Big Sale and Release at Doodle Pantry

Hi all, just a quick post this morning to let you know about the sale now going on at Doodle Pantry  through tomorrow night December 31st.

SPECIAL: Get 50% off all digital images (excludes watermarks and gift certificates)

from December 29 thru January 2! 

Just enter RINGITIN in the coupon field at the bottom of the cart and click SUBMIT to see the discount apply to the total, and then checkout.

And on Jan 1, there will be MORE products released, including another free w/purchase from Jan 1-24, so I hope you'll come back on the 1st to check it out!

And with every purchase now through tomorrow night, you get this great set free!

Laurie has released 3 sets early as well as this great free with purchase set....we will be back on the 1st with the rest of the release and my new card, can't wait to show it to you! So go on over to Doodle Pantry and check it all out and pick up a new stamp or two!!
Hope you are looking forward to a great weekend. Hugs to all!

Sketch 134 with ADFD....

Whew, can you believe it is the last Wednesday of 2011? I hope the past few weeks have been full of love, family, friends and enjoyable activities for all of you. Our holiday season has been wonderful!
I must admit that I am glad to be getting back in the swing of things and back to a routine and time to create and visit. I have missed you all during this holiday time.

Our sketch this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday

For my card this week I used "A Child's Prayer" from A Day for Daises who is this week's sponsor. If you are this week's Grand Prize winner, you will get a $12 gift certificate to use in Tammy's store, choosing your very own beautiful stamps.

Congrats to last week's winners and top picks, we appreciate you and your support.

I wanted to keep a monochromatic look for my card, so I used the black and cream for my palette.

Be sure and stop by the SSW blog to check out the teams beautiful work for this week and grab some inspiration.

Hugs to you all and wishing you a Happy New Year and the best in 2012!
Hope to see you soon.

Card Details:
Paper: Stampin' Up ivory, dp DCWV La Creme
Ink: Tim Holtz distress inks
Other: Martha stewart punch
Images: ADFD A child's prayer, Flourishes timeless quotes, SU silhoutte sentiments

Digi Stamp Boutique and SSW!

Welcome to another Wednesday and our challenge this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday where we are sponsored this week by Sally Ann at Digi Stamp Boutique . You will find the most adorable images at her store...such as this sweet "Winter Chloe" and if you are the prize winner for this week, you will get 6 of her wonderful digital stamps.

I created my card using Gina K's chocolate brown card stock and Stampin' Up baja breeze along with design paper from Memory Box's "yuletide". My coloring uses copics and SU markers and polar white Flower Soft. I haven't put a sentiment inside yet as I am not quite sure how I want to use this .... maybe a winter card, winter birthday or just a thinking of you, with this image my possibilities are varied.

Here is this week's fabulous sketch by Arlana:

I know this will be a super busy week for most of us, but if you do find some time to craft, I hope to see you at SSW! I wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and wonderful holiday with family and friends. We had a group of our friends over last night and it was wonderful to see them all and enjoy the laughter and joy we all shared.  I also want to say a special thank you to each of you that have made this past year such a wonderful one to share in our crafting world. My time here in blogland with you is such a special time to me and I so appreciate your visits and comments. Take care and stay safe and see you after Christmas!!


Card Details:
Paper: Gina K, STampin' Up, Memory Box "yuletide"
Ink: Copis and SU markers
Other: Queen B rhinestones, Hodgepodge ribbon slide-SU, Michael's ribbon, Spellbinders rectangle dies, Flowersoft, Stickles, Stardust clear pen
Image: DSB "winter Chole"

Thank You!!!

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow and the last one for 2011 as our designers are going to take a well-earned break until the New Year. Our challenge to you this week is to make vintage, shabby chic or primitive THANK YOU cards.



You have until Friday, December 23rd to submit up to 3 Thank You entries, which will not only put you in the running for our weekly prizes but for our Christmas Blog Candy.



This week one random winner will receive a digi of our choice and a winner's badge to display. In addition, the Design Team will choose one project as Card of the Week and the creator will receive a badge and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot. The winner of the blog candy will be selected on Christmas Eve.

For my card this week, I am dedicating it to all of you that come by and give me such wonderful support and your friendship throughout the year, you all mean so much to me. I used some stamps from Inkadinkado that I heat embossed with black embossing powder, a little distressing and a few gems....very straight forward this week.

We want to thank all of you for supporting us this year and to send our best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a  Happy New Year - enjoy the time with your family and friends. Be sure to come back to see us on January 7th for the first challenge of 2012 as we have some great ones lined up for you.



Our designers have made some very pretty Thank You cards for your inspiration at Sugar Creek Hollow. To get the details, just click on their name. This will be our last challenge week with Heide and Marsha, I hope you will give them some extra special thanks and love this week. I know that I will truly miss them in 2012 at SCH and want them to know that and that I wish only the best for them always. Have a wonderful weekend.

Bugaboo at Sweet Sketch Wednesday!

It's time for Sweet Sketch Wednesday with this week's sponsor Bugaboo Stamps who is giving our Grand Prize winner 7 digital stamps valued up to $21.00. How great is that?

