Nativity

 

It's Black Friday!
 How many of you braved the stores at the crack of dawn or even earlier to shop?  My husband and I have braved the hordes of shoppers several times.  He is a trooper.  He usually finds a spot in line while I shop.  I really hate crowds.  So black Friday shopping was always very stressful for me.  Gotta find that deal though, right?
I learned several years ago that you can often get the deals that are in the stores online.  So I will be sitting in my pj's and sipping hot chocolate while shopping online.

This card is my reminder of what the season is all about.

I decided to keep the design simple because I really wanted to focus on the image.

This is one of my favorite Penny Black stamps.  Such a sweet scene with the holy family

and the animals.

 

Card Details:

Stamp: Penny Black Nativity

Copics:  E00, E13, E21, B91, W0, W3, T1, T4, B41, R20, R24, R37, R46, E33, E35, e37, E29, YG81, YG84, Y26, Y21

Spellbinders die for the background

Angel

Yesterday I shared a similar card.  I am not sure I like this card but it will be

perfect to send to a guy.

 

Card Details:

Angel: Inspired Heart Cricut cartridge cut at 3 inches

Card Shape: Life's A Party Cricut cartridge cut at 5.5 inches



Nativity

 

 

 

The current challenge at Creative Craft Challenges is to create a Christmas projects without using Red or Green.  This is one of my favorite nativity scenes.  It is just beautiful in it's simplicity.

 

Card Details:

Nativity:  Inspired Heart Cricut cartridge cut at 3.25 inches

Card shape: Life's A Party Cricut cartridge cut at 5.5 inches



Panda Scrapbook Layout

I had so much fun making the panda tear bear Christmas card so I decided to make a scrapbook layout.  This is for my niece.  Her room is white and purple with pandas.  I am going to frame this layout so that she can hand it on her wall.

 

Project Details:

Banner:  Lala Land die

Accent shape: Life's A Party Cricut cartridge cut at 4.5 and 4.75 inches

Beautiful: Cricut cartridge cut at 2 inches

Panda headbands: Everyday Cricut cartridge



My Least Favorite Project

Since all my Christmas cards are made, signed and ready for the post office, I decided it was time to tackle this project....

 

The Cleaning Of The Craft Room!

 

YUCK!

 

Here is what it looks like today. 

 

If I don't get side tracked with a creative project, I may just get this done.



It is time for another challenge at Aud Sentiments.  The theme for this one is the ever popular

"Use Any Sentiment You Want"

We are sponsored by A Day for Daisies

Card Details:

Image:  Hope from A Day For Daisies

Copics: E00, E13, E21, E33, E35, E37, B91, YG91, YG94

Martha Stewart Branch Punch

Love: Inspired Heart Cricut Cartridge cut at 1.75 inches







Panda Tear Bear

 

I made my very first tear bear today. 

Need to practice some more but I think he turned out pretty darn cute! 

My niece loves pandas so this Christmas card is for her.

And of course, I made an easel card.  I think I am addicted to those right now.

I really didn't need any more Christmas cards since I have plenty for this year but I

just had to make my niece this one. 

In January I will share my system that helped me

get all of my Christmas cards done and ready to be  mailed BEFORE Thanksgiving.

All it takes is a little organization to get you started. 

You will still see Christmas cards on my blog until the week before Christmas.  I spread

out my blog posts so that I have Christmas projects to share for awhile.

 

Card Details:

Sketch: Sketch Saturday

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Gift: Joys of The Season Cricut cartridge cut at 2 inches

Santa Hat: Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut cartridge cut for 5 inch doll

Spellbinders ribbon label die

I used white flower soft on the hat trim

 

Entered in following challenges:

Sketch Saturday: Sketch

Crafty Sentiments: Christmas

Incy Wincy Designs: Make and easel card

 



Decorating the Tree

 

I spent an entire Saturday earlier this month working on Christmas cards. 

I managed to complete about 14 cards.  Too bad that is just a little dent

in the cards I need to make for the holidays.

I used one of my favorite card shapes for this one. 

It is cut from the Life's A Party Cricut cartridge

 

 

Card Details:

Card Shape: Life's A Party Cricut cartridge cut at 5.5 inches

Snowflakes: Spellbinders dies

Copics:  E00, E13, E21, R24, R37, R46, R89. BG93, BG96, Y26, T1, T4, W0

While embossing enamel

Snow tes

Sliver and Blue Snowman

I love snowmen and I think the face on this guy is just so cute. 

I wanted to make his scarf and hat look silvery so I first colored them

with T1, T4 copics and then painted with extreme glitter paint.  I love

the way it turn out.  I stamped and embossed around the edge and then

got out my Snow Tex to add some snow to the ground, when I opened the

jar, I discovered it was all dried up.  I must not have put the lid on tight.

Anyway, I added water to the jar to see if I could "revive" it and thank goodness

that worked!  The snowflakes were cut out of this fabulous silver cardstock I found

at Michael's.  It was a little pricey but it cuts beautifully with the spellbinders dies.

