Tilda Christmas Card

More Christmas Cards!

On this card, I used a MS punch for the snowflakes and silver smooch on the poinsettias Tilda is holding.  I'm afraid the silvery smooch doesn't show up well on the picture.  This was my first time using Smooch and I love it.  It is a sharp silver that really stands out.  The remainder of the card was colored with copics.

GIBBS 5

My box to my partner in the Cricut GIBBS 5 swap has reached her, so I can now post some of her goodies.
Phew - this is a long post!  Be patient with me!

Rosette - another TH die; the title was printed from my computer, and the snowflake punch is MS.

It's very hard to explain this technique.  I'm making another one for my niece's new baby (due to arrive any day!) and I will take pictures as I put it together - it will be easier that way.  In the meantime, I'll try to explain.  I tore out a page, then gathered 5-6 pages still in the book together and glued them together by taking the torn out page and pasting over the edges of the 5-6 pages.  I used Yes Paste and it worked wonderfully. 

I printed out the poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas" and mounted it on paper with torn edges.  The reindeer were cut on my Cricut with the Joys of the Season cart.

The remainder of the poem printed out - on torn paper.  The flowers and leaves are prima.

I used stickers from my stash for this page; I also machine stitched in a zig zag pattern around the picture boxes.

"Tis the Season" stamped on the bottom.  Snowflakes were punch from a MS punch.

I loved this vintage looking paper and just didn't want to cover it up.  I used a pre-made rosette from my stach and cut the scalloped circle with a nestabilities die run thru my cuttlebug.

These boxes were decorated with scrap ribbon.  I also put red dots around the sides of all the squares.

This is another sheet of paper that I didn't want to cover too much.  The ribbon is from WM and I love it - delicate and very pretty.

Embellishment from my stash, and edges inked and layered paper.

This page has a pocket for various Christmas tags.  The purple block is punched with a MS stamp.

This is just a really pretty piece of paper decorated with "falala" which was purchased at Michael's last year.

Another page that I left pretty much the way it was.  The scallop cut from the nestabilities die run thru my cuttlebug again, and the sparkly green circle frame is from Making Memories.

Two Ladies Dancing

For a swap I was in we needed to make "Two Ladies Dancing".  This was a tough one, but this is what I came up with.  I colored the flower petals with MS glitter markers.  I got the idea of using the flower petals as a skirt from here.  There is the most beautiful banner there - while you are at Yoli's site you might want to look around.  She does wonderful work, and has great ideas.  The ladies were cut from the Cricut cart Forever Young.

A Year of ATC's - January

I am a part of the monthly Kopperhead swap. At the beginning of the year, she issued a "sidebar" challenge to make 12 ATC's for each month of the year. We were given all year to get them done. So, me being me, I HAD to sign up - I've completed 4 of the sets - 8 more to go before the end of the year. 

January

I love this saying - "Winter is Better When we Nestle Together".  I found the stamp in the Michael's clearance bin.  I took the blue and the white paper and glued it together with my ATG and ran them through my Cuttlebug snowflake folder.  I added clear and light blue skittles.  The snowflakes were punched from the really cute MS snowflake punch.