Christmas Card 2010

Well I had grand plans for making a whole swathe of Christmas Cards this year as I have in previous years, but with the move and still being totally disorganised with boxes everywhere after 3 weeks, I only got to finally sit at my desk on Wednesday and begin! I didn't even have a design in mind, I just printed a pic of Will and I from our extended family Christmas on the weekend, then I grabbed all the bits and pieces I had collected with Christmas cards in mind, then I threw them all together in about an hour! Success! Well, I did only make 8 cards, sorry to those of you who didn't receive one... but I only had time to make and write on 8!
I wanted to take a pic of Will and I with Peabody showing but there was never anyone at home when we were (except A Poor- Will's Grandma- and at 83 she's not going to be the best picture taker. I don't know if she's ever taken a photo in her life!) Luckily Dad snapped this pic of us last weekend and, though I'm not in Christmas colours as I had hoped, it did ok for the card :) The BG card is Stampin Up's Wild Wasabi green. I found the mini clear transparency sheets with red foil printing at Spotlight and I loved the felt reindeers I got at Spotlight too. The matching ribbon is from a crap shop at Rhodes and tied it all together nicely! Not my most ingenious or well planned Christmas card, but good enough for me and I hope my family like them too!
:) C

Circle Circus of FUN!!

I demo’d a Stampin Up Party on Saturday at Fliss’s friend Nat’s place. It was a busy party with 7 people, but it was fun! Nat has a gorgeous house at Chatswood, which was nice to hang out in for the arvo too :)
We made cards from one of my new FAVE SU sets…. Circle Circus {swoon!}. I only had my attention drawn to this set in the catalogue by Nat at a previous party and I really liked it cos I love graphic patterns and straight away began thinking of card ideas with it! I knew I had to get it to demo it at an SU party for her (and to have some fun with for myself too!) Unfortunately the Wedding seems to have sucked away all my original ideas so I had to case some ideas off Splitcoast! There are heaps of gorgeous ideas there for each Stampin Up set and other brands too, if you’ve never visited you are totally missing out!! So these cards are straight from there, just with a little tweaking here and there to make them my own {wink}. Once I started making samples I realised just how versatile this set is. I made some gorgeous guy cards, a baby card, girl card, Christmas card, and I want to MAKE MORE!! If only I had time {sigh} too much Wedding run around and overtime at work! Gotta spend some time at home tomorrow and try to get my creative juices flowing again!! LOL!
When I brought out the "Wonderful Husband" card all the ladies in the room had a laugh! LOL! Well, I hope to have a Wonderful Husband to give it too, I'm sure Will will live up to the expectation {wink!}

I'll post my other cool Circle Circus cards soon!

:) C

Christmas Cards 2009 Edition!

Hi y'all!

Well, if you write on my blog (all 4 of you- Mum, Y, F, AJ.. oh and Tassy!!) you should have received your card today! How did you like it? Ok Yvette, you may have to wait one more day, lets see how good the postie is in our Nation's Capital. He's usually pretty quick, did you get it already? Oh, Fliss I just realised I didn't post yours cos I thought I'd see you this week... don't worry, it'll look so much better IRL when you get it!!

I started out with this really pretty and awesome design for my cards, bought all the Baja Breeze cardstock and ribbon, then realised I didn't actually own the SU Winter Post Stamp Set I was going to use {slapping forehead}... so it was back to the drawing board! I decided I was not going to buy one snowflake stamp off etsy just to make these cards so I dug around at home and came up with a small Hero Arts round snowflake relief and some tiny tiny snowflake (kinda) shapes that were with the Hero Arts Acrylic Birthday sentiments I have. A quick borrow of Fliss's heat gun to emboss- man it had been YEARS since I'd done that!- and we were away! I am really really pleased with how they turned out! I think the Real Red stands out so nicely against the muted blue and silver! Love them! I hope you like them too! They were actually super quick to make too, cos they have a simple design and the BG stamps are arranged randomly, so I didn't have to really worry about where I was stamping them, just a rough idea of placement. Then the red label is punched with SU's Curly Label punch and the stamp is from the matching set, I don't think I could have asked for a quicker design, and fun to make too cos it included embossing, stamping, punching and tying ribbon! Happy me {high five-ing self!}

BTW I have increased my Christmas Cards received to 3! Wow! Lol {giggles} I'm clearly not very popular, or I come from a much lazier time than my predecessors and my peeps don't send cards! Hang on... hey Mum, where's my card?!! I want to see what you wrote about me in this year's Christmas Letter {wink!}

:) C

Christmas 3D Sticker Cards

Hi y'all!!

Did you know Christmas is only 2 months away?! Now is the perfect time to be making your Christmas cards, before the giant rush of the Nov/Dec "Christmas Season" begins and you realise you haven't sent, let alone made all your Christmas cards!!

You know how I'm trying to use through my life-size mountain of 3D stickers? Well I decided to tackle the Christmas bundle (I have them all organised by theme!) and make some cool Christmas cards. Here's my tip: you could substitute a stamped image for any of the 3D images I've used and mass produce the LO you like for your own Christmas Cards. I love using the printed ribbon too, these ribbons came as a pack from Spotlight and they're a nice quality too.
I will admit I haven't started making my mass produced Christmas cards yet, but I have all the "ingredients" and the recipe is made up in my head so it wont take me long once I get started!! I'm enthused to have them done nice and early this year!

As a special offer only until the end of October I am offering FREE SHIPPING on any Stampin Up order, big or small. So if you were wanting just one ink pad or all your supplies to make your Christmas Cards then now is the time!! New Customers are totally welcome, email me or leave a comment on this post and I'll get back to you!

I'm off to Mum and Dad's after work this arvo for Mum's Craft Sale tomorrow!! I'm also trying on my Wedding Dress again :) I'm excited!!

Have a great weekend!

:) C

A little Christmas Cheer

Happy December Everyone!

Only 21 sleeps til Christmas.. yay!! I have been using up my stash of Christmas 3D stickers lately, and last night when I got home from work at midnight I made another 3 cards! I do my best work when I'm pushed for time! I know they're simple cards but they are really cute!

When I look through my stash, I really don't have many Christmas papers that are fresh and funky. In fact I don't think I have purchased Christmas papers for at least 3 years (except one sheet of this plaid one and one sheet of co-ordinating Christmas paisley) so all my papers are old and a bit dull. I am so bored every time I look at them. I loathe my Christmas papers. And in fact they don't even have pride of place in my paper keeper (also cos they don't fit {hahaha, I know Felicity.. I cheated on my "I'm not buying new papers if they don't fit in my paper keeper" rule by taking them out!!}) I'll have to rectify this next time I order from 2 Peas. Come on Aussie Dollar, I want new stuff!! The green paper with the watermark burst in the BG is actually from a Heidi Grace garden pack but I thought it suited Christmas cards pretty well! I love my Perfect Endings SU Christmas word stamps, they fit so well into the word window :) and they are so cute!

It's so good to get some more 3D stickers out of my stash! I was having so much trouble shutting the lid! Does that mean I can now go out and buy some more? ;) Lol. Sure does!

:) C