ELF~

Seen this design a lot and decided to make it for

Roosevelt's (the building I work in)

Christmas card

to send to all the other sites in our district.

All punching and computer generated sentiment!

The following challenges asked for

Christmas/Winter theme

 with a mix of color, technique and bling!

Chocolate Coffee Cards

Creative Belli Challenge



Crazy 4 Challenges  movie - ELF

Creative Card Crew

Kaboodle Doodles

One Crazy Stamper

Paper Crafting Journey

Party Time Tuesday

Pile It On

Pixie Dust Studio

Polly Craft Challenge

Raise the Bar

Simply Create Too

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle

Top Tip Tuesday

Tuesday Throwdown

Alphabet Challenge

Colour Create

ABC Challenge

Crazy Challenge

Papertake Weekly

The Cuttlebug Spot

The Unstampabelles

The Crafty Calendar

Deep Ocean Challenge

One Stop Craft Challenge

The Pink Elephant

Totally Paper Crafts

Thanks for stopping by and have a great Holiday Season!

SAM

A Spirelli Thanks A Latte

A new fun technique, Spirelli,

well, not new,

but a new one for me!

So easy too!

I used a metallic gold thread that I have had forever.

Hope somebody still carries it, I may run out now that I see how fun this is.

And note to self, "order some more circle nesties".

The following challenges inspired this card:

365 Cards, Day 267 - fun with a food pun

Anthing Goes Challenge - food related projects

Lollipop Crafts - anything goes

One Crazy Stamper - food and drink challenge

Paper Craft Star - anything goes

Sugar Creek Hollow - fancy folds

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Punches and dies (used both!)

Creative Craft Challenge

Pixie Dust Studio - Thankful

Opus-Gluei - Thanks for being you

Die Cut Dreams - Thank you with circles

If the Shoe Fits -Thankful

Tuesday Throwdown - circles

Happy Belated Thanksgiving to all and to all a Goodnight!

SAM

Do You Hear What I Hear...

Probably not because my DD says I can't hear anything!

Really K.L. it is just called "Selective Hearing".

Another non-traditional Christmas card this week.

 This darling caroler is a freebie called 'Winter Song' by Addicted to Stamps.

 I am entering this card in the following inspiring challenges:

By the Cute and Girly - Christmas with a girl image

Winter Wonderland - Awwwwww, What a Cutie (any cute Christmas image)

The Shabby Tea Room -a shabby pastel Christmas

Truly Scrumptious Challenge - Christmas with pearls added or has a vintage look

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Winter Wardrobe

One Stitch At a Time - Anything goes

Creatalicious Challenge - Christmas and make it sparkle

Simon Says Stamp and Show - and show some women

Cooking It Up With Katie - Recipe: Die cut, add a tag, and give it a Christmas theme

Sweet Stop Sketches - sketch below, turned on it's side

CES Challenge - snowflakes

365 Cards. Day 261 - Colors:

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Christmas time

ABC Challenge - D is for dazzle

Challenge Up Your Life - music

CCEE Stampers - 2 die cuts or 2 punches

Crazy Challenge - recipe: 1 image, 2 papers, 3 embellishments (pearls, brad, ribbon0

Top Tip Tuesday - tag

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Let it Snow

Pile It On - Anything with "P" (pink! punch! pretty?)

Thanks for spending some time with me today on this cold, rainy Sunday!

SAM

Merry Christmas Tweety!

I love 'play on words' and this one especially makes me giggle!

This card is a fun non-traditional Christmas card in pink, white and black.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
365 Cards, Day 254 - recipe of "P" (pink, pet, and my choice is pearls)

Cr8 4fn Color Challenge - pink, black and white

Mojo Monday Sketch challenge - sketch

Paper Crafting Journey - embossing

Scrap Creations - Sentiment as the focus

Totally Stampalicious - anything goes

Creative Craft Challenge - going minimalistic (CAS)

Paper Take Weekly - first Christmas card of the year

Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Christmas

Stamptacular Sunday - punch it

Craft Your Days Away - Embellishment bingo (pearls, flowers, ribbon)

Saturday Challenge - Spots and stripes

Sugar Creek Hollow - Stripes and spots

Christmas Stampin' - use a 'virgin' stamp

CRAFT Challenge - A 'cute' theme

Crazy Challenge - something with wings (it's tiny but it's a bird in that cage)

Toodles!

SAM

Best of Cluck! Best of Cluck!

It's been awhile since I've posted but my computer decided it have given all it could and decided to retire. Just wish it had sent me a letter of resignation ahead of time - then I wouldn't have lost of all my pics and documents! A new Dell on my desk and still trying to get use to all the new streamline of Windows 7 and Office 2010. Boy, do I feel old!


