I cannot believe it's been a week since I posted. One of my best friends, Colleen, rode to Jackson with my this past Wednesday to meet my daughter-in-law, Meghan, and grandkids, Grant and Emma. We met in Jackson because that was about 1/2 way for both of us to drive, since they were coming from K-zoo. We loaded up the kids in my vehicle for a trip to Grandpa's and Grandma's and a visit lasting until Sunday. The kids were so good, and we so enjoyed having them. One of the days we grabbed another grandson, Owen, and took all three to Chuckie Cheese's for fun and pizza. I still think Chuckie's has one of the best pepperoni pizza's around. It's been 8 years since we were there, and as soon as I bit into the pizza, I remembered how good their's was.
So, not to make excuses for not posting this past week, but that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.. tee, hee, hee.
On to a new post. This is a card that we made in a Shoebox Swap at my Upline's Leadership night recently. If you look close, you can see that the wreath is actually the bird from the Bird Punch. It was kind of fun to make. You first start out with a punched circle, I'm thinking about 1 3/4" and 8 of the Garden Green punched birds. Adhere your birds first at 12, 3, 6 and 9 and then fill in with the remaining 4 birds. Then with 8 Real Red punched birds, you do the same thing, but bring in the heads closer to the center of the circle. Next, you take punched Real Red wings, and spiral them into the center of the circle and finish with a Daffodil Delight punched center. To finish the card, we embossed the Whisper White with the new Snowflake Embossing Folder, which is available beginning today, and stamped the sentiment in Real Red. Now, take notice, I goofed and adhered the card with the stamped Merry Christmas upside down so my card is one for the giggle pile. OOps!!
Let me know what you think. Have a great day. Till tomorrow, keep those fingers inky!
Brenda
Happy Monday - I've finally gotten around to posting for today. I kept trying to get one more thing done before I stopped to scan this beauty of a card which was cased from fellow Demonstrator, Melissa Stout. I switched out some of the Designer Paper from the Holiday Occasions Mini Catalog - Deck the Halls (120810 $9.95). The Christmas Postcard Stamp (121428 $9.95) was stamped with Always Artichoke Ink onto Very Vanilla Cardstock and colored in with Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede and Always Artichoke markers. To add the Silver Glass Glitter (120995 $3.95) I first outlined the Very Vanilla cardstock with Sticky Strip and then just sprinkled the glitter over it and tapped it down with my finger. Then all was layered onto Always Artichoke cardstock. This photo does not do this card justice. It's a beauty of a card. Hope you like it.
I mail out their invites for them. And, their invites are of course, a hand stamped card. This card you could actually use as a gift tag since only the little white tag in the middle opens. It would be cute to write your "to" and "from" on the inside and slip the card into an envelope to attach to a gift. The card base is Real Red and layered on top is Whisper White Cardstock which has been Die Cut on the Big Shot using the Top Note Die and then also embossed with the Polka Dot Embossing Folder. The tag is layered on Real Red, then layered on top of Crum Cake. The ribbon is the 1/8" Taffeta Early Expresso. The snowman is from the Cute Christmas stamp set (Clear Mount 121133 $18.95) in the new Holiday Mini and colored in with Crum Cake and Real Red Markers. He's such a happy looking snowman.
