Ringing in the New Year!

Well I am busy working on Valentine cards for Operation Write Home. They have to receive them by January 5th and since I am leaving on the 17th to go to my daughter’s for Christmas, I have to mail them before I leave. I made 10 cards last night and I mass produce them so I figure if I can make a set each night and mail them out before I leave. Today’s card is…

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The Countdown Begins – 27 days

Good Morning! Well you have only 27 days until Christmas so make your cards and get your shopping done! I have a cute card to share with you today. I used the sketch from the Card Positioning Systems blog and color challenge at the Colour Create blog – that’s 3 cards for this challenge! I flipped the sketch as I wanted to use this stamp. As usual, I used my trusty stardust gel pen to…

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Golden Swirls

It’s Fridayyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!! Well my first session of the Christmas Stamp-a-stack is tonight. I am almost ready. I have to cut the ribbon for one more card and then all the supplies are ready. I will spend the rest of the time setting up. I took a little time yesterday to make a card for you today. I found a great sketch at the Stamping411 blog. It had some combining of squares oriented in different directions…

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Still need a few more Thanksgiving cards!

Well I still need a few more Thanksgiving/Fall cards so I decided this color combination would work well. I found this color combination – Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, Really Rust – at the Color Dare blog. I combined it with the sketch challenge at the Diva Coffee Break Designs blog. I think the stamp set Baroque Motifs was a good one for both these challenges. Here is the sketch and my creation. inside of card…

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Sketch Saturday

Well as usual the holiday is catching up with me. I am posting late today. I knew what I wanted to do but it took longer to do than I thought. I saw this sketch on a blog by Anna Wight called SweetandSassy. I wanted to use it with a card I made at my workshop this weekend cased from a card I had seen created by patsmethers on Splitcoaststampers. Here is my card. Let…

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