No friend like a Snow Friend

My daughter helped me arrange this card.  I had a couple of snowmen left over from another project and didn't know what to do with them.  My daughter said "Mom, they should be holding hands".  So that's where this one all started.  I layered them on some textured cardstock from Stampin' Up and then used a EK Success border punch on the bottom.  I chose some fun papers from K & Company and used some Tim Holtz old paper distress ink around the edges of it.  My daughter while I was doing this was pulling out ribbon from my ribbon boxes and decided that the yellow would be perfect.  I added a couple cute tickets from Scribbles by Sandy (without the edges) and inked them just a bit.  Then I layered the materials all together and stitched the image cardstock to the card and some fun green star buttons on with some green embroidery thread.  The final touch was adding the green star to the middle of the snowmen.
I really enjoy crafting with my kids, they have some marvelous ideas!
I am entering this card in The Stamping Boutique's challenge - Winter/Holiday

Mellow Out

Tis the season for yummy hot chocolate and the best time to have it is after being out in the cold.  Preferably having fun!

This card I have to share is inspired by the challenge over at Designed 2 Delight - snowmen.  I love snowmen and this is one of my favorites! It is a digi from DDH and I coloured him with prismas.  I love his stick arms and thought that this ribbon would do well to compliment them.  The sentiment is from TLC and I matted it to some wonderful chocolatie cardstock form Stampin' Up.  The sentiment and image I inked with Ink It Up's chocolate brown and then arranged it on some fun snowflake paper form K & Company.  The final detail was the little red heart button.  I love to find special places for buttons.  Hope you find the need to mellow out with a good cup of hot chocolate after some fun in the snow!

Bunch of Flakes

Moving on to winter.  Please scroll down to see me fall card, I posted both today.  I have been waiting to create a card with this delightful bunch of snowmen since I recieved this digi before the Digi Design House closed.  My family loves snowmen and every year we build our fair share before the snow becomes to dry to stick together.  One year we did one for each member of the family and used our own scarves and hats (spares) to dress them up with.
For this card I used some Stampin'Up textured yellow cardstock as my base and added my image and sentiment to some green cardstock also from Stampin'Up.  I threaded the ribbon through a couple eyelets from Portafolia and tied the ribbon around the base of the image.  So with a simple bow and some glittery snowflakes, I hope it makes someone smile.
I am entering this card in The Stamping Boutique's challenge - Holiday/Winter

Goodbye Before Hello

It is with great disappointment that I must say goodby to the Digi Design Dream Team before I officially was to begin in September.  The company unexpectedly closed their doors and so that opportunity has closed as well.  I am very blessed to have some of their amazing stamp sets and will be sharing them with you as I add them to my cards that I make.  Their amazing invitation to join them has created a creative spark of interest in me to use digi stamps with my papercrafting.  Lots of inspiration that I will be sharing with you all in the days to come.  Here are three cards that I had created just for the them and here they are to say goodby.