Makeover Monday Challenge #8

Now that Christmas is almost here, I've spent the past few days cleaning up my craft space and storing away my Christmas card making supplies.  I'm ready to switch gears and make other types of cards and this week's Makeover Monday Challenge gave me the incentive I needed!

The challenge is to encourage us to use our stash and in cleaning up my supplies, I found plenty of scraps from making my paper albums.  I used two pieces to put on my card base and then faux-stitched around the edges with my white Uni-ball pen.

I cut the labels using SCAL and my Cricut.  I almost forgot the bling, though, and I used my I-rock tool for the first time to add the blue bling to the label.  I bought the I-rock at the convention last summer and it's a shame it's taken me this long to try it out.  It's a great tool.

Here's the link to the challenge: Make over Monday challenge

Thanks for looking!



Holiday Card Makeover Challenge

Through my blog wanderings, I found the Paper Crafter's Library - PCL.  I'm enjoying their Makeover Monday challenges and I found the time this week to enter a card.  I kept it simple and used my stash of paper, which is a Recollections 4x6 paper pad that I bought at Michael's. 

Since the paper had the words "Merry Christmas", I used that as the greeting instead of stamping another one - saves time!   This was so easy and it helped use up some of my paper stash.

Holiday Cards

Instead of doing housework, I'm creating cards!  I used stockings from the Very Merry Tags cartridge using my Gypsy (I'm still learning how to use it) and the Recollections Holiday Traditions paper pad.  This card was one mistake after another.... I wasn't going to put a greeting at the top, but I dribbled Glossy Accents and had to cover it up!

I'm entering this card in FCCB's Challenge #88 - Holiday Card

My second holiday card used a SVG from Lettering Delight's Holiday Lights set.  The snowman was sooo adorable.  I cut out all his layers and then embossed the white layer in my Big Shot.  The acetate background has snowflakes that I stamped with Staz-On white ink.  I learned this technique in the Holiday Boot Card Boot Camp.

I'm entering this card in the 2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Holiday Card

Thanks for looking!

Impress your friends!

Hi everyone!  I was blog-hopping on Sunday and found this easy-to-make wreath over at the Simply Sassy Scrapper blog:  Simply Sassy Scrapper

I was eager to use up last year's holiday American Crafts 8x8 paper pad (so I can buy more holiday paper!) and I made the wreath in an hour.  Yes!  An hour!

Here's how my version turned out:

The "Holiday Cheer" SVG is from SVG Cuts.com.  I took it to work to decorate my dreary cubicle and it impressed my friends!  (They don't know it was soooo easy to do).

Thanks for looking!

Happy Thanksgiving from Cocoa Beach!

Happy Thanksgiving!  We're enjoying a long weekend in Florida, staying in Cocoa Beach.

I hope everyone has a great turkey day!



A Nordic Christmas Card

We're up to Day 9 of the Boot Camp!  I had a short time last night to work on a card and thought a sketch from Day 6 would help me put together a card quickly.  Here's the sketch:

Using Basic Grey's Nordic paper and images from Lettering Delight's Nordic Christmas set, here's my finished product:

The sentiment is again from PTI's Stylish Sentiments - Holiday.  There's so many great ideas from this class that I'll be making cards for a while!  (If I can squeeze that in between all of my band volunteer activities!)

Thanks for looking!

Holiday Card Boot Camp - Week 2

It's the beginning of week 2 of our Holiday Card Boot Camp and Kristina and Jennifer had great ideas for us.  I loved the circle card Jennifer taught, but I'll have to get some felt to try making the felt poinsetta.

Instead, I made a poinsetta from paper and cut a shaped holly frame for the card.  The sentiment is from PaperTrey Ink's Stylish Sentiments collection:

I'm enjoying seeing the work of so many creative ladies in this class and adding their blogs to my reading list.  Thanks for looking!