Snowflake embossed button

Happy Tuesday! I can't believe that November is almost over and Christmas is just over a month away! This fall is speeding by! I have yet to start my Christmas shopping! I am not worried, I love to shop, and I am a great speedy shopper! I also like to shop in December, that way it feels as if I am Christmas shopping!

I may not have started my Christmas shopping but I have been busy creating all sorts of Christmas goodies! Today I have one card to share. I have been having all sorts of comments on my use of patterned paper and such. I love patterned paper! I often take my inspiration for colors from the paper! I am always on the hunt for great paper! Sometimes I buy stacks but lately I have been buying more single paper. One of the difficulties on using PP with stamping is matching the images and such. I tend to favor PP in smaller prints, stripes (oh how I love stripes) and dot patterns! I also like to create my own PP with stamping and such but I feel that I need more stamps to do that! (but really do we ever feel as if we have enough?) I also try not to hoard my PP it goes out of style or I fall out of love with it so I like ot try to use it as soon as I can. And I often make more than one card from a single piece of paper. Sometimes I focus on one or two PP's and color scheme and make several different cards with that one. It's quite time saving! Anyways onto today's card! I used PP from Basic Grey's Eskimo kisses line getting my color inspiration from that. I stamped the tree from a HA set but my favorite part of this card is the button! It's a clear HA button that I embossed a HA snowflake onto! I saw this technique done by Kristina Werner I think for HA a while ago. I always remembered it and when I finally got some clear buttons I was able to do it!







A close up of the button. I used tweezers to hold the whole button when I stamped the button onto the stamp. In KW's video she shows holding the button with the holes but my tweezers wouldn't do that! It took a few button tries to figure it out and get it well but you can scrape off with your finger the embossing and try again.

Products used: Bazill cardstock, Michael's ribbon, stickles, colorbox moss green and silver pigment ink, Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses PP, Ha stamps: tree CL113, words and snowflake: CL343,star: CL354, SU scalloped border punch.

I also wanted to share one of my daughter's first drawings. Her name is Ariel, and it's quite fitting that her first drawing is of a mermaid of course! She has always been into coloring and crafting but just last week started to draw people, I am quite impressed she just turned 4! Also it's a little funny! I had a good laugh and had to share it! Can you see why I find it so funny?

I also wanted to wish all my American friends a Happy Thanksgiving! May you enjoy this special time with the ones you love! And may you have a really really good dinner topped with the perfect pumpkin pie (my favorite!)

not yet winter here

It's deep into November and we are still experiencing beautiful weather! After such a bad summer I suppose it's deserved! Usually we would be deep into snow and cold cold weather! Today I have quite a few cards to share. The first two are actually from last week's Hero Arts challenge! I did manage to submit them in time but was way to exhausted to blog about it! Than I put off blogging since my space key and me are not working in harmony! Tonight oh keyboard you meet the bathtub! Unless I figure out how to get the dishwasher to not use hot water...

The first card uses the Grand Snowflake stamp again by HA. I stamped it in versamark and than embossed it with iridescent embossing powder! How much I love this card! The PP is from a Christmas stack by Mind's Eye and it has glitter too!

Products used: Bazill cardstock, My Mind's eye PP, eksuccess punch, grand snowflake HA stamp, Cl343 HA, michaels ribbon, iridescent powder.

The angel card is made with the Let the Angel's Sing stamp set by HA. I love this stamp set. When I saw it in the sneak peaks on the HA blog I wanted it! A few weekends ago my gf was visiting MOA and I was lucky that she picked it up for me! I covered her with two sided tape and than burnished glitter on to her! I also used stickles all over the ribbon and felt snowflake and button!

Products used: Let the Angels Sing HA stamp set, bazill cardstock, snowflake by SU, button by Making Memories, My Minds Eye PP, stickles and stampendous glitter.

I made this card a bit ago, actually I made 10 of them! I picked this stamp set up at my LSS. It's a cute BoBunny one! It was a great idea to tie the silver cord but not so easy, hint to use your tweezers to pull the cord through when tieing the bow!

Products used: Eskimo Kisses PP by Basic Grey, Merry Christmas stamp set by BoBunny, Merry Christmas sentiment by HA343, Stickles, Bazill cardstock.

