Jingle Bell Elf Pair

 I adore funny little cut files!This little Elf Pair file from the Silhouette Store caught my eye right off the bat!(see links below).  I love how it turned out! I used some new fun "schtuff" from Inspiration Emporium and had a great time with it! I used the new Tim Holtz Yuletide designer paper, Crazy Talk sentiment stamp and Birch Trees thinlit die. BUT my favorite part are these cute little Jingle Bell brads! Don't they add the perfect touch!?!

I was talking to someone at a crafty class I was taking last night and she asked me how tiny the Silhouette would cut. I had to tell her about these teeny tiny eyes and nose I had cut for these elves. Amazing-- but it is so easy to lose those little buggers. I always cut about 10 extra  little pieces because they seem to disappear all on their own!

Doesn't the birch tree die look great? It makes for a wonderful backdrop.

I am going to enter this in the following lovely challenges:

Pile It On #95-Any Holiday/Celebration 11/21
Crafty Hazel Nut Challenge #255-Must see Red and Green  11/19
Cards In Envy-Lots of Layers 12/5
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge-Christmas 11/24
The Sisterhood of Crafters- It's Beginning to Look alot like Christmas 11/22
A Snowflake Promise-Winter or Christmas 11/30
Inky Chicks-Silent Night (Christmas) 11/29
Try It on Tuesday-Create A Scene 11/23
Unicorn Challenge #3-Christmas is Coming 11/27
7 Kids College Fund-Anything goes 11/31

I hope you enjoyed my card today!

♥ Sue

card details:

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All  these supplies from Inspiration Emporium:
Yuletide Cardstock-Tim Holtz
Jingle Brads-Tim Holtz
Birch Trees Tim Holtz/Sizzix Thinlit
Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Sentiment from Crazy Talk

Also used:
Silhouette cut file: Elf Pair designed by Sarah Bailey #104767
 Impression Obsession branch die
Misc:twine and craft and olive cardstock

Halloween Treat Holder #26-Tim Holtz Crazy Birds

Halloween/Fall Treat Holder #26

...Been playin' with my Crazy Bird goodies that I received from Inspiration Emporium. 

I used a fun 3D bird cage file from the Silhouette Store (3D Ornate BirdCage by Lori Whitlock #78360) and filled it with little chocolate candies. I then added some creeping black vines and tied it shut with some 'twisted' twine.  I  then added the "Crazies"  on to the birdhouse....I KNOW...shouldn't they be on the inside of the cage????  Yep-they sure should, but they are busy guarding their candy stash!!!

I am entering in the following challenges:

 Lori Whitlock's October Link Up With Cathy

Decorate To Celebrate-Anything Goes 10/28

DL ART -Anything Goes  10/31

Through The Craft Room-Anything Goes 10/26

AAA Cards-Anything Halloween 11/6

Pile It On-Cute or Spooky  10/31

Allsorts Challenge Blog-Orange, Black Purple or combo 10/30

Crafty Calendar Challenge-Halloween 10/28

My Sheri Craft Challenge #168-Halloween Treats 10/30

Paper Girls #90-Getting Ready for Halloween  10/31

Fire Up your machine and let's see what you have to share!!!

Silhouette Challenges-Anything Goes

Challenge Info. #30 "Anything Goes"

Starts: October 1

Ends: October 31

Copied from the Day 1 Project Post:

I LOVE making fun little treat holders for the different holidays coming up. I give them to friends, family and co-workers. Most of them end up in the garbage, but a few people have kept every.single. treat holder I have given them over the years. It is fun to see them lined up in their offices!  I decided this year to try NOT to  make 30-35 of the same project, but to try to make a variety of little Halloween or Fall themed projects! Lucky for you-you can follow my "treat box" journey for 2015!

If you would like to check out all my other treat holders-click the word below!

Halloween

♥ Sue

Project Details:
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Crazy Birds-Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz from Inspiration Emporium
3D Ornate Birdcage designed by Lori Whitlock  #78630
Corner Leaf Vine Flourish by Samantha Walker #7319Cardstock: Michaels black
Copics:  
V 01,4,5,6,9
YR 07, 18, 24, 68
E 41,42,43,44
N 2,3
Y 11,17,19
Y R21,23,25,17
B45,97,99
T 4,5,6

MaMa Elephant Treat Box

Halloween Treat Holder #12

I have been wanting to make  one of these fun little candy holders for a long time...I love that you can see all the candy in the window!  Love love the bright and cheerful Doodlebug papers and the darling little Mama Elephant Witch and kitty from the Bootastic set that I got at Inspiration Emporium.

