A Sunny Sunday...

 A nice day to spend time in my craft room and that's been my plan.  We are also roasting a turkey today and will have a nice little relaxing dinner with my son Alex, and his girlfriend Acacia.

 In the meantime I am working on some cards and my first card was created and inspired for this week's Copic Coloring Challenge over at SSC.  Our challenge this week is to incorporate a second coloring medium into our project, along with our Copics.   I started with this cute new snowman digi, which is from StampFairy, in case you can't guess--I've become a StampFairy addict and just love the adorable images.   And, now that I found out they are ALL on sale --  YES, every digi is now   50% off !! -- I had to add a few more to my collection!    I have not colored them all yet, but I am working on them and having a ton of fun! 

  I colored part of my image with my Copics and then choose a very pretty 'Winter Frost' paint from Inspirations Paints, to use to color the actual snowman.   I used another medium for the actual snow and wanted something with lots of dimension, so I used a Glitter Liner by Viva Decor, which can you also find over at Susana's Custom Art and Card Design.  My third medium was some 'Sparkling Ice' ultra fine Glitter from Great Impressions and I used the glitter for the snowballs.

  My papers are one of my new favorites for the seasons and are from the Winter Joy Collection by Bo Bunny.  They are all my favorite colors and I just LOVE them.  I also have the matching brads and tag set. My lilac cardstock I found on clearance last month from Stampin' Up and I used a snowflake themed Cuttlebug embossing folder to add some dimension to the paper.  My deep purple ribbon was part of a gift box of Ribbons that my dear friend Colleen sent me after a recent trip she made to a super Ribbon Warehouse!  WOOHOO!

   In the end I had this cute new card, which will be added to my Christmas pile and also submitted to a variety of challenges, outlined below.  I hope you'll enjoy it !!

• The Craft Pad - Challenge # 99 - Snowflakes
• Simply Scrapping Crafts - Copic Color Challenge - New Medium
• Crafty Calender - Challenge # 14 - Winter Snowflake
• I Did it Creations - Surprise Me Challenge - :)
• 2 Sisters Challenges  - Challenge 15 - Non Traditional Christmas Colors
• Christmas Stamping - Challenge # 72 - Anything Goes
• Totally PaperCrafts - Non-Traditional Christmas Colors 

     I have one more Christmas Card to share and this one was inspired by a Sketch that I found over at SSC in the 'Card Corner' Challenge.  The sketch was created by Clare Prezzia, an amazing paper crafter and one of the designers at SSC.  I grabbed a copy to share with you here --

   And this is my take on the sketch, which I flipped for my card.  

   My digi is from Pink Cat Studio and this cutie is Itty Bitty Betty, in her Christmas Tree Costume!! She is  one of the very first digi images I bought, just abut a year ago.   I enjoy coloring this digi and have created with her several times.   I hope you'll enjoy her and that I have inspired you to create some fun new cards.  I'm submitting her to these fun challenges and welcome everyone to join the fun!

• Simply Scrapping Crafts - Card Corner Challenge -Sketch
• Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog - Merry Christmas
• One Stop Craft Challenge Blog - Christmas Cuties
• Crafty Catz - Challenge # 60 - Christmas
• Totally Gorjuss - Challenge # 58 - Oh Christmas Tree

  My next project is a birthday card for my God-daughter and I am hoping to get that done and in the mail in tomorrow.  I can't believe that November is almost over and that Christmas is only weeks away!  Time is flying by and I still have a lot to do !   I do hope to find some good online shopping deals tomorrow (Cyber Monday), and maybe that will help me get some more gifts bought !  I hope to be finished in the next week, so I can start on the wrapping, which is a killer with Fibro.  Luckily, I use a lot of gift bags and that's a big help for me.  I still have never found anyway to wrap that is comfy, but I also LOVE to make all my gifts look extra special!  :)   

 Have a nice day and Happy Crafting!!