Christmas Peace

I am still going strong creating Christmas cards and finding sketches and challenges that I can enter them in.  For this card I used the awesome Lawnscaping sketch challenge.  Here is the sketch:

 

 

I used my Winter Owl stamp which I colored and paper pieced his scarf.  I cut out the "Christmas" from the Winter Owl sentiment and used my Sally's ABCs to spell out "peace" below it for a custom sentiment.  All the papers are from Lawn Fawn as well.  I am having a blast making Christmas cards this time of year and it will be great having them all done come December.

I am also entering this card at Merry Monday's Anything Goes Christmas Challenge.  The challenge there runs all month so you have pleanty of time to start on your Chriastmas cards and link them up.

So Precious.........

 

I have a friend who after years of longing for a child just adopted a beautiful little girl this week.  I had fun going out and buying a baby gift for (little girls are SO much fun to buy for).  Today I made this card and matching gift tag to go along with the gift.

 

The challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays was Material Girl.  I had to use material on my card.  I immediately though of some adhesive backed fabric paper that I had received in a prize package from American Crafts and I had never used.  Here is what it looked like before I cut into it.

 

 

I also decided to try to cut some felt pieces with my Cuttlebug and Spellbinders dies.  I had heard they cut felt but I had never tried it and you know what?  IT WORKS WONDERFULLY!! So the only paper on my card is the sentiment and the punched out heart.  On the matching tag the only paper is the cardstock that McKenna's name is printed on.  Her room is done in owls so I used my Basic Grey blinged out owl on the tag.  When she gets older she can use it for a bookmark perhaps.

 

Here is a close-up of just the card:

 

 

Thanks for checking out my blog....hope you had a fabulous weekend.

Merci

One of our neighbors blessed us last weekend with an incredible gift....she did a pen and ink drawing of our home....matted it and had note cards printed of it.  She presented it to us last Saturday to thank us for "beautifying" the neighborhood.  We bought a foreclosure 3 years ago and have been working on it since.  The inside wasn't too bad but the landscaping was pitiful.  There was little grass and now after 3 years of work, my husband has cultivated a beautiful lawn.  Here is the drawing she did for us:

 

Isn't it beautiful? To thank her, we are having her to dinner soon and I made the above card for her. I used this sketch from  Mojo Monday:

 

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday afternoon -- thanks for checking out my blog.

 



 

Season's Greetings -- Christmas in July #4



Here is my 4th Christmas card to share with you.  The trees are stamped with stamps from My Mind's Eye and the sentiment is from Paper Smooches.  I colored in the lights on 2 of the trees and used Stickes glitter glue for the lights on the other just to add some sparkle.  I used this Page Maps card sketch from DCWV:

 

I am also entering this card in Pumpkins Spice's current challenge....use stars
and
Merry Monday's Anything Goes Christmas Card Challenge

 

Well since my creative juices are flowing, I think I will see if I could create another couple of cards this afternoon.  I will be back later to share them here.  Thanks for checking out my blog.

 

Be Merry -- Christmas in July #3

 

I absolutely LOVE this sketch from Mojo Monday and decided to use it again on another Christmas in July card.  The challenge this time was to use the image of a wreath. I love this sketch so much I am about to go make a thank you card for a sweet neighbor of ours and might even use it a 3rd time.  They are having an 300th sketch celebration at Mojo Monday's blog and entries are unlimited this week  The prizes are awesome so why not use the sketch again, right?  Anyway here is the sketch again:

 

And HERE are the details on the challenge....you still have time to enter -- the deadline is Sunday night.



A New Blog and Design Team call........

There is a new challenge blog starting up and they currently have a Design Team call out.  I applied....why don't you????

 

Here is a link for the details

 

http://useyourwordchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/design-team-call.html?showComment=1373122807057#c7331822976777242255

Christmas in July #2

 

I will be sharing several holiday cards as part of the Christmas in July 31 day challenge I am participating in this month.  Here is another card that I created. I love using non-traditional colors when making some of my Christmas cards.  I actually heat embossed the wood veneer stars on this card.  It is a really cool technique....just make sure you use tweezers!!

 

I used this versatile sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch:

 

 

I am entering this card in the "Snow" challenge over at Festive Friday.  I just found this challenge blog and I think the challenges over there will help me really get prepared for Christmas this year. 

 

Thanks for checking out my blog....have a wonderful summer weekend.