Cold and Crispy Day

Today is a very cold and crisp day, it's minus 20 with a brisk north wind to make it feel even cooler. At least the sun is shining bright so those that have to deal with the snow we got over the past 48 hours can do it under nice blue skies.
The card I'm sharing with you today is one that I made over a year ago and have had it ready and waiting to send to just the right person at the right time.

I do not have the actual details for what I used to make this card. I know that it is a wonderful tulip stamp that I got from M-J's. It was double stamped to achieve the images. I'm sending this card to a friend who is moving this week. I always try to mail a card to arrive when someone is just moved in. So often all the mail you receive just after a move is all the redirected important stuff and I feel that it is nice just to get something with good wishes at this time.

Thanks for dropping by,

Sandy

Where is this Month gone?

It has been almost a month since I last posted...It doesn't seem that long but the dates don't lie, do they?
Today I'm sharing with you a Birthday card idea that I got from watching Gina K on Stamp TV's Color Spotlight Challenge. This week's colours are turquoise, brown and white. 

I went up to M-J's this morning after watching the video and knew that I wanted to create a card to fit this challenge. With her help to use one of her cup cake punches, some patterned CS, swiss dots embossing folder, a little glitter and  square nesties this is the result.  I liked it so much I made a second one that is a mirror image of this one. I have trouble making two cards exactly the same.  Actually, I am very happy with the result and I may just have to get up the courage to post it on the challenge site for others to see.

It is good to get back into some creating again.

Thanks for dropping by,

Sandy 



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.


Thanks for dropping by,
Sandy