Happy Little Stampers December Sketch Challenge

Hello to all you happy little stampers!
I'm here with a card for the Happy Little Stampers December Sketch challenge.
Here's the sweet sketch for this month:

This brings back so much nostalgia for me with this vintage looking santa!
Because I enjoyed this sketch so much and being that it is the season of giving, I have not just one, but two cards to share with you using this sketch!

For this card I started with a white cardstock panel cut using MFT's Blueprints #13 and Peek-a-boo Circles. I stamped the script background from Happy Little Stampers, Thinking Of You, in pink behind the die cut panel. The stars were stamped from PTI's O' Tannenbaum and heat embossed in gold. The sentiment is from Happy Little Stampers Mixed Christmas Sentiments paired with Peace Be Still and heat embossed in silver.

The dove is cut and stamped using PTI's Peace Be Still and covered in grey Wink Of Stella to add more glimmer.

On my next card, everything is done the same on this card as it was in the first except I used PTI's Joyful Christmas, with another fabulous sentiment from Happy Little Stampers Mixed Christmas Sentiments. I just love all the different fonts Kylie used when creating the sentiments for this set!

Be sure to visit the Happy Little Stampers blog and leave some love along the way. One lucky commenter will win a sweet prize from Happy Little Stampers!

I'll be entering this card into the following challenges:
Merry Monday Christmas Challenge

Thanks so much for visiting! Blessings~ Birgit

Monthly Challenge With Marcia!

Good Monday morning! I can't believe we're at the end of November already! Time really does fly by!
Each month, my sweet friend Marcia and I have been giving each other challenges and this month really snuck up on me! I'm posting a lil' bit late but at least I'm posting!! This month our challenge was water coloring. That was a good stretch for me because I need all the help and practice I can get. Here's my cards:

The first card uses Sweet 'N Sassy's Christmas Light and Light of Christmas. I heat embossed the candle image in white and used water colors to color it in.

For this card, I used a grid pattern and selectively water colored some squares. MFT's Cup of Warmth is so fun to play with!!

I struggle when it comes to water coloring backgrounds and this was was a second attempt, as the first ended up in the circular file. Not quite sure how I feel about it, but I was running out of time and had to get another card done.
I heat embossed some snowflakes in white and added the sweet sled from PTI's Six Feet Deep.

Be sure to stop by Marcia's blog and see her beautiful creations!!
We really appreciate your visits and your feedback!
Thanks so much for stopping by! Blessings~ Birgit

PTI's November Blog Hop

Thanksgiving is here!! Today is a busy pie making day for me so I'm popping by this morning to post my card to PTI's November Blog Hop. Look at this gorgeous inspiration photo:

Here's my card:

I used Joyful Christmas and Quilted Winter and created a focal cluster from Lexi's MIM tutorial a while back.
It's kind of hard to tell in the photo, because of my genius lack of photography skills, but the stars and the last part of the sentiment are heat embossed in silver.
It's prettier in real life. ;0)

I hope you have fun blog hopping today! I'll be visiting and commenting in between pies!
Have a blessed Thanksgiving!!

Thanks for stopping by! Blessings~ Birgit

PTI ~ Make-It Monday ~ Layered Stamping on Kraft

Playing along with Dawn McVey's PTI Make-It Monday doing layered stamping on Kraft cardstock. You can find all the details HERE.

I used Filled With Joy for this card.

I've done this kind of stamping before but I don't often think to use it. Here's another card I made way back when...

For this one, I used Out On A Limb.
A fun technique with beautiful results!

I'll also be entering one of these cards into the Word Art Wednesday Challenge

Thanks so much for stopping by! Blessings~ Birgit

PTI ~ Make-It Monday Motif's

It was Betsy's turn this week to host the Make-It Monday challenge and she did a fabulous inspiration piece on building Motif's!

This was so much fun to put together!

I started by stamping the snowflake from Peace Be Still and added the sprig from Note Niblets. The arched leaves are from Embellished Elegance and the large stars from O' Tannenbaum. The small star cluster and cardinal is from Holiday Folk. The sentiment is from Joyful Christmas and was heat embossed in silver.

So much FUN!
I'll also be adding this to the Word Art Wednesday Challenge

Thanks so much for stopping by! I really appreciate your visit and your comments! Blessings~ Birgit