Blue, Yellow, and White ATC

I made this ATC for a mingle, then forgot to sign up for the mingle, so now I have this ATC:

The paper was scraps, and the image was one that I had printed out a long time back, but never used.  It only just barely fit within the parameters. Some copic coloring,  a little bit of dry embossing and a ribbon was all the texture I felt that it needed.  It's a little cleaner than your average ATC, but sometimes less is more.

Challenges:

• Crafty Ribbons - anything with ribbon
• Digistamps 4 Joy - to be young again (okay, this is a little before my time)
• Paper Pretties - embossing
• Craft-room Challenge - use scraps
• Cheerful Stamp Pad - my kinda gal
• Lunagirl Moonbeams - Diva

Hanukkah treats

I like it when Hanukkah doesn't overlap Christmas, I can keep the two celebrations separate.  I am Jewish, and my husband is Catholic, so we have extra holidays in our house.

My sister and I spent some time this past weekend coloring, and made these little gift baskets.

The pink one is from a design on Splitcoast.  I made it first, but when my 22yo son Gordon saw it, he didn't like it at all;  he wanted a more open design that holds more treats.  He then came up with the folds for the blue basket.  The pink one was colored with the Penciled Twinks technique (it has a really nice shimmer); the blue one, colored by my sister, used Tombow markers and a blender pen.

Notice, if you will, the staple details on the corners.  I did those with my new Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher.  I love it.  The staples are so cute!

Anyway, I did another project for Hanukkah - this candle box.

It looks so much better than the ugly boxes that the candles come in!  This is nice enough to leave sitting out.
I picked up the directions for this box from Ellen Hutson, the papers are Kahmalaht from TAC, and all the Hanukkah images are free from Digital Two for Tuesday.  There is glitter pen on the flames and highlighting the metal, for extra sparkle.

Of course there are challenges:
Cupcake Craft - light it up
Karber Weekly - digi and sparkle
I Did It Creations - surprise (were you expecting Hanukkah projects?)
Paper Sundaes - fancy corners
2 Sisters - not traditional Christmas (ha ha!)
Bee Crafty - something hidden
Marks Finest - bows
Sweet Stampin - buttons and bows
Fairy Fun - buttons and bows
Mami Doodles - gift item
Wags and Whiskers - wrap it up
Moving Along with the Times - multiple folds
StampInsanity - try something new
Cheerful Stamp Pad - deck the halls

Thanks for looking!

Harper's Bazaar

When I saw the images this week at Digital Two for Tuesday, I thought they would be perfect for a long card. I should have realized when I saved them that images that were designed to be displayed in black and white would be hard to color.



I so completely ruined the background that I had to cut the woman out. Then I kept dumping stuff on this card in hopes it would get better, but it never did. It does look a lot better in person, I must admit. I used Stargazers to color it, and the ribbon is sparkly too, so it has the whole "oooh, shiny!" thing working for it.

I think it will be perfect for the Bunny Zoe vintage challenge.

Cutie tag

Cora is offering this freebie for Valentine's Day, so I made a little tag with it.



It is loosely inspired by this Wendy Vecchi tag. It also fits the ribbon Challenge at The Pink Elephant.