Once a month we are visiting a sketch from last year and this week is that time, so here is Sketch 132-51:

I loved working with this cute image by Jodie, "Marshmallow Snowman/ Snowball". I used design papers from Memory Box's pack "pixie" loving the crisp, fun colors. I paired it with two shades of pink card stock from Stampin' Up which I stamped with versamark and snowflakes from Papertrey Ink's in the meadow set. I added Stampin' Up's dazzling diamonds everywhere, lol as I loved the sparkle on this card. The larger snowflakes were created using Spellbinders and Martha Stewart snowflakes layered, with the pink one dipped in glue and glitter.

Hope you will stop by the blog and see what the gals have created for you this week, we love working with Jodie's images from Bugaboo....please give them a visit.

Hope to see you soon, thanks for stopping by!

Digi Doodle/Nature

Back for the second post in one day, yahoo....and by the way, I did wrap some packages in between.
I had printed this image and sentiment out and wanted to get this card made as it is for a dear friend that is having a birthday in few days. He is very special to Rick and I and I thought that this CAS design would suit him just fine. My images are from one of my very favorite new finds from a while back and I know if you read my blog that you have seen me using some of the beautiful images from Digi Doodle and this is one that I just purchased recently. The challenge at their blog at the moment is Nature. They are also having a sale with everything at 25% off through December, yeah another sale!! They have specials each month, so be sure and put them on your favorites.

For this card, I did two score lines down the side to add a little accent and then just used a scrap of dp by Bo Bunny's Timepiece which I distressed. The image is "Log Cabin" with a sentiment from their set "Fun with Birthdays" (a freebie) and colored with Tim Holtz distress inks. For the inside I used a watch and sentiment by Stampin' Up.

Hope you will visit this great site....and thanks again for taking the time to visit me.

Doodle Pantry and a little Bling!





Hi all, are you in the middle of holiday decorating, wrapping and baking???  If so, I hope that you are enjoying every minute of it....I know that I can't wait until tomorrow when my niece is coming for our marathon day of candy and cookie baking.

I have a Christmas card that I just created to show you, it uses the image "Holiday Ants" which is precolored and the sentiment from that same set from  Doodle Pantry .  I am also entering this at Stamptacular Sunday where the challenge is Christmas Glitz....and being sponsored by Doodle Pantry. Hope you will take the time to check this out and enter a card for a chance to win a gift certificate from DP.

We at Doodle Pantry are taking a break for Christmas, but will be back on January 5th for our next challenge, in the meantime you can go shopping with some of your Christmas money and purchase some of Laurie's beautiful stamps at Doodle Pantry at 30% off. Don't you just love a sale?
I am also entering this at Paper Creations Ink -- Bling it Up

Well, I am off to wrap a few more packages, take care and thanks for the visit.


Card Details:
Paper: Papertrey Ink white, dp Memory Box Yuletide
Other: Spellbinders Labels 4, Dollar Tree ribbon, Offray rhinestones, PTI button

We have arrived at another Saturday and that means a wonderful new challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow. Since we are fast approaching Christmas we decided to challenge you to make VINTAGE CHRISTMAS TAGS. Your vintage tag can be part of a card or a stand-alone beauty.

We want to remind you that we are a vintage, shabby chic or primitive challenge blog and when you enter one of our challenges, your creation must fit one of those styles as well as following the weekly theme.



This week one random winner will receive a digi of our choice and a winner's badge to display. In addition, the Design Team will choose one project as Card of the Week and the creator will receive a badge and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.



Don't forget, we also have Christmas Blog Candy for one lucky winner to be chosen from our challenge entries between now and Christmas Eve.

Rick and I were able to get away for a few hours on Tuesday to go shopping and eat out ... and I made my first visit to an Ikea store where I found these beautiful vintage images on cards and tags. I also purchased some candy bars which I will be giving as gifts with these wonderful covers. I used SU gray to cover the bar, then scored and folded this wonderful Victorian lady card around it! Punching some of the gray with the new doily punch also by SU, I layered it with the tags...one of which I put an antique looking brad through. I then used a sentiment and doily stamp on a Clear Dollar die cut along with some clear gems. This was a lot of fun and so simple, hope they like them.


Our designers have created some gorgeous tags for your inspiration. If you would like the details just click on their name to be taken directly to their blog.


Thanks for stopping by to visit and I am hoping to see your card there this week. Enjoy this wonderful time of the year and all of the wonderful things in it!

SNOW at Designed 2 Delight

Hi my friends, hope you are enjoying your week and all of the preparations for this wonderful holiday season! I am getting ready to go wrap some gifts but wanted to first share this card that I made for the challenge now going on at Designed 2 Delight where this week's rules are to

SNOW! (Glitter and/or Flocking) I want to see SNOW!  Lets see white glitter or fluff on your cards!

I used Faith's image from D2D "For the Birds Snowman"....first printing him out and die cutting him using Spellbinders Labels 4. He was colored with Prisma pencils and oms. I also cut my snow banks with the dies from Papertrey Ink, just loving those, before adding some glue, stickles and glitter.
I love this navy/white flecked paper from the Rubber Cottage, it adds the starry night without doing a thing.

