Starting Out Okay

Well, I'm starting out the year well. I made not one, but TWO challenge cards! Thank you CPS for making a nice easy sketch to get me back in the game!

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Sometimes a Card Just Won't Do

Can you believe that I said that?? Well, you know sometimes you feel like you should do more then just send a little card...so I sent a little card and some delicious (if I do say so myself) homemade cinnamon rolls! Sorry the picture is so bad. My battery died so I used Jon's BlackBerry. It doesn't take very good pictures.

Supplies Used: October Afternoon Patterned Paper, Our Daily Bread Designs rubber stamps, Labels 4 Nestabilities, American Crafts lace, button, Fiskars Threading Water border punch
And if you want to make some delicious looking cinnamon rolls (with a bread machine, they are so easy!), you can find the recipe here.

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A Late Merry Christmas! and an early Happy New Year!

That kind of evens everything out, right? :) I had a wonderful Christmas, and hope that you did too! We have one more Christmas celebration tonight...then I will be all partied out, I think (no, I KNOW!). So here's the last Christmas card that I have to share with you. I ended up using this card as my template for cards, but it left me some scraps. So after every 3rd card I made like that, I made this card. I pretty much used my entire Mitten Weather paper from Cosmo Cricket making cards like this! I think I have 3 pieces left (I used a 6x6 paper pad). It feels good to actually use up what I have.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!
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A Little Sketchy

Today I have two cards to share with you. The first one is for the Limelight Papercrafts sketch and product challenge. The product we had to use was shimmer. I used glitter on the snowflakes, which I stamped onto a Jillibean Soup Sprout.

If you haven't heard, Limelight is closing it's doors. Sad for us, but great news for Mandy! Lucky for me, I have a LSS, so I will somehow survive. Thanks Mandy for the great customer service! I always ordered from her because she would include a cute little handmade note just to say thank you.
Okay, on to the second card. This is for the CardPatterns sketch. I am loving the Mitten Weather paper from Cosmo Cricket -- are you sick of it yet? :)

Lastly, this is your last reminder for the blog candy a few posts down!
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It's Not a Christmas Card!

This was one of those cards that took on a whole life of it's own after I started it. I envisioned it so much prettier....and so less Christmas looking!

 

I used May Arts ribbon, Gina K. kraft cardstock, Our Daily Bread Designs stamp, Unity background stamp, Fiskars border punch, and Cosmo Cricket pp. 

I have been working on a fun (and frustrating) project all weekend and I can't wait to show you! Hopefully tomorrow!!

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Christmas Quickies!

Okay, I have some quick Christmas cards to share with you. Rather then bore you with post after post of cards, I decided to put all the images here. I didn't use sketches or anything for these (amazing!). I just sat myself down and said "Katy, you're going to make Christmas cards. No playing on the computer!" So here you go, my Christmas quickies!

Supplies Used: Christmas Blessings (Taylored Expressions), Christmas Verses (Our Daily Bread Designs), Jesus Is the Reason (Unity Stamp Co), friendship, love, miracles (Unity Stamp Co.), Holiday Spirit (Stampin' Up!), Mistletoe (Making Memories), ribbon (American Crafts), flowers (Heidi Grace), rhinestones (Kaisercrafts), Apron Lace Border Punch (Fiskars), Swiss Dots (Cuttlebug), Top Note Die (Stampin Up!), Labels 2 (Nestabilites)...and maybe some other stuff that I missed :)

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Christmas Candles

I made some more candles for a few Christmas presents this year. These are just so cute and easy to make (although I made votive candles this time and had a hard time not burning my fingers!) I used the Vintage Borders set from Gina K. Designs, Christmas Verses from Our Daily Bread Designs, and Christmas Blessings from Taylored Expressions. 3 of my favorite Christmas sets this year!

I didn't want to make boxes for the candles, and I remembered that I had some bags left from the old Unity Stamps packaging. How cute are these??

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Liar, Liar!

Remember that I said you would get a short break from Christmas cards. Well, I lied. But not on purpose. I never did get those birthday cards done (thank goodness for a stash, right!). But I did get 2 more cards done for some challenges. The first one is the Etsy-Inspired challenge. I'm really bad at remembering to do this one, but every once in awhile, I'm on the ball! I was inspired by this piece here in the Barefoot Weaver store.
Supplies Used: Tiny Trinity (Unity), Christmas Blessings (TE), Winter Wonderland PP (LAD), Vintage Christmas Flowersoft, Kaisercraft Rhinestones, Threading Water Border Punch (Fiskars)

And this card is for the Card Patterns sketch. I'm not sure that I got it posted on time. I had it done last week and just now had a chance to post it.
Supplies Used: Christmas Verses (ODBD), Kraft CS (Gina K), Mistletoe PP (Making Memores), Threading Water Border Punch (Fiskars), American Crafts ribbon

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Shimmery Fun

I made this card for the Cuttlebug Challenge to use glitter. I used the Snowflakes Cuttlebug folder as the background and then painted Pixie Dust Shimmerz over the whole card. In person it is SO shimmery! The camera had a hard time picking it up, but if you squint and turn your head funny, maybe you can see it. I included a close-up of some of the shimmery goodness though if you don't really want to try that.

