Name above every name

Name above every name-Jesus.  This stamp is by Stampendous.  I've had it for a long time but used it today to honor another stamper over at SCS. She had a stamp with similar names but in a rectangle shape.
I used some pearls on here to decorate and a small bow at the top.  Pretty simple but I really like it!

Thank you flowers

I love this stamp by Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps.  It is really fun to color.  I used pinks, corals and purples on these flowers today. Adhered some tiny gold rhinestones to the centers. Used a VersaMark pen and clear embossing powder with silver glitter in it on some of the outside lines.  I also used some chunky Shabby Chic white EP on the card heated from underneath.
This was done for a challenge at SCS to honor the Featured Stamper.

Frosty Baby!

This little Winter Fairy from Penny Black is just adorable.  She is part of my "basic shapes" challenge today.  It is also a mixed media and I have to admit that I mostly just used ink but there is some chunky embossing powder from Stampendous and also some Stickles glitter glue as well.
She was very fun to color.

Tweeters and friend

On this challenge at SCS, we were to use some Christmas wrapping paper.  I used this snowflake paper that I wrapped almost everyone's gifts in!!  It is left over from a couple years ago...you know, one of those giant thick rolls.  I've used it to wrap a LOT of presents since my family LOVES the snow.
The stamp is by Stampendous and the snow "glitter" is called Shaved Ice, also by Stampendous.
Hope you like my little guy with his little tweeter buddies.

ODBDSLC184 CHRISTMAS EVE

Our challenge this week at Shining the Light is "Anything Goes" 

For more inspiration please visit my enormously talented design team sisters:

Jan Marie Ennenga

Diana Nguyen

Cheryl Scrivens

DJ Rants

Chris Olsen

To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click HERE 

You have until January 5th (this is a two week challenge).  For this challenge you may use any stamps but if you have any Our Daily Bread Design (ODBD) stamps we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have the chance to win a $15 certificate good toward ODBD stamps or to be spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps).  We would love to see your creations!

For this creation I used ODBD- The Babe stamp set, ODBD Ornate Borders and Flowers stamp set, ODBD Ornate Borders and Flowers die set and the 2013 Christmas paper pack.

I also used dies by Memory Box, Cheery Lynn Designs and Spellbinders.

This is Christmas Eve so I thought it would be most appropriate to do the Babe!!!  This is one of my favorite stamps.  The thought that God in heaven would send His son to dwell in human flesh and let Him be born in a lowly state, it just amazes me.  He deserved all the riches of a royal birth but was placed in a manger, in a dwelling with animals.  He grew up working with His hands, with His earthly father, helping with His "brothers and sisters", helping His mother do shores.  He then went on into ministry, allowing people to mock Him, spit on Him, try to stone Him but still He loved us enough to die for us.  Not just die but be put on trial falsely accused, beaten, whipped and finally dying on a cross, the most humiliating and harsh death of those days. This is Jesus, God with us, Wonderful Counselor, Prince of Peace, King of kings!!!  He walked about healing all who were afflicted, doing miracles everywhere He went and This Jesus, who rose from the grave, still does miracles, especially in the heart! Romans 10:9 "If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."
Thanks for stopping by!!!

Merry Christmas Snowman

These were the colors for a color challenge this week.  Makes a cute snowman/snowlady I think.
The stamp is from Northwoods.
I used Copics to color and the die is from Cheery Lynn Design.  I also used an embossing folder on the white tag under the oval die cut.  The words are by Our Daily Bread Designs.
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by. Comments are welcome!!

Blue

This is my weekly entry for the Tea Potter's challenge.  This time it is going to a lady who just lost two brothers due to illness.  We are all sending her cards to help her during her time of sorrow.
I'm hoping this will brighten her day. She loves blue and butterflies represent new beginnings.

Deer die cuts

It's been fun making this die cut card and tag.  The tag is for a gift to my sister who lives at Shaver Lake. It is about 5000' elevation so you can kind of get the idea that this card will be perfect for a hostess gift (Christmas is at her house this year)!
I used Cottage Cutz, Memory Box, Taylored Expressions, Elizabeth Craft Designs and Spellbinder dies. Lots of Liquid Pearl-white and glitter/snow glitter.  The tag also has a white flecked mesh on it. The tie is paper ribbon.  I'm looking out my window right now and the deer are in my backyard...just saw mom kick young one on the behind with her front hoof to get it to move out of her spot I suppose.  That was pretty funny!  My dog doesn't bother them at all...she's kinda scared of them and she is a pretty large dog.
Merry Christmas all!

