It's beginning to look ....

Like Christmas ;o). Those that know me know the I LOVE Christmas. If my hubby would let me I would have my Christmas tree up all year round. So it's no surprise that at random times of the year I'll pull out Christmas products and make a project with them. For my first Sunday Challenge over at Paper Craft Weekend Challenge I challenged everyone to use glitter. To read more about the challenge heard on over to Paper Craft Weekend Challenge. Here is the project I made for the glitter challenge



This was the first time I used promarkers with stamps and boy am I in love. If you haven't tried promarkers yet and are looking for a good quality marker to color your stamps with I highly recommend them. They are a cheaper alternative to copics. I purchased mine from Carpe Diem and although their shipping is slightly high they are still cheaper then other places. I have also heard that some Joann's are carrying a 12 pack in their "fine arts" section but I haven't been lucky enough to find them their.

Be sure to join us at Paper Craft Weekend Challenge and Challenge yourself with us.

Thanks for stopping by.

Papercraft Star Challenge 8

This week at Papercraft Star the challenge is Buttons, Bows, and Bling. Who doesn't love bling right?!? Well being that I'm ready for Christmas I thought I'd bling out a Christmas Card.



Can you belive I didn't use my Cricut on this one? LOL Yep no cricut but I did use my Cuttlebug.

Supplies used:
Cardstock:
Recollections (Michael's brand paper)
* White Stack
Cuttlebug
* Lace Tree Embossing folder
Ribbon - Craft Ribbon (Walmart $1 Ribbon)
Jolee's Heat Set Tool
* iRock heat set stones (Crystal)
* Walmart heat set stones (colored)

Winter Wishes

Over on the Cricut Circle Forum there are daily challneges. Today's Challenge was to use brads and/or Eyelets. I'm definately wishing it was winter/holiday time so I decided to make a Winter Wishes card.



Supplies used:
Cardstock:
Recollections (Michael's brand paper)
* White Stack
AC Patterned paper
* Foil Stack
Cuttlebug
* Cardinal Snow (From the winter bundle)
Snowflake Brads (Reccollections)
Ribbon - Craft Ribbon (Walmart $1 Ribbon)
Pebbles Ink chalk
* Pearlescent Chalks (Leave, acorn, Branch)
* Chalks Bright Colors

Christmas in July Papercraft Star Blog Hop

Hi there friends!

Welcome to the first ever Papercraft Star Blog Hop. I hope that you are enjoying all of our "Christmas in July" projects.

If you have arrived here from Liz's blog, you are in the right place. If not, you'll want to start at the beginning, right here Each member of our team has some wonderful blog candy to give away, so be sure to visit every stop along the way.

All you need to do here at Caroline's Craftography to win some blog candy is to become a follower and leave me a comment on this post. The first prize winner will receive a gift card to Michaels or Joanns (your choice) along with some other goodies. The second prize will be a little package of goodies. I'll annouce the winner(s) on July 26th, so be sure to come back and see who wins. Yep you read that right .... there will be more than one winner so be sure to leave a comment and become a follower. If you are already a follower please leave a comment :o)

Now if you're like me it could be christmas all year long. I put my Christmas decorations up the weekend of Thanksgiving and they don't come down till my birthday ... which well is in January so I don't leave them up all year but I would if I could. LOL So here is a "happy holidays" card I made.



The next stop is Steph D.

Supplies used:
Cardstock:
Recollections (Michael's brand paper)
Cricut Gypsy
Cartridges used:
* George and Basic Shapes - for the card base
* Winterwoodland - for the deer
Cuttlebug:
* Swiss Dots
Ribbon - Michael's Holiday Dollar bin
Flat back gems

Card a Day Challenge

So my Secret Sister Megan, over on the Cricut Message Board and I decided to challenge each other to a card a day. However, of course life got in the way for both of us so this challenge has extended into more than the month that we intended for it to take, however, we are making great progess and having a blast doing them. Here are a few I've done for the challenge:

Happy Birthday

I used the MCPT to color the candle. The candle stamp is one of the $1.00 Studio G stamps found at M's. The border punch is a MS punch.

The turkey feathers and happy thanksgiving were cut on the cricut using a .cut file from Diane (aka Capadia) has on her blog. I had already made the card base using ribbon and didn't want to make a new card with the cut file so I kept the base that I had and just added this to the top.

Christmas/Holiday Cards

Poinsetta was made from a cut file from TaraMason over on the cricut MB. This card was a total scraplift from the one she posted over on cricut. Instead of the gold center I used red stickles and inked the edges in gold.


This poinsetta was also on the cut file from TaraMason (her cut file had both the small and large poinsetta). I ran the green paper through the cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder and then added some "bling".

Non-Traditional Holiday colors

(yes Megan I cheated and used the one I had already made .... sorry non-traditional holiday colors are difficult for me).

Sorry the card is hard to see but the flash was reflecting on the silver paper. Used the cricut to cut the black pink and silver squares. Then stamped snowflakes on the silver squares (sorry don't know who made that stamp).

The picture below shows the true colors of the card.

Fourth of July

Another MCPT on the bear stamp. The bear is a Great Impressions Stamp. The "happy fourth" came from a Stampendous stamp set. The stars were all cut on the Cricut at different sizes. Some were then pop dotted on the card to add dimmension.

Last card for today is a

Halloween Card

This card I welded a spider web to a square and added the spider. Then I used MS glitter and google eyes on the spider.

Well, I guess that's all for now. Hope everyone had a great weekend. If I get some more time tonight I'll try to post a few other projects I worked on within the last week or so. If not check back later this week. Take care!