HLS December ATC Challenge - Optional Twist "Pets"

When I think of pets, I immediately think of my adorable fuzz-balls, aka as cats.  Since I have quite an assortment of cat stamps (big surprise), it wasn't difficult to create my Artists' Trading Cards using one of those sets.

I love these little kittens and decided that neither would be coloured to look like my own.  I tried to give each a bit of its own personality.  The little grey one clearly likes to make his own rules.  I used Pool Party for the blue in the first ATC with a Real Red ball of yarn (thanks to Tim Holtz' crazy cat bundle).  For the second ATC I used the Pool Party for the water, Smoky Slate for the fur, Real Red for the ribbon and then the Mango Melody both  for the matte and the goldfish.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Hope you will pop over and see what my Team Mates have created and come join us this month for our ATC December Challenge with its theme of "Pets".

HLS December Anything Goes With Dies Challenge - Silent Night

For December's challenge I was determined to create a card for Christmas.  Here in Canada, December will see a landscape covered with a sparkling blanket of snow.  If you drive out along the country roads, you'll surely see one or several deer and other wildlife.  And so I pulled together a handful of dies which could compliment each other and created a winter's snowy scene, featuring a deer.

I've kept to muted colours.  When snow falls in the country, all one seems to see, especially late in the day, is blues, greys, blacks and, of course, the white falling snow.  I took the liberty of using a white die-cut deer since I wanted him to stand out against both the blues and the blacks.  Luckily I had the perfect sentiment in my retired Wonderland stamp set.  "Silent Night" is what this scene calls for, don't you agree?

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Hope you'll pop over to see what my Team Mates have created and come join us this month at our Happy Little Stampers December Anything Goes With Dies Challenge.

HLS December Christmas Challenge - Optional Twist "Snow"

When I saw that the optional twist for this challenge was snow, I was delighted.  I just bought several Gina Marie dies and one was for a snow background.  Well, what could be more appropriate?  Of course the fact that we've had snow off and on here since the beginning of September kept "snow" at the front of my mind.  And while I haven't seen any moose lately because it's been too cold out to visit the parks and rivers, the new moose die from Gina Marie was perfect to combine with the snow.

Doesn't that look like a perfect blizzard against the lovely Night of Navy background?  I cut the bottom snow from some Glitter paper and then, for the moose, I happily die-cut a piece of specialty cork "cardstock".  I love the texture and colour, don't you?  It is the perfect companion to the kraft paper onto which I heat embossed the white "Let it Snow".

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Hope you'll pop over to see what my Team Mates have created and come join us this month at our Happy Little Stampers December Christmas Challenge with the optional twist of SNOW.