Just Rite Stamps and Things with Wings

Good Morning!

It's a gorgeous, hot, sunshiny day here in Central Florida,,,,,,,,,,and today, I'm showing you,,,,,,,,,,,,

you guessed it! More Christmas cards LOL

I am determined to get my cards done EARLY this year, so I can have some fun making some fabulous, fun gifts I've been pinning on Pinterest for days now!  I have some fun ideas I can't wait to share with you,,,,,,,,,,but I want my cards done FIRST!

It's been so long since I played along with the Justrite Stampers challenge, and so this week, I was determined to do it!

The theme this week is "Things with Wings",,,,,,,,,,,,and of course, with my current Christmassy mood,,,,,,,,I had to use one of my favorite Justrite sets,,,,,,,,,an oldie but a goodie,,,,,,Backyard Birds!

It was so much fun to create a gift set of a card AND an ornament to go with it,,,,,,,,I played with this image last week, creating a similar ornament, but for the challenge, I just knew I had to go one step further in the wow factor!

This cardinal is just so gorgeous for Christmas cards, I couldn't resist,,,,,,,,,,,,

and since Justrite stamps mix so well with each other,,,,,,,I paired it with the Justrite Merry Christmas background stamp!  I just LOVE how gorgeous this stamp looks all embossed in gorgeous glittering gold! So Christmassy!!!!!!!!

Here's a close up of the ornament,,,,

And a close up of the focal point on the card,,,,,,

You can really see that gorgeous embossing here in this pic!


Card Recipe:

Stamps: Justrite Backyard Birds and Merry Christmas Background Stamp
Ink and embossing: Momento black, copics. Recollections gold glitter embossing powder
Paper: Recollections red, cream and mirror gold card stock
Dies: Spellbinders Holly Motifs, 2010 Snowflake Pendants, 2010 Heirloom Ornaments, Lacy Ovals, Ovals Large
Ribbon: Really REasonable Ribbon
Pearls and Gems:REcollections

I have no idea yet who I'm giving this little set to,,,,,,,,but I do hope they like it!

Thanks for looking! I hope you enjoyed the set!

You still have a day or so to join in the Justrite Challenge,,,,,,,,so ink up those Justrite stamps and get to it!!!!!!!

Dear Santa!

Good afternoon!  I hope all my Jewish friends had a lovely Hanukkah,,,,,and I hope all my Christian friends are busily preparing for Christmas!

It's coming so fast, and I am SO far behind this year! Thanks, of course, to the flare I had in November that struck me down and out for nearly a month.

I did manage to get some Christmas cards made for my grand children :)  They look forward to them every year, and keep them year to year, so I couldn't disappoint.

Card recipe at the end :)

  

Isn't she darling? I couldn't help but use some stickles to really make her shine :) My six year old DGD will love her.

  

And I think my grandson will love this little guy!!!!

Here's a close up of the darling Bugaboo images!

  

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas (Or Hanukkah) season! May God bless you all,,,,hold your babes and grandbabies a bit closer this season, and be thankful you can.

Card Recpe:
Paper: scraps, mostly Recollections Christmas stack
Ink: Copics and computer generated  ink. Versafine for the sentiments
Stamps: Bugaboo digi images, 1$ bin sentiments, Crafty Secrets Dec 25 cancel
Dies and punches:2010 snowflake, 2010 ornament, layered poinsettia, MS winter branch punch
Stickles: Diamond and Candy Cane
ribbon and pearls: Michaels

I'd like to enter these into the Bugaboo Bingo Challenge   

  

I've made Bingo along the bottom,,,,,,,pearl, Bugaboo image and sentiment. I've also Bngo'd the second line up, LOL, Flower, red and green and ribbon.

Have a wonderful day, and thanks for looking!!!!

Use Wrapping Paper!

Hello!!!! So anyone who knows me, KNOWS I love challenges,,,,,,but this one turned into a REAL challenge for me LOL. The challenge over at Scrapbook.com this week in the weekly Christmas card challenge was to use WRAPPING PAPER,,huh??? people HAVE wrapping paper in August? LOL, any that I have left is usually at the bottom of the holiday closet crumpled under the mistletoe LOL.

But I managed to FIND some, believe it or not,,,,,,,,one small square,,,,,,,,thick, good quality,,,barely manageable,,,and SPARKLY green,,,and so I made my cards,,,,,,,The sentiments all come from one set or another of Justrite Stamps,,,,,,one of my favorite brands,,and of course, I used my 2010 heirloom ornament nesties,,,,,,,and my Holly Motifs,,,,,,,I think they came out half way decent,,,,,,,,for wrapping paper!!!!!

Thanks for looking, and I hope you all had a lovely weekend!  Leave me a comment, and I'll come visit your blog!

Sassy Cheryl's, CSAYL and a Card for Fun!

Good Evening,,,,,,,,about the only GOOD thing about having several herniated discs is that when they go out, you have a good excuse to sit on your butt and do nothing but make cards LOL.

Yep,,,,,two days of relaxation here,,,,,,,but I do believe I am on the mend :)

Today, I have a challenge entry for two challenges!

Sassy Cheryl's weekly challenge this week is "pretty papers",,,,,they want to see your cards with pretty papers!

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long wants to see your cards using the following picture for inspiration!

It was an easy combination!!!!!

Here's my card for both challenges!

I colored the Sassy Cheryl image with copics and prismacolors, cut it out with Spellbinders 2010 Heirloom Ornaments and then debossed it with a Tim Holtz sow flake embossing folder,,,,,,I then embossed white card stock with the same folder, and cut several more ornament shapes from several of my prettiest green papers,,,,,I also cut the star from the Sassy Cheryl image separately from the image with the smallest ornament die. I "hung" the ornaments on sparkly gold ribbon, pop dotted them up, and gave each ornament a gold bow.  Easy peasy and really pretty!

So run on over to Sassy Cheryl's and Christmas Stampin' All Year Long and load up your cards! You might win a prize


My second card is just for fun! I had this image in my computer and I've been meaning to do something with it for some time now,,,,,,,I cut the image out using spellbinders rectangles long and spellbinders scallopped rectangles long, added some cute die cuts, hand rolled roses, lace, velvet ribbon and a bow! It's a bit different than my normal "vintage" cards, but I think I like it!

I hope you enjoyed the cards, and thanks for looking!!!!!!