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...

Ginghnam Style...

I just LOVE this little bird from Purple Onion Design, and the whole time I was making this 10 Minute Craft Dash card the song going through my head was "Ginghnam Style" LOL!  I did all my stamping at once - once on the white cardstock, and once on each of the three gingham papers.  Amazingly my gingham stripes matched up almost perfectly for the wings and body - more luck than calculation!  The easiest way to paper piece in a hurry is to cut out the larger piece with a straight line running along the birds back, then just paste the wing on top - I used a glue pen too as I find this quickest for sticking fiddly pieces in a rush :)  As usual to save time I used my go-to Retro Sketch, so I didn't have to think too hard about what I was doing!  To match up my gingham lines on the base shapes it was quicker to cut them by hand, then cut the corners using my Fiskars corner rounder.  Papers are from Lily Bee Designs, with a gingham ribbon from my stash, and I cut out a circle from the light blue gingham to create my perfectly matched brad.  If I included making the brad in my 10 minutes I went over time by about 2 minutes 19 seconds, but I think it was worth it!!!

This made me smile...

Less is More for Christmas...

I stamped this snowman in red glitter a while ago, and never quite got around to doing anything more with him til now!  I thought he was perfect for this weeks Green & Red colour challenge at Less is More.  Just added some snowflake vellum, EK Success scalloped border and a perfect Hero Arts Christmas sentiment, embossed in white.

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

TAWS Sneak Peeks Day 1...

As soon as I saw this fortnights gorgeous Tuesday Trigger: Frame by Frame at Moxie Fab World I knew couldn't wait to christen my new The Alley Way Stamps Doodle Frames.  They look fab inked in Versa Colours to create this series of picture frames, highlighting papers from Pink Paislee and MME, with a sentiment created using Doodle Frames and Jibber Jabber, inspired by this fortnights fabulous CAS(E) this Sketch 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!

  

BE Inspired to... Chillax

HELP!!!  Sorry this post is late - I've been having issues with Picasa - apparently my quota is filled, and they won't let me access it to delete files until I upgrade my account and pay them to do so, and then once I have upgraded my account I can't downgrade it again!!!  Has anyone else had this issue and worked out a way to resolve it?  Any assistance is greatly appreciated!!!!

Anyhow, onto my card for the day!  I have done so many snowmen cards this month, it must be as we see so little snow in Australia it's easy to only romanticise the best of it!  Todays creation was inspired by The Alley Way Stamps BE Inspired #16, I loved the layered snowflakes on the Christmas stockings.  My favourite snowman is from Jolly Holiday, and the trees include one from Trees Company too.  Sketch is based on this weeks Mojo Monday, using my die cut snowflakes from My Favorite Things in lieu of circles.  Colour scheme is inspired by this weeks Color Throwdown - I love the mix of blues and green - and threw a little silver in too with my Heidi Swapp letters.  I thought this was perfect for Addicted to CAS Snowflakes Challenge, and Little Red Wagon Boy Oh Boy too!  Papers are a mix of Fancy Pants, Basic Grey and Pebbles.

Why don't you join in TAWS BE Inspired Challenge before December 6

You could win some FAB stamps too!

This made me smile...