Christmas Card Challenges # 48

An "Anything Goes" challenge this week at Christmas Card Challenges. The Holiday is almost here and you need to get those cards done in time to mail them.

Hopefully my simple card layout will inspire you.

I used a pre-colored digi, paper and sentiment from Doodle Pantry's "Winter Star."

Added a few handmade dots ~ love these.

Two punched labels (Stampin' Up!) became the mat for the inside sentiment.

So, how are you doing on your Christmas cards? Still need a few more? Stop by Christmas Card Challenges to see what the other DT members created this week . . . maybe you'll be inspired to "create."

Doodle Pantry Winter Star

Happy Birthday, Dad

I may not be completely unpacked and "settled" into the new house yet, but I was able to spend a half day in the 'still unorganized' craft room. What a great feeling to be Creative again.

This is one of the adorable digi images from Doodle Pantry's Silly Critter set. The sentiment is my own, but I think the sentiment lends itself to the look on this critter's face.  Priceless.

This card is for my dad. We live far away from him and we'd love for him to move closer to us, but so far we've had no luck in convincing him to move. And with us recently moving into a new house (same community, same street, just a different home), making a trip north for his birthday this year was not practical.

Happy Birthday, Dad. Hope your day is special ~ since you're very special to us.

I'm back

I'm sorry that I've been absent for awhile, but we recently moved into a new house and things are still not going well. It seems as if somethings breaks or falls apart every day and we have new surprises (not happy ones) weekly. God is teaching me a lot of patience and maybe if I would learn how to be patient, He wouldn't have to keep giving me lessons {smile}.

I'm finally able to be a little creative ~ meaning I have finally found my cardstock, computer and printer. However, I don't have much room to work on projects since the work tables are covered with "stuff," but hopefully that will change during the next week.

Since it's Sunday, there's another weekly challenge for you at Christmas Card Challenges. Those Christmas cards will need to go in the mail soon, so I hope you're working on yours.  The theme this week is an Inspiration Photo and it's a snow globe.

The card looks better in person than in the photo (at least I feel it does). Somehow the round piece of plastic that I punched out to create the "snow globe" doesn't show up in the photo ~ so just pretend that you see a shiny, "glassy-like" round piece creating the snow globe.

I used the Winter Song Birdies digital image from Doodle Pantry (the color digi) and fussy cut around the printed image.  I embossed a round circle with a dot embossing folder to create fake "snow" ~ glued the digi to the top of that and then added the clear plastic round. A brown base finishes the snow globe.  The sentiment is also from the Winter Song Birdies set.

Below is the Christmas Card Challenges Inspirational Photo.  Stop by the blog to see what the other Design Team members created this week.

Click on the photo below to see these beautiful Doodle Pantry Winter Song Birdies.

Doodle Pantry October Release

Laurie, the Doodle Pantry creator, has done it again . . . she's put together so many wonderful digi sets this month that I had a very hard time deciding what I wanted to feature today.  But when I saw Spooky Worms, an idea popped in my head and I had to create a card using this set.

How cute is this image ? !  Now the set is really a Halloween set, but Doodle Pantry digis are so versatile that you can use them for just about any occasion.

I used one image that had the "dirt" and shading and a second image ~ which I sized just a tad bit smaller than the first ~ of just the worm.  I really do love working with digital images. 

I used the pre-colored digi as well as digipaper from the set since I created this card prior to our move while all my supplies were boxed up (ok, they're STILL boxed up, but we finally moved yesterday so I can begin to unpack), .

The sentiment is computer generated using the CK Spaghetti font ~ spaghetti and worms go together, right? I was inspired by one of the sentiments from the set.  I found a piece of brown ribbon and since it was long enough to do 3 pieces across, I decided to use it all ~ one less thing to pack and  unpack

Stop by the Doodle Pantry website to see the other products released this month along with freebies, specials, etc.  There's a monthly challenge starting at noon here. Check out Spooky Worms by clicking on the image below.

Nut Costume Ants is free with any Purchase this month

Down to the Wire

What do you do when your Craft Studio is all boxed up (ready for the big move in a week) . . . but you need to make a card now?  You panic use pre-colored digital images and digi papers.  Thank goodness Doodle Pantry has both.  (There's a reason I kept my laptop and printer hooked up until the last day.)

I used the cattails from Swimming Mallard COLOR Plus and the butterflies, sentiment and decorative paper from New Butterfly.  The colors from the two sets worked so well together.

I fussy cut the cattails and 3 different sizes of the same butterfly. The beauty of pre-colored images is you can use them "as-is" or enhance them with additional coloring. Since all my coloring tools are packed away also, I chose to go "as-is" on this card.

I did keep a small (very small) box of items just in case (glue, white cardstock, my scraps of color cardstock, etc) . . . so I was able to add dimensionals to the butterflies and sentiment.  Thank goodness I have more spools of ribbon than a normal person should have; it was easy to find that box for some yellow-gold ribbon.

I kept the inside simple, since I didn't have a lot of options.  

I'm entering this card in the Love to Create Challenge ~ #134 Fussy Cut

    

Stop by the Doodle Pantry store. You have until the 24th to receive TWO free sets with the purchase of any digital item in the store (click here for products).

New Products at Doodle Pantry

Doodle Pantry normally announces new products the first of the month . . . but Laurie had so much fun creating digis that she decided to have a Mid-September Release of 7 new products.  Stop by the Doodle Pantry store to see all the new sets available. Now would be a great time to pick up at least one set ~ you'll receive TWO free sets (Ageless Antiques 1 AND Gift Monkey) when you make a purchase between now and Sept 24.

I used Praying Birdie; the color version~because right now my Craft Studio is in shambles (trying to pack and get ready for our move in 2 weeks).  I also used one of the Digi Papers, since all my DSP is packed up as well.  But, that's the beauty of Digital stamps and papers . . . you don't have to store oodles of cardstock and paper . . . you can print out what you need. Downsizing at its best !

Be sure to stop by Doodle Pantry to see all the new sets released today.  Then grab a few freebies

Christmas Card Challenges #42

The weeks are flying by which means it's time for another challenge from the Christmas Card Challenges group. This week we have a Color Challenge for you.

I used a digital image from Doodle Pantry called Birdie Christmas COLOR Plus. 

I added a bit of sparkle (glitter glue) to the hat and tassel and some Glossy Accents to the star.

I carried the design to the inside and included a sentiment from the same set (Birdie Christmas).  Love these colors together. Check out what the other Christmas Card Challenges Design Team Members created this week using the following Color palette.

Birdie Christmas from Doodle Pantry is available here.