ODBDSLC183 NOEL: N=NOTIONS, O=ORNAMENT, E=EMBOSSING, L=LACE

Hello all!

Our challenge at Shining the Light is a play on the word NOEL.

 N for notions, nesties, negative space; O for oval/circle shape, olive, old; E for embossing, embellishments, eggplant color, envelope; L for lace, layers, letterpress.  Think of something to put on your card that starts with these letters and you've got it!!

For more inspiration please visit my super talented dt sisters:

Jan Marie Ennenga, Diana Nguyen, Cheryl Scrivens (at her new and beautiful blog),

 DJ Rants, and Chris Olsen (part of the Dirty Dozen at SCS). 

To see all the creations in one place or to join the challenge, click HERE.

You have until December 22 to join us.  For this challenge you may use any stamps but if you have Our Daily Bread Designs (ODBD) stamps we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have a chance to win a $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or be spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (The Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps).  We would love to see your creations.
I used the Snowflake background with blue ink and clear powder on white for the base layer then used the snowflake ornament from the Christmas Patterns Ornament set with white ink and clear powder. I used the Circle Ornaments die set to cut it out, cutting out a white circle as well to mount the ornament on and I used the Ornate Borders and Flowers die set to cut out the words "Merry Christmas" (from the Poinsettia Wreath stamp set).  The lace is sewn on to the two blue strips (one vertical, one horizontal)  and then some braid is sewn on top of the lace. I also did some zigzag stitching around the base layer before gluing it to a blue folded card.  My bow is made from 1" white satin ribbon and 1" blue sheer ribbon tied together and stuck onto the card with a large glue dot.
Take time during this busy Christmas season to show love to those you are close to and kindness/compassion to those you don't even know.  None may know of your acts of kindness but God will see, and YOU will know! Forgive others and speak words of encouragement to those you come in contact with.  Remember why we even have Christmas...it is NOT to receive gifts or have a nice dinner with friends and family...those things are nice but the reason we have Christmas is because God sent His only Son to earth as a baby to dwell among us and even though He was perfect, He died in our place for our sin so that we might live forever with God in heaven.  Jesus was born, died and rose again! That is the entire reason that there is this holiday we call Christmas!! 

Chickadees in Holly

Love this image from PSX and love to color these little guys! Chickadees and winter just seem to always go together.  The words are from Our Daily Bread Designs...Christmas Blessings.  This is a card I did to honor a fellow SCS member, Vicki Burdick (Justcrazy, SCS name).
I made the bow with a Bow Easy.  It has 4 or 5 loops on each side but very easy to do with the Bow Easy.
Thanks for visiting!!

ODBDSLC182 Nativity

This is another alternate fold card found at SplitCoast Stampers in their tutorials.  The front is a diamond shape and folds back into the back to make a regular sized card.
All stamps are by Our Daily Bread Designs and the dies are Our Daily Bread Designs plus Spellbinders.
The paper is also from Our Daily Bread Designs.

http://ourdailybreaddesignsblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/odbdslc182-alternate-fold-or-3d-other.html

ODBDSLC182 ALTERNATE FOLD

This is a fun challenge from Our Daily Bread Designs (ODBD)!!! I love creating (or in this case, following instructions) new folds/techniques to share with others.  I would love to see what other people come up with as well, so I hope you will join in for this fun challenge at Shining the Light challenge, Our Daily Bread Designs.
For more inspiration please visit my wonderfully talented dt sisters:
Jan Marie Ennenga, Diana Nguyen,
Cheryl Scrivens (at her NEW blog), DJ Rants, and Chris Olsen (our resident Dirty Dozen girl)
To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click HERE.  You have until December 15th to join us.  For this challenge you may use any stamp but if you have any ODBD stamps, we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have a chance to win the $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (The Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps).   We would love to see your creations!!
For this card I used The Ornate Borders and Flowers die set and coordinating stamp set; The Chickadee Ornament stamp set; the Christmas paper pack and the Scripture Collection 9 set, all from ODBD.
I sewed real lace on top (you can also use a border punch for that part) and added my secret door under the middle panel (a fun place to add a special sentiment or your own hand written message).
The sprigs of greenery are from a Martha Stewart punch and the pine cone was made by a scallop circle die.
The pine cone tutorial can be found HERE.
 The instructions for this card can be found HERE.

