Christmas Cardinal

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Oh my goodness! 12 more days until Christmas! Thankfully my checklist of things to get done before Christmas is getting shorter.

This is one of the Christmas cards that I made especially for easy mailing. I am having issues with the colors in my photos again. The bakers twine in the photo looks pink but IRL it is red. The cardinal is embossed on a shimmery background.

I am trying to use up this old Stampin’ Up DP. I used up all the papers that I really loved out the collection and now want to use up the next. I think this I the 4th year using it. The stamp set is also pretty old and had never been used. I am so glad I finally inked it up.

I was inspired by 2 gorgeous cards by Lucy’s Cards. I CASE’d the design from this card and, although it doesn’t show up well in this photo, I CASE’d the shimmer background from this card.

Thank you for stopping by!

Supplies:

• Stamps: Inkadinkado Winter Trails, Papertrey Tree Trimming Trio
• Inks: Versa Mark, Stampin’ Up Real Red, Memento Tuxedo Black
• Papers: Papertrey kraft CS, Stampin’ Up Real Red CS, Stampin’ Up….. DP
• Tools: Sewing machine, Heat tool,
• Embellishments: xxx Shimmer Mist, Embossing powder, The Twinery baker’s twine, misc. vintage button

Challenges:

• 2 Sisters Challenge - Christmas
• ABC Challenge – embossing
• AUD Sentiments – Winter sentiment
• Card Makin' Mamas - Christmas
• Crafty Creations – Sentiment
• Creative Crafts – Stitching
• Do You Stack Up? – Something old (red CS, DP, stamp)
• Dream Valley – Christmas
• Forever Friends – (monthly) Christmas
• Hooked on Crafts – Christmas
• Lollipop Crafts – Christmas
• Moving Along with the Times – Last Minute Christmas
• One Crazy Stamper – Christmas
• Paper Crafting Journey – Christmas
• Phindy’s Place – Clean and Simple
• Raise the Bar – Christmas
• Saturday Challenge (Secret crafter) – All creatures great & small
• Scrappy Frogs – Stitching
• Simply Create Too – embossing
• Squigglefly challenge – CAS Christmas
• Sweet Stampin' Challenge – Things with wings
• Tuesday Throwdown – Celebrate the season

Sentimental Sundays #36 - Celebrate Friendship

Welcome 2011!

This week we have such a fun challenge on the Sentimental Sundays blog. Our theme is "Celebrate Friendship". Where would we be with out our friends? Thank you to all my friends and blogging buddies for your support and friendship during 2010. I made this card with all of you in mind.

This is the first Sentimental Sundays challenge with a Sponsor. Deedee's Digis is sponsoring this challenge with a $10 gift certifcate to the DeeDee's Digis store. Along with the GC, you can win 2 digital sentiment sets from Raindrop Echo Designs (available on Whimsy Stamps). See the Sentimental Sundays blog for the complete details.

Over the holidays we made some progress getting my crafting room set up. Right now I am kind of influx. Some of my crafting goodies are upstairs in my crafting room, some are still downstairs in my office. We are still trying to figure out the best options for storage and some additional work space. We'll get it done. Until then, maybe I'll lose some of the "holiday pounds" from running up and down the stairs so much.

Happy New Year! Thank you for stopping by!




Supplies:

• Stamps: Friends sentiment by Inkadinkadoo, Coffee from Hero Arts
• Inks: Close To My Heart Chocolate
• Papers & CS: Georgia Pacific CS, Close To My Heart Cherry-O paper pack
• Tools: Big Shot, Spellbinders Nestabilities, Fiskars edge punch, Copic markers
• Embellishments: misc. baker's twine, button, & trim

Challenges:

• Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch 82
• AUD Sentiments - Anything goes
• CES Challenges - Anything goes
• City Crafter - Stamp it out (no digis)
• Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes
• Digi Doodles Shop Best - Anything goes

Joy Christmas Card

I made quite a few of these cards to mail out this year. Although they are mostly the same, I did switch up the ribbons, gem stones, and paper with in the same pack. I forgot to take pictures of them before I mailed them and this is the only one I have left.

Thank you looking!

Supplies:

• Stamps: Snowflake Serenade from PaperTrey, Winter Trails from Inkadinkado
• Paper & CS: Papertrey white & kraft CS, Close To My Heart Misteltoe paper pack
• Inks: Close To My Heart Cranberry & VersaMark Dazzle Champagne
• Tools: Stampin' Up edge punch
• Embellishments: Misc. ribbon & gemstones

SFYTT Bird Sympathy Card

I had the unfortunate need to send a sympathy card again this past week. A male co-worker lost a member of his family. I went back to some stamps and paper that I have used for sympathy cards before but changed the lay out. I used Jen del Muro's Sketch For You To Try (SFYTT). I wanted to keep the card standard sized and relatively flat and light-weight so I could pop it in the mail right away since I won't have a chance to get to the post office until next week.

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When the card was done, it looked a little plain so I went back and added the faux stitching.

Thank you for looking.

Challenges for this card:

• SFYTT - Sketch
• Fab N' Funky - Your favorite technique (faux stitching)
• My Time to Craft - Make it manly
• The Pixie Cottage - Circles
• YNS - #12 Distressing

Supplies:

• Stamps: Inkadinkadoo Birds Galore
• Inks: Close To My Heart Juniper and Stampin' Up Chocolate chip
• Papers & CS: Close To My Heart Perfect Day, Juniper, Cocoa papers, Stampin' Up Whisper White
• Embellishments & Tools: Spellbinders Nestabilities, clear button, Crystal Effects, CTMH twine, Stampin' Up oval punch, paper piercer, Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip marker (sentiment computer generated)

Sympathy card

I had the unfortunate need for a sympathy card today so I put this one together using sketch SK022010 on Paper Craft Planet. I want to get this posted so I can get to bed and then drop it off at the post office tomorrow morning.

I will also enter in the Stamp Simply challenge #128 With Sympathy.

I am going to keep it short tonight. Check back on Monday morning for Lindsay's Stamp Stuff post.

** Updated Featured on Any Stamp Will Do March 2010

Supplies:

• Stamps: Inkadinkadoo Birds Galore, Close To My Heart Best Wishes
• Papers & CS: Close To My Heart Perfect Day DP & Cocoa and Juniper CS, Stampin' Up white CS
• Inks: Close To My Heart Juniper, Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip
• Embellishments & Tools: Brown ribbon, Making Memories gemstone brads, George & Storybook Cricut cartridges, Prima Flower, Pearl Glimmer Mist, Spellbinders Nestabilities