Deck the Halls again?!?

Every year I make need to make a TON of Christmas cards. My husband and I send out about 70 cards and I make a bunch that I give to my church for sale at our holiday bazaar booth. I participate in a monthly Christmas card class/club at my LSS and that helps a bunch, but recently I came across Sparkle Creations blog. I took one look and said to myself how fun!

The snowflake cupcakes are the inspiration piece Sparks threw out to folks. I had some leftovers from a Pay-it-Forward card making event I run every November. I got lucky in that my leftovers had some of the inspiration colors.
So how does this card match the cupcakes??? Well, the chocolate cake is in the tree and background layer. The blue frosting is the ornament and the snowflakes have been embossed on the base card.


After stamping and coloring this cute little Charlie Brown tree, I needed to add some shine to the ornament so I used a spica pen and a glaze pen.


It's been snowing here in MA since last night. Good thing I like snow, 'cause we are forecast to have about 9 inches after all is said and done. I love how the glittery snowflakes catch the light in my backyard and on this card!

Thanks so much for checking out my first Christmas card for 2010!

Scraptastic Challenge

Papertrey Ink is hosting a use your scraps challenge. I have to say that when I have leftover paper I tend to punch it in to lots of shapes (full disclosure- I did con my husband and his parents into helping punch my last load of scraps. :) ). I bag everything by color and leave it in the 12x12 boxes that I store my 12x12 paper.

I think in color, so all my supplies are sorted in a rainbow, paper, ribbon, flowers, brads, etc. I've tried lots of other approaches, but the rainbow thing is the only one that works for me. When I saw this challenge, I grabbed my pink bag and whatever was left on my table. I even found a leftover stamped image from the Vintage Picnic set! All I had to do was look at the supplies in front of me and run with them.

I colored the picnic basket with my prisma pencils and then added some stickles for sparkle. I still had my holiday buttons on my craft table so I added a little button bling too!

The cutie patootie cardigan corgi in the back is my loyal wingman Cadfael (pronounced Cadfile). He was in the midst of deciding if he should stay with me or investigate what was going on in the kitchen.

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget to spread New Year cheer and post a comment. I love to hear from everyone!

Moriah

Papertrey Blog Hop!

Papertrey's Blog Hop called for making something inspired by your holiday decor. Originally I was going to do something with presents, a tree, or lights. After my eldest nephew Jack drew this picture, his uncle (my husband) and his grandparents voted that the drawing should be the inspiration piece. Can you believe that my nepew is only in Kindergarten and drew these fabulous snowmen and snowflakes!!! It was easy to decide to use Holiday Button Bits since it is my favorite set this season. You would have thought Jack had seen the set, but he was inspired by the book Snowflake Bentley and some cool "holiday specs" that make images of snowmen when you look at holiday lights. They are pretty cool! I used the snowflake from Vintage Picnic to make the background. I stamped everything with Memento black and used a Memory Box card for the base with Bazzill paper for the next layer. I colored the snowman with Prisma pencils and added a little bling with Spica pens on the nose and twig arms. Thanks for stopping by and please leave a comment for me or for Jack. I'll be sure to pass along comments from all of Jack's fans!
P.S. Thanks also to my friend Jeff who took the photo for me tonight!

Gingerbread!

As some of you know, I'm a Reading Specialist in my other life and I have the privilege of working with students who are just learning to read. Every year I read lots of gingerbread stories with my students. On the last day of lessons before the December break, I always read them Jan Brett's Gingerbread Baby and Gingerbread Friends. I also usually take a picture of each child reading their favorite gingerbread story and mail it home to their family as a surprise memento. The kids got really into all the stories this year and I was excited to see Papertrey Ink's Holiday Button Bits adorable gingerbread man! Here are a couple of the cards that I made to mail out with the photographs tucked inside. The cards came out so cute!

The card base and red ribbon are both Amuse. The scallop tag I made with my Cricut. I added to the icing with a Stardust gelly pen and I believe that the gingerbread paper is from Bo Bunny (please tell me if I'm wrong, I used it all up!) I used Memento ink for the gingerbread fella and got the buttons from my stash.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Spread joy to the ones you love and don't forget to leave a comment (comments spread joy too! :) )

Moriah

Three french hens?

I love when I can use a non-Christmas stamp in a Christmas card! I used a gorgeous Memory Box stamp and inked it with Staz-on timber brown. Then I just had to add patina Stickles (everything should sparkle at Christmas!) and a bow made from Amuse ribbon. I couldn't leave the envie and insides naked, so I used a fabulous greeting from Papertrey Ink. I'm so happy about how soothing and also festive these cards turned out!

Thanks for stopping by!

Moriah

More cards from the 60 card marathon

I started out trying to make masculine get well cards, but that flower paper snuck in when I wasn't looking (hee-hee). The base cards are old square Amuse cards, the pattern paper is Amy Bulter (I'm pretty sure) and the image is a Karen Lockhart get well tissue box, and everything is colored with my old tombow's and glitter pens.

Paris for Christmas?

I made these and about 60 other cards a while back. All the paper (except the cream cardstock) came in a surprise scrap kit from my LSS. The card base is Memory Box, the ink is Stazon timber brown, but I forget the image company (HA maybe?).