Quick Christmas Cards

Happy Tuesday, peeps! I have a couple of quick Christmas cards to share; these were some of the ones we made at my last Christmas card stamp camp!  Here we go:

This used the stamp set Jingle Jingle Jingle along with a diecut tree from the Snowman dies.  There's a wee little glimmer paper star at the top and we fussy-cut the Santa hat!

This one features some fun papers from Studio Light along with a sentiment from Brightest Glow, stamped in Evening Evergreen on some Soft Succulent cardstock and diecut with a gorgeous die from Stitched Labels Framelits.

This one used an oldie but goodie stamp set, Sounding Joy; I diecut a large star from Very Vanilla and stamped the words in Crushed Curry.  A So Saffron card was embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder called Allegro, and we added some punched-out gold glimmer paper country stars.  

Thanks for visiting today!  Lots of errands, gotta run! 

Cass helped me make a Peppermint Brownie Trifle on Sunday for our covered dish.  I didn't get a picture of the final product...it had pink whipped cream on top sprinkled with crushed peppermints!  It was pretty darn yummy!

We made chocolate pudding and added Cool Whip and peppermint extract, then layered it with little pieces of brownies:

A good excuse to use that trifle bowl that's been sitting on my shelf for years, LOL!  And it looked really pretty with the whipped cream on top!   Enjoy your day and be blessed!

FMS167

Happy Thursday, peeps!  I have one more Christmas card…can you believe it?  I still am thinking of people I’ve missed!  This one is for a couple from my church who are celebrating their first Christmas as newlyweds!  She was a music major in college, so I thought she would enjoy this card.  I used some leftover digital musical paper I had printed for another project, and the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

and here we go:

I used some other scraps of DSP from my plethora of 6x6 pads; the vertical piece is stamped with a Unity single stamp called Rejoice for our Silent Night; the circular panel is stamped with the words from The Sounding Joy (ret. SU) and the “joy” diecut is from Lil’Inker:

I added some gold glimmer stars and a little bit of Cherry Cobbler seam binding ribbon to complete my card!  Thanks for visiting today!

We attempted to make gingerbread cookies yesterday; Cassidy quickly got bored with the rolling and cutting part, which is the part I thought she would like, and she couldn’t handle the piping, but she definitely got into the sprinkles:

and the eating!

They weren’t the most beautiful cookies, but she had fun!

IB97, CTS55 & CASology 71

Phew, I finally got a chance to stamp some challenges!!  I made a card using a color combo a bit unusual for Christmas!

Inspired By 97:

I also used the CASology Cue Card, which was Bell; and the cool sketch from CAS(e) This Sketch:

Of course, I was working from memory and didn’t put the sentiment in quite the right spot, but I still love this:

After seeing Sandy’s sweet card here, I followed her example and masked off an area onto which I wheeled my music in Soft Sky, then added the sentiment from The Sounding Joy in Midnight Muse:

Lastly, I added a diecut bell in gold, some Soft Sky branches and a little shabby bow from my stash of dyed seam binding…I actually had the perfect color!  Another Christmas card for my supply!

Cassidy found a plastic model house from the 60s that my grandmother used for a Christmas display…it’s actually for a train set….and insisted that Grampy help her assemble it:

Here, she is telling Grampy that when she gets older, she will put it together without his help!  And yes, she is wearing a Halloween shirt…she likes it.

The finished product!

My little engineer!  Enjoy your day, and be sure to come back tomorrow for a really cool challenge from Jaydee for the Paper Players!

Merry Monday #4

A quick card today for Lesley’s Merry Monday Sketch#4:

Another Christmas card for my stash:

These colors are neutral, but I love the effect.  Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy’s “tissue party”!