Day 8 Holiday Card Inspiration!

Hello my Crafty Friends!  Hope your day is going great!  Today I am back with Day 8 of my Holiday Card Inspiration!  I am using my Taylored Expressions Nativity die, so love that die!

Of course I made 4!  I used paper from Simple Stories Handmade Holiday and the sentiment is from Hero Arts Greatest Blessing!

Tomorrow is the craft sale that I am doing.  I have a few wreaths made (so busy with etsy and custom orders!  yay!) And have a bunch of cards to sell!  Hoping it goes well!  No table fee so it's all a bonus!  I plan to make as many cards tonight and finish up two wreaths tonight too.  Well hope to, I actually feel pretty horrible right now and feel like I am coming down with something.  The good news is that at least my ankle is better and I can walk!  What I would love to just go and lay on the couch with a good book but did I mention were moving this weekend?  Oh the joy!  :>  So much to do! 

This week I finished off a custom wreath order from etsy, I am so glad she ordered these as I hadn't thought of a wreath like this, oh and she ordered 3 of them:

So pretty hey?  I am going to list one in my etsy shop too!  :>  Well I better go...

Day 7 Holiday Card Inspiration!

Hello my Crafty Friends!  It's Monday and snowing over here!  I am at home with two extra kids today!  Today I have another Holiday Card to share using the Snow Much Joy stamp set by Hero Arts once again!  I can't help but LOVE this snowman!  :>  Don't forget leave a comment I will draw for a winner!

 No surpise that I made 4 right?  How could I not it's so much fun to play with this snowman!

 
 First I heat embossed the sentiment in red scented powder cherry on top by gelatins than I stamped with Frost White by Colorbox the Snow dots background by Ha, I cut out snowhills and added a strip of fun paper by Carta Bella.  I stamped the cute pudgy snowman and die cut him with the matching frame cut!  And I paper pieced him!

Well I am off!  Lots on the to do list and the fact that I fell down the stairs last night and sprained  my ankle at my inlaws doesn't help!  It's sore but not as painful as I am sure it could have been!  I have been hopping, and hobbling around the house! Off to work on some cards for the craft sale on Thursday!  I hardly have any Birthday cards!

Day 6 Holiday Card Insipration!

Hello my crafty Friends remember me?  Not sure what happened to me but this week has been a crazy one!  I have cards to share but can't seem to make it here to blog.  I live blog, not schedule but I may start scheduling posts to  make sure I share with you!

Much is going on over here, more etsy sales (who hoo) and custom wreath orders from friends!  Also next Thursday Chad's grandmother's condo has a craft sale that I am part of.  This will be my third year, and my first bringing wreaths, and of course cards and tags!  So I have been preparing like crazy for this!  I have a lot of Christmas cards but realized I have no birthday!  Yikes!

Today I am here to share Day 6 of my Holiday Card Inspiration!  I actually shared this card on Scrapbooking Cafe's Blog yesterday!  I will be back tomorrow with Day 7!  Remember I will be drawing a winner from one of the posts for a prize! Last Friday I received some new Hero Arts goodies and couldn't wait to play with them:

I used Hero Arts and Sizzix new background stamp and emboss set Snowflake Background!  Oh I love it!  Here is a side view:

I paired it with Hero Arts Very Best Holiday Stamp and used the matching frame cut to cut it out!  (The frame cut only cuts out the outside edge and I handcut the inside)  I figured I needed a wreath stamp seeing as I make so many of them!

And of course I made 4:

Well that's it from me today!  I am off to do some shopping on the other end of the city.  I was supposed to yesterday but it was so icy, I think you could have skated down the street!  See you tomorrow!

Day 5 Holiday Card Inspiration!

Hello my Crafty Friends!  We are at home and enjoying a day off from school, yay for 3 day weekends!  Ariel and Carter and playing SO WELL together today!  I've been enjoying it as I have taken the opportunity to clean the house, stamp and work on wreaths!  

