You Light Up My Life...

Wishing you all have a fabulous and safe Christmas / Holiday Season!  

I decided with my new job that I would step down from The Alley Way Stamps Design Team after completing my first term with them, ironically because my card making skills were taking too much time - but now with fab 10 Minute Craft Dash my cards seem to be getting made a lot quicker!  So for now this is my last official TAWS DT card - it has been a blast :) sending out a huge THANK YOU to Alison and the team!

Sweltering here in 38 degree heat, what could be more appropriate than a snowman card LOL!  Inspired by this months Trendy Twine Holly Berry Tag Challenge and Ribbon Carousel Holiday Spirit Challenge, together with this weeks Little Red Wagon Christmas Tag Challenge.

I created this tag card using The Alley Way Stamps Jolly Holiday snowman and Christmas lights - I stamped the lights onto American Crafts shimmer cardstock, cut the cardstock out roughly in a rectangle around each light, then folded the rectangle in half along the base of the light and cut around the folded cardstock so you end up with a mirror image of the light - this allows you to fold the light over the Holly Berry Trendy Twine and adhere the front and back piece together to secure the light around the twine.  The snowmans arms are die cut from a Memory Box branch and trimmed to size.  The sentiment is from The Alley Way Stamps Fa-la-la.

 

BE Inspired Holiday Sparkles...

It's Friday which means it's time to join in the fun at The Alley Way Stamps BE Inspired!

1) You MUST use an image from The Alley Way Stamps (you can find freebies here!)
2) You must mention this challenge and link to it in your blog post.
3) The challenge linky closes on Jan 3rd at Noon, TAWS time (Mtn)!!!

I used The Alley Way Stamps Holiday Sparkles set, FREE if you order over $40 in December.  I love the nordic look of these stamps when embossed in white on a strong background colour. I love the sparkly paper snow and snowflake too!

Perfect for this weeks FAB Retro Sketch and this months Holiday Spirit Challenge at The Ribbon Carousel, and CAS Snowflakes Challenge at The Paper Players.

Seize the Day!

A quick card for today to help boost your Christmas spirit!  Inspired by Annette's recent The Alley Way Stamps BE Inspired card and created using Priceless Joy and Jolly Holiday with a Christmas Magic sentiment.  Perfect for Just Add Inks Just Add Christmas Challenge!

Have you seen the new Seize the Birthday Birthday Card Challenge blog?  I don't know about you but I never seem to have enough birthday cards in my stash - I can't wait til their first challenge begins on January 10th.  I created this birthday card to celebrate their Linky Party using The Alley Way Stamps Love Knots and sentiment created from Jibber Jabber and Bite Size.  The Love Knots background was swiped with Distressed Ink Picked Raspberry across the bottom half and Dusty Concord across the top, then spritzed with Glimmermist Denim, before stamping onto some baby pink Basic Grey paper.  The Spellbinders and My Favourite Things butterflies were diecut and the sentiment stamped in Dusty Concord before dry embossing with Tim Holtz Woodgrain, and pop dotting of course :)

Very Merry & Bright...

Had fun combining the current chalkboard & neon trends! Inspiration from The Alley Way Stamps BE Inspired Challenge - I just love the pink & green colour combination - together with the Moxie Fabuolous Keen on Neon Challenge.  Stamped these gorgeous The Alley Way Stamps Doodle Frames in Versamark Dazzle, then heat embossed in Zing White, and the The Alley Way Stamps Christmas Magic and Alphabet Soup sentiments were heat embossed in Zing Grapefruit and Cricket.  The chipboard ampersand was also stamped in Versamark Dazzle and heat embossed in Zing White too.

You have until Thursday 20 December to enter using any TAWS stamps.

Check out their fab freebies too!

Moxie Fab Keen on Neon

It's A Christmas Bling...