Teapotter's Challenge-Friends

This is a special card going out to a special lady with cancer.  This was a Tea Potters challenge on SCS. For anyone looking for a cause to make cards, I would suggest going to SplitCoast Stampers on Tuesdays and check out the Teapot challenge.  The cards go to special circumstances or serious ill people each week with the exception of one week a month when we send them to each other (chosen by number type thing). You always have the choice to send the card you make out or not...no RULES regarding that but it is nice knowing that you can put a smile on someone's face who needs it!
In this case, this lady loves roses, especially red roses so I made her a bouquet of roses in the corner.
I did this in a combination with a color challenge (Gold, yellow, and olive green).  The frame is gold but looks yellow in this photo.
The stamp is by Uptown Girls- Stamping Bella.  Embossing folder is from Cuttlebug and dies are from Spellbinders and Cheery Lynn Designs (Flourishes).

Our Daily Bread Designs-The Babe

We had a challenge today to stamp on a printed page or music. I have an old dictionary I saved for just such a thing.  I found a page with Savior on it and stamped baby Jesus on it (Our Daily Bread Designs). Colored it with Copic Markers then dipped the edges in ink I sprayed on a Baking sheet.  I dipped the bottom in red to remind me of why Jesus came to dwell with us.  The words that ran across baby Jesus face bothered me at first until I remembered that Jesus IS the Word, the Word that became flesh.  It became so clear to me what scripture needed to go with this.  I don't have a stamp that has this scripture on it so I used my computer and printed it on card stock then used distress inks to age the paper. I also used some chunky embossing powder from Stampendous on both the background paper (also by Our Daily Bread Designs) and on the scripture panel.   I really like this card because it has special meaning to me.  I hope you like it too!  This Christmas, celebrate the reason we have Christmas...Jesus, Savior of the world!

ODBDSLC181 Double Embossing-Three Wise Men

Hello everyone!! Today I'm so happy to be sharing with you this DOUBLE EMBOSSED card for the December 3rd Shining the Light challenge at our Daily Bread Designs (ODBD).  You can find a tutorial on this technique at:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/doubleembossing/
For more inspiration, please visit my wonderfully talented dt sisters:

Jan Marie Ennenga, Dianna Nguyen

Cheryl Scrivens, DJ Rants and Chris Olsen

To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click HERE.  You have until  December 8th to join us.  For this challenge you may use any stamps but if you have any Our Daily Bread Designs stamps we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have a chance to win the $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (The Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps).  We would love to see your creations.

For this card I used the We Three Kings stamp set (main image, star, words).

I also used a Spellbinder die set and a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

Come and join us, it will be fun!!

"Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him."  Matt. 2:2

Poinsettia Sparkle

Here is a card I did for a sparkle challenge...I love this old Magenta poinsettia stamp and doing it in a black glitter was the ticket here.  I also used silver glitter paper and black glitter paper. Really makes everything so sparkly! The Merry Christmas die is from Elizabeth Craft Designs!  Using a word die is perfect for glitter paper since you can't really stamp on it!
The silver center is a combination of silver metallic liquid pearl and glitter.

ODBDSLC181 3-D ornament

Here is an ornament that I made with the new stamp set and matching die set from Our Daily Bread Designs called Ornate Borders and flowers.
I used Red Versafine and clear embossing powder then heat. For the squares inside I cut them a little smaller than the square of the frame and embossed them with a snowflake embossing folder.  The snowflake/flower is red embossed with clear powder as well.  This is a 6 panel ornament.

ODBDSLC180 Fancy Ornaments

Hello friends,  I am so excited to bring you my card for the Shining the Light challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs.
This week's challenge is to use circles or squares...you must incorporate more than 3 of one or the other and that does NOT include layering.
For more inspiration please visit my talented DT sisters:

Jan Marie Ennenga, Diana Nguyen,

Cheryl Scrivens, DJ Rants and Chris Olsen

To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click HERE.  You have until December 1st to join us.  For this challenge you may use any stamps but if you have any Our Daily Bread Designs stamps we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have a chance to win a $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be Spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (The Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps).  We would love to see your creations.

Today I used the beautiful Fancy Ornament die set from Our Daily Bread Designs (this includes 3 ornaments and a corner piece).  I also used one of the sentiment stamps from Our Daily Bread Designs  The Babe.

The other circles I used are regular circle dies embossed with embossing folders.

The Blue ornament was cut twice and I popped up the middle.  The large ornament is stamped with Rejoice and double popped up.

I hope you like my sample and want to join in our our challenge!!
"Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say rejoice!" Phil. 4:4

ODBD Cathedral Window

Our Daily Bread Designs (ODBD) Cathedral window die set and Cathedral window-wood stamp set made this beautiful window using an embossing resist technique.  I also used one of the scripture verse stamps- collection 9 from ODBD.
After stamping and heat embossing with clear, I rubbed Wild Plum and Stream dye inks (Adirondack) over everything then used a clean paper towel to wipe away excess from embossed areas. I then cut about 1/4" away from the edge all the way around window (to have somewhere to apply glue for frame). Do not die cut stamped window or you'll end up with lots of little pieces! LOL!
Die cut Cathedral window inset (brown part), It is suppose to look like wood so I used a wood veneer "paper" I don't recommend that. It is too brittle and has some kind of coating which makes it hard to die cut especially something with a lot of cut lines. After die cutting inset, glue it to the window. Die cut frame from white (or whatever color you want) and apply glue to that 1/4" border you left around the window.  I chose to edge the frame with gold leaf because I was putting it on such a light background and didn't want to lose it! (The background is "dry" embossed with a Spellbinders double sided embossing folder.  It is also rubbed with a sponge and Antique Linen Distress ink.)
The flourishes and boughs are from Cheery Lynn designs.  The trio of butterflies is a punch from Martha Stewart.

Special Iris

I know bright comes to mind! But this card is for a special lady who is turning 91 this month and she had to leave her beloved gardens, especially her Iris', to go and live with her daughter.  I thought to "brighten up" her day!!  I think this might do the trick!!
I stamped, colored and tooled the Stampbord oval then found some card stock and paper to go with.  I used a variety of Spellbinder dies for matting and framing this pretty Iris.

Christmas Cardinal

Christmas Cardinal- By Northwoods.  This was for a color challenge,  great colors for Christmas!
I used paper ribbon (I've had in a stash for probably 15 years). The dies are by Spellbinder.
This sentiment is from Uptown Rubber Stamps...not sure if they are even around anymore, sorry.

ODBDSLC179 Holiday Our Daily Bread Designs Ornament-silver and gold

Our Daily Bread Designs makes the most beautiful Ornaments dies.  Here is one of a set of three.  The background silver embossed snowflake is from Our Daily Bread as well as the sentiment. The background stamp is large enough to stamp 4 1/2 X 5 3/4".  The Sentiment is part of the Chickadee Ornament stamp set.
Border dies are from Spellbinder.
Embossing folders from Cuttlebug and Sizzix.
Thanks for dropping by to see my sketch challenge card, hope you like it!
As Christmas draws closer so do my thoughts about how good our God is!! He provided a way for us all to be with Him if we will believe and turn to Him,  Jesus!  Born to save us all!!

ODBDSLC179 CHRISTMAS COOKIES

Hi there friends!! Today I am very excited to be sharing my third card as a guest for the Shining the Light challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs.
This week's challenge is to make a holiday card, specifically Thanksgiving or Christmas!!
For more inspiration please visit my most talented DT sisters:
                                                        Jan Marie Ennenga, Diana Nguyen
                                                 Cheryl Scrivens, DJ Rants and Chris Olsen
Oh, and if you didn't know...Chris Olsen is one of the newly chosen Dirty Dozen at SplitCoastStampers...Congrats Chris, you so deserve it!!
To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click here.  You have until November 24th to join us.  For this challenge you may use any stamps but if you have any Our Daily Bread Design stamps we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have a chance to win the $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (The Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps). We would love to see your creations.
For this holiday card I use: Our Daily Bread Designs Snowflake Background stamp, Our Daily Bread Designs Sweet Christmas Wishes stamp set and The custom Window and Curtain Die set.
Thanks for stopping by and as always, comments are always welcome!!

Die cut metal Winter Birthday

I used Elizabeth Craft Designs pine bough and pine cone dies on card stock and placed them on a piece of card stock.  Cut the border from a Cuttlebug border die and glue it on the card stock panel. I  then die cut the panel with the rectangle Spellbinders and cut a piece of thin metal the same.  I glue them together and started tooling the metal around the die cuts.  I then used black acrylic paint on the entire metal piece and wiped it off.  It stays in the deep crevices. I used Viva 3-D paint in copper, gold and turquoise here and there as well, wiping most off.  I die cut the Make a Wish from Cheery Lynn Designs from gold colored aluminum and glued it on.  Last, I cut the front of a black folded card a bit shorter than the back and added a gold metal edge to it then added a silver panel on top of a black panel inside the front to finish it off and make the front the same height as the back.
For more information on metal tooling/embossing go to Ten Second Studio...they are the experts and they have many tutorials to watch.  You can also buy all products/tools from them.

Poinsettia Wreath

This wreath card was made mostly with a punch and die cuts.  First, I used Memory Box background die (diamond/stars) on white and glued it to white. Now it looks like a deeply embossed background.
I cut a ring from fun foam (mentioned today by my friend, Sabrina) I thought that was a great idea because now I don't have to add foam tape to the bottom to pop it up.
I punched a bunch of "pine branches" with a Martha Stewart punch in silver, white linen, white opalescent and white glossy and filled my ring making my wreath. Then I die cut a bunch of small poinsettia pieces (Memory Box) and formed them with a stylist and foam pad (needs to be dense like a mouse pad). I put the pieces together to form my flowers and glued them to the wreath with a leaf or two between each and at the ends.  I also used a Cheery Lynn holly flourish (just the flourish) on each side.  I added silver studs and white pearls for ornaments.  Added silver microbeads to centers of flowers.
I used a "Bow Easy" to create the 4 loop bow and some silver thread at the top as a hanger.
Lastly, silver heat embossed the Christmas Cheer and cut it out then glued it to my card!

Lake Wobegone

This card is part of the Tea Potters card driver for a very special patient in Minnesota.  Hopefully it help to bring a little cheer.  It is from the story of Lake Wobegone where the women are all strong, men are all good looking and all the children are above average...and in my story, the flowers always bloom!
The image stamp is from Flourishes, words from Inky Antics.
Embossing folder is from Cuttlebug. Other small stamps in front are from Stampscapes.

Peaceful Night.

This stamp is from Wild Rose Studio.  I masked the bears and splattered the background with clear fluid embossing liquid then embossed with white powder. I then used a brayer to apply color from my Kaleidacolor multi-color pad.  It turned out to look a little like Northern lights.

ODBDSLC178 WARM WINTER WISHES

Hello friends!  Today I am bringing you my second card for the Shining the Light challenge, at Our Daily Bread Designs  (ODBDSLC178, Sketch). I love this snowman scene, it actually has a coordinating window die that can go with it; then the scene is outside the window!!  Here I used it as an ornament.
This week's challenge sketch:

For more inspiration and very creative ideas,  please visit my talented DT sisters:
                                                 Jan Marie Ennenga, Diana Nguyen
                                            Cheryl Scrivens, DJ Rants and Chris Olsen
To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click here.  You have until November 17th to join in the fun.  For this challenge you may use any stamps but if you have any Our Daily Bread Design stamps we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have a chance to win the $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be Spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (The Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps). We would love to see your creations.
 Be sure to add ODBDSLC178 to your title and if you have a gallery on SCS, put it in your "key word".

