Happy New Year!!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 

I hope you all have a wonderful New Year and wishing you all love, happiness and good health! I have a quick project I want to share with you. I thought it would be fun to have a small bottle of Sparkling White Grape juice at each place setting for brunch tomorrow.

I decorated each of the Sparkling White Grape juice bottles with a bottle topper. I cut the tag at 2 1/2 x 6 and scored it at 2", then used My Craft Spot Tiny Doilies Metal circle die and centered it and ran it through my cuttlebug for the hole. I then cut a piece of pattern paper 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 and layered some crinkle ribbon on the bottom. I cut the label from the Artiste cartridge at 1 3/4 and another one to shadow it at 2". 

The sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping ~Holiday Expressions set. I added some gems and a fun double bow to finish it off!  I also dressed up a bottle of red wine for my table as well and a few extra to give away as a gift to celebrate the New Year! Wouldn't this make a fun Hostess gift idea too? I am also entering this in a challenge over at Decorate to Celebrate ~New Years/Winter Party and 3 Girl JAM ~It's a New Year-Anything Goes! 

Thanks for stopping by and Happy New Year!  

Sherrie K

Teddy Bear Santa~We Believe

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Hope your all having a wonderful day! It's been a chilly day today and all  I want to do is cuddle up on the couch with a cup of cocoa and watch a good movie...one of those kinda days! Oh, that sounds soooo good but not gonna happen.....just too much to do. lol!

I have my last Christmas card that I wanted to quickly share with you today since I forgot to post it for you last week.  I used the Teddy Bear Parade cartridge. The card base is 5.25 and used papers from Doodlebug and Recollections Jolly & Bright collection. I cut the Santa bear at 4" plus all the layers.  The cute face is PK critter faces set which I used my white gel pen and glossy accents to highlight the eyes a bit more. I also embossed parts of Santa's suit and hat with the swiss dots folder and inked around the edges with Victorian velvet distressing ink. I added twisted lime trendy twine from My Craft Spot and some fun skittles from my friend Carri.

I finished the card by popping an adorable My Craft Spot Tiny Doilies Metal die and My Craft Spot sentiment from Stampin Around Christmas set onto a Spellbinders Classic Squares die. Cute, ha?

Thanks for stopping and have a great day!
Sherrie K 

Little Scrap Pieces-Fun Friday Challenge

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Happy Friday to you all!!! I hope you are all enjoying your Christmas break, family gatherings and getting ready to celebrate the New Year! Today, we hope you can come join us in another Fun Friday Challenge at Little Scrap Pieces. The challenge for today is..... "Winter". Make a card, layout or any project winter theme. Be sure to check out what the Design Team has created for you and be sure to come back and join in the challenge:) Can't wait to see what you create!

The base of my card is from the Nesting Eyelets Squares die along with the next two layers. The skater girl is cut at 4 1/2 plus the layers from the Winter Woodland cartridge. I cut the skating pond at 1.94 x 5.64 using my gypsy. I embossed it with the divine swirls folder and glittered it up to give some texture and a sparkly look. The paper is from My Minds Eye~The Merry Days of Christmas. The snowflake is cut at 1 1/2 and finished by adding a crinkle ribbon/twine bow from My Craft Spot and the sentiment is from K Andrews Designs ~Winter Wishes set.

I am entering this in a challenge over at Pause Dream Enjoy challenge-Anything Goes! Be sure to stop over and check out Janis's fabulous 52 mini tag book she made throughout the year over at Pause Dream Enjoy~It is fabulous!

Thanks for visiting and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Sherrie K

For you!

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First of all....MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone! I am so sorry I haven't posted for a week but with family all home and enjoying time with everyone the week has just flown by, yikes! Hoping to get back in the swing of things real soon.....:)

I wanted to share a fun little project that I quickly put together Christmas Eve to place on the dinner plates for the kids. I covered these yummy Hershey candy bars, stamped a cute Peachy Keen ~Winter face set and added rosy cheeks to each of them.

I fussy cut felt hats, added bakers twine and a cute little bell to each hat. I finished them by wrapping a ribbon scarf and attaching an adorable tags using the Tiny Tags 2 and Tiny Tags metal dies from My Craft Spot.

