We have a winner of our December Blog Hop - congratulations An'Jenic of AJ Scrapbooking & Cards, your name was chosen from DT member Sarah Nelson's blog, Handmade with Love by Sarah.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
CDS December Blog Hop
For today's blog hop, I have a simple card and tag using two of our stamps. The angel seemed appropriate in light of the recent shootings, my prayers are for the families and friends of the victims. It also makes me want to hug all of my own family and friends a little more, a little tighter. I'm making the card and gift tag set for this blog hop with those in mind.
When angels announced that the Saviour was born, it was the long-awaited fulfillment of a promise. He was coming to save us from the consequences of our own sinful ways. My prayer is that He will minister to the broken hearts of the families in Connecticut and that God's people will reach out to those who are hurting or troubled and be a light to lead them to Him.
On this blog hop, a winner will be randomly chosen from comments received on a DT member's blog. The winner will be announced on the CDS blog Thursday, December 20th.
PRIZES: One lucky winner will receive a $25 Clearly Digi Stamps gift certificate for digital images!
This is the card and tag I made for my xxxxx to hold her Christmas present. (She won't be named in case she's reading this!) Digital stamps used: Angels, Little Bethlehem (sentiment on front), Christmas Card Sentiments (inside)
After you leave a comment, hop on over to Cassie's blog for the next stop! Thank you for visiting!
Blog Roll List:
CLEARLY ISTAMP
KATHY
DANA
VICKIE ( that's me)
CASSIE
SARAH N
LISA
LINDA
When angels announced that the Saviour was born, it was the long-awaited fulfillment of a promise. He was coming to save us from the consequences of our own sinful ways. My prayer is that He will minister to the broken hearts of the families in Connecticut and that God's people will reach out to those who are hurting or troubled and be a light to lead them to Him.
On this blog hop, a winner will be randomly chosen from comments received on a DT member's blog. The winner will be announced on the CDS blog Thursday, December 20th.
PRIZES: One lucky winner will receive a $25 Clearly Digi Stamps gift certificate for digital images!
This is the card and tag I made for my xxxxx to hold her Christmas present. (She won't be named in case she's reading this!) Digital stamps used: Angels, Little Bethlehem (sentiment on front), Christmas Card Sentiments (inside)
After you leave a comment, hop on over to Cassie's blog for the next stop! Thank you for visiting!
Blog Roll List:
CLEARLY ISTAMP
KATHY
DANA
VICKIE ( that's me)
CASSIE
SARAH N
LISA
LINDA
Saturday, December 15, 2012
December Release at Clear Dollar Stamps
So many fun new sets of images are being released today at Clear Dollar Stamps. I have the privilege of sharing the following two sets that I hope you'll love. Two of my three granddaughters have their birthdays at the beginning of January. I thought these sets would be perfect for the celebrations.
Birthday Bash has fun papers and icons in color or outline form. I especially love the Happy Birthday sentiment that's colored to match the papers.
Here's the card I made. I colored two of the presents to match the papers. The middle present is attached on a pop-up coil so it stands out more than an inch from the other two.
I used this month's sketch from the challenge at One Crazy Stamper, rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
Here's a preview of the set called Princesses. My granddaughters are blonde and love to play dress-up, so you can guess which image I used.
Accents: silver mesh fabric, CTMH silver and gray sparkles, CTMH baby pink organdy ribbon
Tools: printer
Birthday Bash has fun papers and icons in color or outline form. I especially love the Happy Birthday sentiment that's colored to match the papers.
Here's the card I made. I colored two of the presents to match the papers. The middle present is attached on a pop-up coil so it stands out more than an inch from the other two.
I used this month's sketch from the challenge at One Crazy Stamper, rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
Here's a preview of the set called Princesses. My granddaughters are blonde and love to play dress-up, so you can guess which image I used.
I used this month's sketch from The Craft's Meow Challenge:
The inside is decorated with the carriage:
I'm sharing these cards with the two sketch challenges and with two granddaughters that I hope will continue to grow beautiful inside and out!
If you haven't seen the other images and samples yet, you can hop on over to the Clearly iStamp blog for much more.
Color Digital Images: CDSPrincesses, A Special Lady (inside sentiment)
Papers: MME Lost and Found, (pink stripe unknown scrap); white and gray cardstockAccents: silver mesh fabric, CTMH silver and gray sparkles, CTMH baby pink organdy ribbon
Tools: printer
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
PSC59 - Anything Goes - Christmas Album
At the Perfect Sentiments Challenge this week we'd like to see Anything Goes with Christmas. Create anything you want as long as it has a Christmas theme and Christmas sentiment.
Our sponsor is Shelly's Images who will provide a free digital image to a lucky participant. This will be our last challenge this year. We'll return January 2, 2013.
I discovered I had an overabundance of Christmas paper collections from the days I designed for our local scrapbook store that closed. So I made four different Christmas mini-albums, each one using paper from a different company. Here's one I made with Echo Park paper and stickers from several years ago. Most of my previous albums had been rather vintage, so I thought this paper might appeal to younger members of the family. (The others were made with Basic Grey "Eskimo Kisses," Graphic45, and DCWV "The First Noel" with scriptures on tags). The last two were sold at a church craft fair before I could take photos. See the one with Eskimo Kisses on tomorrow's post)
The cover: The cover is 6" x 6 3/8." Both covers have patterned paper adhered to black cardstock mounted on chipboard. The cover is larger to accomodate anything that "sticks out" like the tag on page 5. The inside pages are all 6" x 6" mounted only on heavy black cardstock. Making all of the patterned papers 1/8" smaller than 6" x 6" allows the black outline to show.
The inside pages all have pockets for photos, mats or cards for more photos, and tags for journaling. I made the pockets in a variety of ways, most of which are unattached on the inside edge, allowing smaller shapes to be used or larger photos to be inserted.
Pages 1 & 2: (Page 2 has a black doily attached to a journaling spot, together used as a pocket.)
pages 3 & 4
pages 5 & 6 (Page 5 has the background paper attached only on 3 sides to made a large pocket. I used a circle punch on the open side to make it more obvious. The back side of the cutout was attached to the black photo mat. The Christmas tree tag is on top of a flip-up card for photo/journaling.)
pages 7 & 8 (Page 8 has a snowflake embellishment that I made by cutting out the remaining outline of a snowflake sticker and mounting it on white cardstock, then on a red scalloped circle.)
pages 9 & 10 (Page 9 has a vertical pocket. Page 10 has a pocket/book that is fastened by sliding the word collage embellishment under the edge of a large button.
Here's the booklet opened. It was made from a sheet of 8.5" x 11" black cardstock in the landscape orientation that is scored at 3" on each side folded to the center and 3.5" from the bottom, then folded up. Stickers and a trim of patterned paper decorate the pockets of the book and the tags. The middle pocket is big enough for a 4.75" x 4.75" photo/journaling card.)
pages 11 & 12 (Page 11 has a ribbon pocket. I used 7/8" organdy ribbon attached on the back of the green dotted paper with sticky red tape before it was attached to the black book page. The two ribbons should meet in the center and any photos, tags, etc., should be large enough not to slip through the openings. This type of pocket allows you to put in the largest photo/tag because no space is taken up with the attachment of a pocket.)
I found that it was easy to make 4 mini-albums at the same time, even though I used different paper collections. I could follow the general pattern and it went faster knowing what size to cut. For example, I cut all of the page 1 pieces at the same time.
I hope this will help give ideas to anyone who wants to make a pocket mini-album. I'm sharing this album with the following challenges:
Anything But a Card #8 - Winter Holiday
Anything Goes Challenge Blog #82 - Traditional Christmas colors
Jingle Belles "A December to Remember" - Anything Holiday Goes
Unstampabelles #18 - Christmas, no stamping. I only used stickers, die cut tags, and patterned papers.
