Two Last Minute Christmas Cards

Last night I decided to make my last two Christmas cards.  I've been wanting to try making a shaker card and decided that I would give it ago.  Shaker cards are really a lot of fun!!!

Supplies: Paper: Bazzill Bling & Recollections (Jingle Bells); Stamps: Recollections; Beads: MS (Clear Microbeads); Ribbon: SU (Trim Tinsel Clear) & Celebrate It (Holiday); Ink: TH (Iced Spruce); Misc: Rhinestones

Christmas Ornaments for the Teachers

For this year's Christmas teacher gift the kids and I made Glitter Filled Glass Ornaments.  Alex and Chloe had lots of fun deciding on what colours we should make.  I got this idea from this website.

SU Club - December

Well, we had a fantastic December Club meeting.  We exchanged our cards and wow everyone did such an amazing job with their cards.  Some how, I can't seem to find the pictures for this month's club cards.  I only have this one.  Just know that this month's cards were Christmas related and super fun to make!!!

Supplies: All Stampin' Up

A Little Fun Snowflake

I wanted to make a little something fun my for the SU Club that I'm apart of.  I had recently made something similar at my LSS and thought I'd would do it.

Supplies: Paper: Bazzill; Ink: TH (Broken Glass & Seedless Preserves); Die-Cut: SU (Snowflake??); Embossing Powder: Stampedous (Detail Black) & Ranger (??); Stamps: Hero Arts, Recollections & Unknown; Copics: R20, E50; Brads: SU (Mini); Punch: SU (Circle); Misc: Tulle 

Double Slider Card

In the month of December, my SU Club does a card exchange.  This year I struggled a lot with what to make for my card.  The ladies there expect miracles from me.  It took me weeks to come up with an idea.  In the mean time, I have be watching lots of videos on how to make paper flowers...wow...there are some cool flowers out there.  In the end I came up with this card, which took me many, many hours to make.  I made 14 of these cards.

I had my brother take the pictures...that's why they are so artistic.

Double Slider Card Instructions 

Supplies: I can't find my supply list...I used a whole lot of things for this one.

Christmas All Year Long - November

WOW...it's one month until Christmas!!!  The only thing that I've done to prepare for the holiday season is start to make a few cards.  Thank goodness I've been playing along with the Christmas All Year Long Blog hop over the last few months, that gave me a great start to my card making.

I'd like to quickly thank Julie, for taking the time every month to organize this. And a thank you to Diana for enabling me to purchase these super cute images!!! You can get them in her store.

If you'd like to start at the beginning of this blog hop head on over to Christmas All Year Long Blog.  If you've come from Peggie's, you are on the right track.  From here you'll head over to Tanya's.

Sorry for the poor quality pictures...my camera is on the fritz...ugh!

Supplies: Paper: SU (Wild Wasabi) & Bo Bunny (Blitzen); Punch: SU (Scallop Oval and Oval); Cricut: Christmas Cheer; Stamps: SU (Teeny Tiny Wishes) & Studio G; Ribbon: Celebrate It (Holiday); Ink: TH (Evergreen Bough); Glitter: MS (Aquamarine Crystal); Edwin: Edwin Wants a Hug; Embossing Powder: Ranger (Clear); Misc: Scor-Pal, Liquid Pearls (Platinum), Rhinestones

CCB November Mingle

This month the CreativeCuttlebuggers Mingle topic was Gift Tags.  I don't know why, but I always think they are hard to make. 

Supplies: Misc from my stash

The Outlawz Freebie Challenge

Over at The Outlawz they have some super talented people.  A couple of the ladies are sharing their creative talent by creating digi images.  The challenge they have going is to use their images in order to earn the next set of digi images.  So much fun!!!  Here is what I did with one of the images.

The turorial for this Side Spring Card is Here.

Supplies: Paper: SU (Old Olive) & DCWV; Stamp: SU (Petite Pairs); Punch: SU (Decorative Label); Ribbon: Offray; Ink: TH (Peeled Paint & Antique Linen); Fun Flock: Stampendous (Chili Pepper Red); Stickles: Golden Rod); Cuttlebug: Seeing Spots; Digi Stamp: S. Hugget; Misc: Scor-Pal,

The Outlawz Sunday CAS

This week for The Outlawz Sunday CAS challenge we had to make a card that used our favorite patterned paper.  I'm sure most people are like me and can't pick a dozen favorite patterned papers, let alone one favorite.  Then I tried to decide which was my favorite paper company, but I like so many.  So, I decided that I would just make a card using up some scraps from a recent project...and I really liked that paper.

