Here come the holidays. . .

Here we are 321 days into the year, 44 days left for 2013 and only 37 days 3 hours and 20 minutes until Christmas YIKES!  Where has the year gone?

Many of the blogs that I follow have been talking about holiday cards now for a few weeks - Vicky P over at Clips-N-Cuts did this cute card with stamps from Penny Black.  As you all know I love to use what I have so here is my take on "NOEL".  Happy crafting until next time

Supplies used:  Garden Green, Handsome Hunter and Ruby Red ink (Stampin-up), Snowflakes Embossing folder (Cuttlebug); Whimsy Caps (CTMH); various snowflakes (Hero Arts) and Red Baker's Twine (EK Success). 

Make over Sunday

I recently had this post up and somehow deleted it - oh well here is what I remember of it.

One of my favorite websites that I follow is Clip-n-Cuts, Vicky P is an amazing designer.  She created this card

One of the many things that I have come to learn about our "creative" sides is that we sometimes buy things and never use them, sad but true.  Another favorite creator - Lindsay Weirich (frugal crafter), loves to say "use what you have".  She is so right so with that in mind I took inspiration from Vicky with her "let it snow" trio of penguins and came up with a really cute take on the card (totally my opinion).

 

The snowmen (ok, people) and statement are from CTMH, the background is blue paper and the snow is just a white pen that has been dotted on the paper.  Thanks for visiting and listening to me ramble.  Happy crafting. 

Pioneer Woman, dogs and doing something for yourself

One of my favorite bloggers Ree, The Pioneer Woman. has a list of 10 things (11 if you read the entire way thru) about what your blog should have and what you should do for yourself (you have to make those happen or things start to wiggle when you don't want them to).

Today's blog is about photographs of my pup Wicket. Wicket is twelve years old, loves to sit at my feet or really just relax in his bed, but it right at my feet under the computer desk.

He is in dire need of a bath and a shave. The bath will come later this afternoon and his shave when he heads to the groomers later this week.   Right now we are going to do something for the both of us and go for a walk - yes it snowed here last night, yes its cold outside but if I don't get up and do something I will be stiff from lack of movement.  I'll take some picutres of the snow, how much the pup loves being outside and a brief description when I get back.  Oh happy day... . . . . . . .

New cards

Afternoon everyone - Once again our monthly card group sat down to make some cute Christmas cards (all the credit goes to  Nancy for the design).  One of the things I love about getting together with this group of ladies is that we always have someone new with us that reminds us why we love doing what we do, plus the conversation is always fun.  Most of the supplies (stamps, paper, punches, inks and emboss folder) are Stampin-up, a few things ( ribbon and embossing powder) were not.  We made 10 cards total (5 designs, 2 of each design).  Here are the cards

 After the our group got together, I also went down to Ben Franklin's for their Saturday Make-n-Take card while this is a cute card I don't think I would ever buy the stamp.

Hope everyone has a great week