I really enjoy the Picture My Life cards that come in our paper collections now - especially to make up some quick and easy cards! I made this to play along with the sketch at the Merry Monday Christmas Challenge.

I was inspired by the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge gallery by this card and decided to make my own using the October Stamp of the Month. I first made a card but then loved the idea of how it looked on a tag so I decided to do that for the "anything goes" challenge. I am also linking up with the new Merry Monday challenge of using a Christmas tree!

This is one of my favourite winter sayings and I was stoked to see it on the October Stamp of the Month! It is my goal to play along with the Merry Monday challenge each week now, so I set out to make a card with a penguin on it this week. I loosely used the Freshly Made Sketches layout for my design.

Here is the full stamp of the month set for this month. Visit my website to get yours this month only!

Here is a card I made today using both sides of the fabulous Charcoal colour from Close To My Heart. With the new CTMH cardstock you get the colour on the one side and then a lightened version on the flip side! The darker grey of the card outline and the teacup is the actual colour of charcoal. I was excited to see another sketch from Viva la Verve and took out some of my stash to play along. I finally was able to cut into my favourite Lawn Fawn plaids and popped up my tag and teacup to play along with the "pop it up" challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. I am also linking up with the Merry Monday challenge to add a tag to your card.

No matter how many times I see it, the movie Elf is a must see for me every holiday season.
I love the quote from Will Ferrell, "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear," and hope to get that as a stamp one day. For now, I thought I would create this card to play along with the Merry Monday challenge of creating a card based on your favourite Christmas movie and made it "clean and simple" to play along with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. To achieve this I used the layout over at Freshly Made Sketches.

I had the perfect stamp to play along with this week's Merry Monday challenge and hope to be playing along frequently this fall now that they are back!

I've been wanting to link up to the Merry Monday summer link-up this summer and finally sat down to make a few cards to add to my stash. This card features a sneak peak at a new Close To My Heart Christmas stamp set that will be coming out September 1st!