Vintage Birthday

 

Happy Sunday!  The Paper Players are taking a little Christmas break, but there is still time to play—we’re leaving our current challenge open until December 30.  You can see all the details here!

My sister’s birthday is coming up and she has recently found some blogs and websites featuring vintage designs and she loves them as much as I do, so I thought I would make a birthday card for her using some vintage ephemera:

The next time I try this technique I’ll do my velvet ribbon/lace treatment a little differently…still on a learning curve with that!  But I love the effect of the snowy glitter on the metal frame as well as the Dazzling Diamonds on the die cut leaves:

The little postage mark is cut from an envelope I had gotten at my church’s yard sale many years ago…I bought a whole box of them mostly for the postage stamps, but I love the look it gives here…although it would have been cool if I had chosen one from the year she was born! Hmmmm…maybe I’ll have to swap that out before it goes in the mail!  I cut the swirl from the same envelope as well.  I also sprayed the entire card with a mixture of More Mustard ink, alcohol and white Shimmer paint.  You can’t see it here, but it added a nice antique color to it!  Hope she likes it!

Pumpkin seems intent on commandeering my computers….yesterday it was my laptop!

Have a blessed day!

SSC234 & OCCC

Happy Saturday!  I had a chance to do a little stamping today and I found this beautiful color challenge at Our Creative Corner from my DT girlfriend, Anne Marie, and I just had to put it to good use:

My niece just graduated from nursing school, so I wanted to make her a congrats card.  I thought these colors would be fun—hope it’s okay that I didn’t make a holiday card!  Here we go:

 

I chose to use Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette and Cherry Cobbler as my colors.  I also used the sketch from Stamping 411 for this week:

Pumpkin was taking a little break on my computer desk this morning….overpowering a different kind of mouse!

At 18 years old, she still mouses like a champion!  And she has to put up with all kinds of distractions…Cassidy is getting ready to give her a kiss, although it looks like she is going to bite her, LOL!

Thanks for visiting today!  If you have any questions about stamps or accessories, let me know! 

PPA124 & PDCC111

I finally had a chance to get out of Christmas mode and work on a couple birthday cards I need for December!  One was a masculine one, so I used the Pals Paper Arts sketch from this week:

along with the color challenge of black, white and aqua from The Play Date Cafe:

And here we go:

For some reason, my camera just isn’t capturing this in its true color….but stamped on the textured cardstock, it looks really cool!  This image is fairly large, so my card is a little larger than normal.  I also did some embossing on the black panel:

and repeated the image on the inside with the sentiment:

If you have any questions, just shoot me an email! 

Cassidy had her first chocolate chip cookie yesterday:

 

Gotta start her on the Christmas cookie traditions early!!

FMS15 & HSS97

I am pretty much done mailing my Christmas cards, but thought I’d make a couple more to have on hand.   I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

and the “Old-Fashioned Christmas” theme from Hand Stamped Sentiments:

My first card came together fairly quickly; I used some Graphics 45 Santa Post paper and a Crafty Secrets Christmas cut:

The second one featured a vintage image I had stamped, colored with Copics and mounted on a chipboard frame:

I know that one of Lesley’s requirements for the FMS challenge is clean, so I resisted the temptation to shabby up my frame!  I did add some digital vintage music as my background, and I hand-drew some woodgrain on my little sign:

A couple quick easy cards!  Now I need to concentrate on some December birthdays I have coming up!  If you have any questions about any of the cards or products, give me a shout!  And thanks for stopping by!

Grampy was teaching Cassidy how to eat yogurt by herself this morning!

   

She did pretty well! 

ColourQ115

Woohoo!  Put on your sunglasses for this week’s ColourQ challenge!  I love it!

I took a large sentiment stamp, inked it up in three colors and then covered the whole thing in Versamark ink and Iridescent Ice embossing powder:

I added a snowflakey panel and some hand-dyed crinkly seam binding fashioned into a little bow and tied with a Real Red button and a mini jingle bell! 

It is really glittery IRL!  I hope you’ll find some fun inspiration from this photo and create something cheerful!  Share it with us over at the ColourQ, where you’ll see the other designers’ fabulous creations as well!

I know this photo is dark, but I just love the little grin on her face! 

If you have any questions about my card or the products I used, shoot me an email!

FTL170 & TSTR92 & Live Nativity

Happy Monday!  I made a quick little card this morning with lots of sparkle!  It’s for the Shabby Tea Room Challenge #92:

and used the Fall To Layout#170 from Clean & Simple:

 

And here it is:

I am not sure that an image this detailed works so well with Heat & Stick powder and glitter…but I added it to my stash, so in the mail it will go!  Here’s the inside:

We had our Live Nativity this weekend at my church; it’s in a rural setting and we still have carriage sheds that were originally used when congregants drove their horse & buggies to church!  It makes for a perfect Live Nativity background:

Some scenes from the village:

 

A very affectionate goat:

Too bad my camera doesn’t have a “blue-eye reduction” for goats!

Shepherds with their flocks and cold little angels:

Joseph, Mary & baby Jesus:

Paco the burro (who has been participating in the Nativity for about 20 years!):

Two of the Wise Men:

A Roman centurian (inside giving the hot chocolate ladies a hard time!):

And it ends at the cross and the empty tomb:

 

I only got out for a few minutes on Friday night; the other times I was inside serving up lots & lots & lots of hot chocolate and cookies to the over 1000 visitors!  It was cold, clear & beautiful---a wonderful reminder of the true meaning of the season, away from the commercialism with which we are inundated daily.

Thanks for visiting—if you have any questions, please email me!