Curly Hair

 

You really need to zoom in on the hair to see the detail. If you would have seen me coloring her, you would have thought I was making a huge mess. The first step is to color all the hair orange. The darker colors are put on by making dots on top of the orange leaving some of the orange showing. This was my first attempt and I think it turned out decent. 

Christmas Poinsettias

 

Here are a few Christmas cards I made using the velour designer paper from Stampin' Up.  I will have a few more to post before Christmas arrives.

Nativity in Glass

This piece got finished tonight. You can think of it as a late Christmas decoration or getting ready early for next Christmas.

Peace on Earth

This stamp set has been retired for a few years but I still use it.  The dove is good for occasions other than Christmas.  I have embossed it in white and changed the silver to gold for weddings.  It could be used as a 25th or 50th anniversary card by just using the appropriate color for the olive branch.

Christmas Card Opportunity

Here is another card I made using the Stampin' Up! Peaceful Poinsettia stamp and die set. See the white fern-like embellishment. I saved it from the scraps of another card that I made using the same set.

Would you like to receive a card like this? I will randomly send a similar one to one person, not a business or robot/spam commentor in the US who comments within the next two hours. Don't post your address here. I will post a comment with the name of the person who is chosen randomly. That person will send me their address privately.  Make sure that you comment before 6:05  PM EST December 3.  

Peaceful Poinsettia

This was one of my favorite stamp sets in the Stampin' Up! holiday catalog this year.  There are so many different ways it can be used.  You will be seeing several examples in the next few weeks to see what I mean.  The layout on both of these cards is the same.  Look how different they appear just by changing the designer paper.  Which one do you like the best?

St Andrew's Brandon

Our show tomorrow will be at St Andrew's UMC in Brandon.  I will have lots of cards and several made from new sets that I recently bought from Stampin' Up! I usually don't post more than one picture at a time, but since they are all new I wanted to display them all.

This is usually the only show we do in Brandon, but I just added a new one yesterday.  It will be a pop up show at a brewery.  Something new for us.  Don't worry, I don't drink beer so I won't be drinking all the profit.

New Year 2018

Happy New Year.  

Have Yourself a Beachy Little Christmas

Merry Christmas to all of our family and friends.

Christmas Ornaments

We were a bit late getting our trees up this year, but they are up and trimmed. We did cut back a little on the amount of stuff we put on them, but they still look nice.

Sweater Weather

The past few days and mainly evenings have been a bit chilly.  I don't have any Christmas sweaters but I do have a vest, some T-shirts, and a Santa sweatshirt.  The vest and sweatshirt came out this past weekend.  My vest isn't a pull over like the one on the card.  It zips but I leave it open.  I do think I would wear the one of this card too if I had it.

Christmas at the Beach

When I saw this stamp set, I knew it was perfect for where I live.  I never use snowmen or anything else related to snow on my cards because it just isn't appropriate.  I would like to string lights on my palm tree but the person who puts up the lights would not want to do that.  Don't even think about me doing it myself because that would be a big disaster.  I just may go to the beach on Christmas Day.

Cards with the Flute Choir

Today the flute section and members of the flute choir from the community band I am in came over to make some Christmas cards.  This is one of the cards they made.  The picture doesn't show the nice sparkle to the rhinestones or the Wink of Stella on the center of the poinsettias in the background.

Christmas and Cats

We do not have a cat but my family did have one when I was growing up.  All those hanging ornaments are so much temptation for the poor kitties.  I know several people who own cats and have been to their houses when the Christmas tree is up.  Most of them have unbreakables near the bottom so the cat can enjoy the tree too.  We are doing a cat show this year so I am starting to work on various cat cards.

Merry Christmas

One Christmas, Jim made one of these for my mom except hers was all bevels. She liked it so much that she had him make one to give the priest the following year. He no longer makes them in bevels, but makes them like this one in colors. Merry Christmas to all my friends and family.

Christmas Eve

I couldn't decide which color to use on this card so I did one of each. The red one is so Santa but he would be flying in the sky which is blue. Which one do you like best?

Santa is about done checking his list as his big night approaches. Do you have any plans for Christmas Eve. Our neighborhood lights luminaries so we will be doing that. After ours are lit, we walk around the neighborhood looking at all the lights and candles.

Christmas Cat

This card was made using the Crazy Cat stamp set. I also have Crazy Birds and will one of these days get the Crazy Dogs too. If I sent cards to family cats, Judy's cat Maggie would get this one. She is real live crazy cat.

Happy Hanukkah

I know I am a little early, but I don't want to forget to write this blog post.  The first night of Hanukkah is December 24.  Happy Hanukkah to all my friends who celebrate.  My Wednesday night community band will be playing a concert this coming week at Beth Am temple.

Snow Village

To make this card, I used four different dies and an embossing folder. To get the layers of snow, tear the card stock and make sure some of the inside of the paper shows.  The houses are a SU retired die from last Christmas.  The sled and tree are new this year. 

A Golden Christmas Card

I don't like to rush the seasons, so I have been holding off posting a lot of Christmas cards. So now that Christmas is 12 days away, I am going to be posting more often, maybe every day. This one is very non-traditional colors.