Christmas Cards & Birthday cards

Happy New Year!!!! Well... Christmas is over and the New Year is only about 2 hours and 14 minutes away. My New Years Resolution is to be more creative and use what I have. So to get a start, I am always in need of birthday cards. So I made 10 moo cow an udder birthday cards. What do ya think? The stamp is from http://www.whippersnapperdesigns.com/.

MMMOooooooo

And here are the gorgeous, hand made Christmas cards I received this year;

Shawna's

Rachel's

Patti Hipp

Pam's

Mary K's

Mary Ham's

Karen R's;

close up;

Fran T.'s

Donna H's;

Debbie T's;

Cindy L's;

Carolyn C's;

April P's;

Anna J's;

I do want to take a moment and thank everyone who sent these beautiful cards. They are treasured and I greatly appreciate it.

Thank you everyone who reads or even checks out the blog. I am hoping to have more postings, more cards, more sharing of some pretty wonderful cards.

Blessings to all and Thanks for making this year so great. Here's to 2010!!!!!

Another Dustin Pike card

Here is another Dustin Pike digi stamp card that I did. The bug in the background is from Betsy The Beekeeper (Stampin' Up!). I am going to send him along with the Dudley dragon cards for a swap I joined. Yup... took two spots, but I love Dustin Pike. (Thanks Jennifer K. for turning me onto him and digi stamps!).

Snowed in is great!

Being snowed in is a good thing and a bad thing. Good thing is, I am all warm and snuggly. Bad thing is, I had to shovel 1' of snow earlier and now it looks like I hadn't touched it at all. Another good thing is STAMPING!!! YEAH!!! LOVE to stamp and now I'm getting into "Digi Stamps".

I found on the cricut.com website under community, a gal that is hosting a "Dustin Pike" swap. http://dustinpike.blogspot.com/ . I ABSOLUTELY LOVE his artwork. If you are into cutsie and love fun things, this is the site to visit. So here is my card for the swap;

Close up of Dudley-ette; (I flocked the peep... so cute!)

Card in its entirety;

And Rich has a co-worker that is kinda freaky about aliens. So I found this digital art from http://www.talonartstamps.com/Alienspage7.html

April's Technique CLub

Lots of fun as usual at April's Technique card class http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/mystampplace/about .

This is called Acetate & Tissue. I do have to say, you need gloves and this is messy;
I am going to have to do this again. This is called Cracked Glass. LOVE IT!! A bit messy, the UTEE goes everywhere....

Acrylic Smash. Not as messy... but really neat.

If you are interested in learning more techniques or want to join a stamp club, contact April on her website; http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/mystampplace/about

Pam's Thanksgiving Card Class

Another great evening at Pam's http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/pamparto/products
and I absolutely love this cute, adorable turkey!!!

Christmas Cards Galore!!!!

Everyone is getting in the spirit of Christmas. Can you believe it's 8 weeks away already?!?!? Where does the time go???

Well... being in the spirit, my two demo's are certainly on the right track. Christmas card classes galore!!!!! I LOVE IT!

I made these 6 at April Prachniak's (http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/mystampplace/about, Christmas card class.

I have to get this embossing folder!! I sooo love it!

The baroque motif sets are one of my favorites. It's so versatile.

This was using the slot punch. Yeah.... now i have to get this too!!! This wasn't as hard as you think.

Dasher.... everyone loves this litle fella

Ohhh Christmas tree... O' Christmas tree...

Happy New Year everyone!

I made these at Pam Parto's, http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/pamparto/products, Christmas card class.

Again... LOVE SU's embossing folders!!!

And the baroque motif set. You just have to love this set!!!

SU's background papers are just fabulous.

And there's Dasher, pretending to be Rudolph

Simple, yet elegant;

HAHAHHA!! and I had to sneak this one in. Made by the talented, and beautiful, Stephanie Carabine. LOVE the drippy goo punch!!! Didn't she do a marvelous job?!?!?! Thanks again Steph!!!

10-25-09 Cards!!! Thank you Cards!

One of our members (Mary Ham) is not feeling well... so I thought I would break out my nestabilities (which I'm completely hooked on now), and make this cute card.

I made this with my nestabilities and then ran them through my cuttlebug. What do ya think?

And I just love this SU! set, bird on a branch. The branch I made using my Cricut. It's almost identical to the branch in the set.

Weekend to STAMP!!!! 10-24--09

Having sooo much fun and feelin' really guilty. Rich is tearing out the kitchen and has instructed me to stay out of his way. I was going to go to the ocean, but it was suppose to rain all weekend so I decided to stay home and lock myself in my stamp room.

Got alot done today... cleaned up the room, got a few Stampin' Up! sets together that I have just received (Autumn Harvest and Pocket Silhouettes), and made these cards.

This one is for the IWIA Stampers * Baltimore, MD * Christmas card shoebox swap, on Monday, October 26th. Saw this on SCS... so I can't take the credit. All I did was add the snowflake in the corner with the glitter. My contribution to stamping. HAHAHHA!!!


Then I made this one. Thinking of April's fall leaf card we had done like a wreath, I used that as my muse for this one.

And then there's this little fella. http://customcreationsbyjenn.blogspot.com/ My Friend Jennifer Kupiec has a wonderful blog and there is a Scrap, Stamp & Doodle challenge. Go to her website to see the challenge. This is the card I made. The image is a Dustin Pike digital art image. I LOVE his images!!!