Green, Red, and White Delight!

Good morning, and happy Saturday!

As it is Saturday, it's time for another Saturday challenge at Shannon's Sentiments!

The challenge this week is to use the colors red, green, and white...that's it! Now, I know that you are all playing with these colors quite regularly these days, so hop on over to this weeks challenge, and enter one of your holiday cards! If you have any of Shannon's images, we would be delighted for you to use them. If not, just use what you have!

Here is my card. I took the liberty of borrowing Danni's sketch that we used in November at Flutter By Wednesday's. Danni, if you are reading, I didn't think you'd mind, and I just loved the sketch!

Here's my card:

The sentiment is not large enough to read, but it's so much fun! It says:

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. ~Anonymous

How true, how true! It's funny how chilly 68-70 degrees feels in the winter, but how comfortable it feels in the summer!

Have a wonderful weekend, and let's see some red, green, and white cards! There were no entries last week, so you stand a really, REALLY good chance of winning the monthly prize!

Smiles to all,

Patti J.

Brrr.....and Auntie Em, where are you?

Hello! Happy Tuesday, and brrrr......

Auntie Em, where are you??? You won my itsy bitsy blog candy, and I need you to email me so I can get your itsy bitsy prize in the mail!

When I left at 9:45 this morning for a Dr. appt., it was 19 degrees. A while ago, it had climbed to 22 degrees. Brrr......calgon - take me away! Hope it's warmer where you are!

My card today is for a challenge at Joan's Gardens.

It called for using only Heartfelt Creations stamps, and being a subscriber

of Joan's Gardens blog.

You should totally go check it out - there is a great prize this week.

Dig out those Heartfelt Creations stamps, and create something!

Hopefully you are having a good week so far.

Don't forget to hurry over and enter the "Create a Scene" challenge at Shannon's Sentiments! There were no entries when I last looked, so your chance of winning is pretty good! See my card here!

Card above is Stamped with Palette Noir on white CS. Stippled with Tim Holtz Stormy Sky Distress Ink. Snowflake cuttlebug folder used for snowflakes. CS = Bazzill

Make a Scene...Blog Candy Winner

Hello! Thank you all so much for your help with printer issues. I will probably not purchase anything until I try some of the suggestions you all had! The winner of my itty bitty blog candy is Aunti Em! Auntie Em, please email me (mamagilliam at gmail dot com) and give me your mailing address!

Hope you all had a great Saturday! I spent the day today with DD. We met in a town about 40 min. away for a Christmas House Tour. It was a lot of fun. We saw beautiful homes, beautiful decorations, had lunch at a quaint, beautiful place in the 'french quarter', and then shopped until we literally dropped. Well, at least the eldest of us dropped! We did a home tour last year too, and have decided to pick a different city each year and make it a tradition.

Speaking of Christmas houses, look at the one in my card below. I'm a guest designer this month for Shannon's Sentiments, and this is one of Shannon's fabulous images. The snowpeople are from another set. It's the same snowman, I've just taken the liberty of flipping it and blinging it up a bit to make a snowgal and a snowguy!

This card is for Shannon's fourth DT challenge. Each Saturday, one of the DT members issues a challenge theme. Cindy was the challenge hostess this week, and asked us to create a scene. Hope you like this shadowbox scene!



We would love to see your scenes! Be sure to check out the store - Until December 8th, you can receive 20% off each purchase with the code: SSDEC2SPECIAL20

Thanks for stopping by!

See you tomorrow!
Patti J.

December "Sentiments" Blog Hop

Hello!

Happy Wednesday, and Happy December!

A few weeks ago, Shannon from Shannons Sentiments invited me to be her guest designer for the month of December. Of course, I said yes! I love Shannon's images and sentiments, and was very excited to work with them.

To showcase Shannon's new releases, today, we are having a Sentiments Blog Hop! You should have arrived here from Cindy Groh's blog. If you started here, you can return to the Sentiments Storefront to start the hop - you don't want to miss a thing! After you finish the hop, be sure to check out the store!

Shannon is offering a 20% discount that is good until December 8th.

The code for the special is: SSDEC2Special20.

Next up on the hop is Shannon Hawkins!

The set that I chose to work with is Shannon's new Ornaments images. I could not decide on one image, so I created an A2 card box, and four cards using several images in the set.

Here is the gift box, closed, with the cards tucked neatly inside...

I paper pieced and cut out a few ornaments, folded them in half, and adhered them to each other for a 3-D ornament. The edges were gold Stickled.

For this card, I stamped and heat embossed in white, some snowflakes and a sentiment. I used a Versamark Pen and also heat embossed the ornament with white. Next, I sponged with some blue chalk ink, and used a silver Spica Glitter Pen for details.

This ornament was colored with pencils and LOMS. The top section was a cuttlebug snowflake folder, and the ornament was embellished with black Stickles.

Red, gold, and green stickles were used to adorn these ornaments. The strip on the right is Martha Stewart tape on a roll.

This last card was colored with Spica blue and green glitter pens, and embellished with silver stickles. A gemstone was added to the center of each snowflake.

Here is the box with the lid off.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Please proceed to Shannon's blog!

Hugs and Blessings!

Patti J.