52CCT challenge~ Stampin Up: Stitched dies, MFT: Merry Christmoose.

I made this fun card for the challenge at:

Christmas Card Throwdown

I chose to use the January Challenge from last year.

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Stitched Dies

MFT:  Merry Christmoose 

I'm not impressed with my black oval behind the moose.

But I was running short on time and wanted to get this

entered.  Plus I wanted to make one more card to 

reach 1000 on my instagram page. 

Hope you will go check out my cards over there too. 

I do love how the little moose is staring at his 

fabulous stocking tree.  Did you notice I 

paper pieced the rug he is sitting on?  

I used my wood grain embossing folder for the white

card stock.  I thought it would give it a cozy

country feeling.  

I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

pjs.projects

 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

Friends.  I am sorry to say I had to

 turn on word verification

 because I’m getting ridiculous amounts

 off spam.  And sadly this has not stopped them. 

 So I am now only able to let friends comment. 

 This is so frustrating.  I am so sorry.  If you 

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to do so on my instagram page.  At least 

for now until these spammers slow down. 

Thank you kindly. 

 

Sketch #453~Stampin Up: Sip Sip Hooray, Cheers to that, Bokeh Dots. Happy New Year

I made this card for the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Cheers to that

Stampin Up:  Sip Sip Hooray

Stampin Up:  Bokeh dots 

I used my bokeh dots stamp set to create the 

background.  It's sparkly and looks like a 

celebration.  However, I didn't line the 

stamp up correctly, hence the silver

twine running down the side of the card. 

I kept the inside of the card very simple,

because quite frankly I was tired out after 

the front of the card.  

It is always hard for me to decide on 

placement of the stamped and die cut images. 

I took a super close up picture so you could 

see that I added glossy accents to 

the martini glasses.   My daughter gave

me a bottle of it for Christmas.  Whoohoo! 

I like the little branch of evergreen in 

the glass, just keeps it "Christmasy" 

Of course the sentiment was too big 

so I just overlapped it a tiny bit.  

 I added a few little gems for some added

sparkle and fizz.  haha.   

I want to take this time to thank you all 

for being so amazing.  This is one of my favorite

challenge blogs to play along with because

you are all so gracious in the commenting.  

And I look forward to reading them always. 

Thank you also for all your prayers for me

throughout this whole year.  

I wish you all a Happy HEALTHY safe

NEW YEAR.  

May God bless us everyone. ✟

HP wishes you all the best too.  

I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

pjs.projects

 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

Friends.  I am sorry to say I had to

 turn on word verification

 because I’m getting ridiculous amounts

 off spam.  And sadly this has not stopped them. 

 So I am now only able to let friends comment. 

 This is so frustrating.  I am so sorry.  If you 

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Thank you kindly. 

 

#GDP323~ Light up Birthday Card using: Lawn Fawn, Push Here, Stampin Up: Bonanza Buddies, and Penguin Place

I made this card for the challenge at:

Global Design Project

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Bonanza Buddies

Stampin Up:  Penguin Place

Lawn Fawn:  Push Here  

This is my first attempt in making a card

with lights.  Of course I wanted the little 

lights to shine under the snowflakes.  

I punched little holes so I new exactly 

where to put the lights, and THEN.. the 

copper tape, oh good grief, by the time 

I figured out how to use that with 

the negative/positive lights, I had nothing

lined up as far as the snowflakes.  UGH. 

In fact after flipping the card back and forth

to make sure it was lined up, I smudged the 

penguin, so I had to re-stamp that cute 

litle fella.  I was making so much extra 

work for myself, but I wanted the card 

to be super cute for my daughter.   She 

is the one that got me the light kit for a 

Christmas gift.   

After all that commotion only two 

of the four lights worked.  sigh.  and I 

forgot to use my new glossy accents on the 

balloons.   Isn't that the way it works, 

when ya want to do a spectacular card. 

 

 Well folks I included a video that

hopefully will work.  So you can see the 

lights in action.  (wink)  

 

I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

pjs.projects

 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

Friends.  I am sorry to say I had to

 turn on word verification

 because I’m getting ridiculous amounts

 off spam.  And sadly this has not stopped them. 

 So I am now only able to let friends comment. 

 This is so frustrating.  I am so sorry.  If you 

would like to leave a message I invite you 

to do so on my instagram page.  At least 

for now until these spammers slow down. 

Thank you kindly. 

 

HSSCC379~Frosted Gingerbread, stampin Up, Lawn fawn, Giant Merry Christmas

🎄Merry Christmas 🎄

I made this card for the challenge at:

Hand Stamped Sentiments

The stamp set featured in this card is:

Stampin Up:  Frosted Gingerbread

I also used the Giant Merry Christmas Die 

from Lawn Fawn. 

Oh I had such a difficult time making this very simple

card.  All because that giant beautiful die.  

It is brand new to me and I wanted to use it quickly

 before Christmas.  All my "cookie cutter"

stamps were to big to use together with it.  

So only one little cookie made it to the card. 

Oops actually two, there is one on the inside too.  

I used glitter paper to go over the stamped cookie 

image to add a tad of sparkle to the card.  