Thanks so much for stopping,
Sherrie K

No Peeking!

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Hi Everyone and Happy Saturday! I hope things are starting to wind down for you...it's been a crazy week for many of us. We have a Christmas get together with family this weekend so we will be doing some traveling. I hope to do some catching up once I get back.  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!!

I also want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!! If you are traveling, be safe!

I wanted to squeeze in another project to share with you. If you are looking for some last minute inspiration or a quick easy card, here you go:)

This stocking shaped card was cut from the Simply Charmed cartridge at 5.39 x 9.84 using my gypsy to weld the shapes together. The papers are from My Minds Eye~The Merry Days of Christmas. The adorable center die and sentiment is My Craft Spot Tiny Doilies Metal Dies and the Stampin' around Christmas set. Super cute set! I finished it by adding some fun boa, My Craft Spot vanilla bean crinkle ribbon and bittersweet hemp. Hope you like it!

I am entering this in the following challenges:
1.) My Craft Spot Challenge #80-Christmas shaped cards
2.) Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #142-shaped cards

Thanks for visiting,
Sherrie K

Little Scrap Pieces-Fun Friday Challenge

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Hi my crafty friends! It's Friday, yeah!!! Well, we know what happens on Friday's....it's another Fun Friday challenge at Little Scrap Pieces. The challenge today is "Santa Baby".  Please be sure to pop over and check out what the design team has created for you and then come back and join in the challenge:) Can't wait to see what you create!!


Here is some inspiration:)

My card base is cut at 5 1/2 with the Art Philosophy cartridge. The papers are from Recollections-Jolly & Bright set. I cut this jolly Santa from the Holly Jolly cartridge at 4 1/2 plus all the layers. I embossed the layers with an assortment of folders-divine swirls, swiss dots and the diamond folder. The cuffs and hat have a puffy effect due to using the snow marker. The sentiment is My Creative Time-All around Christmas set. I finished the card by adding a fun festive bow, wine and some doodling:) I am also entering this at a fun challenge over at Bitten by the Bug 2 ~Santa theme :)

Thanks for visiting and I hope you come join us in the Fun Friday Challenge at Little Scrap Pieces!

Sherrie K

Christmas Ornaments

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Hi Everyone and Happy Wednesday!! So, are you all ready for Christmas yet?? I have just a few things to finish up, hopefully tomorrow and then.....relax! Yeah right, somehow I don't think that will happen, lol!

I did finish up my Oreo truffles and can't wait for my son to get home tonight (for the holiday's) and see them on a plate waiting for him! These are one of his favorites! When he was in Iraq, I sent over over 200 dozen variety cookies over Christmas break for him and the other troops and this happened to be a lot of their favorites so now every year I make them:)

Today, I have some fun little ornaments that I made using some glitter paper that I had in my stash. I just love how they turned out. Super glittery and shiny:)

I cut them at 5" from the Holly Jolly Holiday cartridge.

I added some fun skittles to each of the ornaments that I purchased from my blogger buddy, Carri in Latte, Meadow and the Rudolf Red.

I also topped these ornaments off with yummy crinkle ribbon bows from My Craft Spot -the colors are: chocolate truffle, spring moss and cranberry. The sentiments are from Jaded Blossoms~Christmas Wishes set.  Aren't these cute? You could actually use these as tags too.

I am entering this in the following challenges:
1.) More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday Challenge #78~Christmas
2.) Die Cuttin Diva's Challenge #95 More Holiday Spirit
3.) Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #93 Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting and have a great evening!
Sherrie K

Believe in the Magic of the Season

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Hi my crafty friends! It's been a busy few days just trying to get all my cards/tags done along with last minute wrapping!! My oldest son flies in this evening for the holidays...yeah! So excited to see him!!  He loves Oreo truffles so I am in the middle of crafting and making truffles....hope they turn out!
Here is a Christmas card to share with you that I made for a friend to go along with her gift :) I really had a hard time getting a good picture of this...it really is pretty and the embossed background really pops but hard to see on this photo :( sorry!

