Snowman manager

Sorry it has been so long, I had meant to post before I left for a very quick trip to Michigan but I was so busy I didn't have time.  My oldest brother called of us and asked if we would like to come to his house this year for a little get together and I had to really think about it because it is a 8-9 hour drive, my husband had to work all weekend  and the older I get the harder it is for me to drive that long by myself, but when I looked and the weather was going to be nice I decided to go for it.  Can I just say when I got home last night I didn't do much, but cuddle on the sofa with my furbabies, watch shows on our DVR and sleep on and off.

When I saw this stamp at a flea market this past summer I fell in love with it, I collect snowmen and so this was too hard to pass up, my sister even bought me a nativity with snowmen, it is too cute.  These were the first two I had finished but I made 9 of these cards for all our siblings.  All the same just changed up the paper for the background.

Uptown Rubber stamps-- tidings of great joy, colored w/markers
Fancy pants designs -- Saint Nick paper
My minds eye - O Christmas tree paper
Spellbinders -- Resplendent rectangles and Labels 8 dies
Stickles -- Champagne for the snow and on the star
Button w/ raffia

Well as you can imagine being gone for 3 days this time of year I have alot of catching up to do, so I will leave you for now.  Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

ODBDSLC 219

I am finally posting my first Christmas card, although I made 9 before this one, it is just that I need to wait until our siblings get them before I post so they don't see it on here first :)

This one will be going to my father in law.

Our Daily Bread Challenge this week is Christmas stamps and I picked this one up at my LSS last year after Christmas.  You can find out all the details about the challenge Here on their blog .

Looking at it after the picture has been taken the wreath seems really light in color to me but in real life it doesn't, looks ok to me, I think next time I will go with darker greens.  The bow is a separate stamp in the set so I cut that out and popped it up with dimensional tape.  The sentiment is from a different company.

ODBD -- Poinsettia Wreath stamp set colored w/markers
Spellbinders -- classic circle and Picot edge circles dies
Martha Stewart -- Border punch
Taylored Expression -- Designer mini tags dies
Stamps of life -- postmarks 2 stamp
Making memories -- ornament brad on the sentiment tag

Although I used taylored expression sentiment and tag die, Our daily bread has come out with a set of small sentiments stamps and cute tag and  charm dies you can check them out HERE , they are on my wish list :)

I will post my next set of Christmas cards in a couple days after they have been received.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by, I know what a busy time of year this is for everyone and I appreciate taking the time to comment too.

Connie

Great Friend

This card is for my dear friend and prayer partner.  The Lord has blessed me with a great friend and someone I can tell anything to and know it is kept between us and God and we pray for each other every day. This is another stamp I picked up at the yard sale at the LSS.  I added some stickles to the flowers.

Northwoods stamp -- M6933, colored w/markers
Spellbinders -- Scalloped ovals lg and floral ovals dies
Lace
Details -- sheer ribbon
Offray ribbon
Hero Arts - All occasion messsages
Stickles -- frosted lace

We have had rain here for the past two days, yesterday it rained almost constantly, by last night our sump pump was working over time, but luckily it was a soft rain so we didn't have any flooding in our yard like we sometimes do with those quick downpours.  Thankfully the rain has stopped, it is still cloudy but it will be nice to be able to get out without getting wet today.

Hope you all will have a wonderful weekend.
Thanks so much for taking the time out to stop by and visit,

Connie

Awesomeness

I am hoping that this is good for a 14 year old boy, didn't know if the boy here looked to young or not.

Stampendous -- skateboard kiddo, colored w/markers
Recollections -- Awesome boy papers
Eyelets

I let the paper do most the work here, I fussy cut the boy out and used dimensional tape behind him, on the actual stamp there was skid marks so I tried to do my own, with not much luck.

It is a rainy day today and I have nothing I have to do outside the house :)  so I think it is the best time to get all my Autumn decorations down, clean and hopefully be able to start my Christmas decorations.

Thanks so much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to stop by,

Connie

Gabrielle's Inspiration

When I saw Gabrielle's flip card HERE , I just knew I had to do it for my Daughters birthday card and use it as my inspiration card for today!  I loved everything about this card, the style, papers and embellishments, but for mine I wanted to go cutesy :)  She gives a great tutorial on how to make the flip card, with measurements.  When closed it is an A2 size card.

I also loved her stitching around the card, I did mine by hand, I don't know if I ever shared or not but I take a metal ruler, lay it where I want the stitching and run a tracing wheel you use for sewing along the ruler and that gives you tiny marks, then I go back over those with my piercing tool to make the holes big enough to fit my needle through, if you start on a corner you can tuck your end string through the first stitch, when all done stitching around I secure the ends with tape on the back of my work then tape it all down to my cardstock.  The tiny pearls on the butterflies are from a pearl alphabet set, I just cut them apart from the letters.

Here is a picture of the inside, I didn't embellish anymore to this because I had to leave room for what I wanted to write.

Last a picture of it all closed, I hope this image puts a smile on her face, we will celebrate her birthday here when she comes to visit for Christmas.

My mind's eye -- The sweetest thing papers (outside papers that are stitched)
Papertrey ink -- hodge podge papers for matting the image and back sentiment panels
Great impressions -- Sweet chick stamp (colored w/makers)
Hand stitching
Stampendous -- Birthday assortment sentiment stamp
Martha Stewart -- Butterfly punch
Memory Box -- Fabulous Phlox die
Queen &co. -- Chocolate delight pearls
Darcie -- Self stick alphabet pearls
Stickles -- Vintage photo (flower center)

I hope you get a chance to stop by Gabrielle's blog, she does such beautiful and amazing work, not only cards but the most Lovely scrapbook pages too.

Hope your week is starting out terrific,
Thanks so much for stopping by,

Connie