I’m sooo bad, I didn’t post anything in a looong time. Not that I didn’t create - just didn’t have time to sit down and post. So here we come. These 2 are the last holiday cards I made this year. I used Cuddles Kuma Shepard image from Ildi Co. It makes me feel peaceful, so that was the theme of these cards.

They are both easel cards (I fell in love with this kind of cards this season ) and I used Basic Grey Wassail papers and stickers for both of them. Buttons and the ribbon is from Basic Grey too. Which one do you like?

I was baking gingerbread cookies with my kids this weekend and that inspired me to make some kind of gift box for them. I used the Time for Take out template from Timeless Templates (PTI). It’s pretty easy to put together and it’s a good size for couple of cookies. I decorated it with snowflakes from SU Snow swirled set and CHristmas Cocoa DP. I printed a small Gingerbread Girl, colored it with markers, cut it out and adhered it to the front of the box. And since I had all the papers out and more images printed I made a matching card with Ildi Co’s Gingerbread Reindeer. I used a rotated sketch from Sketch Saturday challenge blog.

Ingredients:

Paper: Kraft, Real Red, White CS, SU Christmas Cocoa DP,   Images and Stamps: Ildico - Gingerbread girl, reindeer, SU Snow swirled, SU Christmas greeting,  Ink: Ruby Red,    Tools: Nestabilities Labels, Snowflake border punch, Other: markers, red glitter rhinestoones, ribbon, chocolate brown pearls

I realized I still didn’t upload my Snopals creation I made for the current Ildi Co challenge. The challenge is to be inspired by your favorite Christmas song. I have a LOT of favorite Christmas songs so it was hard to pick only one

For the first creation I decided to be inspired by the song Winter Wonderland - I used Snopals Skate (x2) and decorated the jar. Papers I used are from BG Eskimo Kisses and the CS is Rich Razzleberry (it matches the Eskimo kisses pretty well). I used Mod Podge to adhere the pices to the jar - my first try - but worked pretty well.

Then I made a card inspired by Let it snow song. I used the new freebie image from Ildi Co - it’s super cute and stamps from SU Branched Out set.

The colors for this card are more traditional - Navy, white, gold and touches of red, brown and light blue. I like how  the gold tree turned out. It’s embossed with detail gold EP as are the snowflakes.

Welcome to “THREE’S A CHARM” blog hop - joint blog hop of Ildi Co, Sunshine Stamps and The Stamping Boutique.  This is my first time participating in a blog hop and I’m super excited! So let’s have some fun!

If you’ve come from Erin’s blog then you’re on the right track, if not start at the beginning here: Sunshine’s Stamps .

Ildi Co is offering the whole set of Snopals to one lucky person, but it will be a mystery whose blog she’ll choose the winner from so it’s important that you comment on every blog to increase your chances of winning! Also she’s are having a buy 2 get a 3rd image free promotion all month.
Sunshine’s Stamps is giving their whole set to a mystery winner too and The Stamping Boutique is offering the Copics, so there will be several chances for people to win some great prizes for this hop!

For my first Snopals card I picked the Snopals Flower image - so cute and girly ;). Just love it.

I colored the snowlady and her flowers with Prisma pencils. I made the flowers look like poinsetias and popped them up. The layout I used is from this week Wednesday Sketch Challenge on SCS. The DP is SU Merry Moments and the sentiment is from Stampin Up too. Then just a couple of silver accents (the silver snowflake brads were originaly white ) and the card is done.

For my second card I decided to use Snopals Skate and layer them in Paint.net so they look like they are racing. I love to play with digi images - make them smaller, bigger, layered them - lots of possibilities.

The skating rink is created with crystal effects with a bit of white Flower Soft around the edges. The DP is from Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses collection and the light blue cardstock with a bit of shine is Bazzil - looks perfect on wintery cards.

When you are done head on over to Tracey’s blog for more cool winter projects.