Christmas 2012

O'Henry, our Elf on the Shelf had so much fun last year! It will be so much fun to see what he is up to this year!

Do you have an Elf? I would love to see what they are up to!

Happy Christmas!

Christmas Cards

Hello!! Finally, our Christmas cards this year! I am very proud of them! We had about 22 to send out this year so I decided to make 4 different styles. I hope you enjoy them. I had so much fun making these!

(I only wish the colors would have photographed better)

until next time......

Enjoy your JANUARY!

Recent Projects

It's been awhile sense I have had a post. I would just like to share some of the projects I have done recently.

This is a Birthday card I made a couple months ago for my sister-in-laws birthday, Danny helped me on it. It turned out super cute I think!

This is a collage I did with our engagement photos. Pretty much one of my most favorite things in my living room!

Supper yummy Apple Pie!!

mmm this was so fun to eat

Snowmen for Christmas!!

These are made with soda pop bottles, SO CUTE!

I just had to share these boots! I totally want the giraffes :)

Sweet treat for my nephew's birthday!

Christmas JOY!

Carrot cake for my Mom's birthday, oh so good!

Christmas tiles

Hope you enjoyed the fun.

Christmas Cards

Hello! I had some time today for some crafting! This time I wanted to make a couple of Christmas cards. For inspiration I decided to try out the 411 Saturday Sketch Challenge.

Today's sketch:

And this is what I came up with. This is the first white card I have ever made and I love the way it turned out. Yay!

I love the brown ribbon! I had taken this off a project I did a long time ago and I was pleasantly surprised that it is the perfect length. I couldn't decide if I wanted a dark design on the green background or the light design, so I went with both. I couldn't really loose, it turned out beautiful.

Here is a close up of the sweet little tree. I roughed up the edges to add a little dimension and inked them with the golden ink to match the star.

I wanted to try the same design using the little flower that I love so much. This is how that one turned out:

I switched the colors on this one using the red as a background instead of green. I still inked the edges of the flower with the golden color. I used a strip of paper instead of ribbon on this one as well. I don't love it as much as the first card but it's still cute.

I had some fun with this part! The lines from Christmas were a little too long so after I inked the stamp I had to wipe off part of the stamp to make it fit. After I did the red I thought it would be fun to put a green shadow on it. The first time I did this I inked the whole stamp, wiped off the ends, stamped it once on scratch paper then again on my card. It was pretty but I thought it would look a lot better if just Christmas had the shadow and not the rest. Good thing there are 2 sides to the paper! I redid it and this is how it turned out. I love it! That's all I had time to make today, come back soon for more fun stuff!