Visions of Sugarplums Holiday Hop 2017

Happy Sunday!

Paper Sweeties has been invited to participate in 

Lori Hairston's 

Visions of Sugarplums Holiday Hop today!

I spent an afternoon getting "felt" happy (playing with felt), cutting way too many things out of felt. I now have a small box of Christmas felt die cuts and I intend now to use every last one of them! LOL  If you saw my post yesterday you saw some of the results.  My cards today also feature some felt cut dies.

Circle Scallops Sweet Cuts

Stitched Tags #2 - Sweet Cuts Dies - Paper Sweeties

Sugar and Spice Sweet Cuts - Paper Sweeties

You Better Not Pout

Have you noticed a pattern or theme with my posts the last couple days?  I'll put it another way, do you think maybe I like that stitched tree tag a little?

Sugar and Spice Sweet Cuts - Paper Sweeties

Stitched Tags #2 - Sweet Cuts Dies - Paper Sweeties

Sweet Cuts - JOY

Hop through the list below of the Paper Sweeties Designers and see what they have to share:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Nancy Salkeld (You are HERE)

Karen Letchworth 

Maria Patrick

Jinny Newlin  

Lisa Bzibziak

Kathy Schweinfurth

Mackie Robertson

Paper Sweeties is also offering up a $25 Gift Certificate during the hop so make sure and leave comments along your way!  

Visions of Sugarplums Blessings!

Paper Sweeties 25 Days of Christmas Designer Blog Hop!

Happy Saturday!

Its' the weekend!

What are our plans this weekend?  Shopping?  Decorating? Cardmaking?  All the Above?

Well, whatever you're doing, be sure to check out

Paper Sweeties' Designers & Friends 

25 Days of Christmas Hop!

Today is my day to share my project.

I've made two actually.

The first is a set of three tags:

Sugar and Spice Sweet Cuts - Paper Sweeties

Stitched Tags #2 - Sweet Cuts Dies - Paper Sweeties

Wish Sweet Cuts Dies - Paper Sweeties

Be Happy Sweet Cuts Dies - Paper Sweeties

Sweet Cuts - JOY

I also used one of the newer Sweet Cuts, Sweet Cuts For You.

                                       

The last one is another tag ---- 

A Minion Tag!

How adorable is that?

It's made with all Paper Sweeties Dies!

Window Sweet Cuts - Paper Sweeties

Jingle all the Way Sweet Cuts - Paper Sweeties

Sugar and Spice Sweet Cuts - Paper Sweeties

Stitched Tags #2 - Sweet Cuts Dies - Paper Sweeties

Be Happy Sweet Cuts Dies - Paper Sweeties

I also used the new Sweet Cuts Meet Me Under the Mistletoe.

Come back everyday to see a different Designer/Friend's Christmas project with Paper Sweeties:

December 1st: *December Challenge Posts*
December 2nd: Nancy Salkeld
December 3rd: Visions of Sugarplums Holiday Hop
December 4th: Karen Letchworth
December 5th: Lori Turner
December 6th: Maria Patrick
December 7th: Larissa Heskett
December 8th: Winter Coffee Lovers' Blog Hop 
December 9th: Michelle Bala
December 10th: Kathy Schweinfurth
December 11th: Mackie Robertson
December 12th: Lori Turner
December 13th: *December Planner Posts* 
December 14th: Maria Patrick
December 15th: Michele Henderson 
December 16th: Nancy Salkeld
December 17th: Karen Letchworth
December 18th: Jinny Newlin
December 19th: Lilian Forsyth
December 20th: Debbie Marcinkiewicz
December 21st: Kathy Schweinfurth
December 22nd: Lisa Bzibziak
December 23rd:  Karen Letchworth
December 24th:  Lisa Bzibziak
December 25th:  Debbie Marcinkiewicz

While our hop continues everyday, our Inspirational Challenge is going on as well through the end of December for a chance for you to play along and share your inspiration with us!

Paper Sweeties Challenge - December 2017 Anything Goes!

TGIF!

Holy moly it's December 1st!

How did the year just zoom on by?  I feel like I'm still back in September or October!  

