Shake shake shake your birdies!

Well, this may be the last blog hop at Craft-Dee BowZ for a bit, but it will surely be one of the best you've seen. First of all, the DT is a total of 4 designers...making it more time manageable to do the hop. I don't know about you, but when I see a list of blogs I need to hop through, I almost always pass up the hop. I just don't have that kind of time. Which is why you really need to do this hop with only 4 projects to look at and leave a comment on each as well as on the Craft-Dee BowZ challenge blog. And, it's easy to leave a comment on a great card or project, which I promise you will see.

 

My card is made with a stamp by Our Daily Bread and the sentiment was included with the cardinals. I also bought the 'matching' dies with the stamp set. I attempted another Clean and Simple card! I love the little scene inside the 'ornament'. I used a plastic shaker from Impression Obsession and filled it with Martha Stewart glitter. I'm a collector of glitter, all kinds, and I've had this MS glitter for years and years when it first arrived in Michael's Craft stores.

 

I took a Stampin' Up Metal library index frame and coated it with Versamark ink and then used embossed it with Sweet Stamps White Fine Detail Embossing Powder. These Stampin' Up metal embellishments came in cute metal cases years ago and I bought the antique gold case and silver case. It's about time I used some of them, and embossing them with white, black or whatever color embossing powder is a great way to incorporate them into my art when just gold or silver won't work! 

 

 

I used a 6x6 embossing folder by Die'Sire, of holly and berries, for my background which fit in my Cuttlebug with no problem! 

And this perfect green triple looped bow was made with my Craft-Dee BowZ tool.  Would you like to make a bow this perfect the first time?  Well, if you've read this post (click on the word 'post') you know what I've offered you. If you haven't read my post, I suggest you go and read it since there's an offer you shouldn't pass up!

 

Since this is a blog hop, you'll want to leave comments at each of the stops.  We've got a small team here at Craft-Dee BowZ, so doing our hop is super easy!  Here are the links to follow:

Vicki
Gail (this is me!)

Tracey

Barbara

Craft-Dee BowZ

It's always fun to participate in a blog hop where there's a prize...and the prize here is a 25' spool of ribbon. You'll need to leave a comment on each of the stops above, though, to be included in the drawing.  On December 7 a name will be drawn, so please check back at the Craft-Dee BowZ Challenge Blog to see if you've won!  

 

Thanks for participating in the hop and I hope you like our creations. Good luck in the drawing!

                                                                                      Hugs,

                                                          Gail

This card is entered in the following challenges:

Creative Craft Cottage, AAA Cards, Fantasy Stampers, Weekly Christmas Card Challenges, 613 Avenue Create, Glitter n Sparkle, Paperminutes, Creative Card Crew, Sweet Stamps, Crafting from the Heart, Jo's Scrap Shack, Incy Wincy Designs, Artistic Inspirations, Vintage Stamping Challenge, Not Just Cards, CuttlebugMania, Cardz4Guys, Clear It Out, Papertake Weekly, Crafty Sentiments, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Crafting for all Seasons, Craft Your Passion, Hiding in my Craft Room, Inky Impressions, Mod Squad (recipe: Ribbon/Rubber Stamp/Die Cut/Embossing/Glitter), Li'l Red Wagon, Crafty Gals Corner, Inspiration Destination, Creative Moments, Li'l Patch of Crafty Friends, Art by Miran, Wags 'n Whiskers, The Glory of Christmas, Lemon Shortbread, DL. Art, Get Creative, Creatalicious Challenge, A Snowflakes Promise, Whimsy Inspires, Little Miss Muffet, Crafty Girls Creations, Digital Delights, Craft Rocket, Craft Heaven, 2 Creative Chicks, Petal Lu Challenge, The Sisters of Craft, Inky Chicks, Crafts Galore Encore, One Crazy Stamper, Craftyhazelnuts Christmas Challenge 2, Animal Friends, Noor Designs, Just Keep on Creating, Crafting by Designs, Fresh Brewed Designs, Natalie and Amy's, Unicorn Challenge, The Crafty Addicts, Bunny Zoe's Crafts, Crafting with an Attitude, 4 Crafty Chicks, Scrap and Craft Inspiration

Here Comes Santa and Rudolph!

This is it...December. The last month of the year. It's a time to review the past year of what we've done well and what we've done not so well and think about what we want to work at improving next year. I don't do New Year's Resolutions, but I do attempt to try and make each year better in some way. In 2016 I'd like to improve my card making abilities to include more clean and simple designs. I have a tendency to put everything except the kitchen sink on some cards and I'd like to quit feeling like more is better.

