Favorite Project of 2011

Hello!  I'm glad you stopped in today.  I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and got to spend wonderful time with your family.

I found a couple of challenges today that are looking for our favorite project we made in 2011.  I decided on a Thank You card that I posted in September here.  I just really liked the way this one turned out.

 I used the Old West Cartridge for this card. 

 I just love that little piece of rope on the saddle horn!  It adds so much!The patterened paper on the saddle is from an assortment of paper I won from Oh My Crafts and the solid paper is Kraft paper. I used a scalloped hole punch and gold paper from my scraps to make the conchos and folded tiny strips of brown paper for the latigo. The rope is twine that was on a box of something I ordered.



 I made a matching envelope from patterned paper and the border punch is from the Paper Studio.

I'm entering this repost at Cooking With Cricut and at Whimsical Designs

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful, blessed New Year!

Santa Shaped Card

Hello!  Well....are you ready?  Christmas is almost here!  I think I might have all my gifts bought and just a few more to make.  I really worked on Christmas Cards Friday night and I think this one is my favorite:

 I cut a 4" scalloped circle from Lacy Labels then looped the shiney green ribbon around and through the scallops.  The ribbon came from Wal-Mart.  I then print and cut a 3" Santa from Christmas Village and used pop-dots to mount him to a  3 1/4" circle cut from The Paper Studio Christmas stack.

 The card base is two 4" circles from George & Basic shapes that I welded together on my Gypsy.

The sentiment stamp is from Stampabilities.  I inked the stamp with Markers so I could make the holly leaves green.

I hope you like the card, it was fun and I love how it turned out.  I'll post a few more cards in a bit.  Merry Christmas!

  Jesus is the Reason For the Season

I'm entering this card here:

Fantabulous Cricut - Rolling in Ribbon

Paper Variety - Anything Goes

More Than Favors, Wacky Wednesday - Christmas

Cathie's having a Birthday Giveaway!

Cathie over at Creative Cutter Room is having a birthday on Dec. 24th and she is GIVING a gift!  Go checkout her giveaway on the CCR blog!

First "Santa's Village" card

Hello!  On an earlier post I mentioned that I had ordered a couple of Imagine cartridges that I really wanted and I finally got a chance to spend a little time using one!  Some good friends of ours invited us over for a Christmas open house this weekend and I wanted to send them a Thank You card.  Since she had several ceramic Santas decorating her home, I thought a Santa card would be perfect. 

 This was made using the Santa's Village Imagine cartridge cut at 4 1/2".  To make it a shaped card I traced around the cutout with a little tool called "Quick Cutter Disc Set" from Puzzlemates.  I then cut it out on the top fold and drew around the edge of the card with my ZIG metallic pen.  It really adds some shine!  The sentiment stamp is from StampCraft in gold ink.  That didn't show up very well, so I went over it with the ZIG pen.

The inside is another cut of the sleigh but I used the no color pattern option to get a blank piece.  I expected it to be just a white cutout, but it printed it in a nice cream color that matched perfectly.  That machine is smarter than me!  I inked the edges of it with a gold stamp pad that I have had so long I have no idea where it came from.  It's one of the first stamp pads I ever got and it has no name on it.

 I added a few Imaginisce gems with my I-Rock to add a little bling (and to cover up a couple of pen slips!) See all that detail in the Santa?  Is it any wonder I was just CRAVING this cartridge?  I love the vintage look of the images!  I'm really pleased with how the card turned out and I hope my friends will be, too.  

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are having a great week!

                                                

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

My Craft Spot - shaped cards

Whoopsi Daisy - sparkle and shine

Crafts 4 Eternity - Red, Green & Cream

Do You Stack Up - Something Old

More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday - Christmas

    JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON!!!!

Embossed Snowflakes

Three posts in 2 days!  How about that!?  I had a little time in my craft room Friday and getting some posting done today!   The challenge on Crafty Sprouts is a photo inspiration and one of the pictures was a dark blue with a snowflake and this card came to mind.  I haven't used embossing powder in a long time, so thought I would play with that a little bit.  I have some Holographic powder that I've never used so here's what I came up with:

Isn't that a cool look?  I stamped the snowflake with a foam stamp I've had a LONG time.  I bought a Christmas set at Hobby Lobby a couple of years ago and have no idea what company they are from.

OK, so I just may have overdone the sparkle with the sentiment! :)  It's a Studio G stamp, glittered. 

The inside cut is one that came already loaded on the Imagine, then glue and embossing powder added around it.  This is a quick and simple card and was just fun!  Thanks for looking!

Project entered here:

Less Is More - One layer card "Let It Snow"

Crafty Sprouts - photo inspiration

Cooking With Cricut - Sounds of the Season

The Paper Variety - FALALALALA

Polka Doodles - Quick Christmas Cards

Glittery Snowflakes & Ornaments

Hello again!  Happy Sunday!  Today I want to share some decorations I have in my kitchen window.  I had originally planned this post for My Sheri Craft design team post, but I had a really hard time getting good pictures!  I love having sparkly things hanging in my kitchen windows as they are on the south side of the house and really catch some nice sun and put off LOTS on sparkle in the room.  However, when I took pictures during the day, you see the tree outside the window and the snowflakes just disappeared in the branches!

 So here are some nighttime pics.  The snowflakes are cut from those plastic sheets for overhead projectors.  Remember those?  From the days before PowerPoint?  Well I have a whole box of them to use up!  The cuts are from Joys of the season and Christmas seasonal cartridge.  (It works best to use a multi cut of 2).  Then I sprayed them with Photo Mount and added glitter, doing this on both sides.  After they dry completely, I tied them up with sewing thread, which doesn't show up during the day.

 They are really pretty and sparkly!  Try to picture these picking up some sunshine. :)

These are the ornaments up close.  They are made by coating the inside with liquid floor wax then adding glitter.  You can find a good instructional video here.  Then add words cut from white vinyl.  I've made lots of these as they are really easy, super shiney and the glitter all stays inside!  I recently saw a video using spray adhesive inside instead of the liquid floor wax.  I'm going to give that a try,too. 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas Season!  Just remember to keep a good focus on the true
Reason for the Season - the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ!  We had a solo sung at church today about "He had the birthday and we got the gift".  What a beautiful and oh so true song!  Have a blessed day!

I'm entering this project here:

Getting Cricky Simply Sunday - holiday decorations
More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday - Christmas
Scrappy Moms - Christmas

Snow Day Layout

Hello!  It's Challenge time again at My Sheri Crafts!  WooHoo!  This week we want to "Let It Snow"!  Create a card/project with a snow or snowflake theme.  Here is another layout of (who else?) my granddaughters playing in the snow.

     Aren't they cuties?!  Maybe I'm a little predjudiced?  Most definately!

 This cut is from Winter Woodland.  I just love that cartridge and especially this cut!  It's cut from white glitter paper.  The page borders are made with adhesive paper lace that I bought from LTD Commodities a couple of years ago, just stuck on a strip of plain blue cardstock.  Easy peasy!

This little tag is cut from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More and then glittered, with a little strip of white & silver ribbon tied on.

This sled is cut from Stretch Your Imagination and the snowflakes are from the Christmas seasonal cartridge, also cut from glitter paper.

Thank you for stopping by, now get crafting and show us some snow!  Link up at My Sheri Crafts, I can't wait to see your projects!

I'm also entering this here:

Whoopsi Daisy - Show us your snowflakes
Whimsical Designs - Winter fun