Season's Greetings

I fell in love with snow man when I received my Cheerful Seasons circut cartridge. I mean how many different snowmen could there be right? It seems like more than I ever would have thought. I don't even know why this one is my fav...lol. I went with a simple design for this card.

Happy Day!!!

Valerie

Day after Christmas

So here are the cards I made yesterday. This is the first time I used printed images on my cards. I usually use stamped images or Cricut cuts. I had seen a video where they used vintage images. In the video, they clear embossed the image 5 times, put the image in the freezer for 20 minutes and then after removing the image from the freezer they cracked it to make it have a crazing look to it. Well I printed out my images from http://clearlyvintage.blogspot.com/, heat embossed them, but then did not end up putting in the freezer. I liked the images and was unsure if I would like it with the crazed/distressed look. So I left them as is.



So I went into work today. What a dedicated employee (ha ha). Every year, I say I will be organized so I don't go crazy at year-end. And every year I'm not. Well some day I will get there. I spent 6 hours working and still have that "Oh S****" feeling about getting everything finished before December 31st. The one good thing is that David is on Christmas Break. So I can go into work early and stay late. I'm debating on going into work again tomorrow. My brother has his daughter tomorrow so they are coming over around 5:00pm to exchange Christmas gifts.

Well one thing I will be working on tomorrow are some more cards. I started another one today. I only have to decorate the inside and then I will be done. I am really slow at designing and making cards. Good thing I'm not in a rush and I have enough patience to do it. Well I will post a picture of it tomorrow. I will also post my new goodies I've bought from Michael's the last few days. I love 50% coupons and clearence items (because Michael's coupons will apply to clearence items...woo hoo!!)

Write tomorrow....Valerie

I've been busy this weekend

I needed to make some more christmas cards. So that is all I worked on this weekend. I made 6 cards on Saturday. This actually is really productive for me. Isn't that sad?

Here is the first (and second) card I made this weekend. I used Snow Friends for the snowman of coarse. Then used Winter Woodland for the "Brrrr". I made two of this card. The only variance is that the second one I used pop-dots for the bird. So I only took pictures of this one.

The third and fourth card. I used Joys of the Season for the Ornament and Winter Woodland for the Seasons Greetings. Both cards are basically the same. I just use different papers from the same collection.

The final two cards are the same... For some reason I made everything in duplicate on Saturday. This one is all from Winter Woodland. I almost didn't buy this cart. Glad I did, I used it all weekend. I just love that little bunny.

Mojo Monday #110

Here is my take on Mojo Monday from a few weeks ago. I used my Gyspy to design my take on this sketch. I used mostely Winter Woodland.

Mojo Monday 115

Here is my take on this weeks Mojo Monday #115. This is my first time participating on this blog challange. I used Winter Woodland Cricut cartridge for everything.

Another Christmas Joy Fold

This joy fold I decided to have it open top to bottom. I followed a tutorial from Split Coast Stampers (click here to see). I love these designer papers from Micheals and cardstock from Stampin! Up

More Christmas cards

This card is my first Christmas joy fold. I'm really happy with this card. I wasn't sure if I should add anything else to the front of this card, but thought I would leave it as is.

This card is from Mojo Monday Week 114. I'm not entirely happy with how it turned out. But I will pass it along for Christmas anyway.

Forever and a Day

It has been a while since I posted last. I've made a few cards along the way, but mostly I have been working too much to do any crafting at home. As an accountant, the year end gets busier as I prepare for year end and audit season.

I've been working on more Christmas Cards lately. Here is my first attempt at Tri-Shutter Cards. Both are basically the same. Just changed the placement of the inside paper choices.

First Christmas Cards of the Year

Here is a set of christmas cards with matching envelopes I made this past week.

I used: Stampin Up Bundle Up stamp set, Stampin UP Cute & Curly stamp set, Stampin Up Curly Lable punch, Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder, Sizzix Christmas Tree embossing plate, cordnations paper, Peeled Paint Distressed Ink pad and Crystal Effects.

Glad it is Friday

I'm glad it is finally the weekend. Went out to dinner with my parents and visited for a little while. All is going well for them.

David has a baseball tournament on Saturday. Providing that the weather holds up, it is promising to be an all day event. I wish I could take my card making supplies with me... I will have to settle for a book and the portable DVD player.

Below is a card I made from watching a video on Youtube. To be honestI'm not sure who posted it and I appolgize to whoever it is. The video was very detailed and I had no problem following it and dupicating it (though I used my own color scheme and stamp).

I beleive this is called a Waterfall card. I used a stamp from Hero Arts that I purchased from Michaels. The designer paper I believe came from one of those paper stacks (from Michaels or JoAnn's). I purchased so much paper years ago and I'm finally starting to put it to good use.

Christmas cards

Here are some christmas cards I made. I used mostly Penny Black stamps.