November Swap

Hello! I'm back with my swap for November. The theme for November was to use washi tape. If we didn't have any we could also cut DSP to the size of washi tape and use that. So I did a mix of both. I used some Candy Cane Lane DSP cut into thin strips and the copper foil dot washi tape. I used these as part of the background over some Cucumber Crush cardstock. Then I made lots of Santas for the cards. I punched him out and colored him with markers. As I was coloring these santas, my son saw me doing them and he wanted to join in as well. It was cute. He wanted to make sure he colored his just like mine. I adhered the Santa to a soft sky circle cut with the Stitched Shapes framelits. These stitched shapes give a nice little extra touch to your circles, ovals and squares. (They are currently on backorder but should be back in stock mid-January). Then the finishing touch was a little poof to the Santa's hat. I just cut apart the white pom pom trim for his hat.

I hope you liked today's card. These were fairly quick to put together so a great idea for any last minute cards you need to make!

Thanks for stopping by.

Stamps: Cookie Cutter Christmas, Greetings From Santa
Paper: Cucumber Crush, Tip Top Taupe, Soft Sky, Candy Cane Lane DSP
Ink: Archival Black
Accessories: Stitched Shapes Framelits, Affectionately Yours Washi tape, White pom pom trim, Real Red, Tip Top Taupe, Daffodil Delight, and Peekaboo Peach markers

Stitched Framelits Christmas Card

Hello! I'm interrupting the regular programming of display stamper posts. I just received my Stitched Framelits on Tuesday and had to try them out. They are actually on backorder right now. They were a huge hit with everyone! You can still order them but will just have to wait a little longer to receive them. I'm telling you it is totally worth the wait!! Just this simple little stitching on the die makes such a huge difference. I used the circle one on today's card where I stamped the sentiment. I thought about adding a layer behind the white circle but it actually doesn't even need it. The stitching on the white cardstock is almost enough. I was also trying to keep this fairly simple if you wanted to whip up a bunch of these to send out. The sentiment is from Oh What Fun which is also on sale until the end of the month. This set has lots of fun sentiments to use for cards and tags.

What do you think? Do you love these new framelits? They are a great deal since you get circle, oval and square shapes!! And don't forget about the great stamps that are on sale this month as well.

Stamps: Oh What Fun, Holly Berry
Paper: Candy Lane DSP, Pool Party, Tip Top Taupe, Gold glimmer paper, Old Olive, Real Red
Ink: Archival Black, Old Olive, Real Red
Accessories: Stitched Framelit dies, Holly Berry punch, Brights enamel shapes, pearls

Jar of Love - Christmas

Happy Thursday! So today is day 4 of the challenge and so far I'm doing good. :) Hopefully I can keep it up over the weekend. I have a cute project for you tomorrow that uses this month's Paper Pumpkin. It's such a fun kit this month. So for today's card I decided to use that same layout I did on the Jar of Love fall card and make it a christmas card. It would also work well for a winter birthday. If you look closely at the picture you can see I added some white snowflakes to the background. These were embossed with white embossing powder. I did them before stamping the green leaves but I now realize I should have stamped the leaves first then went around and did the snowflakes. But it worked out ok. I really love how you can use this set at any time of the year and still have a great looking card. At first glance you might just think it's for spring or summer but you really can make pretty cards for any time of year. Have I convinced you yet to get this set? This really is my favorite from the new catalog. And my other favorite on this card is the gold twine. This is like the best bow tying ribbon ever!!! This twine makes all of my bows look great! And one last thing to note is that the sentiment is from the Cookie Cutter Christmas set. The sentiment was really long but I just needed a small "merry christmas" so I used my black marker to color in merry christmas and stamped it on the red paper. So don't overlook those long sentiments, they may just have the couple of words you need.

See you soon!


Stamps: Jar of Love, Greetings from Santa (snowflakes), Cookie Cutter Christmas
Paper: Emerald Envy, Tip Top Taupe, Real Red, Serene Scenery DSP paper stack, Gold glimmer paper
Ink: Real Red, Emerald Envy, Versamark, Black
Accessories: Everyday Jar framelits, White embossing powder, Banner triple punch, Decorative dots embossing folder (retired), sequins (Paper Pumpkin kit), Baker's Twine trio pack (gold)

September Swap

Happy Friday! Today I am sharing my swap for September. I guess this is the week of swaps, haha! After today I will be all caught up on sharing my swaps. Now I just need to get to work on my October swap. I had a lot of fun making these cards. Our theme for September was Fall/Halloween. I knew I wanted to do something with the cat image from Foxy Friends so I went with a Halloween card. How cute is that little cat!?!? My favorite part of the cat is the little bat she has on her ear. Can you see it? That bat is from the Home Sweet Home thinlits. I had quite a bit of die cutting on this card but it wasn't too bad. I saw a little trick to punch out the cat from scrap cardstock and use that as a template when stamping your images. That way you can punch everything out all at once. So that was definitely helpful in punching out those cats quickly.

As you can see I do have 2 slightly different cards here. My original one (on the right) uses the Fancy Frost sequins but as I was putting the swaps together I decided to go with the star sequins. I thought that gave it more of the effect of a nightime/Halloween card. Which one do you prefer?

I hope you enjoyed the week of swaps. :)

Thanks for stopping by.

Stamps: Foxy Friends, Timeless Textures, Sweet Home
Paper: Black, Elegant Eggplant, Pumpkin Pie
Ink: Archival Black, Smokey Slate, Pale Plum
Accessories: Home Sweet Home thinlits, Fox builder punch, metallic sequins, Crushed Curry bakers twine, Layering circle thinlits, Woodland embossing folder

Holiday Card Class (Series #2)

Hello! I am so excited to share the second set of cards in my 3 part holiday series classes. See details on the first class HERE. I am not normally one to get such a head start on Christmas like this but I just loved the new sets in the holiday catalog and wanted to get a jump on Christmas cards. I keep saying that time just goes faster and faster and I'm sure it's not helping that I'm rushing into the holidays already. :) Oh well at least I will be on top of it for my christmas cards.

Here are the details on my next class using the Greetings from Santa bundle. This is the cutest Santa ever!! In this class you will make 6 cards (2 of each design).

Date: October 26th 7pm
Location: My house, Frenchtown, NJ
Cost $20
RSVP: October 20th

Please contact me to sign up! (If this date doesn't work for you, please contact me and we can work on a date that fits better for you and your friends.

Please stop by for holiday card making, cookies and music! It will be a blast!

Holiday Card Class

Hi Everyone! I have a quick post for you today. I just returned from my beach vacation on Saturday and now I'm off to Indianapolis for work tomorrow so I'm short on time. Our vacation last week was so nice. We went with 2 other families so there were 5 kids under the age of 4, which made it interesting. Way more stressful than beach vacations when I was single but still so much fun. They loved the beach and the water as well as the boardwalk.
Now after all of the summery beach talk, I'm going to get right into Christmas. :) My next class is my Holiday Card class. This will be the first in a series of 3 classes. In each class you will make 6 cards (2 of each design). The goal is to have a large stack of cards ready to mail by December. The first series uses the super cute Cookie Cutter Christmas set. I just love these stamps!! And the cookie cutter punch makes these cards a breeze!

Date: September 30th 7pm
Location: My house, Frenchtown, NJ
Cost $20
RSVP: September 26th

Please contact me to sign up! (If this date doesn't work for you, please contact me and we can work on a date that fits better for you and your friends.

Thanks for stopping by!