Starting to get ready to put Christmas stamping supplies away for another year

Yesterday, Glenn came in with this piece of 'moss' in his hand... it was so very pretty... I took some pictures of it, and then of course had to make a card with the moss on it... I just think it is so very pretty and unusual looking.. at this time of the year it gets all these cute little leaves 'blooming and makes it so pretty looking... It grows on trees and bushes and is a very healing plant... just couldn't pass this one up...

Also I was looking at another gals gallery on SCS and fell in love with her work... this is similar to one of her cards... the simplicity of the card is so much different than I usually create.. but love this... Of course I had to cut out some leaves... and these I cut out of shiney gold cardstock...













So have some cute little stickers that you don't know what to do with... well I need some more Thank you notes for after the holidays... so here are a few of them.. The card on the left was created by embossing with clear powder and then using my favorite paints .... Twinkling H2o's to create the background... then I added the works Thank You with a nice black brush pen.. Very easy and with a few punched corners, simple to do and nice to send as a thank you.






The little red card... 4.25X5.5 I used a Spellbinders frame, and a piece of Christmas paper and a 3.25" square with Martha's loop border punches... and add the little MS scallop punch and then put the sticker on... a cute little card with some pizazz... The snowman is glittered... so it sparkles.



My dear friend the Owl... I love owls.. think they are very special critters.. we have an Owl box on the farm.... and we are waiting for one to build it's nest in the house.. so far we have a huge family of squirrels, but have been told that they will be moved out by the owl, if she wants to move in... so we are keeping our fingers crossed... I made this card by cutting out an embossing folder..!!!! Yes I do love to cut things out... so I cut it out.. and then I painted the background and embossed it with the diamond embossing folder... and using the swiss dots folder, made the smaller white background paper... made a few faux feathers... and a little Peace sign.. we truly need peace on this earth at this time..we have been at war my entire life on this earth... we need peace now... anyway, I added the peace as a reminder of this strong feeling I have.

Okay... the Candle card... I loved creating this card... and it again was from a gals gallery that I visited yesterday... fell in love with her candle card... and I did put a different slant on the side of the card, by using fiber and adding some of my paper beads, and then also created the flame a little bit different... I used 4 layers of paper and then put some diamond gloss on it... to make it shine. The Ginkgo leaves were stamped and then gold embossing powder on them... and then painted with Twinkling H2O's... my background paper was also painted with H2o's...

Hope you have enjoyed my labors of yesterday... and hope to be able to do some more cards today... have to go to the post office and get all my Christmas boxes and cards mailed... then I will be able to do a few more Christmas cards for some friends and then finish up presents I have been working on... Onward

Thanks for stopping by my blog... and hope you will follow me... Thanks and have a super creative day in all that you do... think WORLD PEACE.... we need it...

Love, Light and Peace.... Bonnie

December 13th... a lucky Sunday

Today started with a very nice letter from Split Coast Stampers stating that three of my cards had been selected as favorites... quite an honor to say the least... I am very proud and honored by the fact that these gals do lovely, outstanding and beautiful work themselves... so to say that my card is a favorite of theirs is super good to me...

I have been having fun, and playing as always creating different things... and so yesterday I created a few more cards... I decided that I had better start to create some Thank You cards... so here are a few that I have added to my Thank You card bin... (yes bins of cards are all over my studio... and they are getting to be very full !!! )
I love to do this type of art on Velum... a little stylist and a design and I am all set to play away... these two designs are from Some Assembly Required... and so very perfect for this time of year... I did one in The lavendar/deep purple combination and also in the blues... I used a cuddlebug embossing folder behind each one... And also used my loving Spellbinders to create the white frames for both. I also used the Spellbinder butterfly to create each of the butterflies... by using different types of paper... velum and also a printed white on white paper... love the effect...