And my last card to share today is a baby shower invite I made for a friend. She contacted me and ordered 10 for a baby girl shower. I used the Close to my heart set Baby Steps on it. I paper pieced some of the outfits, glittered others and used fun flock to make the cute fuzzy sleeper! Isn't this so cute? (this one is the worst one which I kept due to the buckling..)

Products used: Bazill cardstock, PP by Michaels, Baby Steps by Close to My Heart, Glitter by Doodlebug, Fun flock by stampendous.

Hope all of you have been having a fantastic week! I did want to share that last week I was so blessed to be able to attend a Darlene Zschech and Hillsong concert! It was amazing to be able to worship singing her songs that she has written with her as the leader! What an amazing experience! For those of you who don't know who he is she has written many amazing songs and it is said that on sundays 20 million people sing her songs!

unexpected christmas

It's been a bit since I last posted. I have been hard at work with Christmas cards and tags. And I have been busy with life! I wanted to post earlier this week but my space key was on the fritz, most of the time it wouldn't work, and when it did it worked too much! It was quite frustrating and I wasn't able to comment on other people's work! Today I have a Christmas card to share. It's for the current Hero Arts challenge of unexpected colors in Christmas cards! I made a Christmas card with pink and black! I love that color combo and thought it would be fun to make a Christmas card with those colors!

Products used: Bazill cardstock, black and iridescent embossing powder, Making Memories Sabrina paper, ribbon, scalloped circle mauvy punch, HA Grand Snowflake stamp, versamark, stazon black.

I picked up this new snowflake stamp at Michael's, love it! It's big and bold and stunning! I stamped the snowflake with versamark and than embossed it with iridescent powder. And I also embossed the main snowflake in black. I also wasn't sure on placement for the sentiment so I saved it for last and stamped it with stazon and it stamped really well over the embossing! I love how this card turned out!

I also wanted to share a week late my kids in there costumes! Nothing is cuter than kids all dressed up! I laughed so hard at Carter, he was adorable and I heard many people coo about how cute he was all night!

We borrowed Carter' s costume from some friends, he just fit! I laughed so hard at how it smushed his face!


Ariel was a fairy! Ain't she pretty? She loves her costume and has worn it so much this week around the house!

Carter also just learnt how to walk! Ain't he cute?

And lastly to make you laugh here is Carter the way I found him one morning while Ariel was a preschool. I heard him making funny noises! I had hidden the muffin in haste the day before when guests were on the way over earlier than they were supposed to be!

cutest jacket ever!

No cards to share today. Thought I would share some photo's instead! Fall has come here late but is here in full force, almost over as we did have a snowstorm last week. Where I work we got the cutest fall coat in and I of course has to buy it for my daughter. Here are some photo's of her in it!



How cute is she? Isn't her jacket just adorable? Oh I do love dressing my sweetheart! This past weekend was also Thanksgiving here in Canada. Every year I take a photo of our family at different holidays. Here is our Thanksgiving one. Carter isn't smiling and Ariel and sitting funny but it's still sweet!

I can't believe that this week has been so slow on the cardmaking. I have been detoured by reading the Twilight Saga! Oh how I am loving it. It's all I can think about and I have been reading so quickly, all the time! Oh well I am almost done and next week I can focus back on Christmas cards!

enjoying everyday life!

I wanted to do a quick post. It's been busy over here with life, and work! And it seems as if whenever I go to post I haven't taken a picture of the cards yet in sunlight and it's now night! Oh well. Life for me is going well. I am so blessed to be surrounded with opportunities to get out and be with people and friends! I can find highlights in even general things, driving my daughter to preschool and chatting with fellow mom's having the morning with just my son and hitting the local scrapbooking stores and getting some new stuff! And having such a great chat with the owner of one store! Volunteering at the stay and play at my church the kids get out and have a great time playing and I get to hang out with some mom's! This week I was even able to have a girls night out with a few friends seeing the Ugly Truth (at the cheap theatre even better for us stay at home mom's!) and having my favorite gelati! This morning I went to the mall since my friend was kind to send me a 25% coupon she got online for a store and picked up a snowsuit for my daughter for a great price! And having a coffee and letting the kids play in the play area of the mall with my friend. And even working wasn't that bad, I work only a few evenings and I like getting out and being around people! I did get some time to create and I have started with the Christmas cards! I think I will be making 10 of each design. Here is my first Christmas card:

Here are a few cards I made with my new cling stamp Silhouette flower. I was inspired by a girl's set of cards in the HA flickr group for these!