 

 

Card Details:

Image: Beccy's Place

Copics: T1, T4, B41, B91, B29, BG10, BG70

Spellbinders snowflakes dies

Cuttlebug snow embossing folder

Sentiment from Netty's stamps

 

Entered in following challenges:

Diva's by Design: Something Snowy

ABC Christmas: Winter Wishes

Stamp n Doodle: Snowmen





Blue Birthday

 

I am having fun making easel cards.  This one is for my sister-in-law's birthday

Blue is her favorite color and I just love this pattern paper with the blues and browns. I bough several sheets of it a few years ago and I was thrilled to find this blue/gray paper in my stash that matches.

I used chunky white and antique white embossing enamel on the card.  I decided to see what it would do if I added some of the embossing enamel to the flowers.  I was afraid the flowers wouldn't hold up to the heat while using the heat gun but they turned out great!

Here is a close up of the flower

 

 

Card Details:

Image: Besties by Sherry Baldy

Copics:  E00, E13, E21, E50, E51, e53, E55, E40, E42, E43, B91, R20, R22, W0

Spellbinders ribbon tags

Chunky white and shabby white embossing enamel

Sketch:  Sketch N Stash

 

Entered in following challenges:

Sketch N Stash: Sketch and my neglected item is the papers and the ribbon tags.

Besties Challenge:  Lots of Layers



Happy Birthday

 

Taking a little break from Christmas cards to make a birthday card.

This sweet little elephant is from Mo's Digital Pencil.

Isn't she just adorable?

After coloring the image, I painted the tutu with extreme glitter paint and then added some stickles.

I also addes stickles to the flowers.

 

Card Details:

Image:  I Heart You from Mo's Digital Pencil

Copics: RV52, RV56, W0, W1, W3, W5, BG70, BG72, BG75

Chunky white embossing enamel

Vintage Pink glitter

Martha Stewart branch punch

Martha Stewart Border punch

Spellbinders ribbon tag

Sketch:Incy Wincy Designs

 

Entered in following challenges:

IncyWincy Designs : Sketch

Creative Creations Challenge: Sparkle and Shine

Stamps and fun Creativity: Easel cards

Through The Craft Room Door: Anything Goes

Mo's Digital Challenge: Anything Goes





Sweet Christmas Wishes

 

This is my card for the new challenge at Creative Craft Challenge

The theme for this challenge is a recipe. 

1 image

2 pattern papers

3 flowers

I used the candy cane stamp from Magnolia Stamps.  After coloring with copics, I painted it with extreme glitter paint to give it a sugary look.

 

 

Card Details:

Image: Magnolia Stamps

Sentiment: Magnolia Stamps

Copics: R24, R37, R46, R89, BG93, BG96, W0

Spellbinders oval and scalloped oval dies

Martha Stewart branch punch

 

Entered in following challenges:
Anonymous Stamps: Anything Goes
Artistic Inspirations: Use A Sentiment
Card Mania: Anything goes
Marker Pop: Anything Goes



 

If Kisses Were Snowflakes

 

The new challenge at Aud Sentiments is to create a "Feminine" project.  We are sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs for this challenge and their images are just perfect for anything feminine.

I had this container sitting in my craft room for a year now.  It used to hold

Christmas snacks.  I decided to alter it slightly and give it to my husband for Christmas.

I created the sentiment myselft using word and some free Christmas fonts I found.

The silver snowflakes were cut using the spellbinders snowflakes dies.  I found this wonderful heavy silver cardstock at Michaels that is called mirror cardstock.  The snowflakes cut beautifully from that paper.

 

Project Details:

Image: Snowman Pin Up from Sassy Studio Designs

Copics:  E00, E11, E13, E21, E29, E35, E55, T1, T4, T7, B34, B37, R39,

Snowflakes:  Spellbinders Dies

 

Entered in following challenges:

The House That Stamps Built: Snow Fun

Inky Impressions:  Dies

Addicted to Stamps: Photo Inspiration

 





Peace

 

 

I saw a twisted easel card with a tea light on Pintrest. 

It was so pretty and I just had to give it a try. I found a wonderful

tutorial at Dawns Stamping Studio called Christmas Peek a boo easel card.

 I followed her dirctions but did change the size of my card

because the stamp I wanted to use was larger. 

My card measures 4.5 x 6

I don't own any of the stampin up supplies she used so I used my

spellbinders dies to cut out the circles.  I am saving the circles for another project. 

I wish I was able to get a decent picture showing the candle glowing behind the vellum.

Trust me when I say it is Beautiful!

 

Card Details:

Twisted Easel Tea Light card

Stamps: clear stamps bought at Michaels

Spellbinders circle, scalloped circle, ribbon tag, leaf and poinsettia dies

Martha Steward border punch

Bronze embossing powder

 

entered in following challenges:

flourishes: Negative energy (I used my spellbinders to cut out cicle openings in my cardstock)

Ribbon Carousel:  Holidays and celebrations