MCT 12 Days of Christmas - Day 1

Welcome to the My Creative Time "12 Days of Christmas"!  You are in for a lot of fun for the next twelve days - daily projects by Emma and the design team, along with some fabulous prizes celebrating Emma's one year anniversary!  If you arrived here from Jeanne,  then you are headed in the right direction.  If not, please start at Emma's blog here.

For my project today, I made one of the adorable little houses from the Cricut Sweet Tooth Boxes cartridge.  This could be used to house a cupcake or some treats, but I think it's just going to be some Christmas decor in my house for now!  I began by cutting the pieces at 10", although I did use my Gypsy to hide some of the detail cuts that I knew I didn't want to use (the round window and the flowerpot).  I then stamped the kraft base with my Papertrey Ink Woodgrain background stamp, using cream ink. 

 For the roof, I added icicle borders cut at 4" in width from the Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art cartridge.  I also hand cut some snow to go around the base of the house.

I cut the sign post 3 times - once in red and twice in kraft, so that I could trim down the kraft to put on the front and back of the red signpost.  On each of the kraft signs, I inked around the edge with cream ink and then stamped "Merry Christmas" from Emma's All Around Christmas stamp set and the tree from her Anyday Bingo & Crossword stamp set.

The wreaths are cut at 2 1/4" from the Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons cartridge.  I added little bows made with Trendy Twine and popped up the wreaths with dimensionals.  To make the windows, I attached 3" squares of vellum to the inside of the house.

I embossed the front door with the Papertrey Ink Woodgrain Impression Plate before attaching a brad for the doorknob and adhering it down.  The topiaries are cut at 2 1/2" from the Joys of the Season cartridge.

The tree is cut at 3 1/2" from Christmas Cheer and the cute bunny is cut at 1" from Winter Woodland.

Recipe:

Papertrey Ink Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Pure Poppy, Pinefeather, & Vintage Cream Cardstock
Bazzill Basics Paper:  "Diamond"
Papertrey Ink Vellum

Papertrey Ink Woodgrain Impression Plate

Papertrey Ink "Background Basics:  Woodgrain" Stamp Set

My Creative Time "All Around Christmas" & "Anyday Bingo & Crossword" Stamp Sets

Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream, True Black, & New Leaf Ink
Trendy Twine

My Mind's Eye:  Lost & Found Christmas Brad

Imaginisce Glam Rock


*** 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway Alert ***


To qualify for ALL of the AMAZING giveaways for the next 12 days, you must comment on every blog in this hop!  You will have until Tuesday, December 13th @ midnight, to post all of your comments.  Very important:  please leave a way for us to contact you if you are one of the winners!  There are some amazing giveaways for this 12 day event and some surprises to help celebrate My Creative Time's One Year Anniversary!  Yes, Emma released her first set of stamps one year ago!  So make sure you are tuned in, because this is ONE hop that you do NOT want to miss!!!

Your next stop is the ever so talented Leanne.  Here's the full line-up, in case you get lost:

Emma

Cassandra

Cathryn

Cindy

Jeanne

Katie <-- YOU ARE HERE

Leanne

Linsey

Liz

Nancy

Nikki

Rosy

Ruthie

Shar

Tracy

Trell

Veronica

Throwback Thursday Challenge with My Creative Time!

It's Throwback Thursday! For today's challenge over at My Creative Time, Emma is asking us to use any older cartridge of our choice to make a Christmas themed project using some kind of material (lace, fabric, felt, etc.). I used Joys of the Season to make my cute snowman card. This is an A7 sized card (5" x 7 ").

My snowman is cut at 5", and he's holding the cutest sentiment from My Creative Time's All Around Christmas stamp set. I die cut the scalloped circle using the My Creative Time Scalloped Circle die with some red felt.  Here's a look at the entire All Around Christmas stamp set.  I just love all of the sentiments and the ADORABLE images!  Click here for ordering information.  

Be sure to join in this fun Throwback Thursday Challenge at My Creative Time!  One randomly selected  entry will win an All Around Christmas stamp set!


Recipe:

Papertrey Ink Kraft and Pure Poppy Cardstock

AC "Jolly" Patterned Paper

Core'dinations Textured Cardstock

Bazzill Basics "Diamonds" Cardstock (for snowman and snow)

Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy Felt

My Creative Time Scalloped Circle Die

My Creative Time's "All Around Christmas" Stamp Set
Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate & Pure Poppy Ink

Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen
Zig Memory Writer
Copic Lipstick Red Sketch Marker

ColorBox Cat's Eye Chalk Ink

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

My Pink Stamper Winter Challenge

Robyn, over at My Pink Stamper, is hosting a winter project challenge. This card has been floating around in my mind since I received Robyn's Winter Punnies stamp set. You can preorder her new stamps now, and they are shipping the first week of September. Click here for more details.

I decided to pair this cute "There's snow place like home" sentiment with the adorable little house from the Joys of the Season cartridge. I also tried sewing some smoke coming out of the chimney. I'm not sure how well it shows up on this background paper, but I kind of like it!

Recipe:

8 1/2" x 5 1/2" PTI Enchanted Ink cardstock, scored at 4 1/4"

4" x 5 1/4" PTI Spring Rain cardstock

3 3/4" x 5" patterned paper from DCWV The Christmas Stack

House cut at 3 1/4" using Core'dinations paper

Handcut snow using PTI Stamper's Select White cardstock

My Pink Stamper's Winter Punnies Stamp Set

PTI Enchanted Evening Ink

White Gelly Roll Pen