Challenge Time

Get the details here at

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And don't forget to join

Bugaboo Stamps

for their Birthday Party Bash

starting January 12

It will start with a Blog Hop and 

continue for a week of daily challenges 

and lots of prizes to win!!!

Challenge at Bugaboo

A little summer fun for your winter hum drums

It's time for a new challenge over at

Catch the Bug

and Bugaboo is all over it.

Pop over to see what the 

other Design Team members have

come up with.

Bugaboo challenge

It's time for Bugaboo's Bingo Challenge!!

Go check out all the deets at

Catch the Bug Blog 

and also see what all the other Design Team

made.  Then upload your challenge

for a chance to win:)

Tutorial

I'm going to show you how to make an ornament for

your Christmas Tree using Bugaboo images

First choose your paper and wood 

then trace the wood on the paper and cut it out

(I bought wood circles at Michaels and had my husband drill a hole in them)

Then glue your paper to the wood on both sides

Then sponge the edges to disguise any flaws

Next choose your Bugaboo image, color it and cut it out

Finally glue the image to the wood and add any embellishments

Add your ribbon and your finished ;)

Go to the Catch the Bug blog to see what the other

Design Team members have come up with.

Bugaboo Challenge

Yes, this IS a Bugaboo image.

Found HERE, with some other odds and ends:)

I paper pieced this image.  

It's the perfect image for it.  I gave this card to

my husbands Aunt when she retired.

Go to the

Catch the Bug blog and get the 

details on this weeks challenge.

entered at http://daisydoodlescreativechallenges.blogspot.com/

TUTORIAL WITH BUGABOO

I must admit that I didn't come up with this adorable idea
all by myself.  I first found it at Inking Idaho an awesome blog that
I follow.  It's actually a tea light battery operated "votive candle" and the
"flame" is used as the nose.

I used these images for the hats:

I reduced the size to 80% on my MAC and then cut the hats out.

I ran the hat in the above image through my sizzix in an embossing folder

after I cut it out for some texture.  I then used hot glue to glue them to the votive.

(after coloring them of course).

For the eyes and mouth I used probably one of my MUST HAVE

embellishments.  I use these little gems ALL THE TIME!!

so fast and easy and so much more user friendly than brads.

they lay almost flat so there's very little bulk to them which is so nice

for mailing.  HERE is a link to a site where you can purchase them but

Michaels also has them in the paper craft department.

Finally I just used Bakers twine for the scarf.

The snowflake used on the one on the right was an embellishment

I found in my stash.

I plan to put magnets on the back of them and put them on my

co-workers lockers at work for Christmas:)

They would also be cute as ornaments too!

ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE

TIME FOR BUGABOO'S 

ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE 

OVER AT CATCH THE BUG BLOG

DON'T FORGET TO GRAB THIS WEEKS

FRIDAY FREEBIE WHILE YOU'RE OVER THERE

GET ALL THE DETAILS ON THE CHALLENGE AND

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PLUS YOU CAN GET SOME INSPIRATION FROM THE

OTHER DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS

Christmas is coming!!!

Every year Christmas comes faster and faster!!

I can't believe it's already DECEMBER!!

seriously...where does the time go.

We still haven't put our tree up yet.

Just can't seem to find the time

lately it has been one crisis after the other.

Here's to decorations and mistletoe :)

AND kids cause lets face it, Christmas 

just wouldn't be the same without them!!

Image from Bugaboo Stamps

ENTERED AT INSPIRE ME FRIDAYS