Winter Wonderland

Sleigh bells riiiing, are ya listening? In the laaaane, snow is glistening-can you see the snow I made on this layout?

A beautiful siiiiight, we're happy toniiiiiight.... walking in the winter wonderland!!! I was a snowflake in this play when I was in 2nd grade : ) I have a soft spot for this song!

I started out making this 2 page layout for me but in the middle of the process I decided I'm going to surprise a friend of mine and give it to her!! So shhh!~ : )
Almost of all the cuts seen are from "A Child's year" Cricut cartridge.

The small snowflakes with the rhinestones and mini trees are MS punched. Fine glitter is MS too. The mom and child are embossed with houndstooth folder by Cuttlebug. The ice skate blades have Stickles on them to look slick and wet. The snow details on the page edges are brushed on with acrylic white paint. On the bottom edges I added Aleen's True Snow. If you have not used this yet-get some -it is the coolest stuff! I added it to their hoods as fluffy trim too!

The snowmen border came from Michael's as a 12 inch adhesive strip. Queen & Co-Felt Fusion.
I made the tree directly on the paper with white acrylic paint then added ultra fine glitter so it glistened a bit. The gold star is cut from The Joys of the Season cart.
The ribbon is sooo light and icy blue I had to embellish with it somewhere! Why not add another snowflake to it?
I wish you could feel the photo corners I made here. It is suede-ish ribbon. Soo smooth and cool feeling.
I love the trim on the title box. I had this trim for so long and it seemed perfect for this layout. Can you see the clear crystals dangling right over the word WALKING? Icy touch that won't melt!
Snowlady has glitter details that are barely visible-sorry for such poor lighting here-it's dusk already so I had to edit all levels and it does not do this justice but hope you can see. The little boy is holding a red heart up she has Lace Stickles on her apron! I tried to use real fabric but it covered up the pleat detail in the die cut so I opted for this instead.

I sure hope she likes the 2 page layout and maybe she can find some time to take outdoor snowy pics when it snows later on this year.

Let It Snow!

This snowman die cut is from the "Christmas Village" cartridge. He is ready for the big snow!
I am not!

Thanksgiving Cards

Happy Friday!

Hopefully you are well on your way with crafting, baking, and planning away for the holidays.

It's been a while since I posted so I have a bunch of cards to share with you. Hope this inspires you to make a few last minute turkey day cards for those nearest and dearest to you : ) You still have some time to customize place card settings or get a few last minute cards in the mail. Better late than never, right?!

Gobble Gobble!

I have a round table in my craft room that I love to set up or "stage" my cards on. I just need better lighting to rid the shadows. All die cut images are made using the Thanksgiving Cartridge.
I put a few plates out and a platter to set the tone : ) Can't wait until they are filled with food and wine-especially dessert!
I used "The Guy Stack" by DCWV for the paisley paper here. The clock came from Making Memories "Flea Market" clear and chipboard clock faces. Cornucopia is a die cut from the Thanksgiving cart for the Cricut. I embossed it with my Cuttlebug using the wood grain folder and then inked it up to distress it which shows the raised dimension a little better. Not sure if you can see the rim on the cornucopia but I used micro beads on it then set it with my heat gun-really cool in person!

FALL

Yay for MS Glitter!!! The Indian corn looks awesome in all the sparkly hues of fine glitter topped with colored gems here and there. They look like loose kernels to me!

AUTUMN

I tried a different way to use the corn on this card. Stickles makes the few kernels pop here. I put the wheat layered underneath the corn to make it look like something you'd hang on your door. I only applied glitter to the corn stalks top here with MS Fire Opal-deep dark orange-looove this!
tried to get a better shot here of the tops

Thanks

Turkey card-more glitter! Had to jazz up his feathers a bit-that is, before we eat him up: )

Harvest Blessings

OOOH! This came out nicer than I had hoped it would. I used Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in coffee to coat the card base using a wheat stencil I cut. No waste here- once it dried I used it for the Autumn card corn topper! The sentiments are all on the cart as well. I added glitter to the words here but added beige flock to the little wheat ends or flourishes.
If you have not yet used this mist-put it on your wish list because you will love it and become addicted once you do! Can you see the gold shimmer in there? Oooh sooo elegant and whimsy at the same time. Think of all the possibilities with the rainbow of colors they have available. I currently have 9 bottles and hopefully Santa will bring me more : )

Gobble
This turkey wins first place for golden color and crispy skin!! Can I tell you how much I love my Thanksgiving cartridge? I am soo Thankful I have it, really. This was such a fun cart to play with. I made some cards a bit more playful like this one. Earthy colors and realistic touches like a drumstick popping out at ya! The steam above almost lets you enjoy the aroma!

Thankful

Can you smell the cinnamon? Yummm! The background paper is from the luxury stack. I just saw the swirls on it and immediately placed my pie on top! Perfect like apple pie and ice cream :)

Have a healthy and peaceful holiday.

Blessings to you and yours,
Jenn

Haunting Halloween Cards

Can you tell, Halloween is my first favorite holiday?! Easter comes in pretty close because I looove bunnies so much. The creep factor gives such a thrill though--mwahahah!!!!!

My husband and I go nuts for this holiday. We dress up every year and the kids love it! I can't wait until they get a little older so we can have the adult parties with really creepy scary stuff all around. They are a bit squeemish still and I don't want them sleeping in my bed so I have to hold back a little for now!
I made these cards in September because I was so excited to play with the Halloween Cricut carts and punches I bought this year. The slimy MS punch is sooo cool!!! I had so much paper left from last year I really didn't get any new this year.

the witch is embossed with SU black powder. I bought the stamp at M's last year. The MS iron gate punch is really cool!!! Patterned paper is old Anna Griffin scraps.

