If The Scrap Fits

So some news for you...I'm really excited to be on the   Christmas at Sweet Stampin  Design Team.  I love making Christmas cards and so it's going to be great to inspire you with them each month. Our challenges are anything goes, so this is a great way to challenge yourself to get a head start on your Christmas cards for the year! Here is my first card! Now we all know that I am trying to use up some of my older stock which is exactly what I've done here....I'm working with Simple Stories and Pink Paislee for my DP and my die cuts.  I fussy cut the snowmen out of a 3x4 card and used it as my focal point.  I've got tonz of those doilies so I'm trying to incorporate them into my projects as well.  A few orange Nuevo dots for a pop of color and voila!  One down! Stop by the blog to see the rest of the DT projects and to play along.  I look forward to stopping by your blog!

Hello Monday Peeps!  Have you stopped by th e UYS blog today? Our new challenge is up!  This week we are using triangles! So I decided to go with a layout today because I really wanted to try a background die cut.  I came across this one from Bits and Pieces .    I thought it would be fun to do a Disney Layout and back the pieces with my Disney papers.  The actual diecut is called Shattered Glass but it has some fun triangle pieces to it. I used DP from Simple Stories & Echo Park, as well as their embellishments.  The sentiments are die cuts from Stampin Up and the internet. I hope you like the layout and feel free to stop by the blog and play along with this week's challenge!

Have you stopped by the Christmas Crafts All Year Round blog yet?  Our new monthly challenge is up.... Normally when you think of Christmas, you think cold and snow...this month, we want you to think WARM!  Use warm colors on your project ...reds, yellows, oranges. This was a bit of a tricky one for me.  I scoured all my Christmas stuff and I didn't really have anything in those warm colors. Then I happened upon some sheets for a Simple Stories album...since I don't do mini albums, I decided to cut the sheets I wanted to create my card instead.  One of those sheets was this really cool star die cut in a glitter cardstock...I thought this would make an awesome layer.  I did some fussy cutting on another sheet for the flowers and then I picked up a new die cut earlier this year, that I haven't used yet.  It's from Penny Black called "Joy to the World".  I wanted to add a bit of orange in there so I cut it out of orange glitter paper and added ...