Some of what I created for Christmas

Well here it is the day after what was a very Blessed and Merry Christmas for me. I definitely have a "Turkey Dinner" hang over from all the good food and fun I had with visiting either in person, on the phone or via Skype with all my friends and family.
The following is a montage of just some of the cards and gifts I was fortunate to be able to create to give to those I love.

This is a card that I created after seeing a video on by Gina K. http://stamptv.ning.com/video/shimmering-background-paper

These next ones are a gifts I made for a friend who loves "Bling". The idea for the Kleenex box cover was posted on one of the yahoo groups that I follow but I believe the original posting came from Splitcoaststampers.  The other part of her gift was a "blinged" covered daytimer.

This card was copied from an idea posted on blog from a wonderfully creative gal in Australia
http://croppinrose.blogspot.com/2010/12/white-christmas.html

These last 3 cards I think are actually made just using ideas that I came up with myself. I truly did have fun this year creating my cards. They were made with love for who they were going to be given too.

I realize now that there are a few cards missing. I guess I did forget to scan some. Oh well, the important thing is that they got to people they were suppose...right?

I hope that everyone had as Merry a Christmas as I did!

Thanks for dropping by,

Sandy

I have been creating

This is just a note to let you know that I have been creating. However, I can't share a lot of it with you right now as I don't want to post here before I know the cards and other things have been received.  I have found out that a lot of my friends and family read my blog. So I don't want to spoil any surprises.
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Sandy

Getting Together with Gal Friends

Tomorrow evening I'm getting together for dinner and an early Christmas celebration with 3 of my great gal friends.

We will be exchanging small gifts. These are the gifts wrapped and the cards I have made to co-ordinate with the wrappings. Making these card were really fun as I challenged myself to make each card unique to match its gift.
So looking forward to tomorrow evening!

Thanks for dropping by,
Sandy

My Basic Christmas card for 2010

With what I have titled this posting you would think that I had a basic card every year. To be honest this is the first year I have attempted to make a "batch" of the same card to send out at Christmas. I just hope that I haven't bitten off more than I can chew!

This is the card that I came up with. It fits in a standard #10 envelope, for ease of postage. It also allows me lots of room inside the card for writing a personal message.  The stamp I used is from Hero Arts. I stamped it with green ink from a set of Color Box Petal Point called Pageant. The bough has been stamped off set on 1 3/4" squares. I coloured the cones with Prismas and OMS. The stamped squares were mounted on red  2" C/S squares. Once three of these were mounted on the card I used my newly acquired Stamp-a-ma-jig to place the Merry Christmas.  The final touch, which doesn't show-up at all in this scan, it a few dots of Stardust Stickles to give the idea of a little snow on the pine cones and and star in the sentiment.
I have 5 cards completed and all the squares stamped and coloured. So now I just have to get the rest of the assembly done.  I really hope to get them completed by this week-end.  Then I can get going on some of the other individual cards and projects I have in mind. 
Gosh here it is the end of November, I better get busy as it is soon going to be too late and I can't burn the midnight oil on these the way I use to.
edit added Dec 2, 2010

Here is of picture of 4 more that I got finished last night.


Thanks for stopping by,
Sandy

6 Year Old

I have a favourite little buddy who is turning 6 years old next week. His is having his "Friends" party on Saturday.

This is the card I made to accompany the book I am giving him.

The idea for this card came from a video by Gina K. on Stamp TV. I used my Nesties to create the ovals and embossed the raised frame part with the CB  Number Collage folder.  The 6 was made using the Oliva alphabet set and the stamps are from a SU set I purchased from a friend. Sorry, I don't have the name of the set. The DP on the inside oval is some I had in my stash that co-ordinated with the pre-cut card base I had.


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Sandy

The first Christmas Cards of 2010

Stickers & Stickles

A few weeks ago M-J and I visited a great store in Didsbury called Rose's Stuff. They carry all sorts of stamps, cardmaking and scrapping supplies. While there I picked up some fabulous "Stickeroos" by Penny Black. They are something I had not seen or tried before.  Using one of the sets I started my Christmas cards for 2010. Talk about an easy way to create cards. I just had to mount the images on the green and red C/S. Then using some pre-cut ivory A2 card bases they almost done.I added a few drops of Star Dust Stickles in appropriate places and that it.

How easy was that!

Thanks for dropping by,
Sandy



Birthday card for my Nephew

This week I made a Birthday card for my nephew. I won't say how old he is as that would be telling. Just  suffice to say he is old enough that we can reminisce about "when he was little".

I always struggle with makng male adult cards. This time I was up at M-J's and so I was able to use some of her stamps. Always helpful for sure!
I had seen the idea of using Nesties to make a shaped card. So with that idea along with the stamp of the tree with the single bird flying in the corner and the "one of a kind" sentiment, it came together into this card that expresses exactly what I wanted to say without getting "mushy"

Chris and I went out for breakfast this morning and had a great time catching up.  It was great to just spend some one on one time with him!

Thanks for stopping by,
Sandy