Seasons Greetings Bird card

One more project to share for today. Again, this is one of my projects from last year. I have to apologize that I don't remember everything I used for this project. I made this card just for show so it isn't really a functioning card, however it can definitely be made to function just by scoring theplain circle and the large scallop circle about a quarter of the way from the top.

To get the plain circle cutout in between the two scalloped circles, I just traced an old CD onto very vanilla cardstock and cut it out by hand. It was just the right size and it came out perfectly.

For the sentiment, I used a rub-on from the Season of Cheer set which is now retired. However, for any SU Demonstrator, this rub-on set is part of the Inventory Blowout Sale! ;)

Enjoy!



Supplies: Big Shot (113439), Bird w/ Leaves and Flower Bigz die (113465), Scallop Circle Bigz die (113468), Season of Cheer Rub-ons (retired)
Paper: Very Vanilla cardstock, Close to Cocoa cardstock, Handsome Hunter cardstock
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Stamping Sponges (101610)

Reindeer Lineup

The holidays are just around the corner. That means its about the time to start creating those handmade cards so they can make it in the mail in time. :)

Today's card isn't quite a start on my holiday cards this year so I'm still a little behind on my card making. But this is one of the many cards I sent out last Christmas. I ABSOLUTELY love this stamp set! Granted, coloring multiple images of these silly reindeer wasn't exactly easy BUT it was SUPER FUN!! I totally enjoyed coloring/painting these reindeer for this card. Aren't they adorable? Its a pretty simple card since I spent so much time painting the image, I didn't want to waste too much time with assembling the rest of the card.

Hope you like the card as much as I do. I know the stamp set is still in the current catalog but unfortunately, the ribbon and designer series paper was from an older catalog. Sorry gang. (However, for those demonstrators out there, this ribbon is part of the Inventory Blowout Sale!)

Stamps: Holiday Lineup (111648)

Paper: Real Red cardstock, Chocolate Chip cardstock, Retired Designer Series Paper

Ink: Close to Cocoa, Real Red, Handsome Hunter, Apricot Appeal

Accessories: Alpine ribbon (retired), Stampin' Dimensionals

Mr. Twigster

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Well hello Mr. Twigster!



Oh Boy! I'm completely lagging. Haha. I hope you don't mind that I'm posting these quite late. I apparently participated in a challenge on Splitcoast sometime during the holiday rush last year. But (again...) I didn't get to post it to share. Hopefully these will still come as nice entertainment value in the very least. :)

Mr. Twigster is enclosed in a sparkly snowglobe. I created this using my xyron adhesive. I covered the whole cut up image with some permanent xyron adhesive and dunked the whole sticky side into some dazzling diamonds glitter.

Stamps: Mr. Twigster
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Baja Breeze cardstock, Ski Slope Designer Series Paper, Real Red cardstock
Accessories: Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon, Bashful Blue grosgrain ribbon, coluzzle, scallop border punch, xyron adhesive, stampin' dimensionals, stamp-a-majig

From Our Home to Yours Tag

Well what do you know?!! I seem to have already uploaded some previous projects I've created but not posted them for you to view. Oh I know... thats just selfish.



This project is a a tag you can attach to a gift with your message written on the back of the tag.



Stamps: Bella's Border Wheel, Bella's Bloom
Ink: So Saffson, Barely Banana, Mellow Moss
Paper: So Saffron cardstock, Very Vanilla cardstock
Accessories: Circle Fire Rhinestone brads, Curly Label punch, Stampin' Dimensionals

Blog has Moved!

In case you're wondering... yes, the blog has moved.

I haven't been able to post any new projects this year at all so I decided to start fresh. I've made minimal progress on any creative tasks this year. At best, I think I've created 6 cards in the last 8 months. Yes. Pretty bad.

With that said, the holidays are coming along. I should be able to start creating some holiday cards again soon. Stay tuned for some new holiday cards and creations :)

Stair Step Fold Challenge

And so it begins.....

The holidays are upon us! Can you believe it? Where did the year go? I could have sworn I was just putting last year's christmas decorations away around the house. Okay, maybe thats just me slacking on cleaning but it sure did fly by fast! Fall is here, the California winter chill is blowing and the clock is ticking nagging me to finish up my christmas cards so I can actually send them out this year.

This is one of the first holiday cards I made this year. Splitcoast had a challenge a few weeks ago for stair step fold cards. (For those that visit, it was challenge TLC190) I thought it was such a cute idea especially with all the 3D cards popping up commercially. Of course, as a cardmaker myself, I naturally thought I can do better than that! I can make my own 3D cards that pop, swing, sparkle, shake and whatnot. The challenge was perfect. In my excitement, I forgot to check on what dimensions the challenge instructed for the stair folds. So I pretty much just took a scrap piece of paper and started folding. To make the long story short, my card doesn't stand up properly and there is no "stairstep effect". Haha. The picture is a little deceiving BUT it worked for my forest of trees! I love making "mistakes" just to find out that it works just as well as if you did it the "right way". :)

Stamps: Christmas Classics, Short and Sweet, Many Merry Messages
Inks: Handsome Hunter, Whisper White, Versamark
Paper: Riding Hood Red cardstock, Whisper White cardstock
Accessories: Filigree Designer Brads, Iridescent Ice Stampin' Emboss Powder, Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon, Snail Adhesive, Tombow Adhesive, Heat Tool

Diaper Cakes

As I promised previously, I'm posting pictures of the diaper cakes I made. Yes there are SIX separate diaper cakes there. Thats ALOT! It was an incredible feat to complete this one. These two-tiered diaper cakes were meant to be used during a baby shower and these were going to be the centerpieces at each table. The host of the party told us that the mom-to-be absolutely LOVED the cakes and she will be using the paper animals for her scrapbooks. She is expecting twin boys!! It was such an amazing feeling getting such rave reviews for the diaper cakes. The images were made using Cricut. These are non-Stampin' Up! images.