Use It Tuesday #45 - Christmas - paper pack and matching stickers are my hoarded supplies
Our sponsor is Shelly's Images who will provide a free digital image to a lucky participant. This will be our last challenge this year. We'll return January 2, 2013.
I discovered I had an overabundance of Christmas paper collections from the days I designed for our local scrapbook store that closed. So I made four different Christmas mini-albums, each one using paper from a different company. Here's one I made with Echo Park paper and stickers from several years ago. Most of my previous albums had been rather vintage, so I thought this paper might appeal to younger members of the family. (The others were made with Basic Grey "Eskimo Kisses," Graphic45, and DCWV "The First Noel" with scriptures on tags). The last two were sold at a church craft fair before I could take photos. See the one with Eskimo Kisses on tomorrow's post)
The cover: The cover is 6" x 6 3/8." Both covers have patterned paper adhered to black cardstock mounted on chipboard. The cover is larger to accomodate anything that "sticks out" like the tag on page 5. The inside pages are all 6" x 6" mounted only on heavy black cardstock. Making all of the patterned papers 1/8" smaller than 6" x 6" allows the black outline to show.
The inside pages all have pockets for photos, mats or cards for more photos, and tags for journaling. I made the pockets in a variety of ways, most of which are unattached on the inside edge, allowing smaller shapes to be used or larger photos to be inserted.
Pages 1 & 2: (Page 2 has a black doily attached to a journaling spot, together used as a pocket.)
pages 3 & 4
pages 5 & 6 (Page 5 has the background paper attached only on 3 sides to made a large pocket. I used a circle punch on the open side to make it more obvious. The back side of the cutout was attached to the black photo mat. The Christmas tree tag is on top of a flip-up card for photo/journaling.)
pages 7 & 8 (Page 8 has a snowflake embellishment that I made by cutting out the remaining outline of a snowflake sticker and mounting it on white cardstock, then on a red scalloped circle.)
pages 9 & 10 (Page 9 has a vertical pocket. Page 10 has a pocket/book that is fastened by sliding the word collage embellishment under the edge of a large button.
Here's the booklet opened. It was made from a sheet of 8.5" x 11" black cardstock in the landscape orientation that is scored at 3" on each side folded to the center and 3.5" from the bottom, then folded up. Stickers and a trim of patterned paper decorate the pockets of the book and the tags. The middle pocket is big enough for a 4.75" x 4.75" photo/journaling card.)
pages 11 & 12 (Page 11 has a ribbon pocket. I used 7/8" organdy ribbon attached on the back of the green dotted paper with sticky red tape before it was attached to the black book page. The two ribbons should meet in the center and any photos, tags, etc., should be large enough not to slip through the openings. This type of pocket allows you to put in the largest photo/tag because no space is taken up with the attachment of a pocket.)
I found that it was easy to make 4 mini-albums at the same time, even though I used different paper collections. I could follow the general pattern and it went faster knowing what size to cut. For example, I cut all of the page 1 pieces at the same time.
I hope this will help give ideas to anyone who wants to make a pocket mini-album. I'm sharing this album with the following challenges:
Anything But a Card #8 - Winter Holiday
Anything Goes Challenge Blog #82 - Traditional Christmas colors
Jingle Belles "A December to Remember" - Anything Holiday Goes
Unstampabelles #18 - Christmas, no stamping. I only used stickers, die cut tags, and patterned papers.
Use It Tuesday #45 - Christmas - paper pack and matching stickers are my hoarded supplies
Scripture Display Album Final Post
This is my last of three posts showing pages I made for eleven Scripture Display Albums. You can find the first post here and the second one here. These last pages display Scripture words art from Clear Dollar Stamps. I kept the design simple. I wanted the focus on the verses. Because I made eleven albums, I also used up some of my overabundance of paper. The albums are for 6" x 6" and are about to be discontinued by Close To My Heart. You can find them for purchase here if you are interested.
