Time to bid Adieu!!!!!!!!!!!

Digital Image: DinoMite Dinosaur by Jane's Doodles

Papers: American Crafts Dear Lizzy's Enchanted

Buttons: Basic Grey's Kioshi assortment

Copic Coloring

Flower Embellishment: Webster's Pages Bloomers

Happy (well.... kinda) Tuesday!

It's a sad day for me today.  I am saying good-bye to some wonderful ladies!  This is my farewell post for Claudia & Company!  My term is up and although I am sad, I am feeling quite blessed!  I have been surrounded by some of the best artists in the crafty-industry!  Claudia runs a top-notch company and Gwen, our Design Team Coordinator, always kept me in line!  (And you know that THAT is hard to do!)

But I can't leave without telling you about this week's challenge, now, can I ?????

This week's challenge at Claudia & Company is a 'recipe' challenge!  Your card must have TWO designer patterned papers, three buttons, ONE image and ONE piece of decorative trim!  Pop on over HERE to see all of the fabby creations the design team made using this recipe!  They are just as awesome as usual!

All of the items I used in my card are listed under the picture and are available at the C&C store HERE!  The dino image is just the sweetest and I am in LOVE with the papers by American Crafts!  And of course NO card is finished unless it has some flowers and buttons!  Claudia is having a sale right now so she can clear the shelves now to get ready to replenish them when she goes to CHA next month!  So be sure to pop on over to the STORE to see all the wonderful deals!

Thank you again, Claudia for asking me to design for you AND especially for giving me the chance to get to know you and become friends with you and the team!  I hope you all stop by now and then just to say HEY!  Each of you hold a special place in my heart and I will miss you bunches!

Blessings on the rest of your week!

SALE! SALE!! SALE!!!!!!!!!

Claudia is getting ready to SHOP till she DROPS at CHA {Craft and Hobby Association}!!!!  She wants to empty the shelves of her store and fill up her pocketbook so she can get us NEW CRAFTY SCHTUFF! 

So, to do this she has tons of items on sale 25-40% OFF in her STORE for you!!!!!  The sale begins today and lasts until January 28th! 

SHOP HERE NOW

for the best selection!!

Anyone's panties in a TWIST???!!

This FUN and EXCITING new release {of the five images below} was inspired by the Meljen's Designs Design Team!  We were all joking about getting our 'panties all in a twist'!  Well, I guess that got Melissa's MOJO MOVING!!! 

So here are some fantabulously fun images, ideal for Valentine's Day!  AND be sure to see all of the cards created this week at the main BLOG HERE!  There are some awesome sentiments posted that go with the images perfectly!

Here's my fun card using the new 'Little Brazier' you can find in the Whimsy Stamps store!

AND be sure to participate in this week's Meljen's Designs challenge!  Just use: 

PINK and RED!

See details of this week's challenge HERE!

ENJOY

and

may GOD BLESS the rest of your week!

Color Challenge with a SKETCH!

HAPPY TUESDAY!

Here's a SUPAH cute card to go along with this week's color challenge at Claudia & Company!  Red, Yellow and Green are the colors to use!  Along with my Mary Jane PuddleJumper,  I used some fabulous Modern Homemaker papers by October Afternoon, a bit of bling by Doodle Bug Design and some Kioshi buttons from Basic Grey in my creation!

My card is inspired by this week's sketch challenge SSSC100 at Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!  A good sketch always helps my creative mojo get moving!

And some exciting news!  If you ever thought about joining a Design Team, go see Claudia's Design Team Call!  I wish I could stay, but my washer and dryer have been so lonely lately and my cookbooks have been, too!  So, I am sadly leaving after next week's challenge on January 25th!  SNIFF!  I am going to miss Claudia and the rest of the gals!  They are such good, creative company, fun friends and SUPAH SUPPORT!  So, if you get selected you will be so blessed!  I think she only has a couple openings, so don't be disheartened if you don't get it, just keep trying! 

Don't forget to pop on over to this week's color challenge at Claudia & Company!  The designers have some FABBY creations this week using the same papers and embellies that I used!  SO check it out!

Modern Homemaker Papers

Puddle Jumper Digi Mary Jane

Doodle Bug Designs rhinestones

Basic Grey KIOSHI Buttons

ENJOY YOUR TUESDAY!!

It IS HIP to be 'Square'!!

Wanna win some FREE DIGIS!? 

From the one and only MELISSA JENKINS!???

Well, CLICK HERE to see the challenge details, but if you know how to make a square or round card, you can enter to win YOUR CHOICE of three of her fabulous images FREE from the Whimsy Stamps store HERE!!

AND didja see her five new fabby digis above? 

Didja, didja????

Aren't they just the cutest??? OH MY! 

See more of these images in action at Meljen's Designs Main blog HERE!

ENJOY YOUR DAY!!

New Release at Claudia & Company!

John Grutta has joined our family at Claudia & Company!  He has released FOUR new images today!  Skip, Hop and JUMP on over to the C&C Blog to see all of the lovely creations by the {OH, SO TALENTED!}Designers!  I used LOVE VASE for the main image and the So Random set HERE for the sentiment on my card above, along with papers from the Die Cuts with a View, the "Tis the Season" line! 

{I don't think that Claudia has this set of papers, but there are other beautiful paper she does have HERE, so check out those and her SUPAH prices, too!} 

A double-button assortment in the corner that has a little splash of Kaiser blingy rhinestones and pearls is a simple yet nice touch for this clean and crisp card.  I think I may just have to save this for Valentine's Day for my hubby.  You don't think it is TOO GIRLY for him, do you?

I took a close-up shot so you could see the glitter in the paper and the delicate dots that continue pass the little vines in the image.  Beautiful detail! 

Claudia is offering up a freebie image in celebration of today's exciting release, so don't miss out!  See ALL FOUR of John's new images below or get a closer look at them in the store HERE!  Just lovely images, I think I might have to splurge and get all four! 

Thanks for stopping by

and

ENJOY YOUR DAY!

An AWARD? for little ol' ME? AW!!!!!

One of my local paper-crafty-galpals, Tiffany, gave this award to me!  Thank You, Tiffany, it's so appreciated!

So, now I shall pass it on!  Here are the rules for those paying it forward: A. Thank the person who gave you the award; B. Share 8 things about yourself; C. Pass this award onto 8 bloggers who inspire you!

About little ol' me....

(1) 2011 is gonna be a SUPAH year!  Not only is my oldest son, Josh, turning 21, but I will be 40 in just 45 days (not that I am counting or anything like that!)!

(2) All of my pets' names start with "P"; I have two cats, Patches and Persian, and one dog, Pepsi! (and I had (another cat) Patches in the past and a Peaches, maltese dog, too!)

(3) I have always loved to color, which is probably why I am a COPIC addict!

(4) I don't mind doing laundry, just HATE putting it away...probably because of all those stairs in my house!

(5) I have moved 22 times in my life and lived in 5 or 6 states (not sure of the number because I was a baby during the first few moves)!

(6) One of my favorite artist/designers is Mary Engelbreit; I love her use of bold colors and contrast even though I don't craft like that at all! Primary colors are NOT my thing! LOL!

(7) I am a Farmville junkie!  It's embarrassing, but I do love my farm!

(8) One of my BFF's daughter is in the hospital with pneumonia and really needs prayers!  Kelsey had a heart transplant at 12 (she's 19 now) so it's kinda scary! SO if you are a prayer warrior, please help!

For my 8 Blogger friends that inspire me, there's .... 

Dee, my sidekick at Meljen's Designs, we are a team!

Melissa Jenkins, creator of Meljen's Designs

Andrea, her softpastel creations are divine!

Sandy, one of my fellow Designer friends and operator of Operation Write Home!

Lori, illustrator of Puddle Jumpers and Sugar Sticks, she makes cute people!

Claudia, owner of Claudia & Co, she's a sweet friend and a fantastic artist, too!

Marianne, she's so freakingly Copically talented, it amazes me!

Gwen, such a loving supportive gal and an awesome scrapbooker!

and an extra to...

Lisa, she's so humble about her talent, and just a great soul!

I would have forwarded this to a few other gals (like the rest of Meljen's Designs DESIGN TEAM and all of the gals on both of Claudia's TEAMS, too!), but they either were already were blessed with it from others and/or I just plain ran out of time!!!!!!  ALL of my favorite crafters and friends are in my sidebar at left!  Take time to click on all of them, because I have the most talented paper-designer-friends around, let me tell ya!

Now, go spread the love

 

&

 

Pray for Kelsey!

SHAPE IT UP!!!!!!

Papers: My Mind's Eye True Blue

Image: Puddle Jumper Davey with Dino

Buttons: Kioshi Collection by Basic Grey

Sentiment Stamp: So Random Up & Down Set

Claudia put down the rules!  She said to SHAPE IT UP!  NO squares or rectangles allowed!!!!  That was kind of tricky for me since I wanted to make my card masculine!  But good ol' circles came to the rescue!  An adorable Davey Digi that looks like my Eli was just what these MME papers needed!  And although this card is for a boy, I had to add a little embellishment with the BG Kioshi yellow buttons!  Just had to have a little dabble of something!  I don't think a boy would think that this is girly, do you?  I think I will save this card for Eli's 9th birthday in April, it does look like him!

 

Pop on over to the Claudia & Company BLOG to see more fabulous creations by the rest of the Design Team!  My term is wrapping up all too soon with this team and I will sincerely miss them all so much!  But for now, I will enjoy each day I have left with them!  Until then, are you ready to face the challenge?  I hope so!  See you there!! 

Good luck!

Meljen's Designs GUEST DESIGNER SILKE!

{I don't have something new to show you today, so I thought I would showcase the Meljen's Designs Guest Designer for January, SILKE LEDLOW!  She's a fine artist and paper-crafter and someone I have admired for quite some time!  So, I think you will enjoy seeing her creation!  I wanted to make sure that if you missed out on this post at Meljen's Designs, you would at leaast see it here! ENJOY!}

Silke has done it again!  Her clean and streamlined style really IS simply beautiful!  Just the lightest touch of pink on the 'Mailed with Love' mailbox, the balanced assortment AND combination of bow-embellies, beautiful texture with the punched border and embossed hearts and perfect placement of bling in the corner, Silke easily made this one divine and sure to melt anyone's heart! 

Be sure to stop by Silke Ledlow's blog 'My Life' to see more of her latest artwork and crafty-goodness! She will get your mojo on the move for sure! 

Beautiful artistry, Silke!

A Bittersweet GiveAway

One of my Designer-GalPals, Nikki, is having a Blog Candy Give Away in honor of her mother, who recently passed.  Nikki has shared her mom with us in her blog post HERE and is letting us know how generous and giving her mom was everyday in secret.  Please take time to read this beautiful post and be prepared with a tissue, her words are amazing! 

Miss you, Nikki!

New images at MELJEN'S DESIGNS!

WOOHOO, I love me some Meljen's Designs, especially when they are as sweet as these!  AND a new challenge has been posted to give you an opportunity to win ANY three of Melissa's images for FREE!!!!!!!  CLICK HERE to see the beautiful creations by our AWESOME Design Team and to get details on how to enter the challenge, too!

ENJOY YOUR DAY!

Who says paperbagging it can't be pretty!?

HOWDY, Peeps!!  I thought I would share a cute little bag I made for a jewelry-customer of mine.  She bought some earrings from me and the sterling wire broke, so she gave them to me to repair.  Well, OF COURSE I can't simply return to her the little earring box without proper wrapping and embellishing!!! NO!  That would be a sin! HA!!!

I sent her a note in this card and used that as color-inspiration for my decorated the paper gift-bag!  I used Stampin' Up colors of Groovy Guava (retired), Pear Pizzaz and Crumb Cake (kraft color) and incorporated two different stamp sets; one for the bag stamping and another for the tag images, but I thought they were just perfect together, a bold/graphic look to both sets!  To see details of my card, CLICK HERE!

And here's a close up of the tag!  After stamping the flower and sentiment, I added a pearl for a little soft-bling!  Then, I punched a hole through the tag and adorned it with an eyelet, then punched the paper bag (already folded) and threaded the ribbon through both and tied it with a bow for simple opening!  I wanted the tag to stay at an angle so I used some glue dots on the back for sturdy placement!  Easy peasy and such a personal way to say THANKS for purchasing my jewelry! 

Hope you enjoyed my post! 

Come back tomorrow to see the latest release of Meljen's Designs images! 

You will be glad you did!

ENJOY YOUR HUMPDAY!

TAG! You are it!

Happy Tuesday!!!!!!!  It's another challenge at the Claudia & Company Challenge BLOG!!!! {And, NO, you are not 'losing it'!  I used to tell you about the challenges and send you to 'A Little Crafty Place', but Claudia has revamped her site and is sending us HERE!} SO, don't let this new experience keep you from getting all excited and playing in the challenge!  It's the same gal in charge and the same designers showing their talent, too!  AND be sure to play along because you might just be picked to be in the top three favorites!!!!!! (That is a real honor!)

This week, we are challenged to use a 'TAG'!  How simple is that, right??  You have less than a week to link up your creations, so get to it!  I used some awesome American Crafts Love papers in my card and a cute Heart Home digi by Jane's Doodles to pull this together!  All of the items used in my card are detailed in the links below! 

Thank YOU SO MUCH to Piali for gifting me the Ric Rac ribbon in my Christmas package surprise!!!!  It's my favorite new ribbon!  And you know how I love ribbon!!!!!!

I hope you take time to play along this week!

Thanks for stopping by!

Items used in my creation.......

Papers: American Crafts Love Collection

Digital Stamps: Heart Home by Jane's Doodles

Tag: American Crafts Love Decorative Tag Embellishment

Copic Coloring

Ric Rac Ribbon

It's Pixielicious!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  It was a LONG and exhausting week with the kids home from school, let me tell ya! WOW, I can't believe I even survived it!  Apparently I only BARELY survived it, because my brain was on meltdown mode last week and I forgot to post this SUPER cute card using these PIXIELICOUS papers!

You can see more Pixielicious creations HERE at 'A Little Crafty Place'!  I used a fun Cupcake DIGI by Jane's Doodles, available at the Claudia and Company Store!  Claudia has renamed and revamped her DieCutsRUs store to become Claudia and Company!!  IT IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!  Be sure to pop on over and browse around!  Such great products and even MORE AWESOME prices! WOOHOO to that!

Come back tomorrow for another Claudia and Company inspired project and a NEW CHALLENGE!

Happy New Year!!

Merry Christmas!

 Merry Christmas! 

Here's another teacher candy bucket for your 'viewing pleasure'! LOL!  I also made the teachers some necklaces, too, but failed to take a picture of those! GEEZ!  I attribute that to my pneumonia and lack of brain juice!

I used different My Mind's Eye papers for this one, but still has the same concept to it.  Fun ribbon by Prairie Bird Boutique, of course!  Patsy's ribbons just rock!!!!!!!!!!  (and so does her customer service, too!) You should try her ribbons, just lovely!  OH and of course, you can always iron it flat, too, but I like the shabby chic look!

I hope you enjoy your Christmas and spend it making many wonderful memories with family and friends!  I am lucky to be spending it with my hubbies extended family, even some from out of state, so that is surely a blessing!  But I will miss out on my side of the family, so that's not so happy, but we plan to make up for that in a month or so!

I want to say thank you so much to my wonderful paper-craft followers, friends and design-team sisters!  I really do sincerely appreciate each and every one of you!  Sharing your comments with me here on my blog is like a breath of fresh air each time and gives me that much needed motivation to keep it going!  Life gets very busy, you know, with four kids and it keeps getting harder and harder to find time to myself to craft.  So, knowing that you are all looking out for me, giving me support, really does help me stay motivated and keep the blog up!  I just hope that all of these illnesses will go by the way-side soon, so that I can post more often, like I used to!!!!!!!!  Anyhoo!!!! 

I hope you have a very blessed Christmas

and an even MORE wonderful 2011!

Christmas gift for the teacher!

Papers: My Mind's Eye, I Believe line

ribbons by Prairie Bird Boutique

WOW, just two days until the BIG DAY!!  Sorry my blog has been lacking, I have been down and out with pneumonia for almost a week!  I'm on the mend but now Josh is yucky and Isaac still hasn't gotten over his bronchial infection!  Does it ever end? I guess it is the norm right now with the cool, wet weather, but still!! 

WELL!!  Today at A Little Crafty Place they are sharing some design team creations using the My Mind's Eye I BELIEVE paper line!  This is such a beautiful set of wintery, Christmas papers!  I really enjoyed playing with them to make this teacher gift for KayLee's teacher, Mrs. Weidenbenner!  The buckets are by PRIMA marketing and I filled them with all different flavors of holiday Hershey Kisses! YUM!  I love the new chocolate mint!!  Just like eating a Girl Scout Thin Mint cookie! YUM!!!!!!

Hop on over to ACLP and see PART 2 of the MME I Believe paper creations!  Part ONE is HERE from Tuesday! 

ENJOY your day!

Freebie Coloring Page!

Here’s a fun coloring page for your little ones…
(by Melissa Jenkins, of course!!)

It’s a Letter For Santa that they can color
and leave for Santa on Christmas Eve!

(This is just a display, please visit Whimsy Stamps to download!)

AND.... did you see the latest release of
digis from Meljen's Designs??

See Below!!

