Oh Christmas Tree....

I love Christmas trees, they look so pretty, and the real ones smell so nice too. I have tons of Christmas stamps that have trees in them too. I actually cased myself with this card. Last year I stamped Dasher where I stamped this tree. I think the Snow Swirled Tree looks amazing with the retired Bride Specialty paper. I used my brayer to ink over the paper with Elegant Eggplant ink, and then took a tissue and wiped the ink off to reveal the white swirls. The rhinestones are the perfect touch to finish this card off.



Stamps: Many Merry Messages, Snow Swirled
Inks: Elegant Eggplant
Papers: Brushed Silver, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White, Bride DSP (retired)
Misc: Large Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Elegant Eggplant Rick Rack (retired), Brayer, Rhinestones

Scenic Season

Every time I look at this stamp I think how beautiful it is, and think winter is just magical.... then I look outside and see real winter and the moment passes. I am definitely needing a break from old man winter, thankfully we leave for Az in less than a week. I got the idea for this card from the fabulous Jan Tink. If you've never been to her blog you need to check her out, she is amazing. I love the colors here, again they are not your traditional Christmas colors, but they look amazing on this card.


Stamps: Scenic Season, Many Merry Messages
Inks: Night of Navy, Whisper White, Pacific Point
Papers: Rich Razzleberry, Night of Navy, Old Olive, Whisper White
Misc: 1/4" Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, Sponges, Jumbo Eyelets, Brads,

I've been making Christmas cards, cookies, and cupcakes this week and listening to Christmas music the whole time and finally getting more into the Christmas spirit. Our tree has been up for a while now, and the lights were up on the house forever ago, but it still hasn't felt like Christmas around here. I think part of it is going back and forth to the hospital daily and not visiting with Grams at her place. Her place is always decorated so well, and we usually go over in mid to late November and add a few more to the walls outside her door, and several window clings inside too. Grams and Sevastian usually take walks around the whole place to see who else has their doors decorated and then they vote on who has the best door. Sevastian always votes for Grams door since he helped decorate it. I'm hoping it will feel a lot more like Christmas after we watch the school play on Tuesday. There really isn't anything cuter than young kids singing and dancing for their parents.

CAS Seasons Greetings

I have a hard time doing CAS (clean and simple) cards for some reason, but this one pretty much can only be called CAS. It's hard to tell, but the Pacific Point is actually layered onto Whisper White cardstock. All I did for this one was emboss the card front with the Norther Flurry Embossing Folder, and then go over it with a bit of Whisper White ink, add a couple Rhinestones and a greeting and Voila, done.

Stamps: Many Merry Messages
Inks: Whisper White
Papers: Whisper White, Pacific Point
Misc: Rhinestones, Northern Flurry Embossing Folder

I actually managed to get the Christmas Tree up tonight. I offered to take my sister in laws kids for a sleep over, and they had so much fun putting up the tree at their house that we did it here too. It was awesome. I barely had to do anything, except the top part of the tree, since none of them could reach it. Hubby was thrilled that all he had to do was get the tree down, plug in one cord, and put the topper on (that's tradition around here). We are making homemade tortillas and scrambled eggs in the am for breakfast, so I'd best be going to bed. I need to be up early with this many kids in the house.

Many Merry Christmas'

One of my all time favorite Christmas stamps is called Many Merry Messages. It is fantastic for both the outside and inside of any Christmas card. I use it at pretty much every Christmas SAS I do and most club nights that have anything to do with Christmas too. The rest of this card uses the new Northern Flurry embossing folder and the Level 1 hostess set from the current mini. If you like these stamps you need to host a qualifying workshop or party before Jan 3rd. I still have a few dates available, so contact me today.




Stamps: Many Merry Messages, Northern Hearts
Inks: Pacific Point, Crushed Concord, Whisper White
Papers: Whisper White, Pacific Point, Crushed Concord
Misc: Northern Flurry Embossing Folder, Rhinestones, Sponges, Dimensionals, Rhinestone Brads

I'm not sure you can see it real well in the photos, but the ribbon of paper with the saying Merry Christmas is actually curved outwards, and does not lay flat. I love the look it gives the card.

Holiday Mail...

... so I mailed off all of my Christmas cards today. I ended up making a total of 67 cards. Most were to family.... and several cards were not just from my family but I also included my Grandmother on them too. She lives less than a kilometer from us in an assisted living facility and it is so awesome to have her here. She had surgery on her spine earlier this year and has a very hard recovery, esp since the damn nurses tore BOTH her rotator cuffs and her even more inept Dr didn't do anything for 7!!! freaking months. Anyways it is really hard for her to write still so I decided to help her out this year by sending cards to people I don't normally send cards to and signing her name on them as well so she did not have to. When I took all the cards over to her earlier tonight to show them to her, and to get her seal of approval, she was crying while telling me how beautiful they all were. I have to admit it felt really great not only to help her out, but also to know just how much my Grams appreciates it.


