Nativity Puddle Jumpers

Good morning! First I need to issue an apology. I had a card saved ready to edit my post for Saturday but I TOTALLY forgot to finish it up on Friday...and had no idea that it was a scheduled post instead of a draft! OMG! So you guys got a card and no post. Thats a new one, even for me, LOL!!

For todays post I have a card made with one of Lori Boyd's newest Puddle Jumpers...this is the Nativity PJ digi. I completely fell in love with this image! I colored the image with subtle purples, greens and tans to match the Cosmo Cricket paper. Totally not my usual bright colors, but it looks perfect for Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus, don't you think? I did the card in honor of having been one of the winners in the by Lori designs contest last week! (more on that another day...)

The paper is from the "Mitten Weather" 6x6 pad by Cosmo Cricket, and I still have 2 available in the Boutique!! The sentiment is by Stampendous! called Christmas Peace.

Other challenges that I entered this card in:

• Friday Sketchers: sketch
• Christmas Stampin' : anything goes
• Sweet Stampin': buttons & bows
• Fab 'n' Funky Challenges: Going with the Flow
• Paper Cutz: Anything Goes
• Meljens Designs: Buttons and Bows
• ABC Christmas Challenge: X is for Christmas

OK, gotta scram! Lots to do in the coming weeks! Have a great week and thanks for stopping by!

-Cyndi

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November Blog Hop with InStyle

{Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving yesterday! We had a nice relaxing time at my in laws house...everyone ate too much and then we watched football and the parade. Only problem was Michael is still sick. Urgh. Mommy is ready for him to get better and get back to school so that I can get some work done!}

OK, so its blog hop time! If you arrived here from Angelique's blog then you are right on track!! My project for the Hop is a scrap layout I made using more photos from our ski trip last year. I also used "Suzette" a digi image from InStyle Stamps for my project.

This month at InStyle Stamps our theme is to make a project using one of our favorite holiday songs as inspiration. I went with "Let it Snow". The lyrics I printed out from HERE

The snowflakes are felt from my stash that were available fron Stampin' Up! a number of years ago. I added some stickles to each one :) (Notice more divine twine? hehe) Here's the closeup of Suzette. After I colored her with copics I polka dotted her sweater and made her scarf striped.

At the top of the pages (and the bottom) I punched borders with my Martha Stewart icicle punch then added more stickles to these too.

Another closeup of the snowflakes, and you can see how I cut the picture and mats for it out with Spellbinders Nestabilites.

OK, the list of supplies and copics are below! In the meantime, time to hop on to Cathy's blog!

Don't forget when you are done to head back over to the InStyle Stamps blog at the end and to vote for your favorite project!

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Suzette digi (InStyle Stamps)
• Paper: Winter Wonderland pp (Martha Stewart); white cs (Bazzill); grey cs (SU!)
• Accessories: Icicle Punch (Martha Stewart); Labels 3 & Circles Nestabilities (Spellbinders); ribbon (Creative Impressions); stickles (Ranger); buttons (Basic Grey); copic markers; Divine Twine; felt snowflakes (SU!)

Giving Thanks & a Pixie Dust sketch

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends! I hope you all enjoy a wonderful and blessed day with your family. We will be heading down to my in-laws this year, for the first time in a long while. Usually its at my house with his parents and mine, but we are traveling this year so that his brother can join in too!

Today I have a thankful card for you for this weeks Pixie Dust Studio challenge. Its time for our monthly sketch, and we also challenge you to include a bit of thankfulness as well.

I used Baker Fairy, from Pixie Dust Studio as my image. She is colored with copics on Neenah paper and cut out. My leaf was created with a leaf Nestabilies from Spellbinders which was also embossed with a Spellbinders Impressabilities. AND, did you notice that I finally got my hands on some Divine Twine! I ordered mine from Endless Inkabilities from my cyber friend Kim!

This is the sketch for the week if you'd like to play along. You have until next Wednesday night to participate. The close up of the embellie/ribbon treatment is below as is my total list of supplies.

Challenges for this card:

Pixie Dust Studio: sketch & thankful

Stamp Something: Something with Thanks

Fab 'n Funky: Going with the Flow

Crazy 4 Challenges: Circles

OK, thats it today! Tomorrow is the InStyle Stamps blog Hop :) Thanks for popping in today!

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Baker Fairy digi (Pixie Dust Studio); Thanks sentiment (H&M)
• Paper: Olivia pp (Bo Bunny); Joy Ride pp (Cosmo Cricket); cs (Bazzill & Neenah)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Crushed Olive, Brushed Corduroy, & Dried Marigold Tim Holtz distress ink (Ranger)
• Accessories: sponge daubers; leaf Nestabilties & Scrollwork Impressabilties (Spellbinders); button (Basic Grey); ribbon (Bo Bunny); divine Twine; copic markers

Black Friday SALE!

Lollipop Christmas

I have a just for fun card for you today! I used 2 of the images from the new "Lollipop Christmas" digi from By Lori Designs. I fell in love with these lollipops when they were first released at Stamping Bella last year, but now I really love that I can pick up some as digis!!

I used some fun paper from the Martha Stewart "Winter Wonderland" pad. LOVE the colors, and they are just perfect for this image...simple and bold :) I added some litter to the dresses and some White Flower Soft to the hats. Closeup is below so its easier to see.

This card is entered in for these challenges:

• Papertake Weekly: Cut it Out
• Karber Weekly Challenge: 2 or more DP and a digi
• MelJen's Designs: Sparkle & Shine
• Paperkutz Challenge: Christmas & bling
• Pile it On: Winter Means...Christmas!!

