Non-traditional Christmas Colors

Tonight's card was inspired by Pinterest yet again. Most of my ideas come from ideas I see on Pinterest. I chose to do non-traditional colors because it is not set in stone that the only colors for Christmas are red and green. Here is my card.

The card base is 10" x 5" folded in half to make a 5" x 5" card. The blue overlay is 4.5" x 4.5". The pink squares are 1 3/4" and the blue squares are 1 5/8" (it's the tick mark halfway between 3/4" and 1/2"). I embossed the blue squares with snowflakes. I cut out 1 1/4" circles for the snowmen faces and adhered them to the blue squares then cut around the edge to get the excess off. I cut the noses freehand and drew the smile on.

Season's Greetings

Tonight as I was headed into my craft room to organize I was itching to create something instead. I decided to make a Christmas card. It felt so good to be in my craft room creating again. It has been far too long, but sometimes life throws us a curve ball and we just need to follow the path.

My base card is cut at 10" x 7" to make a 5" x 7" card when folded in half. The red overlay is 4.5" x 6.5". The ivory overlay is 4" x 6".

I used two punches that I bought through Stampin' Up. The one for the ornaments is the mosaic punch and for the base of the tree I used a pennant punch and cut the tip of the pennant off. I put dimensionals on the tree pieces to raise them up just a little bit. I saw this idea on Pinterest, but decided to change it up a bit and make it my own creation.

I used one of the many stamps that I have for the Season's Greetings sentiment.

Stamps

I have decided to take my mounted stamps off of their wooden blocks. I will be able to store them better and they will take up less room. Once I have them finished they will go inside cd cases that I have taken apart. 

Mounted Stamp

Rubber part of stamp pulled off.

Name of the product I am using for some of my stamps.

Part of the final step. At this point I then cut out the stamp so it is ready to use.

I plan on using Aleene's Tack It Over and Over for the rest of my stamps as this stuff is really sticky to deal with when cutting them apart. 

Home Sweet Home

I have finally made it home and it sure feels good. One thing I am going to do is get my craft room organized. During that time I don't plan on doing a lit of crafting. I want to focus on organizin my craft space. Also, I have become a Stampin Up demonstrator. My website is www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/jessicasams
I look forward to showing lots of new cards soon.

It might be a little while.

As you may have noticed I have had a break in making anything. I am currently busy in a program and will be back home in a couple of weeks. I am hoping to get back to creating when I get back home.

First Snow

This scrapbook page isn't quite complete. It wqs super easy to do though. I used my Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cartridge to make the lettering. The pictures I plan on adding will be our daughter's first experience in the snow and her ride in her sled.

Yummy

I am still doing Christmas themed cards. I used the Create A Critter 2  cartridge for the cutouts and a snowflake embossing folder for extra texture.