Christmas Card Reveal Countdown - Day 11

This little stocking stamp was a freebie I got from my local
scrapbooking store. It was one of the "free with purchases
over $35.00..." kinda things. Well, who in their right mind
wouldn't spend $35.00 so that you could get a free stamp??!! You can bet your bottom dollar that I made sure my purchase was at least $35.00 .... heheheh!!

I really wanted to try a different color combo (I tend to really stick to traditional colors) so I colored the stocking in pink with my Copic marker. Then I added some white flocking to the top of my stocking -- lots of fun!!

Other stamps: Take a Bough, sentiment - Rustic Branches (both Papertrey Ink).

Thanks for dropping in today. I hope you come back to see all the other cards in my countdown!!

Donelda

Christmas Card Reveal Countdown - Day 10

Aaaaahhhh, Day 10 and a beauty to share with you!! Actually this design is stolen *wink* from my blogging friend Susan (you might know her, she's like so popular!) Her clean and simple designs are amazing. I saw THIS card she created and I totally fell in love. Of course I did make a few changes to my card, choosing to mat the red onto a white card base. As well, I added half-pearls to the centers of each snowflake and along side the sentiment (you can click on the photo to see it closer). And you will see that I played around with the size of matting....which one do you like best?? And I didn't round the corners of my sentiment piece... because Susan warned us not to (hehehe!!).

This turned out to be one of my favorites of the year!! Thanks Susan!!

Stamps: Snowflakes (Stampin' Up!), Believe (Papertrey Ink).

Join me tomorrow for Day 11 and see what creations I have to share.

Donelda

Christmas Card Reveal Countdown - Day 9

And here we are at day 9 of my Christmas Card countdown. If you have just dropped in, you should know that I don't like to post Christmas cards for the many months leading up to Christmas. Instead, I chose to wait and post them all in December. Today is the 9th day in a countdown to Christmas. So you might want to go through my older posts up to Dec. 1st when this all started.

Now, in order to get enough Christmas cards made we sometimes need to find an easy way to make a large batch. When that is the case, I like to turn to beautiful designer paper to help me out!! This Anna Griffin paper is my all time fav!!
And here are a few others, including some Karen Foster paper (the mugs) that my friend Dawn left for me (Hi Dawn!!!)



All sentiments are from Papertrey Ink.

Hope to see you back tomorrow for Day 10!!

Donelda

Christmas Card Reveal Countdown - Day 8

Today's card I acutally made a looooooonnnnnng time ago. I think it was early summer. I thought I had posted it but I can't seem to find it. Anyway, I like it so much that I wanted to share it again (or maybe for the first time??!!!LOL)

This is my loose interpretation of a pointsettia!!! I created it by using the large and small petal stamps from the Petal Power stamp set from smARTworks. Isn't that a great pointsettia???? I just love it! This card will also be going to someone special!!

Sentiment is from Take a Bough (Papertrey Ink) and is embossed in gold.

See you tomorrow for Day 9.

Donelda

Christmas Card Reveal Countdown - Day 7

This is an interesting card but I just can't seem to get a good photo of it. The color is closer to blue but it looks kinda green here on my monitor. Just invision a slate blue or Ocean Tides (from Papertrey Ink).

I actually created this for the October Guest Star Stamper contest at Papertrey Ink. Of course, I didn't win ...sad face...but then there is so much great talent!! I still like these fancy home-made ornaments!! I used Guidelines 1 on a circle of stamped Ocean Tides ink and then embossed the fancy swirls with white!!

Stamps: Take a Bough, Guide Lines (Papertrey Ink).

I hope you enjoyed this card. I'll see you tomorrow for Day 8 of my countdown.
Donelda

Christmas Card Reveal Countdown - Day 6

Hello and welcome to the 6th day of my Christmas Card countdown!! Today's card is another recycled card.

There are actually a few items recycled on this card. See that beautiful red and gold strip (click on it to see it better, the red is actually velvety and the gold has an awesome swirly pattern in it) it comes from a card we recieved for Christmas last year. The velvet and gold were just too pretty to throw away!!

And those gold pointsettia's actually came from a co-worker's mother. Apparently they were trying to do some early down-sizing and came across all these gold embelishments and my friend thought I could use them on some cards. You can be sure that she will be recieving one of these cards for Christmas so she can see how beautiful they look!! And, while I'm pretty sure they weren't supposed to be pointsettia's, I think they fit the role perfectly!! What do you think??

I hope you are enjoying the countdown. I'll see you tomorrow for day 7.

