Snow, Snow, Snow!

These stamps were a rak I got from a wonderful online friend recently. I just had to start using them on my Christmas cards right away. I used my glue pen and some silver glitter to highlight the snow, and added the rhinestones to match. TFL!

Vintage Christmas

For this card I got completely away from the glitter and the trees and decided to use up some of the pp I have in my stash. This is called Poinsettia Stripe and is from Making Memories FA La La collection. I've had some wonderful vintage looking embellishments that I got from the dollar store that I've been wanting to use as well. I thought this tree went perfect with this pp. The stamp set is Heidi Grace, and everything is inked with tea stain distress ink. TFL!

Silver Tree

Ok, so I tried the tree idea again only changing the colours around. I think I like this one better, but it still needs improvement. The green is a little blah for me. I like the colour scheme, but think that maybe I should have used some shiny cs instead.

Poinsettia Trio

For this Christmas card I stamped my SU Lovely As A Tree with Versamark and then embossed with white embossing powder. Then using my glue pen I added glitter for some extra snowy sparkle. I stamped it on vellum, but unfortunately the look isn't quite what I was hoping for. I think next time I would use a shiny white cs. My MS scroll border punch set came in handy to give the edges some flare. The poinsettias were made using two CB flowers glued together. The MS leaf punch was used as well.

Poinsettia

Do you ever lay in bed and as you're falling asleep ideas for cards pop into your head? This was one of those ideas. Of course it looks somewhat different than what I had in mind, but at least the idea got me started on the creative process!

I stamped the holly along the edge with Judikins aegean silver EB powder. It gives it a nice sparkly look and is my newest and most favourite EB powder at the moment! I used red stickles for the berries, and once everything was dry I cut the edge out by hand. None of the poinsettias I had in my stash seemed to fit or match, so I made this one by hand. The petals were scraps from the centres of some CB flowers I had made, and the leaves were just cut in duplicate by hand. I embossed everything to give it dimension.

Unto Us A Child Is Born

HERE COMES CHRISTMAS!!! I have started making my Christmas cards, and have about 11 made so far that I will be posting over the next few days. I really like the MS corner punch sets that allow you to go all the way around a rectangle or square. This punch set is the scroll set and is one of my favourites. The flowers are Prima, and the background is embossed with my SU poinsettia folder. The star is highlighted with my diamond glitter Gelly Roll pen.

Christmas Penguins

I made this card for my youngest son who just loves penguins. Shhh...don't tell him though as he won't get it for a couple of months yet. The penguins are stamped, then coloured with pencil crayons and gamsol. The white on the hat has white glitter to brighten it up a bit and give it some texture. The penguins are also raised up with 3D foam tape. The lights are coloured with the pencil crayons and gamsol as well, but are finished off with diamond glaze to give them a 3D look. I'm really happy with how that part turned out as it is raised off the page in the shape of a Christmas light and looks pretty good.

Holly Trio

This is just a simple card thanks to my SU Poinsettia EB folder, my MS punch set, and a little Stickles glitter!

Evergreen

I have become quite fond of glitter this year so you will be seeing alot of it on my cards this Christmas season! This card was made using the SU Lovely as a Tree set. I stamped it with Versamark, and then used sticky embossing powder and fine glitter. The edges are sponged with tea stained Ranger Distress ink. The pp was a rak. I decided to keep this one simple without a sentiment as I think the image and colours speak for themselves. I do have a small "Peace on Earth" stamp I may still decide to use in the upper corner.

Anniversary Card to Last for 10 Years!

Front

My friend asked me to make a special anniversary card for her hubby that she could use for the next 10 years! She just filled up a card she has used for the last 10 years, and wanted another one in which she could continue to write special thoughts each year for the next 10 years. I made it with 10 different sections to write in, one for each year. Each section is either stamped or embossed with a CB folder. The flowers are coloured with pencil crayons and gamsol and the centres have white glitter, but unfortunately it isn't too visible in the picture. The background is stamped using Versamark.

Inside - this pic shows 6 of the sections
(The centre bottom embossing says "With Love", but it doesn't show up well in the picture.)

Back - shows four more sections to write in.
(The section on the bottom right is embossed with flowers.)

Birthday Hydrangea

The other day I happened to pick up the Martha Stewart hydrangea punch on sale in Wal-Mart. Of course I had to try it out, and this is what I came up with. I'm loving the textured cs I picked up in the dollar store. The green background cs is a sample of it. The colours are wonderful, and so cheap too! The leaves were cut out by hand and embossed to give them a bit of a 3D appearance. TFL!

