Christmas Card #1

DONE!!!

For this card,

I used The Stamps Of Life ornaments4Christmas

and the ornament dies

with some papers and inks I already had in my craft room.

First, I cut white card stock into a 2 1/2x12 in strip and used my score board to score the strip ever 1 5/8in. Then, I accordion folded along the score lines. This gave me way more than I needed, so, I cut the strip to where there was only 3 folds making it 4 layers of paper.

With the largest ornament die, I lined it up on the folded card stock where it looked centered. 

This is where tape comes in good.

Ran it through my WONDERFUL BigShot and got this...

Opps, I stamped one before I took the photo.

I also cut a single ornament to use as a mask to cover the red one and make it look like it is in the front and stamped one on each side in yellow then blue then the black outlines.

I also covered the blue one before I stamped the green one then the black outline.

I cut the tops out of Recollections foul paper...

and it gave me this...

Can you see how the foil paper took on the look of the release holes? LOVE IT!

So, the red ornament has no top because I trimmed the top off and filled it in with black ink because I wanted it to be on it's side. For this, I cut out another ornament and stamped it in red with the black outline and put Zots on the back of it. I also added the tops with Zots.

Very tiny Zots.

Before adding the red ornament, I backed the ornaments with some white card stock and matted it in black.

This is where I found out the yellow ornament was going to be on it's side because when I trimmed it to fit, the top was cut off.

The next thing I did was spend about 20 minutes trying to find what paper I wanted to use. That has always been the time sucker for me. I found some green textured paper for the background and some shinny red paper to make a ribbon strip 1/4in. wide. I took an extra 2in. folded it in half, fish taled it, and added it with a brad.

Time for the sentiment. 

Isn't that cute? I masked the and sign and put it on the other side of joy

and used the snow flake stamp to do the background only to find it was too big for the card face.

So, I did again, trimmed it, matted it in black,

and put Christmas Wishes on the inside of the card.

Now, time for the red ornament.

Now, the card is DONE!!!

Thank you for reading. 

Snow Flake or Ferris Wheel

Yes...I say both.

I am talking about my new stamp set, ornaments4Christmas by The Stamps Of Life.

This is the snow flake I am talking about. When I first saw it, I thought it looked like a ferris wheel.

Can you see it?

What about now???

It was fun and easy. First, I used the back of the stamp to stamp in blue.

(The back of the stamp can also be a gear...sweet)

Then, I cleaned it, turned it over, lined it up, and stamped it in red.

Now comes the marker and the "Not so know how" drawing...LOL

I think it is just too cute.

Thank you for reading. 

I'm BACK!!!

I know it has been a long time but I am back.

Yesterday, I got something wonderful in the mail.

That is ornaments4Christmas stamp set

AND the dies by The Stamps Of Life. 

My soon to be husband signed me up for the Die Hard club over at thestampsoflife.com

He knows I have been watching Stephanie Barnard for years and wanted to do something for me he knew I wanted.

It is so wonderful knowing he wants me to be happy, and he knows my crafts are a huge part of my happiness. He is so great to me. 

After thanking him for about an hour, I opened the dies and did this to them...

magnet...that way I know where they are at all times.

Then...

I just had to play some.

Look at how thick the stamps are.

WOW!!!

Now, I am ready to make some more Christmas cards.

By the way...love love love Stamps Of Life. They have got to be the best I have ever came across. 

Forgotten

I feel so bad that I have not been doing anything with this blog for the past few months. Christmas in July did me in. I have been so busy with life that this blog has been put on the back burner. I hope that will be different in the weeks to come.

Thank you for reading.

Christmas in JULY day 31

YEAH!!! We made it. 31 days of Christmas in July. I love Christmas. Can you tell? LOL

Here is my card for today.

On the front of this card, I used a snow globe digi stamp and cut out the circle and used a light blue ink on the edges and background. On the underside of the cover, I used a clear sheet to act as the glass of the globe. This way, it looks like you are looking into the globe, but really,

you are looking into the inside of the card.

When you open the card, if just looks like a snowman in the snow.

So cute and simple for our 31st day.

WOOHOO!!! 

Thank you for reading,

Christmas in JULY day 26

For today, I went with a simple but cute card.

Peach, Love, and Joy is always good to remember all year long but mostly around Christmas.

This is the card I came up with.

 Just a few different scraps of paper and a stamp or two, and you get a nice looking card.

 So easy, anyone can do it.

This is what I try to tell everyone that says they are NOT crafty. You don't have to be crafty to make something nice. Just try. You never know what you will get out of it.

Thank you for reading,

Christmas in JULY day 25

Day 25...WOOHOO...That means just 5 months left.

I am so ready for Christmas to be here. Can you tell?

For today, I used a digi stamp called Penguin Pyramid from Gurukitty.

These 3 penguins too so cute looking like a snowman. It is a cute twist on the everyday looking snowman.

 For the background paper, I used some blue sky paper and lightly stamped it with snow flakes a little darker blue than the paper. The snow is a scrap of while glitter paper. At the top of the card, I used a "Tiss the Season" banner stamp and popped it up on pop dots.

For the inside of the card, I used a penguin tag that I cut out with my 1in circle punch and I stamped light blue snow flakes across the top.

Thank you for reading,