Winter Birds

 We have cardinals all year long here, but I decided to make a winter looking card with this guy.  The Happy Birthday was cut from a piece of dark brown cardstock but of course it looks black in the picture. This background is some paper that my sister gave me this past fall and I just thought it looked like a cool crisp winter sky.

This is a mini slim line card, I had come across these envelopes that a friend gave me years ago, they were among some bigger size envelopes and I didn't realize it, so I will be making more of these until I run out of those envelopes :)

• Cheery Lynn Designs - Feathered Friends die
• Memory Box - Happy Birthday Garland
• Tim Holtz - Funky Floral #3 dies
• Hot off the press - Great backgrounds paper
• Stickles - Burgandy and Frosted Lace
• Enamel accents - black

We really need to pray for our country, what happened yesterday at the capital was just crazy and should have never been even considered to happen.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

New Friend

 I love how our blogs can bring us new friends all the time. Jill came to my blog in early November and then I visited her blog and between our comments and reading of each others posts and then emailing back and forth we found out that we have a lot in common.  One thing is how we have bought quite a few card making magazines over the years.  She asked would we like to exchange Christmas cards, I had just bought a Card making magazine prior to that with Christmas stamps so I knew just what I would use for my card, I shared that card on Christmas.

When Jill sent her Christmas card to me she also gave me most of the supplies to make some cards myself using the same supplies she use in her card.

This is the card Jill sent to me. Such a pretty shaker card isn't it.  I like the way that she used the fabric holly on the card too and that silver paper with the snow falling.

Here is the first card I made using the same things except I had my shaker on top of my base paper, and put a black background so I could add my own falling snow with a white gel pen, along with the fun sequins she sent to put inside for the falling snow.  As you can see I forgot to remove the stickiness to the foam tape so some of my sequins stuck to the sides.

Yes you are seeing my camera and my hands taking the picture against the acetate, I have already sent this card out, I needed a few more cards, so I can't get another picture. I backed my houses with some yellow cardstock.  

After I was all finished and looking at it I saw laying on my desk a piece of the holly fabric she sent me to use, I tried every which way to get it to work and it just didn't look right, so I went with making another card, LOL!

This time I decided not to make it a shaker card, and I colored one of the stamps she also sent, added a few more of the sequins, glitter for snow and then added the holly fabric on top! All the goodies she sent was from a Magazine which had the stamps, and dies, I recognized the stamps because I had used them in my 2019 card making, so I went and checked and yep I had the same magazine, so I cut out my base of the globe with silver paper, so I cheated a little bit with that part.

Thanks Jill for dropping by my blog that day and starting off another friendship.  

Thanks so much to all of you too for your friendships over the years, and for stopping by my blog :)

Connie

Thinking of you today

 A friend from church lost his brother to Covid19.  He fought for a month but didn't make it. So hard to see the toll this virus has had on people and how the families have to ask that people just wear their masks.  I don't think it hits home until you lose someone from this.

• Heartfelt Creations - Woodsy Wonderland collection, papers, sentiment and images
• Spellbinders - A2 matting basics A & B and A2 distressed edges die

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope the week ahead is a good one,

Connie

Birthday Surprise

 One of my fellow cardmakers asked our group if we could send her sister that is in a nursing home a birthday card since she will not have a party.  It is quickly approaching so I went with some flowers I had already stamped out ahead of time which made bringing this together much quicker.  I was going through my sentiments and I found this sticker and I am hoping that she was at least given a piece a cake by the home to celebrate her day :)

This is another one of those cards that turned out much brighter than I imagined but I am thinking of being cooped up and not having visitors it might be nice to have some brightness!

• Simply cards & Papercrafts - Layered Peonies stamps
• Altenew - Vintage Roses stamps
• Spellbinders - Labels three die
• My Mind's eye - Quite Contrary papers
• SRM - Happy Birthday sentiment sticker

Wishing you a fun and creative weekend!!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Ornament

 Normally each year when we go on vacation we come across an ornament that is a great reminder of our trip and we buy it for that year's ornament and so when we put them on the tree we can remember back to the past years and where we went.  Well this year all we really did was go home to Michigan in October for our sibling get together and on the way home stopped at a state park in Indiana.  At the time we were not going into stores that we didn't need to so there was no visiting of the park store to see if they had any ornaments, so I decided to make my own from dies I bought myself for Christmas this year :)

I love this new die that looks like a slice of wood, there are two sizes that come in  the set one is smaller than this one.  

• The Greetery - Wood slices die
• Tim Holtz, Sizzix - Large Funky Festive dies
• Glitter ribbon

I thought I would share how it looks on my tree.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today and all the days throughout the year!!!!

 Wishing you all a very Happy and Healthy Year to come!!!

Connie