Be sure to get in on this week's 'SWEET' challenge HERE
and
see these (and other!) awesome images at the store HERE!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS
From Melissa and the gang!

Beautiful song, an even more beautiful reminder!

Tag! You're it!

Happy Tuesday, y'all!  This week at A Little Crafty Place, Claudia is challenging you to put your tag-making skills to the test!  My mom reads my blog most of the time, so I hope she enjoys seeing this!  It's a cute little gift tag with HER name on it!  My kids call her 'Grammy' or 'Grammie' and for space-purposes I used the Cosmo Cricket stickers for the shorter of the two! HA!

The cute digi-stamp-grandma is a digi from Lori Boyd, available at the Die Cuts R Us Store!  She comes along with a Grandpa image, too!  I used my Copic markers to don my mom in a plaid skirt to match the Basic Grey Jovial paper in the tag!  I have to admit, the plaid skirt isn't that bad! LOL!  The vanilla ribbon is from Stampin' Up! and the red crinkled seam binding is from Patsy at Prairie Bird Boutique OF COURSE!!  A bit of a bling at bottom from Basic Grey and POOF a fun gift tag!

My tag's layout was inspired by the Sweet Stop sketch this week SSS86 (below)....

Korin always has the best sketches!!  I hope you enjoyed my tag!  Be sure to pop on over to the ACLP blog and check out all of the other designer's gifttags AND enter your own!!!!!!

Enjoy your day!!

Papers: Basic Grey's Jovial 6x6 pad

Image: Sugar Sticks Grandparents

Letter Stickers: Cosmo Cricut Tiny Type Clear/Black

Coloring: Copics

Base Tag: Manilla Tag

Whimsie Doodles IMPROMPTU Sale!

Melyssa from WHIMSIE DOODLES thought she'd be generous before Christmas and help you save a little moolah!  From now until Dec 19th at midnight, she's offering 20% off everything in her store!  AND with your purchase you also get an extra FREEBIE digi (similar to the one above)! 

CLICK HERE to read all of the details and then GO SHOP!  Use Promocode SAVE20 to get in on the sale! 

Have a nice evening!!

SSS85 ANOTHER SKETCH CHALLENGE!!

I just LOVE my 'Sweet Stop' sketches!!!!! 

Well, they aren't MINE really, but I do LOVE Korin's sketches!!  I used this SSS85 sketch below for my latest Lollipop Ella/Claudia & Company Stamps creation using Basic Grey's PYRUS papers and ribbon by Prairie Bird Boutique!  A little Copic-love for coloring, of course, and a row of pearls by Stampin' Up make this card perfect for ANY occasion!

Thanks for popping in!  I hope you enjoyed my creation-of-the-day!  Be sure to check soon to see the latest and greatest from Claudia & Company!

Enjoy your weekend!

FREEBIE COLORING PAGE!!!

Melissa Jenkins (creator of Meljen's Designs) designed a Merry Christmas coloring page!
She is planning on designing more coloring pages like this and other fun freebies.

 
Visit Whimy Stamps to download the coloring page.

Please share what you make using this fun page with Melissa at our BLOG!

The Christmas Blues

No, I am NOT sad!  I am facing this week's challenge at the Whimsie Doodles BLOG AND at the Stamptacular Sundays Challenge blog AND at the iCopic Lover Challenge blog!  USE BLUE!!  So, I decided to make this card using some Baja Breeze cardstock (OF COURSE cuz it's my favorite!) with these beautifully soft papers by Basic Grey!  And this Bauble Leah by Whimsie Doodles is such a cutie, so I decided to pop her on top!  I love this wittle angel! AW! 

See below the details of my 'glass beads' ornament and sparkly angel wings!!

I used this week's Card Patterns Sketch 93 for my card, it gave me some place to start!  Easy peasy sketch and fun, too!  Pop on over to Whimsie Doodles to play in the challenge!  AND to the store HERE to see all of the new angels and wintery new images, too! 

 See you tomorrow!!

Sketch Challenge!

HAPPY TUESDAY!  Have you ever needed a little 'PUSH' to get you started doing something?  I know I have!  And with card-making, starting with a sketch (also known as a layout) really does get me moving in the right direction.  I can look at the sketch and decide whether or not I should use a round focal image, or a tall one, then I look at the design and imagine what papers would look good together with the focal image I picked out already... Eventually, I get to this.................