I added a few little fun bats and the BOO sentiment that came with the box file  to finish it off. I did adjust the orange plaid piece (and the BOO) to make it a wee bit smaller so I could see the sweet and spooky little owls and have room for my little witchy poo on the background paper.

Now I must tell you...I used my new toy on this project...My new ScanNCut2  cut out these stamps in such fine detail! More to come on that later!!!

I am entering this into the Lori Whitlock October Link Up Challenge HERE.
Decorate to Celebrate-#110 Anything Goes 

                                            Make something fun with your Silhouette!

             Silhouette Challenges Blog #30.

Challenge Info. #30 "Anything Goes"

Starts: October 1

Ends: October 31

Copied from the Day 1 Project Post:

I LOVE making fun little treat holders for the different holidays coming up. I give them to friends, family and co-workers. Most of them end up in the garbage, but a few people have kept every.single. treat holder I have given them over the years. It is fun to see them lined up in their offices!  I decided this year to try NOT to  make 30-35 of the same project, but to try to make a variety of little Halloween or Fall themed projects! Lucky for you-you can follow my "treat box" journey for 2015!

If you would like to check out all my other treat holders-click below!

 Day 1

 Day 2

 Day 3

 Day 4

 Day 5

 Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

Day 9

Day 10

Day 11

                                                                                    

                                                                                 ♥ Sue

                                                               
Project Details:
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Bootastic/Mama Elephant
Halloween Candy Card by Lori Whitlock 67745
Copics
YR68
V09
E00,11 
E35
Y28
C2,3,4

House Mouse Challenge #205-In The Pink

 House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #205 

The hostess is our NEW DT MEMBER;
 Torrey

"In The PINK"
This challenge honors Breast Cancer Awareness Month-- so PINK has to be the PREDOMINANT color on your project.

I don't know too many people who have not been touched by Breast Cancer...whether it be through Family, Friends, Co-Workers or someone who knows someone. I know first hand the struggles that cancer survivors go through...my Mother beat this cancer...over 25 years ago!!!  She is a survivor!

The meece on the blog are busy scurrying around in order to remind you of what it is all about!

Join us with your Pink Mousey Project for  challenge  #205!

To make this project I used this cute little Wagon Ride stamp, Window Die from Art Impressions, Impression Obsession grass die, and a Tim Holtz bricked embossing folder. The sentiment is a sweet little bitty  Penny Black transparent set named Snippets. (all product is linked below). The Pink ribbon was cut with my Silhouette-a freebie from SVG CUTS.

Sorry for the dark picture...I could not get the "bricks" to show up if I edited it to lighten it...

I would love for you to win my PINK blog candy! Some pretty flowers, Tim Distress Stickles, May Arts pink ribbon and and Copic Wink pen---all in pink!!!!   All you need to do is leave me a comment here (as always-followers get two chances)




There are SO MANY prizes for this challenge! We have 3 sponsored prizes and some of our lovely team-mates are offering up some FaBuLoUs candy packages as well (check out the main blog for a full list of candy)!

1st  generous sponsor is 

Stampendous!

Winner will receive a Fabulous $20 Value Reward Card

   
  STAMPENDOUS! is manufacturing our beloved House-Mouse Designs® Stamps!  
House-Mouse Designs® stamps can also be purchased at:www.STAMPENDOUS.com  
For more inspiration and challenges, check out our official Blog HERE.

 2nd generous sponsor is 

Simon Says Stamp 

We are very happy to welcome back Heidi and Simon Says Stamp!!

  
Winner will receive a RANDOM ASSORTMENT of some of their Premium Dye Ink Pads 

 Simon Says Stamp has over 100,000+ items in stock along with the latest and greatest releases from Magnolia, Whiff of Joy, Tim Holtz, Spellbinders, Copics, House-Mouse Designs and so much more.  With such an amazing variety and awesome deals on shipping, it’s always good timing to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp store! 

 3rd generous sponsor is 
PINKGEM DESIGNS


2 Individual Digi images

(NO SETS, PERSONALIZED, WATERMARKS, OR SENTIMENT SETS) 

of the winners choice from PINKGEM DESIGNS.....

Thanks for popping in today to say Hello...

♥ Sue

Project Details
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Wagon Ride-Stampendous
Penny Black-Snippets
Sizzix/Tim Holtz Textured Fade Bricked and Woodgrain embossing Folder
Pink Ribbon SVG-freebie from SVG Cuts
Window Die-Art Impressions

Halloweenies

Ch# 29 "Anything Goes"

Begins: September 1

Ends: September 30

A blog dedicated to Silhouette Cutting Machines.

You MUST use a Silhouette somehow in your project.

Head on over and link up your projects today.

Click HERE

I saw these fun new cut files from the Silhouette Store and I knew I had to give them a try with my new Halloweenies/Paper Smooches stamp set (see link below) from Inspiration Emporium.  The Halloween papers from Echo Park did a lot of the work on the ghost card, all I had to do was add the fence, bats,  ghost and stamp that little hanging spider to make a cute and spooky scene. On the inside I also added some little bats.

On this card I used a few fun dies...the Tree die and a stitched hill die. I popped on a few little  bats and a little twine too and ta dahhh! All done!

I am entering these in the Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge-Anything goes 9/26

I hope you enjoyed these fun creations!

♥ Sue 

Stamps-
Halloweenies-Paper Smooches from Inspiration Emporium
Die-
Elizabeth Craft All Seasons Tree

Silhouette Cut Files:
a2 pop through scalloped circle card-Lori Whitlock # 93715

a2 pop through bracket card-Lori Whitlock #93709
Misc bat and fence cuts

Cardstock-
Echo Park The Apothecary Emporium, SU! Basic Black
Copics:
T 1,2,3,4,5,6
YG 21,25,17
Black 110

A is for Apple-Lawn Fawn teacher card

Don't miss out on my Penny Black blog candy HERE.

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A is for Apple...or in my case it stands for  Abby or Amanda! These are two of my little teacher daughters. One my real life daughter and one a daughter of the heart-Abby's bestest friend ever! I am just so proud of them!  I had to make two of these cards to send to my A+ girls!

Now in my day(ahem) you received an E on your report card for excellent if you did a great job. Should probably make one of these for my other daughter Erin ya think?  E+

I used a Lawn Fawn stamp set named -A Good Apple. I am always on the look out for good teacher stamp sets. This set has some great teacher sentiments as well!

I used a card designed by Snapdragon Snippets in the Silhouette Store. I love their designs..they have some really fun Halloween designs I want to give a try!  I put this together just a wee bit differently...guess I wanted mine original (or I did not follow directions very well LOL) Regardless, it is now my creation (that's what we say when we mess up)!!!

 You can see the other project  below that I made with this set and read more about it HERE.

Thanks for popping in today...loving this long weekend here in Oregon...it's RAINING!  We have not seen much of that around here-we even had a dusting of snow on the mountain...this weather is crazy! Next weekend is suppose to near 90 again...my plants are so confused LOL


Don't forget to join in at the Silhouette Challenges blog for September-Anything Goes! You only need to have something cut with your Silhouette to join in!


I love to pop over to other challenges to see what is 'happening' around blog land...you meet the nicest people and see such fun inspiration!!!

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Sisterhood of Crafters-School Time 9/6/15
Dies R Us Challenge-Back To School 9/13/15
Paradise of Stamps-School 9/14/15
Frosted Designs-Back to School 9/30
Fun with Shapes and More-School 9/17/15
Fussy and Fancy-Back to School- 9/17/15
Wags and Whiskers-Back to School/For the Teacher 9/17/15
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge-Make It Colorful 9/9/15





Thanks for popping in today!

♥ Sue

project details

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A Good Apple/Lawn Fawn-from Inspiration Emporium
A Apple Pencil a2 card kit -from the Silhouette Store
Misc cardstock, linen thread

Batty In Love by Paper Smooches

Hello....You know I already showed you a card I made with this same set-but by golly all the images are so cute I hope to make a card or project with all the images-so watch for a couple more!

I am using the fun stamp set Falling For You by Paper Smooches from Inspiration Emporium.

The box is a cut file from the Silhouette store, as well as the spiderweb! Have you seen the new Beta version of the Silhouette Store redesign? What do you think of it?  I am not one to like a lot of change, but I do like some changes and not so much for others. I loved being able to see at a glance if I already owned a cut file-so I hope they bring that back. What do you think about it all? (newsflash-if you sign in to the new beta version of the store-it will show if you have already purchased a file! Yeah!!!)

Have you seen all the great entrants in the Silhouette Challenge August Challenge? Don't miss out-you have a few days left!

I colored and cut out the little bats, adding a bow to one 'girl' bat and added them both onto the box with pop dots and a fun little heart included in the set as well. 

The sentiment was stamped on a tag cut from the Lori Whitlock Sweet Strawberry die set.

I am entering this cutie into the following challenges:

Craft Deebowz Challenge-use a homemade bow 9/1
Melonheadz Friends  Challenge-use a hand colored image 8/30
The Paper Shelter Challenge-Come Fly With Me  9/2
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge-Anything Goes 9/2
Inky Chicks-Hearts 9/3
Sweet Stamps-Anything but a card challenge 8/31
Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog-Fall Fun+a sentiment
Crafty Girls Creations-Anything Goes ( a new challenge blog!)  9/8?

♥ Sue Kment

project details:

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Stamps:Falling For You 

Die set: Strawberry Sweet

Cardstock: Black, Red and Doodlebug

 halloween parade

Silhouette cut files:

3D MOM/MUM GABLE BOX

a2spider with web card (I could not find it on the web site-sorry)

Copics: C 3,4,5,6,7

Misc: Dimensionals, twine

Paper Smooches Falling For You

Back to School Time!

Having two daughters that are school teachers, naturally our conversations have centered around classrooms,  new students and getting up early tomorrow for their first day! My goodness- they work so hard...just to get ready for that first day of school-and the rest of the year!  I decided to make a set of these appreciation cards because I have a lot of teachers to send them to. I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches for their 200th Celebration..

For today's cards I used my new Paper Smooches stamp set named Falling For You that I got from Inspiration Emporium. (this set also includes fall images as well as Halloween, so it is very versatile) I used a sentiment from a retired Clear and Simple stamp sentiment set about teachers...a classic!  The paper is DCWV Grade School Stack with glitter and foil. Love that stuff!!!  I finished each one off a little differently and added a fun little charm from Inspiration Emporium as well.

 You can see these little charms that say Imagine and Inspire.

I stamped the apple on red dot paper and then restamped the white core part and cut it out and added it on top of the first apple.

I hope you have enjoyed these cards today!

Adding this to Simon Says Wednesday Challenge-Back to School

♥ Sue

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge 201-Flower Power

**House Mouse and Friends

 Monday Challenge***

Our very talented Teamie; Pauline Bird, is hosting and has chosen the theme;
~ FLOWER POWER ~

You may interpret that anyway you like, as long as you show us your Flower Power on your projects using stamps, CD images or decoupage by House-Mouse Designs;

     

Remember that ALL of our challenges have the alternate option of being an *ANYTHING GOES* too!  So PLAY ALONG and enter for your chance to win!

Hello!!!I have been missing my meecies so I am happy to be back joining in the HMFMC's Flower Power Challenge!  I have been so crazy busy that I decided I just had to make time to  Squeeeeek  in a simple little card for today's challenge! I love shaker cards and pretty sequins, especially when they are paired with House Mouse stamps!!!

I used the Lawn Fawn Stitched Squares and Circle dies for the card (see links below)...love love love those dies!

Our wonderful Sponsors are *** 


Stampendous!

Winner will receive a Fabulous $20 Value Reward Card

(Winner must be a USA Resident, it's Territories and, or, Canada)

   
  House-Mouse Designs® stamps can also be purchased at: www.STAMPENDOUS.com For more inspiration and challenges, check out our official Blog HERE.

2nd generous sponsor is 


PIZZAZZ  APLENTY
 
  Winner will get a surprise package of embellishments from Pizzazz Aplenty (of Judy's choiuce(, worth $15.00.

 Pizzazz Aplenty is the place for embellishments of all kinds... Flat-back Pearls and Rhinestones, Charms, Ribbons, Laces, Twine, Flowers, Stickpins, Beads, and more.  

 Pizzazz Aplenty is generously offering a random prize package of goodies worth $15.00, (surprise package is of Judy's choice).  

3rd prize kindly donated by teamie Pauline..

I was sad to have missed our 200th challenge, I hope you all stopped in to see the fun creations! I do hope you can join in our challenge

♥ Sue

card details:

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In A Nutshell (Maxwell)

Dies and Sequins supplied by:

Taylored Expressions Build a Scene Sequins

Lawn Fawn-Lawn Cuts Stitched Square Stackables-Large

Lawn Fawn-Lawn Cuts Stitched Circle Stackables-Large

Sentiment  from MFT/Pure Innocence Spa Day

Echo Park 6x6 Splash paper pad

Copics:

E00 R20

E31,34, 35

E 51,52,53

B000,00,01,02

Y 19,35,38 YR 14
G 43,46

Misc: twine, misc tag