Donelda

Christmas Card Reveal Countdown - Day 5

Welcome to day 5 of my Christmas Card reveal countdown!! Today I am sharing my very favorite card that I made. You might remember that I got this stamp set at a garage sale for a very cheap price!! I knew it would make great cards. See the colored one...that is my very favorite card that I made this year. I might even have to keep one of them. I'm not sure why but I just love it...maybe it's the colors or the layout!!?? I had to color a strip of white cardstock with my gold paint pen to get that gold in there!! And the main image is all masked and the buildings are watercolored and the sky and sand are sponged. A great effect!!

This second card is a clean and simple version using the same stamp. Much quicker and easier and while I do like it....it doesn't hold a candle to the other more colorful one.

What do you think of my favorite card? Do you like it??

Check back in tomorrow to see what is in store for Day 6 of my countdown (or count up!)

Donelda

Christmas Card Reveal Countdown - Day 4

Another Stampin' Up image I got from a friend a few years ago so I don't have the name of it. I colored these guys in with a watercolor brush and the new to me PTI color Scarlet Ink. It matches perfectly with this Bo Bunny dotted paper! Love when that happens.

The snowflake is also a gift from a friend so I have no idea what punch it is...maybe Stampin' Up! but I'm not sure.

Stamps: Image unknown (Stampin' Up!), sentiment - Made of Snow (Papertrey Ink).

Thanks for dropping in. Check in tomorrow to see what the Day 5 cards look like!!

Donelda

Christmas Card Reveal Countdown - Day 3

Welcome to day 3 of my Christmas card reveal. If you haven't been here for a bit you might not know that I decided to save most of the many Christmas cards I've been making over the last few months to share during the month of December. Today is the 3rd of 21 days.

These 2 cards are actually recycled cards. The strips of image on these cards are actually small pieces of last years Christmas cards. This cute little Santa and his reindeer card is one of my very favorite out of all I made this year!! It is just so cute and clean and simple and perfect (at least to me!!).


Stamps: Everyday Flexible Phrases (Stampin' Up!, retired), Believe (Papertrey Ink).

I hope to see you tomorrow for Day 4 of my countdown (although I realize I am actually counting up!! Sheesh LOL)

Donelda

Christmas Card Reveal Countdown - Day 2

Welcome to my second day of revealing all the Christmas cards I created for the season!! Today I have some wonderful snowmen to share. Both of these cards use the same layout but different images and colors. I love that particular blue for snowmen cards ... and if you look carefully you will see a few small strips of Becky Ohlers own designer paper!! The red snowman is an image I got from a friend. While I know it is Stampin' Up! I do not know what it is called and I'm guessing it is probably retired by now!! He is soooo cute with his little birdy friends.

This layout ended up being a great one to use up some small scraps of designer paper. I'm going to have to use it more often!!

Stamps: Made of Snow (Papertrey Ink), unknown (Stampin' Up!)

See you tomorrow for the 3rd reveal day!

Donelda

smART Word Challenge Dec. - Christmas

Note: this is my second post for the day - see my other post for Day 1 of my Christmas Card Reveal Countdown.

So, this month over at the smART Word Challenge Blog it was Giovanna's turn to pick the "word". She picked CHRISTMAS of course!! That left things pretty open-ended!!

I decided to create some tags for my inspiration. I got this great postage frame stamp from smARTworks but decided that, while it would be cute to put around my postage stamps, it would also make a great image for a Christmas tag.

You see how you can put the 'to: and from:' in the middle!! And that is exactly what I plan to do.

Now, off to see what everyone else has created for the word CHRISTMAS over at the smART Word blog. Remember, you can play too. Just use the word CHRISTMAS as your inspiration (how easy is that!!) and then go to the site and link a post of your card or other creation on Mr. Linky. There are some pretty good prizes up for grabs!! and if you use smARTworks stamps on your project, you also get smART Bucks which you can cash in for some awesome rubber that you can't even buy!! How cool is that!!

See you over at the Word Blog! Oh yeah, and don't forget to check out my Christmas Card Reveal post - just scroll down to see it!!

Donelda

Supplies: Stamps - CMS-26 CC Frame; Ink - Jet Black (Ranger); Paper - Sahara Sand (SU!), Walnut Stain (Ranger); Other - pencil crayons (Prismacolor), 1/4" circle punch, hemp, sponge applicator.

Christmas Card Reveal Countdown - Day 1

Hello and welcome to the first day of my Christmas Card Reveal. While I haven't been posting many Christmas cards on my blog over the last few months, that doesn't mean I haven't been making them!! I have (well over 100). I just get tired of looking at Christmas cards for months leading up to Christmas, so instead, I decided to save them (unless they were for a challenge) and post them during December. So, I have 21 days of Christmas cards to share -- every day from today until December 21st!!

Enjoy!

Stamps: Addy Keeper (smARTworks), Happiest of Holidays (Stampin' Up!) Faux Ribbon, Holiday Wishes (Papertrey Ink)

See you tomorrow with Reveal Day 2!!

Donelda