Season's Greetings

I LOVE the sentiments from the Vintage Santa set from TAC. This one is my favorite because it looks like real fountain pen writing. Here is a card that I made today using Ornamental Snowflakes and Vintage Santa. I love this card! I love the vintage colors and can you believe I actually distressed some on this card? I am shocked too! But I like the look!


Let me know what you think? Stay tuned for some more fun cards this week! Thanks for stopping!

Snowflakes, already?

Yes, we did have snow yesterday! It was 74 degrees 3 days ago and now....rain and snow. Kansas. If you don't like the weather....wait 5 minutes.

So in honor of our snowflakes, I had to make a card.

I embossed a piece of Ivory CS with the Snowflake Cuttlebug Folder. I used Tim Holtz's Tea Dye Distress Ink and sponged over the debossed side of the paper, matted that piece with brown cardstock and, with foam tape, attached it to the red card base.

I tried to take a couple pictures here to show the sparkle down inside of the snowflakes. I used my Gelly Roll pen and colored each snowflake. In person, it looks very pretty and vintagey!

Ok, thanks for stopping today! Hope your Tuesday is a good one!

November Angel Art Blog Hop: Holiday cards & Tags 10 minutes or less

Welcome to our blog hop! Today we are featuring cards and tags that you can make in 10 minutes or less! After you check out my card be sure to click on the links below to see several other fantastic Angel creations!

This was a super easy card! Some bazzill, some patterned paper and the Scor-Pal! Love the looks of the Scor-Bugged lines with the Scor-Pal lines!



Click on these links below for some other great Holiday ideas!


Teresa
Jamie
Diane
Jen
Rita
Shirley
Kim
Laurie U
Kay
Melisa
Stacy

Thanks for stopping by!!

(This is one of my cards featured in The Angel Company's Inspiration Avenue on page 33. The card in the catalog is displayed with a different image.)



Supplies:

Stamps: TAC's Good Tidings
Cardstock: Green and Brown Bazzill, White Ultrasmooth TAC CS
Paper: TAC's Reece
Ink: Versamagic Hint of Pesto
Misc: Green Ribbon, Scor-Pal and Scor-Bug

A Super Fun and Easy Gift Idea

I was so honored, recently, to be asked to be a Guest Designer on TAC's Savvy Projects Blog! So I started in on several projects and sent them off to be featured over the next couple of months!

I just had to stop in today to share one of my favorite projects! This is just a simple and fun paper mache bag and card set.


The bag is from Hobby Lobby in the "paintable stuff" section! I painted the bag red with Acrylic paint. Then took the snow flakes from Vintage Santa and stamped them in Noir Palette. I used a sponge and distressed the edges. I did this on the front and back of the bag.

Santa is stamped on TAC's Kraft and layered on TAC's Black CS. I used my edge distresser to rough up the edges of the Kraft, stamped the sentiment from the same set and attached the image to the bag. The bag also came with a brown paper handle so I took that out and added the black satin ribbon!

Inside the bag, I placed these cards....all using the Vintage Santa set!

Wrapping all the cards in clear cellophane and adding a bow, then putting the package inside the gift bag would make the perfect gift! Then once the cards are mailed off, the bag would make the perfect holiday decoration with some greenery inside or even just some tissue paper!

Hope you like my little project! Don't forget to grab your Vintage Santa set....he is so fun to work with!

Let me know what you think! Have a great day!!

Getting ready for Christmas...

I LOVE Christmas! I love the colors, the lights, the decorations. This is MY holiday, so much like Halloween is Barb's! :) First off though, I LOVE the reason for this season...the celebration of the birth of Jesus! What a great time of the year to remind us all what is really important.

Another of my favorite Christmas time activities is to send Christmas cards or pictures to friends and loved ones to let them know that we are thinking of them. Getting something handmade in the mail is so much fun!

Here are 2 of many, of my handmade cards to send this year!

The glitter strip is actually a piece of Wonder tape! I just cut it to fit, took the red backing off and sprinkled with glitter! SO much easier than glue!

Here is another one with the same layout....just a different background.

Super simple and fun cards for this time of year! Hope all is well! Have a great day!

Supplies:

Card #1

Stamps: TAC's Ornamental Snowflakes, Retired Faith Love and Joy (Sentiment)

Ink: Noir, Moonlight White Brilliance

Cardstock: PTI Kraft, TAC Scarlet

Misc: Black button, Sheer Ribbon, Wire, Wonder Tape, Red glitter and pop dots

Card #2

Stamps: TAC's Sketched Scrolls, Retired Faith Love and Joy (Sentiment)

Ink: Platinum Planet Brilliance, Noir

Cardstock: PTI Kraft, Burgandy Bazzill, White TAC Ultrasmooth

Misc: Ribbon, Pearls, Apron Lace Fiskars Border Punch