#12 - be my valentine

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to show some love...make a Valentine's Day project...use hearts..red..lovey dove sentiments...romantic...funny...doesn't matter...just play along.  I went for the pun valentine because that is just my favourite type...I am not all into that mushy gushy valentine stuff...play along with us, will you?

#10 & 11 -text me

This week's challenge at the Jingle Belles is to use text on your project.  I loved this die so much I bought it twice by accident.  So I had to use it and decided to make two cards to use both of them lol. My momma will be happy because she will acquire this as she gets all my duplicates.  She is getting a bit of a collection that way.

#9 -happy birthday

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to make a birthday card...that is by far my favourite type of card to make...always happy - I thought I would sparkle up this card and make it fun. I used all scrap papers and christened some dies and stamps that haven't yet seen paper.... Play along with us, will you?

#8 - getting sentimental

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to make the sentiment the focal point for your card or project...I am hoping mine worked out to be like that... I did some lighter stamping underneath and heat embossed the sentiment for it to stand out in real life...not sure if it is captured in the photograph or not, but I tried....play along with us, will you?

#5-#7 - trio of snowmen

in keeping with my resolution this year, I am once again playing with the jingle belles...wahoozle, two for two - or should I say three?  Their challenge is to use three of something on a card...I chose snowmen, but also chose to do three cards to keep up with the name of the challenge...so much fun...

#4 - something old and something new

This week's challenge at shopping our stash is to use something really old from your stash and something new that you have.  This card is a good mix of both...the alcohol inks were one of my first purchases...before I even knew what they were for...the silver paper and the circle die were purchases that I received last week and my goal is to get everything new used at least once by the time it reaches 3 months in my house...hoping to keep up on that...play along with us, will you?

#2-#3 look what Santa brought

So I have decided as part of my New Year's crafty resolution that I am going to use my stamps and things in ways that may not be the traditional format so they get more use.  And I am going to try to play along with the Jingle Belles (and actually link up to the challenges - because I am a closet player and don't usually link).  Santa brought me this cute little valentines dinosaur from Lawn Fawn and I saw it done similarly in a group I am in as a valentine card...I thought I could case it into a bit of a Christmas card and seeing as how we are already in a water colour theme at Shopping our Stash, I decided to continue with it as I could use the practice and the supplies were already out....

#1 - Watercolour

Happy New Year everyone!  This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use watercolour on your project.  I love the look of watercolour and how some people are so incredibly uber talented at it.  As you can see from my card, I am not!  Lol...but I still like the look even though I don't have the skills.  I love this stamp because it looks just like my youngest daughter...so much so that it is uncanny.  Being a new year and all, I thought the sentiment was appropriate to start out my crafting year - and the rest of my year....2017 was a rough one health wise and I am hoping 2018 will be a little nicer to me.  Play along with us, will you?