23 Days 'til Christmas

Today's card features a greeting from Memory Box, the adorable snowman from Paper Smooches Swanky Snowdudes set, papers from October Afternoon and a little glass glitter for a snow effect.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you'll check back tomorrow for more holiday card designs.

Black Friday

Happy Black Friday! For those of you out shopping today I wish you luck.

I have another Christmas card to share today. This one uses the same stamp set from Inkadinkado as yesterday's card. For this one, I embossed the tree with clear embossing powder on October Afternoon patterned paper and then sponged Walnut stain distress ink over the entire piece to bring out the embossed image. I added some brown trim I picked up at an estate sale recently along with white seam binding and a paper rose made from some vintage sheet music. The die for the rose is from My Favorite Things. I applied B00 Copic to the flower to give it some subtle color and help match it to the patterned paper. The leaves are from the Spellbinders Foliage dies. The scalloped image and sentiment both use the Spellbinders Long Classic Scalloped Rect dies.

Thanks so much for stopping. Happy Shopping to those of you participating in Black Friday!

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing all of you celebrating Thanksgiving today a wonderful day with friends and family. Hopefully you're not stressing out about the food and are able to enjoy the day. Unfortunately I don't have a Thanksgiving card to share with you today but I do have a couple of Christmas cards to share.

My daughter recently found this stamp set for $1.99 at TJMaxx and bought it for me. I had to ink it up as soon as she brought it home. I paired it with papers from the Jovial collection from Basic Grey. The 12x12 papers are double sided so by using this simple layout I was able to make 5 cards from one sheet of designer paper plus a matching scrap of My Mind's Eye paper for the circle borders around the sentiment. The snowman stamp and snowflake are from Inkadinkado and the sentiment is from Memory Box. For fun, I added some A Muse Studio glitter to some of the circles around the snowman image.

Thanks so much for stopping. Happy Thanksgiving!

Penguin Christmas

I wanted a cute card to send to my niece this year because it's her first Christmas in her own apartment. I pulled out some memory box stamps and BasicGrey papers and came up with this card. The santa hat and the tag the penguin is on were mounted with pop dots.

I am happy to report that I put my Christmas cards in the mail this past Saturday so I could check that off of my list of things to do. Then we spent all day on Saturday shopping and finished most of it. Sunday morning I wrapped gifts and then we were off to our first family holiday gathering.
May your day be stress-free as you prepare for the holidays!

Not Enough

So I finally sat down to work on updating my address list and get started on addressing our cards only to discover that I hadn't made nearly enough cards for the number of people on the list. Gee, when did our Christmas card list get so long. . .

Anyway, I needed more cards so I pulled out one of the Studio G $1 sets and stamped the stocking several times with Palette Hybrid Black on white cardstock and then colored them in with my copics. I added distress stickles to the stockings too. Here are a couple of the cards I put together rather quickly.

This one uses papers from the K&Company Christmas Cheer pack. I also used the SU scallop border punch. The card bases are wonderful textured natural (cream) colored cardstock I purchased from InStyle Stamps.

For this card I used a variety of BasicGrey papers. Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're able to take some time to relax and enjoy yourself during this busy season.

Supplies:

• Stamps - Studio G, Memory Box
  
• Ink - Palette Hybrid Black
• Paper - Natural textured, BasicGrey, K&Company, White
  
• Misc - Copics, Scallop border punch, Stickles, Pop dots