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Happy Friday! 

It’s time for another Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge (cupcakes NOT required to play) and this is sketch #45 in the series.  Click here to get all the deets and play along with us.  You might even be chosen as Taylor’s Featured Cupcake Sampler next week.  This week’s Featured Stamper is Cindy Lawrence at The Creative Closet (One Happy Stamper on SCS).  I know you’ll have great fun checking out her blog!

For today’s sketch I had my TE Christmas Key Ingredients Kit sitting out from yesterday’s card and felt like I just hadn’t played with it nearly enough yet.  I just love the color combos in this kit.  One of my favorite papers is the tree design and I thought it would make the perfect background for this card, so that’s where I started.

Next I looked at all the images in my SASI Christmas sets and decided to use Carole from Home Sweet Home as my focal point.  I stamped her on Poison Ivory cardstock and colored her with Copics before punching her out with a Marvy oval punch and adding some sponging.  I created the three circle embellishments with 2 SU circle punches along with a teeny tiny snowflake punch from the dollar bin at Michael’s  (those dollar punches work surprisingly well!) and a teeny tiny pink rhinestone (Taylor Twinkles – rumored to be back in stock soon *wink*).  Along the bottom edge of the card I used blue Kaiser Craft rhinestones (also from the KI pack) – I actually used a ruler to make little 1/2″ marks to get them spaced evenly.  The ribbon is red and sparkly and from the KI as well.  The cherry is covered with a red rain dot – I love those things!  The metal snowflake was in my stash – I think I got it at Paper Zone on my trip to Portland last year.

I really love the yummy deep red color of this Prism cardstock in the KI pack (so ahrd to really capture in a photo!) and I’m really glad that Taylor has started to carry these Prism cardstocks in single color packs, so when I fall in love with one in particular from a KI pack I don’t have to be so afraid of running out!

And here’s a picture of the inside of this card.  For the snowflake circles I punched the snowflake out of the blue cardstock (for the front of the card) and then I just centered the snowflake in my circle punch (holding the punch upside down) and punched out the circle.  I added a clear tiny rhinestone in the center.

 Now let’s see what the rest of the Cupcake Crew has cooked up this week:

I’m off to a hair appointment and then I need to buckle down and work on some gifts and Christmas cards today.  I know – *poor me* huh?  LOL!  I hope you have a great day and a wonderful weekend.  Thanks for stopping by!

It’s December!!???  Ackkkk!  I feel really behind.  No decorations up, no gifts purchased….I have no idea how this happened.  I’m sure it will all work out though….right?

Today I have a Christmas card I made just for fun.  I’ve been feeling pressured to finish up my batches of Christmas cards – production stamping not being my favorite thing – so last night I decided to just sit down and *play*.   I’m a penguin lover so I chose two of my cute penguin stamps and grabbed my TE Christmas Key Ingredients (cardstock, dp, ribbon) and just went *stamp happy*.

The penguins are by Great Impressions (large) and Stampendous (tiny).  I stamped them on Shimmer White cardstock and colored them with Copics.  The sentiment is SU.  I picked up the snowflake sticker at Hobby Lobby during my trip to Texas (thanks for Bev for taking us there!!)  I added some Frosted Lace Stickles as the final touch.  Here’s a photo of the inside.  It only takes a couple of extra minutes to finish off the inside and it’s soooo much nicer this way.  I’m really trying to stay in the habit of doing this.

Just a quick post today since I need to get to work.  Hope you have a great day.  Thanks for stopping by.