Have you ever been to a paper/scarpbook convention??? At the one in Greenville, SC in September I sat down at the SAR booth and created this little velmum beauty... and it was put into a little mini card.. well it didn't stay in there too long... I removed it and used it for a nice card that I can send to a friend.. Never let anything go waste.. (well with in reason.. you still have to be able to move... and if it is not organized, you will never use it or even know where it is... both very important....)





This cards is another example of saving whenever possible... I was taking my paper garbage out the other day and realized that I should do something about the amount of paper I throw away... one way is this...

When I am going to cut out a die... I use a piece of paper the size of a card.... 4.25 X 5.5 and locate the 'possible' area where this could be used again...

So I needed a white snowflake... and I put it where you now see the navy snowflake... and cut it out... and used it on another card... so I had a piece of paper left...with the white snowflake removed... (these are all in a ceratin loaction so that I can easily find them..) I took a brillance ink pad and put some scuff marks around that paper... added a navy blue snowflake... and a few small white ones that I punched using the Martha Stewart snowflake punch.. and had a nice card front... Put some Stickles glitter on and it was done.. saved some paper in the whoe process too..

Santa is joyous in all ways... isn't he??? So todays' challenge on SCS is to look through Pam124's Gallery and create a card using her's as inspiration... so afterviewing all the lovely cards, I chose to use the colors of quite a few of her cards... Red with white as a second color.. and a little green... I added the ribbon and rick rac as texture... as she uses a lot of textures too.. Santa is joyous on this card... and he is getting ready to visit your home... hope he brings you all the goodies you want... have a happy day and enjoy. Play with some paper and ink... and create a masterpiece...

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie...

Saturday is a good day to play with papers and make cards and putting all the finishes touches on the Christmas boxes that are going to be mailed on Monday morning... So here are a few more cards I made this morning.. one is for the Sushi Challenge and the other just a card...for one of the boxes..

The Santa is one of my favorites... he is so sweet and soft... so I had to use him again this year on a few cards... he is in the Challenge on SCS... the snowman in Blues is for a friend... hope she likes it.. he is so cute... hope you can see the Santa and sleigh, and the all the snowflakes in him... so cute....

Thanks for stopping by and seeing my cards.... also take a look at the other things... and why not become a follower??? Thanks again... and have fun day with paper in your every waking minute...

Well since this is my first blog... I guess learning is all part of it... right??? Well I published the pictures and didn't get any words written to tell all about it... Oh well.. The section called Sushi pot is all about a challenge on SCS ... We were sent to a location on Etsy to examine some really fun looking charms and pendants.... WE again had to be influenced and INSPIRED to create something from that into a card... There were so many really neat Santa's and also black and white designs that I remembered my Santa Ephemera pictures and that is what I used... I have never made a black and white Christmas card... but I think that there is enough white and gray to also make the black stand on it's own... The background papers are printed in gray and the Snowflake is from the Spellbinder Snowflake set with some Stickels (star dust) added for accents...

Hope you enjoyed these... and thanks so very much for visiting my blog.

Sushi Pot Influence

Filling in around the edges

I wanted to share a few cards that I have recently made.. I am the present time, unable to download a program that will make a slide show on here for this purpose... but hopefully soon... Until then... I will add a few every now and then just to show them to you...
This one on the right... I used the Some Assembly Required heart.. and made this card... Of course I had to have some paper lace, and for this one, I used a punch from Blue Hills... and the paper is from K and Company...




This card... I call it Large Snowflake drop...it just looks like a huge snowflake to me... so I added some liquid pearls and a bow... and had a finished card... oh yes.. I love my spellbinders... couldn't live without them these days... do you have some?


The Dream card is for a very dear friend, whose birthday is up and coming... her favorite color... you guessed it... purple.. and so I had to make this special one for her... again the paper lace and the flowers... my favorites...




This was a project last week on Split Coast Stampers... called a tag box... I really found it a lot of fun to create... and made quite a few... but since daisies are my very favorite, I had to share this one with you... I sent it to a very dear friend with some fun things in it... Stamps and such... what a fun thing to do...