Labor of love-hidden panel card w/instructions

This is one of the cards I taught in class today.  I call it the hidden panel card.  As you can see in the forth picture, there is a message panel under the main image. I first saw this card (one similar, different theme), on the Cheery Lynn Blog.  I clicked on it and was directed to the page of the author where she had instructions on how to make it (and a translation thankfully since it was Swedish or something).
I also went to Kittie Kraft's Blog (Kittie Caracciolo) to get her tutorial on making pinecones.  There is no one better at making stuff out of paper than Kittie in my opinion!  If you click on Kittie Kraft Blog above I've linked it to her tutorial.
The paper I used on this card is from American Crafts.  The stamp is by Northwoods.
The ladies all loved their project but said that I stretched them with this card!! It WAS quite labor intensive even though I had the main card cut and scored, the panels cut at an angle, the die cuts made...still took us about 3 1/2 hours to complete the card with the tiny pine cones. I believe they all thought it was very worth it.  

Fire and Ice

This is basically a non paper card (except the card base itself). I used gold, red, copper and white glaze on the base applied with a sponge brush then stamped into with a Hero Arts background stamp. I then glued on some gold mesh pieces. got some aluminum foil and inked it with alcohol inks (orange and wild plum) then crumpled and straightened.  I die cut the Dream from a gold colored aluminum sheet.
The Half Dome was stamped with StazOn on Stampbord (clay base scratch board). I inked it with dye ink and used scratch tools and steel wool. added the little stars and moon.  inked the edges of the Stampbord with gold leaf pen!

Christmas!

This is a card I did this morning for the sketch challenge over at SCS. They always come up with really cool challenges over there.  For more info on joining in on the SCS challenges click here.
The stamps used for this card are from Inky Antics.  They so look like the snowman is lifting his arms in praise of what God did for us on Christmas day by sending His only Son to be born in a meager manger...do you realize that He left unimaginable wealth and constant praise and His majesty to live here on earth with us, be spit on, rocks thrown at Him, ridiculed then whipped and crucified to die for the sins of the world?  Can you even imagine giving your only son for someone else to live?  Thank you Father in Heaven for doing that for us and Jesus for obeying!! And YES, for Easter morning, when He rose again from the dead and reigns forever!!  It is because He rose again that we all can have life eternal if we BELIEVE in and put our trust in Him!

ODBDSLC177 LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM

Hello friends!
Today I am so excited to be sharing my first card as a guest for the Shining the Light Challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs.
This week's challenge is "Be Inspired by a Song or Music".
For more inspiration, please visit my very talented Design Team sisters:
                                                            Jan Marie Ennenga, Dianna Nguyen,
                                                        Cheryl Scrivens, DJ Rants and Chris Olsen.
To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click here.  You have until November 10th to join us for this challenge.  For this challenge you may use any stamps but if you have any Our Daily Bread Designs stamps we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have a chance to win the $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be Spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (The Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps).  We would love to see your creations.
Today I used the ODBD O Little Town of Bethlehem set and also the Chickadee Ornament set (for the words).
I also used a variety of dies and embossing folders from: Cheery Lynn Designs, Spellbinder, Memory Box and Cuttlebug.

Pear cards/ glittered and masked

Here are a couple of Pear cards.  The top one is for a glitter challenge.  I used glue and glass glitter on the word BG and used Score Tape (double sided tape, clear) for half the pear with Elizabeth Craft Designs glitter- transparent.
The bottom card was done for a mask challenge. First I embossed the pear with clear and then masked it and ran it through my printer with the Scripture I had chosen (Gal. 5:22 Fruit of the Spirit). I then left the mask on and proceeded to sponge color on the words.  I then made a reverse mask and colored with Copics on the part of the pear not covered in embossing (mostly the small script). Then I ironed the image between newsprint to remove the embossing and sponged color on the pear not previously colored.
I added the green sheer bow to top it off.
The top card images are from Stampers Anonymous, Stamp in the Hand, Stampendous.
The bottom card is from Stampers Anonymous.

Flip down Christmas card

This is such an ingenious little card...those panels close up and there is a magnet closure at the top.
To see a tutorial for this card I will give you a link right here.   It is not as hard as it might appear.  Go into your craft room and get started!!
The main image (shown here is from Stamps Happen.  The image on the background (both green and white) is from Magenta.
The image seen when closed is from Northwoods.

I might add another sentiment somewhere in the middle so that you can read it when closed as it would come in the mail.  Probably Merry Christmas or Joy to the World.

Thanks Y'all

Yes, these cowgirls are wonderfully all very different and colorful too!! I tried to be in keeping to Terry Medaris style of coloring (his stamp). Another one of the last HYCCT challenges.