Happy Monday!

Did you all have a good weekend? I did but as always, it went waaay too fast. Back to work today for me, though two of my kids and my hubby have the day off. Booooo. I hate coming to work on days like this. You know what cheers me up is thinking of how close we are to the holidays! It's always a good day when you can post a cutie Christmas card made with a Bugaboo image:

Challenges:
Bah Humbug-favorite christmas cuties
Midnight Madness Sketch-sketch
Simple doodles-winter warmer

More Bobbleheads

But this time, it's Bobblehead Christmas. I just love all the Bobbleheads that Jodie at Bugaboo stamps creates. This Bobblehead Reindeer is no exception:

Challenges:
Sparkle Creations Christmas Card-fave christmas movie
just us girls-sketch
You can also find a Bobblehead Snowman, Gingerbread Man, Santa, Mrs. Claus...just go check them out!

Have You Met Poppi?

This is Poppi. He's one of the many adorable characters you can find over at Bugaboo. But you know what the very cool thing is about Poppi? He's free!! YEP FREE! Oh, but there is one thing. You have to subscribe to the Bugaboo newsletter to get him. Don't be scared to subscribe, you'll get the newsletter in your email inbox at the first of each month. Nothing more, nothing less. No solicitations, no spam. It's really easy and painless. You can sign up HERE and when you do, Tammy will send the newsletter right out to you and you can have Poppi for yourself not to mention catch up on all the latest Bugaboo news. (the link takes you to the Catch the Bug blog and you'll see the newsletter signup on the right sidebar, under the spooky picture)

Challenges:
Bah Humbug-across the miles christmas
Sweet Sketch Wednesday-sketch

Time for Another Christmas Card

It's been awhile...a day at least...since I've made or posted a Christmas card so today is the day. This time I did NOT use a snowman. Nope, I went way out of the box and used this Stickfairy from Bugaboo stamps. If you know me at all, you know I am not really a fan of fairies. Leave it to Jodie to change my mind with these adorable Stickfairies! Check them out, there are a whole lot of them over at Bugaboo. This is from the Stickfairy Christmas line and it's called "Presents"

Challenges:
One Stop Craft Challenge-snowflakes
Paper Sundaes-things with wings
Crazy challenge-no ribbons or buttons
All sorts-plain and simple

I Thought I Had Them All

Yes, I did. I thought I had all of the Marshmallow Snowmen from Bugaboo stamps but it turns out that I somehow missed this guy:

How cute is he, holding his gigantic candy cane?
Challenges:
just us girls-green red and black
Sparkle Creations Christmas Card-distressd christmas card

Designed to Delight and OWH

Many digi artists and challenge blogs are sponsoring challenges to benefit OWH this week. Double Delight challenge is one of them. Usually, they challenge you to use the current freebie image from Faith at Designed to Delight, but this week for the challenge you can use any D2D image and make a card for OWH. I chose this adorable snowman:

Challenges:
Double Delight Challenge-d2d any card for military
Inspirational Card Sketches-sketch
Remember, if you play along with D2D, you still have to use the Scardy Cat image this week to get next week's freebie.

Again with Stella's Christmas List

This image cracks me up, just like all the other Stella images that Jodie creates at Bugaboo Stamps.

Challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges-black red and kraft
Card Patterns-sketch
Moving Along with the Times-Christmas

Closing in on One Hundred

Yep, check out my sidebar over there with my Christmas Card tally. I am closing in on one hundred. WOO HOO! The latest addition is this card using Alison's Block Christmas Tree image from StretchNBubbles. You can get the whole set or just one or two of your favorites (though I don't know how you would choose!) at the store HERE.

Challenges:
Create for fun-red white and blue
Sparkle Creations Christmas Card-christmas trees
Lord Have Mercy-sketch
City Crafter-tree or books or both
Tuesday Throwdown-OWH Distressing

Purple Rain...Purple Snow

Or a purple snowman card. The challenge this week at Pollycraft was to make a Christmas card without using red or green. So I, once again, turned to my favorite marshmallow snowmen from Bugaboo:

Challenges:
Crafty Cardmakers-clean and simple
Critter Sketch Challenge-sketch
Pollycraft-christmas with no red or green
Bah Humbug-use favorite medium (digi images,Copics, embossing)

This Old Snowman

This is one of my favorite stamps and it is actually a stamp...not a digi image. I've had it for a long time but never get tired of using it.

Challenges:
Creative Belli Blog-use old stamps
Crafty Creations Challenge-white plus one
Crafty Hos-peace theme
Digi Doodles Challenge-write a message-use a sentiment
Sparkle Creations Christmas Cards: Clean and Simple

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

Well the weather in St. Louis this weekend has been anything but FRIGHTFUL, it actually has been downright DELIGHTFUL! :) In between spending time outstide, I have managed to make a couple of cards. Including this one that has been added to my Christmas stash:

This is another marshmallow snowman from Bugaboo. This one is called "Snowflakes".
Challenges:
Paper Cutz Challenge-1 ribbon, 2 buttons, three colors
Bah Humbug-christmas carol or song (Let it Snow!)
Winter Wonderland-4 papers three snowflakes and 1 snowman
Tuesday Morning Sketches-sketch

When Reindeer Fly...

This image is one of many adorable images from the A Kid's View When Reindeer Fly line of stamps from Bugaboo. Go check them out, these reindeer find themselves in a variety of situations..

Challenges:
Sparkle Creations Christmas Card-sparkle and shine christmas
Paper Sundaes-christmas in august
Crafty Cardmakers-glitter and sparkle

Another Marshmallow Snowman

Yes, now I think I have all of the Marshmallow Snowmen from Bugaboo Stamps. This one is called Birdhouse and is just as cute as the rest of the group.

Challenges:
Secret crafter-get started on Christmas
Our Creative Corner-saffron, vanilla, espresso, olive, dark red

I Almost Forgot

WOW! I almost forgot to post this card for the Sketch and Stash challenge. I made this card using Christmas Boy 1 from the Bugaboo Christmas Kids collection.

Keeping Up with the Christmas Cards

I'm pretty happy with my Christmas Card tally over there. It helps to have super cute snowmen and reindeer to work with from Bugaboo Stamps. This guy is part of the Rudolph line of stamps.

Challenges:
Tuesday Morning Sketches: sketch
ABC Christmas-R for Rudolph

Marshmallows Are Another Story

So, I already told you I don't like cupcakes, except to color. Well marshmallows are a different story. I'm not like my youngest son, Brendan, who would eat a handful of marshmallows plain if I let him but I do like toasted marshmallows (burnt!) and I like melty marshmallows in my hot chocolate. But my favorite marshmallows are these adorable Marshmallow Snowmen from Bugaboo! This one is called Snowflakes.

I made this card for the Bah Humbug challenge which is "walking in a winter wonderland" this week.

Part Two

Part two of the too much cuteness day...this adorable Christmas Kid image from Bugaboo. This is Christmas Boy 3 :)

Challenges:
Our Creative Corner Sketch-sketch
Paper Cutz Challenge-anything goes

Can These Kids Get Any Cuter?

I'm just wondering. I mean, Jodie, the artist behind all these awesome Bugaboo images, draws THE most adorable kids EVAH! She probably has super adorable kids in real life and they are her inspiration for all of these cuties that she draws! This one is from the Bugaboo Christmas Kids line and he's Christmas Boy #3. :)

Challenges:
Sweet Sketch Wednesday-sketch
Spoon Full of Sugar-Christmas in August
Charisma Cardz-die cuts

More Marshmallow Snowmen

If you've ever been to my blog before, you know I LOOVE snowmen. In fact, I was making so many Christmas cards with snowmen that I voluntarily restricted myself from making any snowman cards for a whole week. That was NOT easy. But luckily, I'm not doing that any more because here's my second snowman card of the week, again made with one of the Marshmallow Snowmen from Bugaboo stamps.

Challenges:
Sparkle Creations Christmas Card-christmas card border punches
Crafty Hos-sketch

A Christmas Tag

Along with Christmas cards, we all need plenty of Christmas tags, right? Well this week at Winter Wonderland, the challenge is to make a Christmas tag. Perfect timing because I just got this adorable Bobblehead Reindeer image from Bugaboo last week. There's a whole line of Bobbleheads to choose from and one is cuter than the next!