25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 8

Good morning!

Hope you're all doing well today.  It's day 8 of this 25 days of Christmas challenge that Linda & Kathy enrolled me in to doing.  It's actually been quite fun.  Makes me get to the craft table to make stuff and I'm proud to say I'm using a lot of my old stash to create these projects.  (Yay me!!)

Over the weekend I tried to finish more projects from the La-La Land Palooza retreat as well as more Christmas cards.  I'll share more of the retreat projects once I finish the bigger projects.  Still have a few more images to color and last details to finish.  The Christmas projects will be shared but for today I thought I'd share this card...

Here's my Asian version of Christmas.  Featuring Haruyo from Sister Stamps.  I used some pretty pretty washi paper and matted each red & black Tsumugi paper from Hanko Designs.  I had some left over red snowflakes so I added one to the right corner with a green gem.  The sentiment is a laser cut saying from Island Scrapbooking.  I separated them from each other, which made it much easier to center.  I'm so happy with how this one turned out.

In case you were wondering about the supplies used, most are from Hanko Designs:
Holiday Plum Blossom, Green Sakura, bright red Tsumugi card, black Tsumugi cardstock, Island Scrapbooking laser cut sentiment, CC Cutters snowflake, Haruyo from Sister Stamps.

I'll be back for another Christmas share tomorrow.  Until then, thank you for stopping by!
xoxo,
Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 7 KBD Spotlight

Season's Greetings friends!

Today is day 7 in my 25 Days of Christmas challenge.  I'm spotlighting this card over on the Kitty Bee Designs blog today.  That must mean it's the first Monday of DECEMBER!!!  Can you believe there's only 18 days until Christmas!!  Woo Hoo!!  Hopefully you've already gotten your shopping started or making those lists for who's been naughty or nice this year.  If you're like me you start early and buy things throughout the year.  The problem is finding the hiding places I put them in!  hahaha!  

I'm spotlighting 2 of our cute Christmas Penguins: Reindeer Christmas Penguin & Hollie Christmas Penguin.  I printed them out lighter than usual and colored them with some light colors.  Hopefully you can see them, it was a bit hard to photograph and edit without washing either of them out.  I took a close up so you can see them below.  You can't tell but I added WOS to the star, nose, holly leaves and bell.  It truly looks pretty IRL.  I promise!  (hahaha)

(We have a nice selection of Winter & Christmas images in the Etsy store to use on all of your Christmas cards and projects.  Hop on over to starting buying!)  

I used non-traditional Christmas colors for this card, but I'm finding that doesn't really fit anymore.  With the Frozen movie it seems these are considered Christmas colors too.  Or at least Winter colors. The igloo is from the November  La-La Land Club kit.  Yep after die cutting it I glued on each of the tiles back!  In case you were wondering I added a piece of cardstock to the back to making gluing easier.  The stitched borders are from MFT, the snowflakes are from C. C. Designs and the rolling hills were created with Mama Elephant stitched dies.  I added WOS on the snowflakes and added a touch of lavender rhinestones for a nice little bling.  I handwrote, "Happy Holidays From our Igloo to yours."  I thought it was a cute sentiment for this card. 

Thank you all so much for joining our challenges for 2015 and we hope you'll anticipate the challenges coming in 2016, you'll have even more fun!  Wishing you Happy Holidays and hope you and your families enjoy this wonderful season of giving and joy.  Today is my last spotlight for 2015!  The kitties & bees are taking the rest of the year off to spend time with our ohana and of course to finish finding (and making) the perfect gifts for everyone.  But of course I'll be back tomorrow with day 8 of my 25DOCC.  

Mahalo for stopping by!

Hugs,

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 6

Hello!!

Hope you are all doing well this fine Sunday morning.  

You know as I'm posting these projects I feel like I am really enjoying the days.  Normally they go so fast I can't remember what I did, but for some reason I'm actually enjoying it.  Go figure...

For day 6 I thought I'd share another card from the La-La Land Palooza craft retreat.  This project was designed by DT member, Suzanne Kohler, (Hi Suzanne!).  It was one of the first cards I finished when I got home.

At the retreat we all found out that Suzanne is the queen of dies!  Her projects usually tend to have more than 4.  As you can see here that is definitely true.  Isn't it fabulous?!  Especially with the adorable Christmas Elf Luka holding center court?  I'll share all the links to the dies and image at the bottom.  I believe this is called a pocket card.  The inside panel is next...

And look even more dies on the inside!  They do make a marvelous scene don't they?  

List of the products used in this project include: 

Fancy Doily border, Postage Stamp, Scalloped Trim Banner, Santa Sleigh, Snowflake Flag Banner, Stitched Elements (oval), Pretty Poinsettia & of course Christmas Elf Luka

Now I need to figure out who to put on the naughty and nice sides. hahaha!  Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a blessed Sunday!

xoxo,

Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 5

Hello!

It's day 5 of my 25 days of Christmas challenge.  Today I wanted to share this super cute cocoa packet holder that was designed by one of my crafting friends, Belia.  (Hi Belia!)  We got together with Kathy, Linda and my new friend Donna last month to make some Christmas cards to swap with one another.  This is the first of the four.  I plan to spread them out over the next few days.

Isn't it the cutest?!  I love the cute papers and the colors make me smile.  Colored the altered image of 2 TGF images, Beanie Ian & Secret Santa Kit (exclusive).  Below you'll find a message and the hot cocoa packet inside.  This is a fun idea to share some warm wishes this holiday season.

This is one of my favorites this year,  I'm thinking of making more of these.  Hopefully I can find paper that cute!

Well my friends, hoping you all have a wonderful Saturday!  Thanks for stopping by!!

xoxo,
Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 4 AFC #62 Christmas

Happy Aloha Friday!!

Are you all ready for the last Aloha Friday challenge with Kitty Bee Designs of the year?!!  This bi-weekly challenge is a super easy one and coincidentally is perfect for this time of the year...

CHALLENGE #62

*CHRISTMAS*

Create a project with a colored image for the happiest time of the year!

12/4/15 - 12/18/15 (5am Hawaii Time)
Winner will be announced on 12/20/15
See the rules tab for more details. 

Our incredible sponsor is: ODDBALL ART CO. 

Please be sure to pop on over to the challenge blog to see all the Christmas inspirations and don't forget to leave them some love on their blogs.  Ms. Lizzy Love was generous enough to provide some of the DT with some of her really cool images.  I am playing with Big Eyed Christmas Elf Ellie. Here's my card...

This is perfect for day 4 of my 25 days of Christmas Challenge with Kathy & Linda.  As soon as I saw the sample for Ellie the Elf I wanted to do similar colors for the card.  So picking some non-traditional Christmas colors was what I did here.  Had some fun with a few Christmas dies to create the ornaments.  The patterned paper was a nice find during Black Friday at Michael's.  Love all the chalkboard patterns in black, chalk white, red and green.

Now don't forget you have until the 18th to get your entries in.  It's the last challenge of the year before we go on break, let's see how many entries we can get in!  Mahalo for stopping by, have a fabulous Aloha Friday and a wonderful weekend!!

xoxo,