So I'm still hosting the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog and I'm in the Christmas Spirit and still trying to get ahead for the holidays! 

I like to make my own GIFT TAGS to adorn the gifts that I give, so my challenge to you all this week is to 

CREATE A TAG! 

Either a gift tag or a tag on your card...just some sort of TAG!

I started having all kinds of fun with my punches and stamps and created FOUR different tags! I must admit I had a MOJO MELTDOWN in between, but a good night's sleep fixed that and I found myself refreshed in the morning!!

 If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C163. Don't forget to head back to the C4C Blog and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too.

Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!

Christmas Carol Inspired!

Happy Saturday!

I'm the November Hostess over at the Crazy Challenges Blog and this week I thought it would be fun to put the Christmas Carols that always seem to get stuck in our heads this time of year, to good use!!

Create a card Inspired by one of 

YOUR Favorite Christmas Carols!!

Here's one of my faves...the line I sing most often these days seems to be 'Oh the weather outside is frightful...' Stella here has the right attitude though....check out the inside of the card, or 'punchline' if you will! ;-)

And here's the punch line....

We'd love for you to join us! Just post your Christams Carol Inspired creation to your blog or on-line gallery and link it back to the C4C Blog using the InLinkz provided!! Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!

3 of a Kind!

So we've had a couple of days of bad weather (not hurricane bad, just some freezing rain) here which, although I don't love it, I can at least see the silver lining and that means more time at home....which means time to play in the Craft Cave! 

 This week's awesome challenge over at the Totally Stampalicious Blog is to create THREE CAS cards using the same stamp but a little differently on each card! Join us and play along...we love to give away prizes and because this is a more 'difficult' challenge there will likely be only a few players to choose from!! Don't forget that if you use OUR stamps, we will DOUBLE the PRIZE!!

 I decided to pull out this adorable Clyde stamp from our Totally Stampalicious Bugaboo Line and color him up a lil' bit differently for each card!

I chose not to put any sentiments on these so I have them at the ready for emergency Birthday, Thank You, Get Well, etc!! I think you can see how versatile our adorable Clyde is!!!!

Thanks so much for stoppin' for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!!

C4C161 Anything But a Card!

Happy Saturday! It's my turn to be the Hostess over at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog and I decided to start off with one of my FAVE challenges.... 

ANYTHING BUT A CARD!

I found this adorable gift card holder on Pinterest by Julie Davison

and, as I'm making an effort to actually DO some of the things I find on Pinterest, I thought I better give this easy project a try! 

For instructions on how to make the SUPER EASY gift card holder click HERE

I always think that if you're going to give a generic gift like a gift card (no offense to gift card givers out there...I LOVE to receive them... I just know that some people think it's an 'effortless' gift) then why not 'snazzy' it up with a little chocolate in a hand-crafted box-type-thingy! The box I created here is a particularly simple one as I really don't have a whole lotta spare craftin' time *sniff* these days! :-( 

You can find an AWESOME tutorial for that favor box at SCS! Here's the link!

And here is what the inside Card Holder looks like...created from the SU! Two Tags Bigz Die! 

This was all kinds of fun to make and I'm going to be making more for all the gift cards I'll be giving out this year!!!

Wanna get a little Crazy and play along? Just post your Anything but A Card creation to your blog or on-line gallery and link it back to the C4C Blog so we can get a chance to have a peek!!!

Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!

C4C 160 Sketch Challenge

It's the last challenge of the month over a the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog and Jessie Rone, our October Hostess, treated us to this AWESOME sketch!!

I used our Winter Bird Friend from the Totally Stampalicious Bugaboo Line! The blue polka dot ribbon was my starting point for this card! I found it in 'blue ribbon jar' and had to use it!! LOVE it!

We hope you'll play along with us...just be sure to leave a link to your blog or on-line gallery back a the C4C Blog using the inLinkz provided!

Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!

C4C Color Challenge

It's challenge time again at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog!
 Jessie Rone is our hostess again, and this week's challenge is carrying on with our Halloween-ish theme, but  before we get to that...a word from our sponsor, hehe!

This week's challenge is being sponsored by Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps!!!

They are offering up 2 Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps as our prize.

So, for this week's challenge, I have decided to do a color challenge. The colors are:

Orange/Black/Purple

So here's my creation using a Stella Digi from Bugaboo stamps!!

That's some more ribbon from Ribbon Carousel...LOVE it!!
The sentiment is one you can look for NEXT YEAR from Totally Stampalicious when we turn this lady into a Clear Stamps set!

Well that's it from me today!! Be sure to play along with us! Just leave a link to your creation over at the C4C Blog!

Thanks so much for stoppin' by for a little Stamps 'n' Coffee!

C4C158 Sweet Treats

Halloween is drawing closer and this week, our challenge Hostess with the Mostess, Jessie Rone is challenging all of us to create a SWEET TREAT over at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog!

There are no limits to this, so whether it's a treat holder, an image involving candy, paper with candy on it, or just the word sweet somewhere, any or all will do!!

So I settled on making a box with some treats in it!! I wrapped a scrap of black paper with some cheese cloth I happened to have lying around and  inked it up to make it look 'old and dirty'!! I kept this very simple!

 I was still having fun playing around so I decorated a few of the chocolates that I'm going to fill the box with!! Again, I wrapped the 'mummy' chocolate in cheese cloth...I'm pretty sure the other little guys are self-explanatory LOL!! (circle punch, SU! owl punch)

If you'd like to be along, just post your project to your blog or on-line gallery and then link it back to the C4C Blog!