Up close Christmas cards

Here's an up close look at the cards. I have a really nice camera...but for some reason my pictures to post don't turn out as good as when I used the old camera. Any tips out there?

Happy Monday

Darleia

Snow Swirled Christmas Cards this year

This year even though I had fun making projects with other stamp sets, I made 48 of these to send to famliy and friends that are all over the country. My DH liked the simple lines, and the red and green Christmas colors. My DD helped with the sparkle red stickles on the trees that give them the extra little touch they needed. I used Riding Hood red, and Garden Green, along with brushed gold SU paper.

I have blog candy to give away...but I don't seem to have much activity on my site, to know who would be interested anyhow. So, if you are out there let me know and I'll post some. Otherwise, I'll just assume I am doing this for my DS in Montana.

Merry Christmas

Hope you are having a very Merry Christmas! We love having a white Christmas. We are dog setting for some friends while they are gone for two weeks. We love having Daisy- and will be sad when she goes home!

This is another snowflake card, Interestingly enough, these are not the cards I sent out this year. I'll post those tomorrow. This is a card I made when I was playing around with Ridinghood Red, and Kiwi Kiss. I used last year's Celebration Scalloped set, along with the big die cut snowflake from Stampin' up on the Big Shot. I hope your holidays are filled with cheer and a very happy New Year!

More snowflake cards

Gotta love the snowflakes! Here's a double post for today. I can't wait to do a scrapbook page with this. This time I used the Pacific point, and dazzling diamonds with a craft white embossed Merry Christmas. In the hustle and bustle of the season, I am missing my embossing buddy. My DH had some interesting questions about what exactly I was looking for when I was announcing that it was missing. It's a good thing we haven't lost our sence of humor!

Red and Gold snowflake

Wow! I can't believe it has been so long since I've posted. I have been stamping in the wee hours of the morning as life has been incredibly busy, along with some major computer issues. Hopefully I am back! I am excited about Christmas, I still have to make my Christmas cards... so they may come a few days later than usual this time!

I used the Riding Hood Red, and the versamark on the retired wheel with a gold embossed image from Punches Three. It's simple and fun for the season.

Big Snowflake

I finally got my big Shot big snowflake! I love it, of course, what's not to love about Big Shot?

This was made using Baja Breeze, I know I've used this color a lot lately-but it's beautiful! The center is a filigree and rhinestone brad. It looks way better in real life.

The sentiment is from the Country Living kit, and embossed with white ep using craft ink.

This was a simple and clean card without a lot of layers. Can you imagine this in red? Hmmm. I can! Have a great day!

Upsy Daisy 2

Happy Monday! We had a fun Halloween, now I am taking time to post a birthday card I made with the awesome set Upsy Daisy... Here I used the new In Colors Baja Breeze and Pacific Point, with Chocolate Chip. I used a flower slider from the Hodgepodge Elements, and sprinkled blue glitter from the SU glitter collection in it. I also used the set Live Your Dream for the sentiment, then I sponged the edges to create that "finished look". Hope you like it!

Batty for You

Hello! It 's been a wild week or two, we've been fighting sicknesses and then had Parent Teacher conferences for several days, but I've been fitting in a bit of stamping here and there when I can. These are some Halloween treats my DD and I made for her class. She is very excited about them, of course I think she snuck a few on the side : ) I hope they like them. It's about time to start making Christmas cards!

Recipe: Batty For You, circle punch, scallop punch. Used paper and ink, Only Orange, Tempting Torquoise, Real Read, Lovely Lilac.

Season of Friendship

I love this set. I am so excited about finding this in the mini! I missed getting Three Trees a long time ago when it came out, and always wished I had, until now. I actually like this one better. I couldn't wait to ink it up. It is a very easy to use set too-it comes die cut, and then it can be used in so many different ways... hoping the Birthday person will like this, meaning I will have to make another one for myself soon before I can give it away.

Recipe: Stamps Season of Friendship, Upsy DaisySU paper Really Rust, Baja Breeze, Whisper White.SU markers for the leaves, Really Rust, More Mustard, Old Olive.

Tree: SU classic pad Close to Cocoa, then scalloped edges with the long scallop punch, ticket corner, large oval punch, sentiment and bird stamped in Baja Breeze.

House of Haunts

Remember when you were little and you thought there was some house by you that was really creepy? I remember being scared when I had to walk from the bus stop and go by it! My imagination ran wild! I liked this set when I saw it, so I had to make a couple of Halloween cards with it. I used Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, and whisper white paper.

To create the background I punched a circle out, to mask off the moon. Then I sponged the sky with Elegant Eggplant. After the sky was taken care of, I went back and watercolored the moon yellow and orange. Happy Stampin'