Last Year's Christmas

It's been forever since I've posted.  I guess it's okay since I don't really have a lot of followers and I don't post often enough.  LOL!

I just wanted to share these Christmas cards I made last year.  I know a lot of people out there have started their Christmas cards already.  I, however, have not.  I should get started soon though.  Anyways, here are my cards...

 On this first card, the pic I took was not very good.  It actually looked better in real life.  I did not write down all the card details but I will try my best to let you know what supplies I used.
The stamp is High Hopes Let Us Adore Him embossed on watercolor paper and colored with Twinkling H2Os.  The base is PTI Kraft.  The DP, I believe, is from DCWV Christmas Stack.  The Flowers are Primas and the brads are Stampin' Up (I think).  The charm is from Stamp and Create.
The bottom card is pretty much the same info, except it doesn't have a charm.

Gracias for hanging out with me!

Pun Fun

Just sharing some cards I made a VERY looooooooonnnnggggg time ago..
All the images are from SU Pun Fun stamped and embossed on SU Whisper White and watercolored with Twinkling H2Os. I added Cotton Ball White Fun Flock on the white part of the skunk's little fur. I added stickles to the flower and a small brad. Card Base is SU Basic Black. The pink and DP is from my stash.

The card base for this "Purrrfect" card is SU Pumpkin Pie. The black matte is SU Basic Black. The yellow matte and DP is from my stash, as well as the ribbon.

The card base for "bird-day" is SU Brilliant Blue. The red is SU Real Red embossed with Swiss Dots folder with the Cuttlebug. The yellow DP and brads are from my stash.

I have three more cards from that set to share on another post!

Gracias for hanging out with me!

More Thank You cards...

I am really bad about posting the pix of the cards I have made... of course as of today I only have 3 followers - LOL - so it's okay! These are 2 of the thank you cards that are similar to the ones I made here.
This is Angel Anya from The Greeting Farm. She was stamped and embossed on watercolor paper and colored with Twinkling H2Os. The shape was cut with my Cricut with the Scallop Shaplie Mat from PDC. I covered her wings and halo with Stickles.

The card base is SU Very Vanilla. The DP is SU Sending Love. The pink matte is SU Pink Piroutte. The flowers are Primas set with red brads. The ribbon is actually from the Dollar Tree.

The next card is similar. The ribbon is from my scraps.

Gracias for hanging out with me!

Dumb Bass

Such a funny title! The following card is one I made for my brother. My kids and I thought it was hilarious! The fish and captions stamps are from Skipping Stones Designs. Its a set called Holy Carp.
I am also entering it into the CPS 224 Challenge.
The card bast is SU Tempting Turquoise. The blue cardstock is one from Joann's. It was embossed with Spots and Dots embossign folder and the Cuttlebug and distressed some. The fish was watercolored with Twinkling H2Os. You can't really tell but the water line is embossed with Cobalt Blue embossing powder.

Gracias for hanging out with me!

Teachers Appreciation Gifts

I have to think up some new Teacher's Appreciation Gifts. This year there are a lot more teachers - since my oldest is in middle school. The gifts for his teachers will be smaller because there are so many and because he doesn't really like handing out stuff in front of his friends. It's not "cool". Sniff sniff... they grow up so fast. I still will spoil my youngest's teacher (4th grade).
The following pix are gifts that I made last year and just never got a chance to post. Simple, fast - not too embellished which was great because it made it easier and I did something for them every day during that week.

The template is the Pack a Picnic My Timeless Template by Lauren Meader for Papertrey Ink. It is so easy to do. The template base is SU Old Olive and the DP is one of the DCWV School Stacks. Can't remember which one. I filled it with Chocolate Covered Strawberries. I plan on doing that again this year. Chocolate Covered Strawberries are always a good gift!

The other baskets are basically the same except different colors to represent each teacher's favorite color. The red basket is PTI Pure Poppy and the yellow basket is SU So Saffron. All the DP comes from the same DCWV School Stack.

I will be posting some more pix from last year when I get a chance.

Gracias for hanging out with me! Adios!

My Favorite Papertrey Ink Project

Papertrey Ink is having an anniversary! When I started stamping, I started with Stampin' Up products. I was in a stamp club. Talking with the gals led me to some really cool blogs where I started seeing some really nice projects using items from other companies. My first order with Papertrey Ink happened to be of the paper they carry. They have the best quality paper ever! Whenever I want to make a 3D project, their paper is the best to use. I have been slowly building up my stash - because I have to get rid of all the other stacks and stacks of paper I have.

I began to order a few of their stamps, but being a teacher, my all time favorite stamp sets are Teacher's Apple and Inside & Out: Thank You. So when it came time for Teacher Appreciation Week last year (May 2010), I turned to those stamps for a gift for my son's 5th grade teacher.

