Wishing You All The Joys

Hi Everyone,
Welcome back.  Tuesday nite I went to dinner with the ladies in the club I belong to. We meet once a month but every December we go to dinner and hold our meeting at the restaurant. And at dinner we swap hand made tags and a card. We make 1 card and 9 tags, one tag for each club member. So we all come home with 9 different tags and 1 different card.

Let me share the card I made for the swap:

Project #1 - Card Front

Project #1 Inside of card

Stamps - Whipper Snapper Designs Inc, Verse - Stampa Rosa (no longer available)
Punches - Martha Stewart Alpine Snowflake
Die - Sizzix Tim Holtz On the Edge Snow Flurries
Ribbon
Bow made with Craft-Dee BowZ
Glitter
Paper - DP, White card stock, red shimmer card stock, vellum
Coloring done using Derwent Inktense colored pencils with Gamsol



Next is the tag that I made for each of the members.

Project #2 - Tag

Tags - Prima
Stamps - Santa image Gumbo Graphics stamps (no longer available), Merry Christmas To/From Catslife Press, Snowflakes Art Impressions.
Dies - Spellbinders Circles S4-114, S4-116, Corner flourish - Amazing Paper Graces Kit Club Becca Feeken (No longer available), S5-185  2013 Snowflake Pendant
Punches - Martha Stewart Alpine Snowflake, Himalayan Snowflake Large
Ribbons - Lace (unknown), Snowflake - May Arts, Thin Red Ribbon - Michael's
Cardstock - White, Red Shimmer, Vellum
Embossing Powder - White
Inks - Versamark, Memento - Espresso Truffle
Glitter

I am submitting my projects to the following challenges:

• Cheerful Stamp Pad - 2W, JFF, mixed media - (1st week) Signs of Christmas (project 1)
• C is for Challenge - 2W, Papercrafts only, E1 - (1st week) Traditional Christmas (project #2)
• Craft It Up & Link It Up Linky Party by Craftin Desert Divas - 2W - (1st week) Christmas (project 2)
• Crafting from the Heart - 2W, E3 - (1st week) Anything Goes (project 1)
• Crafty Boots - 2W, SIO - (1st week) Christmas (project 1)
• Created With Love Challenges - W, 3E - Anything Goes (project 2)
• Digi Darla Challenge - W, SIO - Santa or Snowman (Project 1 and 2) 
• Get Inky! - 2W, 3E - (1st week) Christmas (project 2)
• House of Cards - W, C10, Monthly inspiration with weekly themes - (deadline December 15) Holiday Blog Hop + DT CALL (project 1)
  
• Imagination Crafts - M, 3E, 7C, SIR to win prize - (December) Merry Christmas (Project 1 & 2)

Merry Kissmas

Welcome back everyone!!

Yesterday I showed a tri-shutter card design and today I have two more cards that I presented in my November Card Shop Class. Both of the cards below are center step cards. I call one design a Tall Center Step Card and the other one a Wide Center Step Card

Card #1 - Tall Center Step Card

Card #2 -  Wide Center Step Card

The great thing about the size of both of these cards is they fit in an A-2 size envelope.  Again all the stamps I used on both of these cards come from stamp set  Kissmas & Mistletoe  from Unity, (IPK-101). And the great thing is this set is still available. This set is perfect to use for winter theme cards, too.

Are you one of many people who hate to use an exacto knife. Tri shutter cards and step cards are cards that need to be cut with an exacto knife and they can be hard to cut. Great news!! I have blank cards, already pre cut and available in my Etsy store, CreativeEssences. I have them available in either white or cream card stock  and come packaged 5 blank cards to a pack. Let me eliminate your cutting woes, so you can concentrate on the decorating part of your card making.. Also available,  is a blank side step card, and it too is available in cream or white card stock. Visit CreativeEssences for all the details.

My next Card Shop class will be in January (I am on vacation this month) and the theme is man cards. After the January classes are finished I will share those designs with you.

Have a great rest of the week and hope you are finishing up on your Christmas chores. See you soon.


I am entering my cards in the following fabulous challenges

• Fashionable Stamping Challenges - Challenge #62 (2nd week) In the Holiday Spirit. (card #1)
• Glitter n Sparkle - Challenge #62 Show us some blue. (card #1)
• Scribble and Scrap - Challenge #7 (1st Week) Always Anything Goes. (card #1 and card #2) 
• Sentimental Sundays -  must include a Sentiment - Challenge #184 Snowman.(Card #1)
• That Craft Place - (1st week) Christmas. (card #1)

Snowbody Like You

Hi Everyone
I want to share with you one of the cards that I taught in my November Card Shop Class.

This tri-shutter card turned out darling and was so much fun to decorate.

Shutter cards are fun to work with and have quite a few great little areas to decorate. I made this one more of a clean and simple design. Sometimes less is more. 

The snowman, the sentiment and the snowflake are from a Unity set, Kissmas and Mistletoe, IPK101. That set came out a few years ago and is still available. It's one of my fav's. Always in style.I have used stamps from this set many, many times.  Unity has awesome sets. 

I will be back tomorrow to show two more cards from this class using the same stamp set. 

Have a great day.

Craft-Dee BowZ December Blog Hop

Hi Everyone,
Boy, December is here already!!  Today, Craft-Dee BowZ is hosting their last blog hop for the year!! The time has really flown by for me, how about you??

If you arrived here from Amber's blog then you are in the right spot. If not, then you may want to start at the Craft-Dee BowZ blog to get all the details to be eligible for the giveaway. There will be a prize awarded to one of the commenters, so please make sure to leave a comment at each blog including the Craft-Dee BowZ Blog. Here are the Designers in the hop:

Patti

Brenda

Amber 

Barbara 

Craft-Dee BowZ  (to leave one last comment)

Since this months blog hop celebrates Christmas, you have been treated to all things Christmas.I hope you have seen some things along the way that you will want to try for your projects.

Let me share what I have designed today. I've made an ensemble for the blog hop.

First let me present my card.

This card utilizes scraps of ribbons used as a woven background. I love the look this gives, lots of texture on your card canvas. LOL  The card has a great bow that is a three loop bow. I pulled the loops out to further define the loops and it reminded me of a snowflake of sorts. I then added over the bow knot, a rosette with a snowflake attached to the top. Those were made using vellum. The tree is made using a teabag folding technique and that and the snowflakes are also made using vellum.

Next lets check out a wrapped gift.

I used a a pillow box as the gift box. Using some shimmery card stock means no need to use wrapping paper.And you have to love that. So, all it needed was a bow.

Yummy multi-loop bow

A close up of the 3 loop bow.
The ribbon is 2 1/2" wide and wired on the edges.

This ribbon was so very easy to work with, even though it was wide, and the end result was really a a nice puffy bow. What a great presentation this will make to the recipient.

OK,  lets look at a gift tag.

I made a large gift tag. I wanted to use some larger items and a smaller tag just wouldn't work. Don't be afraid to make things larger than you normally would. I also used some elements that actually stuck out beyond the edge of the tag.That adds to the uniqueness of the design.

I had a bit of the blue ribbon left (from the cards that I made and posted here Sunday and then Tuesday) but definitely not enough for a bow, so I used it for the piece that threads through the hole on the tag.  I used a 1" silver (Oh So Glittery) ribbon that really compliments the tag and the blue ribbon. It looks great with that snowflake sprig of ribbon that I added just for more interest.

Hope you saw something that caught your eye, maybe a design that you can use on something you want to make.

I am the last designer in the blog hop, so don't forget to leave a comment here and then stop back at the Craft-Dee BowZ blog to make one last comment and you are done and you will be in the running for the prize of your very own Craft-Dee BowZ tool. Thanks for taking the time to hop along with us today.

By the Way, Craft-Dee BowZ will be announcing the new Design Team for 2014 on Sunday so you might want to come back Sunday for the news.

Hope you have a very Merry Christmas!!