Today I am here with a 5th card in my 12 Days of Holiday Card Inspiration!  Do remember that I will draw a winner for a prize from one of my 12 posts!  I finally got a chance to play with my new die by Taylored Expressions, I love this Nativity die! I truly love to make Christmas cards sharing what I celebrate and believe Christmas to be about!  I love it when paper craft companies bring out products that share the real meaning on Christmas!  And I love that I am seeing it more and more lately!  I paired this die with a great Hero Arts set, Heaven's Rejoice, love the sentiments it has!

I used paper from Very Merry Christmas by Echo Park, the die cut paper is a backside, I like the look using a bit of a patterned paper brings as opposed to cardstock.  I love this nativity silhouette! This die cuts so well!  Even that staff the Shepard is holding! 

I added another new wreath to my etsy store today you can find it here.

Well I am off to make some Honey cookies with the kids, it's a Croatian recipe that my mom made all the time I was growing up and it's my first time making them with the kids!

Hexagon Gift Bag!

Hello my Crafty Friends!  Hope your having a great night!  We just came back from dinner with Chad's grandmother!  She invited us over as she wasn't able to make it to Ariel's family party, she had her Wii Bowling League that night!  :>  She is 89 and lives in a beautiful condo with other people her age!  We had a great night with her!  She made for dessert a coconut cream pie!  I've never had a homemade coconut cream pie, it was so good!

I am taking a break from my Holiday Card Inspiration and today I have a gift bag to share that I shared on the Scrapbooking Cafe Online blog!  I actually made this gift bag for the May/June Paper Crafts call, it wasn't picked up but I did have two other wraps picked up so that's okay!  I still love and enjoyed making this gift bag:

For more details about the bag please click here.

Well that's it from me tonight!  I am bushed!  Busy day!  Looking forward to cuddling my sweetheart on the couch while we watch some really good Thursday night tv, oh you know Big Bang Theory, The Office (this season it's good again) Glee, and Scandal (we love that show!) Not sure if we will actually make it through all those shows but that's what a PVR is for!

Day 4 Holiday Card Inspiration!

Hello my Crafty Friends!  Hope your having a great Wednesday!  This morning Carter and I went to his weekly stay and play drop in at our church.  It's great to get out and see friends!

I am here with another Holiday card to share! Please remember that I am offering a giveway to a random commenter on one of my 12 Days of Holiday Cards! It's so sunny outside today (which is fantastic after dreary weather) so I was able to get really good photos of my cards!  I used my favorite snowman from Hero Arts set Snow Much Joy!  The matching frame cut makes him so much easier to use!  

 

I paper pieced the snowman with paper from Simple Stories Simnple Handmade collection.  The sentiment is from one of my favorite sentiment sets this year, Miracle of the Holidays!

I actually made 4 of this card!  Two of each style here is the other:

 

  Can you see all the snow we have?  Over the weekend they called for a blizzard and luckily it didn't come!  It did snow a lot I think something like 25 cm but it snowed for 2 days on and off so it wasn't as bad as it could have been!  So on Friday we had no snow and no we have this!  We are thrown right into tons of snow and winter driving!  On Sunday we were running out of time so Chad decided he would shovel when we came back from church.  Came home to a cleared driveway, what great neighbors! 

Not sure if you saw this but I am thankful for Jennifer McGuire for sharing about my wreaths on her blog here.  I can see that a lot of people have come from her blog to see my wreaths!  I've been quite busy with etsy sales, custom orders and local orders too!  One of my friends yesterday shared with her friend who ordered 3 wreaths!  I've employed Chad too!  LOL Well I work on wreaths whenever I get a chance and often he is home.  He did a bunch of circle die cutting for a few wreaths (a lot of flowers I cut by hand but a few I can die cut instead)  Here is my newest Holiday Wreath that will go into my shop later today:

That's it from me today!  I shall be back soon!

Deck the Halls Blog Hop!

Hello my Crafty Friends!  I am here as part of a blog hop as part of the Freckled and Fun Fabulous Four!  Today we are sharing projects featuring Beth Silaika's set Deck the Halls!  Please join us in this hop as I have seen some of the projects and they are inspiring!  You can find the hop here.  

Today I have a tag to share!  I really love this set and really enjoy creating with it!

 I used Echo Park's Very Merry Christmas 6  by 6 pad for this tag, the papers are so easy to work with and I think it compliments this set so well!

And that's it from me! Thank you so much for stopping by!