Merry Christmas!

Just a quick post to wish you all HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

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!

InStyle Ginger

Last week I introduced you to Marti from InStyle Stamps and this week I have Ginger for you. I colored her with a combination of copics and prismacolor pencils. The card base is textured Kiwi Kiss with some BasicGrey paper on a white mat. The image panel was cut out with my nesties and then mounted with pop dots. Behind the image panel is a scalloped circle frame. To make the frame I cut out the scallop circle with the larger scalloped nestie and then took the next size down and ran it through again.

Ginger and all her friends are available at InStyle Stamps. Thanks for stopping!

Chickadee Birthday

Today's card is just a simple birthday one using a chickadee image that was sent to me in a RAK. I colored the image using the gamsol/prismacolor pencil technique. The card base is Kraft and the mats are True Thyme.

Bronc Buster Birthday

Let's take a little break from Christmas cards and share a birthday card. For this card I started with a stamped image of the cowboy from Bronc Buster that I received in a RAK. It was stamped in brown on white cardstock so I pulled out my Antique Linen Distress Ink and dragged it down the image like when doing the faux linen technique. Next I sponged the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I did the same treatment to the Birtday tag. Both of those pieces were matted with True Thyme. The designer papers are from BasicGrey and the card base is Kraft. The twine wrapped around the front is from PinkHedgehog Paper Crafts.

Supplies:

• Stamps - SU Bronc Buster, Paptertrey Ink
  
• Ink - Distress Ink Antique Linen and Vintage Photo, Archival Black
• Paper - BasicGrey, White, Kraft, True Thyme
  
• Misc - Twine, Circle punches, Pop dots
  

More Christmas Cards

Ok, here are a couple more Christmas cards I made after discovering I didn't have enough to send out. The trees are from the SU retired Sparkling Season set. I embossed them in gold and bronze, cut them out and mounted them with pop dots. A very simple layout but I like the effect of the embossing and the gold cording and ribbon.

I stopped and bought stamps and addressed most of the envelopes so I'm hopeful that I will get them in the mail before Christmas. Yeah! Thanks for stopping.

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

Fun Announcement: InStyle Stamps

I am so excited to announce that I was invited to be a guest designer for a new stamp company InStyle Stamps! Their first seven images are now available on their site so be sure to check them out. If you make a purchase between now and December 19th, 2008 you will be entered in a drawing for a box full of wonderful eye candy. You can see the details here.

For today's card I chose to work with Marti. I colored her with copics and then I pulled out my glitter and Quickie Glue Pen because I thought she needed a sparkling evening dress. I also added glitter to her necklace. Inside it reads, "40 and fabulous" for my girlfriend who is turning 40 this month.

Don't forget to check out the new InStyle Stamp site and remember, every purchase through December 19th enters you in the drawing for a box of goodies.

It's a cold one here today, -15 currently with a possible high of 0 (zero). I hope you're all staying warm wherever you are. Thanks for stopping by.