I will be back later after work to post supplies and techniques I used! Happy friday!

pink eye

I have been able to be quite creative this week. Maybe because the weather has cooled down, maybe because this week hasn't been all too busy, or maybe because I have had pink eye? I haven't had it for years but woke up on sunday morning with a sore eye and when I looked in the mirror I discovered that my left eye was all red! I was all shocked I thought to myself my goodness it's all red look what late nights have done to me, I am going to have a red eye forever now! On monday I spent over 2 hours waiting to see my doctor to find out what it was. My eye was watery in the mornings but no pus or anything and I really didn't think it was pink eye. He told me that yes it was, any red or pink eye is pink eye! I was all surprised telling him that I didn't have the pus and all that fun stuff, his reply was in a few days untreated you would! I have been treating it with polysporn eye drops (he gave me a prescrption but said I could use that as I haven't used it before) and breastmilk! I am still nursing my baby and I know that I have treated watery eyes, sore ears and all sorts of ailments on my children with breastmilk so I thought I should use it myself! It really healed quickly! I have to use the polysporn for a week. One of the oddest things about having pink eye is that I can't wear mascara! I never go into public without mascara and I have continued with life as usual (after 24 hrs with the drops your not contagious) so I feel as if I look quite funny! It's funny though only one friend came up to me and said why do you look so different? Here I feel that I am all werid looking and only one friend actually noticed!

Anyways onto the cards. I have been playing around with some new stamps and supplies that I bought when I went to Scrapfest. Oh and the stamp that Jennifer McGuire gave me when we went for dinner (She said Aaron the CEO of HA told her to bring gifts for us and we had a choice of two stamps! How cool is that? This stamp shall always have a special place in my heart!) (oh the stamp I choose is the Antique Brocade CG 102)

I also made this first card to send to Kate's parents for the cards for Kate drive. I hope to finish all my cards for them this weekend and send it off on monday. Looking at this card in the photo it's hard to tell but I did use the Antique Brocade with versa mark on the brown. I also used my new cling Silhouette Flower and cut it out with my new nesties Labels 8! And the thinking of you is a new stamp I finally got,from All occasions! Oh and even the buttons are new!

Products used: (not mentioned yet) Bazzill cardstock, American Crafts paper, Su scalloped punch, michaels ribbon, colorbox chalk and pigment inks.

Here is the first card I made using my new silhouette flower cling stamp. I embossed it in white on patterned paper that I recieved free with my scrapfest badge, it's Bo Bunny! I love how this turned out. And it's kinda fallish with it's colors, maybe the closest I will go!

Products used (again not mentioned yet) bazill cardstock, k and company buttons, rhinestones, white embossing powder and colorbox chestnut pigment ink.

I hope to post tommorow with all the other cards I have made this week as it's World Cardmaking day, and I must run now to put my children down for a nap, figure out supper and take a nap all before I work tonight!

Loving Buttons

Fall has officially come where I live! We had a bad summer, lots of rain and not much hot weather. And finally at the beginning of September hot weather came! Pretty much all of September was hot weather and many people around here visited the beach! Yesterday the weather finally turned towards fall, over night basically! It feels weird though that in just a few days it will be October! I have to start shopping for snowsuits and boots soon the stores will be sold out! We often have snow by Halloween which would be even weird to go from beach weather to snow in a few short weeks!

Today I have two cards to share. Just playing around. Which is basically my favorite thing to do when creating. I enjoy challenges but sometimes they take the fun out of card making for me. This week I am planning on working on the cards I have in my head! I have a lot of ideas and challenges tend to take me away from them! Even though I don't always take part in them I find myself thinking about them a lot! I made these two cards with my PaperTreyInk set Everyday Button Bits! Here they are:



Products used: PP by American Crafts, Bazzill Cardstock, PTI Everyday Button Bits, SU Scallop Punch, Random and Buttons by K and Company, Su Black Ink and Colorbox ink oh and Labels 1!

Love these cards! Hope everyone is having a fantastic start to there week!