Supplies Used: Snowflakes embossing folder (Cuttlebug), Christmas Verses (Our Daily Bread Designs), White CS (Georgia-Pacific), Pixie Dust Shimmerz, Ribbon (American Crafts)


And here's another card I made, using the same idea. It uses the Quickutz Christmas tree embossing die. I covered it in Pixie Dust Shimmerz and some really fun Polar White Flower Soft.

Supplies Used: Christmas tree (Quickutz), Mistletoe PP (Making Memories), Share the Joy (Hero Arts rubber stamps) Dew Drops (The Robin's nest), Polar White FlowerSoft, Pixie Dust Shimmerz, Yellow Droplet (Kaisercraft)


P.S. Can't see the shimmer? Try clicking the image to enlarge. It's there, I promise! :D
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Favorite Patterned Paper

The Limelight Sketch #35
Use your favorite patterned paper!
My card ending up more boring then what I was going for. But sometimes simplicity is best! :)

Supplies Used: Christmas Verses (Our Daily Bread Designs), DP is from SU! (retired), ribbon (American Crafts), rhinestones (Kaisercraft), Apron Lace border punch (Fiskars)

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Insert Creative Title Here

It seems like it has been a LONG week. Of course when you wake up on Tuesday thinking that it's Saturday, it's bound to feel like a long week! This is my second card for the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge. I was thinking about the challenge about God being "unseen" and as I was looking for a stamp to go with that subject, I came across this one -- "You are in our prayers..." How many times do people, unknowing to us, lift us up in prayer? Probably more often then we think! So I found it to be a very fitting card -- prayers lead to God moving. So anyway, here's my card. I used the emboss resist technique on the background, it gives it such a soft effect.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: perfect in every way (Unity Stamps), Flourished Christian Symbols (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Ink: Soft Sky (SU!), Antinque Linen (Distress Ink), Rich Cocoa (Memento)
Paper: Glossy CS and Very Vanilla CS (SU!), Crate Paper PP
Accessories: Taylored Expressions Ribbon, Making Memories Brad, Clear EP, Shimmerz Spray, Brayer, Various Circle Punches

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Tag #6,348 and a Challenge Card

Have you ever made a project over and over and over and over....Well, that's what I did with this tag. I cut out about 6,000 scalloped circles and I finally ended up with this tag. Not my favorite, but definitely my favorite out of all the ones I attempted. This is for the LAD Sketch #102 challenge.

Supplies Used: SU! Cardstock, Dreaming of Dots (LAD), Window Punch, Sweet Pea FlowerSoft, Scallop Nesties, Bliss Blue Classic SU! Ink, Night of Navy Versamark Ink, Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder

This card is for the Stamping Sisters Challenge to make a card about when God is "unseen." I made this as an encouragement card to remind a friend that God is there. I absolutely love the sentiment. I think I need to make a wall hanging with this on it.

Supplies Used: Lift Up Our Hands (Our Daily Bread Designs), Earth Love (Cosmo Cricket), Threading Water Border punch (Fiskars), Rhinestones (Kaisercraft), Ribbon (American Crafts), SU! Cardstock, Rich Cocoa (Memento Ink)

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If You're a Church Skipper....

I try to think of creative titles for my posts...because they really are just as important as the post itself, right?! Well, hopefully that title doesn't sound too mean! Jon asked me to make him a bunch of cards that he could send to people from church that haven't been there in awhile. I said, "I'm on it!" Then I saw a set from Our Daily Bread that I liked and said..."I'm on it IF I can buy this set!" hehe, I know how to work the system sometimes! So I made him a set of cards, very simple, but easy to mail and he said he liked them. The inside of the cards say "You've been missed!" and the outside has a various Bible verses. I made a set of 10 for now.Supplies Used: Flourished Christian Symbols (Our Daily Bread Designs), Very Vanilla Cardstock, Threading Water border punch, Scalloped Circles Nestabilities, Labels 3 Nestabilites, Quickutz Nesting Labels, Liquid Pearls, Cosmo Cricket (Girl Friday and Ever After) dp, Bo Bunny dp, Crate Paper dp, and some unknown dp.
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Sympathy Card

We had somebody from the church pass away this weekend. Jon is performing the funeral on Wednesday. I was able to make a sympathy card for the family today.

Stamp is from Our Daily Bread Designs
Paper is Basic Grey Mellow
Ribbon is American Crafts
Brads are Spare Parts (from Hobby Lobby)


Jon and I would appreciate your prayers for this week. He's performed funerals before, however this is the first funeral he'll be performing for somebody that he spent a lot of time with. Pin It Now!