Three Kings

This is Sarosa posting today. I hope everyone is enjoying the season, and not getting stressed out with everything on their schedules!  I had a different card in mind, and planned to post this one (which I made this summer) for the next challenge, however, I saw that Cheryl had used the same image in a wonderful way earlier HERE, and I though my posting this now might be extra inspiration for this image!

The obvious thing to do with this image is to color it, and I really wanted to ... still want to! But, I didn't! I decided to find a different way to show case the Three Kings. I wish I had a camera that could pick up the beautiful velvety cardstock I used for the background on the top card and everything on the bottom; the elegance it added is perfect. I also don't know if you can really see that the top card is somewhat 3D; each king is a separate, solid layer of cardstock. The star comes from the Bethelehem with verse image. I stamped it on light gold cardstock and embossed.

Quick & Easy Christmas Card

Hi! Happy Wednesday! 

Tina From Crafty and Green here with you today!! I can't believe the holidays are upon us already! Time Flies when we're having fun, huh? So, I decided to showcase an easy & quick Christmas Card that you can make on the go! 

Many of you know that I Craft with scraps, what people give me and what I have laying around. If I go shopping for craft supplies, it's normally at the thrift store! So with that being said; for this card, I found my Christmas/Winter Scraps. The Card base I found laying around was actually an empty Halloween Card with webbing on the front, but knew that I could cover that up with my scraps :) Grabbed some White Ribbon from my Stash and a few little dew drop doo dads. Then all I needed was a Sentiment!! The sentiment I chose for this quick & easy Christmas card is: digi11202(509) May the Gifts

I hope you get the chance to try a super easy & quick Christmas/Holiday Card yourself! Please feel free to stop by my blog sometime to see other creations made with Scraps & thrifty finds!! 

I pray you have a Wonderfully Blessed Holiday Season!

Until Next Time My Friends,

 $$Craft Green, To Save Green$$

Many Blessings,

Tina

Challenge #17- Winter Wonderland

Happy Monday Crafty Friends!!

Welcome to Eureka Stamps 17th Challenge! 

We are So excited that you have Joined us!

Thank you so much to Everyone who joined us last week for our Challenge!

We really Enjoyed Seeing all the Beautiful Creations!!

Our Winner Via Random.org is

 13. Cheryl (Shestamps) 

Congratulations! Please Email Tina with the words Eureka Challenge Winner in the Subject Line! * Also, Don't forget to Grab the Winner Badge from our Side Bar for for your Blog!!

Our Top 5 Entries For this Week Are:
in no specific Order

  24. Tracy MacDonald  

 8. Judy Rozema    

 2. Diane Ahlers  

12. Suzanne J Dean    

 20. Vicky PP 

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Our Guest Designer this week is CG!!! 
CG will be joining us from the month of December 
and showcasing her wonderful card.  Here is a little more about CG.

I'm a crafter living in Baltimore, Maryland with my husband of nine years, a green Iguana named Percy, two unusually-large mini Schnauzers named Walt and Allen, (Allen's with me in the photo).  I have a background in poetry, website maintenance, and publication design, but these days I mostly make cards!  I'm currently visiting my parents in Arizona and I am spending lots of time crafting with my Mom, who got me into cardmaking.

I'm very lucky to have found the online creative community and I just love visiting blogs by crafters around the world.  I've recently gotten into cross-stitch and enjoy how relaxing that is.  Many thanks to Eureka Stamps for asking  me to join them this month as their Guest Designer!

And here is CG's Wonderful Card:

Be sure to visit CG's Blog:

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THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS: 

 Winter Wonderland

Now here is some Wintery Inspiration from a few ladies from the Design Team:

Kristie 

Cheryl  

Tina

 Gemma

Joann - Sassy Raggedy 

Reminder:

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You can join in as many other challenges with ours as you like! You can only enter our challenge a MAXIMUM of 3 times per challenge. Please do NOT backlink to other cards you have previously Posted.

***Our Guest Designer Spots are going to a Month Long Position. This Starts in December!! 

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Mistletoe Couple

Let the Holiday Fun Begin Challenge

is going on this week.  

You still have a few more days to get your entry in.

We would love to have you come and play with us.

Please scroll down to the weekly challenge post;)

I decided on this fun digi image for my holiday fun creation:

Card inside:

Digi10604 Mistletoe  Couple

They are just so DARN cute;)

The inside of my creation uses

  digi10602  May This Holiday Season sentiment.

