Day 335: Skating Snowman: Girl Card

I made this card for my daughter for Christmas.

Day 334: Jazzin' Up!

Tonight I just jazzed up a couple of cards I had previously made with some ribbon.  They needed a little "something-something", and ribbon was the something!

Day 333: Spun Sugar Artful Card Kit: 3 Card Designs

Tonight I created three cards using some of the contents of Hot Off The Press's Spun Sugar" Artful Card Kit.

Day 332: Welcome Baby Card

I found out that a friend had a beautiful baby girl tonight, so I had to make a card to include with my gift.  I used card stock, inks, and stamps from Stampin' Up! (The rose colored card and dotted pink were in my stash, but they are not SU).  I circled the words in the word background that applied to this baby with a journaling pen from Creative Memories.  I tied white tulle and a sheer pink ribbon with white polka dots (both from my stash) around the word search, and added a Hallmark baby buggy charm to the ribbon with a pink safety pin from Oriental Trading Company. I used some Scrapper's Floss (Karen Foster) to "tie" on the pink button (my stash).

Day 331: Nine Piece Christmas Quilt Card

Tonight I was looking to make a really quick Christmas card, so I cut some scraps of nine different Christmas papers into 1.25 inch squares, punched out a square of  1.50 inches as a pink background, and adhered them all to a pretty green card stock.  Christmas papers by K & Co.  Plain card stock by Stampin' Up! Polka Dot ribbon by Oriental Trading Company.

Day 330: Organizing Ribbon Scraps

I spent this evening organizing a lot of my ribbon scraps.  I wrapped them around embroidery thread holders by Yarnology, available at Hobby Lobby.  It took a while, but I got more than 75 ribbons on the holders and organized them by color and put them in a nice storage container, also by Yarnology.

Day 329: Holy Triptych Card Day 3

Today I mounted all of the cut outs onto "Pacific Point" card stock by Stampin' Up. I really like how this card turned out.  I made 6 cards total, to use as thank you notes to all the people/families who helped with the Happy Birthday Jesus party at my church.

Day 328: Holy Triptych Christmas Card Day 2

Today I used Smooch Accent Ink in gold and silver to highlight the gifts of the wise men, the star and halos, and the angel's wings.  I also cut out all the sections of the triptych.

Day 327: Holy Triptych Christmas Card Day 1

Tonight I stamped and colored images using Stampin' Up's Holy Triptych nativity set.  I stamped the images on Neenah paper, using Memento inks and my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to line them up, and then I colored the images with Copic markers.

Day 326: Graphic 45 Scrapbook Page

Today I finished my scrapbook page using papers and stickers from Graphic 45.  I used some dress embellishments from Buttons Galore, pearls from Jolee's, pearl hat pins from Maya Road, part of a flower (I used the lace) from Prima, and a scrap of ribbon from my stash to complete the page.

Day 325: Graphic 45 Scrapbook Page

Today I selected three sheets of Gallery 45 papers to use on a page for a photo of me when I was first dating my husband.

Day 324: Stampin' Up! Flower Petal Cards

I received a lovely gift of earrings in the mail today from a girlfriend, and was inspired to use these lovely flower petal cards from Stampin' Up. I used some K and Co paper on the inside of the card so that the design showed through the flower openings.  I sponged a little rose distress ink (Ranger) on the top of the card, added a yellow button (SU or my stash, depending on the card) and a green Jolee's pearl in the button center.

Day 323: Ribbons for Paper Clip Bookmarks

Today I added some pretty ribbons to some jumbo paper clip book marks I had made.

Day 322: Crafting Blues

I have been so busy lately. It just seems like now that the holidays are upon us, I have less time to craft, and even less desire.  I just have not been really inspired to make Christmas cards yet this year. Today I messed around in Photo Shop and spent some time doing stuff on the blog, but am just not in the mood to create today. So much for 365...

Day 321: Fall Cards

Today I made two fall cards with some materials from my stash.

Day 320: Little Yellow Bicycle Acorn Hollow Cards

I created these two cards for The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique with products from Little Yellow Bicycle's Acorn Hollow line of products, a leaf punch from EK Success, and my Big Shot and dies from Sizzix.

Day 319: Little Yellow Bicycle Acorn Hollow Scrapbook Page

Today I created this scrapbook page for The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique, a new scrapbook store that opened in Washington, Illinois. Products used are from the Acorn Hollow line by Little Yellow Bicycle, Stampin' Up! (lace), and Tim Holtz (metal photo corners).

Day 318: Faith Book: Holy Communion and Awanas

Today I worked on a Holy Communion page and an Awanas page for the Faith Book.

Day 317: Faith Book: Third Grade Bible Presentation

Today I worked on the Third Grade Bible Presentation page for the Faith Book I am working on for church.

Day 316: Faith Book: Little Lambs Preschool

Today I created a Little Lambs Preschool page for the church Faith Book.

Day 315: Faith Book: Selecting Photos

Today I spent quite a while selecting photos to be used on the church's sample Faith Book.  I chose pictures for Little Lambs, Awanas, Vacation Bible School, 3rd Grade Bibles, and Holy Communion.  I uploaded the selected photos to a local store to be printed and will pick them up tomorrow to start working on the pages.

Day 314: Faith Book: "SPF 12 Following the Son" VBS Page

The kids at our church always make a photo frame that reflects the frame of VBS for the week.  They get their photo taken and put it in the frame.  I decided to use a lot of Creative Memories products on this page because they worked with the colors in the photo.

Day 313: Faith Book: Presentation Page and Baptism Page

I started working on a (sample) Baptism page for my church's Faith Book today. I used a solid blue paper from my stash as the background page. I used two embossed frames from Making Memories, made some title banners from scrap paper, and used two title blocks from Making Memories as accents for the photos. Sticker letters by Marjolein Bastien. Crosses and starbursts from Jolee's Boutique complete the page.

Day 312: Spun Sugar Artful Card Kit Part 1

Tonight I punched out all of the die cut shapes that are part of the Spun Sugar Artful Card Kit from Hot Off The Press.  I will have to work on designing the cards another day, but at least the die cuts are punched out and ready to be used.

Day 311: Sympathy Card

Unfortunately, the mom of one of my daughter's friends died yesterday, so tonight I helped her to make a sympathy card.  I showed her how to use the Cuttlebug embossing folder, how to use the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to position her stamps where she wanted them, and how to use Copic markers to color the praying hands image (Dollar Tree; all other images and verses shown, card stock:  Stampin' Up!). Inks:  Brown: Memento and Silver: Colorbox. My daughter selected the card stock, embossing folder, and all the stamps and inks used. Hopefully this card will help lift her friend up after the sudden and unexpected death of her mother.

Day 310: Organizing Big Shot Supplies

Tonight I organized my Big Shot dies, cutting plates, extra die cuts, embossing folders, etc.  At first I kept everything together in one big container, but as I have accumulated more supplies, it was not working.  Tonight I put my 12" dies and cutting plates in a big basket.  I put all of my regular size dies in a storage container with the names of each die facing up so it is easier for me to find what I am looking for.  I put all of my extra die cut shapes in another storage container, but separated them by type of die cut (i.e., circles, or label, etc.). Often I have the negative image of a die remaining, or maybe I cut something out in one color and decide it doesn't look right for whatever I am working on; then I have a die that I need to save to use on something different.

Working on getting these tools better organized will definitely help me to work more effectively the next time I want to make something with them, so I feel like it was time well spent to organize this area of my scrapbook and card-making room.

Day 309: Old and New Stampin' Up! Stamps Sets

Today I mounted 6 sets of stamps from Stampin' Up!  I had some that I had purchased from yard sales and a couple that I had ordered from the current catalog.  I really enjoy the fact that SU now die cuts all of their stamps.  While I like the two older sets I put together, I had forgotten about the time it takes to cut around all those images.  Upon occasion, I have just mounted the stamps without cutting close to the images, but I find that it is worth the time to cut around them so as to end up with cleaner stamped images.

Day 308: Day of Gratitude Thanksgiving Card Version 4

Finally, all done making my Thanksgiving cards!

Day 307: Day of Gratitude Thanksgiving Card Version 3

The really nice thing about using a series of coordinating papers and stamps is that you can stamp one image and mix and match it with lots of different papers for totally different looks.

Day 306: Day of Gratitude Thanksgiving Card

I have been making Thanksgiving cards using the Day of Gratitude stamp set and coordinating designer paper from Stampin' Up! and using a technique I learned on Meg Loven's blog. Today I got all of the stamped images cut out; cut and scored card stock (Recollections by Michael) for the card bases; and stamped the inner verse on all the cards I plan to send for Thanksgiving. (That felt pad is still able to be used on day three of this project!!)  I will spend time tomorrow assembling more of the cards.