Tropical Christmas

I found this stamp several months ago, and just knew I had to make some (40) Christmas cards for my mom and dad. They live in FL, and often comment about how silly the palm trees look with Christmas lights on them. Hope they enjoy their very very early Christmas gift!! :)

Merry Christmas, Chris!

I made this Christmas card for my hubby.
Entering in the following challenges:
OWH Stars & Stamps - Sketch
The Shabby Tea Room - Scandinavian Christmas
Picture Perfect Creations - Anything Christmas
RECIPE:
STAMPS: Patterned Pines, Four the Holidays
INK: Real Red, Old Olive
PAPER: VV, Old Olive, Real Red, Dashing DSP
OTHER: Old Olive Ribbon

The Shabby Tea Room - Week 41

Good Monday to you! This week's challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room is "Scandinavian Christmas", inspired by a beautiful photo.

This adorable image is from our sponsor this week, Digital Delights. How cute is that gingerbread girl?!? I made this card for my 5 year old for Christmas. She loves receiving a handmade card (I've taught her well!)

Please take a minute to visit the other Design Team Members' blogs to be inspired by their lovely work:
Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl
Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations
Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures
Melissa Bove - Keepsakes By Melissa
Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch


RECIPE:
STAMPS: Gingerbread Cookie
INK: none
PAPER: Creamy Caramel, Real Red, Real Red DSP
OTHER: VV Seam Binding, Dazzling Diamonds, Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch, Glitter Dots from Stamping Bella.

Christmas Card 2010

Here is my Christmas card for 2010. I always like to include a photo of my 2 precious children. I saw THIS last year, and just knew that I had to make that style of card for my Christmas cards. I made 64 of them. It was time consuming. I included my 2 most dreaded things to do in card-making - tying bows and cutting with scissors. That gingerbread man is lucky he's so cute!! :) This might be one of my favorite Christmas cards to date. Now I need to look ahead and raise the bar for next year's card. I should start in June! :)

RECIPE:
STAMPS: PTI Holiday Button Bits, Best Yet

INK: Old Olive, Creamy Caramel

PAPER: VV, Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler

OTHER: Swiss Dots EF, VV Seam Binding, Rectangle Nesties, PTI Buttons

Huge Card Order...

My sister-in-law placed another large card order. She ordered 450 holiday cards and 200 birthday cards, to give to her clients. Needless to say, they needed to be simple and easy to mass produce. The holiday card uses a background snowflake stamp from Hero Arts. The sentiment is from JRS - Christmas Nested Sentiments. The birthday cards use SU's large oval punch and Perfect Punches stamp set, as well as 2 different CB embossing folders.

The Shabby Tea Room - Week 38

This week's challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room is "Get in Shape". Create a card or project with no squares or rectangles. Fun challenge! :) I decided to dust off my Top Note Die and make this cute tag. I can never have enough tags for Christmas gifts!
This week's sponsor is Just Rite Stampers. I used their Sparky the Snowman set. So many adorable images, including the snowflakes, mitten, and sentiment above.
Please take a minute to visit the other Design Team Members' blogs to be inspired by their lovely work:
Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl
Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations
Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures
Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa
Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

RECIPE:
STAMPS: JRS Sparky the Snowman
INK: Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler
PAPER: Crumb Cake, VV
OTHER: Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding, Top Note Die

The Shabby Tea Room - Week 34

It's time for an all new challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room. This week's challenge is inspired by a beautiful kitchen - full of red, blue and polka dots!

Our {sweet} sponsor this week in the Tea Room is There She Goes Stamps and has provided this awesome stamp set for our lucky winner.

Please take a minute to visit the other Design Team Members' blogs to be inspired by their lovely work:

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl

Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

RECIPE:
STAMPS: Short & Sweet, Snow Buddies

INK: Marina Mist, Real Red

PAPER: WW, Real Red, Marina Mist, misc DSP

OTHER: Oval Punches, Real Red Ribbon

Christmas Card Class 2010 - Part 2

Here are the final 2 cards that we made at my upline's Christmas Card Class. I love the navy/silver card! I'm going to turn that into a thank you card for after the holidays.

Christmas Card Class 2010 Part 1

I cannot take credit for these. I made these at my friend and upline's Christmas Card class. They are so pretty, I just had to post them - to hopefully inspire you! :)

JustRite 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hop 8

Welcome to JustRite Stampers’ newest Wednesday feature, 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hops 8! Every Wednesday up until Thanksgiving some of your favorite designers will be joining some of the JustRite design team for a series of Christmas blog hops, showcasing JustRite’s entire Christmas Collection of stamps! And don’t forget that JustRite has some Christmas stamps in their newly released CLING line of stamp sets -- you can find them HERE. This week, the designers joining the JustRite design team are the Flower Soft and The Shabby Tea Room challenge blog design teams!
Please visit these designers’ blogs to see what fabulous JustRite Christmas inspiration they have for you on the hop today!

JustRite Inspiration Blog
JustRite Design Team:
Sharon Harnist
Angela Barkhouse
Sankari Wegman
Stephanie Kraft
Kazan Clark
Michele Kovack
Kellie Fortin
Barb Schram
Debbie Olson
Becca Feeken
Heidi Blankenship

Flower Soft Design Team:
Jeanne Streiff
Debbie Seyer
Gini Cagle
Linda Beeson
Deb Felts
Cibele Glazer
Vicki Garrett
Dina Kowal

The Shabby Tea Room Design Team:
Debbie Marcinkiewicz
Clare Buswell
Pattie Goldman
Lisa Golzbein
Cathy Clark-Sanite

RECIPE:
STAMPS: JRS Christmas Nested Sentiments
INK: Basic Grey
PAPER: WW, Bashful Blue, Basic Grey
OTHER: Northern Flurry EF, Rhinestones, Rectangle Nesties, Bashful Blue Satin Ribbon

Yay! 500 Christmas Cards are Done!!!

