Creative Crafting by Shell: December 2011

Wishes For a Merry Christmas

Just want to wish you all peace, love, laughter, and a little creativeness this Christmas ..........and all through the New Year!

This card was made with Third Coast Rubber Stamp called Holiday Panda Fairy VB-230-L which you can find here

Icicle stickles added to the fairy panda's wings sure made them pop

Poinsettia with mini rose buds

Have a blessed Holiday!

'Tis the Season

Did you know that Jack Frost is the son of the Frost King, and is a winter sprite that came from roots of Viking Lore and also known as Old Man Winter in Britain and the United States

He loves to leave frosty fern like crystals patterns on cold winter windows, glistening winter trees and cold weather to nip at our nose and toes.

Third Coast Rubber Stamps used:

Jack Frost~ VB-074-I

'Tis the Season ~WS-094-AA

Just wish that scans would show more of the details on art projects.........like shimmery sparkle! LOL

Wishing each and everyone of you a Safe and Happy Holiday this Season

"Merry Christmas"

Wishing you the best, thanks for stopping by!

Southern Girls Challenge #34

Over at Southern Girls we are having the last challenge of this year and the theme is "Lets Celebrate"....So we will leave it up to you on your project.

We have some wonderful examples on the Challenge Blog from Design Team, so we'd love to have you hop on over to join us!

We have 2 fabulous sponsors this week Di's Digi Downloads is from Australia

Our International Sponsor is Stitchy Bear

I've used one of our Sponsor's digital images from Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps which you can find here

The Christmas Candles were so fun to work with after I colored them with copic's then went over the ribbon with red stickles lightly and then edged it to make it pop a bit more.......
the candle flame is painted with shimmer gold then sponges around for a more glowing effect. The edges of the spellbinder die-cut is also painted with shimmer paint, extra holly leafs are cri-cut then distressed, lastly the designer background paper I found in my stash is Basic Grey

I thought with a close-up the shimmer paint would show up a bit better! The Christmas Candles can be found here.

Thanks for stopping by!

Red/ Green Challenge

Time for another challenge at Come and Get It using "Red/Green" and any other color of your choice.........now you can make any kind of card, tag or art project and it doesn't have to be a Christmas themes so come on over and join us this week for the challenge!

We will be taking a Holiday for the next couple weeks and come back on January 1st for a new challenge and we will have a brand new sponsor.........from some of my favorite digital stamps .........drum roll please!

BUGABOO STAMPS!!!

Now on to my card for this challenge.......I was cruising blogs and came across a cute tree idea, so I cased part of the idea and I revamped it a bit! It's really simple too, glue layers of your punched out pine boughs on a cri-cut tree (that's what I used) add a little snow bling and star.

Close up shot of the tree on the dry embossed background

Merry Christmas to you!

I'd like to enter my card to these challenges:
Simply Create Too ~ #2 Embossing
Paper Crafting Journey ~ Christmas
Raising the Bar ~ Christmas
Stampin' for the Weekend ~ #22 Christmas
Phindy's Place ~ #85 Clean & Simple

Thanks for stopping bye and your wonderful comments!

Anything Goes Christmas with LOTV Bear

Are you ready for another challenge that's super easy? Over at Come and Get It we are having a Christmas Challenge that is "Anything Goes" but remember it has to be "Christmas"!

I got a chance to use one of my fabulous LOTV= Lili of the Valley stamps and this little guy that I'm featuring this week is titled "Christmas Bear Sled"