, and the Tuesday New Releases......plus so much more!

If you like what you see, the "Follow" button is over there ====>>

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Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Happy Crafting!

This card has been entered into the following challenges:
Timeless Tuesday - Make a Card that Makes You Feel Happy
Craft Room Challenge - Punches & Die Cuts
Crafty Cardmakers - More Than One Punch and/or Die-Cut
House of Gilli - Die Cuts
Lollipop Crafts - Gratitude/Thankful

New Release and Challenge at Paper Pretties

Hi, everyone!

It's Monday, so it's time for a New Release of Digi Stamps at Paper Pretties, and their new challenge for this week! Be sure to enter for your chance to win some Paper Pretties Digis!

The Paper Pretties Challenge Theme this week is :

USE BLING!

Here's my card for the challenge:

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This is the new LADY BUG TRIO image by ARTish, and it is such a darling!

This is just one of the new releases today! 

You can hop on over to the Paper Pretties Store to pick up this, and the other new release, and then head on over to the challenge blog to enter your card! 

You don't have to use one of the new images on your card, but it does have to follow the theme to qualify for the prize: You could win three Paper Pretties Digis of your choice!

Make sure to check out the rest of the wonderful design team members of Paper Pretties, and

don't forget to stop by the store to pick up one of the new releases! The DT blog links are located in myleft sidebar for you!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Ciao for now!! :0)

This card has been entered into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Anything Goes

House of Gilli - Vibrant Colors/Summer

Stamps & Fun - Bling Bling

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Die Cuts/Punches

The Pink Elephant - Vibrant Colors

Whoopsi Daisy - Summer Colors

On the Fifth Day of Christmas......

Jodie, of Bugaboo Stamps, is offering a 50% discount on EVERYTHING in the store! AND.....Bugaboo's Catch the Bug Challenge Blog is having a "Twelve Days of Christmas" Event! Woohoo! What better way to celebrate the season than with a chance to win some great Bugaboo Stamps images EVERY day of the event?! :0)

Join us on our "Twelve Days" Journey for a chance to win some fabulous prizes!

Daily Challenge Prize: 

1 Winner - (5) images of your choice!

Grand Prize: 

1 Winner - 

The Full 12 Days of Christmas Image Set AND a January Guest Designer Spot on the Bugaboo Stamps Design Team!

Entry Deadline:

 December 16th

Winners Announced: 

December 18th

We  are going to follow along the traditional "Twelve Days of Christmas" song.  

Since today is the "Fifth Day"of our challenge event, it is the "Five Gold Rings" day, according to the song. Our challenge today is to use some GOLD .....as in BLING-BLING!! lol! :0)

Here's what I came up with, using this precious, adorable image from Bugaboo Stamps: Christmas Teddy Ornament.

I colored the image in PSE, as is my norm, lately. :0) I hand cut this little cutie-pie out, and placed him on a Nesties cut mat. My papers are some older Christmas papers, I think from Cloud9 Design, that I had in my stash. I punched a border using an MS punch, and I added a bit of gold gel pen to the embossed part. The gold ribbon is something from my stash, as are the gold metallic brads. The image has some gold Stickles added to the ornament and the jingle bell on the end of the cute bears hat. :0)

Now, we'd love for you to join us, so go grab your pretty papers, girly-girl embellishes and join us!  Head over to the Catch the Bug Challenge Blog to enter your creation, and you could WIN some Bugaboo Stamps Images!

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Crafting!

This card has been entered into the following challenges:

2 Sisters - Punches and/or Dies

Crafty Emma - Include a Bear

Bah Humbug - Cute Critters

Simply Create Too - Christmas

What's Black, Silver and full of Bling?!

..............my card for this week's Catch the Bug Challenge, of course! lol!

Welcome, everyone!

So glad you could stop by! The 4-1-1 on this week's Bugaboo Stamps Challenge over at their Catch the Bug Challenge Blog is to create a project using Black, Silver and BLING! :0)  Last week you saw some great projects that the Bugaboo DT put together for the Paper Pretties Challenge, and this week their team is joining us for ours! Make sure you jump over to the challenge blog to check out their awesome creations, and please be kind.......jump over to their blogs and show them some Bugaboo Fan LOVE! :0)
A great way to build up your Bugaboo image inventory is to enter your project into the challenge! You could win up to SEVEN Bugaboo images! Woohoo! And all for just linking up a project that goes along with this week's theme!

Here's my card:

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This week I used the Fancy Umbrellas - Umbrella 4 image from Bugaboo Stamps. I colored the umbrella in PSE. I added some red gel pen to the ribbon outline, and some Stickles Glitter Glue to the flowers. The black flower is a Prima, and the brad, and corner ticket punch used, is by Stampin' Up. The sentiment is something I typed up and printed in PSE. The card base is embossed with a Cuttlebug folder, and then I added some silver gel pen to the dots. The striped silver card stock is by DCWV. The ric rac ribbon is out of my stash. I have to tell you.....I am loving my Xyron Sticker Maker for adding adhesive to my ribbons, lately! Awesome little machine! If you don't have one, you should definitely add it to your "wish list"!

One more thing before I go.......make sure to drop by the Bugaboo Catch the Bug Challenge Blog starting December 1.........we are having a 12 Days of Christmas Challenge that you won't want to miss! Tons of fun, and chances for you to win Bugaboo Stamps EVERY DAY! :0)Thanks for stopping by today! 

Happy Crafting!

This card has been entered into the following challenges:

Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog - Monochrome or Sketch

Frosted Designs - Metal

Dutch Dare Card Challenge - Recipe Challenge