List of supplies is below and the photo of the copics that I used :) Have a great Evening and thanks for popping in to visit me :)

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Lollipop Christmas (By Lori Designs); sentiment (Recollections)
• Paper: Winter Wonderland pp (Martha Stewart); White cs (Neenah); Pomegranate & Carob cs (Bazzill)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Accessories: Polar White Flower Soft; Green glitter (Stampendous); ribbon (Creative Impressions); button (Basic Grey); Copic markers

Puppy Love

Today is release day at InStyle Stamps! We have a bunch of adorable new images available in the store today...6 to be exact! If you missed seeing previews of any of these head over to the ISS blog and check out last weeks posts!

For my card today I used "Puppy Love". I wanted something bright and fun so I pulled out my 6x6 "Joy Ride" paper pad from Cosmo Cricket ...perfect!! Added some extra borders and whatnots and the sentiment is by Stampendous!

Challenges:

Southern Girl Challenge: My Favorite Color (orange)

Pixie Cottage : Ribbons & Bows

Little Paper Shop: Die Cuts

Here's a closeup of him :) Hope you all have a great week, thanks for visiting me!

-Cyndi

• Supplies Used:
• Stamps: Puppy Love digi (InStyle Stamps); Happy Messages (Stampendous)
• Paper: Joy Ride pp (Cosmo Cricket); Bazzill & Neenah cs
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Accessories: Jumbo Scallop & Circle dies (Spellbinders); jumbo zig zag (My Favorite Things); ribbon (Michael's & SU!); button & brad (Basic Grey); white uniball pen (Signo); Copic Markers (pictured below)

Lil Christmas Lolita...just for fun!

It is so rare when I get time to do some stamping just for me :) I always feel gulity after my DT stuff is done that I should be commenting on blogs, working on my store stuff, catching up on scrapping, etc. But the other day I decided to work with an image I have been wanting for a long while!

Actually not so much the image, but any from this line of images! I just have to be careful what I spend, but $3 for a digital isn't so bad in the budget once in a while! So, this is Lil Christmas Lolita Lilith. I just love her sassy expression! She is from Tickled Pink Stamps in Australia, but the digis of course arrive almost instantly!!

She was fun to color, and I enjoyed putting fun touches into the card as well, like the stretchy pom-poms that I never use :) Also I love the blood red tips on her hair. My youngest daughter wants to do this to hers. I think it would be fun, but I know her dad will not like it. Maybe semi-permanent ??

OK, thats it for now! Have a great Saturday and thanks for hopping by :) -Cyndi

• Challenges for this card:
• Lil Lolita Boutique: Anything Goes Christmas Style
• The Burtonesque Dolls: Movie Madness: Edward Scissorhands
• Stamp Insanity: Sketch
• 365 Cards: Something Stretchy
• Lolipop Crafts: Girlie Girl
• ABC Christms Challenge: X is for Xmas

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Lil Christmas Lolita Lilith digi (Tickled Pink Stamps); Merry Holidays (Stamping Bella)
• Paper: Merrymint (American Crafts); Bazzill & Neenah cs
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Accessories: Labels 4 & Labels 13 & Dbl end tags (Spellbinders); white pom poms (Bazzill); Border punch (EK); Apple Red & White glitter (Stampendous); snowflake brads (Recollections); copic markers; Clear glaze pen

What's in the Toybox?

Game on, duuuuuude. This is Gamer-a-saurus. He is my absolute fav of the new Toybox images from Pixie Dust Studios!! And, the good news is , the toybox is now open! Head over to the Pixie Dust store to pick your up!!

I love dinos, and we are definitely a gaming family... I think we have just about every model of every make out there from the 360 back to the original Nintendo 64! But hey, thats 4 kids in the house, plus mom is a tech geek big kid too :)

Gamer is just one of the adorable images that are in the new Toybox Collection from Pixie Dust Studio. Below you can see all the rest of the fun toys!

Here's the list of supplies plus my copics :)

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Gamer-a-saurus digi (Pixie Dust Studio); alphabet (Stampendous)
• Paper: Bungle in the Jungle pp (Sassafras Lass); Bazzill cs; Neenah white cs
• Ink: Lipstick Red Tim Holtz distress ink (Ranger)
• Accessories: Octogon Nestabilties (Spellbinders); ribbon (Michael's); star sticker (Sassafras Lass); copic markers; stapler

Let's go on a Safari!

Its Safari time at Pixie Dust Studio, come join us this week with a safari theme card or project for this weeks challenge! See more samples from the rest of the DT at the Pixie Dust Studio Challenge Blog!

I used the brand new image Plushie the Pony ( a sneak peek into tomorrow's Toy Box release!!) I took a look at the stripes on some of his mane and thought....zebra!! But of course (s)he has to go on safari in a bright childish way...cause every time I see him I start singing, "my little pony"... Love the image Kathy, but the song has GOT to go out of my head!!

Here's a closeup shot of Miss Plushie. My papers are from Anna Griffin and Bo Bunny. Ribbon is from my stash, Michael's perhaps?

The Love sentiment is by Unity, and I colored it to match Plushies little mane :)

Be sure to play along with the Pixies this week! You have until next Wed night!

Other challenges my card is entered in:

Sketch Saturday: sketch

Stamp Something: use a digi

Fab 'n' Funky: Forget me Not (Love stamp never used before from 2 years ago!!)

Thanks for popping in!

-Cyndi