Well it has been a while since my last post.  We had a wonderful Christmas and we are enjoying the New Year.  Since my last post, I have been busy with Christmas cards, Valentines, thank you cards and just using new stamp and die sets.  Today I am posting a simple card I created using Stampin' Up's Regency Park Designer Series Paper.  The sentiment is from Sale-a-bration's Beautifully Happy stamp set.  The sentiment was stamped on white cardstock and then cut using one of the dies in the Stampin' Cut & Emboss set, Ornate Frames.  The ribbon does not show well, but it is very pretty Balmy Blue and white ombre.  The ribbon and paper are from the new Mini Catalog and  the Beautifully Happy stamp set is free with a $100 order placed at Stampin' Up.  Have a great week!

Christmas Joy In My Scraproom

The last few weeks have been spent making Christmas cards, favors, wrapping gifts and enjoying this time of the year.  We have many dreary, rainy days, but they are sweater temperature days so I am not complaining!

I have purchased two new tools for my scrap room and both have made card-making so much easier.  The first and most appreciated item is the Tim Holtz version of the Big Shot Switch Plus.  I have looked at it for awhile.  Scrapbooking Made Simple had it on sale for $199, so I broke down and purchased it.  The machine has made card-making much better on my hands.  I do not miss turning the handle on my original Big Shot at all!

Then I was in Hobby Lobby and they had Spellbinders Hot Glimmer Machine for $75.  I had a gift card and decided to purchase it and some of the foils and hot foil plates.  At first, I was not impressed.  I felt like it was a lot of work to hot foil.  After playing with it for more than a few times, I found it to be very useful.  Granted, the hot foil plates are expensive but finding them on sale or by using one plate for 40 cards, it is more than worth the cost.  Not a needed tool by any means, but my Christmas cards turned out to be very pretty with the foil.  Following are two pretty cards I created using the Big Shot Switch Plus for all of the cutting and the Glimmer Hot Foil machine for the area surrounding the word "JOY" on the card to the right.   

Have a great Christmas week!

Anniversary

 A few weeks ago, Jen and Mark celebrated their 23rd wedding anniversary.  Today's card is the first one I made for them.  Then I decided I should make the same card using Rich Razzleberry~~the color her bridesmaids wore on their wedding day.  Of course, I did not take a photo of that one, so in your mind imagine this card is Rich Razzleberry, a Stampin' Up color.  I foolishly spent too much time trying to make the strips for the top layer on the scalloped heart to be precise.  Eventually, I told myself to just adhere alternate strips of white embossed cardstock and pattern paper to a piece of cardstock and then die cut that using heart dies from Stampin' Up's retired Be Mine Stitched Heart die set.  Rhinestones, hearts and ribbon completed the card.   It looks perfectly fine!

Have a great week!

Happy Halloween

 This year I purchased My Favorite Things' stamp set, Best Witches.  At first, I made the pretty Halloween cards.  I used a variety of stamp sets for the sentiment and punches for the background.

And then I saw a "Witch way to the boos" card on the internet and decided I could use that card for a few of the people on my card list.  I typed the sentiment using Word and then added the images.  Again, it is the cute little witch from Best Witches and the "boos" are from My Favorite Things' Here's To You die set.

A majority of the cards I made this year were die cut using Stampin' Up's Deckled Edges die set.  Enjoy the day and the ghosts and goblins that appear at your front door today!