30th Wedding Anniversary

We have friends that will be leaving on a cruise with their adult children soon.  They will be celebrating their 30th anniversary shortly.  The children bought the cruise for them as a combination anniversary and Christmas present.

Merry Christmas

I think this is the perfect card to post on Christmas Day.  The doily in the background is cut from glimmer paper.  The one on the left is silver and the right is champagne.  They are very pretty and shiny IRL.  Wishing all my friends and family a very Merry Christmas.

Northern Lights Technique

We just returned home from a trip to Sweden where we had hoped to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights.  Unfortunately, we only had a glimpse and nothing like we had hoped to see.  It was too rainy and cloudy.  I will be posting a few pictures of our trip after Christmas.

The Sunflower Circle Twin

Here is the twin of the lamp I posted earlier.  Do you see the difference between them?  Aren't they called fraternal twins when they are not quite the same?  Someday I will take a picture of them together so you can look for the difference. 

Musical Nativity

What would make this card perfect is if the music in the background was Silent Night.  I am so glad that Stampin' Up! came out with some single Christmas stamps this year.  I needed something with a religious theme and this was just what I wanted.

Pink Poinsettia

I saw this card on Splitcoast and knew I would have to CASE it.  I love the subtle blushing bride pink with the touch of cherry cobbler.  What a great contrast.  The poinsettia was stamped with versamark and the embossed using white embossing powder.

Sunflower in a Circle

Many years ago we bought this lamp base, no shade, at an antique store near Mt Dora, Fl.  We always look for bases at a reasonable cost to use for lamps.  This one and another that I will post in a few days never got used that is until recently.  I will post a picture of the twin later.  Then I will post a picture of both of them together so you can see the difference between them. 

 

 



Vintage Santa

I bought this vintage looking Santa so many years ago that the stamp itself is probably considered vintage by now.  This is the first time I have used it.   I never seemed to find anything to dress it up without going overboard.  I think the embossing folder is just what it needed.  It may go into the rotation for family Christmas cards some year.

Scrap Christmas Tree

I have so many small pieces of scrap paper that when I saw this idea I knew I had to make this card.  This is another card I made with my ladies.  To get the nice tree shape I used the petal cone die and cut out the triangular shape.  If you look close you will see that some of the strips are glitter ribbon.

Dasher

My ladies love Dasher so we make a different card every year using Dasher.  I used some retired DSP that has a nice gold sheen.  Maybe you can see it if you click on the picture and make it bigger.  They liked the card with the Bermuda Bay paper so that is the one we made.