It's about time!

Well, I finally got some stamping time in! I had done nothing since the end of August, until I finally found some time after Thanksgiving to get busy with Christmas cards. Here they are:

This one is a design I used last year. I really like the simplicity of it.

I tried this one with a stamped background and an embossed one. I like the embossed one best.


There is a transparency in the little window of this one. You just can't see it in the photo.

A very simple card!

This one was made/designed at the last minute. It turned out to be one of my favorites.

You just cant go wrong with the simple elegance of the medallion....

It's hard to see, but I used the stardust gel pen on the snowflakes.

Another super simple one. I used the paisley background, but it's tough to see.

Another super simple one.

Can't get much simpler than just using die cuts!

This is the inside of the photo card shown below.

Here's the front. Another one of my favorites.

And now for my favorite..... the tri shutter card. Not bad for my first attempt! It's hard to tell, but the snowmen are glittered, and the corners that all look like they have brads, are actually rhinestones.

Now, I just have to get them addressed and mailed! Hopefully I'll be able to get some more stamping time in soon. All work and no stamping make Rachel a dull girl..... darn job! It always gets in the way of the fun stuff.

Oldies

I've gone through the old cards I've made that are still sitting in my "stash" and picked out some to go in the "for sale" basket. The first three are such a simple design, and so easy to make.

This next one I made a bundle of for some gifts, and I didn't end up using them all. So, they went into the stash too.

I remember when I made this one, I was making a bunch of birthday cards, again for a gift, and I saw the exact card on SCS. I remember thinking, "I have that paper, that cardstock and that stamp set, I can duplicate it exactly." So, I did. It was about this time last summer, and I was loving those colors. Thank to whoever made the original!

I think I did the same thing on this one with the exception of the sentiment. I love the blue and black together. You can't see it very well, but I also stamped with versamark on the panel in the middle.

As for the baptism cards, I'm going with the one with the little angel charm on it, my aunt Alida took the one with the embossed dots, and my aunt Gerry is going to take one of the other three. I'm not sure which she'll choose, but my guess is the one with the cross on it. We'll see....

Baptism cards

In addition to uor beautiful neice, Alexi, who was born this summer, we also get to enjoy a second cousin as well! My husband's cousin, Angie, and her husband Dennis, had a little girl just about a month and a half before my neice was born. Corinne will be baptized tomorrow, so of course I had to make some baptism cards. This is something I had none of in my "stash" of cards. I figured I might as well make a few, that way I could add them to my collection that will be for sale. I'm not sure which one I'll be giving yet. I love the image on this firt card. It's from SU!'s Holy Triptych set. It's in the Christmas section, but I thought it was a good one to use for a baptism as well. I also thought that the SU! Baroque Motifs image was perfect for this as well, so I used it on all 5 of the cards. The sentiment is from Verve.

I liked this sentiment the best, but they were all pretty fitting. All 5 cards are 6 1/2 X 5 so that made it tough to use the embossing folders, but I found a way; just don't look under the ribbon ;)

This sentiment is from the So Very set, that was an SU! SAB set a few years ago. I thought it worked perfectly on this card. I clear embossed the Baroque Motifs image, then added the flowers and rhinestones. I wish I would have used smaller rhinestones (which I found in my rhinestone drawer after I was finished). Oh well, I think it still looks good.

This image and sentiment are also from Verve. This scripture is also one of my favorites.

This is the one I'm leaning toward not just because I think that little angle is so cute, but I like the pink flowers on the clear embossed image. The sentiment again is from Verve.

I'm giving my aunt first choice of cards (since it's her granddaughter), so next post I;ll let you know which one I ended up giving.

Using some of the stash

Well, I spent half the day in my classroom today (if that doesn't wreck a good day I don't know what does) and that didn't leave much time for stamping. I did however, manage to make a couple more cards when i got home. Iused up a little bit of the paper I have that matches the clear stamps from yesterday.

I love that flower pattern. I wish it came in some earth tones.

This was out of the same pack.

Well, that's all I have today. Tomorrow I plan to go through my card stash to add to my for sale collection. If I find anything worthy of posting, I'll share those.

And more cards....