The above card is for the following challenges:
365 Cards, Day 247 - Take a part of one image, combine it with another and create a whole new image. Not quite sure this is what Pam had in mind but it sure is a fun card!
Challenge Up Your Life - Friendship
Our Creative Corner - Masculine with non-traditional colors
Raise the Bar - NO embellishments
The Cuttlebug Spot - Anything Goes
Let's Ink It Up - Favorite technique (embedded dry embossing)
Order of the Opus Gluei - What's On Your Head


I seriously tried to add embellishments to this card. Just didn't look right. The textured embossing seem to be just enough. I like the CAS look of it.


Thanks for stopping by after my forced vacation from the blogging world!
SAM

A Dasher of a Bookmark!

A quick Christmas card using 3 SU! stamps. Lovely As A Tree (such a classic!), Holiday Best sentiments, and the single stamp Dasher. Turning into a bookmark was not in the original plan, but hey, that's what making our own cards is all about!


Inspiring challenges are:
Color Create Challenge - Color challenge, Burgundy, Gold , Green and Cream
Do You Stack Up - Trees
I Did it Creations - "If I could talk to the Animals!"
Crafty Ann's Challenge - Clean and Simple
Totally Paper Crafts - Layer Upon Layer
By the Cute and Girly - anything goes
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - You choose
Lexi's Creations - Sentiment
365 Cards, Day 233 - Simply Stamped, use 3 stamp images and 1 embellishment


Have a Great Day!   SAM

~ Elegant ~ Thanks (So Much) ~

WOW!

 It took me 

AND

LOTS

of other people to 

put this card together! 

AND

we did it while the electric 

took a vacation this morning.

So a lot of it was done in the 

DARK.

Wait! ~ 

a new technique?

When you can't 

see 

what you're doing?

The LOTS of other people you ask? 

Well, besides me, Faith at D2D (freebie pumpkin tag digi, progressive challenge), Gina K (freebie background stripes), and SU! (4 stamp sets, [Tiny Tags, Language of Friendship, Day of Gratitude, Delicate Doilies], plus 4 different punches and a lot of fussy cutting (in the dark mind you!). 

Thanks guys, couldn't have done it without you...

Inspiring challenges are:

Cardabilities - sketch

Craft Your Days Away - Halloween colors

Designed 2 Delight - Pumpkin tag digi (progressive challenge)

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Fall colors

Fussy and Fancy Challenge - Fall or Halloween

Incy Wincy Designs - Thankful

Paper Crafting Journey - Black, White and Orange
Saturday Challenge - White and one other color
Pals paper Arts - Fall/Thanksgiving
Crop Stop - Falling Leaves
Deep Ocean Challenge - Fall Colors
Kaboodle Doodles - Let's See those Leaves!
Paper Craft Star - Fall leaves
Pile It On - Fall Is Fun
Really Reasonable Ribbons - Fun 4 Fall
365 Cards Day 229  - So Sophisticated! 


Thanks for stopping by on this warm fall evening!
SAM

HOPE...

Quick post - Mentalist is on - Just hope I don't fall asleep!

Entering this Hope for a Cure, 

Hope for those that fight like a girl

and 

Hope for all to be preventive 

and 

make an appointment ASAP.

Designed 2 Delight - First of the month free digi, Hope

365 Cards Day 226  - ad inspired


Bee Crafty - digi stamp plus bling
One Stop Craft Challenge - Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown - think pink
Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge - No designer paper
I Did It Creations - Anything Goes
First Annual Link Up for Pink Party - Hurry! Ends today!

Till later ~

SAM

Save the HOOTERS!

Edited: I've been invited to join the first ever
"LINK UP FOR PINK"
linking party. 
Fabulous prizes, 4 days left to enter. 
But the best part: It's all about fighting breast cancer!


I've had this idea for quite some time 

and 

finally got it done today! 

Made 4 cards for the office ladies. 

They'll like their card 

but

they won't like that you can't get the 

M&Ms 

out of it!

Just showed this to my husband. 

He didn't get it.

Do you?

Personally, I think it's a HOOT!

Just a few inspiring challenges for this one...
Link up for Pink - We have over $3,000 worth of giveaways from 84 generous sponsors, 
that makes 153 prizes to give away!!! 

365 Cards, Day 219 - Getting Punchy (3 punch to make one embellishment

Incy, Wincy Designs - think pink

Inkspirations...Color Challenge #90 -

Lexi's Creations - Pink for Boobies

Party Time Tuesdays - Shaped cards and/or Breast Cancer Awareness

Ribbon Carousel Challenge - Anything goes

Stamping 411 - sketch 

Anything Goes Challenge - dies cuts, punches or both

Paper Crafting Journey - die cuts and/or punches

Craft Your Passion - Anything goes with a twist of ribbon!

