Christmas Tree Cards (Set of 4)

Snowflake Card Set

I've been working on holiday cards lately and wanted to do some cut out cards and when I pulled out a sheet of BasicGrey Figgy Pudding-Glacier and a set of snowflake embellishments I'd picked up from target last year I thought they were a perfect match. Here are the 4 designs I came up with. I ended up with a total of 7 cards total in the set (didn't plan quite well enough to have enough for a full 8 and the local store didn't have any more sheets of the paper). I'll hopefully be putting these on etsy.com later this week.

Look who is turning 100

Actually look who turned 100... I'm a little behind on scrapbooking (as usual). So this photo is from a little over a month ago when my mom had our favorite photographer take some pictures of her dad in honor of him turning 100. This one was with my parents new dog Bessie. Supplies: Pink Paislee Papers, and miscellaneous letters etc.

Button Snowman Cards

Snowman cards inspired by Button Snowman Cards and more creative crafts projects, templates, tips, clip-art, patterns, and ideas on marthastewart.com. I loved the idea of the button snowmen. I thought I'd take the idea and run with it. Shown above are my version. I really like this combination of papers and I'm a total snowman freak. Still not sure about the best eyes for the snowman, one is beads and one is crystals, still torn, but love the papers together. The scan does not quite show off the details very well unless you look at the blown up version. There is a sheet of vellum over the tinkering ink paper and a border strip from the decorative paper pack.

Supplies:
Tinkering Ink - Yuletide: Neige
EKSuccess Vellum - Victorian
The Paper Company - Decorative Paper Pack
Autum Leaves - Stamp A Rhonna Christmas Card
Buttons
Ribbon
Scrapper's Floss Black (Karen Foster Design)

Mini Album - Arizona 2008

I tried to create a movie of all the pages... but google isn't cooperating tonight, so this picture will have to do. We had a nice getaway recently to Arizona and I decided on a mini album to capture our time there. I absolutely love it.

Update: hopefully google is working now and here's the video!

Tis the season to start thinking about the holidays

I got these stamp stamp sets just before last season, but didn't find a way to use the ornament ones. So as I've been thinking about holiday cards for this year I really wanted to try to use them. So tonight I pulled them out and this is the first card I made. I like pieces of it, but I still have more "playing" to do before I'm ready to settle on a final version for the year. Tis the season for holiday crafting.