Retrosketches #64

 Just a quick post of the birthday card I made for my niece who will be celebrating her birthday a week from tomorow.

  I used sketch # 64 from Retrosketches. Once again I am submitting this at the last moment even though I had this idea in my head for the past week. I finally  made time to get it done so I can put it in the mail. I used PTI's Mini Blooms stamp set which I just purchased after holding out for a couple of months.  Here's an up close shot of the blooms.

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! 2012 was such a great year for me that I hated to see it come to an end. I hope 2013 is just as good. Most importantly, I hope that my family & I continue to be healthy. I believe good health is one of the "riches" of the world.
I have neglected my blog for well over a month. The hustle & bustle of the holidays left me too tired to keep my blog going. During that time, I made tons of Christmas cards (over 45) Christmas hair bows, tags, party poppers and even some birthday cards. Some I photographed, others I forgot to in the haste of mailing them out.  All in all Christmas was wonderful this year. Perhaps next year I won't get as far behind with my Christmas cards as I did this year.

I think I went through tons of Ocean Tide and Rustic White card stock. The majority of my cards used the PTI stamp sets:  Star of Wonder, and Nativity Silhouettes Additions.  Here's a sample of two of them.

I used Soft Stone ink on this card. Because it was barely visible, I switched to London Fog on the other cards I made.  The 2nd card uses the Sunrise IP. It is one of my favorite IP but adhering this one is very tricky as I always manage to have a bubble along some part of the edge.

Here's wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.

Christmas tags

   I like to get my Christmas shopping done as soon as possible. Since I have bought several gifts already and need to wrap them, I thought I should make up some tags. Here's what I came up with so far for this year.
  I am also doing a Christmas tag class with my former co-workers next week. I needed something quick and simple since they will be making ten tags.

  I used the pattern paper Peace Be Still from last year's release on the tags below, but you can barely see it in the photo.

 In addition to these 6 tags, they will be making tags from the following dies: snowman, Christmas Tree, Damask snowflake and the ornament shaped tag.

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Framed!

  On the PTI forum, Danielle Flanders started a thread for a November holiday card challenge. The goal is to make a holiday card a day during the month of November. Good intentions I did have. Problem was it took me 2 days to make my first card. I had the sketch in my head, but had a difficult time picking out the colors I wanted to use.

 I just love those diagonal stripes made with the newly released Super Stripe set by PTI.. Just perfect for a Christmas card. The background pattern paper is from Teresa Collins' Christmas Cottage collection

 I was going to put this in the dynamic duos challenge until I noticed the tad of orange in the snowman's nose. Oh well. Thanks for stopping by.

Cauaul Friday Challenge: Kraft On

I made a birthday tag for my son-in-law's birthday using Kraft card stock so that I could participate in this week's Cas-u-al Friday's Challenge.

 I used the two tone wrapping paper for both the scallop and background circle. Here is the tag on the gift.

 This is the card I made for him.

 Trying to keep it masculine, I used embroidery floss on the banner sentiment.

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Elmo Birthday Card

 Here is the birthday card I made for my granddaughter's 2nd birthday along with the Elmo Party decorations.

 I just love those dots on the Fabulous Frames. I used my computer to generate the Elmo says:
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