Christmas Sketch Challenge #19

Back to my Christmas card challenges. Just two more left. This one is for Sketch Challenge #18. If you click on the link you will see the sketch I had to follow. I turned the sketch on its side, because my image is portrait. I really like the cranberry pattern paper I used with the Basics Evensong Collection paper. This paper is from Route 66 and goes well with holiday patterns. In addition, I made this card 6 x 6, because of the size of my main image. This one will have to go into a gift bag, since the post office is so particular these days.

Card recipe: All products CTMH unless noted. Paper - Basics Evensong Collection; cranberry cs, white daisy cs, new england ivy cs; Stamps - Holiday Joy; Ink - cranberry, new england ivy; Accessories - new england ivy designer ribbon, new england ivy bigger brads, red bling (Paper Studio), scallop circle punch (SU), 1 3/8" circle punch (SU), white gel pen (SU), pop dots (SU)

Happy Stamping!

Buttons & Numbers

I have been busy this week reorganizing all of my stamps. Oh My! I didn't realize I had that many. You know what I mean. I knew I had a lot, but when I counted them. WOW! I put two polls you can take on my sidebar regarding stamps. Take a look!

Last weekend, Patti came over to stamp on Saturday night and I worked on more popsicle cards. Before she came over I finished two more Christmas card challenges from Christmas Stampin' All Year Long. I am not caught up, but I haven't given up on the challenges. I will get there some day.

My first card is for the button and ribbon challenge. Christmas trees are perfect for this. I caught myself reaching for my brads after I put the buttons on the tree. Duh! I needed to use another button, so I added the big button in the corner. I like these challenges, because they make me use products I might not use. I always use brads and ribbon.

For this card I used the Basic Collections Evensong pack and Everlasting paper pack (CTMH). The image is from Holiday Joy stamp set (CTMH).

My second card is for the number challenge. I was searching through my chipboard and came across this square to highlight an image. I covered it in paper from Route 66 pack and used the Santa image from Holiday Joy. The numbers are from the Homestead Alphabet set. One of my favorite "E" sized alphas from CTMH. Happy Holidays is from Christmas Scripts. The other paper paper is from the Everlasting paper pack.

I made both of these cards with scraps from my scrap bins, except for the card bases.

It is hot and humid today, so we are going out to the pool for some fun & sun.

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Holiday Card Workshop

I am going to hold a Holiday Card Workshop in November, so I have been busy creating some cards for this event. I wanted to keep them simple, but still have a wow factor! I used bling to accomplish that....LOL! Bling is AWESOME!

I used the new Creative Basics Evensong Collection for the paper and five different stamp sets.

• Vintage Christmas
• Victorian Snowflake
• Boutique Alphabet
• Christmas Scripts
• Holiday Joy

Which one is your favorite?

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Holiday Album

Holy Moly! I almost forgot to post tonight. I was taking some online CTMH classes and was shutting down my computer, when I remembered I hadn't shown you the awesome 9 x 9 holiday album we created at convention. I have been saving this for last, because I think it is so cool and it was easy and fun to make.

We used the Everlasting paper pack, which has become one of my favorites and Holiday Joy and Victorian Snowflakes stamp sets. Oh, the bling adds just the right touch. This is the first time I got to use the new lowercase chipboard alphabet too! It is all soooo good! Life is good! I didn't put pictures on mine yet, because I might wait for this years. Enjoy this eye candy!

Here is the front cover! We inked the chipboard letters on the front and back cover with a sponge and cranberry ink. You should see this in person...it is even better in real life!


First and second page after the cover! Look at all that bling! This snowflake runner is so easy to make it look seamless. I really, really, really suggest this stamp set (Victorian Snowflake), if you haven't purchased it already.


These are the last two pages. Those stockings are so stinkin' cute! We were able to bend the flourishes to make them look like photo corners, because the stamp sets are acrylix.


Last but not least the back cover! We finished the wish with a little bling and ribbon. Wow! I can't wait to get my pictures on this to display for the holidays.


Thanks for stopping by and Happy Stamping!

Joy to the World

When I started these Christmas cards I wanted to use the following:

• New CTMH paper and new stamp sets from the 2007 Autumn/Winter Idea Book
  
• Each pattern paper from the packet - I used the Everlasting. I used five of the six patterns.
  
• Stamp sets - I used Holiday Joy and Jingle Borders.
• Nothing that would add bulk - I wanted the card to lay flat, so I could mail them without an extra charge from the post office. I used twill ribbon from CTMH.
  

I used my new glitter on the tree. It looks much better in person. The glitter shows up a lot better than in the photos.

Here are the five cards I created:


Card 1
Card 2
Card 3
Card 4
Card 5
I would love to know which one you like the best. Please vote for one in the comments section. I am thinking about making one of these for my Christmas card this year. THANKS!

Happy Stamping!

You Can Stop Laughing Now

Okay, Okay! The first thing I thought of when I woke up this morning was that I left the stockings hanging in space on my last card. I was talking to my sister and told her and she laughed. Then she said and stockings don't hang straight either. She got a big chuckle out of that one, so I had to rework the card and fix it. You would think I would know that stockings don't hang straight. I do; however, we don't hang our stockings. We put them in front of the tree, so I didn't think about it when I was making the card. Whew! It looks better now. In addition, I put brads in to be the stocking hangers this time.


Thanks for looking at this one again and not writing comments about my mistake. My sister wanted to, but decided against it.

Happy Stamping!