For the inside, my snowflakes are from PTI's set "In the Meadow" and stamped with Faded Jeans distress ink, the Warmest Wishes is from a SU retired set "Harvest of Friendship". This was super fast and makes me smile. Love those snowmen!

Be sure and check out the challenge now going on for your chance to win one of Faith's images.
Have a wonderful evening and see you soon.

Sassy Cheryl and Sketch 131 at SSW!

Welcome to my Sweet Sketch Wednesday post! I hope that your preparations for the upcoming Christmas season are going well!! Can you believe how fast the time is going or is it just me in my middle age time sprint??? Whatever the reason, hope you are enjoying every minute of every day!

This week we are working with Sketch 131 created by our own Arlana....

And sponsored by the fantastic Sassy Cheryl's , you must take a look at her store, you just won't believe the beautiful images that she has. If you are lucky enough to be this week's Grand Prize winner, you will receive a $5 gift certificate to the store.

My card was created using Stampin' Up old olive card stock along with retired dp "Dashing" and an unknown red card stock. I adore this image as well as all of the ones used this week by our fabulous design divas. Mine is called "Santa and little Snowey". I used Stampin' Up markers, stickles and Martha Stewart glitter to color them.

I hope you will join our challenge this week...I know what a super busy time of year it is for everyone, but please stop by the blog and see the rest of the team's work!!
Congrats to last week's winners and thanks to all of you that take the time to visit and leave me a note.
Take care and be sure to make a wonderful memory today!

More CAS cards from Doodle Pantry

Happy Sunday to you all, I am still needing a few more quick, but beautiful cards so I created two more styles using my images from Doodle Pantry where we are on vacation from the challenge and new releases for this month, but the store is open for business with a 30% off sale on all of the digital products from now through Dec 24th, what a great time to go shopping.

All of my images and sentiments are from various Doodle Pantry sets and pre colored....even faster than my other cards that I showed you last week. These two use digital paper from the Minty paper pack with the sentiment from Christmas Wreath which was released last month. I simply re sized both until I got the look that I wanted...again printing these out in the landscape mode with two columns, to make it a quick and easy fit on my card stock. then simply cut into two cards, score and fold!

These next two have a few more elements, but all from the set Candy Cane Ants released in October. I used the digital paper, sentiment and pre colored image from this set....laying it out and resizing until I was happy with the design.

I used a textured white card stock from Rubber Cottage to print these on and love the added texture to my cards. So, if like me you need a few extra cards for this year, why not give this a try.

Have a wonderful rest of your weekend.

News at Sugar Creek Hollow!!

Welcome to Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow
and a new challenge. Before I get to the challenge, let me tell you
about some changes to the Sugar Creek Hollow Design Team.

First, we are losing a couple of our wonderful designers because of
family commitments. Marsha has been with Sugar Creek Hollow
since the very beginning and her wonderful vintage designs will be
missed. While Heide hasn't been with us as long, she has
inspired us all each week with some gorgeous designs. Renee is
going to stay with the team but will be scaling back her participation.
Starting in the New Year she will become our Feature Artist and will
show us all how Recycling and Repurposing are done the vintage way when
those challenges come up. These ladies have made valuable contributions
to the Sugar Creek Hollow team and have become lovely online crafting
friends.

Next, we have three new designers coming on board and they are joining
us with their vintage beauties for the challenge this week so you can
get a preview of what they will be showing you starting in January.

Give a big welcome to:

Linda Payne from Payne Holler Cards

Peggy Marsh from The Wired Angel

Daniele Haddon from The Musings of a Chocoholic 

Now on to our challenge. With Christmas close at hand, our challenge to
you this week is to make CHRISTMAS
CARDS IN NON-TRADITIONAL COLORS. Don't forget that we are a
vintage, shabby chic or primitive challenge and want you to create in
those styles.

We have a lovely new sponsor this week. Please welcome Delicious
Doodles who will be providing one random winner with 4 digis of her
choice. The random winner will also receive a Sugar Creek Hollow
winner's badge to display. The Design Team will also choose a Card of
the Week and the creator will also receive a badge to display and will
be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.


I had the chance to work with the image "Christmas Candle".... don't you just love it? I decided to go shabby chic this week and love these papers from My Mind's Eye. Gingham just seemed to be the perfect backdrop. I added some pleated ribbon, pearls and pink gems along with a handmade pennant to showcase my sentiment. I used various pink inks from my stash to watercolor the poinsettia. My corners were punched with a new Martha Stewart punch around the page set that I picked up last weekend. I added gold stickles over the gold on my stamen and the candle flame.

I used the same punch set to punch my border out of both of those same design papers, stamping the sentiment from Stampin' Up's set "Come to Bethlehem".


Don't forget, we also have Christmas Blog Candy for one lucky winner to be chosen from
our challenge entries between now and Christmas Eve.

To inspire you all of our current and our new designers have created
some fabulous Christmas cards in non-traditional colors using a couple
of the images from Delicious Doodles. Looking forward to seeing what you create this week.

Thanks for stopping by!