Lots of RAKs from friends

Here are some of the Christmas cards I received

from my crafty friends in 2009!

Love the coloring and simple design that Donelda uses to keep it CAS. :)

Risa West (one of the new DT girls for KL SNS) sent me this adorable Heidi with ornament cards. Wow, she can really color blonde hair well!

Sue used lots of textures, layers and great embellishments too!


This beautiful scenery was created by Mary Lou from my stampin group.
I really love the green embossed image!



Another embossed image with lots of color and sparkle! from my friend Marcie
also from our stampin group

I see a bit of a theme here.
Luanne (our SU demo for the stampin group)
also used embossing on her image to really
bring elegance to this design. Love the dry embossed bg too.

This cute snowman and festive DP creation is from my dear friend, Lena.

Some white embossing powder was used on this pretty image

for a lovely traditional red, green and white card designed by Kathy Lumbard.

This cute moose image was shaded so beautifully

by Deb Corder, another dear friend

and past DT member for KL Stampin N Scrappin.

Thank you all for making my Christmas special with gifts

of happy mail stretched out over the week.

Colorful Snowbaby

This card was created like the last one shown here on the blog, but this time I used SU markers with the acrylic BasicGrey stamp to come up with a more colorful image.

What do you think? Do you like this one better?

Basic Snow Baby

I was playing around with another sketch, and although I don't have all of the requirements of that one, I used colors and "frosting-like" embellishments on this one so that it would qualify for Sparkle's Christmas challenge. I have committed myself to working on 1o Christmas cards a month with the CCC2010 challenge over at SplitCoastStampers, so I shouldn't be in the predicament I was in this year. *phew* Only 9 more to go this month. lol

Hope everyone is resting and recovering from a busy week last week with family and friends. We are looking forward to a wonderful New Year!! :)

Card details:

Stamps: Snow Baby acrylic stamp set from Basic Grey (25% off right now after Christmas)

Paper: Two Scoops from Basic Grey

Tools/Embellishments: Oval nesties, liquid pearls, liquid applique, blue swarovski crystals, stickles, MS snowflake punch and half pearls

Inky Hugs and Happy Stampin'!!

New Challenges for 2010 at KL Stampin N Scrappin blog

Just in case you missed the post today at KL Stampin N Scrappin . . .

I wanted to let you know we will be having new challenges for 2010 with our new design team. We are kicking off January with not just one challenge and prize package, but TWO!!

The new challenges at KL Stampin N Scrappin DT blog for 2010 will be taking place on Saturdays (with prizes normally the last Saturday of the month). But . . . this month is a special Kick Off though, so . . . we will have 2 prizes, so stay tuned on January 2nd to see what we have "drawn up."

A small sneak peek is shown above. Hope you are all able to join in and

play along for a chance to win the blog goodies shown on the right.

Happy Stampin N Scrappin!

Last of this year's Christmas cards

My good friend, Luanne, gave me a great idea on the use of a stencil of the ornament punch from Stampin Up. Therefore, I created this card for our stampin' group. (hoping they are too busy to look here before I get them mailed out). lol

I used the stencil and stamped the words Joy and Noel inside first, embossed that part and the ornament top with gold EP, then sponged the color on them using the stencil. I punched out the MS branches and layered them to look like a pine branch and added glittery stickles to them too.

Card deets: CS: glorious green, whisper white, and close to cocoa; DP: BG Wassail; Tools/Embellishments: glittery white stickles, gold EP, MS branch and doily edger punches, glue, pop dots. Inks: Mellow moss, glorious green, real red and rose red

Hoping they like them. They are pretty quick and easy. I seem to be getting closer to being done with my Christmas "to do" list. Hope you are all getting your list completed too.

Happy Stampin N Scrappin!

Shepherd's Awe of the Sweet Savior

I am still behind with my Christmas cards, can you tell?! Well . . . with so many great stamps from High Hopes to choose from in the store, I don't mind creating more. I do usually have them all in the mail by now though, so I am a bit stressed about that. *sigh* This card was created with the Shepherd's Awe stamp, nestabilities, prismacolor pencils, Gamsol, sakura gel pen, liquid applique, and BG's Wassail paper (horded from last year . . . shhh).

This one I kept a little more CAS (clean and simple), but I am really thinking I need some white dots or doodles around those bashful blue circles, at least the scallops. :) The stamp on this card is Sweet Savior also from High Hopes. The paper is from the Eskimo Kisses pack, and the sentiment is from SU. I only used part of it on the outside, but the entire sentiment on the inside says "May the miracle of Christmas find you safe in the Peace of God, warm in the Light of Christ." I think with the sweet savior and the warmth of the lamb this sentiment works well. Let me know what you think. Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin N Scrappin!! :)