Holiday Leftovers

One of my favorite things about the holiday meal is the leftovers … I always enjoy a little stuffing and cranberry sauce on my ham sandwich. So this week we're celebrating Holiday Leftovers at Jingle Belles by creating cards using all of those little leftover pieces of paper, alphabet letters, stickers, ribbon … you know … Read more

Making Spirits Bright

For this week's CLEAR prompt at Jingle Belles, I decided to give a shaker card a try.  I thought the Ornaments from Taylored Expressions Beauty Lies Within 3 would make a cute shaker (without clearly thinking through the challenge of getting my foam strips curved around that very thin little circular border … but I … Read more

Embossed Holiday Flora

We're still having fun with texture embossing at Jingle Belles for our current holiday card prompt.   I love Gina K. Designs embossing folders, so I started with her Holiday Flora Embossing Folder on brown Core'dinations cardstock (with a light blue core).  I did some extra sanding with a nail file to bring out the texture. … Read more

Let It Snow

The December Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K. Designs is – Let It Snow.     I stamped all of the snowflakes from Gina K. Designs Blizzard stamp set in Medium Lilac Ink on lilac cardstock using my MISTI and then trimmed it into a slimline card.     I added some enamel dots in … Read more

Snowflake Shaker

The November Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K. Designs is to make a shaker card.     I believe I could count the number of shaker cards I've made on one hand (and most of those have been in classes), but for Gina, I'll give it a try on my own. Thankfully my newly acquired … Read more