Thursday, December 15, 2011

Our Christmas Cards 2011

I absolutely love to make handmade cards to send out to friends and family for Christmas. I took on a bigger project with these cards than normal, but it was worth it! I created the front of my card with THIS and THIS set from Hero Arts. (I always tend to gravitate towards their stamps every year.) ...

To create the cover, I stamped the musical BG stamp with Versa Mark onto watercolor paper and heat embossed with white embossing powder. Then I randomly applied peeled paint, walnut stain, and fired brick distress stains all over and sprayed heavily with pearlized water. I stamped the greeting in black onto a kraft die-cut. I sprayed that too with pearlized spray. It is so shiny in real life...
I was so happy to find that Silhouette sells a cut to create a CD card. So I cut all the cards on my Silhouette using Neenah cardstock. Here's a peek at the inside...
On the left is the Ruwe Holiday Music Mix for this year....a track list of all the songs on the CD and who picked what. Even Baby Aiden picked some holiday songs. ;) When you remove the CD, it reveals our family pic..
A closer look at our playlist...
That's all I got for now. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Monday, December 12, 2011

First Published Scrapbook Page!

I've been missing here lately becuase I'm in the middle of a mountain of paper and embellishments making my Christmas cards. I should have them done today! :) Anyway, I wanted to hop on and share what came in the mail yesterday....

 THIS magazine. It contains my FIRST published scrapbook page! ...
A closer look at my awesome son...
I'm so excited, I just had to share! Have a great Monday.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Cards that Care

I wanted to share some Christmas Cards I created for the Cards that Care Card Drive. This card drive sends cards to the elderly living in nursing homes. I'm hoping these cards will put a smile on their faces during this special time of year.

The first card features one of my favorite techniques to do. Emboss a background then go to town with Distress Stains (my new favorite product) and spray heavily with pearlized water. It's hard to see the shine on the photo, but its stunning in real life....

The next card uses THIS set which is so fun because you stamp and then emboss the image...
I like that this card uses non-traditional Christmas colors...
THIS nativity scene stamp set is a must have. I embossed the image in white on dark brown cardstock and then sprayed with pearlized water. Love the results...
The last card is pretty simple but my favorite. I heat embossed the flower image in white and then used Fired Brick Distress Stain to "color" it and again, sprayed with pearlized water....
 I also made sure that each card had a different message stamped inside, something I do a lot lately...
(All stamps used are from Hero Arts.)

That's all I got for now. Off to work on my Christmas cards. I just can't believe it is December already. Thanks for stopping by.