Eugene's Present

Hello Nomad friends.  Christmas in July is in full swing.  Here's a little santa with much bling.

Sizzix Retro Santa holding colorize Eugene the penguins present against a handcut pink glitter wavy stripes.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz  

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52 Weeks to Christmas Challenge - Retrokaart
Christmas Kickstart Challenge 112 - Grace Us With Your Presents
ABC Christmas Challenge - N is for No Stamping
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Make Your Own Background 

A Snowball to Stand On

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the first of the month and I am hoping for crafty awesomeness this month.  Have been wilting a bit in the warmth of June, but should be getting acclimatised by now Shirley.  Also dreaming of ice.  Ice cubes.  Iced long drinks.  Snow.  Snow!!!!   Well, it is July so time for the traditional time to start thinking about the 'C' word in a more determined way.   The Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is having a month of Christmas in July and we do hope you have the time to join us in our endeavours to reduce the stress in December.  

I think this Overalls Santa from Carmen's Veranda is going to be a new favourite!!   Isn't he adorbs!!!  I combined him with Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Circles, large circle Shadow Frame and Party Words to make a kinda clean and simple card.  Perfect for the crazy season.

 

I hope you get time to join the fun with the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Christmas in July Challenge if you are stamping up a Christmas snow storm.

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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ABC Christmas Challenge - L is for Let It Snow 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Stars and/or Stripes

Vintage Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Hello Nomad friends.  Last card of the month and I fancied a bit of vintage style christmas.  

I've used a Stampendous stamp called Postcard Santa and I stamped with brown archival and distress ink, then spritzed with water to cause the distress ink to run.  After everything dried out I added some distress ink and gel pen colour to the santa.

  Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Sketchy Santa

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the last of November.  Happy Birthday Mum.  Hope you have an awesome day.  There are still a couple of challenges I wanted to join in with so I made another Christmas card.  I am sure they will come in handy lol.   

For this card I used offcuts from Laserowe Love Winter Fun patterned papers, bits or red and white card. The santa and parcel are clip outs that came with the patterned paper set.  I also used Hero Arts Winter Hearth dies and stamps for the fireplace and stocking and Hero Arts Jingle All The Way for the candy cane.

The card design is based on a sketch over at Scrappehygge med Scrappehuset which gives a fun pocket.  Might get a christmas tea bag in there.......

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Rudolph Days Challenge 
Girlz Creative Christmas Challenge 153 - Alles Mag

Santa Seminar - Shakin' All Over

Hello Nomad friends.  Yep, me again.  Here with a shaker card and santa with some advice on shakers.  Love em?? Hate em??  Today santa is having fun strutting his stuff and shakin' his trees. 

Can't get enough of that wiggly circle die and paired kraft and plaid and sizzix papercraft santa.  I stamped the sentiments and snowflakes using Kort og Godt stamps and black archival.  I filled the shaker with little christmas trees.  Shake it santa, shake it!!  Added a few narrow strips of red for a fun broken border.  Santa is all scraps and the kraft is a ex-pizza box.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Snippets Playground Challenge 517 
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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Get Ready for Xmas 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Add Some Text 

A Side Order of Santa

Hello Nomad friends.  Hope you are having a wonderful and creative weekend.  I am feeling the jingle this weekend and want to kickoff with a slanted easel card.  This is the first time I have made one of these and I didn't make it easier for myself by using a shaped card base and a directional paper.  Ah well, I think it kinda works OK.

Here it is closed for sending.  I used sizzix patterned paper and Retro Santa dies with scraps.  I cut my base with a Kort og Godt fancy die that I love.   I am sure it will be featuring again soon......

 My easel opens to the side and I used some more scraps and stamps from Kort og Godt for my sentiment panel stop with snowflakes and a couple of star brads.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers- Falling for the Holidays
Allsorts Challenge 834 - Traditional Xmas Colours
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Get Ready for Xmas 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Add Some Text 

Penguining Around

Hello Nomad friends.  I had this lovely card base on the desk for a while and decided to combine it with this fantastically adorable Art Impressions Santa and penguins stamp.

 

I stamped Art Impressions UMU4170 on white card, coloured with sharpies and fussy cut the top of the image.  I stamped a couple of Kort og Godt postage stamp with a suitable theme and appropriate sentiments and added all the images to the patterned card base.  Ho ho ho indeed!!!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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Santa's Golden Moment

Hello Nomad friends.  The year is galloping on apace and I have been slacking with my xmas card making.  I like to do a few each month so there is no rush at the last minute bwahhhahahahahaaaa who am I fooling LOL.  Anyway, here's santa in his golden bling suit.

I think it should have been golden gloves with white cuffs, but there you go.......  I used sizzix Retro Santa dies and lots of scraps of gold card in various textures and designs.  His gold holographic mirror card suit is certainly looking sparkly.  His belt buckle is a bit of gold metal sheet.  The God Jul (merry christmas) is also a sizzix die.  I nearly cut santa's gloves from that stitch cut bit on the edge, but luckily it survived to play a supporting roll as scenery.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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Jingle Belles Rock - Baby It's Gold Outside
Pixies Snippets Playground Challenge 515 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Add Some Metal

Christmas Pizza

Hello Nomad friends.  Lovely sunny day today but bitter cold wind.  A nice day to hide in the greenhouse.  Also finished this Christmas card I started last night using kraft and white.

 

The pretty winter picture is from Reprint.  All the kraft card is bits of a co-op pizza box.  I used various dies from Spellbinders and Gummiapan and stamps from Kort og Godt.  Isn't that Santa reindeer sleigh postmark so sweet!!!

 Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Scrappelyst Utfordring for Mars - Tekst
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WoW Steampunk Santa

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the second of the month so time for the Card Chain Challenge reveal.  I had a moment and chose white, white and white as the colour option for November and so many of the ladies went with it.  Masses of WoW inspiration.  Do hop over and check out all the awesome cards that have winged their way around the planet this month, white or not.  My card went to Imke in Germany

Options I chose were white, steampunk, with lots of fun Crafters Companion dies, and the sketch.

Do hop over and check out all the amazing cards in the REVEAL

If you would like to join the fun there is still time to sign up for Gail's Fiendishly Festive Tic Tac Toe, or if you wait a few days the January SIGN UP will be live and you can start 2025 with happy mail.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Papercraft Challenge 112 - Monochrome

Quarter Of A Circle

Hello Nomad friends.  The Lift Challenge popped up in my blog feed today so I hopped over to see what they had dreamed up for the new challenge.  They always have interesting themes and this time they want to see a quarter circle card.  A cute idea, and I had a eureka moment because I have some round scrapbook papers I had kinda given up on.  So I grabbed a red and green one and went Christmas.

I folded the paper in half and cut it in half.  They are quite lightweight so I decided to draw around the edge on a card base and fussy cut the base to match the paper edge.  I pieced sizzix Retro Santa from scraps and added a flat beer bottle top which is printed with Merry Christmas (luckily it's much shorter in Norwegian LOL).  Adorbs!!!

 

Here's the Making Memories round sheet I started with.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Hello Nomad friends.  Yes, me again.   My last offering for this evening cos I have to make cookie dough!!!   But first, 

🎵Santa Claus is Coming to Town🎵

I've gone all blue and slimline.   In the sizzix Vault Christmas Magic dies again and a random blue circle.  The blue snow was a newly found scrap. 

Thanks for dropping by.   Hugz

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Simon Says Stamp World Card Making Day 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Patterned Papers

 

Santa Claus is on the Way

Hello Nomad friends.  In the World Cardmaking groove and sharing a little Christmas.  Using some pretty background papers from an old Simon Says Stamp kit and sizzix Vault Christmas Magic and Forest Shadows dies.  

Thanks for dropping by.   Hugz

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Christmas Ian

Hello Nomad friends.  Just playing around today with some ex-food packaging and the Greeting Farm's Santa  Ian

 

I used flatbread box and ice cream box which both give a lovely kraft card, although the flatbread box is waxed so a little tricky to stamp on.  I used a scrap of gold paper and embossed the whole panel with a cuttlebug snowflake folder.  I stamped Santa Ian on a scrap of white card and coloured with promarkers and glitter glue. The sentiment is from Carmen's Veranda and, as a lover of cake, I think this is very important question.   

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Snippets Playground Challlenge - 488

Just Add A Hat

 Hello Nomad friends!

I've made a simple card today by adding a santa hat to the *NEW* Lost Coast Designs Mouse, who I have nicknamed Ta Dah!!!!!

 

Isn't he adorbs!!   The new stamps will be on the website soon.  The hat comes from Lost Coast Designs Santa Mona.

 

You have all month to join the Christmas in July fun.  

Check the rules to make sure your makes are eligible for the prize draw.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Shape of a Santa

Hello Nomad friends.  Hope you are having an awesome Saturday.  It's a bit drizzly today so I'm messing about a bit in the craft room.  A few years ago I turned into a Christmas all-year-round gal.  Jo has a fab challenge over at the Christmas Kickstart blog so I used retro santa and gave him a couple of gifts to juggle.

Love the sizzix colorize dies.  Great for using up scraps!!!   The gifts, also cut from scraps, are sizzix Santa's Workshop dies.  I stamped the Kort og Godt sentiment which says 'Christmas hug to you from me', on a piece of ex-stamp packaging and cut it with a fishtail banner die.  The grey background I used a Paper Rose die to get the pretty circle cuts.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Santa Seminar : Navigation

Hello Nomad friends.  Santa is back with his friend Rudolf and they are discussing the finer points of navigation.  Nothing worse than getting your GPS in a tangle on the busiest night of the year.

Santa is sporting his silver suit tonight and Rudolf polished up his nose.  I used that lovely Simon Says Stamp Faceted Snowflakes embossing folder on matt silver paper for the background.  I found a sad looking silver star in the scraps box and tried to jazz it up with a little more embossing.  Not sure it feels jazzed.  It is a bit of a curiosity, an eight pointed star.  Santa is obviously explaining that to Rudolf who is probably blinded by his red shiny nose.  Both santa and rudolf are sizzix papercut die sets.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Christmas Kickstart Challenge 85 - Santa and His Sidekicks
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Whatever the Weather  Clear skies, good chance of snow
Allsorts Challenge Week 775 - For The Love of Animals opt AG

Santa Seminar: The Importance Of Snow

Hello Nomad friends.  It's time for a Santa Seminar!!!   I'm playing with sizzix papercut santa and today he is expounding the virtues of snow.   If you want to see more santa wisdom click on the Santa Seminar label for previous posts where Santa has stolen the podium. 

In honour of the day he's gone green and scrappy with snowflakes.

I investigated scrap mountain and dug out a goodly selection of green patterned paper scraps.

I pieced together a scrappy background and then embossed it with Simon Says Stamp Faceted Snowflakes embossing folder.  I trimmed it and added it to a white card base.  I found a strip in the scrap pile that had almost the whole Merry Christmas printed on it and added it to the base of the card.  Santa is die cut from various patterned green pieces and scraps of white, black and gold.   I used a green foil scrap and a sizzix die to cut the snowflake Santa is holding up.  Jolly Ho Ho Ho.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Christmas Kickstart Challenge 84 - Get Your Grinch On!
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - A Bit O'Green
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - A Bit O'Green
ABC Christmas Challenge - E is for Embossing
Christmas Craft Creations March Challenge- Designer Paper