Cheers!

Here's to the New Year!  Wishing everyone a year of good health, happiness and all good things in 2020!  If you are going out to celebrate the New Year, be careful and enjoy!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

A Girl and Her Dog

Time to make cards for the next special day~~Valentine's Day.  The image on today's card is from MFT's You Have My Heart stamp set.  The sentiment is from a retired Stampin' Up set.  I stamped the sentiment using Versamark ink and then heated it with white embossing powder.  Once again, MFT has a cute image~~or should say "stamp set".  The card is quite simple, but it says a lot!  Have a great day!

Mark's Card

We had a most wonderful Christmas.  Jen, Mark, Syd and Matt were here on Christmas Eve.  On Christmas Day our friends, Mickey and Lenora, came over and we had our usual stuffed cabbage dinner and then played Mexican Train.

The week before Christmas, Mark had a birthday.  I used Lawn Fawn's You're Just My Type stamp set, cutting the stamped images on my Scan N Cut.   The "happy b-day" is from Lawn Fawn's Love Note stamp set.  WPlus 9's Bubble Talk stamp set includes the "Make A Wish" that fits perfectly on the piece of paper image.  And that cute little mouse finishes the card.  Have a great day!

Family

From my family to yours, Merry Christmas!

Four Christmas Puppies

I cannot believe Christmas is already here!  The older I get, the quicker this time of the year rolls around!  Sydney was here for the weekend and we did our Christmas Cookies.  As always, Syd did a great job decorating! 

Using the same layout for today's card as on other cards I posted recently, I made this one for Matthew.  I used dog stamps from a variety of stamp sets by My Favorite Things.  I added a Christmas tree that was punched and decorated with gel pen garland.  Have a great day!

Christmas Heart Tags

I finally sent out my Christmas cards which meant it was time to clean up my scrap room island.  At the same time, Lawn Fawn's newly released Heart Shaker Gift Tag dies arrived.  As you know, when I receive a new item I have to try it out and I did this time, too.  I made these two tags, the green one a shaker tag.  They are cute and not the only thing I ordered from Lawn Fawn's new release.  I will get to those after Christmas!  Have a great weekend!

Elves on a Shelf

Today's card is from my friend, Dawn.  She makes some of the cutest cards and she does a great job coloring.  The stamp set used for this card is Neat & Tangled's Elfs and Their Shelf.  I don't usually think elves are cute.  Actually, most elves are scary.  But these little elves are very cute. I am not sure what dies she used but I will guess:  MFT Stamps' Stitched Rectangle Scallop Edge for the white layer; and MFT's Blueprints 27 for the cute red frame.  When I talk to Dawn, I will have to ask her.  Thank you for the very adorable card, Dawn!  Love it.  Have a great day everyone!

More Christmas Bird

My neighbor girls from across the street will enjoy these happy little birds.  I saw these cards on Pinterest.  They were so cute, I had to make them.  Not only are they cute, they are easy to make.  Have a great day!

Christmas Bird

I completely forgot that Stampin' Up's Birds of A Feather stamp set had a cute little Christmas bird until I saw a card on pinterest.  I am done with all the cards I created using SU's tree punch and plaid paper.  I needed to make some cute, fun cards.  What better stamp set than Birds of a Feather?  I colored the little bird with a Stampin' Up Pool Party alcohol pen.  I then used a Cherry Cobbler card base with a white layer on which to perch the little bird.  The area behind the image was sponged lightly.  The sentiment  is from the same set with a minor change.  (I cut off the line that said "from our little flock".)  The card is ready to go!  Have a great day!
 

Christmas Box

Since I have been working on finishing up my Christmas cards, I only had time to create something quick for today's post.  So out came Lawn Fawn's Scalloped Box die, snowflake dies and red ribbon  Elegant and simple is what happened with those products and a couple more!  Nice box for presenting a gift card, check, candy and more. Have a great weekend and find yourself a little stampin' time!

Yuletide Cheer

This very pretty card was created by my friend, Nancy.  I love everything about it.  The first thing that jumps out is that she used a non-traditional color~~purple.  Then she used Stampin' Up's Feels Like Frost Designer Series Paper.  And finally, the Foliage Frames Dies are so much prettier in person than in the Holiday Catalog.  The sentiment is from the Frosted Foliage stamp set.  Stampin' Up offers a bundle price for the stamp set and dies.  Yesterday was free shipping at Stampin' Up.  I thought about ordering the DSP, stamps and dies after seeing Paula's and Nancy's cards.  I came close~~but, I stayed strong!  I will admire their cards and probably kick myself later for not ordering~~lol!!  Have a great day!

Christmas Under The Sea

Last week I posted a card I created using Lawn Fawn's Christmas Fishes stamp set.  It was pretty cute so I decided to use the same stamp set to create a shaker card.  For the shaker, I used a scallop circle stitched die with a smaller circle inside to make the red frame.  I also used a circle die to create the circle in the white layer.  After adhering the acetate to the underside of the white card layer, I outlined both the underside of the acetate circle and the remainder of that white layer with foam strips.  The cute little images were colored with alcohol markers and adhered to a sponged layer.  Sequins were added and the card was assembled.  Have a great day!

Dear Santa

Today's creativity is from my friend, Nikki.  Aren't these the cutest placemats?  Nikki is putting her Cricut machine and her heat press to work.  She purchased the SVG file, iron-on vinyl and the cute placemats.  She got to work cutting and these are two of her finished products.  I don't know how she does it.  Nikki works full time, has a new baby and just had gall bladder surgery!  Thanks for sharing, Nikki.  Have a great day!

Winter Scene

Yesterday, Jen and my friend, Paula, came over for a little play time. Today's card is one that Paula made using Stampin' Up's Feels Like Frost Designer Series Paper.  Paula layered the DSP paper on two colors of cardstock adhering that to the card base.  The sentiment is from SU's Frosted Foliage stamp set.  The Frosted DSP is very pretty, as is Paula's card.  A silver snowflake was added to complete the card.  Paula gave me some of her paper so for sure I will be making a few cards using the paper and a sentiment~~definitely clean and simple cards!  Have a great day.

Santa Claws

Instead of making all these cute cards, I should be working on the Christmas cards that the majority of my family and friends will receive.  Today's card was created using Lawn Fawn's Christmas Fishes stamp set.  The stamped images were cut on my Scan N Cut, colored with alcohol markers and adhered to a scallop stitched circle.  The circle was sponged with Distress Oxide Ink before adhering the underwater scene.    Isn't this too cute?  Have a great weekend and find yourself a little stampin' time!

Cute Little Penguin

Another card using MFT's Toasty Greetings, a fun winter stamp set..  For this card, I used Stampin' Up's Marina Mist retired cardstock and paper.  This could be a Christmas card or a birthday card, depending on what you write inside.  Either way, very cute.  Have a great day!

AZ Christmas Card

Today's card is quite simple.  It is a perfect card for one of our families in Arizona.  While looking for a specific stamp, I came across the Southwest Christmas stamp set by Art Impressions.  I forgot I even purchased the set!  I quickly decided to make a card using Southwest Christmas and I will look for the other stamp later today.  I was able to cut this image on the Scan N Cut.  A couple of the other images from the set would not cut correctly.  So after awhile, I put that aside and worked on one of the images that cut perfectly!  The sentiment is the same one I used on yesterday's card.  The little Red Rhinestone embellishments from Stampin' Up are more rounded than faceted.  They are more "cute" than "pretty".  I prefer the "pretty" rhinestones from SU than these red "cute" ones!  Have a great day!

Toasty Greetings

Today's card was created using My Favorite Things' Toasty Greetings stamp set and MFT's pattern paper.  After stamping and coloring the images using alcohol markers, the images were cut out on my Scan N Cut.  The snow hills were made using dies from MFT, Stitched Snow Drifts, with a little sponging along the tops.   I added Stickles on the "fur" of the snowgirl and the penguin.  Toasty Greetings is an adorable set and it does have matching dies.   Have a great day!

Christmas Cards for Germany

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.  Sydney came over for our annual "toast the bread for stuffing and watch TV in bed"  day before Thanksgiving.  For a change to the usual pancakes that John makes when Sydney comes over, he made waffles.  After an enjoyable Thanksgiving breakfast, the kitchen became quite busy (and messy for a while)! I enjoy having our family and friends here every year for Thanksgiving.  I see them all sitting at different tables and hear the laughter and see the joy in their faces and actions and my heart is full of thankfulness.  I truly am blessed.

A couple of days before Thanksgiving, I had been working on cards for our German "family".  Since my Cricut was out, I used it to make and cut out a snowflake.  I chose the snowflake image I wanted to use and cut it out on Whisper White cardstock.  I then adhered the white snowflake to a blue shimmery paper layer on a white card base.  Since I had the white layer with the negative space, I layered that onto a shimmery blue layer. It looked like I had cut out a shimmery blue snowflake, too.  The sentiment was stamped with Versamark Ink and then embossed with silver embossing powder.  The finishing touch was a little rhinestone in the center of each snowflake.  Have a great day!