Christmas in July

Hello, Thanks for stopping by! Here are a couple cards I made when I was thinking about Christmas in July. It's never too early to start making your Christmas cards! These two cards were fairly simple to make, I used Lasting Impressions templates and their line of distressed papers. They are one of my favorite lines of paper, and they all coordinate so well together.

Hope you had a great weekend, I have lots more Christmas in July projects to show you later this week!

Red, White & Blue Challenge Card

Hello, Happy Independence Day! I made this card for the Woodware USA challenge. I used Woodware USA stamps for the sentiment and the mouse. I colored the mouse with Copic markers. The red, white & blue paper is from Hobby Lobby. The stripes were going diagonal on the paper and I cut it so they would be horizontal (straight), I just thought it looked better that way. Hope you have a great weekend!

Just for you

Hi, Hope you are having a great week! I wanted to share this card that I made for a friend. I added stitching around the edge of this card with thread, I love how it turned out. It is time consuming but I think it's worth it. I poked holes using a Lasting Impressions stitching guide template and then sewed the thread through the holes. I used several different Lasting Impressions templates for this card, SG300, L528 and L9012. All the paper I used is from Lasting Impressions too. I have the day off from work today and am going to do a little cleaning and organizing in my craft room, and hopefully have some time to create!

Exciting News!

Hi, Happy Monday! Here is another card I made using the same bee template I used on my last card. I did not like this template at all when I first saw it but it is quickly becoming one of my favorites! I used several different Lasting Impressions templates for this card, L9402, L9369, and L9640 and the bubble swirl edge on the side of the card was made with the M24 template.

Now for my exciting news... I have been named to the Lasting Impressions design team! I am so thrilled to be a part of the design team. I love Lasting Impressions brass templates. Lasting Impressions has a new website, and to introduce it they are giving away two $20 gift certificates to their store. All you need to do to enter is leave a comment on their blog or Face Book page for a chance to win. Contest ends Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Be sure to check out the new website, there is a gallery where you can submit your own embossed cards. I'd love to see your creations!

Bee Happy!

Hi, This card took me so much longer to make than I expected! Does that ever happen to you? You envision the card design in your head but then when you try to put it on paper, it seems to take forever!! I used a Lasting Impressions stitching template to punch holes in the cardstock, and then hand stitched floss through the punched holes. I dry embossed the bee and added it to the card, and printed the "Bee Happy" sentiment from my computer. Have a great week!

Challenge Card

Hi, I made this card for a challenge on a Facebook Group I belong to. The challenge was to make a card using Orange, Pink and White. It also had to have two circles (behind my flower), a square (behind the circles), flowers, ribbon, a sentiment and two buttons. This was a tough challenge for me! It was a lot to fit onto one card! I like how it turned out though. All the paper and brass templates I used are from Lasting Impressions. I'm not sure who makes the Pink ribbon, the orange ribbon is from Lasting Impressions as well. Have a great day and stay cool!

New Stamps!

Hope you had a great weekend! This is a card I made for a friend. We went shopping yesterday at the outlet mall, and she helped me pick out a lot of cute summer clothes for work. Clothes shopping is definitely not my thing and I consider my friend to be a fashionista! I couldn't have picked out the clothes that I bought without her help! These stamps are by Woodware USA, and I just love this bear set. I think it's so cute.