I've been feeling guilty about not using the new sets that I've recently purchsed (because I've been making my new list !), so I thought I'd better use at least one of them. I made a slew of cards using this layout.

This is another set of clear stamps that I bought 2 summers ago. This is the first time it got some ink! Yikes! I bought it because it matched some papers I bought, and I liked the sayings that were in it. So, far I haven't used any of the sayings and I've been hoarding the paper; a habit I'm really trying to break. I think tomorrow will bring a try at that.

This is a very simple layout that I CASE'd from someone on SCS (don't know who). After the first one I decided I liked it better with the dots.

Another leftover stamped image....

again....

Well, I've got to go. I'm going to visit a friend I haven't seen in about 15 years or more :)

Cards, cards, cards

I've just been in a card making mood lately. I know I should be finishing up the scrapbook pages that I have started, but I really like the instant gratification of cardmaking. I made a few of each design, as I have been doing with many of the cards I've made lately, because my aunt (in-law) will be going to a farm event and is willing to sell my wares :) The more I have to sell, the better! She raises alpacas and has been making alpaca socks, which are super warm but also super expensive. Despite the cost, she's been selling lots of them. Hopefully she'll sell lots of my cards as well. This first card was totally CASE'd except for the cuttlebugged background. Of cousre I can't remember where I saw it, but I love it.

This is one of those stamped images I had sitting around, and hadn't done anything with. So since I had the fall colors out, I just went with it.

This layout was CASE'd (from SCS'r Mrs. Mac), but I changed the images to pocket silhouettes (I love that set) and changed the colors. I really like this layout.

I wish I would have used a different image on this one. It seems rather blah....

This one turned out to be one of my favorites. I like the colors, and the layout. CASE'd the layout, and changed very little other than the colors and the image.

The next six cards came from more leftover stamped images that had never been put to use. I tried to get out of the fall scene (making me depressed because of back-to-school)

Finally, this last one is a set that I have hardly used at all. They're clear stamps and I've found that I only like using them with craft ink rather than classic. The classic usually comes out blotchy looking.

I have a few more that I need to finish up, before I share them.

Until later....

I've lost my mojo....

Well, it's taken me 4 days to get this layout to this stage. I'm just not happy with it, but I guess they don't ALL have to make me happy. Right now I'm just glad it's to a point where I can put it in the book. I couldn't find anything I had to match, I didn't have enough of the colors i needed to do what I wanted, the little animals were too tough to cut out, and lastly, the sizzlets alpha dies that I used were really tough to use with the paper I had (it was really thick) and I didn't get them on straight! I can't believe it took this long to do this. Oh well, enough complaining!! I have 3 more weeks before my job starts cutting into my fun time. So, I guess a bad layout is better than no layout :)

Beautiful Babies

This summer brought the birth of two beautiful baby girls into our family; my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Jim and Cheri, welcomed Alexi Sheridan into their family, and my cousin-in-laws, Angie and Dennis, welcomed Corinne Rose into their family. Both little girls are absolutely adorable. So, last weekend my husband's aunt came over and I introduced her to the world of scrapbooking. What fun we had. These two pages are the result of a fun evening together. Hopefully, she will come over often and share scrapping time with me.

This week I plan to scrap the pictures of the showers. Hopefully I'll get them uploaded a little sooner that this was.

A couple more Christmas cards

These are the last 2 cards we'll be doing on Wednesday. I couldn't decide if I liked the embossed background better or the stamped background. I think I may try embossing the stamped one. Also, I think it needs something on the stripe- maybe some dew drops across the red stripe? maybe something a little bigger?

I think I like the poisettias better than the snowflakes. Maybe with a silver embossed sentiment the second one would look better, but I still think I like the all red.

That's all for now. Maybe more tomorrow...

Mini book

I'm thinking I'm safe posting this now since I'm going to see my SIL and little neice this afternoon. I was thinking that with a new baby it's got to be so hard to find any time to scrap anything, so I made this little album for her to show off a few pictures.

My mom gave me some chipboard, so I just had to tun it into a little album. This was only my second time using my bind it all. I bought it in August of 2007. Yikes! I really need to use the things I buy more often than I do.

Thanks for looking :)