Angel Ornament Card

 The theme at The Sisterhood of Crafters is
Anything Christmas, easy peasy!
I am sure you have seen over this past year I have been sort of hooked on the
Katy Sue 3D cards , or maybe I should say addicted.  They are fun to do
and I work on them when my mojo isn't in the mood for anything else.
My angels card is one of those.  These cards have layer after layer and take lots
of pop ups for each layer.  My card is a square 4 1/2" x 4 1/2".

Hope to see you over at The Sisterhood of Crafters.

Deepest Sympathy

There is a challenge at Little Red Wagon and the theme is

Sad Songs (Say So Much) meaning they want to see
sympathy cards, encouragement or support,
someone experiencing grief.

We had a tragedy of a member of our town this weekend,
a mother/wife lost both her husband and son to a
tragic car accident, I can't even imagine her pain.

Prayers go out to her and her family!!

This card was created with Katy Sue 3D cut outs,
it is very layered.  These cards are a bit time consuming
but quite the statement when done!

Thanks for visiting with me today!! 

Christmas Santa

 Hello Friends, today at Peace On Earth we have  a pretty
inspiration board that has a somewhat vintage look.
But, you can create anything as long as it's Christmas themed!

I always try to go with our mood boards as close as I can
so on this one I let the upper left big Santa face inspire me along with the colors.
Years ago I purchased these BIG stickers (1986), yes I've had them that long,
from a local Apple House that my sister, my mom and I myself used to go to for
lunch, they had the best grilled green olive/cream cheese sandwiches, plus a cute gift shop
which is where these stickers came from. These were so large that I had to make A6 cards
not my usual A2.  I decided to make three using all three stickers instead of putting them away for another 20 years.  I had some pretty vintage color papers  from P13 Cozy Winter that
looked good with the kraft card bases, so all in all these are pretty simple cards
using just the papers and big stickers!

Card #1:

Card #2:

Card #3 

Christmas will be here soon, come and have some holiday fun with us!

Entering the following challenges:

Let's Craft & Create .... Vintage Feel
Christmas Crafts All Year Round .... Santa Claus Is Coming To
 Town

Christmas Kickstart .... It's Christmassy

Santa Gift Card Holders

Hello friends, it's time to get those pretty designer papers out
you have been neglecting for so long and join us at
Love Those Pretty Papers challenge!

Our OPTIONAL theme is SANTA!!
But you can WOW us with anything as long as we see
those pretty papers being used!

I made these Santa money/gift holders using a die from
Art Impressions and LOTS of scraps of my pretty Christmas papers,
LOTS (the entire backs) more of these papers show on the back then they do the front
but I already had them bagged before I got pictures of their backs
but I think you get the idea!

Anything Goes:

Being the 'season' I created a second Christmas card
using some pretty papers from Mintay Winterland.
The die cut is Tutti Designs Poinsettia corner and the
large and fun sentiment is The Ton's Styled Christmas Sentiments.

I hope you will come and play with us at
Love Those Pretty Papers and show us what you have,
we can't wait to see it!!

Entering the following challenges:
Sparkles Christmas Challenge #179 .... Poinsettia
Jingle Belles ....ATG Christmas
Christmas Crafts All Year Long .... Santa Claus is Coming To Town
If You Gave A Crafter A Cookie .... Time For Santa

More Fun

 Our OPTIONAL theme at Simply Clean & Simple is
Reds and Greens
but you can create anything as long as you keep it CAS!

I used the cutest My Favorite Things stamp set
Christmas Safari.  This set has the 5 cutest little Christmas critters
you have ever seen and two fun sentiments.
I crimped a scrap piece of holiday paper and used a Cheery Lynn Banner
for the sentiment and a Tutti Designs Banner for the image.
It has a bit of 'sparkle' as I used a
silver stardust pen on the scooter.

We would love to see YOUR CAS designs at
Simply Clean & Simple challenge!

All Is Calm

 Hello friends, happy December.
We are at our last Word Power challenge for this year.
We are an anything goes challenge where your SENTIMENT
takes center stage!

Last year (and probably this year too) I have been taking advantage
of the fun Spellbinders Warehouse sales.
I purchased this Betterpress sentiment for a mere $1.00
and used it in my hot foil Glimmer machine.
I love that the Betterpress dies can be used to hot foil,
makes them twice as useful!
Background paper is from the Paper Studio's Woodland Wonderland.
I added one of my homemade Spellbinders Poinsettias.

If you have some center stage sentiments we certainly would 
like to see them at our Word Power challenge, come on over!!

Flurries Forecasted Challenge

 Today I am joining the last bi-weekly challenge for the year
at Art Impressions and the theme is Flurries Forecasted!

I am showing my second round of one of  these super cute
 Snowmen gift card holders (the Santa gift card holders will

 be on my blog in a couple of days)
It also takes the Envelope GCH set to complete.  I made lots of these
to give to my grands for Christmas (20 grands and 11 greats),
I didn't put gift cards in but money,

it holds that just as well.

Aren't they just the cutest?  Nothing says snow flurries like a cute

snowman.  We had more then flurries here during the Thanksgiving
weekend, we had two feet of snow!!