Dare I say it......Happy New Year!

Anything but Christmas......Easy Peasy......mainly because I sent out my Christmas cards last week and am ready to move on to something else!

The Crafy Pad has allowed me the treat of being a Guest Designer for the past few weeks and today is my last DT card for them.  I have loved playing with their beautiful images.

This week is "Anything but Christmas...."

I used the pocket watch image from The Crafty Pad to represent the passage of time.

I added in some New Years images from Our Craft Lounge.

The watch, ruler and cogs were all printed directly on my card stock.  The watch was printed a second time, embossed and glossed and then placed on the card with dimensionals.

The balloons, champagne and glass were all printed seperately, colored, cut out and then placed on the card.  The ribbon is from my stash.

This card may  be enteren in the following challenges:

The Crafty Pad:  Anything but Christmas! (GDT card)

CES Challenge:  Party, party, party

Card Crafters Circle:  Celebration

Alota Rubber Stamps:  It's all about the Numbers

Crafters Companion:  New Beginnings

Just Tracy's Crafts:  Celebration

Baby, Oh baby

I was going to do this wonderful post last night after coming home from our annual fire department Christmas dinner and party.  Yeah, well, that obvioiusly didn't work.  I definitely have just a bit of a "cold and a runny nose" this am!  I decided (ha!) for the better part of valor last night (actually really early this morning) that I did not need a BUI (blogging under the influence) and went to bed instead.

It is bright and early (damn fire pager of DH went off at 0515 this am) and here I am, doing my second post for my guest DT spot for The Crafty Pad.  This weeks challenge is to 'Send someone a smile', No Christmas allowed!

I just happen to have a couple of people at work that are having baby's so I decided to play with on of the baby sets from The Crafty Pad.

The card fits a standard 5.75 by 4.5 envelope, I just fussy cut on the right side of the bottle.  The flowers along either edge of a CB embossing strip that is rubbed with ink after dry embossing.  I put a little dab of liquid pearls at each center.  The flowers on the bottle are heat embossed with Ranger white detail embossing powder.  The flower image is from an Our Craft Lounge set.

The coloring is all copics.  This actually worked on this card with one layer because I wanted the ink to bleed through so that I could continue coloring the other side so that you see the bottle when the card is open also!

I took my black copic multi-liner and traced the image of the bottle and colored some more.

The footprints were printed and colored, punched out and then heat n' stik and glitter were used to make a medallion.  The pacifier (dummy) was colored, cut out and hung off a piece of pink baking twine (The Twinery) from the medallion.  The would congratualations was stamped all over the part of the inside covered by the bottle (when the card is closed).  It is a stamp from Our Craft Lounge.

I added a handwritten 'It's a girl' and the card was done!

Go by The Crafty Pad and check out the gorgeous creations done by the "real" DT, play along with the challenge and then visit the store and maybe even pick up a stamp of two!

:)  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

The Crafty Pad:  Make someone smile

Crafty Catz Weekly:  Anything goes

Totally PaperCrafts:  Anything but Christmas

Cute Card Thursday:  Anything goes

Guess What!!!!

I have been excitedly waiting for today to come!  I have been invited to be a guest designer for the month of December over at The Crafty Pad !

I will be doing projects or cards for Dec. 4, 11 and 18 using some of the wonderful images that can be found in the store of The Crafty Pad. 

This weeks challenge is "Give it a Punch".  The DT were all given a wonderful image to do our project with.  It is called 'Rudolph and Robin'.  You need to use at least 3 punched items on your creation!

Here is my gift card holder.  I could go in an envelope but I made this on to hang by a loop of ribbon in the Christmas tree. 

Rudolph & Robin (see him sitting on the antler) by The Crafty Pad

Pattern by The Waltzing Mouse specific post to stocking HERE

I added the snaps to make the sides more sturdy when putting the gift card in and out. 

Coloring:  Copic Markers

Dry Embossing:  CB embossing folder

Glitter:  OCL 'snow' glitter

Punches:  MS snowflake

MS holly leaf

Whimsey dies ticket die

Micheals snowflake punch (the little flakes)

The papers, ribbon and bling are all from my stash!

: )  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Come and Get It Challenges:  Anything Christmas

Getting Cricky:  Joys of the Season, make a decoration (mine hangs on tree)

Scrappy Frogs Challenge:  Use kraft cardstock

Two Sisters Challenge:  Punches and/or dies

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps:  Dry or Heat Embossing

Little Claire's Designs:  Shaped

Crafty Catz:  Colours of Christmas with sparkle

Delicious Doodles:  Hairy Legs

Miami Doodles:  Make it Shine with glitter

Polka Doodles:  Secret element Christimas project (Pouch for gift card)