The 12 Days of Christmas - Felt Cards

Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! Well, not yet, but there is 12 MORE DAYS 'till Christmas!!!  I've been a crazy holiday craft machine.  I've been stocking my Etsy shop since October with holiday cards, tags, and other paper products.  Now with 12 days left until Christmas, I thought that I would share the best sellers here on my blog. :) I'll be posting once per day until the 25th!

Happy 12 Days of Christmas!

On the first day of Christmas I created some felt cards:

I wanted to make a dainty pink Christmas card.  The felt pieces I used for both projects are some retired Stampin Up felt pieces.  I stocked up a few years ago when they went on clearance.  I used vanilla and pink pirouette card stock and topped it with some glitter paper from DCWV Le Tres Chic stack.  I think they look like blue poinsettias!  Stampin up vanilla taffeta ribbon and pearl top it off.  The stamp is from a new Stampin Up photopolymer set. 

I used some mitten felt on this one.  The paper is from The Paper Studio All Seasons II.  Just topped it off with Stampin Up crumb cake card stock and taffeta ribbon, pearl, and stamped a sentiment on vanilla card stock (from Happy Hour).

Hope you liked my first installment of The 12 Days of Christmas!

(I have one of the pink ones left in my shop, if you'd like to purchase one! The mitten cards are sold out!)

Ice Cream Cone card

Made this card as a thank you for winning some blog candy! :)

The card stock and papers are from all over the place, so I'm not going to even attempt to list them! LOL!  The ice cream cone was cut from the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge and the cone was run through my cuttlebug to give it a waffle pattern.  

As of right now, I think I'm be traveling (road tripping) on my trip.  I get car sick very easily so I'm probably all doped up on Dramamine and eating candied ginger.  :(  Hopefully I can find an internet cafe somewhere or wifi where I can comment on everyone's pages!  

'Till next time, folks! Miss you guys!

Mother's Day projects (and a little help from my blogging friends!)

Alright guys, here are (some) of my Mother's Day cards! Of course, I had to make some quick ones with Create a Critter.  These have the cute ladybugs on them.  Just used leftover scrap paper to makes these guys. 

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The inside of these ladybug cards have a poem in it.  I don't remember the exact words (already sent them out!) but something about how I heard ladybugs are useful but not as useful as you.  Corny and cute!

The next card I made with a tutorial from Dawn Griffith's page (dawnsstampinthoughts.net).  She's my direct SU! upline!  I do not have the SU flower punch, so I used some cute retired SU felt flowers and brads.

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The top pulls out to reveal a message:

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I thought it was so clever! :)

AND a question to all my crafty blogging Queens:  I colored my first digi stamp this morning.  It came out terrible.  The ink from the printed imaged blended with my colors to give my picture an all-over muddied grey hue.  If I'm coloring a stamped image, I used STAZ-on to make sure that doesn't happen...but what should I do to keep the printer ink from blending? I use ink and blender pen as I'm not really great with just straight markers.  I know you gals have an answer to this question with all the awesome digi images I see colored!  Thanks guys!