My Christmas Cards

Although I originally had an elaborate design for my Christmas cards, I decided to keep it simple and cute this year. I was amazed with the cards made by several other crafters using the Top Note die to make the folded cards and had to give it a try. It was so easy, and different. And they stand really well.

I love the Deer Friends hostess set and took advantage of it to make my cards. I couldn't resist coloring the deer's nose red and gave it a touch of crystal effects to help it "glow". And I had to use my new stamp set from the Country Living special to perk up background too.

Happy Holidays

I have been busy making some holiday projects (in between class and grading papers)
Here are a few of my latest Holiday Projects.

First off, I picked up some new glitter. I usually only play with Dazzling Diamonds, but this time I tried the Fine Cosmo Glitter set. I picked up some glass ornaments, put a couple drops of reinker in. Then, I swirled the ink around to get a fine coat of ink throughout the inside of the ornament. I drained the excess ink out and poured copious amounts of glitter in. I swirled the glitter around to make sure every spot was coated with glitter and shook most of it out. Although I poured nearly the whole container of glitter in, almost all of it came back out. I used rub-ons, like the Old Saint Nick set, to decorate the ornaments.
A couple of tips: Use smaller images, due to the curve of the ornaments. Add the rub-ons in small sections. The white rub-ons show up best. If you make a mistake (and I did) its easy to remove the rub-on and try a new one.

I picked up the Country Living Holiday kit. What a great bargain that is! It had everything I needed. I was thinking about adding glitter to one project and wondered where mine was... no need, it was in the kit!
I made several items. This is the scrapbook page I designed for my Stampin Club. Using the Coluzzle to get the circle, the Designer punch for the tabs, and several circle punches, I came up with the this fun design. I cased a variation of this off of SCS (thanks Doris) because I thought the idea of the ornament design to frame the photos was so creative.

Luv

OK, so there were tons of projects that I did and never got around to posting.
Time to make up for that!

First off, here are a couple of things from our last Luv 2 Stamp meeting (I know that was back in September) but here is the swap that I shared. Its all using Riding Hood Red and Confetti White. Very simple Christmas card, but cute.

We also had a 6x6 page swap. Since the Big Shot is the newest toy, we were trying to use it on our pages. It wasn't until I was done that I realized that I used tons of Big Shot materials and not a single stamp set. I love that Big Shot. I also used the new Tango Tangerine. Normally I don't like orange, but I think the Tangerine is starting to work on me.

Also, we made some great projects. This is one of my favorite cards. I love everything about it! The Kiwi ribbon, the Filigree brads, what a great design! I wish I could remember who came up with this fabulous design. I really need to post right away so I don't forget these things.
Kudos to our great Luv 2 Stampers!

What a month!! (or two)

OK, my attempt to keep up on the blog fell with my attempt to keep up with life!
The last month and a half were a bit more than I planned. My simple, "oh, its just school, master's class, and normal family" was kicked up a notch with two presentations at different conferences (both on different subjects). I figured I could handle the extra load, but jury duty threw me over the edge.
My master's class is all caught up!
I am almost caught up on grading.
The house is... well... I can see the floor in most rooms again.

And I started working on projects again!