The base is a Spellbinders Grand Scalloped Rectangles along with the base layer which as embossed with the sizzix snow flurries folder. The label is a Spellbinders Labels Nine and the tree is a fabulous stamp that my blogger buddy Shelly at My Paper Love sent to me. Thanks so much Shelly!!! I dry embossed the tree and added some gems and a star. I inked all the edges with SU-wild wasabi. The tag is a Spellbinders Fancy Tags Two die and the sentiment is from Jaded Blossom ~Christmas Wishes set. I finished it with a flourish and a pretty double bow with ribbon from my stash.

I am entering this in the following challenges:
1.) Jaded Blossom ~Crafters Choice
2.) 3 Girl JAM ~Christmas
3.) Go Fish Challenge #31-Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting,
Sherrie K

Little Scrap Pieces-Fun Friday Challenge

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Hi Everyone! Hope your all having a wonderful day!! Yeah, it's Friday.....you know what that means, another Fun Friday challenge at Little Scrap Pieces. Hope you come join us in the challenge...LOVE to see what you create! Be sure to check out the awesome inspiration by my design team sisters, you will be AMAZED!!

The Fun Friday challenge for today is: "Holiday".  What a great challenge as we are all making decorations, gifts and baking for the upcoming holidays....this is perfect!  So, be sure to come join in the challenge and show us your lovely creations!!!!
Here is some inspiration:

I am using the CTMH Artiste cartridge for this project. The snowflakes are cut at 5" and the circles are cut at 2 1/2 which I stamped these adorable snowmen faces using the PK-520-Winter Face set. I distressed a little around the edges using SU Bashful Blue and colored the snowmen with copics.

The hats are from the Gypsy Wondering cartridge cut at 7.21 x 4.90 and they are embossed with the divine swirls folder and added some twine/button to dress it up. I adhered them all to rosettes, layered it all on a white paper doily and then the snowflake. I topped it with a fun double sheer sparkly ribbon bow with a cute snowflake embellishment in the center. You could use these for tags on packages and/or gift bags OR even as ornaments.

Thanks for stopping,
Sherrie K

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! AND my giveaway winner!

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Hi my crafty friends! I spent this morning doing some Christmas shopping and this afternoon doing some baking! Oh, my family is gonna love it when they get home today....my house smells like a bakery, lol! Yummy! I made peanut butter kiss blossoms, peanut butter ritz crackers dipped in milk chocolate, spritz cookies, melt aways and Christmas wreaths. So, is your mouth watering yet?? I need to make caramels and oreo truffles yet and then I think we're good. These are some of my families favorites:) What are your kids favorite Christmas cookie?

I have a Christmas card to share with you using the fun Teddy Bear Parade cartridge.The base of my card the Spellbinders Grand Scalloped Rectangles along with the base layer. The papers are from Recollection-Sugar Plums and the Jolly  & Bright set. I added a little piece of burlap from Liz's Paper Boutique and then layered a Spellbinders Grand Large Label then the cute little bear. The reindeer bear is cut at 4" plus all the fun layers. The tag is the vintage stitched label die from My Creative Time and the sentiment is from  My Craft Spot ~Winter Wonderland set. I inked all the edges with Tim Holtz-frayed burlap.

I finished by adding a double bow using 3 Girl Jam mistletoe crinkle ribbon, bakers twine bow & jingle bell to the scarf.  The awesome little skittles are from Carri at Double Click Connections. The colors I used are Grinch red and Rudolph red. These skittles are so fun to add to projects and she has several colors to choose from.  Be sure to go check them out over at Carri's blog.

I am entering this in the following challenges:
1.) 3 Girl Jam ~Christmas Inspiration with ribbon
2.) Fantabulous Cricut ~Challenge #141-Bells are ringing

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The winner for the Winter Woodland cartridge giveaway via random.org is.................. Becky from Becky's Craft Place

Be sure to pop me an email Becky so I can get this fun cartridge mailed out to you:) Congratulations!

Thanks for visiting,
Sherrie K

Merry Christmas!

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Hi Everyone, I hope your having a great week so far. It's been a busy one! I am super excited for my youngest son as he purchase his first home on Friday AND it's in our home town! Yeah, how fun is this:) So, my hubby and I are helping him with some remodeling, cleaning, repairing etc. The house was vacant for a year so it really needs some TLC!  It is a spacious 2 story home with 3 bedrooms, 4 bath, beautiful living and dining room. A great project for all of us to help with!  The timing isn't all that great with the holiday's but Oh well, it's already chaotic trying to get everything done........at least he's not moving in til mid January so that helps a bit:) We did end up with about 8" of snow over the weekend. Wow, it's amazing how pretty it looks when you get the big fluffy flakes. 

I did manage to squeeze in a little craft time so for today, I have a fun Christmas ornament to share with you using the fun Peachy Keen Stamps Nov. 2012 set. I love this set! I colored the sweet little elf with my copics (still learning, lol) and layered him on this fun ornament cut from the Art Philosophy cartridge at 4 1/2 plus the layers. You could definitely used this as a tag too so I made a few for packages as well :)

The embossed the ornament with the snowflakes folder and then distressed the edges with Tim Holtz ~Victorian Velvet ink.  The papers are from Recollections-Sugar Plum. I added a little holly that I cut at 1 1/4 for the leaves and 1 3/4 for the berries, also from the Art Philosophy cartridge and then finished it up by adding some yummy crinkle ribbon and twine from My Craft Spot.

I am entering this in the following Challenges:

1.) Peachy Keen Stamps ~Challenge #46-3D object-ornaments
2.) My Craft Spot ~Challenge #79-Wrap it Up!
3.) Go Fish ~Challenge #30-Christmas theme
4.) My Sheri Crafts ~Challenge #100-It's a Wrap!

Thanks for visiting, 

Sherrie K

Little Scraps Pieces-Fun Friday Challenge!

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I am so excited you stopped in for a visit! I have some exciting news!!! I have been asked to be on the Design Team for Little Scrap Pieces,Yeah!!  I am thrilled to be a part of this awesome team and look forward to working with these amazing and talented DT sisters. Woot-Woot!

The Fun Friday challenge for today is: Beginning to look a lot like Christmas! What a fun challenge, ha?

The card base that I cut is from the Art Philosophy cartridge at 5". The base layer is 4.65 and the next layer at 4.41 using my gypsy. I also embossed the green layer with the snowflakes folder. The fun papers are from Recollections-Jolly & Bright paper pack.

The adorable snowman is from PK-Smitten Mitten set that I received in my order a few weeks ago. What a cute set! The snowman sits on a Classic Oval Large and then layered on a Spellbinders Beaded Oval. The label is from Labels Nine and the sentiment is also from the PK-Smitten Mitten set . I distressed some of the edges with peeled paint, added some gems and of course a pretty sparkly bow with a snowflake that was in my stash.

I hope you stop over at Little Scrap Pieces and check out the amazing Design Team projects and come join in the challenge:) We'd love to see what you create!!

I am entering this in the following challenges:
1.) Scrappy Moms Stamps~Terrific Tuesday Challenge-Christmas Time
2.) Fantabulous Cricut ~Challenge #140 Snow or snowflake
3.) Docerela Creations ~Challenge #27 Red & Green
4.) DL.ART ~Thankful Thursday-Anything Reg and/or Green

Thanks for visiting and for your sweet comments!
Sherrie K

Winter Wishes!

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Hi Everyone! How's every one doing?? Busy, busy. busy, ha? I have been working on getting ready for Christmas. There is always a lot to do in the month of December, ha? I am hoping to fit in some holiday baking in real soon which is always fun. My daughter and son's girlfriend are going to join in the baking this year so that will be nice....some extra hands is always helpful! Be sure to enter in my giveaway HERE if you haven't already!

I have a fun treat box/gift bag to share with you today. The box is a cut file from svgcuts that was cut on my Cameo. Yes, can you believe I have finally fired up the Cameo? I am going to spend some time with this over the holidays and try and figure this baby out:)

I cut the sweet deer from the Winter Woodlands cartridge at 3 3/4 which I inked a little with Tim Holtz-old paper distressing ink.  I used the MS fringe scissors for the grass. I tied a double bow with crinkle ribbon from Little Scrap Pieces, the tiny tags die from My Creative Time and the fun sentiment from My Craft Spot ~White Christmas set that I won a few weeks back.  I am filling them with an assortment of mixed nuts and giving them to the guys that I work with at our Christmas party. So, what do you think?


