Create a Holiday Card with Numbers!

Good Monday Morning Everyone,

Happy June 1st!!!! Can you believe its JUNE!!!! We are half way through 2009 and I am psyched to have almost 20 holiday cards - thanks to Maria's inspiration to start a blog where we do different challenges every week to make holiday cards all year long: known as the Christmas Stampin All Year Long Blog!

Today is Monday and that means its time for another card from the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog - where today - I am your hostess!!! I thought for Challenge #19! to mix it up a little and have some fun with numbers :)!!! So the challenge is to create a card where you use numbers (either in the embellishment, stamps, paper, etc) as the main focus of the creation :) As soon as I thought of that and sent it to Maria - our awesome blog coordinator /creator/genius :) I suddenly panicked and thought... Uh-Oh, I don't think I want to play along in my own challenge :) because suddenly it felt a little hard to figure out what to do with numbers - 

 but I tried by playing around on my computer and came up with this card that is for Season's Greetings All Year Long (24-7-365 meaning: 24 hours of the day, 7 days a week, 365 days in a year). I downloaded a calendar for December from this site and flourished it up with a little blue flourish and added a little pinkish red dot on the 25th of December for accent. The Tree is a craft stamp and paper pieced and is a Tara Reed Design from Janlynn. Oh and by the way - I just found out that Janlynn is having a HUGE blowout sale - I mean huge!!! Check it out!!

This tree is part of a 7 tree cluster craft stamp called Joyful Trees but I just used one for this card and embellished it with some pink rhinestones. I had to use some liquid pearl (I tried my best not to... but I couldn't resist!!! lol!) and created a little half circle element with the liquid pearls and some glitter :)

Card Details:

Paper: Scenic Route (Sonoma) and 

Ink: Martha Steward Brown

Stamps: Joyful Trees (by the artist Tara Reed from JanLynn)

Accessories: RicRac ribbon from stash, silver marker, Kaiser Rhinestones, Martha Green Agate glittler, liquid pearls, dimensionals

Show Watched: Pride & Prejudice for the 400th time :)

I hope you play along! It's really been helping each week to add a card to my holiday card pile :) yay! I am psyched to be able to actually have cards to give out during the holidays :) yay :) unlike last year where it was just a last minute holiday shopping, wrapping, crafting frenzy ... ugh!

Check out all the fun numbered creations from the lovely ladies over at the Christmas Stampin All Year Long blog!!!

Hope your Monday is off to a great start!!!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!!!

Ciao for now :)

Sankari 

Season's Greetings Card - Christmas Stampin All Year Long Challenge #9

Good Morning Everyone,

It's Monday Morning - so that means another challenge from one of my favorite Challenge groups: Christmas Stampin' All Year Long. Each Week, there is a different challenge to help us create our holiday cards early - and I can't even tell you how grateful I am to be able to do these now.... for one thing its helping me use my stamps, paper and supplies. You can join in on the fun each week by doing the challenge with us (you can link your creation to the post in the challenge group - or upload to Paper Craft Planet with the key word CSYAL).

This week's challenge is a sketch challenge and I have to say, that I love sketch challenges. This week looked like a long card - so I pulled out one of my favorite stamps: these happy snowmen by the artist Tara Reed. Tara is such a sweetheart - you can check out her blog here! I am always so happy when I use this cutie stamp - these snowmen just seem to be so jolly - they always make me smile :)

Card Supplies:
Paper: Cardstock from Stash
Ink: Versamark and White EP
Stamps: Snowmen image from Stamps Happen Inc. (Tara Reed Designs)
Accessories: Liquid Pearls for the snow, crystal glitter (Martha), sliver pen, markers, grosgrain ribbon
Show watched: Toy Story with my son :)


I love these challenges! Each week after I make my holiday card, I put it in a special litle container and its nice to see that container starting to fill up! Check out all the awesome inspiration for this great sketch at the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog! Hope you join in on the fun!!!

Thank you for visiting this little corner!!!
Ciao for now,
Sankari :)

Christmas Stampin All Year Long - Challenge #7

Good Morning Everyone - can you believe that its Monday (again lol!)

I am not sure what happened to last week - it flew by me! And this time change thing has really gotten me all tangled and twisted up... I like the fall time change better - the spring one always throws me off...

Speaking of time - its Monday and that means that its another challenge from the "Christmas Stamping All Year Long" blog, which I am so plum pleased to be a part of - Every week there is a challenge - from which we create Christmas cards - this is such a nice way to get motivated to get those Christmas cards started early - seriously - this last year - I completely procrastianted in making all my cards - so this year - I am starting a little ahead of time - like 9 months ahead!and this challenge blog is the best thing because it helps be stay motivated.

This week - the challenge was to create your own sketch and a card from your own sketch - which was actually challenging - so I went with the "less is more" approach and created a simple card (20 mintues) and tried to keep the layers and all down... (I have to take a pic of it in daylight - I apologize for the darker quality)




Card Details:
Paper: DCVW, stash
Inks: Ballet Blue SU!
Stamps: Penny Black
Accessories: Martha punch, Kaiser bling, Fiskar's threading punch, liquid pearls.

I actually enjoyed the sketch that I ended up creating for this challenge - it is super simple and easy - and might be one that I come back to later... :)

Hope all of you will play along !!!

Happy Monday!
Sankari :)

2 Cards for Taylor's Sketch Challenge

Hello All, 

Two posts in one day!!! Three cards in one day!! Woo-hoo!  These two cards are made fromTaylor's Cupcake Challenge Sketch. I really loved this sketch - so I had to make two cards. They were both so much fun to make. Since we are leaving tomorrow to go to Minneapolis for a week - I wanted to get these cards made. The birthday card is for my cousin, whose birthday was last weekend (sorry Padmini :) but I am sending it today!!) and the Season's Greetings card is for the challenge from the amazing ladies at the OCC, whose challenge this week was to make a Christmas in July Card. 

The holiday card was made with cardstock with unknown origins - it has been in my scrap pile forevah... the buttons are from my button stash - they have been sliver stickled :) and the sentiment is a rub on from I don't know where (these were bought pre-bloggin days when I didn't keep track of where things came from). I added the textured dots by painting them in and finished it all off with some Crystal Stickles.

The birthday card has the same situation where I don't know where anything comes from - except that the brads are from American craft (i love that the cherries are brads) and dots behind the cupcakes are crystal stickles. The cupcakes and sentiment are from Clear Stamps (?) and they were stamped three times onto white cardstock, colored, cut and stacked ontop of each other. The gold dots were painted on as an afterthought - I tried to keep this card dot free - but I couldn't help it - I think I have become a dot addict... help!!! :) LOL! Well, what can I say - I love Faith's cards - and suddenly I feel like its not complete with dots :)

Okay - we are now off to the post office and the park and where ever else the road may take us - perhaps for a little Radiance dairy ice-cream!!! YUM!

Thanks for coming over to visit!

Ciao for now,

Sankari

PS - Oh my gosh! I just noticed that these cards are ribbon-less!!! Gasp!! How could I have let something like that happen :) !!!!