25 Days of Christmas Tags~Day 1...Featuring Sunny Studio

Welcome to Day 1 of the much anticipated, eagerly awaited for 10th edition of Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020!  Guidelines for how to win prizes, as well as the play-along linkup, can be found HERE!

To launch this year's event, we're pleased to welcome our first sponsor:

Sunny Studio

They are offering one lucky winner a $25 gift certificate to their online store.

I had oodles of fun playing with Penguin Pals, a set of some of the most darling penguins you can imagine! After colouring a bunch, I made two tags...

and two cards! Couldn't resist! First, a slimline, followed by

an A2 card that uses the wonderfully versatile Window Quad Square Dies set. One pass through my die-cutting machine gave me four perfectly spaced windows, complete with outside stitching.

To add to the cuteness factor: check out these itty bitty tags (a small version of their Build-A-Tag #2 dies), that are also part of the Window Quad set! I made about 10 of these, mixing-and-matching the various top-bottom decor options and cute reinforcers. Here's a trio, just to whet your creative (and shopping) appetite.  Little snippets of adorable!

Head over to Tracey's blog to see the awe-mazing tags created by the Sunny Studios designers, the 2020 Design Team and guest designers. Plenty of eye-candy to be had!

Our generous sponsors:

Please visit the main post and link-up for all the guidelines. To be eligible for prizes, you can participate in two ways: make and post a tag or tags inspired by any of the designers' tags or comment every day on Tracey's blog as well as the designers' posts. Do both for more prize opportunities!

25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020 main post and link-up

November 1, 2020 - Sunny Studio

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STAMPlorations November CAS Challenge...Stylized Christmas Tree

Hello,

Welcome to the STAMPlorations November CAS Challenge where the theme is always Anything Goes, with an optional colour twist which, this month, is Black & Pink. Pretty!

I'm sharing a VERY clean and simple card, featuring Christmas Icons - Christmas Tree 1, cut from glittery cardstock, paired with a sentiment from Holiday Expressions - Yuletide Cheer. Hard to see the sparkle in the photo but in real life, it's wonderfully pretty! 

That's it from me; time for you to play along.

• You can find Challenge details here. PLEASE READ as they've been updated.
• If you decide to purchase some of the products I - or other designers have used - head over to the STAMPlorations Online Store (always great deals to be had!)
• To receive an additional 20% off your purchases, I invite you to use my discount code: STAMPGIRLCAROL. AND for November, Shery is offering a special promotion: when you use my code, you also receive a free product ($7 value) of your choice! Go. Shop! 

Looking forward to seeing your CAS cards in the gallery, with or without the twists!

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25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020~One More Sleep!

Hello,

Time to start counting down the hours for the 10th Annual 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020, hostessed by our sweet, amazing Tracey, from In My Creative Opinion fame! 

I'm thrilled to be part of the design team, playing 'tag' alongside 

Lindsey M-P

Kim H

Joyce M

Ardyth

Lindsey L and, of course, 

Tracey

We'll be commenting on your fabulous tags in the gallery, as well as designing tags of our own, as inspiration.

Tracey has done an outstanding job once again in finding generous sponsors to offer prizes! Check out the lineup:

WOW, right! Right!!

Check back tomorrow for the launch! All the play along and prize details will be on Tracey's main blog here!

Let the excitement begin!

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Inkspirational Challenge #225~Night...Happy Fright Night!

Hello,

Welcome to Inskpirational Challenge Challenge #225, where our word prompt is NIGHT!  Of course, you know exactly where I've gone with this theme...bwhahahahahahahah!

Three night Halloween cards; I'll let the pictures do the talking.

I had a spook-tacular amount of fun creating these!

Please check out where this prompt took my teammates, then play along with us!

Marina, Shauna, Pia, Marlena, Nonni, Lindsey

See you in the gallery!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #560~Wild Card Week...Candy Cane Merry Christmas (Word Die Cuts)

Hello,

Happy Halloween!  It will be interesting to see how many little trick-or-treators will be haunting the neighbourhood this evening. Hopefully, we'll get a few, as my husband has his 'physically distancing' candy-dispensing plans all figured out.  Lily and I will be watching from afar; no one needs to hear my barky girl going off *grin*

Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #560, where our sweet hostess, Angie, is inviting us to use Word Die-Cuts for this Wild Card challenge.  

A huge 'thank you' to Karen Walker, our guest designer, who shared wonderfully inspiring cards with us all month. Her finale is fantastic, as are those of my teammates: Sue, Angie, Vicki, Ina, Bobby, Nancy, Lisa and Maria. If you have a chance to leave comments, that would be wonderful!

Slowly making my way into Christmas cards, one of which I'm sharing here. Everything is from The Stamp Market, including the ink! The Merry is inset; Christmas popped up. Simple and easy!

Of course, I *have* to share yet another Halloween card! This was one I made for Scrapbooker and Cards Today World Card Making Day, earlier in the month, where Editor-in-Chief Susan R. Opel challenged us to draw inspiration from any project featured in their Fall 2020 issue and make it our own.  I selected a layout from pg. 73 and wound up with this:

The tall, skinny alphas from The Stamp Market are fantastic and a great way to use up a variety of my teensy patterned paper snippets!

That's it from me; looking forward to seeing how you're inspired to use Word Die-Cuts!

Also sharing at:

Krafty Chicks Challenge #531~Anything Goes

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Just Us Girls Challenge #559~Photo Week...Halloween Rosette

Hello

Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #559, where our sweet Nancy has selected this beautiful, cozy, I-want-to-curl-up-on-that-couch, image as our photo inspiration for the week.  

Once again, we're delighted to have Karen Walker joining us as our October guest designer. You'll love her beautiful floral card, as well as all the fabulous interpretations by the rest of the team: Sue, Angie, Vicki, Ina, Bobby, Nancy, Lisa, and Maria. If you have a chance to leave comments, that would be wonderful!

October, as you already know, has a Halloween focus for me and even in the case of this lovely prompt, I managed to find a little bit of 'spooky' to play with! My plaid patterned paper rosette (which, by the way, has bat-shaped openings along the edge! True story!) is a nod to the flowers; the black/white stripes are inspired by the clock.  This one will have to be hand delivered; perhaps for Lily's daycare 'mom'...along with a sweet treat.

That's it from me; looking forward to seeing your photo-connected creations in the gallery!

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STAMPlorations 7th Birthday Day 5...Wheels Slimline Stencil Spooky!

Hello,

Welcome to the finale of STAMPlorations' 7th Birthday event.  Even though our design team sharing is a wrap, you still have plenty of time - until Nov. 8, to be precise - to play along with us! Remember: PRIZES to be had! 

Throughout the week, I've shared birthday, love and thank you cards; today, time to dive into one of my favourite occasions for card-making: HALLOWEEN!  Here, I've used the brand-spanking new Wheels ARTploration Slimline Stencil to create my background. And yes, masking was involved, but because of the size and spacing of the design, it was easy-peasy! Die-cut sentiment and a trio of googly eyes finished off my 'oh-so-scary' card! 

As you can likely tell, this stencil has a ton of possibilities!  I 'may' have a handful of backgrounds ready and waiting in the wings....

I'll be back tomorrow with another card. Please head over to the STAMPlorations blog to see my teammates' awesome creations (and remember to leave comments; that's an easy entry) and to read more about how to be eligible for PRIZES!  

Before you go, a note about Sales/Promotions: 

All products in the store are 10% off instantly throughout October. 

If you use my code: STAMPGIRLCAROLM - you'll receive 20% off your order AND receive this not-yet-released stencil, Just Plaid square stencil (10 mil):

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