Tattered Lace Snowflake

Hope all of you are having a wonderful weekend!  Mine has been great.  Celebrated my 12th Anniversary, the sun is shining and there is a nice breeze blowing.  

I have been busy crafting today and decided to stop a moment to blog.  I wanted to show you a Christmas card I made this morning using a Tattered Lace Snowflake die and Spellbinders Oval Regalia die.   

The cardstock came from a DCWV Latte Matstack.  White is glittered and the grey is textured.  Hard to see both in the photo.  The red glitter is Xmas Red Stickles.  The inside was decorated to match the outside.

 It's was the first time these dies met up with cardstock so I was happy to show these neglected dies some love. 

I am off now to craft some more.  Enjoy your day and thank you for stopping by!

Manetta

My Christmas Dream Place

 When I was younger, I had the opportunity to go into a home of an elderly couples home.  I fell in love with it and have often dreamed of having a home like that some day.  It was located in an area away from any other homes..surrounded by evergreen trees.  The home had big windows that looked out at a beautiful scene.  Just nature to look at which was heaven to me, especially seeing the evergreen boughs collecting the falling snow and heavy.  I often imagined myself sitting  in front of the window curled up with a blanket and cup of cocoa...and there walking into my view is a deer!

This card took me three tries to get the folds just right so when you closed it everything was perfect.   I had piles of scraps all around me by the time I got done but I love it.  Here are some more photos of how it looks when opened.

This set of stamps was a set I got free last year in a magazine.  To make the snow, I used Tulip Puffy Dimensional Fabric Paint.  

Can you believe that we have only 3 months before the Christmas cards start hitting the mail?  I hope your like me...and working on them!

Hugs,

Netta

Falling Silver and Blue Snowflakes

A couple of years ago I bought some silver glitter paper from Stampin Up but there was a problem.  It was the best thin paper to use with die cuts and was so pretty!  You do not get many sheets so I was not using it.  Was "saving" it for a special project.  Saving paper is a horrible habit that I am trying to get out of. It was difficult but I finally used the paper up.   Recently was shopping in Joanne's, I came across a DCWV glitter cardstock stack that had 12 different colors and seemed to be thin like the Stampin Up sparkle paper.   I decided to give it a try.  Not bad at all!!!! It's my new love when it comes to making Christmas Cards.  I was able to cut it with my die cuts as you can see on my card.  The snowflake was a die from Stampin Up.  

Here is the link in case you are looking for some glitter cardstock that you can actually work with.

DCWV Glitzy Glitter Cardstock Stack

Do you agree blue and silver go so well together?

"hugs"

Netta

The Only Ones to Enjoy the Snowstorms...Snowmen

Ever happen to look at your pile of cards you made and discover you had some kind of theme going without knowing it?  I seem to be enjoying making Snowmen cards this year. because I have many made!  

Here is one of them...made from an embossing folder, sparkle, tulip puffy paint for snow, sponge, ink and markers!!

"Christmas Hugs"

Netta

Winter Birds

I am so in love with this new stamp I got this year!!  It is called Winter Birds From Stampendous.  

I stamped the image on white cardstock and used a T-Ruler to mark a line across the top but stopping before the birds.  I cut straight across until I got to the birds.  I cut around them and then continued on to cut straight the rest of way.  I used my Touch Markers to color the blue birds and branch.  The snow  on the branches and the pom-pom on the hats are actually Tulip Puffy Paint.  I layered it on and used my heat gun to heat it up to make it look like puffy snow.  The blue around the white cardstock is from sponge and blue ink. A little bit of blue sparkle was an added touch on the birds.

My husband is going through my cards and claiming which ones he wants already.  I have news for him.  This year I get to pick first!  *S*

Have a great crafty day!

Netta

Let It Snow

On to the next Holiday!!

Halloween has passed and November is here.  Wow...time has flown by this year.

Today I worked on a challenge...to use a circle and a square on our creation.  I made a Christmas card.

This stamp is an Inkadinkado Snowy Cabin Wood-mounted Rubber Stamp.  I first inked it with Versamark and then on top of the Versamark I inked it with Stampin Up White Craft ink.   stamped it on some dark blue cardstock, sprinkled clear embossing powder and used my heat gun to melt the embossing powder.  

I used my Nestability round die to cut the image out but before I removed it, I stuck it down on white cardstock.  Using the die as my guide, I trimmed the white cardstock down.  A thin layer of Star Dust stickles decorated along the edge of the blue and I set that off to dry.  

Using the same blue I cut out a Sizzix tag and stamped Let it Snow and also layered the stickles along the edge and set that off to dry. 

The background paper was piece left over from a Christmas Stack of paper.  The Martha Stewart snowflakes were cut from white scraps.

Once the Stickles was dried, I taped everything together.  

One more card done!!

on to the next....

*S*

Netta