Joyeux Noël

Hi everyone!! I hope you're having a wonderful day. I spent the day and evening at an all-day crop yesterday and then walked through a huge leash-free forest with my husband and puppy this afternoon. We had some pasta for lunch and then the three of us had delicious long naps. That's what fall days are for!!!

I used the Jolly Holidays Cricut cartridge to create the ornament and banner my card for today. The papers and lettering I used are from the Jingle collection pack by Lily Bee Design. The card stock for my card base is Crumb Cake from Stampin' Up!

I hope it inspires you to have a look at the various cartridges or designs available for your die-cutting machine.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. The next card will be posted by Shelley Bordeleau and the theme will be Christmas at Home. Be sure to check back tomorrow to see what she has created for you.

Also...check back tomorrow, the NEW CHALLENGE and prize package will be announced for November!

Celebrate the Season

Good morning everybody. I'm so happy to see that we have some new followers today, along with people participating in the Gypsy challenge!!! Good luck everybody.

My card for today is one of the cards I will be sending out to my clients this year.

I love sewing on my projects and have done that by sewing the ribbon at the bottom of my card.

Have a wonderful day. I know I will because I will be cropping at a friend's house all day and then cropping at another friend's house tonight. What could be better?

The following designers will be posting after me:

Tina Campbell from Tina's Scrap Corner
Janet White from Stamping at the White House
Michelle Hessler from Paperthreads
Cindy Foster from Cindy's Creations
Shirley Ross from Mom 'n Me Scrap
Jill Figley from Created By Jill

Shirley Ross from Mom 'n Me Scrap

Elegant Reindeer

This square card is 5-1/2" x 5-1/2" in size mainly because I wanted to have enough room for the reindeer to fit.

I originally cut the reindeer from white cardstock using a black shadow and was going to use mostly primary colours, but when I looked through the absolutely gorgeous papers in my Lost & Found Christmas 6 x 6 designer paper pad, I decided to use more muted colours. I used a Starburst Spray from Lindy's Stamp Gang on the reindeer.

Supplies

Cardstock: Crumb Cake base (Stampin' Up!)

Patterned Paper: Various pieces from Lost & Found Christmas (My Mind's Eye)

Die cuts:  Reindeer from Silhouette Store

Ribbon:  from my stash

Trimmer:  Making Memories

Adhesive:  ATG and dimensionals for the reindeer
Mist: Saxifrage Olive Copper Starburst Spray (Lindy's Stamp Gang)

Electronic cutter: Silhouette SD

Please check back again tomorrow. In the meantime, visit our designers' blogs to see what they have been up to this week.

The next seven to post after me are:

Michelle Hessler from Paper Threads

Janet White from Stamping at the white house

Tina Campbell from Tina's Scrap Corner

Christine Patton from Creative Genie-ous

Michelle Hessler from Paper Threads

Cindy Foster from Cindy's Creations 

Shirley Ross from Mom 'n Me Scrap

Snowflake card

Hello everybody. I hope you are getting into the Christmas spirit. I certainly am and I am announcing a huge giveaway today. See the end of my post for full details!!

Also, I asked all of our designers to submit bios to me and I have included them on the Designers' Bios page of this blog.

My card this time around was very simple to make, but I feel it looks quite elegant and wintery. I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder with Coredinations white wash card stock and sanded after embossing to bring out the dark blue colour. I then inked around the edges with Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink using a foam applicator to blend the colour in.

Supplies

Cardstock: Coredinations white wash and blue from my stash
Stamps:  From my stash
Ink: Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink and Stampin' Up! Night of Navy Craft
Die cuts:  Snowflake from my stash
Adhesive:  ATG
Embossing powder:  American Crafts Zing! Clear
Bling from my stash

The next 7 people to post after me are:

Christine Patton from Creative Genie-ous

Patricia Logan from MDN Creates

Shelley Bordeleau from Gardens Crafts 'n' More

Karin Adamczyk from ScrapperCreations

Michelle Hessler from Paper Threads

Janet White from Stamping at the white house

Tina Campbell from Tina's Scrap Corner

Christmas Card Blog Hop launch

Hello everybody,

Today is the big day!!!!

To celebrate World Card Making Day and Christmas, we are launching our Christmas Card Blog Hop, but this is no ordinary blog hop. It will start today and continue tomorrow as a traditional blog hop, with some amazing blog candy being given away by everyone in the blog hop. We will have a wonderful grand prize that will include something from everyone in the hop. Each of our blog hop designers will choose something new from their stash for this grand prize that will be given away to the random winner of our blog hop challenge.

After that, we will continue by bringing you all types of Christmas cards all the way to just before Christmas. Each post will have the names and addresses of 7 additional blogs that belong to our designers here on the Card a Day Blog. We are doing this is to give you lots of ideas for Christmas cards so that you will be ready when you sit down to get busy making yours.

I am SO happy you have decided to hop along with us!! This is my first time ever hosting a blog hop and I am SUPER excited!

Below is a list of all the people participating in this blog hop.

Myself, Karin Adamczyk from ScrapperCreations

Continue by visiting the following blogs:

Adele Robbetze from nogardscreativecave
Christine Patton from Creative Genie-ous
Cindy Foster from Cindy's Creations
Cindy Pointe from The Creative Pointe
Janet White from Stamping At The White House
Kelly George from Sassy Scrapper Studio
Michelle Hessler from Paperthreads
Patricia Logan from MDN Creates
Shelley Bordeleau from Gardens Crafts 'n' More
Tina Campbell from Tina's Scrap Corner
Vicki Schram from Paper Squirrel
Back to the Card a Day Blog to see who won the challenge

Tis the Season

This is my card for the launch of this blog hop. My focus here was the paper from Basic Grey that I just fell in love with when I was browsing the aisles at my LSS (Scrapbook Centrale).

As usual, I have posted full details for making this card on my ScrapperCreations blog.

Supplies 

Cardstock: SU Crumb Cake and SU Cherry Cobler

Patterned paper: Basic Grey Nordic Holiday

Die cuts: Tis the Season from Silhouette Store and Spellbinders Labels Four
Trimmer: Making Memories
Adhesive:  ATG and Krylon spray adhesive
Electronic cutter: Silhouette SD
Ink: Antique Linen Distress Ink
Tools: Sizzix Big Shot

Other: Stickles Xmas Red and Fruit Punch

The 7 people who are scheduled to post after me on the Card a Day Blog are:

Tina Campbell from Tina's Scrap Corner
Shirley Ross from Mom 'n Me Scrap
Christine Patton from Creative Genie-ous
Michelle Hessler from Paperthreads
Shirley Ross from Mom 'n Me Scrap
Adele Robbetze from nogardscreativecave
Cindy Pointe from The Creative Pointe

Check out what they have been creating lately.

Join in the fun and submit your own Christmas card for our challenge. The challenge will run from now until midnight October 2.

Trick or Treat

Hello everyone,

The theme this week is Cats and Bats, and since everybody else has been posting about bats, I decided to make a card with a lovely, scary cat.

I have been taking an online class given by Jennifer McGuire named Inspiration Showcase so I decided to use one of the techniques she has been focusing on, which is resist stamping.

If you look in the upper left corner of the card, you can see the word Boo. I did this by using Versamark ink to stamp on to my card base. I then used my Inkssentials foam applicators and Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Shabby Shutters and Dusty Concord) to blend in from the top left and bottom right corners of the card.

I cut the cat shape with my Silhouette after purchasing the shape in the Silhouette store.

I used a Basic Grey rub on to add the words "trick or treat" to the card.

The card base is cut from one of the papers from the Authentique Glowing collection. 
I hope you enjoy this card. Please post your own card in our Challenges section and come back tomorrow for more great ideas!!!

Thank You for Your Friendship

Last year I took a series of card-making classes with Jennifer McGuire at our local scrapbooking store.

There were three classes in total and we made eight cards in each class. The pace was fast and furious. In fact, we had to bring the cards home and finish most of them after the classes because there simply was not enough time to learn all the techniques and finish the cards. Of course, needless to say, I have not finished them yet. This blog will make me finish those cards and this is one of the cards I did not finish in class.

The name of the class was Creativity Kickstart.

This is a 4-1/4" x 4-1/4" square card. The card base is from Hero Arts and we used a Hero Arts text background stamp with light brown ink. Jennifer supplied the resist stamped image on the piece of sticky back canvas, some buttons and hemp.  I used a stamp from my stash for the sentiment.

Jennifer also supplied a standard A2 brown envelope because Square envelopes can be more expensive to mail.

I hope you enjoy this card.  Please visit my blog at http://scrappercreations.blogspot.com for more project ideas.

Happy Birthday!

This is one of the cards I made to have on hand in case I need a birthday card. I saw something similar in a crafting magazine and thought the strips of patterned paper would be a fun look.

I wanted to add a bit of dimension to the elements so I attached some of the stickers from the collection to cardboard I had on hand and cut around the shapes. I used an emery board to smooth out the jagged edges.

I used glue dots to attach the baker's twine to the balloon.

Above is another sticker on cardboard. I used dimensional stickers to attach it to the card. At first, I just attached it straight to the card, but it was a bit lost with all the stripes and patterns around. One of my scrappin' sistas suggested placing a bit of the red polka dot paper behind it to make it pop more. What a great idea Charlene!!

Ingredients:

Pattern paper: Happy Day collection by Simple Stories
Card stock: Very Vanilla by Stampin' Up
Other elements were from my stash

I hope you're feeling OWL better

I used my Cricut to create this card. The owl was cut from the Just Because Cards cartridge and the branch he is sitting on was cut from the Create a Critter cartridge. 

I love using my Cricut when I need to come up with something quickly, as was the case for this card because I forgot that we had changed themes from Celebrations to Owls. I had made a card and prepared a post with a birthday card, which I will still post because they are always useful, but then I had to come up with a card that worked for the Owl theme in a hurry.

I added some googly eyes and glossy accent to the owl's beak and feet, wrote up a sentiment on some labels cut with Spellbinders dies and my Cuttlebug, cut a border with a Fiskars border punch and nobody would have been any the wiser, except maybe for the owl (ha ha).

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the card. Be sure to come back tomorrow to see what another designer comes up with.

Birthday Cards

Now that I am a cardmaker, I find that there is nothing worse than having to quickly make a card just before going out to see someone on their birthday. That's why I like to have lots of birthday cards on hand, ready to give to someone.

Since our theme is still Celebrations, I decided to make another birthday card that I can keep on hand for just the right person.

Full details on how I made this card and the list of items I used are on my ScrapperCreations blog.

Be sure to join in the fun and participate in our challenge.

Come back tomorrow and every day to see more cards!!

It's a Boy!

One of my Scrappin' Sistas had a baby boy this week so I decided to make my first card for the Card a Day Blog a baby card. I am so excited to be part of the Card a Day Blog and I really hope people enjoy it.

Full details on how I made this card and what I used are available on my ScrapperCreations blog.

Please come back tomorrow to see what we have in store for you!