Let's start the new year right ...

Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbors, and let every New-Year find you a better Man. ~Quoted in Benjamin Franklin's 1755 Poor Richard's Almanack, December [Thanks, Quote Investigator! —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]

Good morning!

A new Sunday Song & Rhyme challenge is in process at The Outlawz Challenges. Each week we will give you a theme based on a song or a rhyme along with a bit of the lyrics/lines with which to take inspiration from to create a card/project! You can also look on-line to get more information about the Song/Rhyme.

Our sponsor this month is our very own Anne Fenton with a prize of 3 pre-selected digital stamps

Personal Blog http://annescards4u.blogspot.com

This week’s inspiration comes from a rhyme/song selected by Me:

  Let's start the new year right

One minute to midnight
One minute to go
One minute to say good-bye
Before we say hello

Let's start the new year right
Twelve o'clock tonight
When they dim the light
Let's begin

Kissing the old year out
Kissing the new year in

Let's watch the old year die
With a fond good-bye
And our hopes as high
As a kite

How can our love go wrong if
We start the new year right?

Let's watch the old year die
With a fond good-bye
And our hopes as high
As a kite

How can our love go wrong if
We start the new year right?

Songwriters: Irving Berlin

  

Here’s my 5 x 7 card

Supplies

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (base) and Stampin Up!
• Happy New Year sentiment from Wordsworth
• Ink from Stampin Up and Close to My Heart
• Rhinestones from my stash
• Stamps & Sentiment from Close to My Heart “Fireworks Fun”

So, remember to stop by The Outlawz Challenges where a new challenge starts every day of the week!

(Hugs) Cara

Thank you ...

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things — not the great occasions — give off the greatest glow of happiness. ~Bob Hope 

Good morning and Merry Christmas!

Today we start a new Anything Goes Challenge at Through the Craft Room Door and our sponsor this week Through the Craft Room Door with a one year subscription to the magazine which includes access to back issues, videos and more!

I made my card during a Fun Stampers Journey play date with some friends. I really like that this card looks very fancy but was sooo easy to make!

All of the items used to make this card are from Fun Stampers Journey with the exception of the sentiment. In the process of taking this card out of my travel bag I ripped the original sentiment so replaced it with a die cut one I had in my die stash.

Come play along with us!

(Hugs) Cara

Santa Giraffe

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist. ~ Andy Rooney

Good Morning and Merry Christmas! 

Hard to believe this will be the last color challenge of 2018 at The Outlawz Challenges! 

Our sponsor this month with a prize of 3 images is The Paper Shelter and this week we have a really fun inspirational board from Laurian!

For my card I am using a fun TPS image which comes from a set called Giraffes on Holiday

Here's the Sketch

Here’s the Board!

Supplies:

• Pre-colored Image from “Giraffes on Holiday”” from The Paper Shelter printed on Stampin Up! Whisper White cardstock
• Card stock from Stampin Up! and American Crafts
• Glitter glue from Studio G
• Ink from Scrapbook.com
• Sentiment unknown
• Sketch: Cas(E) This Sketch CTS7
• Stampin Up! Scallop edge punch

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to stop by The Outlawz Challenges where a new challenge starts every day of the week!

(Hugs) Cara

Jingle Bells ...

Very gay they were with snow and sleigh-bells, holly-boughs, and garlands, below, and Christmas sunshine in the winter sky above. All faces shone, all voices had a cheery ring, and everybody stepped briskly on errands of good-will. ~Louisa May Alcott, "Seamstress," Work: A Story of Experience, 1873

Good morning!

A new Sunday Song & Rhyme challenge is in process at The Outlawz Challenges. Each week we will give you a theme based on a song or a rhyme along with a bit of the lyrics/lines with which to take inspiration from to create a card/project! You can also look on-line to get more information about the Song/Rhyme.

Our sponsor this month is our very own Anne Fenton with a prize of 3 pre-selected digital stamps

Personal Blog http://annescards4u.blogspot.com

This week’s inspiration comes from a rhyme/song selected by Vickie:

 Jingle Bells

[Chorus]
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh, hey
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh

Here is my card

Supplies

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (base) and Stampin Up!
• Design Paper from my Stash
• Jingle Bell dies from CC Designs
• Rhinestones from Want 2 Scrap
• Sentiment die for Sizzix “Holiday Words”
• Silver cardstock from my stash
• Sketch: Papercraftstar (Kim Duran)

So, remember to stop by The Outlawz Challenges where a new challenge starts every day of the week!

(Hugs) Cara

Ugly Sweater Cards ...

Christmas is coming; it is almost here!

With Santa and presents, good will and cheer!

~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Christmas" (1940s)

Today I am sharing a couple of Christmas cards I made using a freebie images from Betty Roberts of Simply Betty Stamping!

Image and sentiment for both cards are from Betty and were printed on Stampin Up! Whisper White Card Stock are based on My Favorite Things Sketches.

5 x 7 Card #1

Supplies

• Card stock from The Paper Studio (Base) and Stampin Up!
• Design Paper “Christmas Cheer” from Fun Stampers Journey
• Digi paper from Touched by a Butterfly
• Ink from Stampin Up!
• ProMarkers
• Rhinestones from my Stash

Sketch MFTWSC49

5 x 7 card #2

This card is for the Ugly Sweater card challenge she has in process on her Facebook Page SBS Friends. The sweater and leggings are paper-pieced.

Supplies

• Card stock from The Paper Studio (Base) and Stampin Up!
• Circle Punch from Marvy
• Design Paper from The Paper Studio, Touched by a Butterfly and my Stash
• Fern punch from Martha Stewart
• Glitter glue from Studio G
• Glitter paper from The Paper Studio (Red) and Stampin Up! (White)
• Gold pearl (for earring) from Fun Stampers Journey
• Knitted Pattern embossing folder from Richard Garay
• ProMarkers
• Snowflake Punch unknown
• Wood Snowflake from Target $1 bin

Sketch MFTWSC177

 Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara