Floral Blessings {sneak peek}

 

Good Morning, I hope your new year is off to a fun inky start. today I want to share a couple of new sets coming next week to Two Paper Diva's this is the  Hope Family Blessings sentiment paired with the blooms in the funky flowers set all of these were stamped with Versafine inks and then the blooms were faux water colored with markers scribbled on clear blocks and picked up with an aqua brush.

The stamped panel was diecut with an Spellbinders baby bunting die and its up on pop dots over the recollections glitter paper. the sheer ribbon is unknown and the base is some Curious Metallics caramel cardstock. this one is A-7 in real life.

I have some news...

early in December I was asked if I would join the design team at Two Paper Diva's and the announcement was made live of the new team yesterday. you can see all the smiling faces here:

I also received a packet of fun new things to play with in the mail last night so, you will be seeing peeks at the next release soon.

Some winter Chick Humor

This week's featured Stamper is Pat and she had this really cool off set angled huge snowflake card that I just loved. and then she had this use the negative die cuts card and a wintry snow tree line scene card... and you get the picture... so, this was a little bit of a morphing thing from seeing her gallery early on sunday. The guys ran out to a shooting range, yes out doors in the snow while it was snowing ( I am rolling my eyes) so, Grace and I headed upstairs where I mostly pushed things around on the table and put away a bunch of recently stamped sentiments. the snowflake die's are all from Sizzix the wooden glittered snowflake is in the use it up pile, the button I cut the shank off the back the one with the large sentiment (SU) I had to do that as I dropped my cutterbee scissors on the side of my hand so there is the tiny-est bit of blood underneath of that tag. so, off the side a big sentiment went, (it had to be on the cream part right?)

such is life, these are 6" square in real life.

Now, this was done for last weeks featured stamper Cheri, who had this fun card in her gallery that I just loved the humor of it. so, since I knew I had this chick (art impressions bird brains)  colored already on the desk and I had just gotten these sentiments (dylusions) in the mail this one kinda just went together really really fast. funny true story. if you sand embossed kraft core card stock that happens to be kraft colored... its the same color on the inside so sanding does not show you something new lol, so the embossed panel was then inked. The fibers are an old one from fibers by the yard. This one is 6" square in real life.

I put this bra die cut (MFT) together a few months ago during hope you can cling to, and its just been on the table ever since. so, Its up on pop dots and the sentiment is from Custers last stamp. this is an tiny A-2 card that is pretty CAS for me.

Last weeks Last minute tags

 This ornament tag is one of the ones cut on the Cricut over thanksgiving the printed paper circle is from basic grey, the sentiment is from that fun taylored expressions set ( ps you're welcome) the wooden snowflake was painted with acrylic paint and sprinkled with glitter a while back.

 This is another one of those Cricut stockings on a previously sprayed shipping tag. I am thinking the sentiment came out of a unity stamps set with the bitty snowmen and that poinsettia is a 3-d sticker. The joy sentiment is from stampendous.

 The tag card bodies are a Sizzix die and the Santa's belt is washi tape from little B. I did use those new card maker sized perfect layers rulers to do the mats of white under it.

 The sentiment is from dylusions. from just some of the scraps on the table. the shipping tag was sprayed a long time ago. with some Fancy pants corrugate and May Arts burlap string. the jingle bells were in one of those packs from Joanns a few years ago. ( they are not the smallest size)

 more folded tag cards.
this really is a handy die as when its folded it is big enough to hide a gift card into also.

 Because, there were these scraps... the printed paper that looks like you could use it in a Christmas sweater contest has some bling to the red parts. my mind has gone blank on the mfg info at the moment, that sentiment is up on pop dots and the card is a pre made one that is blingy red.

 The metal bell charm is unknown, the tag was cut with the cricut and the sentiment I believe is from SU.

The sentiment on this one is also SU the largest heart is an Sizzix primitive shape and the stitched heart is from Simon Says Stamp.

HYCCT gift package

During the month of October while everyone is busy making cards daily for the Hope You Can Cling to card drive there are awesome sponsor's who give away gifts to randomly drawn participants... and I was one of the lucky winners this year, I received these things from Perfect Paper Crafting in the mail this last week and I am pretty excited about trying that new ruler. So, this was just a fun little thing like icing on the cupcake after you have all those feel good feelings as you box up the cards and sent them on their way to have something like this given back to you after. :)

WOYWW # 341 (stuff & more stuff)

 oh my gosh it's Wednesday, I am home and I actually have desk shots... lol... if you do not know what that means try our hostess Julia's blog here for all the details to play along.
I have missed you guys so, it will probably take me a couple of days to make the rounds. my work schedule has changed a little and now I will be out of the office on every other friday instead of earlier in the week. ( oh what fun) lol still not like that get home in the dark thing, so I am totally looking forward to Christmas next week when the days start getting lighter longer again cycle.

 So, these are actually very early Wed am shots, and this is how I left the table on monday evening... so, I had sold a stack of Christmas gift tags and cards over the last week at work and we had a call from a good customer ( who has to drive 30 minutes to make it into this town ) on tuesday that she would be stopping by on Wed hoping for "funny" Christmas cards. so, there are a few left at work but, 

knowing that I had stamped and cut these sentiments on Monday I went up and pushed them all to the edges of the cutting mat and tossed together these really simple ones below with some Authentique papers.

 So, really these are perfectly flat simple ones, this card June bought within minutes of seeing it. as one her nieces is expecting baby #2... the sentiment is from two lips. ( a new company I think) die cut with an stitched rectangle die. that strip under it is the reverse side of the Santa paper.

 This one the sentiment is from dylusions and this one is 6" square in real life. No, I have not addressed or mailed any of my personal Christmas cards I am planning to send. no, not all the gifts have arrived or been wrapped yet either. such is life. and what does get done will just have to be "good enough"