Tiny sneak peek.....

Check out Moxie Fab for the Tuesday Trigger. I am all over challenges and so if you are like me, you need to see what Cath used for this week!!!
http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2009/12/tuesday-trigger-black-white-with.html


Now for a super quick holiday card idea, a Santa Boot.

I found this totally cute pattern at Whimsie Doodles. It is called a Whimsie Cut. It is a pattern you purchase, print out and decorate as you would like to. All of the parts print out on one piece of paper and then you cut out the parts. This was seriously so fast to put together.

http://www.whimsiedoodles.com/whimsie-cuts.html

I printed this out on Curious Iridescent Cryogen White, available at CutCardStock.com. This paper has a great, smooth feel to it, it has a slight sparkle making it fun to use for cards and it just LOVES Copic markers. (this is on sale right now too)

I used the printed out boot card for a pattern to cut the boot portion our of a piece of Jenni Bowlin Core'dinations embossed cardstock. This cardstock come with an embossed pattern in it. All I needed to do then was to sand it to expose the embossed design.

I colored the holly and berries with my Copic markers and then gave the berries a coating of the Aleene's paper glaze which gave them a great epoxy finish. They were finished off with a dot of white 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip.

When this is printed out, there is a separate piece to cut out that is the band with the bells on it and a pattern for the sole of the boot. The band and bells were colored with Copic markers and the sole of the boot was cut from another color of Core'dinations cardstock.

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I just had to share some more photos. I thought you Disney lovers might like some glimpses of the Christmas parade.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

MERRY SANTA BOOT card
Materials

Cardstock – Jenni Bowlin/Core'dinations and Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com

Copic markers

Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®

White 3-D Fashion paint - Tulip

Sandpaper

Candy Wrapper Gift and Moxie Fab

I love a challenge and I LOVE this platter that the Moxie Fab blog used for an inspiration trigger so of course I had to play. I think it's all of that wonderful red that got to me.

I chose to use the tree design and the thought that this had something to do with food to carry out the challenge with my creation.

I was surfing blogs the other day and I came across a blog where the designer used some digital stamps from Whimsie Doodle's store and I knew this Christmas cupcake image was what I wanted to use. (Unfortunetly I don't remember what blog so that I can give credit) If you have never used a digital stamp before, the idea is that you buy the image and then you can print it out on the paper you want, as often as you want and many times you have the choice of sizes too. This particular set is a couple tops of cupcakes and a couple choices for the cupcake papers and decorations for the cupcakes. I printed tree image twice. I used one of those for my pattern to cut the tree in layers from the green cardstock. One of the images was printed on golden yellow cardstock to use as the foundation of my project. I then printed the cupcake paper and decoration three times on three different colors of cardstock and cut those apart so that I could paper piece the finish project.

When my paper pieced cupcake tree was all put together, I glued that to a piece of cardstock that wraps around my candy gift and I tied it at the top with twine. The star was coated with the Aleene's Paper Glaze and then sprinkled with the chunky glitter. One thing I love about using the Paper Glaze for an application like this is that it goes on thick, it stays in place and it just grabs all of the glitter. I hardly have any glitter that falls off once it is dry. Wouldn't you want to receive some yummy candy wrapped this way?

This view shows my layers of the tree itself. After I cut out the three layers, I ran those pieces through the Cuttlebug to emboss the swirls. I gently rolled up the layers to give my tree dimension.

This view shows my cupcake paper. It is printed on brown cardstock, red cardstock and golden yellow cardstock with the different parts of the design cut out separately and then glued together.

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On to a couple more pics.

You have to understand the story behind this photo. We went to Disneyland in July and since then, Dathan has been learning the characters from the photos we took on that trip. When we went last week, he was sooooo excited to see Goofy and we stood in line so he could see him. As I was taking photos though, he caught sight of Mickey walking by and so that is what he is pointing at and what he is saying. He was over Goofy for Mickey! You can see how cute Goofy was, though, in his holiday outfit.

We had to buy Dathan his own Mickey hat, so this is a photo I was able to capture as he ran around the house.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

CHRISTMAS TREE CANDY HOLDER
Materials: Cardstock – Vintage and Core Essentials/Core’dinations

Digital stamp image – Whimsie Doodle

Cuttlebug embossing folder

Chunky glitter – Impress rubber stamps

Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s

Twine