Edwin's Snowman Card for lots of challenges...

I'm finally back from my business trip. I spent the last two weeks getting ready for the trip, and now I can relax. My boss even gave me the rest of the week off :-)

So I decided to make a card, since it's been a while!

This card is for these challenges:

1. Tuesday Morning Sketches - sketch
2. Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - snowman
3. Magnolia Down Under - Christmas in July
4. Simon Says Stamp - distressing
5. Dutch Dare - punches (inside)
6. Magnolia-licious Highlights - Christmas in July
7. Cuttlebug Spot - Christmas in July
8. Three Clovers - bling
9. One Stop - Christmas in July
10. Secret Crafter - 3 buttons, 2 designer papers, 1 ribbon
11. Colour Create - blue and white
12. Stamptacular Sunday - inside and outside
13. In the Cottage Studio - Christmas in July
14. High Hopes - sparkle and shine
15. Pile it on - more than one challenge, watercoloring

Multiple Challenge Xmas Card

This card is for 8 challenges!

1. Scrap schemes - a pillow with buttons all over a tree was shown for inspiration
2. 2 red bananas - 3 patterned papers
3. Use it - bling, die cut, 4 patterned papers
4. Winter Wonderland - a Christmas carol (Deck the halls)
5. Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - buttons and ribbon
6. ICSketches - sketch
7. Truly scrumptious - more than one fold (the second picture shows how this card folds)
8. Pile it on - more than one challenge, non stamped sentiment (mine is hand written)

~Lauren

Two challenges - one card

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long's challenge this week was to include a number in your card. I used this sketch from Sketches! {by tamara}This is what I came up with. It doesn't follow the sketch exactly, but I am happy with how it turned out.

The picture isn't the best quality. The little images are stamps - and there are numbers on them.

~Lauren

Christmas Stamping All Year Long Challenge #18

Here is this week's sketch from Christmas Stampin' All Year Long:Here is my card:

I used my Martha Stewart snowflake punch, stampin up ticket punch, EK success snowflake edge punch, and stamps.

~Lauren

Christmas Stamping All Year Long Challenge #17

This week, Christmas Stampin' All Year Long's challenge was a color challenge. We had to create a card using sage, apricot, and chocolate. I really had to think outside the box for this one. I looked through my paper collection and saw this beautiful hawaiian print. I recently bought a penquin hula girl stamp and I thought that this would be the perfect time to try it out. Here's what I came up with:
Mele Kalikimaka means Merry Christmas in Hawaiian. My husband and I spent our honeymoon in Hawaii, so this card seemed appropriate.

I used an Imaninisce stamp, DCWV travel stack (sand), Cricut Life's a Beach cartridge, and rhinestones.


****UPDATE 6/1******

I decided that this card wasn't "Christmassy" enough. So I added a santa hat to the penguin;s head and christmas lights to the palm tree. I think it looks much better. What do you think?


~Lauren

Christmas Stamping All Year Long Challenge #10

Here is the sketch from Christmas Stampin' All Year Long:
Here is the card I made:
I am so happy to use my snow angel ribbon from the $1 bin at Michael's. SO CUTE! And I just love snowmen!
I think this is it for the Christmas cards until the new sketch on Monday. I don't know if I am going to do the first 9... Maybe if I get bored next week. (I need to do graduation and Father's Day cards next!)

Christmas Stamping All Year Long Challenge #11

Here is the sketch from Christmas Stampin' All Year Long:Here is the card I made:
This beautiful lace tree came from GrandmaJ on the Cricut Messageboard. I think it is from the Christmas Solutions cartridge. All the others are scraps from my previous cards and I used my new Stampin' Up ticket punch.

Christmas Stamping All Year Long Challenge #12

Here is the sketch from Christmas Stampin' All Year Long:
Here is my card:

I was so thrilled to be able to use this adorable gingerbread ribbon I found in the $1 bin at Michael's. I also got this cute gingerbread house stamp in the $1 bin at Michael's.

Christmas Stamping All Year Long Challenge #13

Here is the sketch from Christmas Stampin' All Year Long:
Here is my card:

Christmas Stamping All Year Long Challenge #14

Here is the sketch from Christmas Stampin All Year Long:
Here's my card:

Christmas Stamping All Year Long Challenge #15

Yes, I am working backwards. I want to do all of the challenges up to this point for Christmas Stampin' All Year Long. So here is the image for inspiration for challenge 15:
Here is my card:
I used the cuttlebug snowflakes folder, gold stickles, a studio G stamp, and gold ribbon.

~Lauren

Christmas Stamping All Year Long Challenge #16

I recently discovered a blog for making Christmas cards all year long. It is my personal goal to make all of my Christmas cards this year. This is my first year making cards, so I'm not sure how realistic that goal is...

The blog is called Christmas Stampin' All Year Long. Every Monday they post a challenge.

This is this week's sketch:

We also had to include a little bling (I used gold dimensional paint).

Here is my card: