Happy New Year! & Card Patterns sketch

Welcome 2012! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. Mine was good but I am very happy it's all over :)  I played along with the current Card Patterns sketch 146 and again used my new Rosie Posie set and dies from Papertrey Ink. I am very smitten with this set *happy sigh*.  I also used Tiny Tags, another absolute favorite set. Kind of bright colors for me, but I like how it came out. I used the rock and roll technique on the cabbage rose. One of my goals this year is to have a nice stock pile of cards for myself to use, especially for birthdays and gift sets. Have a wonderful day!

Rosie Posie card

I had a chance to get some new goodies from PTI's last release and I am soooo in love with all the fun things that came. I love the newest color and this flower stamp set and dies. I have so many flower stamps, but these are already in my most loved category. I also love the background strips in the set, wasn't sure if I would, but they really do look lovely. Hope you like my little creation :)

Refuge and Butterfly

Getting up before the kiddos do has it's perks. Such as making the above 2 cards :)  I got some yummy stamps from Wplus9 a couple weeks back and have been wanting to play with them. The set I used on these two cards is Flora and Fauna 1. The background is stamped with Mehindi Medallions. On the butterfly card see that gorgeous doily?!  That was cut with my Cricut using the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge and the Craft Room. I *love* the Craft Room!! It's basically an online Design Studio, but much, much better. Lots of improved features and the really intricate cuts seem to just cut a whole lot better using it versus cutting straight from the cartridge. These two lovlies are going to be in a little set of all occasion cards, boxed up and given to one of my dearest friends. I'm losing internet connection for possibly 2 weeks :(  We are changing internet providers and cutting out our land line phone to help save on some monthly costs, so pray for me, it's hard being "disconnected!"  LOL  Have a blessed Christmas and I can't wait to be back online. hugs....

Love Came Down

I've been making more gift bags to give out using PTI's Front and Center die. Love it. I also wanted to tuck in a little reminder of what this season is really all about and I got the kids to help me too :) I bought doll pins at Michael's, popsicle sticks and little round wooden circles to create the Nativity family. We painted Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus with acrylic paint, hot glued them together and I cut little tags wrapped with some hemp twine to finish them off. For the baby Jesus you just break a popsicle stick to the approximate length you want and hot glue a little round circle to the top. I really love how sweet they look and I hope it brings some love into people's lives. Thanks for coming to see me...love it if you left a comment :)  (I feel like I'm posting to myself)