I also went to my niece's birthday party today and after it was over while most of the kids were playing I did some 'playing' with my sister in law. This is the card we made today. We also did a Santa pillow box 'gift bag' and a couple ornaments with glitter and rub-ons.



Stamps: Dasher, Many Merry Messages
Ink: Elegant Eggplant
Paper: Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White, Brushed Silver Cardstock
Misc: Orchard Ribbon Originals, Dazzlin' Diamonds Glitter, Large Oval & Scallop Oval Punches

There are just so many things I love about this card. First is the Bride DSP. It is actually white on white, but you can color it, and I did it Elegant Eggplant here. I also love Ric Rak and this is Elegant Eggplant from the Orchard Ribbon Originals. And how can we not mention Dasher?
This is such a wonderful stamp, and he is only 10.95, plus who doesn't love a little bling?

I also made this cake for her birthday. My sister in law saw a cake similar to this online and asked if I would try it. if you couldn't tell from the cake, my niece LOVES The Wiggles.


I am off to bed... I have way to much to do tomorrow to get ready to leave for my wonderful trip to AZ!!!! I am getting very excited.

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Simple Christmas

I am once again trying to expand my color choices. I usually stick to only my favorites and then I get stuck in ruts. I did a card a while back that used Not Quite Navy and I am really liking this color. It will never replace Night of Navy for me, but I will have to buy another pack of it soon as I am running low.



Stamps: Loads of Love & Many Merry Messages
Ink: Not Quite Navy & Whisper White Craft
Paper: Whisper White, Not Quite Navy & Bashful Blue
Misc: Whisper White 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon

I know this is not craft related at all but I really need to say how upset I am that in the last 1 second of the game my beloved Roughriders lost the CFL Grey Cup!! I could not believe what I was watching. We were ahead at the half by 14!!! and somehow lost on a field goal AFTER the clock read 0:00. Hockey is my sport of choice, but I have been a Roughrider fan since I was born, (I am pretty sure it is mandatory to be a die hard Roughrider fan if you have ever lived in Saskatchewan) We went over to my grams place this evening to drop some Christmas decorations off on our way home from a Christmas party and I was slightly shocked to see my 87 year old grandma sitting on the edge of her seat watching the start of the game. We decided to stay at her place and watch the whole game with her, and I must say it was definitely an experience to watch her watch the game.

Anyways, enough of that talk. I finished my penguin card last night and tomorrow I will take some pictures of it and get it up on here for you all.

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Season of Joy Part 5

This is the 2nd last card of the Season of Joy that I will be posting. I will then get back to posting all the other cards I have been making.

This is a fairly simple card, and took no time at all to make. The cardstock is Tempting Turquoise (#102067), Lovely Lilac (#100427) and Whisper White (#100730). I also used Whisper White craft ink (#101731), Tempting Turquoise (#100814) and Lovely Lilac (#102874) classic inks, Elegant Eggplant 1/4" grosgrain ribbon (#109039), the 1 1/4" circle punch (#104403) and the scallop circle punch (#109043). The stamp sets are Season of Joy (#110384) and Many Merry Messages (#116586) for the greeting.




Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Season of Joy Part 2

This is another card I made using Season of Joy. I also think it is funny that I really do HATE pink, but here is another card that is PINK! Melon Mambo is the nicest pink I have ever seen in my life. I will end up using it quite a bit I think, esp since I have 7 nieces that live close to me. I also wanted to pick colors that really are not traditionally Christmas colors. This uses Melon Mambo textured cardstock (#115719 assorted pack), Whisper White (#100730) and Basic Black (#102851) cardstock. I used Melon Mambo markers (#116329 assorted pack), Basic Black classic ink (#101179) and Whisper White craft ink (#101731). Silver brads (#104336) were used in the middle of the flowers as well as Stampin' Dimensionals (#104430) behind them to make them pop. The ribbon is Melon Mambo 1/2" grosgrain polka-dot (#115611) and the stamp sets are Season of Joy (#110384) and Many Merry Messages (#116586) for the greeting.


I also love that just by changing the greeting this can be a great birthday, mother's day, of just thinking of you card.... the possibilities are endless.


Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

a new card, finally!!

So I finally got a card uploaded that I cased tonight, the original is done by Donna at butternutsagedesigns.blogspot. Hers is way nicer than mine ever could be, but I tried something new. I am going to be doing a variation of this card (same technique, different card) in my September Christmas Card Class. If you want to sign up for that, just leave me a comment, or email me. I also messed up on this card slightly since I did not wait for the ink to dry, before cutting it down to size and I smeared the ink.


Until next time Happy Scrapping!