My Mother just recently had her 90th Birthday... and I wanted something very special for her... so I created this card.. Her very favorite colors are pink and green. So that is generally what I create for her...

It really is a Birthday love when you reach 90 years old...

And Softly Fell the Silent Snow.....

Oh so many places have snow... so I created this card (On the left) to represent many things... we have a beautiful day here in North Carolina, but the weather can change any minute to something different. This card was created for a couple of challenges on Split Coast Stampers, One of which was to create a card that reminded you of a Christmas carol and the other challenge was to create a simple card, with limited layers and only a bow as an embellishment. So I think this fits the two of them... (the song being O little town of Bethlehem... )

To get started I wanted the star to be punched so that the white was the actual card... and the navy star is the liner and the pale blue is the front panel... I cut the pale blue paper 4.5 X 5 and ran it through the embossing folder made by Cuddlebug. Then I cut the star with the Spellbinder star set... using the next to the smallest star. Then I lined up the navy paper and allowed enough edge for the punches and then cut the second star... then of course finished it off with punching the corners with the Punch Bunch star corner punch...

I used a white Gel pen to create the snow on the roofs of all the houses and trees, and then used a little Stickles... star dust.. what else to make the snow glisten... Pop dotted the light blue paper and glued the card together... Attached a very pale blue bow and Voila' the card was done...

Perfect for a snowbound friend.. to say Hi and hope you are okay...

The card on the right was created with the same technique.. only the paper had the stars on it... and I just cut one out... a really easy card... Adding the angel (Hark the Herald Angles sing) and a bow and this card was ready to be addressed too...

A few more gifts have to be made and then to wait for the magical day to arrive...
Hope you have a fun filled and exciting day planned and that all you want to get done will be finished by tonight! Enjoy and as always,
Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie

December 10, 2009

Today has been a special day for me... it is my 65th birthday... which doesn't happen too often... but once a year we all gain a little more intelligence and another year smarter!!! Or so they say... I also feel it is a special day, as I am creating my first blog... I have had many web sites... but this is my first blog... so I will see how this goes...

I have been having a lot of fun on SplitCoastStampers.com with all the challenges, and ideas flipping in and out of my brain... Trying to figure out what type of card for this challenge, and which technique to use etc... so this has been fun for me... I also have more than enough Christmas cards to give to all our friends...and with a start on next years supply already... Even though I have had to make some special ones, I still have a nice supply...

Today's challenge on SCS was to think of a Christmas carol and then sing it... (wrong... no one would like to hear me sing... but anyway that is another story... ) and then allow that song to inspire you to create a card... well that was the easy part... which to choose was the hard part...

Do I do Jingle Bell, or Jingle Bell Rock, or maybe Frosty the snowman, or maybe Here Comes Santa.... ??? Well I choose Jingle Bell... and might do another card later... but wanted to try to build a Blog site.. so this is what I am doing...

Here is the card I made for the Challenge... The way I created it is very simple... I chose my card paper, which happens to be a rich dark Hunter Green... and I folded it in half. I then chose the spellbinder that I wanted the card to represent... and then when laying the paper onto the die, I didn't quite cover the die with the paper... I allowed a section to show ( of the die) and that way it was NOT cut... (I used the curved rectangle die) that allowed the paper to create a 'card' .... Then I choose two more colors of paper and cut the same dies... smaller and smaller yet... Then I stamped and painted the bell and cut that with the circle Spellbinder... then the scalloped circle a little bit larger and in red... Layer them and the putting a pop dot to allow that to rise up above the back ground a little bit... I also used a white gel pen to make the dots around the red scalloped circle... just to give a little pizazz. Then using a thing dotted Swiss ribbon, created a bow... Simple and fun to make.. small enough for a tag, or large enough for a card... you choice...

Well maybe this is easier than I thought... although I would like to have some bells and whistles on this ... maybe by tomorrow??? A slide show, a few cards flashing to show some other things I have created this week??? Time will tell.

Thanks so much for visiting my Blog... hope that you enjoyed it and will return again and again...
Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie