Christmas cards

Hope you are enjoying your day! Here are a few simple cards that look more beautiful in real life. The DP is from My Mind's Eye 6 x 6 pad. These 2 cards were made from a half sheet of this paper. Many of the pages in this pad have borders like this one and make it so easy to put together beautiful cards. I stamped a sentiment. I added a 3D embellishment from K & Co. It just couldn't be simpler!!! More to come!

NAVY Wings Card

My son is in the NAVY and will get his wings on Friday. It's been a long time coming (25 years!) but the day will finally arrive this week. He has wanted to be a pilot since he was 18 months old when he got to climb the steps up into his Daddy's F-16 in his little pilot suit. So, this is a card I made for him to commemorate the occasion. The NAVY seal is embossed in Navy ink. I cut the wings out from an image I found on the computer. The stars were embossed with a Sizzix folder. The inside of the card has SOLDIER embossed on the navy cardstock with a verse. I think it turned out pretty nice.
I have lots of cards in my stash that I whipped up last week so hopefully I will find time to post them this week. We are in the process of buying a Colorado Snow car so will be doing that this week. We are supposed to get snow on Tues or Wed so hopefully we will be prepared for it. We got our snowblower last week so BRING IT ON!
Have a great weekend!

Oh Christmas Tree!

Here is another Christmas card for you! I embossed the tree in burgundy and then distressed the edges in green. The xmas presents and Santa area all K & Co 3D embellishments that are all popped out - wish you could see that! It's all mounted on a pearl shimmery cardstock that is so beautiful and many of my cards this year will be made with it.
Well, we had a warm weekend but right now it is snowing! We got our snowblower last week - it's still in the box! We bought a Subaru to get around in the heavy snows that Black Forest seems to get. Now we just need to sell our beautiful, like new, under warranty JEEP! The dealership offered us very little for it and we just laughed because it's a perfect car with absolutely nothing wrong with it. Why would we give it away! So, we will hold on to it until we sell it and if we don't sell it....well, we will just have 3 cars.
Have a great fall day!

A few holiday cards

I'm afraid this year is disappearing faster than I want it to! It's amazing how much faster the end of the year goes than the beginning of the year! How does that happen! Well, here are a few Christmas cards that I really enjoyed making. The first is just a half sheet of 6 x 6 paper from Lost and Found Christmas by My Mind's Eye. No stamping. I added the K & Co. 3D sticker and a ribbon. I just love how elegant it is with minimal work!!! The second card was embossed with the white and silver snowy glitter. I then colored in the trees. I embossed the cottage in silver and then colored it with Copics and popped it up on the snow scene. The DP is Webster Pages. The stamps are Hero Arts, Waltzingmouse Stamps and Great Impressions.
Hope your weekend was great! Thanks for dropping by!

Holiday Greetings!

I wanted to do a really simple card with a cute reindeer set I have and this is what I came up with. The reindeer is from Craft Lounge and has a whole set of really cute reindeer. They are all very festive and ready for your holiday cards!
I have lots more of simple cards coming your way. My time is very limited for stamping so cards are getting simpler! I am finding that the beautiful papers really CAN make a card. So, that's what my cards will be this year!
Looks like I will have a house full this Thanksgiving - which is not the norm for us. Usually I'm home alone and we celebrate whenever we have hubby home. But, this year he managed to get Thanksgiving week off so it will be fun having the whole family around and maybe some cold weather too.
See you tomorrow!

Set of cards

What a difference a week can make! We had 9" of snow last weekend and this weekend I have my windows open!!! Crazy Colorado weather - but I love it!
So here is a set of cards I cased and just love how they turned out. They were embossed with a SU embossing folder and then the centers of the flowers were dotted with my Copic markers. I stamped a sentiment on the lower right corner and tied a ribbon around the bottom edge. I saw these on Patricia Gorka's blog but somehow lost her blog address. A big thank-you to her for her creative idea! I always like to have sets of cards on hand for quick gifts.
Have a great weekend!

Fun Projects

Two fun projects here today. I was rummaging through all my stash and ran across one of those cheap $1 wood frames. I decided to decorate it with some of my scraps! My son is completing pilot training in the Navy so I decided to do a frame for one of his photos. It's really just a hodge podge of anything I could find to glue down! It took all of MAYBE and hour to do!

The second photo is made with a Holly Berry Stamp. I stamped the image many times and then embossed it in gold. I then just applied glitter and cut out the various layers and popped them up with dimensionals so it is 3D. It's a little more work than I would spend on an average card but it was fun! I must say I won't be doing these for many people - sorry!!!

Have a great day!