Paper Take Weekly - Open, optional punch

Sentimental Sundays - Anything goes

BTW - if you haven't had a mammogram, be sure to make an appointment today!

Your family will thank you!

SAM

Thank You for Autumn and Halloween!

 2 loads of laundry today. 

1 dinner with home grown sweet potatoes. 

Lots of dishes!

2 cards for today.

This card is inspired by the following autumn challenges:

Totally Paper Crafts - Autumn

365 Cards, Day 212 - Colorful background (stamp background with 4 colors)

Stamptacular Sunday - Autumn inspiration picture

ABC Challenge - They're back and anything goes!

Lollipop Crafts - Anything goes

Penny's Challenge - Anything goes

Simon's Says Stamp - Anything goes

Simply Create - Stamp older than 6 months (Simple Sketch is almost older than me!)

Crafty Creations - Clean and simple

Oldie But A Goodie - stamp older than 6 months and for a male

A simple Halloween card inspired by the following challenges:

Crafty Calendar Challenge - A Spooky Birthday for their 2nd year

Hand Stamped Sentiment - Halloween with a sentiment

I Did It Creations - Halloween

Moving Along with the Times - Spooky goings on

One Crazy Stamper - Halloween or fall theme

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Halloween and include ribbon

The Saturday Challenge - Halloween

Stampin' Bs - Halloween

Designed 2 Delight - Progressive free image of Patches the Ghost!

Designed 2 Delight Card Ideas - use color pencils

365 Cards, Day 213 - Card on a Card

Thanks for stopping by ~ SAM

Autumn Mums...

Quick post. 

This card has been completed and ready to post for 2 days now 

~~~

just too darn tired in the evening to do it, so let's try an early morning post!

Challenges entered in...

Allsorts Challenge - Keep it simple

Crazy 4 Challenges - fall theme

Designed 2 Delight - freebie "Autumn Mums" Progressive Challenge

Designed 2 Delight Designers Saturday Challenge - Die cut divas (at least 2)

Fussy and Fancy - new technique - lacquer finish on vase

Paper Play Challenge - fall leaves

Really Reasonable Ribbons - autumn theme

Truly Scrumptious Challenge - Clean and Simple

Thanks for stopping by - HI-HO it's off to work I go!

SAM

Summer Vacation - Christmas Countdown!

Awesome group, Straight, No Chaser to get you in the Christmas spirit!

I don't make many masculine cards, but 365 Cards Challenge to make a 
masculine card with the theme of summer vacation,

 just spurred my imagination to highlight the hardest male worker of all - 

SANTA! 

Can't imagine how tired he is after flying around the world with

 a bunch of reindeer in front of him after who knows what they ate!

This is my card/scrapbook page of Santa's Hawaiian vacation!

"91 days, 17 hours, 28 minutes, But Who's Counting?"
OK, I typed that yesterday so Christmas is really closer than you think!


Challenges Santa is entered in:
365 Cards, Day 205 - Summer Vacation, Masculine Sytle
Anything Goes Challenge - where...anything goes!
Corrosive Challenge - Punches and/or dies
Crafty Ann's Challenge - Around the World I went to Hawaii!
Crazy Challenge - Men Only (Santa is THE MAN!)
Digital Tuesday Challenge - People images
I Did It Creations - At the Beach
Kaboodle Doodles - Lots of layers
One Stop Craft Challenge - Easel Card
Our Creative Corner - Numbers (mine are small but they're on there!)
Simon Says Stamps Challenge - dies or punches
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday - favorite color - BLUE
Pile it On - Fancy folds
Tuesday Morning Sketch - sketch below
 


I certainly hope he enjoys his Hawaiian vacation.
Just wonder where Mrs. Claus is - at home working???
SAM

Le Romantique!

Finally used the Graphics 45 paper I won almost a year ago! Never could figure out what to do with it and today I decided it was the day to put my fears aside, grab the paper by the tail (or ribbon) and conquer all!

 I am entering this card in the following challenges:

365 Cards, Day 191 - So Not Me - or - do something different than usual.

StampinBs Design Challenge - anniversary

Ribbon Carousel  - anything goes with ribbons

Card Positioning System sketch

Anything Goes Challenge -Vintage Shabby-Chic

The Shabby Tearoom - wedding and color scheme

Do You Stack Up - Texture (ribbon, embossed butterflies, crochet flower)
Color Create Challenge - pink, brown, cream, white
Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge - punch
Pile It On! - Layer It!

Thanks for stopping by - till next time...

SAM