Keeping my position

Being first on Santa's "Good Kid List" is of paramount importance to me this month. Just Inklined has afforded me another opportunity to remind Santa of my goodness with this fun freebie. I put this card in the mail yesterday addressed to Santa and I printed on the envelope in large red letters "PERSONAL" in the hopes that it will prevent Mrs. Santa Claus or one of the elves from opening it and seeing the card since its for Santa's eyes only.  I am confident Santa will know its from me by the net stockings.

Waiting for Santa to come

This sweet image "Waiting for Santa to come" is a  freebie from Inger Harding. Come Christmas Eve, you will find me standing by the window, just like this little sweetheart, watching for Santa. My plan is as soon as I see Rudolph's red nose break the horizon (or in the event of fog, hear the sleigh bells), I will jump in bed and pretend to be asleep. But I probably won't be able to sleep because of the anticipation of what Santa is bringing me since I am at the very top of his "Good Kid" list.

Eggbert

Meet Eggbert from Bugaboo Stamps. As his name implies, Eggbert is an egg. Eggbert needs to stop sitting in the snow making snowballs or his shell will crack and then there will be a mess to clean up! Eggbert get back in your carton or at least, put on a pair of pants. Wait, am I really talking to an egg?

Caroling Snow(wo)man

I love this image from Sassy Cheryl's but the more I look at it the more I think I should have deleted several of the larger snowflakes.  Snowflakes come in all shapes and sizes and it is claimed that no two flakes of snow are alike, which is hard to believe when you look out the door and see a foot of snow. I am of the opinion that the size of the snowman is relative to the size of its snowflakes, so, you see, I needed big snowflakes for mom and dad snowpeople and smaller snowflakes for snowbaby. The snowman-director of this choir, is of a medium build so mid-size snowflakes were a necessity. It all makes perfect sense to me. If you are wondering about the blue snowflakes, they were imported from some far away tropical island where the water is blue, or there is a dog in the neighborhood that consumed a bottle of blue food coloring.   And should you ask, these troubadours are caroling "Grandma got run over by a reindeer walking home from our house Christmas Eve".

Santa's Good Kid List

First things first and first, I must wish my daughter Happy Birthday. She is my middle daughter and the proud mother of twins. Happy birthday dear daughter and many more! 

Since it is the 5th of the month, its sketch challenge time at Dude Time Doodles and here is the sketch and the easy rules:

1. You will have two weeks to flip the Sketch, twist the Sketch, work the Sketch and submit the Sketch.
2. You are not required to use Bonibleaux Designs images although it would make us really really happy if you did!
3. MUST be a masculine themed card, you can use humor, innuendo, be a little naughty, sarcastic, but it has got to be for a DUDE!
4. Be sure to use InLinkz at Dude Time Doodles to submit your creation.

The Top Three winners and Top Blog winner will be announced at Dude Time Doodles on the 19th. Our sponsor, Daisy Doodles, is giving three individual digis (sets are excluded) of your choice from her store for the Top Blog winner and each winner will receive a badge. 

It took a long, long time but look who made it to the very top of Santa's "Good Kid" list -- ME!!! I am pinching myself to see if I'm dreaming. I made my card using two images from Bonibleaux Designs and sent it to Santa as a gentle reminder of the "treats" that would be waiting for him at my house on Christmas Eve. Sigh, I love Santa, he's my best friend. 


Be sure to visit my fellow design team members for Dude Time Doodles to see what they have created just for you. 

Reindeer

Sometime ago, I watched a tutorial at 2 Peas in a Bucket by Jennifer McGuire featuring this cute reindeer freebie. I am assuming with the red nose, it is one of Rudolph's offspring.

Holly and Roses

This beautiful image is one of many Christmasy digis available from Stamping Dragon Designs.  Regardless of how I photographed this card, I could not get a good clear picture because of the reflection from the emerald and red metallic paper I used for the background. "Noel" was embossed with gold and is from an often used rubber stamp I purchased years ago.

Be sure to visit the blogs of my fellow design team members of Stamping Dragon Designs.

Happy Hanukkah

Harry Hanukkah from Bonibleaux Designs joins me in wishing all of my Jewish friends everywhere Happy Hanukkah.