A Birthday Wish

I made this for my friend who asked me to make a bunch of cards for her. I had to try out a new CB embossing folder I recently got. I like how clean and simple cards are with these little folders. They are great when you don't have lots of time to work on a card.

Wedding Table Set - Placecards and More

A close friend's son got married last month, and I was asked to make some items for the wedding tables. The tables were covered with black and white damask table cloths and had a vase of red flowers in the centre of each one. This is a sample of the placecard I made to match. What's with the fish name you ask? Well, the groom is an avid fisherman, so they decided to give each of the tables a fish name instead of a number. The placecards were pretty time consuming given all the layers on the flowers plus all the layers of the card, and I had to make 128 of them! Thankfully it wasn't a very big wedding reception.

Here is a close-up of of the menu. Sounds like a yummy meal doesn't it?

This picture shows you how many menus I had to make. There are 17 of them there which means lots and lots of layers, especially including the layers on the flowers too!

And of course...a sample of the table number, uhh I mean fish!

This picture shows how I did 17 different fish, each one printed by computer, but painstakingly cut out by hand and then mounted with 3D foam tape. Each card is the same on both sides, so technically I had to do 34 of them altogether.

Monochromatic Thankyou

This is just a simple thank you card that I made for a friend who treated me to a "ladies only" weekend at her family cottage. We had such a wonderful and relaxing time. I found some wonderful textured cs in the dollar store and just loved this colour so I had to use it. The sentiment is embossed in white to stand out over the pink. It's not like me to not put any butterflies or flowers on a card, but this just seemed to be fine without them. Sometimes, simple is nice too!

51 Years, Wow!

My in-laws celebrated their 51st anniversary yesterday, which to me is an amazing feat. We invited them over for dinner as we often do on a Sunday, only this time we used all the good china and silverware and tried to make it a little more special than usual. I made this card for them using the SCS300 sketch challenge. The papers are a real mix - Anna Griffin, MME, K&Co, and even one from the dollar store. I had to try out my new MS combo scroll punch set as well. TFL!

Pink, Purple & Green, But Still Out of the Blue!

I bought these stickers a long time ago, and had only used a couple out of the package. Somehow, the idea struck me to pull them out again and use them. I was pretty happy with the result. Funny how an idea just hits you out of the blue like that! The embellie and the cs are all from the dollar store. The flowers are coloured with pencil crayons and gamsol. TFL

Butterflies and a Rose

I made this card just for fun and ended up using it for a bridal shower. I had some wrapping paper that surprisingly matched it quite well. The butterflies are embossed with the CB textiles folder, and the image is coloured with pencil crayons and gamsol. TFL!

Hershey - Our New Puppy!

Introducing Hershey, our new Shih Tzu puppy. This picture was taken the day we brought her home when she was 7 1/2 weeks old. She was only 2 1/2 pounds and will grow to be about 14-16 pounds. Our four kids as well as myself were just ecstatic to have a new dog. My DH is happy too, just not as excited as the rest of us as he didn't grow up with a dog. He is gradually becoming quite fond of her though.
Here I am with our new little rascal! The pictures make her look black and white, but she is actually tri-colour. Her face mask and the tips of her ears are black, but the coloured patches are brown with black streaks. One side has more colour than the other. The white side has a big brown spot on it and it looks like a Hershey kiss or a chocolate chip.
The Shih tzu is a very social breed as it was originally bred to be a lap dog for Tibetan/Chinese royalty. They typically love everyone and have to be near you all the time as this picture clearly shows. Hershey's new favourite spot is right at my feet where I work!

We definitely picked a smart one. It took me only 3 days to teach Hershey to sit, stay, come, shake a paw, lay down, and speak! My daughter has since taught her to sit pretty. It's amazing how quickly they learn when they are so young. Now if we can get her totally toilet trained we'll be all set!

Finally - A Chance to Post Some Cards!

I can't believe it has been more than a month since I have had the time to post something! I'm going to make up for lost time though, because I have lots of items to post over the next few days. I have been a very busy girl!

This card, to start with is a spring card I whipped up quickly for a party my son went to back in the summer. He needed a card for his friend's birthday. Nothing fancy, just a quick and simple card. Gotta love those once in awhile!

Thank You for Some Kind Friends

A pastor of mine once said, "God gives you what someone else needs, and gives someone else what you need". Some Christian friends recently proved that to be true. We haven't seen or spoken to them in a long while and yet, out of the blue, they provided an answer to prayer for us and they didn't even know that we had been praying for it! Certainly God had something to do with that!

So I made this thank you card for our very kind friends. I stamped the images with permanent ink, and then coloured them with pencil crayons and gamsol. Simple, but it allowed me to have enough room inside to write a nice note of thanks.