2017 Christmas Cards - The first of Many

Hi Folks!!!

I know, I know. Christmas? Already? Yes! Actually, I'm overdue. Every year I sign up for the Christmas Card Challenge on Splitcoaststampers in an effort to get my Christmas cards done sooner rather than later. I invariably fall of the wagon early in the year. Well this year, I fell off REALLY early. I didn't get any cards made in January. The "cards" were against me so to speak. Ba ha ha ha!

Anyways, I found this little 3 x 3 inch scrap of CTMH Snowhaven patterned paper on my craft table today. Made a couple of creative cuts with it, grabbed this already coloured image from my stash of leftover images (I think from my 2015 Christmas cards) et voila! One card down, dozens more to go.

card details:

• finished size: 5 x 5 inches, white card stock base
• patterned paper: CTMH Snowhaven (retired)
• stamped image: Penny Black "A Cool Christmas", coloured with Copic Markers (YR16, YR15, B12, Y18, E35, E37, N5, R27, R29, YG61, YG63, YG67)
• embellishments: CTMH Red Enamel Gems

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Have a Cool Christmas!

Hi folks,

I'm back to share the second last of my Christmas cards for 2015 with you before the end of the year.

card details:

• finished size: 5 x 5 inches, white card stock base
• patterned paper: CTMH White Pines
• stamped image: Penny Black "A Cool Christmas", coloured with Copic Markers (YR16, YR15, B12, Y18, E35, E37, N5, R27, R29, YG61, YG63, YG67)
• embellishment: CTMH Bronze Shimmer Trim

Challenges for this card:

• Penny Black Saturday Challenge (December): Christmas/Holidays

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Beary Happy Christmas

Hi folks,

Here we go, squeezing in another of this year's Christmas cards before the end of the year. This one was for my brother and his family.

card details:

• finished size: 5 x 5 inches, white card stock base
• patterned paper: CTMH White Pines
• stamped image: Penny Black "Artic Antics", coloured with Copic B12, Y18, R29, YG67, R83
• embellishments: CTMH Bronze Shimmer Trim

Challenges for this card:

• Penny Black Saturday Challenge (December): Christmas/Holiday

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday Newton

Hi folks,

Just thought I would share this little card that I made earlier this week - to celebrate our youngest cat's birthday....yes, I'm THAT crazy cat lady....

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 4.25 inches, kraft card stock base
• patterned paper: Studio Calico "Classic Calico"
• stamped image: Penny Black "In the garden" (because this little cat looks just like our Newton - he's just a little "fluffy" shall we say)

challenges for this card:

• One Crazy Stamper January Challenge: Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday Packet

Hi folks!

yesterday was our eldest cat's birthday. And yes, I got him a birthday present - a couple of cat toys, a couple of cans of tuna and five bags of dental treats - it was his fifth birthday after all.

He seems to know what it's all about....

getting into the prezzie....

and yes, Packet also had his own birthday card

my first time inking up some new to me Penny Black stamps I picked up at our Crop for the Cure in May from Tina's Scrapbooking Creations (from nearby Winchester).

feel free to call me crazy cat lady....haven't made any cards in what seems like forever and what do I make? A card for my cat. Off to the loonie bin for me I think!


card details:

• 4.25 x 5.5 inch kraft card stock base
• stamped image: Penny Black "In the Garden", copic markers W00, W0, W1, W2, R27
• patterned papers: Graphic 45 "Domestic Goddess"

Anyways, hope you all had a fabulous weekend...back to work tomorrow with a long weekend coming!

Gift hedgy

I needed to make a card for my dearly beloved's youngest niece - her birthday is on Sunday and we should be seeing her this Friday before she heads back home to Alberta. I took my inspiration from this card that was posted over at the PaperWorksCo Blog today. Thanks for the inpiration Judy! I just loved the idea of using the nestabilities OFF-CENTRE instead of perfectly lined up. So this is what I came up with for the 2nd birthday of a cute little girl.


It had to be bright....so yellow and pink it was! EVERYWHERE! Well, except for Hedgy. The little daisy in the bottom left is actually a button but I popped out the centre and replaced it with a pink brad so it would sit a little better on the card.

Hedgy was coloured with a whole bunch of things - distress ink, prismacolors and ctmh markers.

Here are the deets!

card dimensions: 4 x 5.5 inches

Pink DP: 4 x 5.5 inches
Yellow DP: 3.75 x 5.25 inches

Nestabilities: scalloped ovals from the small and large sets.
embellishments: ribbon, button, brads
stamp: Penny Black Gift Hedgy

Prismacolor Pencils: 904, 1067
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Tattered Rose
CTMH Markers: Pink Carnation, Sunkiss Yellow, Baby Pink, Petal, Sweet Leaf, Bubblegum