This week 'A Crafty Little Place' has provided the first step for you!  A very easy peasy sketch to get your juices flowing!!!  I used some beautiful paper by Cosmo Cricket called Mittle Weather, available now at Die Cuts R Us!!  Isn't is all pretty in purple and snowflake shapes??  I love this!  I used Maree Truelove's Wreath for my card, along with a sentiment stamp from Stampin' Up!  And no card is finished unless it has some crinkled seam binding ribbon from Prairie Bird Boutique!  Tell Patsy I sent ya!  You get 15 yards (5 yards each of three different colors) for just $5.00!!!!!!  SUCH a deal and she's so fast, too! 

Pop on over to ACLP and play along this week using the sketch below!  You can tweak it just like I did, too, it doesn't have to be exact, it's just for inspiration!  Be sure to check out all of the creations by the ACLP designers using this sketch and these Mitten Weather papers over at "A Crafty Little Place" now!

ENJOY YOUR DAY!

Whimsie Doodles Release Day

Happy 5th of the month!  And if you can think back, what does that mean?  Release day at Whimsie Doodles!  Being a past designer for them, I was asked to guest design for them this month!  To see the full release of all of her adorable images, including ANGELS and even a set of rubber stamps, go to the Whimsie Doodles Blog!

I am using PJ Leah for my adorable card!  I colored her with copics that coordinate with the Basic Grey's Jovial paper line (available at the Die Cuts R Us store Here). Buttons are by Stampin' Up and ribbon is by Prairie Bird Boutique!

Whimsie Doodles has a new challenge each Wednesday, so be sure to come back and see what I come up with for that!

Enjoy your day!

PRE-COLORED STAMPS!!!!!!

Melissa Jenkins has ventured into a new area of digital stamping!!

Pre-colored digital stamps! (‘Moose Lights’ pre-colored digital stamp –

this is just one of her images, please visit the shop to see them all!)

Melissa colors these herself from some of her selected favorites from her digi line, and she is just thrilled to offer them to you all! There will be new ones each month. If you’re lacking coloring supplies, or if you’re needing to get a card done fast, these will be perfect to help you out. :-)

 CLICK HERE to see the pre-colored digis! 

(You’ll see some of Crissy Armstrong’s lovely images there too!) 

Melissa's first release is all

Christmas-themed!

Enjoy!!

Skating Mia!

Happy Tuesday!

It's another 'ACLP' day!  Today the designers at "A Crafty Little Place" are featuring creations using the Basic Grey CURIO LINE of papers!  If you love romantic, shabby chic, then you will LOVE these papers!  This normally isn't my style or choice of papers, but I do love the colors!  DO NOT adjust your monitors!  The colors here are light peachy-pink, kraft brown and mossy-green yellow!  Skating Mia makes these look even prettier, don't you think?  I used last week's Card Pattern's sketch (below) to inspire my layout and I used Copics to color match Mia to the papers!

Pop on over to ACLP to see what's new and find all of these items at the Die Cuts R Us store today!

Enjoy your day!

Papers: Basic Grey Curio line

Image: Jane's Doodles Skating Mia

Coloring: Copic Markers

Pearl: Kaisercraft

GOBBLE GOBBLE!!!!!!!

Happy Turkey Day!  Today marks the official release of 3 commercials out of 4 being about Christmas and what you 'just have to get' your children, spouse or yourself on December 25th!  HAHA!  And don't think that you will be able to ride in an elevator or be put on hold without hearing 'I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas' or any other traditional Christmas song!! 

SO, I might as well kick it off with Melissa Jenkin's NEW release (below) featuring this uber cute Christmas tree and a couple mugs of cocoa!  And it wouldn't feel like Christmas without carrolling snowmen and a glimpse of homemade Gingerbread men ornaments hanging from a primative Christmas tree or two! 

See all of them HERE at the Whimsy Stamps store and pop on over to see a handful of creations by the Meljen's Designs DT on the blog, which also announces the new challenge of the week, Buttons & Bows!! You could win 3 images of your choice, including ANY of these below, if you are randomly picked! 

I based my card on this week's Sweet Stop Sketch Blog challenge below!  I didn't finish the inside due to time constraints (had to bake some cookies, you know!), so I can't officially enter it, but I do like the sketch!  Korin always has good sketches!!

Thanks so much for checking in on me! 

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with PIE and NAPS!  That's what I am aiming for anyways! 

Blessings to you and yours!!

MY CARD: papers: Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses

Button: Stampin' Up!

Ribbon: Prairie Bird Boutique

Crushed glass glitter by LSS.