The cauldron and bones came from the October 31st Cricut cart and then I layered on some slime punched from green embossed paper. I love the eyeball effect!

These quotes and sayings were printed for free from online somewhere. A whole sheet of them. Maybe SBE? I forget now,sorry. A couple of orange rhinestone eyes and the wise owl is good to go!


The paper stack is from last year-DCWV-Haunting Stack. Super cool! Almost all of these little cards came from the pp in the stack.

Felt numbers I've had forever.

This came from a new sticker sheet from Hobby Lobby.

Here I stitched the silk web as if the spider crawled down the card! The stitch below was also made with my Brother computer sewing machine. It has over 60 different stich possibilities-sooo cool and easy to use!

Eek! was embossed with SU black also. Stamp came from Michael's last year too.

Last, but surely not least...."Beware" was made by Theadora (my 8 yr old)

Hope we didn't frighten you away!!!! Have a super spooky Halloween !

Cancer Divas

A layout inspired by Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I wanted to incorporate the girls somehow from the Cricut cartridge Forever Young. I chose a variety of cuts and showed how they all have one thing in common-cancer. The "divas" stand and fight together as one.

close ups of each diva:

Friend
I used chunky glitter for her "sweater" and pink cs for her pants

Niece
Pink Vellum makes up her ultra fem dress

Sister
Pink cs for her suit

Mother
Here I used ultra fine Martha Stewart glitter for her (body) hot suit and pink glitter for her shoes! I had to do it!

Me
The dress here is shiny pearly pink paper. I tied a pink ribbon on her waist like a belt. A couple flowers to embellish her gown and she's set.

Let's keep fighting for a cure and save more lives. God Bless all the survivors out there.

Have a peaceful Sunday.

Hope For a Cure

SSC (Simply Scrapping Crafts)is having a color combo challenge that hits near and dear to my heart so I thought I'd play along this time. Breast cancer awareness month is here and I felt inspired to make a pink card too. Let's hope it's soon we find a cure.

Have a great weekend!

Baby Girl (Preemie) Album

Hello!!!

It has been foreeeever since I have posted! I had surgery in August (on my neck) and am now finally on my feet and back to scrapping and card making! Yaaaay! It feels good to be connected once again : )

This is a project I had been working on in preparation for the birth of a baby girl (for someone in my extended family). We were all surprised by her "early bird" entrance into the world on Tuesday the 19th! She weighed in at a whopping 4.4 lbs. Little sweet pea!!!!
I'm almost finished with the book. She was not due until November so I have to now make
a "Baby's First Boo" or "Lil' Pumpkin" page and fit it in somewhere! Lil' Lady would be cute if her mom was going to dress her up as a ladybug! I have a thing for lady bugs!

So here are the pages I have already completed. Hope you enjoy them : )

PS: I have lots of Halloween cards to post after the baby book is done.

Have a great day!


Cover looks a bit bright here in the pic but it's softer in person.
"Little Girls are heaven's flowers." Stamp set from Cloud 9~ Simple thoughts-Girl set

Inside cover(left) I made a pocket out of paper to slip in the card for the parents. This paper is soo soft! It's pink houndstooth by me&my Big Ideas. It's "specialty cardstock" Sooo sweet for baby girls :) I added a strip of eyelet trim and a crocheted rattle to finish it off.
The first page has piece of patterned paper with assorted baby items I just couldn't cover up so I added a cute little saying (or poem) for the parents around the edge and used black ink to tie in the color on the pink satin ruler ribbon.

closer look


The nursery theme is farm animals so I thought it would be cute to announce her
by asking, "Have you 'herd' the news?!!" It came as one long strip so I cut it up and popped it on the cloud as if the butterfly were asking!
The little lamb (once a button) is one of my favorite details. The paper line is by October Afternoon,Farm Fresh and Ducks in a Row. It's so great because they all work so well together.
"Early Bird" how appropriate, right?! Pink stickers by Cosmo Cricket. Rub-on birdy by American Crafts-Dear Lizzy-Perch Accents (mini marks)

I cut the shank off the button and used it like a brad!

Double page view

Prima flowers, waxy flax and pearls to dress up the letters and Miss Duck!

Little Baby title cut from Nursery Rhymes cart (Cricut). Paper is Nana's Nursery -DCWV. Accents are American Crafts / Dear Lizzy


I had to embellish with a little Martha Stewart glitter! She is a girl, after all! ; )







The Stork and Lamb is cut from A Child's year (Cricut). I added glitter to the storks wings and I embossed the lamb with mini hearts cuttlebug folder.

It might be hard to see but I added pink flock to the baby that the stork is carrying! So delicate.




Here is where the whole inspiration started! The bedding from Babies R Us is this to a T! I fell in love and started decorating right away! I used my sewing machine to stitch the grass (meadow) to the background to give it the homespun feel. Gingham and roosters ...farm fresh! Organic all the way!


Pop dot all to add dimension. All animals are from Country Life cart (Cricut)


I made their legs brown and cranberry just like on the blanket-this is so super custom! I hope they love it!!!



It's all about dresses and daisies here!


The ribbon is velvety smooth and silky. Super soft like baby skin.




Sweet Pea was cut from New Arrival (Cricut) There is a clear transparency on the right they will lay a picture on top of it and the bottom will show through to say-sweet baby girl.











November Firsts


December Firsts