May God bless you with His Word!
I'm sharing these pages from this project with the following challenges:
Shopping Our Stash Weekly #81 - sentiment/quote as the focus
Through the Craft Room Door #48 - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday #57 - Anything Goes with Scripture
May God bless you with His Word!
I'm sharing these pages from this project with the following challenges:
Shopping Our Stash Weekly #81 - sentiment/quote as the focus
Through the Craft Room Door #48 - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday #57 - Anything Goes with Scripture
More pages in Scripture Display Album
Here are more pages of verses I've used in my display albums. The albums are designed to sit on a table or mantle. Please see my previous post about these albums if you haven't yet. Because there are so many pictures, this is the second post out of three for this album. (If you're interested, the albums can be purchased here.)
I remember teaching the following verse over 30 years ago when I taught 4th grade in Christian school. My hope is that those who receive these gift albums will be encouraged and will hide God's Word in their hearts. How thankful I am for the verses I've learned. I think I don't have a good memory any longer. I certainly couldn't recite Shakespeare that I had to memorize. But at the moments I least expect it, the verse that I need for a given situation just pops into my mind, encouraging and leading me. I'm so thankful for the Word Art Wednesday, Our Daily Bread Designs,Verve, and Clear Dollar Stamps blogs for all the beautiful verses they have designed for us to use.
I printed most of these verses from Word Art Wednesday's blog, but this last one is from Clear Dollar Stamps. I kept all of the pages fairly simple because I made 11 albums with 12 pages each. Making so many at once helped me use some of the overabundance of paper that I have and still keep each album similar. I hope they give you some ideas for your own creations. There will be one more post for this album.
I'm sharing the pages of this project with the following challenges:
Everybody Art Challenge #217 - Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays #88 - Anything Goes
Love to Create #45 - Anything Goes
Shopping Our Stash Weekly #81 - Sentiment/quote is the focus
Simply Create #13 - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday #57- Anything Goes with Scripture
Monday, December 10, 2012
Mojo Monday #271 Poinsettia Christmas
I've been making Christmas cards all year, but now at the last minute, I'm trying to focus on ones that will travel well in the mail. Here's the Mojo Monday sketch for this week that I used, along with the colors from The Color Throwdown.
I used the digital poinsettia and sentiment from Clear Dollar Stamp's "Holiday Nutcracker" set. I printed it twice so that I could cut out some of the leaves from the 2nd one to loosely adhere on the main image. I only adhered with a small glue dot so that the leaves stuck up a little for some gentle dimension. I also used liquid glass, a clear, shiny glue, on the white berries and center of the poinsettia. The green dotted paper has shiny embossed dots that go well with the liquid glass effect. The black die cut is from the Cricut Artiste cartridge.
I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:
Color Throwdown 221 - red, crumb cake (I used kraft), green, black
Charisma Cardz #48 - Christmas
Dream Valley Challenge #47 - Christmas
Mojo Monday sketch #271
No Matter Which #5 - Christmas
I used the digital poinsettia and sentiment from Clear Dollar Stamp's "Holiday Nutcracker" set. I printed it twice so that I could cut out some of the leaves from the 2nd one to loosely adhere on the main image. I only adhered with a small glue dot so that the leaves stuck up a little for some gentle dimension. I also used liquid glass, a clear, shiny glue, on the white berries and center of the poinsettia. The green dotted paper has shiny embossed dots that go well with the liquid glass effect. The black die cut is from the Cricut Artiste cartridge.
I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:
Color Throwdown 221 - red, crumb cake (I used kraft), green, black
Charisma Cardz #48 - Christmas
Dream Valley Challenge #47 - Christmas
Mojo Monday sketch #271
No Matter Which #5 - Christmas
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