Christmas Time

I can smell the balsam all over my house.. I love that smell... and ten a lite candle and I am in the mood for Christmas to be here... I love the colors, the lights and all the love flowing all over the place...

I had a few more cards I needed to make, so here they are.. 

I used the Cardinal from Heartfelt Creations... and used my Tombow markers on it... and then used some bundled sage Distress stickles on the branches...

I used the Grand Label 4 for the two Spellbinder shapes... and then a polka dotted Cuttlebug folder for the background...

I made the envelope using my Martha Stewart scoring pad... and lined the card also... using a Punch on the edge. 

This card is 5 x 7 so it is a huge stamp...

Do you have stamps that you don't use too often???  I certainly do... and so I dragged out my Tapestry stamps and created the background on the label 10 Spellbinder...

And then I sponged a green around a scalloped spellbinder shape and then put the red beaded oval on top of that area... to give a white border around the red...

The flowers???? Well they just so happen to be from Pretties by Bonnie and I layered the larger of the two flowers... 

This is a gate card... so the white punched border is on both sides of the other panel... which opens...

Close up of the panel... A friend of mine gave me a fun birthday present... it was a bag filled with all kinds of fun goodies... including buttons, stamps and beads... just loaded to the hilt.. Thanks again Brenda... I love it all.. and here is one of the gold buttons... Just perfect for the finishing touch... 


When you open the card....




Plain and simple... I wrote this out and
the punched edge gives it that finished look...

You will see inside this message... 



I am still working on some other things... but am very busy getting ready for Christmas week... the week after actually when our children and grandson will be with us for the week!!!! Are we lucky or what... WE are so very excited about having them all with us... it will be fun. 

Of course I already have a special place for our grandson to play in the studio, so he get his hands use to crafting... no time like the present ... right??? 

I hope that the weather is not hindering your plans to get things done.. and that you are having fun no matter what the weather is like around your home...Enjoy every minute of your planning and making things just so... Thanks for taking the time out to take a visit here... love it when you come and visit...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie