Fold Cards

Happy New Year's Eve everyone!! I wanted to do a post as we close out 2013. 

Having officially run out of steam and card ideas, my upline Maureen posted a card on her blog (click here to check out Maureen's awesome blog) for a card with folds.  She found this card on the very talented Kelly Gettlefinger's web site (click here for a peek) and I decided that I wanted to try it.  Using my stack of Designer Series paper, I played around with this card, and made a vertical and horizontal version of it. 

The cute "psst" sentiment comes from the new Happy Watercolor stamp set, which will be in the Occasions catalog that comes out on January 3rd.

The inside of the card has a pocket and a blank note card for you to write on.

On this card, I sealed the pocket on the front and put an image over it.

There is a pocket on the inside for the sentiment.

These cards were so simple to make and I love how they turned out.

Happy New Year to everyone. Here's too a prosperous and successful 2014.  I'll be unveiling a new project shortly (nope, has nothing to do with a card) so check back soon!!

Merry Christmas!!

I hope everyone is enjoying their time with family and friends today and realizing the real 'reason for the season'.  I've taken a few days off from blogging to enjoy time with my family, baking, cooking and visiting.  I'll be back with some new ideas from Stampin Up's new Occasions and Sale-A-Bration catalogs.

Merry Christmas and many blessings to you all!!

Last Minute Gifts...

Are you all ready for Christmas? For a first time in...ever (lol), I have to say that I am.  I need to pick up 2 Wawa gift cards and I'll be all ready to start wrapping and cooking and baking and ENJOYING the holidays!!  A friend of mine, who wasn't quite as ready as I am, asked me if I could help her out with some gifts for her friends.  We thought and thought and came up with the idea of a set of note cards, as well as some Christmas tags and a post it note holder (since I had so many left).  I let her know there is a way to stamp on a pillar candle and thought that would be a nice addition to the card set.  But, she wasn't able to find any really descent pillar candles at a reasonable price.  Instead, we found jar candles and here is the finished product!

I have been waiting a while to post these, in case any of her friends read this blog.  My friend was so pleased with how these came out and I hope that her friends will like them as well.  As always, I really enjoyed making these cards!!

My Christmas Cards

I have had so many friends ask me if I was making my Christmas cards this year.  The answer to that is...well, I was planning to!

Time for a confession, I LOVE Snowmen!! I have 10 Snowmen that I put out every Christmas, not to mention all the snow men on my tree.  I still have some snowmen ornaments on my tree that my aunt made for me when I was a little girl.  My favorite Christmas cartoon was "Frosty the Snowman", and the close 2nd was How the Grinch Stole Christmas (that's a whole other story).  So, while surfing the net, I came across this ADORABLE Snowman card on Dawn's Stampin Studio Web-site http://dawnsstampingthoughts.typepad.com/dawns_stampin_studio/2013/10/pop-up-slider-christmas-card-video-.html


Dawn has the best ideas and she even offers a video of instructions.  So I made a couple of these...and ran out of steam!! I thought to myself, there is NO WAY I will be able to make 30 of these!!  WHAT TO DO!!

Well, we got snow 2 days last week here.  I left work early one day (schools were closed) and as I left my office, I was awestruck with the beauty of the snow on the trees..

I liked this so much, I went to Shutterfly and made a card using this photo (cropping out the hood of my car of course). So, I was still able to be creative and "make" my own cards.  I cheated a little, but I think I'm going to love the finished product!!

Wishing You....

Don't you just love these gift boxes?  They are part of the Wishing You stamp set, which is in the current Holiday Catalog.  I try to buy sets that I can use for other projects and although this one is for Christmas (see my previous post), it can be used for any occasion.  I cased this layout from Mary Fish at Stampin Pretty.  Look at what she did to make this into a birthday card:

By using the colors Midnight Muse. Crushed Curry and Early Espresso, this card has been turned into a colorful Birthday Card.  Love these colors!!

Gorgeous Grunge Cards

I bought the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set, and wondered what in the world I would do with it.  I played around with it over the weekend and made a couple of cards.

 

 I received a pre-view of the Spring 2014 Occasions catalog, which will be available to everyone on January 2nd.  There are some adorable stamp sets and paper.  I'll be previewing some projects from the catalog, hopefully before January 2nd.