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 

So much to share with you...

I have so many things to share with you today..
First off... I have posted a few things on other blogs... as I just didn't think I should put it all on here... LOL... way too much...

I decided about a month ago to start to create an Advent house for our Grandson... so I have published that on Art Between the Pages...  But here is a small picture of the finished house... there are lots more on the blog...

I really had fun creating this and hope that you will enjoy it too.. so please stop by and see all the fun things I did to create it...









Then I also did another release today on Pretties by Bonnie

I had so very much fun with these digital images.. and I hope that you will too... they are precolored.. so all you have to do is to print and you are ready to make a card...

Here is an example of one card I made in minutes...

I love this one... and it was so very simple and quite striking to say the least...


I do hope you will take a look see..









Okay... but that is only a few of the things I have been working on...
I still have something else to share with you...


 Last night was our monthly stamp group meeting.. we always have a fun and good time... lots of laughs, enjoyment... and also I have to say buying and paying each other ... LOL... those there last night will certainly remember all of that going on.. I always bring a box of goodies that are extras etc... and the gals have fun buying a few things that they didn't know that they HAD to have.. Oh my goodness... last night I even got Marie to sell a really pretty punch set to me... you all know how much I love these sets... well as soon as I got home I had to punch out some pieces... I will share with you soon... dont' worry..

Anyway... today I wanted to share this really fun card that Marie patiently shared with us...

The front of the card looks like any other card... but when you pull the ribbon... it slides open... so much fun... 


I used the Poinsettia Background for the front panel.. and then added a cardinal from Heartfelt Creations... and a holly poinsettia from  Poinsettia Background collection... 

I stamped all over the dark green paper with a lovely pine cone and pine branch stamp... and used versa mark to create the images...

 



When you slide it open... You can see two messages..
(I didn't take the picture so that you could see the second message.. but it is there...  ) 

 This is what it looks like when open... so much fun... I love it when surprises are at hand when you open a card ...

Deck the Halls with boughs of Holly.. I just might do that this year... but it is so hard to clean up... but so very pretty with a few red bows... plain a simple ... with candles and holly... lovely Christmas time...

Thanks again Marie... We also made a cute Gingerbread boy and girl card.. and a turkey... with chocolate...
I will share them later on with you...

Have you ever started to think about creating a special card... and then you go to create it... and it doesn't happen the way you want it... well that is what started 10 days ago with this one... I wanted to have it one way, and tried to do it... but did't like it and so I did something else... then I tried it the next day... and something else came out... so finally yesterday I was able to get this card done the way I really wanted it... after many tries... I FINALLY got the elegant card I wanted...

The front of the Window Poinsettia card...
I used the Holly poinsettia from the Poinsettia Background collection... and made it large... so that it would fit inside the window of this Spellbinder Frame...

I colored the poinsettia with my Tombow markers... and also some Liquid Pearls in the center... love the textures of that...

I actually used 4 poinsettias to make the flower... two on each side and I flip them when printing... one of the great things about digital images... you can create the look and do what you need to do with the images...
 After coloring the images, I glued them all together, and then a thin gold thread to hold them from the card and frame..

Swiss dotted paper was also used for additional textures... love them all..

Then when you open the card...

 
The filigree is from a die cut made by Spellbinders for Heartfelt Creations... love it.... so very elegant in all it's glory...

Using one on the front of the card.. and two on the inside... Also a Background from the Poinsettia background collection... as is the Holly poinsettia and the cardinal...

Looking a little bit closer... you can see more of the details...

I love the richenss of the Christmas colors.. and the white really makes it stand out even more...

I do hope that you will take a look at the other two blogs... and see all the goodies there... and also that you have a fun day creating your special items to share and give...

I have certainly had a lot of fun with these digital images.. and do hope that you will too.. Thanks for stopping by... and see you soon... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie