Bauble – Stamped Smiles

Hello friends! Welcome to December! We have already arrived at the final month of the year! Can you believe how quickly this year went by?! The first of the month means it’s time for a new challenge to start over at 2 Crafty Critter Crazies! Remember that it is an always “ANYTHING GOES + A CRITTER“. I love adding critters to my crafty projects so it’s easy for me! 🙂

Since I’ve been on a tag making binge, I’ve got some more to share today:

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Isn’t this the cutest little bear?! We’re sponsored this month by Beccy’s Place and I have opted to try out this cute freebie that she has offered on her blog called Stanley’s Bauble. (Click on the link to grab it for yourself!)

I thought he was too cute and I wanted to try coloring him up in a couple of different ways and even a couple of different sizes too!

I just took my Sunny Studios scallop circle tag dies and die cut a couple of them in my selected color choices of course to match up with his bauble and then I’ve die cut some coordinating circles and pattern papers to match. He was fussy cut out and placed over top of the tag. I’ve added some silk ribbon for both and added a twine bow around them.

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Here’s closer view of the Stanley’s Bauble red and black tag.

For this tag, he’s a bit larger than the other an he was popped up over the tag with some foam tape. I’ve colored the bauble hanger with a gold gel pen and then went over the red bauble with a glitter brush pen.

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Here’s a closer view of the smaller tag. The light has caught this one just right to where you can really see the glitter brush over the blue bauble. I’ve also colored his bauble hanger with a silver gel pen.

The circle layer behind the snowflake paper was cut from some silver glitter paper. I’ve taken a Simon Says Stamp sentiment strip and cut it out, sponged it with blue ink and glued it above the bear. Since he was smaller than the other bear, I had room for a sentiment. He was just attached with glue this time.

I hope you’ve enjoyed these teddybear tags today! Please be sure to stop by the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies blog and check out the inspiration from the rest of the team and play along with us this month! We look forward to seeing what you come up with!

I will see you again tomorrow for some Whimsy Stamps inspiration!

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I will be adding these to the “25 Days of Christmas Tags” event and I was inspired by Anja’s tags from Day 7 Sunny Studio Post.

Challenges:

Fab ‘n’ Funky – Anything Christmas Goes
Penny’s Paper Crafty – Anything Goes
Polkadoodles – Anything Goes
QKR Stampede – #374 Anything Goes

Hello friends! I am sort of “off track” with some other crafty things on my “to do” list and a bit behind in fact! I have soooo many things ahead of me to get ready for and I promise I will be sharing more on that later, but scanning through my groups on Facebook, I saw a post where a challenge was getting ready to end, so I just decided last minute while I was working on other things, that I would challenge myself to get a card made before the deadline ended! Yeah, I do that to myself…keeps the creative “MOJO” flowing, right?! I feel good about it because it is a head start for a Christmas in July card stack that I hope to get going on! Here’s what I came up with:

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I created this card for the FB Group Sparkle N Sprinkle Creative Challenges. The deadline was right before midnight last night, but I got it done yesterday afternoon and wanted to post it within the group before the deadline ended and then I wanted to share it with you here today on my blog. The condition for this challenge is pretty much anything goes as long as you have used a Sparkle N Sprinkle stamp/digital image somewhere on your design. I have used the SNS Christmas Baubles stamp set that I actually received from a card kit a while back. Instead of using it for the intended purpose of the card kit, I switched up the design a bit to make it my own.

I took the cardstock from the kit for the base as well as the pink cardstock from the kit for behind my decorative paper and under the bauble. I die cut an oval from the pink cardstock in the kit as well as a larger oval from some gold mirror cardstock. The bauble and holly were colored with Copics and gold gel pen. I then fussy cut them out. I took the pink oval and heat embossed the holly image randomly over it with the SNS Vanilla Ice EP. I layered it over the gold circle and added the images. The holly image was popped up with foam tape around the oval. I die cut the decorative paper and pink cardstock with stitched border dies and placed it on the top folding white A2 card base. I gold heat embossed the sentiment at the bottom of the card base and then I used some gold ribbon from my stash to create the bow and placed it over top of the decorative papers and bauble. I also used the Nuvo White Blizzard Glitter Drops to go over the berries. Looking at it now in the photo, it looks wet, but they were dry and so glittery IRL!

Hope you’ve enjoyed a little hint of Christmas coming your way! It helps to beat the heat a bit and get a good start for the up-coming busy Holiday Season! 🙂 Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Challenges to enter this card: