Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas - from our family to yours!!! Hope you have a blessed day, celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ!!!



Quick and Easy Christmas tags - and my first tutorial!

Well, if there is anyone else that has procrastinated until the last minute (like me!) - I have a really easy idea to share with you to whip out some quick and adorable gift tags! I made 27 of them, in probably under an hour! Pretty easy! Here they are:

Cute, right?

I have been loving kraft paper - and blue and white together for Christmas colors!

So, here is what I started with - this tag off of Winter Woodland, cut at 2.96 inches on my Gypsy (so approximately 3 inches if you are just using your Cricut). 

Then I pulled out my Unity Stamps Kit of the Month from November, and used the snowflake background and some white ink to stamp a background. 

Here is what it looks like now: 

Then I used my Very Merry Tags Cartridge to cut out a bunch of little snowflakes - used my Gypsy to hide the hole that makes it a tag, and cut them at 1.42 inches (so approximately 1.5 inches). 

Each snowflake then got a little visit with my hole punch in the center of them: 

Grabbed some Twinery Twine in Marchino Cherry: 

Wrapped it around a couple of times, crossing in the center: 

Then threaded it through the hole in the snowflake: 

And tied a cute little bow, trimming the ends if necessary. 

Finally, pulled out my Unity Stamps Blossom Stacker set, and the "to" and "from" stamps.  

And stamped them on each tag! 

And that's all there is too it! Here is the pile of a bunch of the finished ones: 

Entering this in several Challenges:

Cricut Circle December Monthly Challenge: Gift Wrapping Challenge

Unity Stamp Co: Friends with Flair

Unity Stamp Co: Gift Wrapping Challenge

CAS-ual Fridays: Clean and Simple project using Kraft and Twine 

Thanks for stopping by! Let me know what you think...I have been pondering doing a few more tutorials, but not sure if anyone would be interested in them? Videos would be difficult, because we have slower than average internet, so I fear I would take a whole day to upload anything! Anyway - your thoughts are appreciated! Thanks!



You're the Cat's Meow!

Good morning! I took some time last night to make something - just for me and for fun! Not for Christmas, a challenge, or a contest. Sometime I get bogged down by all of those, and last night I just felt like playing for the fun of it! So I made something happy and fun - with lots of spring colors!

All the pattern papers are from Echo Park's Country Drive 6x6 paper pad. The center frame part is a piece of white cardstock cut out from Elegant Edges cartridge (the book feature), that I stamped Market Street Stamps Pretty Perfect Grid Background on in pale green, then inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress ink in Antique Linen. The Kitty is cut out on my Circut using Cindy Loo, with a Peachy Keen Face from the Tear Kitty Face parts added. I colored the eyes with a green Copic Marker.   

The sentiment is from Unity Stamp Co - stamped on a tag cut from Sentimentals, and tied on with a bit of Baker's Twine from the Twinery. 

I also inked the edge of the pattern paper a bit - and added some rosy cheeks with some soft pink ink and a make-up applicator.

Thanks for stopping by today! Can you believe that it is only 3 days until Christmas?!?!? I am about to brave town for a few last minute things - I'm afraid it will be crazy - so wish me luck!!!



Stitched with Love

For some reason this morning, as I was laying in bed trying to convince myself to crawl out into the cold morning air - this card popped into my head! I am SOOOO excited that I had time to put it together right away - and I love that it came out like I was picturing! So nice when that happens!!!

I used October Afternoon's Farmhouse 8x8 paper pad, and my new December Unity KOTM. I stamped the image on kraft paper, then tied some October Afternoon Rocket Age buttons with PTI button twine, then ran them through the button holes on the stamped image that I punched out. I then tied the twine to the back of the card - so whoever receives this card, could actually remove and use the buttons - how great is that?

It also helped the buttons lay flat on the paper - then I pop-dotted the button card off of the doily. You can see the dimension a bit here:

The tag on the bottom is cut from Sentimentals cartridge, inked with Tim Holtz distress ink in Vintage Photo, then tied on with Crinkle Ribbon. I'm not sure what set the sentiment is from - it was one of the 100 free random stamps I won and recieved a couple days ago!

I also inked the edge of the doily and pattern paper, and added some October Afternoon trim from the Holiday Style trim pack.

Anyway - thanks for visiting again! Hope you are having a Merry Christmas Season!!!



Quick Retro Card...

Just wanted to quickly share a fun Retro card I made a bit ago while playing with some Crafty Secret stamps. I combined images from two sets, stamped the sentiment and beans, inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress ink, and rounded a couple of corners off. Design paper is from October Afternoon, and I also added a bit of twine from the Twinery. Not my favorite ever - but I just had to play with these cute images right away! Definately be using them more in the future I'm sure!



A simple Christmas Card

Good morning! Whew...I feel like I have been neglecting this blog through this busy season!!! I usually post nearly every day...and not so much lately! Anyway, here is another quick Christmas Card I made recently:

I used my Cricut and Elegant Edges to cut out the two colored frames, my Lil' Inker dies to cut out the cute banner, Papertrey Ink Impression plates to add texture, Tim Holtz distress ink on the edges of everything, a sentiment from Pumpkin Patch stamps, and a bit of Baker's Twine.

I am entering this in the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge - to make a Christmas Card that reflects the true meaning of Christmas.



Peachy Keen Stamps Design Team Submission!!!

I was so excited to see earlier this month that Peachy Keen Stamps is having an Open Design Team call!!! EEEK!!! They have the cutest face stamps in the WORLD!!! So it took me this long to think of something special to make for it - 'cause I wanted to do something I had never seen before. Here is what I came up with:

Isn't that sentiment the cutest? It is a rub-on from one of the October Afternoon Santa's sacks that I have been getting - and as soon as I saw it, I knew exactly what I wanted to make. I also used the brand new set of face stamps that I was itching to ink up - The Cornies Face Assortment. Cute faces, no?

I used Formal Occassion to cut out the two chairs, and did some inking with Tim Holtz distress inks in Antique Linen and Vintage Photo - my two favorite colors. Added some stitching and doodling with a brown pen and my white gel pen.

The frame shape for the sentiment is from the same cartridge - inked and doodled on of course! I stamped the faces, filled in the eyes with a white gel pen, then added some pink cheeks with a soft pink stamp pad and an eye makeup applicator. The chairs are pop-dotted from the background, as is the sentiment, then the pattern paper is pop-dotted from the kraft paper card base. This picture shows the dimension a little bit:

Finished the card off with another of my favorites - Baker's Twine from the Twinery! Threaded 3 colors through the hole, tied a knot, then ran it around the back.

Thanks for stopping by to visit!!! It would be so much fun to be on the Peachy Keen Design Team - I had a blast when I did my Guest Designer week! Although the first Design Team is going to be a tough act to follow I'm afraid! Either way - I can't wait to see who the lucky ones are - and wish them all a big Congratulations in advance!!!

I am also entering this is the Peachy Keen Weekly Challenge - to make any project you want, and use Peachy Keen Stamps somewhere on them.

Hope you have a fabulous day today!!!