My Son's B-day Today! & Dasher Shares

I have to start out the post, wishing my son, Jade, a happy birthday today! He is a whopping 13 years old! He is very excited to be a teenager, and the house made a big bang last night, ushering in a teenager into the home...

I'm getting ready to start out the Christmas Cards. Not my favorite thing to do. I wished that we all sent out 100 cards at Halloweener time. Now those cards are fun to make! Oh well. Someday maybe?
So I'm starting my Christmas Cards, and this year, I decided to use the "in Colors" from SU. Shouldn't be to hard right? Well, I also paired them with Old Olive, to put some green in there too. So here are 4 of my designs I think that I will use. Yep, they are all Dasher. I really liked him. I think its something about his antlers. Anyways, top card, uses the Suede, and Old Olive. I used some DP... its certainly celery, but it looks like snowflakes to me.

This card uses the Dusty Durango. I stamped his antlers all over the Suede for the texture. All of the Dashers are also embossed. I figured it was time to get the heat gun out. (smile)

I like this one. Maybe because I like yellow- a lot! But it seems more cheerful to me. Since I didn't use traditional Christmas colors... (Hubby would die, if I decorated the tree in yellow!)

Then here is the Melon one. I used silver paper and embossed in silver. I don't have the poinsettia template...so used this one instead. Also, I am afraid to cut my template to make it do what I want it to do... so you just have to pretend that those are Christmas flowers!

I have a few more designs in mind... so will be back tomorrow or the next day to share some more.

Quick Quick Post!

Just poppin in to let you know about a deal I just found.
You probably already know about it, but hey... a deal is a deal.
I just learned that the "roberts" craft stores, now carry
Nestablilities! I was very excited. I have looked all over for these
where I could afford them.... found some in clearance things,
these are not badly priced, if you use your 40 or 50 percent off
coupon. They are regularly priced at 29... but 40 off makes them
16. Not too bad.
Just thought I'd let you know!

Its now off to Nana Day!!

Keersten

Envelope Cards

I joined in a challenge to use envelopes for the cards. The one where you cut the top of the envie off and crimp the bottom of the envie so it fits into the top part? Ok, so here is what I did. The top card I had to use my new little belt stamp. I love it! It comes with 4 different buckles, so I of course, I had to use one. The flourish is SU's.

This one was the stamp of the month from CTMH. I LOVE dandilions, so I had to get it. I don't know what it is about the little flower, but I like them. I remember once, I was really little, no younger brother, so I was less than six. I was out swinging on the swings, pretending I was an Indian Maiden...I know...my hair was swinging, I was wishing it was black instead of red/brown, when out of the corner of my eye, I spyed something yellow. What? I ran over and picked it up. It was a perfectly round, little yellow flower. How could that be? We had 3 acres of lawn, that my dad hand picked over every minute he wasn't in our garden. Hmmm, I looked really hard and came up with another flower! I ran all over that big yard picking up yellow flowers. I made me a crown! Pretty soon it was time to come in for lunch and my dad came home from work for lunch.

We sat down at the table, and I guess, I was a little yellow in color. My dad got a terrible look on his face and said, something to the effect of: well, it can't be repeated here. Well. I guess the look on my face was just as bad, because by then I was crying and my mom had to tell my dad how much fun I had had that morning. Needless to say, there were no more little yellow flowers at my house after that. Maybe that is why I like them so much!

Green/Black/Purple Challenge

My challenge was to use green, black and purple to make a card. So, when I hear those colors, I immediately think, Halloween! What else it purple, green and black?? So, I had to use the little spooky house, with the greeting. I found this designer paper, guess where? In my fantastic little bag of goodies I won from the fair!
It is stripy on one side, words on the other, and it is black and green! Perfect! So, I cut me out a piece and then triangled it on the paper, centered my spooky house, and there you go!
(I masked my moon, and then sponged color on the spooky house...I stamped it on white)

Hope you like!

Cased Card, from Michelle Zindorf

I saw this card on Michelle Zindorf's blog, and knew right then, that I had to recreate it. I don't have the bat stamps that she did, but I did have some punched from cuttlebug! I think that they work just fine!
To do the card, you make a mask of the moon, then you sponge color on your card. I sponged bashful blue around the moon first, then I sponged going gray around that. Lower on the card, I sponged sahara sand, and at the bottom, I sponged soft suede. At the top of the card, I sponged black, and then sponged black around the edges.
I then removed the mask for the moon and stamped the tree from Branches Out set. I stamped happy Halloween from Haunted House set. I then mounted the bats. I liked how it turned out.

I did exactly the same for this card, except, I used the bird in the branches out set. My hubby liked this one best. He said it was scarier. I just like Halloween!!

Card Making Day!

I joined in a challenge for Vintage. What ever I found "vintage" I needed to make a card with. Well, I have these old fashioned gloves, a ladies fan, keys and then I got this stamp of a ladies side face. It wasn't the one I wanted to use, but hey, I don't own every stamp!!
So, I took this one and used it and I think that it worked out pretty well.
To make the background, I masked off areas with removable tape...that turned out not to be removable. Where I pulled it off the paper, it left the paper fuzzy, HOWEVER, what I did to the base later, made those parts pretty cool.
Well, after masking, I sponged color on in three different colors of purple and pink. Then I stamped over the top of that. Then I pulled the masking off.
I rubbed my versa mark stamp pad over the whole card, and then dipped in clear embossing powder. I did this twice. The masked parts...have a really cool texture to them.
Then I cut out the lady and tore out the verse. All mounted on Razzleberry cardstock

Hope you like!

Envie Purses...

I had a request for some more envie purses. So, I sat down and this is what I came up with, I like the pattern, idea of this one. I used the Bronc Buster Stamp set with this one and the star punches. I also found a belt stamp and I used it on the DP.
Inside, more star punches, DP. These definitely are not a color combo I would have used on my own, but the DP's colors were, celery, bliss, dusty durango and pirouette pink....

I didn't stamp the centers, decided that they could put photo's there..

The end of this one!

This one uses Pretty n Pink, Elegant Eggplant and Raspberry... I used the scallop punch and the scallop border punch.

I liked this color combo better...

Anyways, that's all I made today. Of course, both purses have pull-outs on the sides..

Hope you like!