The Ear Trust

Stamping Dragon design team member, Sammi, has organized a card drive for The Ear Trust, an organization that supports the use of cochlear implants across Yorkshire, England and surrounding areas to enable babies, children and adults with profound hearing loss to hear. One special recipient is three year old Carly whose grandmother, Trisha, has a blog and you can read about Carly and how the trust has helped her. Our always inspiring, Janette, of Stamping Dragon Designs, has generously created two adorable digi snail images, below, to help raise money for this worthwhile cause.

These images can be purchased at Trisha's blog, or Stamping Dragon Designs and the proceeds will be given to The Ear Trust. In the meantime, we are asking for cards to help brighten the lives of  these special people so if you purchase one or both of these images, and send them to The Ear Trust, you will receive the special image of Jiggy's Presents, that Janette has designed as a thank you for your kindness.

Please mail your cards to:

Teresa Birchall

94, Canal Street

Barnsley, South Yorks,

S71 1lr

Please be sure to include a blank envelope for each card and don't forget to send a copy of your card to Janette to claim your free digi.  And last but not least, see what the other members of the design team have created for the card drive. 

Fair Warning

Ladies, this paragraph is not intended for you to read, so please stop and skip to the next paragraph. Men, consider this a fair warning, if you have any thoughts of buying that wonder woman in your life an appliance for Christmas, stop what you are thinking and visit a fine jewelry store, or her favorite crafts store and spend your money there or you will be sharing Doghouse Doug's stomping grounds, regardless of rain, snow, or hot humid weather, wondering why you are there. Don't do this to yourself even if she begs and pleads for a new mixer, can opener or vacuum cleaner, a sparkly bauble is a must. Think of it this way, we can and will get even!

And now to get on with today's post. It is hard to believe it has been one month since Dude Time Doodles hosted their inaugural launch.  To celebrate, we are having a blog hop showcasing the new releases of Bonibleaux Designs with a twist. To mix it up, one of the designers on the team is the "Mystery Hostess" and if you are the lucky commenter on her blog, you will receive the full set of this month's new releases at a value of $30.00. So as you hop along, make sure you leave a comment on each of our blogs and when you stop at Lynn's blog, be sure to give a warm hello to this month's guest designer.

I am sending you off with good wishes to see what Theresa has created but regardless where you joined, the hop is a loop so you will see all the fun new releases.  And if you are not a follower, I would love for you to joined me. 

Ginny

Nancy

Tammy (that's me)

Theresa

Fink

Anne

Cleota

Ruth

Hetty

Boni

Lynn (Guest Designer)

                                                                                            Dude Time Doodles

Thanks for being my marshmallow

First on my agenda in the morning is a cup of coffee lightly creamed and I am good for the rest of the day. I hate when my K-9 girls decide it's time to rise and shine (not that I ever shine) before the coffee has started to brew. But after that, rarely do I want another cup. So when I saw "Cappuccino Anyone Snowman" from Sassy Cheryl's  I decided that since I do not drink cappuccino, and my favorite frothy beverage is served in a large glass, I would make the contents of the cup a very rich dark coca (trust me its there) served with melted marshmallow instead. And that my friends, is how this card came to be.  

Fall Birthdays

Even though it is cold here and I saw a couple of snowflakes drift by yesterday, winter does not make its official appearance until December 21which means, it's not too late to send birthday cards specific for fall birthdays.

One more time I used this awesome leaf stamp from Hero Arts by embossing with gold on designer paper. The leaf that overlays the sentiment is embossed on acetate.

Thank You Cards

Now that the turkey and has been eaten, the dishes done and the Christmas shopping has started, its time to start thinking of thank you cards that I will need to send once I get all those fabulous presents. Here is one idea, clean, simple and right to the point.

The Knight and the Dragon

Its time again for a new Stamping with the Dragon challenge and we are being sponsored by Rick St. dennis, MFA. The theme is fantasy, anything make believe. The designers had their choice of three images and the one I picked is "Lunch on the Fly", lunch being the poor knight dangling from the dragon's claw who was only trying to rescue the damsel in distress. Why men would risk life and limb for women wearing cast iron underwear is beyond my understanding.


Before you begin, be sure to see the  creations of the other design team members and visit Mr. St. dennis' Etsy shop to see his fabulous creations. One lucky winner will receive the three dragon images created by Mr. St. dennis specifically for this challenge and other digis of his choice then the dragons will be retired.