Supplies: Paper: Bazzill & DCWV; Stamps: SU (Christmas Greeting) & Recollections; Nestabilities: Standard Circle Small; Embossing Powder: SU (Pewter); Glitter: MS (Crystal); Ink: TH (Seedless Peserve); Ribbon: Celebrate It (Holiday); Fun Flock: Stampendous (Cotton Ball White); Stickles: Yellow & Star Dust; Embossing Folder: Sizzix (Dots, Circles & Starts); Punch: MS (Stars)

Toonie Thursday

Today I went by my LSS (Scrapbooker's Paradise) in hopes for picking up the Tim Holtz Winter ink collection.  I was super excited to see they had restocked their supply.  While I was there I took the Toonie Thursday make and take.  The instructor (Viola) always has such neat things to make and try.  I will definitely trying to do this one on my own.  I know she used the Sizzix Snowflake die, but I'm wondering if I can cut something on my Cricut.

Dad's Birthday Card

This week over at The Outlawz the Monday Greeting Card Challenge couldn't have come at a better time.  The topic this week is to make a male card.  Well, it just happens to be my dad's birthday next week.  I also wanted to try making a Four Flap Fold card for the challenge over at ScorPalPals.  I had posted some directions for their challenge that I hadn't tried and wanted to see how they worked.  In the end I did modify the card a bit to suit me better.

Here is the link to the video tutorial for this type of Four Flap Fold.

Supplies: Paper: Upsy Daisy Designs; Alcohol Ink: Ranger (Lettuce, Sail Boat Blue, Watermelon & Sunset Orange); Ink: TH (Walnut Stain & Peeled Paint); Embossing Powder: SU (Pewter); Stamps: SU (Four Square & Bring on the Cake); Punch: SU (1"Circle & 1 1/4" Square); Buttons: Hero Arts; Misc: Scor-Pal, Gems & Twine

Magnolia-licious November Mingle

I was busy this past weekend making Christmas cards and having a blast.  I loved this one card so much that I thought I'd adjust it a little bit to make it work with Tilda.  

Supplies: Paper: SU (Night of Navy, Marina Mist); Copics: (E11, 21, 25, 31, 50, 57), (R20), (C00, 01, 01, 05), (B24, 26), Spica (Sky Blue); Embossing Folder: PC (Snowflakes); Punch: MS (Skyland Snowflake); Stamp: Unknown; Ribbon: Celebrate It (Holiday); Ink: TH (Faded Jean); Embossing Powder: SU (Pewter); Tilda: Tilda with Heart Ornament; Stickles: Silver, Dark BLue, Gun Metal; Misc: Stampendous Mica Fragments (Pearlized), SU (Crystal Effects); Rhinestones

Christmas Cards from the Weekend

This past weekend I took my kids to hang out with my parents.  I also at the last minute decided to throw in some card making supplies and I’m so glad that I did.  It was the most productive card making weekend that I’ve probably ever had on my own.  My parents kept my kids busy the whole time and I sat and crafted.  I managed to create 5 of each of the following cards.

Card #1

Origami Christmas Tree Instructions

 Supplies: Paper: SU (Garden Green) & Recollections (Jingle Bells); Ribbon: American Craft; Punch: SU (Modern Label); Stamp: Hero Arts & SU (Christmas Greetings); Embossing Powder: Ranger (Seafoam White); Misc: Rhinestones, Scor-Pal

Card #2

Supplies: Paper: SU (Garden Green) & Recollections (Jingle Bells & Shimmer); Embossing Folder: PC (Christmas Ornaments); Ribbon: Celebrate It (Holiday); Stamp: SU (Christmas Greetings) & Stamp It; Ink: TH (Peeled Paint & Barn Door); Embossing Powder: Ranger (Holograph); Punch: SU (Circle); Misc: Rhinestones

Card #3 

Supplies: Paper: Bazzill & Recollection (Jingle Bells); Stamp: Inkadinkado (Joy, Peace, Love Mini), Studio G, Hero Arts; Ribbon: Celebrate It; Stickles: Thistle; Punch: SU (2 ½ Circle, 1 ¾ Circle, Scallop Trim) & MS (Skyland Snowflake & Aspen); Embossing Powder: Stampendous (Detail Black) & Gelly Powder (Pink of Me); Embossing Folder: PC (Snowflakes); Misc: Rhinestones

Card #4

Supplies: Paper: SU (Night of Navy, Marina Mist); Embossing Folder: PC (Snowflakes); Punch: MS (Skyland Snowflake); Stamp: Unknown; Ribbon: Celebrate It (Holiday); Ink: TH (Faded Jean); Embossing Powder: SU (Pewter); Misc: Stampendous Mica Fragments (Pearlized)