Peachy Keen Challenge: Cookies for Santa

Hello my treasured friends!

I hope all the holiday decor is up, with the shopping almost done! It has been a week of crafting for me! Last night was a surprise party that I threw for my boyfriend. He is now a licensed Certified Automotive Technician, and I'm super duper proud of him! I'll post pics of everything once I can get the card back from him to take a picture ;)

Meanwhile, Christmas is a week away! You know what that means..it's time to leave out cookies for Santa! I should have added a glass of milk to the card but that totally slipped my mind, oops! Next time! :) Here's my entry for Peachy Keen's Designers' Choice Challenge and My Craft Spot's Challenge 37 - Christmas Shape Cards.

Trail of Treasures:

• Card Base - 5.25 x 5.25", welded in my Gyspy in kraft with the shape from Lacy Labels
• Layer - 5 x 5", patterned paper from DCWV Christmas Stack
• Plate - From My Kitchen cartridge; if you do not own this cartridge, you can cut out one larger circle, and a smaller one. My "larger" circle is cut out in gold, while the smaller one is cut in silver
• Gingerbread & Star Cookies - used the CottageCutz Gingerbread doll die for the gingerbread men, and used PK-520 Winter Faces Assortment for the cute patootie face. Added the bling with my iRock, and used my Gelly Roll Pen for the icing. The stars are cut from the Creative Memories Star Maker, and used Inkssentials White Enamel Accents and gold Stickles for the icing

During this Christmas season, make sure to give to those who are less fortunate. Everyone deserves a warm place to rest their hearts this season.

Until next time's treasures,
Tracey xox

CTO Design Team Call! CTO Challenge 42: Christmas (No Green): Season's Magic

Hello my treasured friends!

Phew! I've finally finished my papers and now it's time to study for exams. Boy, I sure cannot wait for the holidays, as I'm sure that goes for all of us! :) So, have you heard?! Celebrate the Occasion is having a design team call! I've had a BLAST designing projects for the wonderful ladies, and who doesn't need cards for all the occasions out there?! ;) I highly recommend you to give it a shot! :) So speakinng of Celebrate the Occasion, our challenge this week is to create a Christmas themed project with no green. Easy peasy right?! Here's what I created for this week:

Aren't these little penguins just the cutuest?! I don't know if you can tell, but I used Peachy Keen's Ice Crystal Glitter Paint to make my penguins "magical." Does the Pink By Design sentiment work perfectly? ;) Here's a close up of the adorable penguins!

It's really difficult to notice the glitter in the picture, but I assure you, it's definitely sparkly up close!

Trail of Treasures:

• Card Base - 5.5 x 4.25" cut in kraft cardstock, and rounded with my Creative Memories Corner Rounder
• Card Layer - 5.25 x 4" rounded, used DCWV Christmas Stack for the patterned paper, and cut a piece of 5.25 x 2" white cardstock and cut out a hill and rounded the corners for the snow
• Penguins - used the Peachy Keen CottageCutz Penguin Doll Die, painted with Peachy Keen's Ice Crystal Glitter Paint and added twine for the scarf
• Sentiment - Pink By Design's Christmas Wishes set

I'll be back to updating my blog more often soon, I promise!! Make sure to head on over to Celebrate the Occasion to celebrate with us, and to find out how you can enter to be on the design team! Good luck everyone!

Until next time's treasures,
Tracey xox

Creative Time For Me Design Team Call Submission

Hello my treasured friends!

Happy Friday, and happy Halloween weekend! I just finished my card for the My Creative Time Design Team Call. You have until midnight PST tomorrow (Saturday) to get your project in! Good luck my treasured friends! I decided to create a Christmas card, since Christmas is just around the corner! ;)

Oh, how I love how these little elves turned out!! They're just sooo adorbs!! Gotta love that banner!!! ;)

Here's a peek of the sentiment inside:

Trail of Treasures:

• Card Base - 7 x 5" card cut from kraft coloured cardstock, added white stitching, and distressed with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink
• Card Layer - 6.45 x 4.75", patterned paper from My Mind's Eye O Christmas Tree collection
• Banner - used My Creative Time's Build a Banner Kit; circle and banner shape cut in kraft cardstock, and other shape cut from Authentique's Wonder Collection 6x6 Paper Pad. Twine from Timeless Twine - Olive Green and Cherry Red Twist
• Elves - cut from Jolly Holidays Cricut Lite Cartridge at 3", flipped one elf and inversed the colours for their outfits, added gold stickles to the elf shoes, and Crystal Accents to the eyes, faces from PK-482 Winder Wonderland Face Assortment
• Present - Jolie Sticker Embellishment: Christmas Presents Repeated
• Wood Floor - cut a 6.45 x 1.5" strip of brown cardstock, stamped with Market Street Stamp's Woodgrain background stamp
• Sentiment - from My Creative Time's Mixed Holiday Sentiments

Enjoy your Halloween weekend and be safe!

Until next time's treasures,
Tracey xox

Christmas in July!

Hi everyone!

I hope that everyone has had a great kick start to the weekend! Here in Vancouver, we have a long-weekend, but so far all I've done is work :( Hopefully I'll get some down time soon..but school finals are approaching soon...sigh. I've really wanted to create Christmas cards, but with such a busy schedule, I haven't been able to get around to it yet. This November I'll be taking part in a craft fair so I really do need to get my Christmas craft on! You will see Christmas cards from me soon though! In the meantime, I thought that I'd share with you all the Christmas card I made for my boyfriend last Christmas.

This is a standard A2 sized card.

Here's a peak to the sentiment inside the card:

The sentiment is from Pink By Design's Christmas Wishes holiday sentiment set. This set is jam packed with holiday cheer! They're having a sale this weekend in celebration of their one year anniversary - everything 30% off here! Now how sweet is that?! You will not be disappointed - they've got sentiments, images, backgrounds, and supplies! Just use coupon code bigtimesaver30. Sale ends tomorrow - 07/31/2011 so don't miss out!!

Materials Used:

• Sled and reindeer cut from Christmas Solutions Cartridge
• Labels cut from Create a Critter Cartridge
• Patterned paper from DCWV - Holiday Stack & Metallics Stack
• Sentiment from PBD Christmas Wishes
• Gifts - Jolee Sticker Embellishments
• Creative Memories Corner Rounder
• Foil Cardstock (Gold)
• Black Sukura Pen
• Crystal Accents
• Specialty Twine

Hope this inspires you to get workin' on those Christmas cards! I know I sure am itching to get started but i still have a scrapbook to complete! Make sure you tune back on Tuesday for another Celebrate the Occasion Challenge! 

Until next time's treasures,

Tracey xox