I also punched out a tiny sparkle snow flake to place

 on the "I" in Christmas. 

I used and embossing folder for the background, and a 

little twine behind the snowflake cookie.  

I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

pjs.projects

 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

Friends.  I am sorry to say I had to

 turn on word verification

 because I’m getting ridiculous amounts

 off spam.  And sadly this has not stopped them. 

 So I am now only able to let friends comment. 

 This is so frustrating.  I am so sorry.  If you 

would like to leave a message I invite you 

to do so on my instagram page.  At least 

for now until these spammers slow down. 

Thank you kindly. 

 

 

Sketch 452 Hung with Care, #elfie, Stampin up

🎄Merry Christmas.🎄

Three days to go.  

How very exciting.  

I have to get a little list together 

of the treats I want to make for our

family.  This year for Christmas 

dinner I'm going to add meatballs

to the menu.  

Oh friends, you know me and diamonds, 

but I try to always play along.  

I love the sketch challenges at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Hung with Care

Stampin Up:  #elfie 

This sketch reminded me of an argyle sweater. 

So I decided to play on that, and thought it would

be cute to hang stockings on it.  

Want to know how I achieved my diamonds today?

I used my triangle punch.  I folded a piece of scrap

paper in half then punched on the fold, so when I opened 

it, there was a perfect little diamond.  I used that 

as a template to sponge the ink onto my card.

I finally did a nice diamond.  whoohoo. 

Remember, to Shine like Rudolf, give like Santa,

and most important to LOVE like Jesus. 

Each of us in an innkeeper who decides if 

there is room for Jesus in our hearts. 

May your Christmas be Merry and Bright. 

I can't wait until the beginning of the year.  I am going to 

try and turn off word verification and see if those spammers

have calmed down.  I miss ya all so much. 

I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

pjs.projects

 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

Friends.  I am sorry to say I had to

 turn on word verification

 because I’m getting ridiculous amounts

 off spam.  And sadly this has not stopped them. 

 So I am now only able to let friends comment. 

 This is so frustrating.  I am so sorry.  If you 

would like to leave a message I invite you 

to do so on my instagram page.  At least 

for now until these spammers slow down. 

Thank you kindly. 

 

Sketch #451~ Color & Contour, Star of Light, Rectangle stitched dies, Stampin Up

I hope you are all doing well.  The Christmas 

Season is upon us.  I'm trying to take 

time to enjoy each moment of it, and not 

stress and fret over things. 

We all know that can't be good for 

this battle of the blood pressure.  Sigh. 

How do you display the Christmas 

cards you receive?  I have garland 

hanging around one of our door frames, 

and I use baby clothes pins to pin the cards 

to the garland.  I love seeing them. 

I have an old movie playing in the background

right now.  "The Man that Came to Dinner"  

I love classic old movies. 

I'm going to submit this card to the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Color & Contour

Stampin Up:  Star of Light

Stampin Up:  Rectangle Stitched dies 

This star and I had a bit of a struggle.

I was trying all kinds of different layering 

techniques, but nothing was presenting itself

with that wowza factor, so finally after much 

die cutting it happened.  It truly was a 

"Hallelujah" moment here.  I  thought

for a moment I'd have to scrap the card.  

This star always reminds me of the wise men, on 

their journey to find the Savior in the manager. 

So I was thinking of the song "We three Kings" 

and hence the reason I used a musical embossing

folder on one side.  

Now folks, hubby is home for the day, so I'm 

off to have him help me bake some cookies. 

We have not ever made thumbprint cookies.  I hope

they will turn out.  

I can't wait until the beginning of the year.  I am going to 

try and turn off word verification and see if those spammers

have calmed down.  I miss ya all so much. 

I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

pjs.projects

 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

Friends.  I am sorry to say I had to

 turn on word verification

 because I’m getting ridiculous amounts

 off spam.  And sadly this has not stopped them. 

 So I am now only able to let friends comment. 

 This is so frustrating.  I am so sorry.  If you 

would like to leave a message I invite you 

to do so on my instagram page.  At least 

for now until these spammers slow down. 

Thank you kindly. 

 

HSSCC378~Reason for the Season, Stampin Up

I made this card for the challenge at:

Hand Stamped Sentiments

The stamp set featured in this card is:

Stampin Up:  Reason for the Season 

I stamped the flower petals in merry merlot and 

the leaves in evening evergreen, before punching

them all out.  The sentiment was stamped in

soft succulent. 

I added the white pearls to the center of 

the poinsettia because it is a neutral color. 

I like the wood grain embossing folder, I think

it works lovely with this card, keeping it 

classy and a tad rustic too. 

I was also busy making Christmas tags.  

I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

pjs.projects

 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

Friends.  I am sorry to say I had to

 turn on word verification

 because I’m getting ridiculous amounts

 off spam.  And sadly this has not stopped them. 

 So I am now only able to let friends comment. 

 This is so frustrating.  I am so sorry.  If you 

would like to leave a message I invite you 

to do so on my instagram page.  At least 

for now until these spammers slow down. 

Thank you kindly.