I have not posted these projects yet. I have made so many projects and little by little I have been uploading them here. Anyway - here it is:This is the card that I made to go along with a notepad set (next picture) that I copied from one that Lacey made for me when I was her daughter's Kindergarten teacher. The card uses PTI's Inside & Out: Thank You. The notepad holder uses PTI's Teacher's Apple. I should've taken a pic of the notepad opened so that you could see what it looks like inside. The letters for the teacher's name comes from a retired Stampin' Up set Best Friends Alphabet. The card and notepad base is SU Kiwi Kiss. The purple mats are PTI's Plum Pudding that was embossed. The DP is DCWV Flower Shower Spring Stack. The button on the notepad is from my stash. The ribbon on the card is from Dollar Tree and the charm is from Stamp and Create.

The next one is for the second teacher in his class...

All the materials and the embellishments for both sets are the same. I hope you like them.

Congratulations Papertrey Ink. You are a source of inspiration for so many!

Gracias for coming by! Adios!

Herald Angel

I didn't really have time to make too many Christmas cards this year. This has only been the second year that I have made Christmas cards. I think I need to start my Christmas cards in the summer. I have little to no time in December. It isn't just my personal stuff that I do for Christmas... it's everything else. I also have my kids school stuff and my own class stuff. Crazy. I know there are so many of you out there that are in the same situation.

Anyway, I was able to make only about 10 of the following card. It didn't really take that long to make - it's just that I didn't have the time to sit.The card base is SU Riding Hood Red. The background DP is SU Very Vanilla stamped one of the snowflakes from SU Snow Swirled with SU Riding Hood Red ink. The other DP is from the DCWV Holiday Collection Stack. The image is High Hopes Herald Angel. It was embossed on watercolor paper that I cut with my Cricut with a Shaplie file from Penny Duncan Creations. I colored it with Twinkling H2Os. The matte is is SU Soft Suede. The charm is from Stamp and Create. The ribbon is from the Dollar Tree.
The following is the side view: The next card has the same HH Angel with a few different elements: The base is PTI Kraft Cardstock. The DP is DCWV Holiday Collection Stack. The ribbon is from Michaels. The flowers are primas. The brads are from my stash. The matte is SU Riding Hood Red.
The next pic is the side view: Thanks for hanging out with me!

Snow Swirled

This is another one of the cards I made last year. It was so easy to make! I easily made a whole bunch of these.
The card base is Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy. I stamped the background with one of the snowflake stamps from SU Snow Swirled. The silver matte is also from Papertrey Ink. I stamped the tree from Snow Swirled with versa mark and embossed with silver embossing powder. For the jewels - the ones in the this picture happen to come from Joanns, but I had started using Taylor's Tiny Twinkles from Taylored Expressions. I ran out of the red twinkles and ended up going to Joanns to buy some others. The ribbon is beautiful but I don't know what store it came from. I bought it off my neighbor who used to have a flower shop and she got it from the warehouse where she used to get her flowers. I wish they sold those rolls of ribbon that I bought from her at the stores. The rolls are huge!
Anyway, here is a side view:

This next one - I ran the card through the Cuttlebug with the Snowflake Embossing Folder. The tree charm from above and the snowflake charm are from Stamp and Create. The ribbon also came from my neighbor.

Thanks for hanging out with me!

Snowman

This is one of the Christmas cards that I have made...this one was one I did last year and never got around to posting. I actually had one left over and sent it out this year to a friend

The card base is SU Whisper White. The DP is DCWV Holiday Collection Paper Stack. The stamps are Studio G dollar stamps from Joanns. The ribbon is from the Dollar Tree. The glitter around the snowman is from Joanns too. The following is a side view:

The next picture is basically the same layout except I added some white brads from Taylored Expressions and a snowflake charm from Stamp and Create.

I will post some more Christmas cards soon!

Thanks for hanging out with me!

Angel Anya Thank Yous

My 12yr son recently had surgery. He had to have his ACL reconstructed due to a football injury. Its a big surgery for such a young kid. They had to take two of his hamstrings and make a whole new ligament. The surgeon and the hospital staff were great.
Well, I have these wonderful women at my job who apparently saw the look of stress in my eyes. I don't like to complain or ask for help. Apparently I think I am superwoman. My lovely friend Amy got a list going to bring my food the Thursday of my son's surgery, as well as Friday, Saturday AND Sunday. It was awesome not to have to think of what I was going to make for the rest of my family - but it was even more "awesomer" (is that a word?) to know that I have a wonderful group of women who are so selfless and giving. If you are in the Jacksonville, FL area and happen upon Argyle Christian Preschool and Kindergarten at The Church at Argyle... let these women know that they are AMAZING!
Anyway - here are two of the thank you cards I made them:


This is The Greeting Farm's Angel Anya. She is so cute. She was embossed on watercolor paper which was cut out using my Cricut with a PDC 10 Scallop Shaplie Mat. I colored her using Twinkling H2Os. I used stickles on her halo and wings. The base is SU Close to Cocoa. The DP is SU Loves Me. The other CS is Taken with Teal. The ribbon was from the $Spot at Target. The Charm is from Stamp and Create.

Here is the side view so you can see the embossing and the stickles. The next cared is the same layout, except I colored Angel Anya's dress in turquoise.

And the side view...

I have a bunch more I will post later! Thanks for hanging out with me!

Yolanda