Inspired by Keep It Simple Washi Tape Challenge, Addicted to CAS Baubles Challenge and The Paper Players gorgeous colour combo I created these dangling washi Christmas baubles, using The Alley Way Stamps Fa-la-la and sentiment from Christmas Magic.  I stamped the front of the baubles in StazOn Dove Grey before fussy cutting them, stamped the image on the back of the baubles, and added some Kaisercrft bling, front and back.  I die cut a circle from the front of the card, and from a die cut scalloped circle.  Each bauble is hung using fine wire, sandwiched between the base cardstock and the red die cut layer, and secured with terrifically tacky tape.

All I Want for Christmas...

Two for one today :)

OK so these are my Christmas wishes - joy and world peace - am I being too greedy!

With Christmas is just around the corner, I thought I'd show you a super quick Christmas card.  I die cut my Memory Box Country Landscape, and my patterned paper is cut so the landscape just overlaps it.  From the back I lined up the patterned paper and landscape cardstock, and taped them together on the left and right hand sides - so the middle section was not stuck down.  This enabled me to cut out the patterned paper from behind the die cut windows and doors, so the red background shows through them.  I then used my glue pen to stick down the middle section of the landscape.  I stamped this gorgeous sentiment in Versamark Dazzle using The Alley Way Stamps Christmas Magic and Chatterbox, then added some red tinsel embossing powder and heat set it, before pop dotting the scene onto my card base.  Perfect for this weeks splash of maroon at Play Date Cafe, and only 99 Christmas cards to go LOL!

Decided to make another Christmas card.. this one is for my DS.  Inspired by this weeks CAS(E) this Sketch and the fab colours at Dynamic Duos.  The oblong in the sketch reminded me of a front door with someone peeking out from behind, so I created a 3D door using rectangles of red, and die cut this gorgeous Christmas wreath from My Favorite Things, and added this fab little Santa from The Alley Way Stamps No Peeking, and sentiment created using Alphabet Soup.

Don't forget there are still a couple of days left in this fortnights TAWS BE Inspired!

These made me smile...

TAWS Blog Hop... Hop to it and WIN!

Todays Blog Hop card features The Alley Way Stamps Doodle Frames, together with a sentiment from last months release, Trees Company. Inspired by this weeks Retro Sketch, the frame is stamped on Kaisercraft music paper, and coloured in Whisper Textas.  The background is dry embossed with Cuttlebugs Allegro, and topped off with two roses and some crushed velvet ribbon from my stash, perfect for this weeks Play Date Cafe - touch of maroon, and Stampin' for the Weekend - texture challenge.

It's TAWS Blog Hop time, and one lucky person will win ALL 3 NEW SETS!!  So if you want that person to be you, all you have to do is comment on the Hop.  The more you comment, the more chances to win:

1. Comment on The Alley Way Stamps Blog

2. Comment on the DT girls Blogs

3. Post about it on Facebook or your Blog

4. Like TAWS on Facebook

and leave a comment on the TAWS site for each thing that you do.

You have until 9:30pm November 30th TAWS time to leave comments.

Here are the DT Blogs to Hop to...

Sneak Peek - Doodle Frames

Sneak Peek - Petal Pushers

Sneak Peek - Petal Pushers

TAWS Sneak Peeks... Petal Pushers

I got all inky with The Alley Way Stamps new Petal Pushers funky flowers today - love the en masse impact of these blooms embossed in white, and inked using Distress Inks in Shaded Lilac and Dusty Concord, oversprayed in Dylusions Crushed Grape and Glimmermist Denim, then fussy cut and layered.  The sentiment is created from Mad Gab and Chatterbox, stamped in Versa Colour Heliotrope and Violet.  This semi-transparent ribbon was from my stash, perfect for this months Shades of Lavender colour challenge at The Ribbon Girls.  

I couldn't stop at just one card, so created this card using The Alley Way Stamps Petal Pushers too, with papers from Pebbles Seen & Noted, the yellow and turquoise colour combination is perfect for the new Keep It Simple Challenge too.

Don't forget to head on over to The Alley Way Stamps to check out the gorgeous creations from the rest of the Design Team and for your chance to WIN a set of these fabulous new stamps!

The Ribbon Girls

Yellow & Turquoise