Mojo Monday

"We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late."

Marie Beyon Ray

Whoa...it's the last Mojo Monday challenge of the month already, so that means it's tall and skinny card week! I guess I was in an elegant mood so went with gold and white for my 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" sized card.  I started with these gorgeous vellum papers from SU's Winter Wonderland vellum stack and "lined" each banner flag with a white base.  The snowflake dies are by WPlus9 and are topped off with a gold glitter dot.  The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti's Winter Words die set - my 'go to' sentiment dies for winter and holiday cards.  I've made close to 30 Christmas cards already and just realized I haven't used any of my jingle bell stash, so had to remedy that!  

To see what the rest of the mojomakers have created, click on their blog links below...or...you can go to the Mojo Monday blog and click on the first nine thumbnails.
Carole Burrage
Julee Tilman (Owner)
Justin Krieger
Lori Tecler
Marisa Ritzen 
Mary Fish
Sarah Bigelow
Teresa Kline 
Wanda Cullen (you are here)
Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you in the mojo gallery!

Sweet Sunday Sketch

This is my second challenge card for the evening and this time it's for Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.  While I had supplies out, I made 2 of the same design.  The curved border was cut using Spellbinder's A2 Curved Borders One die.  Stamps are from Reverse Confetti's Merry and Bright set and the sentiment is from their Winter Words Coordinates set.  All other dies are from Reverse Confetti:

Topped Off Tag
Holly
Merry and Bright 
Stitched Flag Trio

 

Freshly Made Sketches

After returning from a 7 hour drive back from visiting my family in Ohio, I unpacked a few things and then retreated to my stamp room for a little break.  I love the current layout for the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge, so went with 2 of the same kind of card to build up my Christmas card stash some more!  I smooshed some Evergreen Bough distress ink on watercolor CS then die cut a banner flag after layering the washi tape over a scrap of white CS.  The branch was stamped with Pine Needles distress ink and the pine cones were inked up with Soft Suede by SU.  I added some coarse glitter and popped the pine cones with foam tape.  

  
STAMPS: Peaceful Pinecones (PTI).
PAPER: Tim Holtz watercolor CS, Soft Suede (SU), Brushed gold metallic CS.
ACCESSORIES: Stitched rectangle die by Lil' Inker Designs; Sequins; Washi tape by Tim Holtz; Glitter by Martha Stewart.

Color Throwdown

Hard to believe we're at the last Color Throwdown Challenge in November! I'm sure all of you have all your Thanksgiving meal prep under control and you'll have nothing to do but sit with your legs propped up tomorrow - lol! My legs will be tucked into a car and headed to see my family in Ohio tomorrow...can't wait!  We will celebrate both Christmas and Thanksgiving tomorrow and have been doing this for years.  It works out great to spread out the busyness of Christmas!  I took a little side road there, but I'm back and sharing my take on the fun colors that Vickie has chosen based on these adorable little snowman peeps!

I dusted off my Paper Smooches "Winter Groves" stamp set to create this winter scene.  I smooshed a bit of Tumbled Glass distress ink to ground the cool guy.  The sentiment is a Winter Words Confetti Cuts die by Reverse Confetti. 

Congratulations to Mona Pendleton of Cupcake's Creations - our guest star stamper for the week!  

We sadly say goodbye to Karolyn Loncon - our November guest designer - but stay tuned...we have a new talented guestie joining us in December!

For more inspiration by the rest of the design team, click on their blog links below...or... you can go to the Color Throwdown blog to see their cards and to get the details on how to play along. 
Barbara Anders  
Broni Holcombe   
Joan Ervin
Jodi Collins 
Lori Tecler   
Tammy Hershberger
Vickie Zimmer 
Wanda Cullen (you are here)
Karolyn Loncon (November Guest Designer) 

Here's another DIY essential oil gift idea!  

 

Christmas Rose

“Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

I couldn't resist this week's great sketch layout for My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge! I realized I have very few MFT Christmas stamps, so decided to let the patterned paper do the "talking" and used the Rose with Overlay and the Layered Leaves Die-Namics be the focal point. A row of sticker stitches by SRM and some lily white glitter sprinkles by Doodlebug Design Inc. were my only embellishments.
An easy peasy Christmas card!

PAPERS: 12 Days of Christmas by My Mind's Eye.

Mojo Monday

 It's time for another Mojo Monday challenge and once again...Julee has created a fabulous sketch for us!  It's been a long time since I used this Verve Winter Tree Plain Jane stamp, so thought it would be fun to stamp each tree twice on patterned paper then paper piece some of the boughs and pop them with foam tape.  The sentiment is from a retired set by Verve - Holly Jolly Christmas.  The holly leaves are a punch by Martha Stewart.  Papers are from the Old World Winter pad by Paper Studio.

To see what the rest of the mojomakers have created, click on their blog links below...or...you can go to the Mojo Monday blog and click on the first nine thumbnails.
Carole Burrage
Julee Tilman (Owner)
Justin Krieger
Lori Tecler
Marisa Ritzen 
Mary Fish
Sarah Bigelow
Teresa Kline 
Wanda Cullen (you are here)

Wanted to wish everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving this week a very blessed and happy Thanksgiving!  I'm looking forward to celebrating with my side of the family in Ohio!

I'm going to leave you with a yummy sounding peppermint hot chocolate recipe...a great gift idea for those little last minute gifts that might be needed!

CASEing Kimberly

Well, it's raining in Homestead and the Nascar race is on hold, so that means I have time to CASE one of Kimberly VanDiepen aka mkkimber's cards on SCS! She's today's Featured Stamper and has a beautiful gallery to check out! I was immediately drawn to this card on her first gallery page! It gave me the push to finally ink up this stamp that I've had for almost a year. I stamped the image twice - first with Evergreen Bough then with Pine Needles distress inks.The stamp is part of the Tim Holtz Collection by Stampers' Anonymous.  I then cut 2 circles and topped it with a vellum banner with a sentiment from my new favorite die set by Reverse Confetti: Winter Words Confetti Cuts!

I'm going to share my license plate photo which is a dead giveaway of my favorite Nascar driver! (grin)  

Ironically, I bought my CRV in July of 2014 then went with a personalized plate for the first time...only to be greeted with the news a few months later that Jeff Gordon would no longer be racing after this season. :-(  He has a chance at winning the championship, so all my fingers and toes are crossed right now - lol!