Christmas Cards Are Done!

I finished 32 Christmas cards in 2 days. I'm still about 5 short but I need to get on to other projects I want to make for Christmas gifts. The majority of my cards were stamped and colored...

thought some I used clear glitter stickers. The stickers were left over from another project and they worked great for a quick card idea.

I put my Cuttlebug to work also. After a while I got tired of stamping and coloring and wanted to speed up the project and the Cuttlebug allowed me to do just that.

This is my main card for this season as we live and work on a wildlife ranch. I try to find a image that relates to our lifestyle and this one with the deer worked. The inside of the card I computer generated "Merry Christmas to our deer friends". Quite fitting don't you think?

Been MIA

Well perhaps I haven't been posting lately but I HAVE been busy crafting.

This is a page (February) from a calendar I'm working on for my son. Each year I make him a calendar for his cubicle at work. So far I have 5 pages done and this one is my favorite.

Back to my craft room, I have lots to do before Christmas.

A Card Revisited

This card is resurrected from a 2006 idea, I believe it was originally featured in an Autumn Leaves calendar (don't quote me on that). Anyway, I came across it again and thought I do it up.

The top of the card has a little mini album of 5 (you could do more) pictures of various years.
Each picture is marked with the age on a little scallop circle.

The inside saying I generated using my computer.

Calendar Project

Here is a peek of the cutest calendar project.


I purchased this kit from http://gotcrafts.typepad.com/, they have a lot of cute kit idea's. I was so happy with the way it turned out. I'm sure the subject of my calendar made it a little sweeter but then I'm bias anyway.

Not The Most Fun

I'm not sure about anyone else but I have a hard time designing sympathy cards. I found myself sadly faced with the the need to make two sympathy cards. I always imagine how I would feel when I opened the card. I like to keep them simple yet expressive.

Here are the 2 completed cards. Perhaps they will provide some inspiration when you are faced with the sad situation of having to make a sympathy card.

Too Cute!

One of my clients found this fawn abandoned on the road. She took it home to foster it and save it. They guesstimate this little one to be about 10 days old. He/she (?) will melt your heart in seconds.

So Excited!

Well, if you have old CD's laying around here is one idea of what to do with them. I made this ABC book for my grandson and I'm thrilled at how it turned out. Each page has a picture, and boy "V" was a hard one, finally came up with "vacation". Here is a peek inside...

I enjoyed whipping this up. It really worked up fast as I started it yesterday and finished it today. So, get out those old CD's and play.

Having Fun on a Sunday

I made this card for my grandson and used some new stamps my wonderful sister bought for me.

I was pleased how this turned out, it looks like the turtle and fish are suspended off the card. I colored the image with Prisma pencils and then blended it with mineral spirits. Used a bit of glitter pen here and there and used a Copic to outline parts of the image.