There's a new challenge on the 1st of every month at Craft-Dee BowZ and for this month the challenge is ANYTHING GOES AND INCLUDE A HAND MADE BOW.  The challenge has been this for a long time now and why?  Well, we're a team of 4 who LOVE bows. For those who don't make many bows because they don't "come out right" with your different ribbons, your goal for 2016 is to improve your bow making ability.  And, to meet that goal, Santa needs to bring you a Craft-Dee BowZ tool. It's an inexpensive tool that you will have forever and use all the time. There's absolutely no reason you can't make a bow with this simple tool. And no, I don't work on commission and get a percentage of any sales. ;) 

I promise you will like making bows a whole lot more than you do now if you use the Craft-Dee BowZ tool. I'm so confident that you'll like making bows with this tool that if you purchase a Craft-Dee BowZ tool in December, I'll send you ribbon so you can practice your bows. Just e-mail me after you place your order, I'll confirm your order (or send me the confirmation e-mail) and send me your address. That will be my Christmas present to you! Your present to me could be that you enter our challenge each month, at least once, with an awesome bow on your project.

For the challenge this month I used the most adorable, not just adorable but most adorable, stamp by Wild Rose. This image is ranking at the top of my favorites right now. I looked at this and started humming:  Santa Clause is coming to town...He's making a list, checking it twice....

I LOVE making Christmas cards and I love winter. Our weather is terribly hot here in the desert of Arizona in the summer and in the winter we're one of the places that everyone wants to visit!  Our temperatures are beautiful in the winter, even on the cold side to us who have gotten accustomed to warmer than usual temperatures!

The image is colored with Copics and I used Glossy Accents as my adhesive and applied Sparkle n Sprinkle Crystal Ice Glitter on Santa's beard and Susie Sparkle Crystal Rainbow Glitter on his coat and hat. I used Glossy Accents on my Rudolph's nose but didn't add any glitter to it.

I used my QuicKutz Nesting Circles Dies on my card and the beautiful embossing folder is by Nellie Snellen. This is a brand new embossing folder that I just bought in November at the Mesa Stamp Convention (and I used my Cuttlebug). I love it because it's 6"x6" and that's my favorite size card. The silver glitter flat back embellishments in the corners are from Michael's. For those who think I shouldn't have put them on the card since this is a CAS card, I ask for patience and understanding. ;)

Thank you, Donna, for the beautiful silver ribbon. I made a triple looped bow with my Craft-Dee BowZ tool and I am so please with this bow. Notice there's no little doo-dad in the middle of my bow? Two reasons: the bow came out so wonderful that I didn't want to cover it up AT ALL; and the other reason is because I've attempted a CAS card!

If you've come from the Craft-Dee BowZ challenge blog, then you've seen the other gorgeous Christmas cards by Barbara, Vicki and Tracey already. If you haven't seen them, click on over and take a look. The challenge for December is ANYTHING GOES AND INCLUDE A HAND MADE BOW and I hope you'll join us for the last challenge of the year.

                                                                                          Hugs,

                                                            Gail

This card is entered in the following challenges:
7 Kids College Fund, Simon Says Wednesday Challenge, The Crafty Addicts, Crafty Gals Corner, Fab n Funky, The Paper Shelter, As You Like It, C.R.A.F.T., DRS Designs, Inspiration Destination, Crafty Girls Creations, Creative Fingers, Winter Wonderland, Crafty Ribbons, Crafting with Friends, Simply Paper Crafts, Pink Gems, Digi Designs, Creative Craft Cottage, Craftyhazelnuts Christmas Challenge, Clean and Simple on Sunday, AAA Cards, Vintage Stamping Challenge, Crafting From the Heart, Creative Card Crew, Jo's Scrap Shack, Cuttlebug Mania, Crafting for all Seasons, Hiding in my Craft Room, Inky Impressions, Creative Moments, Craft Your Passion, Li'l Patch of Crafty Friends, Christmas Stampin' All Year Long, Art by Miran, Wags n Whiskers, Inkspirational Challenges, Lemon Shortbread, DL. Art, Creatalicious, Whimsy Inspires, Crazy 4 Challenges, Suzy Bee's, World Wide Open Design Team Challenge, Bunny Zoe's Crafts, Get Creative, Artistic Inspirations, Petal Lu Challenge, Sweet Stamps, Weekly Christmas Card Challenge, Glitter n Sparkle, Fantasy Stampers, Not Just Cards, 613 Avenue Create