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Winter Play!

Happy Saturday!  I hope all of you had a pleasurable Black Friday!  I'm all for sales, but I've never been one to brave the crowds.  I get panicky and a little claustrophobic for some reason.  However, I was crazy enough to wait outside K-B Toy Store at 5 in the morning for a Furrby back in 1999!  Hahaha... 

I have a couple more Christmas Cards to share with you.  Here's one from Artful INKables.  This set is called Snow Play.  

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Supplies:  Chocolate Chip CS, White CS, RIding Hood Red CS, Oval Punches, Glitter, Riding Hood Red Ribbon, Nestibilities, Dew Drops

Here's a Treehouse Stamps Christmas Card.  This set is called Jolly Snowman.  I love to make Christmas cards for family and friends, unfortunately they rarely make it into Mr/Mrs Mailman's hands. LOL.  Hopefully, this year will be different ~ although I say that every year too!  

I have lots to share with all of you in the coming week so be sure to stop by if you have the chance!   

Copics used...

Supplies:  Tangerine Tango CS, White CS, Bashful Blue CS, Circle Punches, Tangerine Tango Ribbon, Kraft CS, Glitter, Nestibilities

More Christmas Cards

Happy Friday!  Is it Friday already!?  That was too fast!  I don't want it to be Saturday yet.  I was so sick and miserable for Thanksgiving, but I feel a little better now.  I was the last to be blessed by this nasty cold; Travis has been fighting this for about 8 days now.  I just hope it doesn't take me that long to recover too.  The babies missed school the entire week because of it.  Sniffles and boogers everywhere!!!  lol   But what a way to spend a few days off.  I hate when I get sick on "Vacation" days, Don't you!?

Well enough of my booger stories, here's a Christmas card from The Cat's Pajamas.  This is from my favorite set Deck The Hall.  

Remember that you can get all three new releases from The Cat's Pajamas in The Kitty Kat Pack.  This allows you a nice discounted price as well.  So if you're looking to get some stamps for your best buddy or even yourself for Christmas, the Kitty Kat Pack is the way to go!   

Supplies: White CS, Riding Hood Red CS, Imaginisce Patterned Paper, American Crafts Ribbon, Nestibilities, Thread, Corner Punch

Here's a card using Treehouse Stamps.  The set is called Christmas Favorites.  I think this tree is just beautiful, especially with the alternating gold and copper embossing powders.  To get the same effect is quite simple.  Just a little prep work in the beginning is all it takes.  First, I get out the embossing powders that I want to use, in this case, Gold and Copper.  I open the bottles and place them on a scrap piece of copy paper.  I stamp the image with VersaMark.  Now, taking the lighter color embossing powder first, I sprinkle the powder on diagonally across the image.  I tap off the excess onto the copy paper.  Then I move to the darker color embossing powder and fill in the spaces and gently tap off the excess.  Heat, and there you have an alternating embossed tree!  

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Supplies:  PTI White CS, Cosmo Cricket Patterned Paper, VersaMark, Gold and Copper Embossing Powder, Nestibilities, Oval Punch, Designer Label Punch, CuttleBug Embossing Folder, Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day!  Here's a couple cards with Treehouse Stamps.  The first card is made with a set called Fall Y'all.  I had to use these little pumpkins as soon as I saw this set!  Aren't they cute?!  I love making simple cards like this one.  The pumpkin is pretty tiny, so I compensated by making multiples of them and, in true cattywhompus style, staggered them across the focal panel.  

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Supplies:  White CS, Chocolate Chip CS, More Mustard CS, Chocolate Chip Ribbon, Sage Shadow Ribbon, Word Window Punch, Dew Drops, Autumn Vine DSP

This card is made with Jolly Snowman.  There are so many cute images in this set, but I wanted to make a more elegant card.  I thought the Christmas tree would be perfect.  I love cutsie cards, but sometimes elegant is appropriate.  Christmas is one of those seasons that elegant IS appropriate! 

For the circle sitting behind the focal Christmas tree, I embossed a piece of scrap white paper with my CuttleBug.  Then I rubbed some silver pigment ink over the raised surfaces.  I followed that with a generous dust of clear embossing powder so that it would glimmer and shines.  The picture doesn't really do it justice, but it does really shine!  

Supplies:  Basic Grey CS, White CS, Circle Punches, Rhinestone Brads, Ribbon, CuttleBug Embossing Folder, Silver Pigment Ink, Scallop Edge Punch, Nestibilities

Our Furry Friends and Other Thoughts

Happy Tuesday!... Or Happy Faux Thursday!  Hope you all are having a nice short week.  I have some ultra-cute cards to share with you today.  Here's a card made with some Pink Poison.  The set is called Home Sweet Home.  I used some Fun Flock for the shredded parts of the sofa.  I think it came out pretty realistic.  All doggie owners have come home to something similar whether it be a shredded shoe, pillows, or in my case, a kitchen floor scattered with our McDonalds wrappers.  You're furious!  You yell his or her name.  When you look they are usually cowering in the corner with their ears so low it's almost at their neck.  They flash you their puppy dog eyes...  And then you suddenly get a case of amnesia.

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Supplies:  PTI White CS, SU Baja Breeze CS, SU Chocolate Chip CS, SU Muirfield DSP, Making Memories Brads, American Crafts Chipboard and Brad, Corner Rounder, SU Pacific Point Ribbon, White Fun Flock

Here's Riley from Hanna Stamps!  He's Laundry Riley.  I think Travis feels like this everyday.  Much like other stay at home mommies, Travis feels just as overwhelmed, over-worked, and under-rested.  I feel it's the hardest job in the world to be a stay at home parent.  Managing a household and a handful of little terrors can be utter craziness.  We have a little wooden sign up in our kitchen which reads, "Raising children is like being peeked to death by chickens!"  LOL.  It's important for Travis and I to have a sense of humor about life in general.  We learned to laugh as a family and laugh as a couple, otherwise the stress would consume us.  

So thank you to all the stay at home mommies and daddies who are making the choice to stay at home with the babies, take care of the households, and in many cases, putting the family in front of your own dreams!  Thank you so much for raising our future!!!      

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Supplies"  PTI White CS, SU So Saffron CS, SU Chocolate Chip CS, American Crafts Paper and Rub Ons, Chocolate Chip Ribbon, Martha Stewart Ribbon Clementine, Oval Punches, Circle Punch, Nestibilities

A Jolly Holiday!

Happy Monday!  Hope all of you had a wonderful weekend; it's been rain storms and clouds on the Hawaiian Islands.  Hopefully today will be a better day.  

Today I have a The Cat's Pajamas card.  The set is called Deck The Hall.  For the string of ornaments, I stamped the image on patterned paper and white cardstock.  I colored and cut out the ornaments on the white cardstock and then adhered them to the patterned paper with dimensionals.  After the card was finished I applied Diamond Glaze and Stickles to the finished card.  

Copics Used...

Supplies...  White CS, Bazzill Red and Light Green CS, American Crafts Patterned Paper, Oval Punch, Stickles Christmas Red, Dew Drops, Diamond Glaze

Mahalo for stopping by!