I'm so happy! I set a goal and actually achieved it - ahead of schedule! I think that's a first! :) Back in May, for Operation Write Home's Memorial Day Blog Hop, I set a goal to make 500 Christmas cards for the troops. I was so touched by that Blog Hop. My first 3 designs of clean and simple Christmas cards can be found HERE. I made approx 100 of each design. The cards shown above are ridiculously easy. I'm almost embarrassed to post them, but I felt I needed to.

RECIPE:
STAMPS: Dasher, PTI Mailbox Greetings, PTI Holiday Wishes

INK: Cherry Cobbler, Choc Chip

PAPER: WW, Cherry Cobbler, VV, Choc Chip

OTHER: NEW Northern Flurry EF

Christmas Cards for Troops

Back in May, during Operation Write Home's Memorial Day Blog Hop, I set a goal to make 500 Christmas cards this year for our troops. I just finished 280, so I have 220 left to make. I'm determined!! Above are 3 designs that I have made so far. I need to come up with 2 more clean and simple designs for the remaining 220 I have left to make. Wish me luck! :)

Hello Dasher!

I just HAD to dust off my Dasher stamp!! This is one of my all time favorite Christmas stamps. I made this card for 3 current challenges over at Operation Write Home.

~Sketch

~Paper Piercing

~Christmas in July

RECIPE:
STAMPS: Dasher, Short & Sweet

INK: Choc Chip

PAPER: VV, Real Red, Dashing DSP
OTHER: Paper Piercing Kit (a must have!)

The Shabby Tea Room ~ Week 20

Good Monday to you! It's time for an all new challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room. I am the host this week! :) The theme this week is: "123" ~ Make a card or project using 1 Ribbon, 2 Buttons, and 3 Punches.

Our very generous sponsor this week is Just Rite Stampers and they provided the DT with one of their new relase sets, From Our Home. It is such a versatile set for the upcoming holidays! For this card, I used the snowflake image.

Please take a minute to visit the other Design Team Members' blogs to be inspired by their lovely work:
Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's weblog
Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl
Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute by Lisa
Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession

RECIPE:
STAMPS: JRS - From Our Home; Four The Holidays

INK: Basic Gray; Bashful Blue

PAPER: Basic Gray; Bashful Blue; WW; Bridal DSP

OTHER: Bashful Blue Buttons; Rhinestone Brad; Basic Gray Satin Ribbon; Silver Elastic Cord;

The Shabby Tea Room - Week 18

This week's challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room is "Christmas in July". Fun, fun fun!! I love to make Christmas cards, and I love to make 'em early so I don't have to rush through them. This poor Lily stamp, from Pink Cat Studios, doesn't get inked up nearly enough. She's so sweet, reminds me of my Bella. :)

Be sure to stop by our other DT's blogs for more inspiration!!

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl
Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa

Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession

Come play along at The Shabby Tea Room ~ our fab-u-lous sponsor this week is:

Frost It Pink

RECIPE:
STAMP: Dress Up Lily

INK: BB, SU and Copic Markers

PAPER: WW, Real Red, Garden Green

OTHER: Diamond Stickles, Real Red Ribbon, Poinsettia EF (SU)

Snowman Thanks

Merry Belated Christmas and Happy Early New Year to those of you who still follow my blog!! Sorry that I've been a non-blogger for so long. Tis the season! :) I promise to make an effort to be a better blogger in 2010!

Bella and Gianna got some great Christmas gifts from family and friends, so I decided to make some special thank you's to send out. So I turned to my snowman stamp. Love this chubby guy. Easy card to mass produce. Now I need to find a way to keep Bella still long enough to sign her name to all of these! **sorry for the side ways pic - I'm computer challenged, and can't figure out how to change it! **

Recipe:

Stamp: Simple Seasonal Thanks

Paper: WW, Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay

Ink: BB

Other: In color markers, 2 way glue pen, dazzling diamonds

Teacher Gift

My sister in law asked me to make 15 gifts for her childrens' teachers, coaches, bus drivers, etc. So I decided to use one of Lauren Meader's My Timeless Templates - Get a Handle on It. I think they turned out cute. I also made a coordinating 3x3 holiday card to go with each box for the kids to sign. The boxes were filled with chocolates and caramels. Yumm! :)

RECIPE:

STAMP: Dasher (love that lil reindeer!)

PAPER: vanilla, old olive, merry moments dsp, choc chip, real red

INK: choc chip, real red

ACCESS: square nesties, oval punch for handles, circle punches and scalloped cirale punch for card

Easy Peasy Christmas Cards

Here are 2 more Christmas cards that I made for craft shows. I am selling them in sets of 8. They were easy to mass produce.

STAMPS: Delightful Decorations, Snow Swirled

INK: Real Red, Bashful Blue, Going Grey, Bordering Blue

PAPER: Same as above, ww,

ACCESS: Petals a Plenty embossing folder, silver elastic cording, diamond stickles, rhinestones, ornament punch

More Craft Show Creations...

Long time, No blogging...I'm still here, still crafting away! My crafting "to do" list is a mile long from now utnil Christmas. I wanted to share a few of my newest creations for upcoming craft shows that I am participating in...

The card above is my favorite creation, as of late. It's so much prettier in real life. My camera skills are lacking...

STAMPS: Snow Swirled, Four the Holidays

INK: Rich Razzleberry, Mellow Moss

PAPER: Same as ink, vanilla

ACCESS: corner rounder punch, magenta stickles, rich razzleberry ribbon, misc hodgepodge