Ornament Keepsake Christmas

Now that Thanksgiving Day is over, it's a mad dash to get the Christmas Cards made.  I made a few today ~ all different styles.  Once I figure out which ones I like best, I will make a bunch of them for my cards.  Here is one of the ones I created:

I usually like to make my cards using one or two stamp sets, and then make random cards with the other stamp sets I bought.  I love making Christmas cards.  I  found some awesome cards on Pinterest.  I've made some of them, but altered them a bit.  There are some really talented stampers out there.  WOW!  So stay tuned ... I'll be sharing some with you. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Thanksgiving Day Turkey Gobbler Favors

I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving.  It's a wonderful time of year to spend with family and friends.  Our daughter and her husband live in New York and hardly ever get to come home and spend the holidays with the family.  Between their work schedules, it never permits them enough time to spend with us, and I sure hope someday that changes.  But for now, I'm grateful for what we have and our family and friends.

I made these cute hershey nugget turkey favors that I saw on Pinterest from Jill's Ink.  They were so cute, I had to make them to take to my sister's house for Thanksgiving.  I changed up the face a little, but basically, the rest of the favor is exact.  How cute are these ....

I love to make little things like that for the holidays and actually, for any occasion.  These were a great find.

Well I wish you a wonderful holiday weekend to relax and shop, whichever tickles your fancy.  I'm just going to make some Christmas cards, finish the basket of cards & gift tags for a benefit, and put up some Christmas decorations this weekend.  I sure hope I manage to get it all done before Sunday so I can catch up on some work I have to do for Monday.  (yes ... have a boat load of work to do that must get done).  Then I can relax the rest of the week ... well, maybe!

Thanks for stopping by.  Happy Black Friday to you!

Coloring Down the Lines - Perfect Plum

Welcome back to our blog hop!  It's been a busy week, and of course, it's Thanksgiving this Thursday, so I hope you're all excited and ready for a great time with family and friends. 

We are light this week, but I'm sure you're going to enjoy all the creative cards we've made.  This week's challenge was Perfect Plum.  The color combos were:  Perfect Plum, Marina Mist, and Rose Red, or Perfect Plum, Riding Hood Red, and More Mustard.  I chose the second of the two color combos for my card.  As always, Robbie over at Inkedx2 is the leader of the blog, and she just has the best ideas around.  Don't you agree?  I love the way she puts the color combos together with no effort at all.  Well, without further ado, here's what I made for the challenge:

Do you like what I did with the center of the flower?  I took a piece of pleated red riding hood red SU ribbon and tied it in a knot, then cut the ends off and glued it in the center.  Cute!  I was pleased with how it turned out.  I hope you like it too. 

Now, let's hop on over to see what Joni of joniinthespotlightstamping created for us!  She's our recent newcomer and we just love having her on our team!  Doesn't she do some nice work?  Hope you enjoy it.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, and we'll see you back after turkey day.

Snowman & Penguin Treat Bags

I haven't been able to post a lot this past week as I've been having computer issues.  Weird things keep happening and hanging my computer up, so it's been frustrating to say the least.

Anyway, looks like I'm good to go for right now.  YEAH!  So I thought I would post some cute treat boxes we made at our team meeting this past Saturday.  We made a total of (4) treat boxes made out of the fancy favor die.  The ones I'm sharing with you tonight are the Snowman and Penguin Treat Bags.  Take a peek ... they are so stinkin' cute!

I'll share the other two later this week.  I'm sure you'll love them.

Don't forget to stop back on Wednesday for our blog hop.  It's nearing our Thanksgiving holiday, so I most likely won't post anything on Thursday.  I'll be sure to be back on Friday.  Happy viewing, and thanks for stopping by.

Give Thanks Pumpkins

Well, I thought I should finish my Thanksgiving Day cards and get them out on Monday before it's too late.  I had a few more to make, so I thought I would share them with you.  Here's one I'm sending to my Aunt:

I popped out the one pumpkin and the leaves.  It looks really nice in person.  The card looked a bit to stark white to me, so I sponged the edges and all over the card.  It gave it a distressed look.  I hope my aunt likes it.  Until tomorrow ...

Christmas Gift Tags

Below are some Christmas gift tags that I made with now retired Stampin' Up DSP.  Stay tuned for more tags using our current paper & DSP.  Fa la la la la, la la la la .....

Coloring Down the Lines - Marina Mist

Welcome back to our blog hop this week.  It was a fun weekend for crafting, and our challenge for this week was one of the two color combinations:  Marina Mist, Crumb Cake, and Cajun Craze, or Marina Mist, Real Red, and Old Olive.  I chose the first color combination and added a touch of old olive for interest.  I had fun with this card that I found on Stampin Connection.  I changed up a few things and added some color and was pleased with the result.  Did you like what Ourcraftyplaydate had for you this week?  She's always creating something fun and cool, don't you think.  Here's my card:

I don't know if you can see it, but I used diamond dust glitter on the mounds of snow below the trees, as well as around the larger pine tree in the front.  It really looks cool with the glitter, and this was my first attempt to do an actual "snow scene".  Well, I hope you liked what I created for you today, and now, let's hop on over to Joni's blog, the newest person on the team, and see what she made.  Let's go ....