Christmas Cheer with Saturated Canary

Hello, I'm back with a Christmas scene using a Saturated Canary stamp "Parade" and some LDRS winter dies.

 It's my turn to share in the LDRS Creative Inspirational blog and this is my little Christmas cheer :)

I had a creative idea of using Parade in a scene by hand coloring a tree and whala she is now decorating her Christmas tree. The parade of animals pulling in their toys under the tree.

I watercolored my scenery with artist markers Tombow and Tim Holtz distress ink pads.
I can't get tired of coloring my SC images. Krista Smith art has always been my cup of coffee.

In case I never said it before... Love you, Krista Smith.

I used the NEW Christmas word die for my sentiment and tucked in the beautiful intricate Gilded doily die cut because it reminds me of a snowflake.

Let's not forget the Polkadoodles Winter paper pad.I couldn't pick a pattern sheet they're all so beautiful.

I tucked in the NEW Snowy Border die trim on the bottom edge. It added the nice depth to finish off my card.

I hope I gave you the inspiration to use your normal stamps and add anything winter for that perfect holiday touch. 

Add snow, a winter hat for example .... the ideas are endless. Enjoy guys :)

Have a wonderful day

Ruby

LDRS Creative online store

Saturated Canary Parade stamp

Polkadoodles Winter Land 6X6 Paper Pack 

Gilded Doily Die

Snowy Day Border die set

Christmas Word die

Believe With Thermal Weather Saturated Canary Girl

Hello peeps I'm back with a Winter theme Easel card using Saturated Canary Thermal Weather and some marvelous cuts using the NEW Christmas Holly Wreath dies and Petal Wishes Accordian Die from LDRS Creative.

I started with coloring my Saturated Canary image with Copic markers and then cut her out using the circle from Holly Wreath. I adore the stitching that the die leaves all around the circle.

I then crowned her on top of the pretty Petal Accordion fan. This Petal is so stunning I can't get enough of it and I see me playing with this again very soon.

I tucked in some Holly leaves with a pastel green color stock and the Holly wreath circle as well.

  

the bottom base is adorned with a Believe stamp from the Holly Days Large Circle sentiments and adorned with pretty flowers and also tucked in some cuts of Holly leaves.

My papers for this card was using the utterly beautiful Polkadoodles 6x6 paper pack Winter Land. This paper has the perfect festive color tones and designs.

Thank You for visiting me and I'll be back here very soon. 

Have a lovely Day

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Saturated Canary Thermal Weather

LDRS Holly wreath die

LDRS Petal Wishes Accordian die

Polkadoodles Winter Land 6x6 paper pack

Holly Days Large circle sentiments

I Can't Reach Christmas Cheer For All

Told ya I'll be back! Ok so today it's a Christmas cheer coloring. I did it I did a CAS card. Is it a CAS card? I tried so hard so it better be lol!
Do you know how hard it is not to keep adding embellishments??? Dude it's hard!!! LOL!

So easy peasy lemon squeezy coloring was a center focus. 

I used Copics but OF COURSE. My copic combo is down below.

This is, I can't Reach  by CandiBean Rubber Stamp. 

I had a little extra fun color placing the fir in the tree. I've been doing this technique for years now and I was working on a tutorial actually due to popular request. Well what had happened was..... it's sitting in my draft folder lol! I mean this had to be like 5 years ago lol!

Maybe if I could squeeze in extra coloring I could finish it before December.  I have so much coloring at the moment but than you have those images that you really want to color for extra fun and if I don't I'll just burst!

Simple embellishments. 

My 10 yo daughter is like, mom  what's zup with the boring card?

I chased her all over the house cuz she ran right after she said that.

They're not use to my " CAS cards" :) 

Okie doke that's all my yapping

I hope I gave you some inspiration to give the stamp a try. 

Any questions feel free to email me or leave me a comment.

I will be back early December for a fun post ,....

Have a GREAT DAY

Ruby

LDRS Creative store

CandiBean I can't reach rubber stamp
Vintage Affections Postage Stamps

Copic Color Combo

Skin: E50,E51,E93,E000,E0000,BV000

Hair: YR24,YR21,YG95,RV69,R29,R24

Clothes: R20,R24,R29,R39,R59,T1

Tree and Pot: YG61,YG63,YG667,YG97,Y32,,Y04,E51,E84,E87,RV69,R29,R24,R20

Mouse: W1,W5,R20,

Stool: E84,E87,E51

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Magnolia-licious Holiday Tag Hop

OH YEAH TAG TIME!!! I hope you are joining in the fun. The Magnolia-licious senior design team has met creative forces with the challenge team. We have a brilliant line up to share our take on Holiday interactive tag or tags using at least one Magnolia.

Ok so If your coming from Suzan Laverty then game on, your right on track :)

  So there are TWO WAYS TO PLAY TO WIN!!!

#1 Count the Candy Canes – The DT gals have put a certain amount of candy canes in their projects 

tally them up and email the total amount by Dec 29th at sjdean0574@yahoo.com 

(subject line Candy Canes)

for a chance to win a $50 GC to Magnolia-licious

#2 Enter the tag challenge for a chance of a $50 GC by DEC 29TH!!!!! 

OH OH I was super excited to share my tags! These tags are huge but boy were they a ball of fun to create. I was in the zone I tell ya, lol! I wanted to keep on doing more but this thing called bed kept calling me, lol!

Ok let's start with TAG #1 which by the way my tags are colored with DI and my tags rattle.They have  tiny bells inserted into the tags.

This is the utterly cutie #385 Tilda with Little Rudolf 

TAG #2

This one is #341 Jingle Jangle Tilda love the side hat 

and TAG #3

This one was so much fun to color 

This tag has a rope line around Edwin with mini tiny bells, too cute!

he's #153 Edwin with Winding Fern

and they are available at the Magnolia-licious store now!

MAKE SURE TO TALLY THE CANDY CANES INSERTED IN THE DESIGNERS PICTURES.

I have them scattered through out ALL my pictures.................. BAAAHAAAAA!!!! JK JK only the first MAIN picture FOR EACH DESIGNER.

To get full deets go to the Magnolia-licious Highlities blog  and now to send you off to the talented Cheryl Rowley

I hope you like my tags and I was able to give you a little inspiration. I have a long week at home with the kids Bday party so I'm busy busy busy lol! 

LOVE YA GUYS and enjoy the hop!

Patti Jo Skogquist

Cabio Tse

Sheri Wilshire

Mindy Baxter

Suzan Laverty

Ruby Montes (Me you are here)

Cheryl Rowley  

Jane Johnson

Janiel Corley

Suzanne Dean

Chris Christensen

Mary Giemza

Cathy Lee

Sharon Caudle

Eulanda Silvey 
Norma

Katie Tate 

Angela Wood

Warm Cozy Christmas Scene

HEY I'm back from a long weekend once again. Today I finally get to share my LD and Cutie Pie scene and since this month challenge is creating a scene. I thought I could use this piece I had in my pocket for a while lol!

I have 8 rubber stamp images all merged in, to create this warm cozy Christmas scene.

Oh did I mentioned that it's not a card it's a wall hanging decor migthingy.

Come.... come see more pictures.

here is a close up of the coloring. 

I colored this months ago so don't be hard on me lol!

I tried taking a picture having it hang on my undecorated tree (will get to it this week or weekend)

this is the best I could do lol!

whala that's all the pictures and now for the line up of the images used on this baby.

Some are available at the Little Darlings Rubber Stamp store now. I think only one is out of stock :(

Starting with

Every Stocking Counts

Reading a good book

Chloe Listening

Chloe sitting

Table and Lamp

Kids wall art set

Wing back chair

and 

All for me

Head on back to the Little Darlings Inspiration blog to see what my teammies have done themselves HERE.

I'll be back tomorrow morning for a MAGNOLIA-LICIOUS HOP! OH EM GEE DO NOT MISS THIS ONE! 

The line up is unreal and I'm eager to share what I've done.I had planned on selling my creation but I CAN'T DEPART Sigh.......

ok chao b-back soon :)

Rube

A Frosty Hello

Hey Guys I'm back!!!!

We have a NEW challenge theme for the DT members at LD. 

This time around we wanted to change it up a bit and create a shaped card. I needed something wide to be able to fit my scene so I went with a scalloped oval shape card.

I had the urge to mask these cute images together to complete a fun cheerful scene.

I have Winter 2011 Snowy Friends, Mistletoe Cutie Pie and Winter Wonderland Frosty Giggling.

I thought Mistletoe Cutie Pie fit right in between the fun, what do you think? :)

Just so that you know that's three different rubber stamps in the scene. Also do you spy something else??? YOU SEE MY SENTIMENT!!!?

Oh isn't it cute....it's one of the Christmas and Winter Warm Fuzzies sentiment stamps.Oh and look look closer it has a replica of mini image of the snowy friends next to the sentiment. How about that for originality :)

Oh no... almost forgot do you see my snowflakes on the upper right side. Those were cut off with LD Chocolate Covered cherry paper pad.

Ok that's it for me and I hope I gave you some ideas or Inspiration using Little Darling products.

You could find all of these products available at the Little Darlings Rubber stamps store and ready to ship.

Thanks for visiting  and I have some BIG news I have to share very soon,LOL!!!! 

Enjoy your day((smiles)) Ruby 

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Winter 2011 Snowy Friends

Mistletoe Cutie Pie

Winter wonderland Frosty Giggling

Winter Warm Fuzzies sentiment stamps

LD 6X6 Chocolate Covered cherry paper pad

Feeling the winter BLUES....

HIYA!! I'm back and WELCOME to 2012 and all to my first 2012 posting :)

I have been busy with my guest these past days.My family left my house on New Years Day at 5:30am!!!!! YES IN THE MORNING LOL!!!

some of the kids were wide eye still! It must of been from all the "soda" going around.

No that's not all....they we're here back in a few hours time lol! I woke up LATE hmmmm @12 noon so they we're here an hour later to eat,drink and play again.They just left a while ago, lol!!!!

That's to show you I'm a good cook huh lol!!??? BAAAAAHAAA!!!( my FIL cooked lol )

Well anywhoo It's time for another Challenge at Magnolia-licious-highlities.This time around is as easiest as can be,"ANYTHING GOES" with the option of Lace.

So maybe unlike me you could start those SWEET VALENTINE CARDS considering you could add fancy yummy lace :)

or if your stuck like me LOL! You could still do winter theme :)

Well I created a small scene and added some of those Spruce Trees I've been stuck on ((big smiles))

I used #614 Mini Welcome to a sweet Christmas ,#3098 Mini Tilda hiding gift and #568 Magnolia Winter Forest

and you could find these stamps at Magnolia-licious store. I need to inform you, Diana has really really good deals.Be in the look out for those mini duos specials she usually puts up! They usually fly like hot pancakes.

Now my Winter Forest has been cut apart  to spread them out through the scene.I did my usual spruce technique and yes topped off with my favorite toy lately lol!"snow marker" from Marvy.

here you could catch a close up of the spruce and puffy snow.

sorry for a load of pixs but getting zoomed in was hard. It might be because of the bright blue.This card is full of blue jean glitter from doodlebug by the way. You might catch this one at the CHA show with Mini Magnolia.

OK peeps I'm done with winter and I'm stuck with @10 coloured winter images which we're planned on being used for another of my paper Christmas trees but I'm winter/Christmas DONE LOL! Although I hate not to use these images because they are so so so cute and I have coloured them in DI.

Since I frequently colour with copics and then jump to DI.You get stuck with that mind set that you could flicker like if you we're using copics.Well that's what I've done on these...they took longer time to accomplish small pleats and what not but the outcome is really really nice.At least that's what I think LOL!

So should I do more winter cards???or finish the tree??? what to do what to do....Oh the tree was planned to be about 6" to 8" tall and the Magnolias are the regular size this time.I'll let ya vote for me.The Tree is half way done but I ran out of the design paper so I stopped but I'm sure I could find more of the same.

 PLEASE ADVISE YES OR NO TO WINTER CARDS LOL!!!!!

OOPS Almost forgot to tell you.... come back as I have a tute on the works for my Spruce technique that I've been doing a lot lately. 

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY AND MAKE SURE TO COME AND PLAY WITH US AT Magnolia-licious Highlities also!!

See-ya next time peace :)

showcasing "Saffron" from Little Miss Muffet!!! FREEBIE!

OK I'm back with a special showcasing!! Yup this is late too lmao!!!!!!!!!!

WE'RE ALL LATE LEAVE ME ALONE LMBO!!!

Anywhooo my buddie Barbara ((colouring genius btw) from Little Miss Muffet invited me on this special occasion.So many things going on at her Challenge blog  from DT call, Anything goes challenge and your chance to this freebie!!!!

So jump right over HERE to get the deets and so for.

NOW to introduce you to this adorable gal omg!

 she is called Saffron and is part of the Sugar 'n Spice Dolls theme.I enjoy the whole collection actually  and enjoy what the LMM DT comes up with.Their a bunch of talented gals!

KUDOS TO THEM :)

HIYA GALS :)

Ok so my card is not your regular size due to my Make It Crafty Ice Skating Lake background. I wanted to use the line of forest trees to capture the winter storm.My easel card is about 8" wide. So many textures going on here.From Acrylic paint,flocking powder,snow fluff,glossy Accents,fine glitter and here and there of pearl liquid.

MIC Ice Skating Lake digi was cropped and I kept the background trees.

Saffron solo and you might get a glimpse of her fluffy warmers.

Ok well I hope you like my creation and if you have any questions please feel free to ask.

Have a wonderful New Year in case I don't make it back before then.I have a few things already in mid progress to come and showcase perhaps on Jan 1st.

so leaving you with much THANK YOU'S for visiting me and even though ya are quiet I see you LMBO!!! SO I'm glad I inspire you enough to get some eye candy :)

(SMILING FROM EAR TO EAR)

Thanks for visiting me and comments are always appreciated ((hugs)) Ruby

BYE 2011

and bring it on 2012 whoooooooohoooooooo!!!!!

CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

copics recipe:

Saffron: Skin E000,E00,E01,E21,E23,YR000,R20

Hair: C1,C3,C5,C7,100

Coat: R39,R89,RV34,RV69,E25,E29,E31,E34,E37,E41,Y11,Y26,Y28Y32,Y35

Sky combination of B00,B02,B14,BG15

Spruces YG03,YG63,YG67,YG97,

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Crafts and Me  Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge  warm wishes

Little Darlings Challenge # 13 Christmas

Hello everyone I'm back with another creation for Little Darlings.

This time around we're asking you to do something,"Christmas" UMMMM CAN YOU DO THAT??!?!! I think so lol! :)

As usual running late with my post :( 

Ya don't even want to know what I've been through. 

IT'S NEVER A DULL MOMENT HERE I TELL YOU.

As I'm typing this I have a little girl practically chocking me trying to do God knows what to my hair and what not. My hands are always full and ALWAYS ON THE RUN.

I just hope I get a brake soon.

God knows I need one SIGH... I just want to sit in peace,drink coffee and colour :) Maybe create a card here and there lol!

Anyhow here is my latest and if you DON'T look closely I cheated in the colouring department LMAO! Yup I , Ruby Montes have cheated in colouring, LOL!!!

I will feel guilty if I didn't pointed that out.I have paper pieced and even coloured with smooch lol!!!! oh oh and how about that texture white stuff on my snowman!!!! COOL HUH LOL!

I actually did like result but the only thing I regret doing is putting that fluff stuff before colouring.The reason being is because the liquid ran on my image a bit. Other than that I likies :)

My image is called Snowy Friends and you could find it in the Love to Stamp store.

The smooch I used on her clothes was ocean soul and sassy pink.Her pants are paper pieced.

Oh her shoes have smooch also.

here you could see the fluffy texture of my snowman and guess what I used!!! I love this stuff...it's a marker by MARVY  UCHIDA. 

All you do is lay it on where you want it then go over it with your heat gun and it rises up like MAGIC! 

It's called Snow Marker and  bought mine at Archivers. 

Fun stuff I tell ya!

Well that's all for me folks.Thanks for stopping by and always a delight to read all your nice comments :)

Have a great week :)