I am also entering this in the following challenges:
1.) Bitten by the Bug 2 ~Gift bag/box or tag
2.) Die Cuttin Divas ~Challenge #94-Holiday Spirit

Thanks for stopping,
Sherrie K

Merry Christmas and a GIVEAWAY!!!

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Hi Everyone! I hope you all are having a great week so far. So, are you all getting your Christmas cards done? Yikes, I  have a lot to do yet but hopefully I can keep making a little progress each day and have them done on time.

Here is a Christmas card that I made today to share with you using the Jolly Holiday's cartridge which is one of my favorite cartridges this time of year.

This is a center step card and the papers are all from the Recollections Jolly and Bright collection. I cut this adorable little skater girl at 3 3/4 plus all the layers. I embossed some of the pieces with the polka dots folder and added some fun angel dust to add lots of sparkle! I also used my gypsy to hide the face features so I could use the PK Cherub faces stamp set. I added some rosy cheeks to her and glossy accents to the eyes. Isn't she just a dolly?

I pop dotted and layered her on a Spellbinders Label Nine frame. I inked around the edges with Tim Holtz~Victorian Velvet. The snowflake is from the Spellbinders Create a Flake three dies which I glittered up with angel dust and added a sparkly gem to the center. The snowflake border along the bottom is a punch from MS and the cranberry crinkle ribbon for the double bow is from My Craft Spot along with the fun twine that I used for her hair ponies. Cute, ha?

I am entering this in the following awesome challenges:

1.) My Craft Spot ~Challenge #78-Merry Christmas-get going on Christmas cards
2.) Paper Playtime ~Challenge #90- Christmas colors
3.) Inspired by Stamping ~Challenge #37 inspirational photo-Use red, green and white
4.) Little Scrap Pieces ~Make it Sparkle
5.) Peachy Keen Stamps ~Challenge #45-Just cards-shape it up!
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It's been a while since I have had a giveaway....So, let's have one! 

I also have another favorite cartridge that I use this time of the year and would like to pass one over to one of my wonderful blogger followers of mine:)

It is the Winter Woodland cartridge:)

All you have to do is: 

1.) Become a follower
2.) Leave me a comment letting me know you are a follower and a way to reach you should you win
3.) Leave me a second comment telling me one of your favorite holiday cartridges
4.) For an extra chance, spread the word......... post this giveaway on your sidebar
I will choose a winner, via random.org and post the winner on Wed. Dec 12th. Please note, due to the shipping, I can only accept USA & Canada entries. 
Thanks for visiting,
Sherrie K

Thank you so Much!

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Hi Everyone! Hope your having an awesome Saturday:) Can you believe it's December already? The new year will be here before we know it!
Well today felt like it just flew by! I was able to get a lot of things done today, yay!!! I am hoping to finish getting my house decorated tomorrow and finish up on my shopping and then possibly get some more crafting in:) What have you been up to this weekend?

I was able to sneak in my craft room today and make a quick and very easy thank you card that I would like to share with you:) In fact, I made a few extras since I was extremely low on them.

My card base is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and the base layer is 4 x 5 1/4. I ran a small strip along the bottom and used a fun border punch from Martha Stewart. I layered a paper doily and then the labels that are Spellbinders Label Nine. I inked around the edges using Tim Holtz-Victorian Velvet and the sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping~Heartfelt Gratitude. The papers are from Heide  Grace-Daisy Dear collection. I finished it by adding a fun silk bow, button, flower and some gem flourishes.

I am entering this in the following challenges:
1.) My Craft Spot challenge #77-Showing Gratitude
2.) Die Cuttin Divas challenge #93-Thank You (embellishment-most thankful I own~ flourishes)
3.) DL.ART Thankful Thursday-Anything Goes

Thanks for looking!
Sherrie K