I used photoshop to color my images, printed them out on stampers select white 

cardstock and die cut them with nestabilities.

A few strokes with a sponge and TH distress ink helped give the printed images a more

vintage feel.

The deliciously yummy vintage paper is from, 

Holiday Vintage Prints Collection PaperTrey Ink.

The Eureka Stamp Store offers rubber and digital images giving

you the best of both creative worlds.

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DT Sara Paschal

Season's Greetings Tag

Hello and welcome to the Eureka Stamps Blog.  Today, I have another Christmas tag to share with you.  Let me show you my tag and then I'll fill you in on all of the details.

This digital stamp is called Three Kings and can be found in the Eureka Stamps store right here.  The sentiment is so pretty ~ I just love the script ~ and it can be found right here.

I colored the Three Kings with my Spectrum Noir markers then fussy cut them out.  I attached them to my embossed tag with pop dots.  The sentiment is also attached with pop dots.  Here is a close-up of the images:

As you can see, I used red ink on the edges of the sentiment just to give it a little definition.  Here's one more close-up of these images:

I made this tag a little smaller (2 1/2" x 5") and made the base of the tag out of heavier kraft cardstock.  The white cardstock was run through my embossing machine, then attached to the tag.  I punched a hole through both layers and put a piece of red and white bakers twine through the hole.  I finished my tag off with a red and green striped bow.

My tag is all ready to hang on a Christmas present or on the tree.

~ Cheryl ~

Challenge #16- Let the Holiday Fun Begin

Happy Monday Crafty Friends!!

Welcome to Eureka Stamps' 16th Challenge! 

We are So excited that you have Joined us!

Thank you so much to Everyone who joined us last week for our For the Kids challenge! We really Enjoyed Seeing all the Darling Creations!!

Our Winner Via Random.org is

 22. Mona Eidhammer    

Congratulations! Please Email Tina with the words Eureka Challenge Winner in the Subject Line! Please go to the Eureka Stamps Site & Pick out Two Digital Images of your Choice! * Also, Don't forget to Grab the Winner Badge from our Side Bar for for your Blog!!

Our Top 5 Entries For this Week Are:
in no specific Order

Congratulations! Please Grab The Top 5 Badge From our Side Bar to Display on your Blog!

  26. Susan Martin  

 15. Jennifer Dunn    

4. Jenee Todd  

 13. Suzie McFloozy   

 28. Julie J 

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THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS:

Let the Holiday Fun Begin!  

We are excited to have Crystal Roefs Lockhart as our Guest Designer

 

I am a mother to a 5 month old little girl, who is my pride and joy, and a little Yorkie-poo, Roxie who I refer to as my fur baby. I hope to pass on my love of crafting to my little one as my mother did to me. I learned how to craft before I could walk, spending endless quality time with my mom being creative. The Fine Arts are in my blood. I have delved into theatre set design and construction, jewelry and accessory design, cross stitch, and now paper crafting. I have never been very computer savvy so using digital images was not something I could ever see myself using. However, a friend of mine introduced them to me and I have fallen in love. If I can figure out how to use them, anyone can.

Crystal is showcasing Digi # 16403 Caroling Bunnies   & Sentiment #17706 Fa La La
Please stop over and say hi to Crystal

Here is Some DT Inspiration for your viewing pleasure:

Katie

  Jackie

Sarah V.

Tina

Joann - Sassy Raggedy

Reminder:

To play along with us, please post a direct link to the card/project on your blog using inlinkz and link back to our challenge from your blog.

You can join in as many other challenges with ours as you like! You can only enter our challenge a MAXIMUM of 3 times per challenge. Please do NOT backlink to other cards you have previously Posted.

***Our Guest Designer Spots are going to a Month Long Position. This Starts in December!! 

 If you would like to join us as a Guest Designer for a Month please add GDT after your name!***

Gemma Pocock DT Post

Morning again everyone, well I have been up to my eyes in christmas cards so thought I would have a little break and went for a birthday card for a little boy. I used the image of the caterpillar https://www.facebook.com/facebook#!/pages/Gems-Handmade-Cards/163273910356037, coloured with pro markers, added some matt and layered card, then added a sentiment and some card candi.

 

If you like my card take a look at my blog http://gemshandmadecards.blogspot.co.uk/ and I also have a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/facebook#!/pages/Gems-Handmade-Cards/163273910356037

xxx