Sweet November Stamps ~ Oh What Fun!

Happy Wednesday! Today's card is a card that I created for my PenPal over at Sweet November Stamps for November.

Today's card features one of the sweet little skaters from the "Skating By" stamp set.  Being a figure skater as a kid, this stamp set is one of my favorite Winter SNS stamp sets.

The barn and the horizon line with the little evergreens comes from the "Horizon Lines: Alpine" stamp set.

I also created this card for a previous Craft Roulette episode too!

For episode #239, the four parameters that the wheel gave us were:

• Project: Interactive Card (I made my skater slide across the card)
  
• Colors: Picnic Colors (red & green berries, blue napkins, brown picnic basket)
  
• Element: Farm (I added a barn in my scene)
  
• Random: Paper Strips (I used paper strips to create my moving element to reveal my sentiment & move the skater)

Here is the card with the pull tab out, revealing the sentiment and moving the skater across the ice. 

Everything on today's card is colored using Copic Markers.

Don't forget to join us on Friday at 6:10pm CST for another fun episode of Craft Roulette.  PLUS, Sweet November Stampsis one of this month's Spin Sponsors so you have a chance to WIN a gift certificate to the SNS shop!

Good luck and have a great rest of your week!

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps & Craft Roulette ~ Dear Santa, I Really Did Try!

Happy Sunday!  Sweet November Stamps has the most adorable mini release for you!  This mini collection is called "No Peeking".  We have 3 brand new digis featuring some peeking deer, peeking elves and over course, a peeking Santa Claus!

I'm sharing a card featuring the new "Peeking Santa". This digi features Santa peeking around a corner, eating some cookies with his sack full of presents.

I also used today's card for my entry for Craft Roulette's Episode #241.

The four parameters that the wheel gave us this past episode were:

• Project: Z-Fold Card (I made a Z-fold card)
  
• Colors: Scarecrow Colors (I went with lots of colors since a scarecrow could be dressed in many colors)
  
• Element: Bake (Santa's eating baked cookies)
  
• Random: Crinkle Inkle (I used a piece of paper sack, crumpled it, straightened it & inked in brown - added it just under the sentiment tag)

Here's a little close up...

For the sentiment, I used a greeting from the "Naughty List" stamp set with some Rockin' Red ink from Catherine Pooler.

I that's it for today!  Hope you have a great weekend!

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps ~ No Peeking!

Happy Saturday all!  Today Sweet November Stamps has the most adorable mini release for you!  This mini collection is called "No Peeking".  We have 3 brand new digis featuring some peeking deer, peeking elves and over course, a peeking Santa Claus!

I'm sharing a card featuring the new "Peeking Deer". This digi features 5 cute deer peeking around a corner. 

I decided to place them peeking out of a stable.  I created that by using the gate from the "Reindeer Games: Scene Builder" digi set and deleting the fence lines coming off them.  I just added the "Dasher" and "Dancer" names to the hanging signs on the gates.

To finish it off, I added a string of twinkly white lights using a White Gel Pen to the ceiling of the stable.

It was such a fun card to create!

Make sure you check out all the new "No Peeking" images in the Digital Stamps part of the SNS Shop!

Have a great weekend!

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps ~ Late Halloween Celebrations!

Happy Wednesday!  Today's card features one of the Halloween clear stamp sets released this past Fall from  Sweet November Stamps.

This little cutie is from the "Sorcha's Spell Room" clear stamp set.

I made this simple card for one of my October PenPals for Sweet November and she just received this week - it had to travel across the pond from Canada to Europe.

I started my stamping my image and masking her off.  Then I blended some green Distress Oxide inks from lightest to darkest across my die cut panel.  I used Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn and then Rustic Wilderness.

Then I took my Heffy Doodle "Dotty Lotty" stencil and some white and green inks and stencilled a variety of different sized circles across the background.

I then peeled off my mask and colored in my little witch with Copic Markers.  I added some sparkle detailing using a White Gel Pen.

To finish off the card, I added some fun Halloween plaid paper from the "Feline Spooky" patterned paper pack from Catherine Pooler Designs.  So super cute!

I stamped a greeting from the "Lil Grimmy - Scary & Sweet" clear stamp set in black ink and I also stamped another witchy image from the "Lucinda's Lair" clear stamp set with CP Tiki Torch ink n my envelope.

We are having a "Christmas/Holiday" themed December PenPal if you are interested in joining us.  You only have to create ONE card but it must contain a Sweet November Stamps image on it.  It's a simple as that!  Click here to find out more about the PenPal swap.

Have a great weekend all!

~ Ally ~