10 Days til Hanukkah 

and

24 Days until Christmas!

WOW!

Since it is the first day of the month means there's a new 

Inspirational Challenge 

at 

Paper Sweeties!

My card:

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe Stamp Set

Stitched Tags #2 - Sweet Cuts Dies - Paper Sweeties

Paper Sweeties - Strawberry Sequins

Hop through the Design Team below to see all of their fun projects for the month:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties
Jinny Newlin  *December Guest Designer *

Julie Tucker-Wolek
Karen Letchworth

Kathy Schweinfurth

Larissa Heskett
Lilian Forsyth  
Lisa Bzibziak
Lori Turner

Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Michele Henderson
Michelle Bala
Nancy Salkeld (You are HERE)

Come play along with us this month and share your projects inspired by our festive inspirational photo.  You don't have to use Paper Sweeties products, but we love seeing them if you have them.

We also have our Holiday Designer's Hop this month.  There's something everyday by one of the Design Team members now through Christmas.  So check out the list below:

Paper Sweeties' Designers & Friends 

25 Days of Christmas Hop!

December 1st: *December Challenge Posts*
December 2nd: Nancy Salkeld
December 3rd: Visions of Sugarplums Holiday Hop
December 4th: Karen Letchworth
December 5th: Lori Turner
December 6th: Maria Patrick
December 7th: Larissa Heskett
December 8th: Winter Coffee Lovers' Blog Hop 
December 9th: Michelle Bala
December 10th: Kathy Schweinfurth
December 11th: Mackie Robertson
December 12th: Lori Turner
December 13th: *December Planner Posts* 
December 14th: Maria Patrick
December 15th: Michele Henderson 
December 16th: Nancy Salkeld
December 17th: Karen Letchworth
December 18th: Jinny Newlin
December 19th: Lilian Forsyth
December 20th: Debbie Marcinkiewicz
December 21st: Kathy Schweinfurth
December 22nd: Lisa Bzibziak
December 23rd:  Karen Letchworth
December 24th:  Lisa Bzibziak
December 25th:  Debbie Marcinkiewicz 

For Following Challenges:

Paper Sweeties Blessings!

4 Crafty Chicks #379 - Crazy Egg Anything Goes!

Happy Thursday! 

It's time for a new challenge at 

4 Crafty Chicks!

It's the 5th Thursday of the month so you know what that means too ---

4 Crafty Chicks #478 - Crazy Egg Anything Goes!

Lori is our hostess again this week!  

Anything Goes means you can create whatever your heart desires!  

I made this card for one of my hub's colleagues for his anniversary.  His wife loved it.  I saw Jennifer McGuire's post a month back on using dies to create faux letterpress cards, so I decided to try it.  I used the stamp/die set, Flourishing Phrases, from Stampin' Up. I made two dies for it for the "letter pressing".  I also cut a couple oval dies out to letter press the area for my sentiment as well.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things set "Love You More".  I used "It's A Girl" pink ink by Catherine Pooler.

Inside (just stamped)

Come to the Hen House and check out the rest of the team's projects.  Then share your ATG in the linkup and play along!

Crafty Chick Blessings!

The Simply Sweet Christmas Inspiration Hop!

Welcome to 

The Simply Sweet 

Christmas Inspiration Hop!  

Lesley Croghan, has asked The Challenge Design Team and special guest, Julee Tilman to join her in an inspiration blog hop focusing on Last Minute Simple Yet Sweet Christmas cards or tags.  The Hop begins on Lesley's blog, Always Playing With Paper.  

Hop through the list below, visiting each blog and leaving a comment:

Lesley Croghan

Anita Madden

Broni Holcombe

Claire Broadwater

Julee Tilman

Kelly Lunceford

Kim Heggins

Lori Tecler

Nance Salkeld (You are HERE)

Nina Forsyth

Rachel Bergfeld

Vicki Finger

I made two sets of five cards for the Hop.

Stamps: Plaid background stamp (Catherine Pooler); Merry Christmas sentiment -"Here We Come A Caroling" (Catherine Pooler); Beep Beep sentiment and VW Bug - "Driving to the Holidays" (Flora & Fauna).
Paper: Neenah 110 lb white cardstock; black cardstock.
Ink: Brights - Party Collection (Catherine Pooler); Muted colors - Spa Collection (Catherine Pooler); Midnight Archival Ink (Catherine Pooler).
Extras: Wonky stitched rectangle die (Stamplorations); Reindeer antler dies (Flora & Fauna). Red pearl gem.

I was originally going to make just five cards but I was loving how they turned out so I decided to use more muted colors and stamp five more.  I started by cutting out all the little reindeer antlers.  Then I cut 10 sheets of white Neenah cardstock 4-1/4"x4-1/2" and five more at 4-1/4x5-1/2".  I also cut 10 small strips from black cardstock for a border between the plaid and white cardstock. I took the 10 pieces of cardstock and mass stamped the sentiments together in black archival ink using my Misti.  I switched stamps and stamped the VW bug above the sentiment in each color.  Next I inked up the plaid background stamp by Catherine Pooler, inking one half of the stamp with the bright red (Rocket Red) and the other half with the muted red (Peppermint Scrub) and continued this process with each color.  I only needed a small 1-1/2 inch piece of plaid for the bottom portion of my card so I found it saved a lot of time (and ink) to double up colors on the stamp halves. I used the larger five white cardstock pieces to stamp the plaid.  After stamping everything, I cut each plaid color to two inches (left a little to overlap under the top white cardstock).  I adhered the plaid piece to the stamped white cardstock piece and ran it through my Big Shot to cut the stitched border.  I adhered all the top pieces to white cardbases, glued on the black strip and all the antlers and added the red gem to the car front.

Lesley is also offering a prize of 4 matching Christmas cards handmade by her. She will send them to one random winner. 

In order to qualify to win please...

1. Visit each blog in the hop and leave them a comment.
2. Leave a comment on Lesley's blog telling her about your "Christmas Cards"...how many do you make and what style do you usually use?

The Giveaway Contest closes on Saturday, December 2nd.

Simply Sweet Christmas Blessings!

4 Crafty Chicks #378 - Outdoor Winter Activity

Happy Thursday!

Happy Thanksgiving 

if you're in the U.S.!

Hope you have a blessed and yummy holiday!

Today there is a new challenge
at
4 Crafty Chicks!

Lori is our hostess this week.  She wants to see Outdoor winter activities.

4CC #378 - Outdoor Winter Activity

So I had to ponder this one myself because as I rummaged around in my stamps, I discovered I'm lacking in the outdoor winter activity section.  HaHaHa

However, I have the new Stamp of Approval collection, Winterhaven, and so I made a card showing Christmas Caroling as my outdoor winter activity.  Hey, it works!

The stamp set is Here We Come A Caroling. Scalloped frame is Pretty Pink Posh.  I used Party Collection Inks by Catherine Pooler for my northern sky.  Hopefully that was evident that I was going for the Northern Lights.  LOL . I sponged around the edges of the sky with Juniper Mist, one of the newest inks from CP's Spa Collection.  I embossed the sentiment to stand out against the sky and added a bit of WOW Wonderlust to the edge of the snow hill and punched a star (Poppy Stamps, I think) out of silver mirror paper.

Be sure and stop by the Hen House and check out the rest of the chicks' projects, including our Guest Designer, Lisa.  And ink up those stamps or cut those dies and play along with us!  

Crafty Chick Blessings!

4CC #377 Recipe

Good Morning again!

It's a busy Thursday and it's barely started!

It's time for a new challenge

at 

4 Crafty Chicks!

Tamie is our hostess this week

and 

she has created a Recipe for us ---

4 Crafty Chicks #377 - Recipe: 1 Bow, 2 Colors and 3 Snowflakes

I love card recipes.  Half the work is already done for you in figuring out what to create!

I used snowflake dies from Avery Elle and Taylored Expressins.  The decorative border die is by Pretty Pink Posh and the sentiment die is by Lawn Fawn.  I sponged the background using Catherine Pooler inks, Sweet Sixteen and Mint To Be.  I cut the big snowflake out of the same sponging then bumped it up a little.