Christmas cards! DONE :)

They are all done, all 40 of them. I had a hard time deciding what stamp to use, so I used five different ones. All I need to do is write on the inside, address the envelopes, put on a stamp and hand them of to the mailman. I plan on (hopefully) sending them out by the end of next week.



I made more of this one than any other. I really like this image. It is Poppy Stamps "Andrew Angel". Isn't he cute. He looks familiar-right? you've seen him before, I made a birthday card a while back with him on it.



Here are the other four. The pinecone stamp is from the All that Glitters set from Flourishes. I just love the vintage feel of the stamps. There are about five more vintage ornaments in the set. The other three are from Inkadinkado.

SASSC #43 Play along

Wonderful news! Next week Stamps and Smiles is going to be releasing a whole new set of Digital Stamps. Their very first Digi Release. 4 new sets will be available for purchase on December 11th. Along with the release there will be games and giveaways. I've gotten a sneak peek, and they are absolutely wonderful!

Here's my card for this week's challenge. I used My Minds Eye Christmas papers and a Digi image from SAS. And I just had to add Diamond Dust to the snow (boy, I love how it sparkles).

Brand new custom stamps

They came in a sheet. I had to stamp them on the cling and then cut them apart.



Here are the 2 for gifts. I mounted them and put them in CD cases. I'm just going to wrap the CD cases this way.



A friend recommended this company Tamp-A-Stamp to get custom stamps made. Yes, it is a little expensive, but worth every cent. I received a discount because I filled up an entire 5X7 sheet. I got 8 stamps made, the cost was $65.00 (that was with the discount). I got 2 with my name and blog address for the backs of the cards I make. I also got 2 of my husbands drawings (the referees) and a old drawing. I had some extra room so I made 2 for gifts (the girl and handmade by). I hope Nicole and Pamela don't see this.

Pile It On Challenge #26-Flowers and Flourishes

It's Pile It On! Week. Along with Pile It On! I created this card for my Prickley Pear team I used one of the New Christmas Transparencies. I coated the back of it with blue and white glitter before I glued it to the card. What is great about the transparencies is they are ATC size, so you can use that for that as well.

Here's a close up of the glittered bear. He really sparkles on the card.


Here are the challenges that I used for my card.

• Pile It On-Flowers and Flourishes
  
• Papertake Weekly-Christmas Crackers
• ABC Challenge-Indigo (blue)
• Charisma Cards-Anything Christmas
• Whimsy Stamps-Christmas

Happy Thanksgiving

When you play along with us, please remember to post your sample to your blog or gallery, and then include a link in the Mr. Linky form at the Stamps and Smiles Blog so we can all easily find each other. If you upload to SCS, please include “stampsandsmiles” in the keywords.
Stamps and Smiles stamps are not required for our challenges, grab some of your favorite stamps & supplies and have fun with our sketch each week!


Here's the sketch

Here's another project I made just for this occasion:
He's a Turkey ATC! I had so much fun making him.
Take a look at his belly button :) it's holding on his tail!
I ran all of his tail fathers through the Cuttlebug, he needed to have a little texture added.



The stamp on his chest is embossed in clear and then I took some distressing ink and rubbed over the thanks part so the paper behind it would take the ink (the embossing resists it) and the thanks would then pop out.

Still playing with metal tape and alcohol inks

This is (a copy of) the ornament I created for the blogger ornament exchange (bad blogger, I forgot to take a picture before I sent it, the only difference is hers said joy instead of happy). I hope my exchange partner (Lori) likes it. I am really liking what the alcohol ink does to the metal tape. I did find out that if you tap with the felt applicator all over the tape first, and let it dry completely, that the drops of ink tend to stay and not run as much.

As you can see I also am in love with the "branch" punch from Martha Stewart (purchased at Walmart, not at Michaels, that one is a different branch). I attached the fragment (also loving these days) with a Around The Block paper tail, so it moves.