Cut it Up Challenge #188 ~ Tic Tac Toe

Hi Crafty Friends,
We're playing Tic Tac Toe for Cut it Up's challenge this week. You'll find the Tic Tac Toe grid below.
Right now, I'm making Christmas cards every chance I get so it was easy to use my Tic Tac Toe choices to create yet another Christmas card.
I chose 

The hills are a La-La Land Crafts stitched hill border die and so is the flag.  The trees and button were in my stash.  The designer paper is Cozy Plaid by Carta Bella. You can see that I chose the right hand column: button, border or banner, and designer paper.

Come and play along with us. Our challenge sponsor is Stinkin Cute Paper Piecings

My Time to Craft #411 ~ Christmas Scene

Hi Crafty Friends,
Now I'm in Christmas countdown mode.  It's less than a month away!!! Are you ready?
Our My Time to Craft theme for this challenge is Christmas Scenes.
I used a variety of dies and one stencil, all from La-La Land Crafts, to create this 4.5 x 6.5 in card.

The snowy mountains and lake dies are from the October Club kit.  The 3 trees and Santa sleigh are available in the store now along with the stencil.  

I hope you'll join us for this challenge.  Be sure to visit the MTTC blog to see some amazing Christmas scenes for inspiration.

Die Cuttin' Divas challenge 448 ~ 3-2-1

Hi Crafty Friends,
We have a fun, different challenge for you today.  It's 3-2-1 and you get to choose 3, 2, 1, of different items for your project; papers, patterns, colors, embellishments - your choice.
Here's my card.  It's a wedding card with the bride's colors and theme in mind.

To meet the challenge theme I chose 3 Copic colored flowers, 2 die cut feathers, and 1 stamped background. The design of the card was inspired by a card created by Nicolette Marie, a La-La Land Crafts designer.  I used several LLLC products (flowers, background stamp, and leaves.  But, I also used an old Martha Stewart punch around border, the feather die from Crafter's Companion Advent set (yes, I opened it!), and Jaded Blossom stitched and scalloped ovals and sentiment from the Fancy Wedding set.
This was a fun challenge.  I hope you'll play along.  Just link your project to our DT blog, Die Cuttin' Divas.

Die Cuttin' Divas Challenge #447 ~ Thank You/Thankful/Giving Thanks

Hi Crafty Friends,
We are so thankful for our many followers and participants at Die Cuttin' Divas so we thought this would be a great theme for this challenge.
I decided to make a set of thank you cards to give as a gift.  I have a sweet friend who still loves sending cards and I love making them for her.

I love this new internal scallop die set from Jaded Blossom.  I cut it and the sentiment using my Gemini J. I've had this patterned paper for awhile and I think this is the last piece.  I had enough to make a 6-card set, woohoo!
I hope you'll play along with us this week.  Just follow the link above.

Cut it Up Challenge #187 ~ Celebrate Fall

Hi Crafty Friends,
It's time to Celebrate Fall for Cut It Up's 187th challenge. It was also time to try some stamping techniques in the creation of this card.

Our sponsor, The Cutting Cafe, provided an entire file containing oval and circle shapes with borders.  Although I have lots of metal dies, it's nice being able to use a cut file in order to size the shapes to any size I need. I used the wheat stamp which is included in La-La Land Crafts Simple Joys Background stamp set.  The patterned interior is also from that set.  After cutting out the oval border, I stamped it using LLLC's Wood Planks background stamp then popped it up over the oval base. I hope you'll join us for this challenge.  The Cutting Cafe is providing our challenge winner with her choice of files.  Just follow the Cut it Up link above to play along.

My Time to Craft #410 ~ Christmas Animals

Hi Crafty Friends, We're sharing Christmas Animals for this challenge at My Time to Craft. A year ago I attended a La-La Land Crafts retreat.  We spent 3 days learning and creating some amazing projects.  It was a jammed packed weekend and I'm still finishing projects from the retreat! This cute little Christmas card was one of our class projects.

Doesn't this sweet Hippo with its deer antlers bring a smile to your face?  The Hippo, tiny stamps and sentiment are all from La-La Land Crafts Deck the Halls clear stamp set.  The star circles are LLLC dies.  I filled the shaker with seed beads - a nice change from sequins. I hope you'll share one of your Christmas animals.  Just follow the link above.

Die Cuttin' Divas Challenge # 446 ~ Anniversary

Hi Crafty Friends,
I made a CAS anniversary card for our Die Cuttin' Divas challenge this week.

I think is perfect for a long married couple who love to travel.  I've used a border die from Whimsy Stamps and the Card Mat die and one of the word dies from Jaded Blossom.  The stamp is a part of JB's Happy Hello set.
Thanks for stopping in.  I hope you'll play along.  Just follow the link above.

Die Cuttin' Divas #445 ~ Sketch

Hi Crafty Friends,
We're starting a new month so it's time for a Die Cuttin' Divas sketch challenge.
You'll find the inspiration sketch at the bottom of this post.
It's November and my goal is to have enough Christmas cards completed so that can go in the mail early in December.  This is a great goal but one I rarely meet - ugh! Here's one more to add to my collection using our challenge sketch.

Everything on this card is from my scrap stash - papers, die cuts, and bling.  I keep telling myself I really need to keep using what I have on hand; I did, yay me!
Here's the sketch for you to be inspired by - 

I hope you'll play along with us.  Just follow the link above.

Cut it Up Challenge # 186 ~ Thanks, Thankful, Thanksgiving

Hi Crafty Friends,
We're THANKFUL at Cut it Up Challenges and we're hoping you'll share your Thankful projects with us this week.  The team is also using the SMOOSHING techique.  We hope you'll try it.
Our sponsor is Scrappy Dew who provided our files for this challenge.  I chose the Wreath Girl set for my project.

This is a cut file but I chose to upload the jpeg image to my Silhouette software, adjust the size, and then print it out on my Canon Printer.  I used my Scan n Cut2 to cut out the image.  
So, what is SMOOSHING?  It's the technique I used for the background.  You place ink on acetate and then "smoosh" the acetate onto your background paper.  I misplaced my alcohol inks so I used Distress Stains.  They made more of a splat that a smoosh but I rather liked the result so I rolled with it!  I finished off  with some Wink of Stella on her wreath and some twine.
I hope you'll join our challenge this week.  Just follow the link above.
Happy November!!!

My Time to Craft challenge 409 ~ NO Squares or Rectangles

Hi Crafty Friends,
We have a fun one for you this time at My Time to Craft.
For this challenge we're asking for shape card EXCEPT squares or rectangles!
Jaded Blossom to the rescue with their Octagon stitched dies.

I've been wanting to use this Caffeinated Boxer stamp from The Rabbit Hole Designs and I needed a masculine birthday card so here it is.  The inside of the shaker was stamped with Jaded Blossom's Birthday Splatter stamp then heat embossed.  I finally added some seed beads to my stash and I think they look fun inside the shaker.  I colored the image using Copic Markers.
So put your designing cap on and come up with a shaped card to share with us. Just follow the link above.