Happy New Year and welcome to 2010, I have been dragging my blogging heals. I have not been overly creative since making my Christmas cards. I wonder if I just wore out my little creative being for a bit. I am plugging away at some cards and hope to get them posted in the next week or so though. I have not been doing much in the way of blog rounds either, I know there have been a lot of crafty people being busy but I apologize I have not been visiting. I hope to get a little of that done soon too.

This was a quick card I did before Christmas, I was so excited to make a card with this new Japanese paper I picked up at the local stamp store. I had also been to a demo at Michaels for a book mark that is just so cute, the beads on this card are similar to what was at the top of the bookmark. I wanted to see if I could make it work on the card, that jury is still out on what I think about the beads. The little metal piece could pass for a brad but is actually makings for jewelry I found at Michaels. I love the Japanese paper and coupled with the suede like designer paper I purchased from Paperwishes I was happy with the end result.

Supplies: Cream cardstock, black suede Designer paper, Japanese designer paper, Inkadinkado-Lotus Flower, misc-Just for you, misc beads and fashion accessory, red velvet ribbon.

Have a great week… yes I know it is half over :)

I love the almost vintage look about this card, I stamped it in Versafine Sepia then added glitter on edges of the whole image so that it sparkled as if a new skiff of snow had fallen on it.

The pointsettas were embossed with Metallic Medley, I also embossed the tips of the brads to give them a sugar coated look.






Supplies: Cream and brown cardstock, Stampin'Up! - Sleigh Bells Ring, misc pointsetta, Cornish Heritage Farms - Christmastide, Spellbinders - Double ended tags, misc ribbon.

This is a Christmas card that I made for my son's music teacher, I loved the music notes and the glitter on the designer paper.






Supplies: Cream and Blue cardstock, Bo Bunny's Glitter Series, Martha Stewart- Snowflake punch, Making Memories Snowflake Charm, Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Fancy Tags, misc silver brad.

I made this card for a Baby's first Christmas for a little boy.




Supplies: Cream and blue cardstock, Designer Paper - Bo Bunny, Sunshine Design - Mittens, Martha Stewart - Snowflake Punch, Recollections - Pearls.

I saw these Dazzles on a PaperWishes Demo and wanted to give them a try, I used the Stackable Pointsetta on a burgundy suede and plaid designer paper. The suede designer papers are so touchable, almost like a thin velvet.

I used a green suede designer paper for the leaves. Then finished it off with Christmas Greetings Dazzle to finish.


The inside shows a dazzle just put on plaid designer paper.

Supplies: Supplies: Cream cardstock, Designer paper burgundy and green suede - Hot off the press and Misc plaid, Hot off the Press Stackable Pointsetta and Christmas Greetings Dazzles, Recollections - Gems.

I found this stamp hiding in my stash and wanted to see what I could make with it. After it was created I thought I might try my hand at entering it into a card contest at a local stamp store.. I won second place :). I am pretty happy with myself.



Supplies: Cream and green cardstock, Designer papers: Kaisercraft - Winter Wonderland Silent Night, Inkadinkado – A Light for the Holidays, Cornish Heritage Farms - Wishing you Christmas Cheer,Martha Stewart – branch punch, Spellbinders Nestabilities – Labels Four, Kaisercraft- Pearls, atyouSpica – Glitter markers, Gelly Roll – Clear star.

I thought this would be a cute card for our friends that have children, I had fun making it. I used the Paper Shapers Snowflake Border Punch along the edge.

I used the Spellbinders Nestabilites Small Classic Inverted Scalloped Square.




Supplies: Cream and blue cardstock, Close to my Heart – Snow Friends, Inkadinkado – Seasons Greetings ,White perfect puff, misc Let it snow ribbon, misc foam snowflake, brad and metallic snowflake, Midnights stars embossing powder.

Gold and green, this is the third and last in this Christmas set. I could not find any green velvet ribbon for this card so I made the change to gold. Gold shimmer cardstock and a gold shimmery ribbon.

The 'Holiday Cheer' seemed a better fit for this card as well. I love Stickles :)




Supplies: Cream, gold and green cardstock, Penny Black - Fantasy, Cornish Heritage Farms- Vintage Christmas, misc pointsetta stamp, gold shimmery ribbon, Stickles, Ranger Antiquities Christmas Tree and Queens Gold embossing powder.

Blue Christmas :). This is the blue version of the card I posted yesterday, I probably should have posted all three colours together but I like giving them thier own little spot-light time.

I did not realize the extent of my Stickles collection until I started to make these cards, I used about 4 different colours of blue then a silver and white.

Again, I love that little pointsetta stamp, it looks good in all the colours. I think I found it in a dollar store one day for less then a dollar.





Supplies: Cream, silver and blue cardstock, Penny Black - Fantasy, Cornish Heritage Farms- Vintage Christmas, misc pointsetta stamp, blue velvet ribbon, Stickles, misc Midnight Stars embossing powder, silver embossing powder.

There are only a small number of times during the year that I mass produce cards, Easter, Halloween and then Christmas and even then some detail of the card may change, ribbon, brads, gems something small.

Not so much for the Christmas cards, this card is one of my favourites, so much so that I made it in three different colours. I used 6 different colours of stickles for all those dots.

The pointsetta is embossed with Ranger Embossing Tinsel in red so that it sparkles like the Stickles. I love this little stamp, so much that I have used it on about 4 cards this year. I embossed the flower then cut it out and popped it up with foam.

I love velvet ribbon, I wish I had it in every colour ever made, well maybe not that dramatic but I love it and I think it looks so pretty on this card. I finished this card by embossing Christmas Greetings in silver embossing powder.






Supplies: Cream, silver and red cardstock, Penny Black - Fantasy, Cornish Heritage Farms- Vintage Christmas, misc pointsetta stamp, red velvet ribbon, Stickles, Ranger Embossing Tinsel, silver embossing powder.